Sentences with phrase «metropolitan area districts»

The study found that while school district consolidation among the very small school districts could result in cost savings, the consolidation of the large metropolitan area districts would likely increase costs, said Greg Branch, deputy director of the Texas Schools Project, which oversaw the research project.

Not exact matches

Metro Vancouver Regional District is a federation of 21 municipalities, one Electoral Area and one Treaty First Nations that make up the metropolitan area of Metro VancouArea and one Treaty First Nations that make up the metropolitan area of Metro Vancouarea of Metro Vancouver.

«The whole Chicago metropolitan area is ahead of the rest of the United States when it comes to aquatics, «said Steve Hartman, director of the Lisle Park District, an agency that opened a new water park last year.

At her ministry's programme to brief metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives on government's priority areas on the Infrastructure Poverty Eradication Program (IPEP), Hon. Koomson said the $ 275 million to be allocated to the 275 constituencies was ready.

The 42nd Senate district in the Hudson Valley is one of several seats Democrats in the state Senate hope to be competitive in this fall, with others around the New York City metropolitan area and on Long Island.

The downstate region, dominated by New York City, has been growing much faster than upstate (everything north of the metropolitan transportation district)-- and the slowest growing upstate metro areas are in Central New York and the Southern Tier, which would benefit most from the issuance of long - delayed state regulations allowing the use of hydraulic fracturing in shale gas production.

The ruling NPP has instructed all metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives who intend to contest parliamentary seats in areas where there is a sitting MP to resign years before the primaries.

District 19 lies north of the New York City metropolitan area and mostly south of Albany.

The drones will be used at stations across the state, including regional stations on Long Island, the New York City metropolitan area, the Capital District, the Adirondacks, Tug Hill, central New York and western New York.

She recommended that educational leaders should consider redrawing boundaries to reduce the number and fragmentation of school districts in major metropolitan areas.

The Miami metropolitan area has one large school district.

James S. and Haight R. Evaluation of a large, metropolitan area school district immunization coverage.

The city has two central districts under its administration and the metropolitan area has a total population of 1,237,874.

Maintaining dozens of small school districts in a metropolitan area, each with its own highly paid administrators and transportation budgets, is also extremely costly.

In Arizona — a highly urbanized state with population primarily clustered in the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas — both charter and district schools are concentrated in urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areas.

Fifteen - year - olds in the Kettle Moraine School District on the western edge of the Milwaukee metropolitan area achieved reading scores in 2015 that ranked among those of the top seven countries that are part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

White flight almost certainly altered the effects of desegregation policies in many cities, especially in places such as the Northeast, where school districts within metropolitan areas tend to be small and numerous.

Detroit is the lowest - scoring metropolitan area on the Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA), a series of math, science, reading, and writing tests administered in 21 urban school districts as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

In Miami, one school district encompasses the entire metropolitan area.

Boston, by contrast, has 70 districts within a 30 - minute commute of downtown and even more in the surrounding metropolitan area.

For example, the Civil Rights Project reports that, in the metropolitan area surrounding the District of Columbia, 91.2 percent of charter students are in segregated schools, compared with just 20.9 percent of students in traditional public schools.

School officials in the metropolitan Washington area, struggling to dig out from some 20 inches of snow, announced by midweek that they had lost the battle: None of the districts in the nation's capital or the surrounding suburbs would open for the remainder of the week.

The participants, sorted by gender and country of origin, were recruited from seven school districts in the Boston and San Francisco greater metropolitan areas.

Economist Caroline Hoxby studied metropolitan areas with many school districts (like Boston) and metropolitan areas contained within one large district (like Miami or Los Angeles).

In Milliken, a 5 - 4 majority of the United States Supreme Court virtually prohibited bussing across school district lines to desegregate metropolitan areas, which in many ways marked the Court's — and the country's — turn away from efforts to integrate schools.

Even students in the poorest districts appear to do better in a competitive system, as exists in the Boston area, than they do in areas in which one or two districts dominate a metropolitan area, like Miami.

Now with sites in 14 different metropolitan areas, Relay provides a unique, practice - oriented approach to teacher preparation, and its graduates go on to work across the district and charter landscape.

We estimate racial / ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 million standardized math and reading tests administered to public school students from 2009 - 2013.

It also reflects the Kalamazoo district's location in a center city that has more economic problems than the surrounding metropolitan area.

The balance between the demographics of a school and its catchment area is critically important notwithstanding the demographics of the district itself or the larger metropolitan area.

Economist Caroline Hoxby studied metropolitan areas with many school districts (like Boston) vs. metropolitan areas contained within one large district (like Miami or Los Angeles).

To find out, I took a look at the 2010 salary schedule in Dade County, Florida's largest school district, which serves the Miami metropolitan area, as part of my preparation for the conference on Merit Pay, which Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance is sponsoring on June 3 - 5.

This type of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is significant variation in student demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the issue at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and racial sorting.

Middle Region is a small suburban district located in a major metropolitan area.

used a merit - based system to look for candidates to fill civil service positions at the local level in rural districts, as well as higher positions in metropolitan areas.

Begun as a log schoolhouse in 1853, TTSD is now the ninth largest district in Oregon and the fifth largest in the Portland metropolitan area, serving approximately 13,000 students in 10 elementary schools, three middle schools, two high schools, and an alternative school program.

The imperial examinations used a merit - based system to look for candidates to fill civil service positions at the local level in rural districts, as well as higher positions in metropolitan areas.

In many urban districts, more than half of teachers leave within five years, the research shows, and they abandon charter school posts at especially high rates, a significant problem given the growing presence of charters in many metropolitan areas.

Independent School District (ISD) 196, also known as Rosemount — Apple Valley — Eagan Public Schools, is a large school district serving a 110 square mile area in the south Twin Cities metropolitDistrict (ISD) 196, also known as Rosemount — Apple Valley — Eagan Public Schools, is a large school district serving a 110 square mile area in the south Twin Cities metropolitdistrict serving a 110 square mile area in the south Twin Cities metropolitan area.

For school reformers and defenders of traditional public education these days, the Atlanta metropolitan area is better - known for the testing scandal that has engulfed Atlanta Public Schools, revealed the district's dysfunctional school governance, and led to Superintendent Beverly Hall's fall from grace.

Evanston / Skokie School District 65 serves one of the oldest communities in the metropolitan Chicago area, with a richly diverse population reflected in both the teachers and students in its schools.

Since the program's inception, it has been taught in three different school districts in the metropolitan area of Denver.

The former Southeast region consisted of the states in the Census - defined South minus Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Oklahoma, Texas, and the section of Virginia in the District of Columbia metropolitan area.

Los Angeles — February 4, 2010 — Today, the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA issued «Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards,» a nationwide report based on an analysis of Federal government data and an examination of charter schools in 40 states and the District of Columbia, along with several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charters.

The Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA issued «Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards,» a nationwide report based on an analysis of Federal government data and an examination of charter schools in 40 states and the District of Columbia, along with several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charters.

Houston Independent School District (HISD), the largest school district in Texas, is located in one of the most diverse metropolitan areas in the UnitedDistrict (HISD), the largest school district in Texas, is located in one of the most diverse metropolitan areas in the Uniteddistrict in Texas, is located in one of the most diverse metropolitan areas in the United States.

When knowledge of that history becomes commonplace, we will conclude that racially segregated school districts and metropolitan areas not only have permission, but a constitutional obligation to integrate.

Lisa Marie Lacy was a former Special Education teacher who taught for six years in an urban school district in a large metropolitan area in the southwestern region of the United States.

The countywide district centered in Raleigh, for instance, has been successful in integrating schools and achieving academic success, in contrast to the 18 schools districts across the metropolitan Syracuse area.

PARSS began in 1983 as a group of public school superintendents who expressed concern that Pennsylvania students in rural and small school districts did not have access to the same quality of education afforded to students attending school in the more metropolitan areas of the state.