«IPS envisions creating
more schools within the district with the conditions for success, which includes giving educators the freedom and flexibility to innovate in the classroom and fully meet the specific needs of their scholars,» said David Harris, The Mind Trust's founder & CEO.
Not exact matches
So if you're in love with a house in a «less good» neighborhood or
within a «less good»
school district, before you write it off as an option, do a little
more digging.
He spent
more money on his meals than the
school district could spend, and brought in
more (and better skilled) labor than the
school district could afford — in fact, he basically opened a branch of one of his restaurants in a high
school — which is in no way working «
within the constraints.»
They are working with impossibly tight funding; they may face high turnover of labor; they may be at the bottom of the food chain
within their
school district, viewed as little
more than an annoying adjunct department vaguely linked with mystery meat, ladies in hairnets, and the persistent complaint that «
school food sucks.»
When
schools expand their breakfast program through the implementation of one or
more new strategies like BIC and / or CEP, there are several factors that help support a successful outcome: Strong leadership
within the
district, a diverse and engaged coalition of stakeholders (state agency,
school nutrition department, anti-hunger and health partners, et al.), staff engagement and training on sharing the positive benefits of
school breakfast, and strong overall communications and transparency.
Universal breakfast - in - the - classroom and the Community Eligibility Provision are a perfect fit; CEP allows
districts to bring universal breakfast
within reach, making it financially sustainable for
more schools than ever before.
School spending on Long Island is projected to rise an average 2.35 percent for the 2017 - 18 school year, with school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of dist
School spending on Long Island is projected to rise an average 2.35 percent for the 2017 - 18
school year, with school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of dist
school year, with
school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of dist
school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent —
more than this year's hikes, but
within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of
districts.
-RRB- would drop the supermajority requirement for
school districts to pierce the cap, instead calling for a simple majority — making overrides no
more difficult than passing a budget
within the cap, and inviting a return to the days when
school taxes grew by
more than 7 percent per year.
In recent weeks, as Nixon began her upstart campaign, Cuomo has been talking about a budget proposal that would require
school districts within cities with a population of
more than 125,000 people — New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and Rochester — to submit an annual plan detailing the allocation of local, state and federal funds by
school building.
A separate bill introduced by Assemblywoman Jaffee (A227) would drop the supermajority requirement for
school districts to pierce the cap, instead calling for a simple majority — making overrides no
more difficult than passing a budget
within the cap, and inviting a return to the days when
school taxes grew by
more than 7 percent per year.
Indeed, the move would likely apply
more pressure on — or incentive to, depending on your point of view — local governments and
school districts to budget
within the property tax cap, which was approved in 2011.
WARRENSBURG —
Within several years, students of the Warrensburg Central
School District will have safer and more accommodating buildings in which they acquire an education, following Tuesday's approval by district voters of an $ 11 million capital
District will have safer and
more accommodating buildings in which they acquire an education, following Tuesday's approval by
district voters of an $ 11 million capital
district voters of an $ 11 million capital project.
More than half of all charter
schools located within public school buildings are overcrowded compared to only 16 % of district schools they share space with, according to the analysis of data conducted by the pro-charter school group Families for Excellent S
schools located
within public
school buildings are overcrowded compared to only 16 % of
district schools they share space with, according to the analysis of data conducted by the pro-charter school group Families for Excellent S
schools they share space with, according to the analysis of data conducted by the pro-charter
school group Families for Excellent
SchoolsSchools.
At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public
schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city
school districts, in cities having a population of one million or
more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education
schools and programs
within such city
school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.
I am certainly open to negotiating a residency requirement with the police union, but even
more so I than that, I think we should focus on promoting from
within: we have the PSLA (Public Service Learning Academy) at Fowler, set up to train Syracuse City
School District students who want to go into public service jobs (including police).
Philadelphia, PA About Blog Carefully hidden away
within the heart of Philadelphia's historic Downtown
district, Old City Aikido is a martial arts
school that offers all the convenience of the big city while preserving the
more reserved nature of a traditional Japanese martial arts dojo.
More than 6 percent changed
schools within their
districts, another 5 percent switched from one
district to another, and 7 percent left Texas public
schools altogether.
The
more years working in a particular
district, the
more costly it becomes to leave, simply because pay, responsibilities, and job opportunities are often tied directly to experience
within the same
school district.
In Sacramento, administrator Lyn McCarty will be focusing her efforts on staff development and monitoring / coaching activities bent on the notion that
more consistent literacy instruction can be achieved across classrooms and
school sites
within the
district.
Districts hiring TFA or VIF teachers are making a trade - off between faster student growth and
more stability
within their
schools.
While it's fantastic that educators are flocking to Twitter, many of them still feel even
more alone and isolated
within their own
school and
district.
We can not adjust for
more local differences, such as by catchment area, so it is possible that some of the differences identified in Table 2 are due to differences in the geographic placement of these
schools within districts.
The police training is part of a larger focus on SEL
within the Oakland
district that started in 2011, driven by research showing that children with social and emotional skills are not only
more likely to do better in
school, but also have better lifelong success, such as attending college and getting good - paying jobs.
While magnet
schools are widely prevalent — there are over 3,000 magnets across
more than 600
school districts within 34 states — they have received less attention in the research literature than charters.
Within Texas, we focus our attention on large
school districts, those with
more than 25,000 students.
Districts and charter
schools have begun to embrace Public Impact's vision of an Opportunity Culture, creating pilot
schools that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to extend excellent teachers» reach, directly and by leading other teachers, in fully accountable roles, for
more pay — but
within budget.
The
schools attracted
more than 80 bids in total, about half coming from
within the
district, including area superintendents, teacher confederations only sometimes involving union activists, and the mayor's own partnership
school organization.
As blended learning has grown
within district schools, it's often been a bit
more ad hoc — a class here, one subject there — than in many charters in which blended learning has become a core part of the
school's operations.
In a randomized experiment in
more than 500
schools within 59
districts for the reading portion of the project, 57
districts for the math portion, and seven states, approximately half of the participating
districts were randomly offered quarterly benchmark student assessments and received extensive training on interpreting and using the data to guide reform.
Families in poverty are
more likely to have
within -
district traditional public
schools within one or two miles, but these differences narrow at longer distances.
Finding the Gold
Within has reached audiences at
more than eighty screenings at film festivals, conferences, think tanks, public
school districts, colleges, Black Male Summit, etc..
We estimate that private
school choice and intradistrict choice (allowing families to choose any traditional public
school in their
district) have the largest potential to expand the sets of
schools to which families have access, with
more than 80 percent of families having at least one of these «choice»
schools within five miles of home.
The significant relationship with precinct test scores and the absence of a relationship with
district scores suggests that voters were
more concerned with
school performance
within their immediate neighborhood than across the
district.
That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the
district, and
within the same
school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn
more over the course of the following year.
Students in
district schools with three or
more charter
schools within a one - mile radius perform significantly better in math than students with just one charter in the neighborhood, and they are also significantly less likely to be retained.
More specifically, do those who know that Common Core is being implemented
within their
school district think it is having a positive impact on their
schools?
This last point is an especially important consideration as
more online instruction is done by teachers from
within the
school districts.
A broad CDC - backed study of 11 states, for example, found that the ratio of boys to girls diagnosed with autism depended somewhat on the diagnostic services available
within a
district or
school —
schools with strong special education services had
more comprehensive evaluations and earlier diagnoses for students.
The project will initially work with
schools within the
district who have volunteered to take part, families and the local community to help support children to have a healthy weight and be
more active through play.
Third, through non-
district charter authorizing, the state empowers one or
more entities to approve and oversee public
schools within the
district's geographic area.
The practice is also the entry point for a larger focus on social and emotional learning (SEL) at the middle
school and
more broadly
within the 64,000 - student Washoe County
district.
With new technologies and teaching approaches becoming
more accepted in the classroom, educators have
more opportunities than ever to assume leadership roles and affect grassroots change
within their
schools,
districts, and states.
Pay Teachers
More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012
District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers
More —
Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough
Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and
More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach
More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching
Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New
Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011
School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find
More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing
Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost
School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter
School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter
School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing
Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing
Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.
Nevada state policy requires the board of trustees of each
school district to develop policies to ensure that all high
schools with 1,200 students or
more provide small learning communities
within the
school.
Ryan is
more positive about the varieties of
school choice — whether
within school districts, or by way of charter
schools and vouchers, and of course he favors interdistrict choice — but the legislative and judicial obstacles (not to mention practical ones) to the expansion of this route are clear.
Third, CAP partnered with EdBuild, a national nonprofit and policy studies organization, and analyzed data from
more than 1,700
school districts to evaluate economic segregation
within each
district.
Schools within the Sparta Area School District, similar to other PBIS schools across Wisconsin, have created a more positive environment for students and staff by establishing clear expectations for their students and taking active steps in teaching, modeling and reinforcing appropriate behaviors schoo
Schools within the Sparta Area
School District, similar to other PBIS schools across Wisconsin, have created a more positive environment for students and staff by establishing clear expectations for their students and taking active steps in teaching, modeling and reinforcing appropriate behaviors school
School District, similar to other PBIS
schools across Wisconsin, have created a more positive environment for students and staff by establishing clear expectations for their students and taking active steps in teaching, modeling and reinforcing appropriate behaviors schoo
schools across Wisconsin, have created a
more positive environment for students and staff by establishing clear expectations for their students and taking active steps in teaching, modeling and reinforcing appropriate behaviors
schoolschool wide.
If states or
districts tested math or literacy proficiency in
more than one grade in elementary or in secondary
schools, we averaged the percentages across the grades
within the building level, resulting in a single achievement score for each
school.
Waldrip, whose full article is linked here with many
more specifics acknowledges that while magnet
schools are still used to improve diversity and reduce segregation, they have rapidly become superior options
within the public sector for all students, even in
districts of primarily one race.
Dr. Cruz believed the path to improvement in student learning would require strengthening compliance with new state - level expectations, better vertical alignment of curriculum across the
schools, and
more effective collaboration
within the
district.