Sentences with phrase «most challenged district»

Milwaukee Public Schools saw 3,060 students earn their high school diploma in 2015, with a graduation rate of 58.2 percent — making it the most challenged district in the state.

She said Maryland's application represents 70 percent of the state's poor children and particularly focuses on how the state would help the most challenged districts — Baltimore and Prince George's County — raise achievement.

At the same time, they create fundamental systemic change and build the teaching profession, especially in the most challenging districts.

Not exact matches

As most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challenges.

Established in 2009, the Stanford University / San Francisco Unified School District Partnership brings the most advanced education research to bear on major challenges identified by the school leaders in one of California's largest and most diverse districts.

For example, USDA requires that meals include whole grain - rich products and certain vegetables, but most districts noted that obtaining student acceptance of foods like whole grain pasta and beans has been challenging.

It reveals that many districts have emerged from the most challenging phase of the transition to healthier meals.

The senator, a Democrat - turned - Republican who ousted former Democratic Sen. Antoine Thompson in one of the state's most Democrat - dominated districts in 2010, also faces a primary challenge from Kevin T. Stocker.

Democrats have been scoring some significant successes in the recruitment department, most recently with Carrie Pilon's announcement of a challenge to Sen. Jeff Brandes in Pinellas County's Senate District 24.

«The most recent challenge to negotiations has been back - to - back grievances filed by the district and the drivers» union, the Classified Employee Association.»

«While the constraints of the levy cap have challenged school district operations, most have managed without a significant impact on credit quality.

His remarks were delivered hours after announcing a string of 10 congressional endorsements in the state, the most interesting of which was Ann Marie Buerkle, the Republican challenging freshman Democratic Rep. Dan Maffei in the 25th District.

There is no information posted yet on state Sen. Morgan Carroll of Colorado, for example, even though she is challenging Republican Rep. Mike Coffman in Colorado's 6th District in one of the most competitive races of the cycle.

Gipson was elected to the state Senate in the 41st District (most of Dutchess County, part of Putnam County) in 2012, ousting 20 - year - incumbent Steve Saland, R - Poughkeepsie, in a three - way race that also included Conservative Party candidate Neil DiCarlo, who challenged Saland on his crucial vote for same - sex marriage in New York.

«Trying to get a candidate to run against me and moving into a district where I reside to potentially challenge me is not the way most people would seek support for a future race.

«We try to go into some of the most challenged neighborhoods in the City of Buffalo and we have been in every single councilmatic district.»

He also challenged government to expedite action on the national climate change policy to ensure its implementation at the regional and district level, to address issues of climate change in the region, since the region is most at risk of climate change.

I look forward to partnering with Senator Gillibrand and President Obama in Washington on behalf of working families all across the 20th District, where I will fight to create jobs, provide middle class tax relief, and offer new ways to meet our most pressing challenges, so we can turn our economy around.»

This year's 8th District GOP primary marked the most spirited challenge Boehner has faced in years, according to Republican operatives in Ohio.

WASHINGTON — The former Arizona state senator Debbie Lesko fended off an unusually strong Democratic challenge to win a special congressional election on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, demonstrating the resilience of the Republican base but also the eagerness of liberals to compete in even the most heavily conservative districts.

Valentine, of Chestnut Ridge, plans to challenge Carlucci, of New City, for the 38th Senate District, which includes most of Rockland County and some of Westchester, in the September 13 Democratic primary.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the second most powerful court in the country behind the Supreme Court, heard two cases challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's first rules to crack down on mercury from the country's fleet of electric generating units.

It turns out that the most significant challenges that teachers report facing are systemic — number one being «state or district policies that get in the way of teaching,» followed by, «constantly changing demands placed on teachers» and «constantly changing demands placed on students.»

Since 1990 the New York - based Teach for America (TFA) program has placed more than 7,000 teachers in some of the nation's most challenging school districts.

Most of the 12 municipalities and school districts that last month filed a lawsuit challenging the Ocean State's school finance system are neither among the state's poorest nor its most urMost of the 12 municipalities and school districts that last month filed a lawsuit challenging the Ocean State's school finance system are neither among the state's poorest nor its most urmost urban.

Some of these changes may well have happened without the competitive challenge of school choice, but even choice's most vigorous opponents concede that at least some of the district's responses were produced by the threat of external competition.

In the Bronx, parent groups teamed up with the local teachers» union and the school district to tackle one of the most challenging issues facing struggling urban schools: supporting and retaining teachers.

In some cities, districts also face an increasing concentration of the students hardest and most costly to educate, those with severe special needs, those who speak little to no English, those with the most severe behavior and mental health challenges and the least parental support.

Despite the unique qualities of every district, most objectives and challenges in K — 12 education are consistent across the country.

It was one of the state's largest districts - with 16,500 students in 19 schools spread out over 9.6 square miles - and one of its most academically and demographically challenged.

Then, nearly a decade ago, he became commissioner in Massachusetts, where he embraced the Common Core, revamped teacher evaluation, and championed turnaround strategies for some of the state's most - challenged districts.

Some of the most closely watched races were for seats on the school board in Douglas County, where the winners will decide whether to continue to defend a school voucher program set up by the district that has faced legal challenges.

White knows that the challenges of running New Orleans's 70 Recovery District schools are great, despite Paul Vallas's amazing progress in rebuilding a system that most educators agreed was among the worst in the nation before Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 80 percent of its 127 schoolhouses (see «New Schools in New Orleans,» features, Spring 2011).

... also because its students and teachers allow us to see the typical challenges that most places across the country will face as their districts try to put the ELA standards in place.

This will prove a challenge for public school districts, most of which are required by law to participate in their state's plan.

Most districts are tracking much of this data currently; how to access and organize that data is likely a common challenge.

And it seems to challenge the assumption that rural districts can't leverage their funds effectively to get the most for their students.

Most importantly, then, test results provide parents and teachers with vital information about student learning, and accountability policies challenge districts and schools to meet individual student needs with effective teachers, strong curricula, choices for families and students, and break - the - mold interventions for failing schools.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to hear a student's challenge to a Texas school district's dress code that prohibits most messages, including political slogans, on student shirts.

And when the Obama administration attempted to jump - start stalled interventions under NCLB with redesigned School Improvement Grants, we learned yet again that even a convoluted «rule of nine» can't «make» districts choose the turnaround options that they find most challenging (even if those are the options with the strongest odds of doing well by kids).

These schools — among the district's most challenging — have kept pace with a district achieving the highest gains among America's major urban systems.

Fueled by money and emboldened by clout from some of the city's most powerful figures, charter schools began a period of explosive growth that has challenged the status quo in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Since 1998, we have published many books and videos with the same two goals in mind: (1) to persuade educators that the most promising strategy for meeting the challenge of helping all students learn at high levels is to develop their capacity to function as a professional learning community and (2) to offer specific strategies and structures to help them transform their own schools and districts into PLCs.

I happened to be one of those proponents based first on my close understanding of the challenges she faced when she entered the job, the tough decisions she has made over the last two years, and the leadership direction of the district which is now rooted in the theory that in order to improve student learning we need most to improve the quality of teaching and leadership.

Despite better relative performance in math and English when compared to host districts, the hard reality is most charter schools are challenged by low proficiency rates.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

Two years ago, to apply to Oakland district and charter public school options was a challenging paper - chase that disadvantaged low - income flatlands families the most.

She began as a teacher at the ground level of one of the country's most economically and demographically challenging inner city populations, the North Side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she faced what so many teachers face: high class numbers, and needing to support learning, emotional and physical needs of a multilingual population of students in poverty while achieving state and district test score goals.

One study of 83 school districts found that «the districts with the fewest applicants were those with the most challenging working conditions, higher concentrations of poor and minority students, and lower salaries for principals.»

With a heavy emphasis on equity and access for students and families in our most vulnerable school communities, the annual summer institute will support leaders at the school and district level to embrace the complexities, challenges, and opportunities of their positions.