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