Sentences with phrase «number of districts across»

In addition, a number of districts across the U.S. have developed competency - based programs to facilitate personalized learning, including Dysart Unified School District, School District of South Milwaukee, and Seminole County Schools.

While an undetermined number of districts across the country...

A number of districts across the country have moved to equalize across schools the share of poor students, as measured by eligibility for subsidized lunch.

Mr Ntim said he was optimistic the vision of the Ministry will be realized in no time as the number of districts across the country increases to 254.

Not exact matches

The organization Cook for America has partnered with a number of school districts across the state to redesign the operations and practices of school foodservice.

While the new CT State Law requires all districts provide a number for concussions diagnosed in their students, the Norwalk School Concussion Project is going a step further and shedding the light on the various types of sport and non-sport concussions across our K - 12 schools.

Since President Donald Trump took office, a number of Democratic candidates have prevailed in historically Republican districts across the country and state.

Republicans have a number of female recruits in districts across the country who could still be formidable candidates.

The measure also comes as school districts across the state on Tuesday reported high numbers of students choosing to opt out of the current round of English Language Arts standardized tests that will run for the next two weeks.

At 1:30 p.m., Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams will unveil an unprecedented lineup of free and low - cost events, including a number of brand new announcements, for festivities across the Coney Island Amusement District on New Year's Eve, Steeplechase Plaza, West 16th Street and Boardwalk First, Coney Island.

But this year, unlike in the past, Cuomo has a serious pot sweetener: over $ 5 billion in settlement cash that a number of legislators hope will be used for infrastructure improvements across the state - or, more specifically, in their districts.

A number of purchase orders were also approved; Rockland County Sewer District One was authorized to buy two new pickup trucks as well as multiple Odor Control Systems for various pump stations across the County.

Boyajian proved to be a deft fundraiser — he outraised his opponents in three consecutive quarters, raising nearly $ 500,000 and ending with $ 200,000 in the bank — but appeared to have little interest in shoe leather campaigning aside from a «Bluegrass and Politics Tour» that saw him performing at a limited number of venues across the district this past winter.

«The Clinton campaign's new plans to invest millions more into this coordinated effort — with an eye towards key battleground House districts — will help us turn out a record number of voters across the country in the final weeks of this campaign,» DCCC Executive Director Kelly Ward said in statement Monday.

Derrick continued to play offense on Monday, releasing statements from a number of women across the district expressing their outrage.

Though there are not that many active Independence Party officials across the state — only about half of the state's 62 counties have a local chair — a number of those who are working in swing Senate districts have landed state government jobs with the chamber's Republican majority.

A small number of paid canvassers from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in Washington, the campaign arm for House Democrats, and volunteers helped Perez Willams collect 3,200 signatures by going door - to - door across the four - county district in just nine days.

With another season of scholastic football in full swing at school districts across the country, a growing number of physicians and athletic trainers are re-evaluating how they diagnose and treat head injuries suffered during practices and games.

In the Every Student Succeeds Act, Congress mandated the Institute of Education Sciences to study the Title I formulas, and specifically called for the study to analyze the impact of number weighting across different district locale codes.

[9] These weights mean two states with the same number of poor and non-poor students would get more Title I funds if those students are economically segregated across school districts.

While we partner with a number of reform - minded districts across the United States, only about 20 percent of EP alumni in education work for school districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School District).

Through those choices, we see a number of incredibly talented leaders from EP and other talent networks voting with their feet in deciding to join Kaya Henderson at DCPS or other strong leaders in reform - minded urban districts across the country.

A number of years ago, I studied 57 urban school districts across the U.S. and found that they had launched an average of 13 major reforms in a three - year period — or three to four every year.

A number of states instituted flat reductions in district aid, while others made across - the - board cuts to programs.

Across the country, a small number of schools and districts are modifying or extending the academic year.

Unfortunately, this is a common headline across the country with «U.S.» interchangeable with any number of school, district, or state names.

NACSA Members — including school districts, education agencies, independent boards, universities, and not - for - profits — work to increase the number of great charter schools across the nation, and some must make tough decisions to close poor - performing schools.

Since WUHSD became a PLC at Work district in 2003, it has seen solid and sustained growth in student performance across all five schools, even with more than $ 17 million cut from the budget and an increasing number of economically disadvantaged students enrolled.

As Innosight Institute has written in several reports, there are a growing number of schools and districts across the country that are implementing blended - learning models.

One way is to look at the relationship between poverty gaps and discipline disparities across a number of districts.

There had also been a significant number of new senior administrators in the district in the past two years: a new superintendent and three new directors at the district level, and three new administrators at the school level, across a total of seven schools.

37 Thanks in part to multiple court orders and strong federal enforcement, school districts began to implement racial integration policies.38 From the 1960s through the 1980s, there was a general growth in school district integration as an increasing number of states and districts heeded Brown's mandate and created bussing policies and magnet schools that joined black and white students across neighborhood boundaries.

The number of children from poor families is rising across the district, and there are more schools with high concentrations of poverty than there were 10 years ago.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

The goal was to get a handle on the number of schools in districts of varying size across the country and the locations of those districts.

It is based on each year's Voucher Program cost to the Tuition Support budget across the state, regardless of the number of vouchers used within the district.

Salas's story is common, especially in school districts with too few guidance counselors to keep track of the large numbers of poor, transient students who move from school to school and across districts.

«There are a number of different strategies that we can take from the work that was done here to be able to scale collective impact across our district, and help us improve student achievement one building at a time,» Driver says.

A small district may still need the same number of teachers and facilities, even though its state aid falls by tens of thousands of dollars, based on lower enrollment spread across several grades.

But here's the real issue: In this case, and exponentially growing numbers of cases like this across the country, the district decided to use a national versus state test (i.e., the SAT 10) which can (but should not) be used to test students in kindergarten and 1st grades, and then more importantly used to attribute growth on these tests over time to their teachers, again, to include more teachers in these evaluation systems.

Across the country, states are adopting a number of different strategies to improve outcomes for students: third grade reading requirements, literacy initiatives, new assessment and accountability systems, plus an increased focus on data - driven decision - making are changing how districts approach teaching and learning for all students.

In Moving Your Numbers, districts describe how intentional and aligned actions at the district, school, and teacher team levels resulted in greater coherence and quality of instructional practice across the district.

LAUSD Salvages Summer School, but Classes Will Be Limited Despite fears that Los Angeles Unified would have to cancel summer school this year, officials say they'll be able to hold a limited number of credit - recovery classes at 16 high school campuses across the sprawling district.

Last year, we saw a significant increase in the number of Prop. 39 applications across the state, and we were able to secure long - term facilities in districts like Sacramento City Unified.

Magnet Schools of America commissioned a study with the University of North Carolina — Charlotte's Urban Institute to compile a comprehensive and more current count of the number of magnet schools across the country, as many school districts have broadened what it means to be a magnet school.

It is based on each year's voucher program cost to the Tuition Support budget across the state, regardless of the number of vouchers used within the district.

Wilson said that the school district's internal review also saw excessive passing rates for absent students across the city, specifically at Anacostia, Eastern, Woodson and Roosevelt High Schools where «we are in the process of trying to understand what's behind some of the numbers there.»

Blended learning is having a positive impact in schools and districts across the country, but there are a number of key strategies that can advance blended learning to its next generation of even greater effectiveness and improved achievement.

With a rapid increase in the number and diversity of students, the district was looking for a way to ensure effective instruction across its schools.

With experience across a number of schools and districts, she has served as a teacher, administrator, and school board member.