Sentences with phrase «number of districts looking»

A growing number of districts looking to right racial imbalances by dedicating staff members to work on equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Not exact matches

However, after looking at the numbers it is clear that 2015 was a tale of two harvests, the Valley districts were up overall by 5 % with pricing down yet the Coastal areas were down significantly, by 29 % with pricing up in general.

Cerini looks to increase the number of police officers, firefighters, and medical technicians in the district, and also is in favor of lower real - estate and income taxes.

But at the moment, it looks like former Assemblyman Frank Seddio has amassed sufficient support to take control of the party organization, even as a number of minority members are pushing for Assemblyman Karim Camara, whose candidacy is complicated by the fact that he's neither a district leader nor an executive committee member.

Stevenson was arrested for accepting over $ 22,000 in bribes from a group of crooked businessmen looking for help opening a number of adult daycare centers in Stevenson's district.

As the number of schools subject to restructuring increases, so will pressures on states and school districts to look for easy ways out.

School districts certainly don't have any incentive to limit the number of students who take the SAT with extended time, since higher scores look good to parents, taxpayers, and real estate agents.

Funding gifted education is thus left largely up to school districts, which are hard hit by falling property taxes and looking to cut budgets without reducing the number of kids who get over the minimum - proficiency bar.

Responding to the need to look beyond test scores to measure school quality, an increasing number of school districts are striving to incorporate socio - emotional learning measures in their accountability policies.

The report concludes that districts with a large number of struggling students may need more guidance from the state and suggests they look to schools and districts that have had greater success with high - need students for improvement ideas.

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

Our enrollment of EL's is not yet where we want it to be, but many of us have put great effort into changing that and, I believe that once we take a deeper look at the EL numbers we'll see that individual schools in our coalition are quite close to their districts.

... I think transparency, a lot of these are interconnected, but looking at whether it is the financial resources of the district, or student attendance, facilities numbers and which schools are over-enrolled and which schools are under - enrolled.

Two academic researchers from the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania looked at these value - added measures in six districts around the nation and found that there was weak to zero relationship between these new numbers and the content or quality of the teacher's instruction.

A number of Baltimore schools were forced to eliminate staff this week following midyear budget cuts.Nearly 130 staff members were left looking for job placements after the city school district imposed budget cuts because student enrollments turned out to...

A number of school districts are consciously looking to early childhood education, for example, as an investment in future high school diplomas.

This data includes listings of schools in need of improvement as well as AYP information for every campus and district, analysis of the number of Title I districts and campuses that did not make AYP, an overview of appeals results, and a broad look at state results.

States and districts mostly have opted to look at student growth, as opposed to raw test scores, because raw scores can disadvantage teachers with large numbers of low - income, limited - English or special needs students, who tend to score lower on standardized tests.

Matt McClure, Arkansas ASCD's legislative chair and superintendent of Cross County School District, thanked Elliott, Gov. Beebe, and the bill's cosponsors and said that Arkansas ASCD looks forward to working with the entire Arkansas education community to ensure that whole child education remains the number one priority for the state.

In providing funds, the state looks at the number of students, the condition of the facility and the financial need of the district.

For non-tested grades and subjects, we are looking at a number of states and large urban districts like Memphis, Washington, D.C., and New Haven.

Last year, PURE took a little closer look at the numbers and found that only 64 % of the school's original 166 freshmen actually graduated, well below the district's already dismal 70 % rate.

There are several problematic contextual issues that skewed the district's presented data which looked at an average of the number of credits earned by students within a school year:

It also would enable the district a more realistic look at the number of applicants for each school.

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.

Advocates for public schools are looking for help from the Legislature to blunt the impact of a ruling earlier this month jeopardizing a number of parcel tax measures supporting districts statewide.

In about 2 weeks, Angelina Cruz, a 6th grade social studies and reading and language arts teacher, will attend a meeting she hopes will result in her district taking a hard look at the number of high - stakes, standardized tests students are required to take.

Click here» In about 2 weeks, Wisconsin educator Angelina Cruz, a 6th grade social studies and reading and language arts teacher, will attend a meeting she hopes will result in her district taking a hard look at the number of high - stakes, standardized tests students are required to take.

But 24 years after Michigan law changed to shift school funding away from property taxes to a system based on the number of students a district has, a coalition wants to take a look at school funding again, specifically how much it really costs to educate each child.

The index looks at the number of farmers markets, number of community - supported agriculture projects, number of food hubs that handle distribution of local food and the percentage of school districts with farm - to - school programs.

The left - leaning national organization looked at the number of standardized tests given in 14 districts — both urban and suburban — in seven states during the 2013 - 14 school year.

I am looking for a number of money hungry and motivated graduates to join a global online trading company situated in the exciting and dynamic financial district of London.

Do - it - yourself landlords looking to cash in on these renters frequently undertake row house renovations in promising neighborhoods like Petworth or Edgewood — usually in the hopes that it will be D.C.'s next Waterfront revitalization project, but in 2012 the District passed a number of the strictest green building codes in the United States.