Sentences with phrase «of federal school improvement grants»

Under the terms of federal School Improvement Grants that the DOE was awarded to help these schools succeed, the school district and the union must jointly develop a teacher evaluation system in low - achieving schools that receive the funds.

The latest study of the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program appears to confirm Smarick's view, which he declared with chest - beating glee in a post on the EdNext blog.

The failure of the federal School Improvement Grant program and countless other «turnaround» initiatives is convincing policymakers that nondistrict alternatives are essential.

During his five - day, seven - city tour, Van Roekel is visiting a number «priority schools» and stopped by Romulus Middle School which had received a $ 5.3 million grant as part of the federal School Improvement Grant program.

The 21st Century Charter School of Gary is the recipient of a federal school improvement grant, along with the Dr. Bernard C. Watson Academy for Boys, a Gary Community School Corp. elementary.

Not exact matches

«The mayor seems to be lost in his own fantasy world of education, the one where reality doesn't apply,» declared UFT President Michael Mulgrew in response to the mayor's State of the City speech on Jan. 12, in which, among other proposals, he threatened to fire half the staffs in 33 schools receiving federal School Improvement Grant support.

Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott and UFT President Michael Mulgrew on July 15 announced an important agreement that will help secure up to $ 65 million over the next two years in federal School Improvement Grants, a U.S. Department of Education program that provides funding to help transform our nation's struggling sSchools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott and UFT President Michael Mulgrew on July 15 announced an important agreement that will help secure up to $ 65 million over the next two years in federal School Improvement Grants, a U.S. Department of Education program that provides funding to help transform our nation's struggling schoolsschools.

The city DOE and United Federation of Teachers had spent weeks in closed door meetings trying to hammer out the details of a «meaningful teacher evaluation system» in order to qualify for up to $ 65 million in federal funding in School Improvement Grants over the next two years, which is distributed by the state.

In 2009, the federal government overhauled the Title I School Improvement Grant program, increased its value to $ 3.5 billion with money from the recovery act, and spelled out four turnaround options from which perennially failing schools would have to choose to get a share of the funding.

With thousands of public schools facing the end of their three - year School Improvement Grants from the federal government, what is being done to prevent backsliding from any progress made?

Data released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education on the $ 3.5 billion School Improvement Grant program show that the federal turnaround grants haven't just gone to schools in urban areas, or for less - drastic school improvement efSchool Improvement Grant program show that the federal turnaround grants haven't just gone to schools in urban areas, or for less - drastic school improvemeImprovement Grant program show that the federal turnaround grants haven't just gone to schools in urban areas, or for less - drastic school improvement efschool improvementimprovement efforts.

The city announced in June, prior to the appellate ruling, that it was going to «transform» 11 of the district's schools and dramatically overhaul or close 23 others under a $ 300 million federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.

NCLB requires states to set aside about $ 230 million of their federal funds for grants to schools in need of improvement.

If, for example, one - third of all schools found themselves «in need of improvement,» then the minimum amount of federal support required to fund grants of $ 50,000 per school would be $ 1.6 billion.

-- and $ 3.5 billion in designated federal funding for School Improvement Grants is enough to push many an edu - reformer to the brink of hubris, it's fairly clear that no one actually knows what to do.

Although the specific allocation for school improvement grants appears to fall well short of the minimum amount required by federal regulations, other sources of federal funds could more than close the gap, if they were directed to low - performing schools.

Michael J. Petrilli is associate assistant deputy secretary in the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement, which houses the federal charter - school grant programs.

«Research clearly shows that no school improvement effort can succeed without effective leadership, and such leadership is needed at all levels - federal, state, district, and school - in our current systems and in the systems we will create in the future,» said M. Christine DeVita, president of The Wallace Foundation, which provided a $ 10 - million grant to support the effort.

On an evaluation of the federal Race to the Top and School Improvement Grant initiatives, she was a content area expert advising on development of protocols, data collection instruments, and reports, examining how states and districts use grant funds to improve teacher quaGrant initiatives, she was a content area expert advising on development of protocols, data collection instruments, and reports, examining how states and districts use grant funds to improve teacher quagrant funds to improve teacher quality.

Education Week, the Education Writers Association and The Hechinger Report partnered with 18 news outlets in 16 states to investigate how $ 3 billion in federal School Improvement Grants are being used to revitalize some of the nation's lowest - performing schools.

Indeed, a recent federal evaluation of the School Improvement Grants program couldn't unearth any significant effects on learning, no matter how the data were diced.

Nationally, 27 percent of the schools that have received federal school improvement grants have lost 20 percent or more of their students in recent years, according to a Catalyst Chicago analysis of federal data.

As the federal School Improvement Grants program winds down, Tim Prudente of the Baltimore Sun writes about one low - performing school in Baltimore, Mary Rodman Elementary, which is using one of the last grants to be given under the prSchool Improvement Grants program winds down, Tim Prudente of the Baltimore Sun writes about one low - performing school in Baltimore, Mary Rodman Elementary, which is using one of the last grants to be given under the prGrants program winds down, Tim Prudente of the Baltimore Sun writes about one low - performing school in Baltimore, Mary Rodman Elementary, which is using one of the last grants to be given under the prschool in Baltimore, Mary Rodman Elementary, which is using one of the last grants to be given under the prgrants to be given under the program.

In late 2014, the state launched a first - of - its - kind desegregation plan — the Socioeconomic Integration Pilot program — using federal School Improvement Grant, or SIG, funds.

States» applications to secure one of the federal grants will be scored on the basis of more than 30 selection criteria, involving such education improvement priorities as school turnaround, teacher and principal effectiveness, and encouragement of high - quality charter schools.

The narrow and disruptive range of options offered in the Parent Empowerment Act — the same options offered in the federal School Improvement Grant program — have shown no overall success in improving schools nationwide.

Prior to NCTR, Sarah worked at the Colorado Department of Education as a Title I program specialist and managed federal school improvement grants.

The first was a quantitative analysis of student academic outcomes, comparing results for schools that received federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) funding to similar schools in the same districts that did not.

The Student - to - School Nurse Ratio Improvement Act of 2013 will create a pilot demonstration grant program that allows federal assistance for educational agencies at the local level to target schools with the least adequate school nurse to student rSchool Nurse Ratio Improvement Act of 2013 will create a pilot demonstration grant program that allows federal assistance for educational agencies at the local level to target schools with the least adequate school nurse to student rschool nurse to student ratios.

This year, most of those schools in every state received substantial federal School Improvement Grants, often a million dollars over three years, with the expectation that they will be «turned around» or made into much better schools.

The Denver Post determined that 35 percent of the federal funds allocated to that city in a School Improvement Grant was spent for consultants, not for students or teachers or schools.2

An example of Scott's work in the region is a report she and her team recently completed for the Oregon Department of Education that described how Oregon schools used their federal school improvement grants in 2012.

On top of that they have an additional set of requirements from the federal School Improvement Grant program.

Together, they made a strong start during the first year of the school's federal School Improvement school's federal School Improvement School Improvement Grant.

But then the high school was awarded a federal School Improvement Grant and became a target site of the Priority Schools Camschool was awarded a federal School Improvement Grant and became a target site of the Priority Schools CamSchool Improvement Grant and became a target site of the Priority Schools Campaign.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

Glenda Ritz, left, answers questions about federal School Improvement Grant money at the June State Board of Education meeting.

Ross C. Santy, director of EdFacts, told state and district officials who attended a National Center for Education Statistics conference in Washington, D.C., last week they would still have to report student achievement data to receive federal funding, like Title I and school improvement grants.

PCAPS Coordinator Ron Whitehorne outlined the strategy for getting 10 % of Philadelphia Schools to be Sustainable Community Schools in four years, focusing on the demand that federal School Improvement Grant money be used exclusively for that purpose.

quarreled against the backdrop of the complex rules governing two federal programs, Race to the Top and the School Improvement Grants, that require changes to evaluation criteria.

The fallout from that situation particularly affected New York City, where the district and the United Federation of Teachersquarreled against the backdrop of the complex rules governing two federal programs, Race to the Top and the School Improvement Grants, that require changes to evaluation criteria.

The School Improvement Grants had been part of No Child Left Behind, the 2002 federal law.

May, 2011 — Federal Fiscal Year 2010 1003 (a), project period July 1, 2011 through September 30, 2012 The application for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2010 School Improvement Grant (SIG) funds, authorized under Section 1003 (a) of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), is available to school divisions for use in Title I schools in Title I School Improvement or Title I eligible schools that meet certain crFederal Fiscal Year 2010 1003 (a), project period July 1, 2011 through September 30, 2012 The application for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2010 School Improvement Grant (SIG) funds, authorized under Section 1003 (a) of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), is available to school divisions for use in Title I schools in Title I School Improvement or Title I eligible schools that meet certain crfederal fiscal year (FFY) 2010 School Improvement Grant (SIG) funds, authorized under Section 1003 (a) of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), is available to school divisions for use in Title I schools in Title I School Improvement or Title I eligible schools that meet certain criSchool Improvement Grant (SIG) funds, authorized under Section 1003 (a) of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), is available to school divisions for use in Title I schools in Title I School Improvement or Title I eligible schools that meet certain crischool divisions for use in Title I schools in Title I School Improvement or Title I eligible schools that meet certain criSchool Improvement or Title I eligible schools that meet certain criteria.

Roberts was one of four schools in the district to receive $ 2 million in federal funding from a School Improvement Grant.

Such behavior in the realm of absence hardly sounds conducive to school improvement, and it underscores broader concern with trust in the research literature on school improvement and in practical matters such as states» applications for competitive federal grants under the Race to the Top program.

The 2010 - 2011 school year was the second year of «transformation,» a model adopted by DPS for schools receiving federal School Improvement Grants school year was the second year of «transformation,» a model adopted by DPS for schools receiving federal School Improvement Grants School Improvement Grants (SIG).

In a letter the state department's Julia Rafael - Bar wrote to Brown on March 25 about the situation, she also said that the district could jeopardize its $ 11 million in School Improvement Grant funding from the federal government for 2012 - 13 (and $ 40 million over the remaining life of SIG for Buffalo) if it did not conform to state law about teacher evaluations.

Glendale won a three - year federal School Improvement Grant with a faculty - approved plan that boosts the rigor of curriculum, extends class time, fosters parental engagement and community partnerships, and increases teacher development — all with staff input and collaboration between the faculty, administration and district.

The program will combine the assets and expertise of both agencies with the on - the - ground presence of AmeriCorps members in schools that are implementing a turnaround effort through the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.

This impact study found that the disbursement of federal Title I School Improvement Grants in the process designed by ESE have consistently positive effects on student academic achievement.