Sentences with phrase «of public school districts since»

In private practice, Duane represented his first school district in 1997 and has dedicated his practice exclusively to the representation of public school districts since 2002.

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Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar deal Coke struck with our district a few years back — more on that to come), snack vending machines, branded products like Papa John's pizza in the lunch room, and more.

The result won't do much to allay the fears of New York teachers» unions that Cuomo's real aim is to transform traditional public schools into charter schools, since charter groups were among those chosen by Massachusetts education officials to implement turnaround plans in chronically underperforming districts.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

The percentage of Buffalo Public School graduates who went on to a two - or four - year college increased to 67 percent for the Class of 2015, putting the district on the heels of the national rate for more affluent districts.And new data released Wednesday by Say Yes Buffalo show that the rate of college - going graduates has gone up 10 points since 2012, the year before the o...

«The UFT has been meeting with Bill de Blasio on education and other issues important to New Yorkers since he was on the District 15 community school board, a member of the City Council, and then Public Advocate.

This silence is especially deafening since the damage to the district is so severe that Harry Phillips, the Rockland / Westchester / Putnam representative to the State Board of Regents, recently decried that the school district was «shafting the public - school kids.»

Since the Orange County Public Schools, in Orlando, Florida, installed Computrace on its 26,000 computers, the school district has recovered a third of some 70 stolen laptops.

The public school districts that have contacted us have been particularly interested in the cost implications of blended - learning spaces, since our analysis suggests that blended environments are more efficient and less expensive to build.

Since the first law authorizing charter schools was passed in Minnesota in 1991, 39 other states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have all adopted legislation supporting public charters.

With urban and suburban districts facing the deepest budget cuts they've seen since the recession of the mid-1980s — and a milder recession in the early 2000s — the prospects for comprehensive arts education in most K - 12 public schools appear bleak, and even schools with minimal programs may lose what they considered to be bare bones to begin with.

If you follow news about the District of Columbia Public Schools closely, you could be forgiven if you thought teacher turnover had increased since the schools were handed over to mayoral control iSchools closely, you could be forgiven if you thought teacher turnover had increased since the schools were handed over to mayoral control ischools were handed over to mayoral control in 2007.

While we encourage readers to be cautious about applying our findings without qualification to all public schools, we also encourage school districts to support research that can identify middle - school effects in other settings, especially since we find the consequences of attending a middle school for student achievement to be substantial and troubling.

As special education has evolved over the decades since IDEA was enacted, public school districts have provided most of the special education services students have required.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

The district also contends that because the mayor and board of education have provided additional funding for traditional public schools ever since the act was passed, those actions have created an authoritative legal precedent.

If you follow news about the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) closely, you could be forgiven if you thought teacher turnover had increased since the schools were handed over to mayoral control iSchools (DCPS) closely, you could be forgiven if you thought teacher turnover had increased since the schools were handed over to mayoral control ischools were handed over to mayoral control in 2007.

The Supreme Court's recent decision in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, which authorizes educators to supervise the content of official high - school newspapers, is the Court's most significant ruling in a free - speech case involving public - school students since it decided Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District almost 20 yearSchool District v. Kuhlmeier, which authorizes educators to supervise the content of official high - school newspapers, is the Court's most significant ruling in a free - speech case involving public - school students since it decided Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District almost 20 yearschool newspapers, is the Court's most significant ruling in a free - speech case involving public - school students since it decided Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District almost 20 yearschool students since it decided Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District almost 20 yearSchool District almost 20 years ago.

And since charter schools enroll far fewer students than district - run public schools, the positive impact on charters should be greater than the negative effect on district schools, where the loss of income will be more broadly distributed.

But Jerry Weast, 63, superintendent of the Montgomery County (Md.) Public Schools since 1999, developed a culture of success in a district where 67 percent of its enrollment are students of color.

Many states had such systems in place before NCLB took effect, but, since 2001 - 2002, every state in the United States has had to develop and implement an SBA system that met the requirements of the law, and its provisions have affected every public school and district in the nation.

the graduation rate cohort for each public school district shall consist of those students who first enrolled in grade 9 anywhere three school years previously or, if an ungraded student with a disability, first attained the age of 17 three school years previously, and who have spent at least five consecutive months, not including July and August, in the district since first entering grade 9 and whose last enrollment in the district did not end because of transfer to another district, death, court - ordered transfer, or leaving the United States.

Since then, Dr. Blackburn served Broward County Public Schools as a District Trainer, Director of School Improvement, Area Superintendent, and Chief School Performance & Accountability Officer.

Since graduating from DePaul University with a Master of Arts in Mathematics Education, he has spent the past 11 years teaching high school mathematics in the public school districts of Chicago, West Allis and Milwaukee, with the last 7 of which teaching courses as part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Reagan College Preparatory High School on Milwaukee's southschool mathematics in the public school districts of Chicago, West Allis and Milwaukee, with the last 7 of which teaching courses as part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Reagan College Preparatory High School on Milwaukee's southschool districts of Chicago, West Allis and Milwaukee, with the last 7 of which teaching courses as part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Reagan College Preparatory High School on Milwaukee's southSchool on Milwaukee's south side.

• Among large urban districts, the progress of D.C. Public Schools, Chicago, and Miami is especially impressive since 2011.

In fact, since traditional public schools ought to be subject to the same constraints, a commonsense reformer is really agnostic about whether traditional publics serve 90 % or 40 % of students in a district.

The authors examined the student achievement data of each school included in the turnaround initiatives — and in LPS, each traditional public school in the district — to select schools that have made notable academic gains since implementing these practices.

The speech was Vargas» first State of Our Schools speech since taking over when Jean - Claude Brizard left the district to run Chicago Public Schools last year.

What began as a single after - school guitar class has since exploded into a national movement that brings free, weekly music lessons to over 250,000 public school children through the efforts of more than 1,700 teachers in 124 school districts nationwide.

Since 2007, the number of districts strongly committed to socioeconomic integration has more than doubled, from 40 to 100 nationwide.75 These districts tend to be large and urban, and today, roughly 4 million students reside in a school district or charter school that considers socioeconomic status in their student assignment system — representing about 8 percent of total public school enrollment.76

Since 2000, the Gates Foundation has spent roughly $ 2 billion dollars in the creation of small schools in public school districts across the United States.

Olson is one of 244 principals in Tampa, Florida's Hillsborough County Public Schools, one of six large urban districts across the country that since 2011 have been involved in The Wallace Foundation's «principal pipeline» initiative — designed to grow more effective principals.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

Clarion - Ledger Endorses Special Needs Bill March 5, 2015 by Grant Callen Nearly one year has passed since the Legislature killed a measure providing thousands of dollars to parents of special - needs public school children for educational services outside the district.

VERONICA McDERMOTT began her career in the public schools of Long Island, New York, in 1970 and has worked in numerous educational roles ever since, including superintendent of schools, principal, district director, dean, and classroom teacher.

Many changes have come about in Memphis since the Jubilee Catholic Schools were founded, including the development of public charter schools and six new suburban school disSchools were founded, including the development of public charter schools and six new suburban school disschools and six new suburban school districts.

Since then, he has supported the growth of high - performing public schools in leadership roles for the Rhode Island Department of Education, Louisiana's Recovery School District, and New Schools for Batonschools in leadership roles for the Rhode Island Department of Education, Louisiana's Recovery School District, and New Schools for BatonSchools for Baton Rouge.

This hasn't happened since 2009 and District of Columbia Public and Charter Schools will already have been in session for two weeks when the holiday travel weekend arrives.

Secretary Curriculum Coordinator, Riverside School District Since her retirement in 2011, Dr. Dolores Szymanski EDU, «74» 76, has served as Interim Superintendent of the Shamong and Mt. Holly Township Public School District and as the Interim Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction in the Cinnaminson Township Public Schools.

As the first Latino Mayor of Los Angeles since 1872, Villaraigosa transformed education, growing the number of high - quality charter public schools and increasing the graduation rates for Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) students.

Graham previously served as chairman of the District of Columbia College Access Program, a private foundation which, since 1999, has helped double the number of DC public high school students going on to college and has helped triple the number graduating from college.

Over $ 9 million for Minneapolis Public Schools is at stake if teachers approve the agreement that has already been approved by the Minneapolis Public Schools Board and accepted by the Minnesota Department of Education.Members of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) are casting their votes this week to determine if our district should take part in the Quality Compensation (Q Comp) program offered by the state since 2005.

WILL officials suggested the base salary data, obtained from the Department of Public Instruction, didn't tell the whole story because it doesn't account for bonuses and merit pay increases that have surfaced in some school districts since the law was enacted.

And in Chicago the public school district has had a pilot program in place since 2006 in 31 of its 483 elementary schools to give students in grades 6, 7 and 8 more control over what they read.

The percentage of Portland Public Schools students opting out of new Smarter Balanced tests has risen by three percentage points since last month, according to new data from the district.

After years of decline, public school enrollment has been increasing in the District since school year 2009 - 10.

Forty - three states, the District of Columbia and the island of Guam participated in the fourth - grade testing program, which has monitored trends in academic achievement among public and private school students since the 1970s.

Topeka Public Schools has engaged in equity work since 2011, when elements of the Equity Institute were established including the district's Equity Council.

Since the publication of these initial studies, their findings have been validated many times with state and large district longitudinal studies in Arkansas, Boston, Colorado, Florida, Indianapolis, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, and Tennessee (Bruce, Bridgeland, Fox, & Balfanz, 2011).

The earlier preliminary look at NAEP TUDA (National Assessment of Educational Progress, Trial Urban District Assessment) biennial results for Atlanta Public Schools (APS; «Atlanta») offered the immediate data story that, in recent years, since 2015, the district's White - Black academic achievement gaps have been made unusuallDistrict Assessment) biennial results for Atlanta Public Schools (APS; «Atlanta») offered the immediate data story that, in recent years, since 2015, the district's White - Black academic achievement gaps have been made unusualldistrict's White - Black academic achievement gaps have been made unusually worse.