Sentences with phrase «of regular district schools»

Although much of the focus on charters has been on the high fliers that are outstripping the performance of regular district schools, others have struggled.

Not only do we get around 75 percent of the funding of regular district schools, but many of our schools pay all facilities expenses, which means rent, utilities, snow removal, security, roof repairs and everything else that district public schools get for free.

Meanwhile, about 87 % of charter schools had 60 % or more of their students meet or exceed state standards on achievement tests; only about 65 % of regular district schools reached that threshold.

Because of that disparity, we limited the schools included in the comparison group to the lower half of all regular district schools.

Not exact matches

Regular readers of Beyond Breakfast might remember Jeri Paull, the Nutrition Services Manager at McMinnville School District and the recipient of a 2014 School Nutrition Foundation education scholarship.

At Tuesday night's park district Building and Grounds Committee meeting, which preceded the regular board meeting, parents argued it was unfair for the 570 students of MacArthur School to remain without a playground for the coming schoolSchool to remain without a playground for the coming schoolschool year.

Second, according to Poppendieck, by offering junk food in the same venue as the regular meal, the school district may feel pressured to keep the federally subsidized school lunch competitive by offering its own version of «junk food» items (hence the prevalence of pizza on school menus).

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At Dorchester County School District 2 in Summerville, South Carolina, for instance, Nutrition and Food Service Director Debi Filomarino ensures that users are aware that her district charges $ 30 an hour for a member of her staff to supervise the kitchen outside regular school School District 2 in Summerville, South Carolina, for instance, Nutrition and Food Service Director Debi Filomarino ensures that users are aware that her district charges $ 30 an hour for a member of her staff to supervise the kitchen outside regular schooDistrict 2 in Summerville, South Carolina, for instance, Nutrition and Food Service Director Debi Filomarino ensures that users are aware that her district charges $ 30 an hour for a member of her staff to supervise the kitchen outside regular schoodistrict charges $ 30 an hour for a member of her staff to supervise the kitchen outside regular school school hours.

The DPCC and its members have been regular challengers of the district and continue to criticize school leaders for their response to a complaint the group filed with the Office of Civil Rights.

The school delay is twofold: $ 436 million held back from school districts for the cost of the School Tax Reduction, or STAR, property tax break given to homeowners; and $ 146 million in regular schooschool delay is twofold: $ 436 million held back from school districts for the cost of the School Tax Reduction, or STAR, property tax break given to homeowners; and $ 146 million in regular schooschool districts for the cost of the School Tax Reduction, or STAR, property tax break given to homeowners; and $ 146 million in regular schooSchool Tax Reduction, or STAR, property tax break given to homeowners; and $ 146 million in regular schoolschool aid.

The elementary school in Oregon's Willamina district set out last year to pick apart a complicated problem that would ultimately require an equally complicated solution: Many of its Native American students failed to show up on a regular basis.

In this article for District Administration, regular Edutopia blogger Suzie Boss tells the story of how schools are meeting the challenge of standardized tests and moving past the «bubble» exam; she also highlights how educators are overcoming fear and anxiety around assessing critical thinking and content.

And many districts do maintain the «magnet schools and special schools» Ravitch referenced at least in part to accommodate such youngsters outside of «regular» public schools.

Another study examines the effects of participation in a G&T program offered within regular middle schools to students who were just barely deemed eligible to participate as compared to those who just missed becoming eligible, based on the «identification matrix» scores the district used.

While the court's 7 - to - 2 decision to invalidate the system was widely expected across Texas in recent weeks, the justices surprised observers by voting 5 to 4 to allow the legislature to wait until next year's regular session to come up with another solution to the problem of funding disparities between rich and poor school districts.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

In a program sponsored by the Northwest Educational Cooperative, students come to Rolling Meadows High School to participate in one of the 15 nongraded classes designed to offer them a deeper look into some of the subjects they study in their regular classes, according to Larry Chase, executive director of the cooperative, which serves 10 public - school districts near ChSchool to participate in one of the 15 nongraded classes designed to offer them a deeper look into some of the subjects they study in their regular classes, according to Larry Chase, executive director of the cooperative, which serves 10 public - school districts near Chschool districts near Chicago.

(The program substantially enhances high school graduation rates and increases parental satisfaction at lower cost per student than education in the regular public schools of the District of Columbia [iv]-RRB-;

A host of new, small schools opening in Chicago will get more money than regular district schools, officials have decided.

Eight of Oregon's 306 school districts held emergency levy elections last week and at the start of this week because they could not afford to stay open until the next regular election in November.

In response, savvy exam school promoters sometimes enter into treaties with the regular high schools — a sort of reverse quota system — and promise not to admit more than so many youngsters from particular districts or neighborhoods.

The bill, which the Governor had declared dead during the regular session, will make Washington only the second state to mandate that all school districts adopt policies allowing intradistrict transfers by students, according to several observers of the school - choice movement.

In its analysis, the California Charter School Association compared one year of growth in state test scores in each Los Angeles charter school with that in three regular public schools run by the Los Angeles Unified School DisSchool Association compared one year of growth in state test scores in each Los Angeles charter school with that in three regular public schools run by the Los Angeles Unified School Disschool with that in three regular public schools run by the Los Angeles Unified School DisSchool District.

And finally, the school operates a Bilingual Orientation Center, one of three in the district, where immigrant children learn English until they're ready for regular school.

The average combined reading and math test scores one year prior to the management change at schools assigned to for - profit and nonprofit entities were 0.39 and 0.13 standard deviations below the Philadelphia average, respectively, while the pre-intervention scores of the full set of 142 regular public schools were 0.19 standard deviations above the district average.

The treatment groups consist of schools managed by each type of private provider, and the comparison group includes the regular public schools with test scores below the median for all regular district schools, as discussed above.

be updated annually and incorporate the findings of the audit and any other action required to be taken by the district pursuant to this subclause and, as so updated, approved by the board of education and implemented no later than the first day of regular student attendance of each year that the school remains in corrective action.

Orlando is one of 83 school districts, from Newark to Los Angeles, where regular schools increased their graduation rates by at least one percentage point from 2010 to 2014 while sending more students into alternative education, ProPublica's analysis found.

Some parents of diabetic children in schools with no regular nurse, though, were dismayed by the ruling, because they did not know how their children could continue to attend school if the district could not afford to hire more nurses.

Nationwide, nearly a third of the alternative - school population attends a school that spends at least $ 500 less per pupil than regular schools do in the same district.

b. Availability of counselors, measured as the percent difference between the percent of alternative schools in the district that had a counselor and the percent of regular schools that did.

An analysis by the Carroll County Public School District in Virginia shows that the 400 students in the virtual program there performed worse than the regular students in 19 of 26 categories on the state assessment test.

EdSource Today is tracking the six unified districts — Elk Grove, Garden Grove, Fresno, San Jose, Santa Ana and Visalia — and the Aspire Public Schools charter system as a regular feature of our coverage of the Common Core State Standards.

Transforming education in the District of Columbia into an all - ESA district — establishing a truly universal policy to create education savings accounts for every DC student — would transform the existing school finance system from one that is based on student enrollment counts in boundary - defined regular public schools to one that is student - centered and responsive to the needs of individual fDistrict of Columbia into an all - ESA district — establishing a truly universal policy to create education savings accounts for every DC student — would transform the existing school finance system from one that is based on student enrollment counts in boundary - defined regular public schools to one that is student - centered and responsive to the needs of individual fdistrict — establishing a truly universal policy to create education savings accounts for every DC student — would transform the existing school finance system from one that is based on student enrollment counts in boundary - defined regular public schools to one that is student - centered and responsive to the needs of individual families.

The district shall update the plan annually for implementation no later than the first day of the regular student attendance of each school year that the designation continues.

Forty percent of school districts with alternative schools provide counseling services only in regular schools.

In Louisiana about a year ago, lawyers for students complaining of discriminatory treatment in alternative schools in a school district near New Orleans discovered student transfers from regular schools shot up just before the state's annual tests were given.

Ostensibly, these youngsters are still being educated and will return to their regular schools.In truth, most of these students are ghosts; they disappear but are still carried on the attendance rolls for purposes of state support.Every urban district has thousands of such ghosts; some tens of thousands.If all the ghosts on the books actually showed up, no urban school district would be able to cope without a new bond issue for building significantly more schools.

At this time, we can't take many new members as our clinical model requires us to be in members» districts and schools on some kind of regular basis, and if we had too many members, we wouldn't be able to do that.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

«Temporary staffing services for substitute teachers,» Max Longhurst an education specialist at the Substitute Teaching Institute at Utah State University noted, «may not be necessary in all areas, particularly in smaller school districts, but they do provide another option for larger systems struggling to provide quality education in the absence of the regular classroom teacher.»

[6] There are more students in these 31 choice districts than are served by magnet and charter schools combined in all 13,000 + regular school districts in the U.S. [7] The best designed of these systems are fair to parents and maximize the likelihood that students will be matched with the school that their parents list as most preferred.

An article in the Oct. 25, 2006, issue of Education Week on charter schools in the District of Columbia («At Age 10, Booming D.C. Charters Feel «Growing Pains»») should have said that 118 out of 146 regular public schools in the city did not make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act for last school year.

District school records show that charters also have better attendance and graduation rates than the regular public schools and that their teachers are more likely to fit the city's definition of «highly qualified,» meaning that they have expertise in what they are teaching.

In addition to running whole school and whole grade results, the data was disaggregated by a variety of typical subgroups — regular ed, special ed, Title I, LEP — as well as gender, years in district, feeder school, and type / genre of writing.

The results offer hope that regular school districts can improve, even those with large numbers of students from low - income families or with low achievement.

In addition, you'll receive details of federal legal cases that will impact the way your district operates, as well as regular updates on school law issues across the country.

These three major reforms did not achieve their promise because they tried to bring about improvement through external means — adding programs on top of school districts» regular education services, applying market mechanisms to sift out bad schools, and exerting pressure to raise test scores.

This is an issue of great concern to many districts, I've been getting regular calls from our finance officer and our budget folks on this issue because it's been going on now more than a year,» said Virginia Strom - Martin of the Los Angeles Unified School District, who noted the district had an estimated $ 16 million District, who noted the district had an estimated $ 16 million district had an estimated $ 16 million at risk.