Sentences with phrase «of separate school districts»

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The litigation continues on other aspects of two separate incidents nine years ago, both involving schools at the Plano Independent School District in the Dallas suburb.

A vote on a separate piece of legislation Paterson will be sending up to delay $ 1.5 billion worth of education aid payments to school districts could be more problematic — particularly since this is an election year and few lawmakers are going to want to take that potentially troublesome vote.

Not only do our 700 school district lines often track patterns of residential economic segregation, there are school districts in this state today — including New York City — with boundary lines within the district that keep children of wealth starkly separated from children of poverty.

The Utica City School District's practice of sending older students who are new to America into separate programs led to a lawsuit and an investigation by the state's attorney general.

• Proposition 3 - Authorize the Canastota Central School District to levy and collect an annual tax, year after separate and apart from the annual school district budget in the amount of $ 334,822 which will be paid to the Canastota Public Library for support and mainteSchool District to levy and collect an annual tax, year after separate and apart from the annual school district budget in the amount of $ 334,822 which will be paid to the Canastota Public Library for support and mainDistrict to levy and collect an annual tax, year after separate and apart from the annual school district budget in the amount of $ 334,822 which will be paid to the Canastota Public Library for support and mainteschool district budget in the amount of $ 334,822 which will be paid to the Canastota Public Library for support and maindistrict budget in the amount of $ 334,822 which will be paid to the Canastota Public Library for support and maintenance.

Looking ahead to next month's potential cash - flow crisis, Megna said Paterson will send up a separate bill asking for the statutory authority to push some of the payments due to school districts by June 1 to later in the month, allowing the state to draw more heavily on its pool of short - term emergency funds.

Republicans defended the increase in charter school funding as part of an agreement included in a separate education bill (HB 7055) that will let school districts keep their local property taxes for maintenance and construction rather than share it with charter schools.

That is, the consolidation of one - room schoolhouses into larger districts, the development of schools with separate grades, the September to June calendar, and the relatively common curriculum across the country all came into being because families wanted those measures.

To identify more precisely the independent effects of the multiple factors affecting teachers» choices, we use regression analysis to estimate the separate effects of salary differences and school characteristics on the probability that a teacher will leave a school district in a given year, holding constant a variety of other factors, including class size and the type of community (urban, suburban, or rural) in which the district is located.

Over the course of the 2015 — 2016 school year, in collaboration with district and family leaders, educators, and community partners, we developed a framework with four dimensions, to be integrated with the work of instruction, not positioned as a separate initiative.

As you've said many times, putting each school on a performance contract and separating school operations from district oversight comes out of CRPE's central thesis.

«I first became aware of this process of fragmentation — the creation of entirely separate school districts — when one community in the county I grew up in, Mobile County, started to propose this,» she says.

In a unanimous ruling, the New York State Court of Appeals held last month that the Monroe - Woodbury school district was not required under state law to provide a separate facility for handicapped children from the Orthodox Jewish village of Kiryas Joel.

In separate lawsuits, Green Dot Public Schools and Partnerships to Uplift Communities, or PUC Schools, allege that district officials have failed to provide «reasonable offers of facilities,» as required by Proposition 39.

In early 2016, spurred by a seemingly perpetual bankruptcy crisis at Detroit Public Schools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter sSchools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter sschools and charter schoolsschools.

Instead of overlapping administrative layers operating through 32 separate school districts, there would now be one clear chain of command extending vertically from the mayor's office to the chancellor, then down through ten regional superintendents, and finally to the principal of every school in the system.

This may reflect the fact that it is challenging in high - poverty schools to separate the effects of school circumstances from the quality of the principal, leading district administrators to give principals from high - poverty schools a chance at a different school.

By using the threat of effectively denying the children of military personnel access to public education, the bill seeks to force the federal government either to increase its impact - aid payments to districts or to establish separate schools, with full federal funding, on the bases.

In two separate lawsuits, opponents of educational choice alleged that Nevada's ESA violated the state constitution's mandate that the state provide a «uniform system of common schools» (Article 11, Section 2), its prohibition against using public funds for sectarian purposes (Article 11, Section 6), and a clause requiring the state to appropriate funds to operate the district schools before any other appropriation is enacted for the biennium (Article 11, Section 10).

In other parts of the country, districts have established separate programs and guidelines for struggling schools.

Separate and apart from NCLB, which focuses on the performance of schools and districts, the public strongly supports reforms designed to hold individual students accountable for their performance on state tests.

In a separate study, Russell Skiba and Natasha Williams further revealed that black students in the same schools or districts were not engaged in levels of disruptive behavior that would warrant higher rates of exclusionary discipline than white peers.

By separating out these students (most of whom were presumably attending 1 of the 5,274 charter schools operating across the U.S. in 2011), we are able to compare parent satisfaction of students at charter schools with students in private schools, assigned - district schools, and choice district schools.

The nub of his book's conclusion is that «separating the poor and politically powerless in their own schools and districts is antithetical to the idea of equal educational opportunity.»

They brought this action in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas to enjoin enforcement of a Kansas statute which permits, but does not require, cities of more than 15,000 population to maintain separate school facilities for Negro and white students.

Since 2006, the Wallace Foundation has supported a separate initiative, called the Executive Leadership Program for Educators (ExEL), to provide training on campus and in the field for teams of school - district leaders and the leaders of their state education departments (two states each year).

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The City School District of the City of New York shall submit a separate plan for each community school district, for the High School Division and for the Special Education DivSchool District of the City of New York shall submit a separate plan for each community school district, for the High School Division and for the Special Education DDistrict of the City of New York shall submit a separate plan for each community school district, for the High School Division and for the Special Education Divschool district, for the High School Division and for the Special Education Ddistrict, for the High School Division and for the Special Education DivSchool Division and for the Special Education Division.

The NCRPP research use survey focuses on the core of «research use» in three related, but separate, constructs: the ways that school and district leaders 1) apply research in their decision - making processes; 2) value research as an important component for decision - making; and 3) evaluate research quality.

Some US schools and districts (mostly elementary schools that worry less about the impact on college admissions) are experimenting with ditching grades in favor of various other reports of academic mastery, sometimes coupled with separate assessments of behavior or character traits (grit, citizenship, empathy).

Broad Prize: In the Feb. 9 California section, an article about the suspension of the $ 1 - million Broad Prize for urban school districts listed the amount of a separate Broad prize for charter schools as $ 500,000.

The 22 suburban Chicago high schools that have formed two new conferences «destroyed the racial diversity» of the South Inter-Conference Association and «created two new, separate and segregated conferences,» according to the lawsuit, which was filed by districts remaining in the old conference.

Now, the state establishes a separate entity charged with removing from district custody those schools that the district has failed to set right — not as a one - shot intervention but as a routine part of state oversight.

The Education Achievement Authority in Michigan is charged with resuscitating the state's worst schools within the confines of a separate, autonomous district.

The results suggest that the negative effects of entering a middle school are most pronounced in cities, but they remain sizable even in rural areas, confirming that the negative effects of configurations that separate the middle - school grades are by no means limited to urban school districts.

It shares basic similarities with its brethren in Louisiana and Tennessee in that all three are charged with resuscitating the state's worst schools within the confines of a separate, autonomous district.

Their Executive Director reports technically to the Commissioner, but they have a separate Board of Directors and they also receive some state funding and other funding they generate on a fee basis from services they provide to school districts.

Did you know that there are almost 700 school districts — and as many separate bureaucracies — in our state, and that more than a quarter of them serve fewer than 1,000 students?

«We should question the relevance of comparing so - called U.S. national student performance with average scores in other countries, when U.S. students attend schools in 51 separate education systems run by states and the District of Columbia, not the federal government,» said Carnoy.

It focuses on the relevance of comparing U.S. national student performance with average scores in other countries when U.S. students attend schools in 51 separate education systems run not by the federal government, but by states (plus the District of Columbia).

The future of public education is schools and districts separating the steering (vision setting, operations, and regulation) and the rowing (managing schools directly).

Still, the pace of change isn't slowing anytime soon, both because of the expansion of the ASD and the I - Zone and because of a forthcoming wrinkle in the merger: Six suburban districts in the area are expected to vote to create their own school boards and separate from the merged system this fall.

Already CSDC has provided financing for over 170 separate charter school facility projects in 25 states and the District of Columbia.

The reporting requirements of ESSA to publish specific educational data sets separated by student subgroups and categories are driving many school districts to evaluate how they collect, analyze and present data.

In her remarks she stated, «More than 60 years have passed since Brown v. Board of Education and our nation's schools and communities still suffer from the vestiges of school segregation and many of our largest school districts remain starkly separated along racial and economic lines.

School accountability legislation that placed failing schools under the control of a separate, state - level governing entity, the Recovery School District;

An evaluation study of the district's equity fund highlighted several implementation challenges.65 Some PTAs simply did not comply with the district's policy to give back some dollars, and the district had difficulty figuring out how to exempt some PTA expenses fairly from redistribution.66 The evaluators did not examine how this policy affected PTA revenues, but there was significant pushback from members of the community, with some parents threatening to reduce donations during initial policy negotiations.67 A group of parents voiced that the approach was punitive, and that instead, parents should be encouraged to donate to a separate equity fund or to other, less affluent schools.68 Other districts that have considered establishing an equity fund have feared similar pushback, worrying that rich parents will threaten to leave the district, disinvest in their schools, or decrease their overall contributions.69

Moreover, the report included case studies of three school districts, located in separate areas of the country, each using different strategies to voluntarily increase racial and socioeconomic diversity, such as utilizing magnet schools, new student attendance zones, and school choice policies.

Whether the test count as 20 % or 50 % (probably somewhere in between) of a teacher's evaluation will be a collective bargaining decision in each separate school district.

In 2015, the 84th Texas Legislature passed HB 2804, which changed the Texas school accountability system so that every campus and district / charter receives one of five ratings from A through F, both on five separate domains and also combined into a single overall grade.