Sentences with phrase «of superintendents surveyed»

Moreover, half of the superintendents surveyed in the report said that they had no gifted children in their school systems.

Meanwhile, 73 percent of superintendents surveyed said the common standards are «just about right» for most students.

Not exact matches

Mary Kalou, assistant superintendent for business, said that at the beginning and end of each season the 11 fields involved will be surveyed to determine their condition.

Fran Rabinowitz, executive director of Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents, says a survey of her members finds that not having a state budget is an obstacle to opening school for the new academic year.

When the Rochester School Board decided its superintendent search process would not be open to the public, board President Van White pointed out that there would still be ample community input in the form of small focus groups as well as a survey posted on the district website.

«While the funding and educational models of our schools have largely stayed the same, the needs of students and communities have continued to increase,» one superintendent from the Mohawk Valley told the survey.

«On some of the deep reefs we surveyed, 100 percent of the fishes we recorded were endemic, meaning that they are all unique to the Hawaiian archipelago,» said Randall Kosaki Ph.D., NOAA's deputy superintendent of Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument and chief scientist of the expedition.

In 1843, Bache, became superintendent of the US Coast Survey, one of the very few federal institutions charged with a mission to use scientific techniques.

Beyond that, our surveys of superintendents and principals have shown strong support for reform of both salary and tenure.

But an Education Week nationally representative survey released in December indicated that classroom teachers, principals, and district superintendents are highly skeptical of vouchers, charter schools, and tax - credit scholarships.

A survey of superintendents of the nation's largest school districts shows what they view as the top challenges to their leadership, including local political concerns and pressure from accountability systems.

Both superintendents and board members ranked the lack of understanding of role differences, poor communications, and the personal agendas of some board members as the leading causes of unstable relationships, according to the survey, released here last week.

The Arlington, Va. - based organization says 85 percent of the 2,110 superintendents who responded to its survey last fall believe there is an inadequate supply of educational leaders...

In turn, 60 percent of superintendents in a recent Public Agenda survey agreed that they have had to «take what you can get» in hiring a school principal.

Grasping the vision of its late namesake, a former Seattle schools superintendent, Kodama surveyed local parents and business leaders in 1998 about the ideal components of an international school.

So when the president of the district's Parent Advisory Council (PAC) offered to create an online survey so community members could evaluate Dr. Garcia's performance, the superintendent urged him to do it.

The AASA's 2014 survey found that 92 percent of superintendents believe that out - of - school suspensions are associated with negative student outcomes, including lost instructional time and increased disengagement, absenteeism, truancy, and dropout rates.

In an April 2014 survey of 500 district superintendents conducted by the School Superintendents Association (AASA), 84 percent of respondents reported that their districts had updated their code of conduct within the previosuperintendents conducted by the School Superintendents Association (AASA), 84 percent of respondents reported that their districts had updated their code of conduct within the previoSuperintendents Association (AASA), 84 percent of respondents reported that their districts had updated their code of conduct within the previous three years.

Superintendents and their teams took Richard Hackman's Team Diagnostic Survey (TDS) instrument, which provides information on the quality of a team's process, strategy, and structure, and on individuals» engagement level with the team's work, in 2008 and 2009.

Research Now conducted a survey of 618 California teachers, principals and superintendents to find out their opinions on teacher effectiveness, tenure, dismissal and «last - in, first - out» layoffs.

Regular feedback in the form of surveys is needed to understand how those charged with implementing standards - based educational reform — teachers, superintendents, parents, and policy makers — think about the uses of tests and the high - impact decisions that follow from them.

About 25 percent of districts responded to the survey by the Association of California School Administrators, which represents state superintendents, principals and... read more

A 2003 survey of urban public - school superintendents that one of us (Fuller) conducted for the University of Washington found that more than two - thirds of the administrators in states with collective bargaining said union contracts impede reform.

However, far fewer — 16.4 percent — of the 1,215 superintendents responding to the association's survey said they have been involved in the implementation of a merit - pay plan.

The New York State School Boards Association, the New York Association of School Business Officials, and the New York Council of School Superintendents surveyed districts in February to determine the likely impact of Mr. Cuomo's proposed 10 percent cut — or $ 891 million — in state school aid.

According to the poll by the Milwaukee Journal, 69 percent of 800 Milwaukee - area residents surveyed said they would prefer to vote for the superintendent who oversees their district schools.

The superintendents surveyed were selected randomly from the group's list of all local school superintendents.

To survey the states on their education policies, the Education Week Research Center sent surveys to the chief state school officers in all 50 states and to the superintendent of the District of Columbia public schools.

Today the average tenure for urban superintendents is only two and a half years, according to a Council of the Great City Schools report that surveyed big - city school leaders.

Our view was that we had to be flexible in approaching superintendents with the four or five buildings we wished to survey, and of those the two we wished to visit.

Most of the superintendents or assistant superintendents who responded to the survey said the Common Core requires new curricular materials and fundamental changes in the way students are taught.

Our 2016 survey provides a comprehensive look at perceptions of K - 12 assessment among the full range of education stakeholders, including superintendents, principals, teachers, parents, and students.

The union previously has conducted a vote of no - confidence in the superintendent in a small survey of teachers.

We extend heartfelt thanks to the superintendents, principals, district administrators, teachers, school board and community members, and state leaders in education who welcomed us into their busy work lives, providing time to talk with us, to observe in classrooms, and to complete surveys, all of which gave us the most complete national data set ever assembled to better understand issues in educational leadership.

In his first message for 2018, NC Department of Public Instruction Superintendent Mark Johnson asks educators to share their thoughts on post-secondary options for students through the NC Educator's Perspective Survey.

A set of draft standards was taken to membership and through a vetting process by leadership groups, focus groups with board members and superintendents, along with a statewide survey of board members and superintendents, extensive feedback from the field was used to finalize the standards.

In 2016, after a year's worth of research and an original survey of Kentucky's principals and superintendents, the Student Voice Team released Students as Partners, a policy report detailing the state of student voice in existing school governance bodies.

As part of survey development, PSA sent a draft of the instrument to human resource directors or superintendents in 32 LEAs and asked them to review it and provide feedback on the appropriateness and clarity of the wording and on the focus of the survey questions.

The school board has opened a survey to the public for feedback on the qualities and characteristics of the next superintendent.

The new report Leadership Perspectives on Public Education: The Gallup 2017 Survey of K - 12 School District Superintendents identifies the key challenges that school leaders believe are facing public education today.

While some districts are building internal principal development programs to bolster the quality of their pool, a TNTP study found that assistant and regional superintendents report that «they had far fewer assistant principals — fewer than half in most districts surveyed — ready to become excellent principals than they had openings.»

Last spring the Office of the Superintendent of Schools conducted a comprehensive study through the Survey for Parents of Children with Special Needs.

However, surveyed superintendents underscored the difficulty of finding talented teachers.

The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) released a survey that asks the public to determine how important they find additional public K - 12 education investments.

An EdSource survey of the state's 30 largest districts shows that in 17 out of 30 districts, the superintendents have been in office for three years or less.

Their worries echo many of the comments reflected in a recent survey The Capital Times did with school superintendents across the state.

Nearly 40 percent of school districts in the state offer some kind of performance - based pay, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel survey of school superintendents found last year.

The links provided by CSDE are billed as «nonscientific» and include SBAC - developed surveys: the Administrative Survey is really a Smarter Balanced Proctor Survey Report completed by an unreported number of district administrators; the Smarter Balanced Field Test Student Survey was provided by the testing company and had 1800 respondents (less than one - percent of students who took the test in CT); and the Superintendent's Survey was specific to the Smarter Balanced Testing Calendar and from the 79 respondents listed (out of a possible 169 school districts) it is easy to understand why this information provided by the CSDE should be viewed with caution.

The American Association of School Administrators recently released a survey of superintendents that showed that while most believe there is a role for competitive grants, most also worry about over-investment in those grants at the expense of more stable dollars that districts can depend upon to sustain reform efforts.

SALT LAKE CITY — A majority of the nation's school district superintendents believe the Common Core State Standards are appropriately challenging and will improve education, according to a recent survey.