Sentences with phrase «of urban districts»

The leadership of an urban district should ask state policy makers for permission to apply charter - type accountability to all schools in the district.

I talk about the failure of the urban district every chance I get!

A decade and a half of top - down reform of the district has left a system that ranks near the bottom of urban districts.

Hispanic / Latino, Asian and economically disadvantaged students had the highest gains in reading of all urban districts over the past 10 years.

Where the pattern can not be reversed within the borders of an urban district, regional solutions need to be pursued.

EW: You mentioned the «Beating the Odds» report, and there was a lot of positive news in that — 92 percent of urban districts improved in math, 80 percent improved in reading.

He accompanied the announcement with a promise that the 2011 standardized tests would be the most «extraordinarily transparent set of scores of any urban district in America.»

But in scores of urban districts such as Baltimore, St. Louis and L.A. there's little hope of turning any corners without high performing charters playing a role.

The constituency consisted of the urban districts of Abercarn, Abertillery and Nantyglo and Blaina.

Sadly, the neighborhood school near our Grand Rapids home lacked the record of academic achievement that instills confidence, and we faced the all - too - common reality of an urban district with too few high quality options.

3) Superintendents like Paul Vallas, Joel Klein, and Tom Boasberg and a fast - growing number of urban districts understand that the traditional district system is broken, have closed ineffective schools and opened effective ones, and have committed to legal autonomy at the school level and a bare - bones central office.

On Tuesday, February 14, the Askwith Forum gathered three experienced leaders of urban districts for a dialogue on the role of a superintendent in such dynamic systems as urban school districts and on how superintendents can spark radical change.

She uses tools from political science and critical policy studies to study the political dimensions of urban district reform, the instructional and democratic consequences of high - stakes testing and accountability policies for students of color and English Language Learners, and trends in urban educational leadership.

According to AASA research, the average tenure of an urban district superintendent in America is three years; in suburban and rural districts, it's six years.

Any doubt about the progress being made by the public school system — and the efficacy of its hard - won reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C. Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nation.

In other words, in the midst of the Great Recession and historic unemployment, teachers in the vast majority of urban districts continued to get raises and generous healthcare and retirement benefits.

Jean - Claude knows the ins and outs of urban districts as well as anyone around today, and those experiences have left him skeptical about the century - old institutional arrangements in place in virtually all American cities.

The division also included the whole of the urban district of Ballymena.

More recently, we drew heavily on those experiences to create Opportunity by Design, an initiative of Carnegie Corporation of New York that is enabling a select group of urban districts to design new secondary schools that serve all students, particularly those who are underprepared and need to accelerate and recuperate their learning.

However, the history of urban districts» inability to provide a high - quality education to their low - income students is nearly as long.

Other highlights include a discussion of the democratization of American higher education with Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier; and a conversation with district superintendents — including Joseph Davis of the Ferguson - Florrisant (Missouri) School District — on the social responsibility of urban districts to provide equity.

Throughout the duration of the urban district's failed career, we've focused incessantly on the classroom — giving its teachers more money, reducing the number of kids sitting inside its four walls, adjusting what's taught, how it's taught, how we assess what's taught, and on and on and on.

A behavioral argument could also be made: that the state's reform policies, its public shaming and sanctions for low - performing schools, would most strongly influence the behavior of urban districts, which tend to have a history of low performance and mismanagement.

As a result of growing evidence, parental preference, and, in the case of urban districts, the continued loss of students in the middle grades to charter schools, West says in his article that several sizeable districts — Baltimore, Charlotte - Mecklenberg (N.C.), and Philadelphia, among others — have transitioned back to more K — 8 schools.

Her tenure was marked by consecutive years of enrollment growth, an increase in graduation rates, improvements in student satisfaction and teacher retention, increases in AP participation and pass rates, and the greatest growth of any urban district on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) over multiple years.

And with an increase proposed in President Bush's budget for next fiscal year, the program would have enough money to cover all planned assessments through 2011, as well as to expand a sampling of urban districts and pay for state - level tests of 12th graders.

This Midwestern district suffers all the faults of urban districts that aren't involved in any reform effort, from bureaucratic incompetence to political intransigence to high levels of teacher absenteeism.

Adamowski's dissertation, which exists only in one copy, apparently, is about teacher compensation... you know, those princely salaries teachers get, unlike special masters (150 - 225K + + + plus pensions never earned and platinum health benefits) or superintendent / CEOs of urban districts (with no CT state certification) $ 230K + + plus bonuses for every decimal place attained by test score percentages once the «lowest performing» students are removed from the pool.

Here in SF, I presume we have the most proactive program for the needs of the unduplicated students (for lack of a better word) in the state, but the worst results of any urban district.

If the events in Newtown are of any indication (especially against backdrop of the challenges of our urban districts and our failure to close the racial achievement gap), «more effective communication» is at the heart of what we need as a nation to bring about and sustain more transformative learning communities.

So between just these two neoliberal buddies, they have covered the training of urban district superintendents, U.S. Department of Education employees, many State Department of Education hires, and principal training in at least 15 states — all indoctrinated (my choice of words) into the neoliberal doctrine.

While in 1995, some 63.2 % of children had a Pre-K experience prior to kindergarten, that number is now at 73.90 %, the highest percentage of any urban district in the State.

It combats the isolation of urban district leaders.

While those reforms do many things, they do not approach a solution for the chronic underfunding of urban districts, and some would argue they make the system worse.

receiving an assessment of your school board's progress in the four core areas of urban district governance; and

The EPIC Knowledge System is a powerful web - based professional development resource documenting the real - life practices of urban district and charter schools driving significant achievement gains.

Kevin Waters, a Camden high school graduate now working as a counselor in the district, said the project is an example of what he called the continued dismantling of urban districts, part of a national strategy led by conservative politicians like Christie.

Check out the 2016 winners of the Urban District and Lifetime Achievement awards.

In the midst of an urban district with easy access to both business and leisure destinations, Park Hotel Alexandra boasts 442 elegantly furnished guestrooms and suites overlooking the lush greenery of Singapore's woodlands.

Courses in math and science are often less advanced than their titles would imply; barely half of rural districts offer any Advanced Placement courses (compared to 97 percent of urban districts).

An increasing number of urban districts are scrapping traditional high school grade structures, changing their retention policies, and devising more flexible routes toward graduation to address high dropout rates.

The leadership of an urban district should make the following offer to the state's policy makers:

In addition, while the Florida study shows that although the «negative effects of entering a middle school are somewhat smaller outside of urban districts,... they remain substantial even in rural areas.»

The second - largest school district in the state, Springfield, boasted the best improvement of any urban district in the state.

The 2011 scores come on the heels of Alonso's proclaiming that they would be the most «transparent scores of any urban district in America,» after the city tightened test security this year, spending nearly $ 400,000 to hire monitors for every school.

These gains are a result of Denver's ability to enact some of the boldest and most effective reforms of any urban district in the country.

The growth in the rural district non-teaching staff outpaced that of urban districts.

Math and science classes are often less advanced than their titles would imply; barely half of rural districts offer any Advanced Placement courses, compared with 97 percent of urban districts, and even fewer offer International Baccalaureate courses.