Sentences with phrase «of urban school districts»

To provide children with the educational opportunities they deserve, we must tackle the structure of urban school districts.

But, contrary to many leading reform voices, progress on the important issues of poverty and talent will not be enough to reverse the dysfunction of urban school districts.

High rates of student mobility are an ever - present feature of all urban school districts.

My study eventually led me to conclude that we actually had a system - level problem: The existence of long - failing schools was a symptom of the urban school district.

However, the nature of urban school districts makes it very difficult to demonstrate concrete short - term improvement.

Highly qualified certified arts teachers are the backbone of any urban school district's arts education program.

This session focuses on strategies needed to embrace the business community as a critical friend and ally of urban school districts.

Poor educational opportunities will remain the norm unless we tackle one remaining issue: the structure of urban school districts.

But it is a major leap from here to the conclusion that these inequities are the result of inadequate funding of public education in the aggregate, or that increased spending would rectify them, and one can look at the performance and spending growth patterns of every urban school district in the country to validate this point.

«This is the unfortunate reality of urban school districts... when students leave the district the procedures for accounting for them are very difficult and we are dependent on other districts to provide us timely and accurate information.»

Over the past decade, a growing number of urban school districts have responded to the presence of charter schools by providing some of their own schools the same flexibilities that charters enjoy.

Leaders of urban school districts are telling the Obama administration that efforts to turn around low - performing schools via the $ 5.5 billion School Improvement Grant (SIG) program are unlikely to have much impact, writes Lesli Maxwell.

After seven years as superintendent, he has been one of the longest serving superintendents of an urban school district with an elected school board in our country's recent memory.

This $ 27.7 million funding category is intended to help stabilize the budgets of urban school districts with growing charter sectors, benefitting both district schools and charter schools.

The Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) Award for Urban School Board Excellence was created in 2004 to recognize the leadership of urban school districts where effective school board governance has an impact on student achievement, and this year's winner has more than demonstrated its leadership in reshaping the academic program and the success of its students.

In 2013, the DCPS demonstrated the «greatest growth of any urban school district in the country.»

Miner said she wanted to know more about the governor's encouragement for mayors to take full control of urban school districts, like the school power shift in New York City.

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

Hess uses these case studies to speculate on how choice might be introduced in ways that both respect the built - in political and organizational constraints of urban school districts and lead to school improvement.

The New York situation might have forever punctured the view that tracking achievement gaps is a useful exercise for gauging the progress of an urban school district.

For many education professionals who work in the challenging worlds of urban school districts, nonprofit organizations, or charter schools, taking a year off to focus on their own education can seem unattainable.

It has frequently been suggested by Texas researchers that the formula be altered in several respects to provide a more accurate reflection of local taxpaying ability, especially of urban school districts.

In so doing, it followed in the footsteps of urban school districts such as Baltimore, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and New York City, all of which have in the past decade expanded their reliance on the once ubiquitous K — 8 model.

The central concern of urban school districts is that algebra may be a gateway for later academic success, so early high - school failure in math may have large effects on subsequent academic achievement and graduation rates.

Still, a majority of urban school district officials think the program has the potential to deliver lasting change to long - foundering schools, according to a survey by the Council of the Great City Schools, an organization in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation's urban school districts.

Charter school opponents consistently blame charter schools for the financial and academic failings of urban school districts.

Houston also has the highest SAT participation rate of any urban school district in the competition — two - thirds higher than the Texas average — and showed the highest increase in Advanced Placement exam participation for all students.

For example, after reading Chapter 6, «The Social Cost of Leadership Churn: The Case of an Urban School District,» I wondered about the school district's role in supporting teachers in developing collaborative relationships with their peers in other schools and with central office leaders.

NEW YORK (May 12, 2010)-- Central offices of urban school districts have been able to shift their focus from administration and compliance to improvement of teaching and learning district - wide by making five key changes, according to a new report by University of Washington researchers.

The voices of urban school district leaders are also conspicuously absent.

Leadership team members have taken ownership in embracing the district's vision (to provide a quality education driven by an unrelenting determination to graduate all students, preparing them for success in higher education) and mission (to transform San Antonio ISD into a national model of an urban school district where every child graduates and is educated and prepared to be a contributing member of the community) to align their work at the campus level.

on Low - income inner - city achievement gap starts to close, test scores of urban school districts improve faster than nation over past 10 years, Washington D.C. stands out

«Her work is grounded in the realities of urban school districts and is already changing teaching and policy throughout the United States.

We're seeing strong, transformation - minded leaders who have a talent mindset at a number of urban school districts, like our mutual friend Kaya Henderson at D.C. Public Schools.

Rotan Lee, the president of the school board, praised Ms. Clayton as «the nation's most prominent superintendent of urban school districts.»