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.
Not exact matches
Months before taking
office, he engaged in an extended effort to educate himself on the problems and prospects
of urban —
school district management.
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.
The National Institute for
Urban School Improvement, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school distr
Urban School Improvement, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school dist
School Improvement, funded by the U.S. Department
of Education
Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's
urban school distr
urban school dist
school districts.
As a long - time member
of the Public Education Leadership Project, a joint initiative between HBS and HGSE, Higgins co-authored a book with her colleagues on managing central
office -
school relationships called, Achieving Coherence in
District Improvement; this book is based upon their work with large
urban districts over a ten - year time period.
Large
Urban School Districts: Baltimore, MD, Alexia Lotts - McCain, MEd, Baltimore City Public
Schools; Boston, MA, Katia Miller, MPH, Boston Public
Schools; Broward County, FL, Sebrina James, EdS, Broward County Public
Schools; Cleveland, OH, Deborah Aloshen, MEd, Cleveland Metropolitan
School District; DeKalb County, GA, Jessica Grippo, MPH, DeKalb County Board
of Health; Detroit, MI, Arlene Richardson, EdD, Detroit Public
Schools;
District of Columbia, Omotunde Sowole - West, MPH,
Office of the State Superintendent
of Education; Duval County, FL, Jamie Wells, MSH, Duval County Public
Schools; Fort Worth, TX, Edward Patterson, MS, Fort Worth Independent
School District; Houston, TX, Felicia Ceasar - White, MS, Houston Independent
School District; Los Angeles, CA, Timothy Kordic, MA, Los Angeles Unified
School District; Miami, FL, Jonathan Carbone, Miami - Dade County Public
Schools; New York City, NY, Lauren Murray, New York City Department
of Health and Mental Hygi ene; Oakland, CA, Ilsa Bertolini, Oakland Unified
School District; Orange County, FL, Brenda Christopher - Muench, Orange County Public
Schools; Palm Beach, FL, William Stewart, MPH,
School District of Palm Beach County; Philadelphia, PA, Judith Peters, MBA,
School District of Philadelphia; San Diego, CA, Rachel Miller, MEd, San Diego Unified
School District; San Francisco, CA, Kim Levine, MHA, San Francisco Unified
School District.
The following community partners supported the development
of the program: Austin Area
Urban League Austin College Access Network ACC's College Destination Center Austin Independent
School District Austin Young Chamber Bank
of America Breakthrough Austin City
of Austin College Forward Con Mi Madre Del Valle Independent
School District E3 Alliance Frost Bank Generation TX Greater Austin Black Chamber
of Commerce Greater Austin Chamber
of Commerce Hispanic Scholarship Consortium KLRU Longhorn Center for
School Partnerships New York Life
Office of Mayor Steve Adler SOS Leadership Teach for America Austin Alumni TG The Reintegration Economic Assistance Workforce Solutions — Capital Area YouthLaunch
We supported the comprehensive redesign
of two
urban school districts (Oakland and Emery Unified) to create systems
of equitable resource allocation, accountability, central
office support for
schools, and community engagement.
Last month, the U.S. Department
of Education and U.S. attorney general's
office released national guidelines on student discipline codes, acknowledging many
urban school districts» zero - tolerance policies have created
school - to - prison pipelines.
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 le
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
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 le
school district's role in supporting teachers in developing collaborative relationships with their peers in other schools and with central office
district's role in supporting teachers in developing collaborative relationships with their peers in other
schools and with central
office leaders.
Serving as NSBA ex-officio directors on the NSBA Board for 2014 - 2015 will be: Van Henri White
of New York's Rochester City
School District as the Chair
of the Council
of Urban Boards
of Education; Ellis A. Alexander
of Louisiana's St. Charles Parish Public
Schools as Chair
of the National Black Caucus
of School Boards; Guillermo Z. Lopez
of Michigan's Lansing Public
School District as Chair
of the National Hispanic Caucus
of School Board Members; Gregory J. Guercio
of New York's Law
Offices of Guercio & Guercio, LLP as the Chair
of the Council
of School Attorneys; Karen Echeverria
of the Idaho
School Boards Association as the Chair
of the Organization
of State Association Executive Directors» Liaison Committee; and NSBA's Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel.
American Association
of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) American Association
of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Association
of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) California Community College Chancellor's
Office Center for Innovation in Education (CIE) College Board College Transition Collaborative Colorado Department
of Education ConnectEd Del Lago Academy Digital Promise EdImagine EdInsights Education First EducationCounsel Envision Learning Partners Farmington Public
Schools Great
Schools Partnership Harvard Innovation Lab Hillsdale High
School Internationals Network for Public
Schools Irvine Foundation Ithaca College James Graham Brown Foundation Jobs for the Future June Jordan
School for Equity Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Learning Policy Institute Los Angeles Unified
School District Lumina Foundation Maker Ed Making Caring Common Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT) Mastery Transcript Consortium Microsoft Montpelier
School District NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) National
Urban League New Haven Academy New York Performance Standards Consortium Oakland Unified
School District Pomona College Raikes Foundation Riverdale Country
School San Francisco International High
School Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Smith College Southern New Hampshire University Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE) Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) Stuart Foundation Summit Public
Schools The City University
of New York The Education Trust The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Trovvit UC Riverside UNCF University
of California,
Office of the President University
of Florida University
of Michigan University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University
of Southern California University
of Texas, Austin University
of Washington Virginia Beach City Public
Schools
Responding to a comment by DeVos that she couldn't think
of an ongoing civil rights issue that would warrant federal involvement, Lhamon, in an op - ed for The Hechinger Report, ran down the types
of cases her
office had worked on: a North Carolina University revoking a student's acceptance after discovering he had cerebral palsy; a segregated Alabama
school district offering advanced courses at its high
schools that served primarily white students, but not at the high
school that served virtually all
of its black students; California
district employees ignoring sexual assault cases because they considered them part
of their Latino students» «
urban culture.»
Michael Vaughn joined Education Post as Director
of Communications after working for 18 years in the communications
offices of two
urban school districts.
For while the large
urban public defender and
district attorneys
offices have been a mainstay
of employment for graduates
of American law
schools since the war on crime began in the late»60s, the long war may be winding down (at least in growth terms).