Sentences with phrase «other big city school districts»

Here's a look at the two central questions posed by «The Bee Keeper,» the new book about Michelle Rhee: Why do D.C. schools perform so much worse than many other big city school districts?

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De Blasio said Wednesday that the city's test scores beat out increases seen in the state's other «Big 5» urban school districts and stressed that the city is closing its performance gap with schools across the state in general.

The fast - growing Clark County, Nev., school district has named a new superintendent, while leadership changes in several other big - city systems, including New York and Pittsburgh, continued to unfold last week.

Numerous other big - city districts are in the process of closing troubled schools, including Detroit, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C..

In 2012, Chicago teachers — already the highest paid teachers in the country while working the fewest hours of any other big - city school district — went on strike.

Alliance of Big City School Districts Aims for More Healthful Meals L.A. Unified and five others are striving to make wholesome food a national standard.

The fact that the AFT affiliate, like its counterparts in other districts, have the advantage of bodies on the ground — and in the case of race between Zimmer and Anderson, used it to their advantage — is another reminder that the school reform movement must do a better job of building grassroots support, especially among the 11.7 million single - parent families for whose children the failures of big - city districts such as L.A. Unified prove to weigh most - heavily.