Sentences with phrase «other large school districts in»

Despite this increase, compared to other large school districts in the state, DPS has the highest number of students choosing to enroll elsewhere.

Not exact matches

The state's «education tax» supports schools (as do local school district taxes in most other states) and is the largest single source of property taxes in Vermont.

Large organizations such as school districts may wish to have a designated point person address all conditional clearances so that multiple coaches or other people in the organization don't render inconsistent or inappropriate interpretations of the recommendations on the conditional clearance.

I'm back from summer vacation in time to share some nice news: Houston ISD, the seventh largest district in the country, has announced that it's taking advantage of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) to provide universal (free) school breakfast and lunch to every student at 166 of its schools, regardless of economic status, and without the need for meal applications or other paperwork.

The phase - in factor varies from 0.47 percent to 13.6 percent, with specific rates for the five largest city school districts (New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers) and more general rates for other districts based on district demographics.14

«The contract with the teachers» union expired in October 2009, while contracts with the union for principals and other school administrators and District Council 37, the city's largest public employee union, expired in March 2010.

In comparison with almost any other intervention, these are very large improvements for some of the school district's neediest students.

Another possible explanation for our findings of large school - spending effects is that how the money is spent matters a lot and that districts use the resources that come from unexpected increases in school spending more productively than they use other resources.

States and school districts with more blacks and college - educated adults have a substantially larger share of their students in charter schools than other districts.

Not 1 of the largest 20 school districts is above the 50th percentile in math relative to other developed countries.

When we examined noncategorical per - pupil funding in the state's four largest school districts — Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston — the levels of inequity were even higher and each district was remarkably different from the others.

Specifically, I pointed out that gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress under Rhee's tenure were much larger than average gains for the other ten urban school districts participating in the assessment in 8th grade math and in 4th grade reading and math.

In the latest turn, the Houston public schools fired a teacher and reprimanded two principals this month after the state education agency raised concerns about possible test - tampering in the district — the state's largest — and 10 other districtIn the latest turn, the Houston public schools fired a teacher and reprimanded two principals this month after the state education agency raised concerns about possible test - tampering in the district — the state's largest — and 10 other districtin the district — the state's largest — and 10 other districts.

A task force in Fairfax County, Virginia, one of the nation's largest school districts, has estimated that the district could save nearly $ 24 million by eliminating sports and cutting other extracurricular activities.

Thus, even if school districts did succeed in reducing the gap in access to effective teaching with their own personnel policies, they would inevitably have to reduce other services to pay for them, e.g., larger class sizes, or lower base salaries.

Budgetary shortfalls, school district bankruptcies, teacher and administrator layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, pension system defaults, shorter school years, ever - larger classes, faculty furloughs, fewer course electives, reduced field trips, foregone or curtailed athletics, outdated textbooks, teachers having to make do with fewer supplies, cuts in school maintenance, and other tales of fiscal woe inevitably captivate the news media, particularly during the late - spring and summer budget and appropriations seasons.

Joined by similar teams from seven other large districts, they camped out in dorm - like quarters while engaging in the kind of deep thinking about organizational change that, while common among captains of industry, is rare for most school administrators.

The strike, believed to be the first job action of its kind for school bus drivers in the Los Angeles Unified School District in 30 years, forced officials in the nation's second - largest district to cancel all field trips and sporting events and find other means to get 18,000 students to their scschool bus drivers in the Los Angeles Unified School District in 30 years, forced officials in the nation's second - largest district to cancel all field trips and sporting events and find other means to get 18,000 students to their scSchool District in 30 years, forced officials in the nation's second - largest district to cancel all field trips and sporting events and find other means to get 18,000 students to their District in 30 years, forced officials in the nation's second - largest district to cancel all field trips and sporting events and find other means to get 18,000 students to their district to cancel all field trips and sporting events and find other means to get 18,000 students to their schools.

Based on a year of self - examination by 44 of the largest urban districts, «Challenges to Urban Education: Results in the Making,» casts the future of inner - city public schools in terms far more optimistic than other recent assessments.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school syschools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sySchools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

The other reform strategy pursued in recent years, by large urban districts from New York to San Diego, is to recruit celebrity superintendents from other professions, such as Joel Klein, the Clinton administration's antitrust official, who is now serving as chancellor of the New York City schools.

Eden is uncovering similar patterns in other large districts, which he's characterized as a «school climate catastrophe.»

Minnesota's largest districts are pitted against school systems in other states that can afford to offer bigger salaries and better raises for top jobs.

The Hechinger Report is investigating how professional - development funds are spent in the country's largest school system — New York City — as well as in other districts around the nation to see what we can learn from schools, districts and countries that excel at ongoing teacher training.

The Boston study of just over 2,000 students in the public school district's universal program for 4 - to -5-year-olds found greater gains in vocabulary and math for participating students compared with nonparticipants, after one year, than seen in any other study of other large - scale pre-K programs around the US.

I do this by looking at the sample of students who are continuously enrolled in a district school between grades 3 and 5 in order to exclude students coming from and going to other schools; their results are nearly identical to, if not slightly larger than, the effects on the full sample.

Given the evidence that students from disadvantaged backgrounds lose ground academically over the summer while other students do not, districts that serve large populations of low - income students should be most interested in trading class size for school days as a strategy to improve student achievement.

Mayor Xavier L. Suarez of Miami joined other Hispanic citizens and black voters last month in suing the Dade County school district and local electoral officials to challenge at - large school - board elections.

But the nation's fourth - largest district, with over 350,000 students and an annual budget of over $ 5 billion faced a number of big challenges, among them, a growing principal shortage, a rash of underperforming schools, and a wide achievement gap between Miami - Dade students and students in other Florida districts.

Other research on these students by Dartmouth economist Bruce Sacerdote suggests that New Orleans evacuees experienced larger improvements in school quality than evacuees from other distrOther research on these students by Dartmouth economist Bruce Sacerdote suggests that New Orleans evacuees experienced larger improvements in school quality than evacuees from other distrother districts.

With its state - run Recovery School District in place since 2005 to intervene in low - performing schools, Louisiana also has more experience at intervening in large numbers of schools than most other states.

The Committee is composed of a minimum of 15 high school students, one from each of the 10 largest (by student population) high schools in the District and 5 additional members from other high schools.

It would be as if those who always thought the district was too large to be manageable suddenly got their wish, leaving half the students in traditional public schools and the other half to wherever their parents could find new slots to enroll them.

From recruitment to retention, employing great educators plays a larger role in student achievement than any other decision school districts make, and TalentEdge is designed to support the human resources, absence management, professional development and administration officials who facilitate the talent life cycle to empower K - 12 education.

«Like many other large urban school districts in the country, Boston administrators and educators are concerned about suspension rates, dropout rates, and academic achievement challenges,» explains Nova Biro, Open Circle Co-Director.

You might say Folsom Cordova Unified School District (USD) is a «typical» medium - large district whose students have achieved «atypical» results: outperforming other California students in the state's Smarter Balanced tests, part of the new California Assessment of Student Performance and PDistrict (USD) is a «typical» medium - large district whose students have achieved «atypical» results: outperforming other California students in the state's Smarter Balanced tests, part of the new California Assessment of Student Performance and Pdistrict whose students have achieved «atypical» results: outperforming other California students in the state's Smarter Balanced tests, part of the new California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress.

Ruopp and others say that although such a job is important, it does not replace having an advocate at the top level of leadership in the large school district.

He enumerates what successful leaders have done to draw in parents, community members, district administrators, and other educators to develop a larger school community and share the responsibilities.

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The Coalition for Community Schools estimates that there are about 5,000 community schools in the U.S. Several large urban districts have adopted community schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among Schools estimates that there are about 5,000 community schools in the U.S. Several large urban districts have adopted community schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among schools in the U.S. Several large urban districts have adopted community schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among others.

Even with 60 new schools, charters would make up a smaller proportion of all schools at CPS than they do at some other large urban districts — in New Orleans, for example, about 70 percent of schoolchildren attend charters.

As a result, many large school districts in regions such as Pittsburgh and Durham, among others, have decided to cancel their contracts with TFA.

This report provides a new resource for understanding the state of urban public schools in the U.S. Geared specifically toward city leaders who want to evaluate how well traditional district and charter schools are serving all their city's children and how their schools compare to those in other cities, the report measures outcomes for all public schools, based on test scores and non-test indicators, in 50 mid - and large - sized cities.

Several other large school districts — Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Waco — also have multiple struggling campuses that could fall into «improvement required» status again this year and in 2018,

The Eugene district and others in Oregon have faced continuing budget shortfalls that resulted in shorter school years, larger class sizes and weakened support systems.

Philanthropist Eli Broad and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan came together at the Library of Congress in Washington this morning to commend Houston's leaders and those of other large urban school district that have made strides in recent years in boosting student achievement and reducing achievement gaps between low - income students and students of color and their more advantaged peers.

The school system in the nation's capital is unique among large school districts for the complexity of its teacher - evaluation system, which scores the performance of teachers based on classroom observations, student test scores and other factors.

Placed in further context, the liability for retirement benefits LAUSD is obligated to pay for is four times that of other large urban school districts.

In November, a quietly released study from Stanford University revealed that Chicago public school students, on average, learn more from third grade through eighth grade than in any other large or moderate - sized district in the countrIn November, a quietly released study from Stanford University revealed that Chicago public school students, on average, learn more from third grade through eighth grade than in any other large or moderate - sized district in the countrin any other large or moderate - sized district in the countrin the country.

To successfully manage the external environment, school leaders need to draw in parents, community members, district administrators, and other educators to develop a larger school community; improve the external environment; capitalize on the fact that success breeds success; and remember to look beyond the individual school and take into account the larger purposes of schooling.