Sentences with phrase «other urban school system»

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The biggest shares of foundation aid go to school systems in New York City and other urban and poor suburban areas.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

Wilson and others say that having effective leadership in urban school systems is important, regardless of where that leadership is located.

Likewise, the 2015 CREDO report concluded that Detroit's charter sector was one of only four urban charter communities that «provide essential examples of school - level and system - level commitments to quality that can serve as models to other communities.»

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).

D.C. has recently undertaken two invaluable reforms that, when combined with the city's other systemic features, place D.C. on the brink of becoming the urban school system of the future.

79, president of the foundation, «when we developed the conviction that dramatic structural change was going to be necessary in Boston and other urban public school systems in order to generate broad improvement in the academic achievement of the mostly low - income, minority students who populate these districts today.»

From observing conditions there and in other cities, we believe that bargaining and related union activity have not only hampered urban public schools with such things as cumbersome contracts, but have introduced practices into the education system that are counterproductive, fomenting a demoralizing pattern of acrimony between teachers and administrators that is fundamentally at odds with effective education.

Management - information systems that track attendance and other data can make a significant difference in the success of urban out - of - school - time programs, a new report says.

As head of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 stuSchools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 stuschools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 students..

I recognize that even in suburban districts some GT programs are poorly run and other issues can exist, but to simply say that «for urban schools, the standard G and T system is often a waste of time» is a truly ridiculous conclusion.

The incident stunned parents who received word at afternoon pickup and jolted officials accustomed to dealing with an urban school system's usual array of crime and other emergencies.

Cities seeking voluntary methods of desegregating schools developed Montessori magnet schools, first in Cincinnati, and then in other urban systems, most notably Milwaukee and Kansas City.

In addition, YES Prep's students are outperforming their higher income and white peers statewide in most cases — something very few, if any, other large urban school systems nationwide to date have achieved.

«We are proud that HISD has managed to avoid the extensive school closures that we have seen in other large urban school systems,» said Jason Spencer, press secretary for the district, in a statement.

Reformers say its successes as an almost all - charter, state - controlled district make it a model for other failing urban school systems.

Ten urban districts in California — including the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest — collectively called CORE (California Office to Reform Education) districts, have designed a system to make schools answerable for improving students» social and emotional skills by using data from student, parent, and teacher surveys, among other factors, to assess whether students are improving in these areas.

I then offer a comprehensive profile of Massachusetts» approach to charter schools, including an analysis of Massachusetts» charter cap system alongside an examination of various data trends accompanying the policy, including the conclusion that the cap seems to have produced charter schools which appear to be serving Boston's and other urban areas» low - income and minority communities particularly well, although this pattern is not necessarily replicated in non-urban schools.