Sentences with phrase «performance at district»

After reviewing performance data against district priorities, school and district leaders must then determine which professional development activities would most improve performance at the district, school and individual level.

In addition to these state - specific functions, states must identify and respond to low capacity and performance at the district level.

Reports going back more than a decade found waste, mismanagement, unsafe building conditions and poor student performance at the district, which prompted the state intervention.

Not exact matches

Unions at Kaiser Permanente, Harley Davidson (HOG), Southwest Airlines (LUV), ABC School District in Los Angeles and others are building and sustaining partnerships with employers to improve performance, quality and working conditions.

Madison conceded that he, too, had found no existing system of accountability when he arrived at the park district so that there was no way of evaluating employees «performance.

Tranter also took aim at the Park District for failing to include performance measurements that would project, among other things, the number of participants expected in specific programs.

Members of the Grant Park Symphony Chorus have ended their weeklong strike against the Chicago Park District and will give their final performance of the summer season next Wednesday and Friday at the Petrillo Music Shell.

The money will be used for the district's Theatre at the Knolls performance series.

90 % of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

Having emigrated from the Dominican Republic at age 9, his electoral hopes depend on a strong showing among the District's significant Dominican community and a good performance with the District's Puerto Rican voters.

He said the LGS therefore recognised the DLT as an objective assessment initiative that had the potential to engender competition among MMDAs, stimulate district level performance and further deepen efforts at decentralisation.

The improving enrollment trend for Democrats and Obama's past performance suggests that the base for Clinton in the district should be well above the 38 percent she is polling at now.

Ninety percent of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

The education department will also have the powers to create a second test for individual school districts, if teachers at the school don't want to use the existing standardized tests as a measure of their performance.

Immerse yourself in New York State's first historic district, The Stockade, and end your night with a touring Broadway performance at Proctors theatre.

90 percent of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

Before her experience at PVM, Leighann held the roles of Corporate Trainer for Weltman, Weinberg and Reis, Assistant Vice-President, Delivery Performance and Support Specialist for Citigroup and Employee Development Coordinator for Sanitation District No. 1.

The beauty gave a stellar performance at the Chrome Hearts event at the Miami Design District on Wednesday with her band Lolawolf.

Last year, at the National Education Summit, governors and business leaders concluded that «efforts to set clear, common... academic standards for students in a given school district or state are necessary to improve student performance.».

This is problematic because many changes in how schools are funded are designed to provide additional resources to districts at risk of low performance.

Among the places considering, piloting, or implementing teacher - evaluation systems based at least in part on a set of performance - based standards are Ann Arbor, Mich.; Chicago; the District of Columbia; Elgin and Rockford, Ill.; Prince George's County, Md.; and select districts in states such as Idaho, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

One district awarded performance pay to eligible employees if freshman students» algebra test scores increased by at least 10 percent between a pre - and post-test.

If the superintendents of failing school districts were as adept at fixing schools as they are at making excuses for their poor performance, America would have the best education system in the world.

The law goes back four decades and says that the board of trustees of each school district shall evaluate teachers, at least in part, by their student's performance on the state's standards - based tests.

This is despite the fact that microlevel data is critical to improving day - to - day student performance, says Beverly Donohue, vice president of policy and research at New Visions for Public Schools, a school support organization responsible for working with 76 of the district's public schools.

I would, therefore, ask Hanushek and Lindseth to stop tilting at windmills and to join with me in instituting a dialogue in major areas in which we do agree, like the fact that courts can and should hold states and school districts accountable for better performance, and that «school funding policies must recognize the underlying heterogeneity of students and their educational challenges and ensure that all schools have the means to succeed» (Hanushek and Lindseth, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, page 218).

So despite consistent progress, Atlanta, Chicago, D.C., and Los Angeles are either at or still below the performance of the average large urban district.

NAEP's Trial Urban District Assessment, which measured the performance of 11 large urban systems in 2005, provides compelling evidence of the futility of district - based reforms: even the highest - performing district studied (Charlotte) had only 29 percent of its 8th graders at or above proficient in District Assessment, which measured the performance of 11 large urban systems in 2005, provides compelling evidence of the futility of district - based reforms: even the highest - performing district studied (Charlotte) had only 29 percent of its 8th graders at or above proficient in district - based reforms: even the highest - performing district studied (Charlotte) had only 29 percent of its 8th graders at or above proficient in district studied (Charlotte) had only 29 percent of its 8th graders at or above proficient in reading.

I've come to view annual testing of kids in reading and math, and the disaggregating and public reporting of their performance at the school (and district) level, as the single best feature of NCLB and the one that most needs preserving.

Voters and parents are expected to make use of these data in choosing school districts or schools, and to hold administrators and school board members accountable for the schools» performance at each election.

At the same time, many principals» jobs have grown shakier as their continued employment in more districts hinges increasingly on their schools» performance.

A small number of CMOs will have grown to serve at least 20,000 students, placing them among the largest 2 percent of school districts nationally in terms of size, while delivering a level of performance that will change the current paradigm of delivering performance at scale.

This analysis makes clear that large differences in the performance of high - SES students and low - SES students in the same schools do exist; that these apparent gaps are not simply reflective of gaps in preparation; and that while the variation across school districts is substantial, the variation within school districts may be even larger (at least among the largest districts in Florida).

The Spring 2014 issue of Education Next includes a study looking at the impact of the Kalamazoo Promise program on the performance of high school students in the district.

She found that student performance is better in areas with competing multiple districts, where parents at the same income level can move to another locality, in search of a better education.

I performed the analysis at the level of the individual student (not the class, school, district, or country) because this directly links student performance to the teaching environment.

But it at least roughly controls for a district's previous performance, rather than effectively selecting districts with favorable demographics.

Curricula, teaching methods, and schedules can all be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations of individual students; education can be freed from the geographic constraints of districts and brick - and - mortar buildings; coursework from the most remedial to the most advanced can be made available to everyone; students can have more interaction with teachers and one another; parents can readily be included in the education process; sophisticated data systems can measure and guide performance; and schools can be operated at lower cost with technology (which is relatively cheap) substituted for labor (which is relatively expensive).

In the past decade, at least 20 states and a large number of districts have instituted some form of pay for performance for teachers, including California, Florida, Minnesota, Texas, and the cities of Cincinnati, Denver, New York, and Charlotte, N.C., according to Donald Gratz, Ed.M.»

And it is standard practice to correct for national trends when looking at district - specific factors that affect performance.

Based at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, SDP is releasing a set of three Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs) today that challenge common assumptions about college - going patterns in U.S. school districts and provide deeper insight into the health and performance of schoolPerformance Indicators (SPIs) today that challenge common assumptions about college - going patterns in U.S. school districts and provide deeper insight into the health and performance of schoolperformance of school districts.

Dr. Weast led Montgomery County Public Schools — 16th largest school district in the nation — to achieve both the highest graduation rate among the nation's largest school districts for four consecutive years and the highest academic performance ever in MCPS at a time when the non-English-speaking student population more than doubled and enrollment tipped toward low socioeconomic demographics.

The reading performance of students at the five schools was, on average, 18 percent of a standard deviation below what could have been expected had the schools been under district management, a difference that is statistically significant in three of the six years.

Information about individual performance is aggregated across pupil populations at the classroom (and teacher), school, district, state, and national levels and cumulated over time.

Ms. Boast leads Public Impact's work evaluating educational quality metrics at the school, district and state levels and developing accountability systems to monitor school performance.

In this webinar, you'll hear directly from Jay McPhail, chief technology officer at Fullerton School District, Calif., and Jeremy Cunningham, network and systems engineer at Bryant public schools, Ark., about their recent wired and wireless deployments, and how they ensured high - availability and high - performance for their districts» common - core testing.

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The establishment of annual systematic student testing and data collection systems at the school, district, and state levels has created an opportunity for policymakers to link teacher evaluations and tenure to student performance in a way that was heretofore impossible.

«When you look at the annals of state intervention in local school districts across the country... there's virtually no track record, nor extant examples of states effectively turning around academic performance in local school districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.

are determined, through a district - developed or district - adopted procedure applied uniformly at each grade level, to be at risk of not achieving the State designated performance level in English language arts and / or mathematics.