Sentences with phrase «performing big city school»

... «The new NAEP results confirm that Duval County is one of the highest performing big city school districts in the nation,» said Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council for Great City Schools.

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Mr. de Blasio is a rare big - city critic of charter schools at a time when they are spreading rapidly in low - performing urban school districts.

In School Breakfast in America's Big Cities, a January 2011 report released by the Food Research and Action Center, 16 of the 29 urban districts examined in the study «performed above the national average in reaching low - income students with breakfast.

The first order of business for Mary Ronan as the acting superintendent of the Cincinnati school system four years ago was making big changes at more than a dozen of the city's lowest - performing elementary schools.

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?