Sentences with phrase «performing priority school»

Parental and community engagement are key goals for NEA Priority Schools Campaign, a multi-year effort to bring permanent transformation and improvement to America's lower - performing priority schools.

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The governor's position is that the chronically low performing schools should be our priority for attention and funding.

It would authorize the state to open just twelve new charters a year, with priority given to school operators seeking to locate in low - performing districts.

Second only to safety, ensuring that all students develop literacy skills reflects a core priority in high - performing, high - poverty schools.

The lowest - performing schools are given priority when applying for certain grants, and the state has earmarked funds to recruit teachers to work in schools that received D and F grades.

The measure would direct state education officials to give priority to applications in the lowest - performing 25 percent of school districts and those with long waiting lists for charter seats.

He has worked to focus the state agency on his four priorities including: Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Teachers and Principals; Building a Foundation of Math and Reading; Connecting High School to Career and College; and Improving Low - Performing Schools.

States must identify schools as «priority schools» if they are among the 5 percent lowest performing schools in the state or if their graduation rates are below 60 percent.

They should set eligibility requirements (determining how district applications will be funded) that reflect the state's priorities for assisting its lowest - performing schools.

The law also says that charters aimed at students from low - performing schools or other at - risk kids should be given admission priority.

There are schools literally a few blocks away from these priority schools, with children who are under performing and schools in disrepair.

Each of the applications will be subject to peer review in the context of five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics education; supporting the implementation of high academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

Give priority to opening public charter schools that serve at - risk student populations or students from low - performing public schools.

In her previous roles with the Kentucky Department of Education, she worked with low - performing and priority schools to close achievement gaps and improve teaching and learning.

Critics of this also agree that simplicity is a top priority, but they insist that being too simple may create a negative picture of a school's effectiveness which will stigmatize a school and incorrectly label it as low - performing.

These guiding indicators will help you identify curricular priorities for your low - performing school or schools that will put all students on track to graduate college and be career - ready.

Are we to assume, given San Francisco Unified's use of Teach for America teachers (holders of intern credentials, rather than preliminary or clear credentials)-- in Superintendent's Zone schools (the district's lowest - performing schools, so grouped because the district has acknowledged the magnitude of its achievement gap) no less — that San Francisco Unified is violating the legal hiring priority?

• Give priority to charter organizers who want to serve disadvantaged children and students trapped in poorly performing traditional schools.

Both competitions will fund projects across five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education; helping implement rigorous academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

Interested applicants must address one of the competition's five absolute priorities: parent and family engagement; teachers and principals; science, technology, engineering, and math education; low - performing schools; and improving rural achievement.

These groups, including the Texas chapter of the NAACP, the Texas chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, and the Texas State Teachers Association, are obviously and blatantly placing the priorities of adults and their special interests ahead of the kids who are languishing in under - performing schools or on waiting lists for openings in charters that are in need of expansion capital to accommodate demand.

Reviewers must have expertise in education evaluation or at least one of the program's absolute priorities (increasing educator effectiveness; improving low - performing schools; strengthening science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education; boosting academic outcomes for students with disabilities and English language learners; encouraging parent and family engagement; promoting effective use of technology; serving rural communities; and implementing college - and career - ready standards).

In a telephone interview last week, Nunez gave LA School Report his take on education politics in Sacramento, recent shifts in union priorities after last year's controversial debate over teacher dismissals, and his vision for higher - performing...

In a telephone interview last week, Nunez gave LA School Report his take on education politics in Sacramento, recent shifts in union priorities after last year's controversial debate over teacher dismissals, and his vision for higher - performing schools.

In most cases, principals in priority schools must work with inexperienced teachers and develop them into quality high - performing individuals.

It must be well planned and part of a comprehensive reform — exactly the kind of change that «priority schools,» the lowest - performing schools in a state, need.

States would identify and support «priority» schools (the lowest performing 5 percent of Title I elementary schools and Title I secondary schools, as well as secondary schools with graduation rates under 60 percent) and «focus» schools (Title I schools with the greatest achievement gaps and secondary schools with the greatest graduation rate gaps).

The National Education Association (NEA), standing strong with more than three million union members, is committed to transforming the nation's persistently low - performing, priority schools into great public schools for all students.

Still, supporters said the program would give priority to students from low - income families, those who live in an area with poor performing schools, prior scholarship recipients or siblings of those who had received a scholarship.

The money is for public schools on a competitive basis, with priority given to those on the Governor's Office of Student Achievement's persistently low - performing list.

Ms Williams said Wales» most able children had not performed across the board as well as they were expected because the priority in recent years had been to focus on increasing the number of children leaving school with five good GCSEs.

During the session, experts will share information on specific provisions in ESSA that can be used to bolster states» school leadership investments, especially for the lowest - performing schools, schools with large, persistent achievement gaps, and other schools identified as a state priority based on other crucial indicators of school capacity and performance and student success.

Students assigned to lower - performing District public schools were given priority.

Under Tawwab's watch, half the priority schools in Detroit came off the state's poorest - performing list within 18 months.

This year's priorities for the Development grants are increasing educator effectiveness; improving low - performing schools; strengthening science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education; boosting academic outcomes for students with disabilities and English language learners; encouraging parent and family engagement; promoting effective use of technology; and serving rural communities.

The state needs to build upon this successful program, with priority given to school districts with a significant number of low - performing schools that have a problem attracting and retaining quality principals.

Students in affected schools have received priority placement in OneApp, which has increased the likelihood they enroll in a higher - performing school.

Creating Matters is helping us to think differently about our work as educators; our priorities, relationships, and what we are creating — in this case high performing schools and effective leaders.

Moreover, we appreciate the many ways the regulations highlight priority actions and conditions necessary for school leaders to be most effective — such as elevating the importance of hiring turnaround leaders who are trained for or have a record of success in low - performing schools and providing principals with balanced autonomy to transform underperforming schools.

Every waiver state had to designate at least five percent of its lowest - performing and slowest - progressing Title I schools as «priority» schools to undergo an intervention designed to turnaround the school.

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Elevate school improvement as an urgent priority at every level of the system — schools, LEAs, and the SEA — and establish for each level clear roles, lines of authority, and responsibilities for improving low - performing schools.

In his speech today, Obama identified three key priorities he wants to guide the legislative process: fair and thorough accountability and assessment, empowerment of teachers and principals to pursue innovative ideas, and a focus on persistently low - performing schools to ensure the most effective teachers serve students most in need.

In other words, it seems as though the priority of the CMO is to bring in students who are already prepared to perform excellently in their academics, in order to create the impression of a world class school.

Cease funding for lower performing, or lower priority activities (such as carbon farming) and from programs related to early childhood, schooling, higher and vocational education.

Years of research shows that students who attend schools where SEL is a priority perform better academically.

Strategic priorities include leadership with character, partnership and collaboration, comprehensive school readiness and high performing grantees.