Sentences with phrase «performing public school in the district»

And, because far fewer schools will be labeled as failing, fewer children and their families will be given at least the opportunity to transfer to a higher performing public school in the district.

Not exact matches

Texas school districts enjoy the broadest protections, which are waived only under specific circumstances, none of which apply to public use of school kitchens.8 In contrast, Massachusetts districts have immunity only if a school employee harms someone by performing an action that was not within the scope of the employee's employment.9

Cherokee County School District is a high - performing, award - winning public school district serving 42,000 students in Metro AtSchool District is a high - performing, award - winning public school district serving 42,000 students in Metro District is a high - performing, award - winning public school district serving 42,000 students in Metro Atschool district serving 42,000 students in Metro district serving 42,000 students in Metro Atlanta.

The researchers compared two groups of high school students from low - income neighborhoods in Los Angeles — 521 students who were offered admission to high - performing public charter schools through the district lottery, and 409 who were not.

Carmen Electra also attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) in the Cincinnati Public School District.

With a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter district and charter schools.

Holyoke Public Schools is the lowest performing school and highest poverty district in Massachusetts.

The 21st Century Green High - Performing Public School Facilities Act (HR 2187), passed in May by the U.S. House of Representatives, would authorize $ 6.4 billion in fiscal year 2010 for school districts to modernize, renovate, and repair their builSchool Facilities Act (HR 2187), passed in May by the U.S. House of Representatives, would authorize $ 6.4 billion in fiscal year 2010 for school districts to modernize, renovate, and repair their builschool districts to modernize, renovate, and repair their buildings.

A school that misses AYP two years in a row has to allow students to transfer to a better - performing public school in the same district.

Districts with schools that had persistently failed to make «adequate yearly progress» in their test - score performance were required to offer the students in those schools options ranging from a seat in a higher - performing public school to free tutoring services.

In 2010, the law was amended to double the number of charter students permitted in the state's lowest - performing districts, from about 9 percent to 18 percent of public school studentIn 2010, the law was amended to double the number of charter students permitted in the state's lowest - performing districts, from about 9 percent to 18 percent of public school studentin the state's lowest - performing districts, from about 9 percent to 18 percent of public school students.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

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.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

When one of Washington, D.C.'s highest - performing traditional public schools pursued plans to convert to a charter in 2006, the district agreed to several of its demands in exchange for the school's agreement to stop flirting with charter status.

In asking who might switch from public to private schools if money were not an object, Moe finds that the appeal of private schools is especially strong among parents who are minority, low income, and living in low - performing districtIn asking who might switch from public to private schools if money were not an object, Moe finds that the appeal of private schools is especially strong among parents who are minority, low income, and living in low - performing districtin low - performing districts.

In Ohio alone, some 250,000 current pupils — about 15 percent of all children in public education there — have been identified by their school districts as «gifted» (using the several metrics that the Buckeye State employs for this purpose, including superior «visual or performing arts ability»In Ohio alone, some 250,000 current pupils — about 15 percent of all children in public education there — have been identified by their school districts as «gifted» (using the several metrics that the Buckeye State employs for this purpose, including superior «visual or performing arts ability»in public education there — have been identified by their school districts as «gifted» (using the several metrics that the Buckeye State employs for this purpose, including superior «visual or performing arts ability»).

Hollyburn Elementry, a K — 7 public school in West Vancouver, British Columbia, has the enviable position of being located in the top - performing school district in Canada.

Under NCLB, if a school has failed to meet the law's accountability provisions two years in a row, parents have the option of sending their child to a higher - performing public school within the same district.

IMPACT, the controversial teacher - evaluation system recently introduced in the District of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of EdDistrict of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Eddistrict to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Eddistrict's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

On the NAEP exams in reading and mathematics, students in charter schools perform no better than those in regular public schools, whether one looks at black, Hispanic or low - income students, or students in urban districts.

An analysis by the Carroll County Public School District in Virginia shows that the 400 students in the virtual program there performed worse than the regular students in 19 of 26 categories on the state assessment test.

Some of the districts» top - performing public high schools were among those with the highest number of students who didn't take the exams: Northside College Prep and Lane Technical High School on the North Side and Lindblom Math & Science Academy, a selective - enrollment school located in the West Englewood neighboSchool on the North Side and Lindblom Math & Science Academy, a selective - enrollment school located in the West Englewood neighboschool located in the West Englewood neighborhood.

What happens if all the high - performing schools in a district are full and can't take the children who were granted public school choice because their own school failed two years in a row?

The article's author, James A. Peyser, explains that even though Boston Public Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes BPublic Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Bpublic student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Boston.

Caroline Hoxby's «remarkable study» of New York City's charters, as John Merrow describes it (see here) would surely suggest that they do: «The lottery winners [those who attended the charters] went to 48 public charter schools, and those who finished 8th grade performed nearly as well as students in affluent suburban districts, closing what the researchers call the «Harlem - Scarsdale achievement gap» by 86 percent in math and about two - thirds in English.»

More than one hundred low - performing schools were placed under the jurisdiction of Louisiana's Recovery School District (RSD), which was created in 2003 to take over and reverse the fortunes of chronically disappointing public schools throughout the state.

In 2009, the Los Angeles Unified School District board passed Public School Choice (PSC), an unprecedented initiative to reform the operation of new schools and turn around the lowest performing schools, known as focus schools, in the districIn 2009, the Los Angeles Unified School District board passed Public School Choice (PSC), an unprecedented initiative to reform the operation of new schools and turn around the lowest performing schools, known as focus schools, in the dDistrict board passed Public School Choice (PSC), an unprecedented initiative to reform the operation of new schools and turn around the lowest performing schools, known as focus schools, in the districin the districtdistrict.

Charters, which now teach 43 percent of all public school students in the District, perform at a somewhat better rate than the DCPS system.

We need to STRENGTHEN School Governance Council Language (public act 10 - 111) We also have to continually hammer / promote the message of a «TEAMWORK» collaborated effort between the local district boards of education, turnaround committees and the SGC (school governance councils) in the reconstitution of our low - performing schools once they have been «accepted» into the state Commissioners NeSchool Governance Council Language (public act 10 - 111) We also have to continually hammer / promote the message of a «TEAMWORK» collaborated effort between the local district boards of education, turnaround committees and the SGC (school governance councils) in the reconstitution of our low - performing schools once they have been «accepted» into the state Commissioners Neschool governance councils) in the reconstitution of our low - performing schools once they have been «accepted» into the state Commissioners Network.

I watch higher - income parents, mostly white, buy their way into high - performing suburban districts while demanding a «moratorium» on public charters in order to deny the school choice they exercise to low - income families, primarily of color.

This summer, a Stanford University study estimated students in 37 percent of the nation's charter schools have performed worse on state standardized tests than their peers in typical public - school districts.

Following the creation and implementation of the Apollo 20 program, the Denver Public Schools district, or DPS, and Lawrence Public Schools, or LPS, in Massachusetts, also chose to pursue their own similar but customized approach to turning around low - performing sSchools district, or DPS, and Lawrence Public Schools, or LPS, in Massachusetts, also chose to pursue their own similar but customized approach to turning around low - performing sSchools, or LPS, in Massachusetts, also chose to pursue their own similar but customized approach to turning around low - performing schoolsschools.

Rather than improve schools, though, the governor is blocking the authority to fire poor - performing teachers requested by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn and superintendents of 23 school districts, including Tacoma and Seattle, as revealed in a letter they sent to lawmakers on Feb. 22.

We can NOT allow parents to continue to be «arrested and criminalized» for placing their children in out - of - district public schools to ensure the quality, high - performing education that their in - district public schools are continually unable to provide.......

Hoxby says, citing one of Massachusetts» best - performing and wealthiest suburban school districts to point out a flaw in any attempt to compare charter schools, which are very often located either in inner cities or rural areas, with American public schools in general.

The existing law - passed in 2011 - allows parents to convert a low - performing district public school to a charter if a majority of parents signs a petition, but local school boards have to sign off on the conversion.

While they are considered «high - performing» charters, close inspection of Plato Academy student populations in Pinellas County reveal that their enrollment of African American, disabled and low socio - economic students is far below the Pinellas district average (According to the DOE School Public Accountability Reports, 2015 - 16.)

At the Syracuse City School District, we believe it's in the interest of both students and the public to have a staff which is highly qualified and effective in performing the duties assigned to them, and which contains a healthy diversity of personal backgrounds.

In the fall of 2009, he created and implemented the strategy behind Public School Choice, a district - run program that allows school - operating organizations the chance to bid for new and low - performing scSchool Choice, a district - run program that allows school - operating organizations the chance to bid for new and low - performing scschool - operating organizations the chance to bid for new and low - performing schools.

Charter schools have created high - performing options for millions of families across the country, and initiatives such as New York City's small high schools of choice have shown that public - school choice in large districts can significantly improve graduation rates.

Since then, he has supported the growth of high - performing public schools in leadership roles for the Rhode Island Department of Education, Louisiana's Recovery School District, and New Schools for Batonschools in leadership roles for the Rhode Island Department of Education, Louisiana's Recovery School District, and New Schools for BatonSchools for Baton Rouge.

Democracy Prep Public Schools currently operates 22 high - performing schools and one program in New York, New Jersey, the District of Columbia, Baton Rouge, and Las Vegas educating 6,500 citizen - scSchools currently operates 22 high - performing schools and one program in New York, New Jersey, the District of Columbia, Baton Rouge, and Las Vegas educating 6,500 citizen - scschools and one program in New York, New Jersey, the District of Columbia, Baton Rouge, and Las Vegas educating 6,500 citizen - scholars.

The controversial gutted - and - amended SB95, which has seen 40 + versions behind closed doors and would create a charter - managed Achievement School District comprising some of North Carolina's lowest performing schools, looks to be on the move for public debate in the waning days of the 2015 legislative session.

Though New Hampshire has some of the highest - performing public schools in the nation, performance across school districts is uneven.

Overview: In 2012, Match Education was contracted by Lawrence Public Schools to provide its tutoring services for two years to all students in grade 9 and 10 in two of its lowest performing high schools as part of a district - wide turnaround effort, under receivership of the Massachusetts Department of EducatioIn 2012, Match Education was contracted by Lawrence Public Schools to provide its tutoring services for two years to all students in grade 9 and 10 in two of its lowest performing high schools as part of a district - wide turnaround effort, under receivership of the Massachusetts Department of EduSchools to provide its tutoring services for two years to all students in grade 9 and 10 in two of its lowest performing high schools as part of a district - wide turnaround effort, under receivership of the Massachusetts Department of Educatioin grade 9 and 10 in two of its lowest performing high schools as part of a district - wide turnaround effort, under receivership of the Massachusetts Department of Educatioin two of its lowest performing high schools as part of a district - wide turnaround effort, under receivership of the Massachusetts Department of Eduschools as part of a district - wide turnaround effort, under receivership of the Massachusetts Department of Education.

In other words, parents pay the equivalent of tuition at many private schools to live in districts with higher - performing public schoolIn other words, parents pay the equivalent of tuition at many private schools to live in districts with higher - performing public schoolin districts with higher - performing public schools.

In an unprecedented partnership announced Tuesday night, locally based education reform group The Mind Trust, the mayor's office and Indianapolis Public Schools are teaming up to try to improve the district's poorest performing sSchools are teaming up to try to improve the district's poorest performing schoolsschools.

Test scores for students in Louisiana's state - run Recovery School District, a network of low - performing schools in New Orleans and several other cities in Louisiana, have grown faster than any other public school district in the School District, a network of low - performing schools in New Orleans and several other cities in Louisiana, have grown faster than any other public school district in thDistrict, a network of low - performing schools in New Orleans and several other cities in Louisiana, have grown faster than any other public school district in the school district in thdistrict in the state.

With the Australians» help, District 2 began to thrive, and it now contains some of the highest - performing and most coveted public schools in the city.