Sentences with phrase «performing public schools in the nation»

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

New Jersey is already home to some of the top - performing public schools in the nation.

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Equally important is well - informed choice, a powerful principle in our economy and in higher education, but one that is severely constrained in K - 12 public education, particularly for low - income populations that are most likely to be assigned to low - performing schools under the nation's residence - based school system.

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

Whether the measure is graduation rates, improved instructional quality, last year's improvement in the lowest - performing schools targeted for special intervention, a nation - leading new collective - bargaining agreement, the addition of many new high - quality public schools, increased parental choice, or a material increase in the proportion of effective teachers, the arrow is pointed decidedly up in Newark.

During Dr. McIntyre's tenure, the Boston Public Schools was named one of the top performing urban school systems in the nation.

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.

What came next was the 2010 launch of HISD's Apollo 20 program, the nation's first large - scale effort to implement high - performing charter school practices in a traditional public school environment.

So when the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's second - largest teachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.

The centerpiece is the charter school movement's effort to radically transform education for the city's mostly African - American public school children, many of whom would still be attending some of the worst performing schools in the nation.

In Massachusetts, for example, the state with the nation's highest - performing students as judged by federal tests, 80 percent of the state's public schools were «failing» by NCLB standards in 201In Massachusetts, for example, the state with the nation's highest - performing students as judged by federal tests, 80 percent of the state's public schools were «failing» by NCLB standards in 201in 2012.

Desert Trails Preparatory Academy in Adelanto, Calif., will open for the academic year on Monday as the first school in the nation to have been remade under a law that gives parents the power to take over a low - performing public school and fire the principal, dismiss teachers or bring in private management.

Malloy remains the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure for all public school teachers and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in the «lowest performing» schools.

Two California charter schools — Pacific Collegiate School and Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy — were in the top 20 of all the public high schools in the nation.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Wendy Spencer, chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), today announced a new competitive grant program that will provide $ 15 million in public funds over three years to reinforce and accelerate intervention efforts in the nation's lowest - performing schools.

The rigorous Common Core learning standards that have been adopted by 45 states represent a once - in - a-generation opportunity for the United States to improve public schools nationally, bringing math, science and literacy education up to levels achieved by high - performing nations abroad.

A study released yesterday by Mathematica Policy Research (and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education) titled «Teachers with High «Value Added» Can Boost Test Scores in Low - Performing Schools» implies that, yet again, value - added estimates are the key statistical indicators we as a nation should be using, above all else, to make pragmatic and policy decisions about America's public school teachers.

D.C. Public Schools was once among the nation's lowest - performing urban school districts, but in recent years has won widespread attention for making rapid progress as judged by scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Yet it is worth noting that the public - school systems in Montgomery County and the neighboring District of Columbia both spent about $ 15,000 per student in the 2007 - 2008 school year — and while Montgomery County has obviously gotten a respectable return on its investment, D.C. has performed dismally, ranking dead last in the nation on 2007 and 2009 NAEP math and reading scores for fourth graders.

Through the expertise and collaboration of experienced public school leaders with a vision of public school education that could bring these improvements to life, Alliance schools are among the best performing in the nation.

Issue # 1: As has been noted repeatedly, no other Democratic governor in the nation has proposed doing away with tenure for all public school teachers and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in the poorest and lowest performing public schools.

No one might have guessed back in 2001 that Denver Public Schools, notoriously dysfunctional and low - performing, would be one of most improved school districts in Colorado and the nation.

Governor Dannel Malloy is the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with tenure for all public school teachers and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in the lowest performing public schools.

The program aims to supplement other available sources of loan repayment assistance so as to permit graduates to perform public service in North Carolina, the nation and the world, without being restricted or discouraged by law school debt.