Sentences with phrase «performing school districts across the state»

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Missouri's pension boundaries would make it practically impossible for high - performing school districts to operate a program, run a school, or loan teachers within the Saint Louis or Kansas City boundaries, just as state pension boundaries would make it impossible for schools to effectively work across state lines.

Charter school operators with good track records would be able to apply to open new schools across the state, although the performance thresholds will be lower in areas where traditional school districts perform poorly and are in high - poverty areas.

Furthermore, the most recent state test scores showed that Denver performed better than most districts in the state, showing commendable improvements in turnaround schools located in Far Northeast and Northwest Denver, even though the district is still far from its own goal of 3.5 percent improvement in growth across all subjects.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie is angry, claiming that 27 failing school districts across the state continue to under - perform despite receiving over $ 100 billion in funding since 1985.

Charter schools are free, autonomous public schools that operate independent of traditional school district policies and many state regulations, giving them the autonomy and flexibility that are the hallmarks of high - performing schools across the country.

Billions spent on collecting standardized test scores have successfully given us a sense of how students perform across school districts and states (the answer: not very well), but they do little to tell us meaningfully about how individual students are doing.

These programs have improved learning opportunities for millions of students across the country by enabling educators at the state, district and school levels to make informed, research - based decisions on which programs are the most effective, how to implement evidence - based practices, and how to help the lowest - performing schools.

The incubator, named the Center for Charter School Excellence in Tennessee, will support and help fund the development of high - performing public charter schools in Metro Nashville, and expand to provide charter school incubation support in school districts across the state within three School Excellence in Tennessee, will support and help fund the development of high - performing public charter schools in Metro Nashville, and expand to provide charter school incubation support in school districts across the state within three school incubation support in school districts across the state within three school districts across the state within three years.

Through a collaborative effort across multiple divisions within the Department, DST focuses on building the capacity of all staff serving in the lowest performing districts and schools across the state to support the improvement of the school performance grade and EVAAS growth score.

District and state interventions mandated uniformly across all low - performing schools often miss the mark because they fail to account for contextual factors that vary from school to school.

Across the country, state education leaders want to know which state supports and interventions are being provided to low - performing schools and districts, which supports result in improvement, and which supports are most cost effective.

In a rebuttal to those who say states should use common tests so that the public can compare how students perform across state boundaries, fewer than one in five public school parents said it was important to know how children in their communities performed on standardized tests compared with students in other districts, states or countries.

See how schools and districts across the state performed on the new English and math assessments aligned to Common Core state standards (CT Mirror).