Sentences with phrase «performing schools across the state»

Since 2010, 61 low - performing schools across the state have received more than $ 140 million in additional funds through federal School Improvement Grants.

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Now, parents and education advocates from across New York City are asking state legislators to ensure the future of high - performing public charter schools by supporting the Governor's proposal.

The vast majority of EP alumni work for other education organizations, including high - performing charter school networks and education nonprofits, state and federal agencies that allocate billions of dollars across the sector and impact millions of children, education policy and advocacy organizations, and ed tech companies.

ESSA removed NCLB's across - the - board school accountability system, allowing states the flexibility to identify and remedy low performing schools.

Across the portfolio, CMO schools perform somewhat better in math than in reading, when benchmarked against their local peers on state assessments.

Since the ASD launched three years ago, it has been touted by policymakers in Tennessee and across the country as a promising approach for states looking to improve their lowest - performing schools — and criticized by some local educators and communities for not showing results quickly enough.

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.

, which discovered that out of two thousand low - performing schools across ten states, only 10 percent actually closed over a five - year period.

We find that across the nation and in every state, rates of chronic absenteeism meaningfully differentiate between schools, meaning that rates of chronic absenteeism are widely distributed across schools and the lowest performing schools are clearly identifiable.

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.

Opportunity scholarships (commonly referred to as vouchers) would be based on income and residence within the attendance zones of the lowest - performing 5 % of schools across the state.

How One Elementary Achieved a 10 - Point Gain on Scores.Like many elementary schools across the United States, Ballantyne Elementary in Charlotte, North Carolina, sought innovative ways to help its students master science concepts, and perform better onstandardized tests.

I would set up a national scholarship program for teachers, school leaders and state policy officials to dedicate some of their own vacation time at federal expense to visit high performing systems outside and across the United States and to report on what they have learned to their own legislatures.

Herein lies the conundrum for educators in low - performing schools across the nation: If a student arrives in fifth grade reading like a first grader and makes three years» worth of growth, he still will not pass a grade - level state test despite major progress and clearly effective teaching.

But the Democratic governor also wants a $ 52.9 million cut in funding for special education, after - school programs, reading tutors and other services in low - performing public schools across the state.

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.

This complex statistical methodology identifies academic peer groups of students from across the state who performed the same way in the past, then determines their relative growth this year in order to rate the overall growth for students achieved at a school.

The draft accountability rules, to be released this summer, will encourage states to identify high - and low - performing teacher preparation programs across all kinds of educational models, not just those based in colleges and universities; urge a transition from current input - based reporting requirements to a focus on more meaningful outcomes; and likely limit program eligibility for TEACH grants — which are available to students who are planning to become teachers in a high - need field in a low - income school — to only effective teacher preparation programs.

There are many across the United States that say that the Common Core has helped set a high bar, that the expectations set by the Common Core have been an impetus for teachers to expect more of students in low performing schools.

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.

Not yet staffed, seven RACs are to be spread across the state to provide assistance and training for the lowest - performing schools, with one likely to be housed right in Camden.

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.

Through its Schools to Watch ® (STW) program, the Forum has developed criteria for identifying high - performing middle - grades schools, and created tools to help schools use the criteria and expand the program states across the United States and selected and honored hundreds of successful schools across the country during the Annual STW ConfSchools to Watch ® (STW) program, the Forum has developed criteria for identifying high - performing middle - grades schools, and created tools to help schools use the criteria and expand the program states across the United States and selected and honored hundreds of successful schools across the country during the Annual STW Confschools, and created tools to help schools use the criteria and expand the program states across the United States and selected and honored hundreds of successful schools across the country during the Annual STW Confschools use the criteria and expand the program states across the United States and selected and honored hundreds of successful schools across the country during the Annual STW Confestates across the United States and selected and honored hundreds of successful schools across the country during the Annual STW ConfeStates and selected and honored hundreds of successful schools across the country during the Annual STW Confschools across the country during the Annual STW Conference.

Aspire is also one of the highest - performing public school systems in California, operating public charter schools across the state with one specific goal - preparing urban students for college - encapsulated by its motto of «College for Certain.»

Today, the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) called for the non-renewal of six charter schools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance meSchools Association (CCSA) called for the non-renewal of six charter schools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance meschools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance measures.

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.

Further analysis reflects that Sac High students continue to out - perform their peers across the state when compared to similar groups of high school students.

The study, conducted by CREDO (read about the group), examined school closure data from 1,522 low - performing schools that were closed across 26 states between 2006 and 2013.

StudentsFirstNY, an advocacy group that promotes charter schools and other education reforms, on whose board several of those donors sit, strongly endorsed the governor's campaign to make test scores matter more in evaluations, saying the existing system bore «zero resemblance» to how students themselves were performing across the state.

Evers» Promoting Excellence for All task force identified 39 promising strategies in schools across the state to raise the achievement of low - performing students.

«The outcomes speak for themselves in the strong results of charter schools across the state, as identified through national research and a charter accountability process that has led to closing 10 low - performing charter schools in the past three years.»

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.

Designed to serve three purposes, the School Performance Profile will be used for federal accountability for Title I schools under the state's approved federal No Child Left Behind waiver, the new teacher and principal evaluation system that was signed into law in 2012 and to provide the public with information on how public schools across Pennsylvania are academically performing.

The yearlong process involved more than 175 education, government and business leaders from across the state focused on three key topics related to expanding educational opportunity in North Carolina: addressing the impact of childhood trauma on learning; increasing racial equity; and supporting low - performing schools.

Massachusetts» K - 12 public schools are the best - performing in the country, and across the state 18 charters finished first last year on state tests.

The statement also points out that 36 charter schools across Michigan are among the lowest performing 10 percent of all schools in the state.

So far, his tenure has entailed cutting salaries across the board by 10 percent; imposing $ 81 million in wage concessions; and announcing a new state - run educational authority to oversee Michigan's lowest - performing schools that will pilot in Detroit next year.

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.

I would set up a national scholarship program for teachers, school leaders and state policy officials to dedicate some of their own vacation time at Federal expense to visit high performing systems outside and across the US and to report on what they have learned to their own legislatures.

The mission of the Call Me MISTER ® initiative, a partnership of colleges and universities in S.C. and across the nation, is to increase the pool of available teachers from a broader and more diverse background, particularly among the state's lowest performing elementary schools.

«High - performing public charter schools are growing rapidly to meet the demands of families across the United States,» said Ed Kirby, deputy director of the Walton Foundation's K - 12 Education Reform Focus Area.

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.

Chief among them: using data to track students and improve their achievement; spreading uniform, rigorous academic standards across states; improving teacher quality; and turning around the worst - performing schools.

This measures how schools are performing with similar students across the state.

Arizona has been awarded a $ 54 million federal grant to expand top - performing charter schools and foster new ones across the state...

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).