Sentences with phrase «performing schools and school districts»

Requires SDE to develop a comprehensive plan to encourage exemplary teachers and administrators, as identified by performance evaluations under the bill and other measures, to work in the state's lowest - performing schools and school districts and enhance the education profession's career ladder in these schools.

The problems with low performing schools and school districts are deeply structural and will not, in all likelihood, be solved at the school or district level.

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Over the years, we have continued to perform exceptional HVAC service and installation for school districts, governmental agencies, municipalities and private firms.

The Buffalo Grove Park District wants to convert a Jewish temple and school into a 37,000 - square - foot performing arts center.

Munn said the increase in salaries mainly would accommodate new part - time workers needed to support a budgeted increase in district programming, where the growth is mostly seen in the area of performing arts and before - and after - school programs.

The Élan Dance Company Showcase begins at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Naperville North High School Performing Arts Center, 899 N. Mill St. Tickets are available online at https://recenroll.napervilleparks.org/Activities/ActivitiesDetails.asp?aid=1235, by calling 630-848-5000, or in person at the Park District Administration Building, 320 W. Jackson Ave., or at the 95th Street Center, 2244 W. 95th St. Tickets are $ 8 in advance or $ 10 after Friday and at the door. ¿

In addition, this report informs about the School Breakfast Program's benefits and how it works; explains how to offer breakfast at no charge to all students, potentially through community eligibility; describes breakfast after the bell models; highlights top - performing school districts; and provides school breakfast funding informSchool Breakfast Program's benefits and how it works; explains how to offer breakfast at no charge to all students, potentially through community eligibility; describes breakfast after the bell models; highlights top - performing school districts; and provides school breakfast funding informschool districts; and provides school breakfast funding informschool breakfast funding information.

A number of the top - performing school districts — Los Angeles Unified School District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income houseschool districts — Los Angeles Unified School District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income houseSchool District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income houseSchool District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income households.

Those characteristics include tree - lined streets, parks, historic structures, high levels of volunteerism and philanthropy, conservative government traditions, well - performing schools and top - flight park districts.

The Project Development Objective is to increase access to senior secondary education in underserved districts and improve quality in low - performing senior high schools (SHSs) in Ghana.

«Dr. Bierwirth has the knowledge, experience and skill to be a meaningful partner with the school board and district for the benefit of all children in the district's low - performing schools.»

The best - performing sites belonged to Southern Tier's Schuyler County, New York City, the Town of Wilton in the Capital Region, the Town of Penfield in the Finger Lakes and the Clarkstown Central School District in the Mid-Hudson valley.

«Dr. Eastwood has the knowledge, experience and skill to be a meaningful partner with the school board and district for the benefit of every child in the district's low - performing schools.»

In the weeks after the budget was approved, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers introduced bills that would either exempt some top - performing school districts from aspects of the evaluations to pushing back deadlines for their adoption.

About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.

Additional participants in the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family & Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia Community College Adult & Continuing Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Y - Roads.

BY LAUREN KATE ROSENBLUM The North Rockland School board meeting began with the North Rockland High School Marching Band performing in honor of the hard work done by district employees to get Thiells Elementary up and running after it was flooded by Hurricane Irene.

Elia has appointed Kenneth Eastwood as «Distinguished Educator, «and she says he has the experience and skill needed to help children in the Rochester district's low performing schools.

The dispute between Buffalo Public Schools and the Buffalo Teachers Federation centers around whether the district can cut 5 1/2 teaching positions and hire aides to perform non-supervisory roles.

The city is also implementing a $ 15 million «Single Shepherd» program to hire more guidance counselors for middle and high schoolers in low - performing Districts 7 and 23.

Some appear to be turned off by reports of Success suspension rates far higher than district schools» and the extreme focus on performing well on test scores.

The administration has also already announced a $ 51 million plan to expand Advanced Placement courses, with full implementation at high schools expected by 2021 and a $ 15 million program called «Single Shepherd» to hire guidance counselors for each middle and high school student in low - performing school Districts 7 and 23, which will be fully implemented by next fall.

Warrensburg Central School District fifth and sixth grade chorus students will perform as part of American Young Voices at the Times Union Center in Albany on Tuesday, May 30 at 7 p.m. more

On January 18th the New Rochelle Board of Education hired Vigilant Resources International (VRI) to perform a «Threat Risk and Vulnerability Assessment» of all the district's schools as

Warrensburg Central School District fifth and sixth grade chorus students will perform as part of American Young Voices at the Times Union Center in Albany on Tuesday, May 30 at 7 p.m.

Officials from several states criticized the scoring of the contest, which favored states able to gain support from 100 percent of school districts and local teachers» unions for Obama administration objectives like expanding charter schools, reworking teacher evaluation systems and turning around low - performing schools.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- The Buffalo school district is looking for an outside receiver to take over and run a low - performing elementary school.

The evening ended with the Mount Vernon Public Library presenting The Mount Vernon City School District Performing & Visual Arts Orchestra under the direction of Ms. Normearleasa Thomas and Mr. Mansa Gory.

Yelyzaveta Kalinichenko, a special education teacher at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and 13 fellow educators from District 3 squeezed into the office of state Sen. Liz Krueger to appeal for more state funding for New York City public schools.

In 1996, the Carnegie Redevelopment Corp., a local development corporation, acquired the building and performed a $ 3.6 million renovation for the city school district.

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.

Proponents of market - based education reform often argue that introducing charter schools and other school choice policies creates a competitive dynamic that will prompt low - performing districts to improve their practice.

Houston's schools, which are equally minority and poor, perform well relative to other urban school districts.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuSchool District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuSchool District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuschool system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sdistrict of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

The lab set up four different models in four cities with low - performing urban school districts — Chicago, Dallas, New York City, and Washington, D.C. — and over two school years, handed out a total of $ 6.3 million to 38,000 students.

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.

Poor - performing school districts are increasingly signing up with these online services to provide remedial and after - school instruction for students.

Agreement between school boards and superintendents over achievement goals, an emphasis on the lowest - performing students, and the adoption of districtwide curricula are among the most successful strategies being used in four urban school districts, concludes a report released last week.

As a leader who co-founded a high - performing charter school network and charter support organization, and who now leads Chiefs for Change, an organization of state and district leaders committed to educational excellence, I'm an ardent charter supporter — and I'm arguing for taking a look in the mirror.

Further, states would need to balance power between districts and schools; for example, districts should have the power to reject association with a poorly performing school.

There is some indication that the lowest - performing schools in a district have higher WSI scores, and additional analyses reveal that this pattern is concentrated among elementary schools.

The NCLB law says that after two years of falling short of academic targets, districts must offer students the chance to transfer to a better - performing school, and after three...

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.»

On the opposite side of the spectrum are compacts in Denver, the Texas district of Aldine, and Spring Branch, where superintendents are embracing high - performing charters by inviting them into their schools.

Balancing those funder desires, New Visions created a Request for Proposals to all community school districts and high school superintendents in the city, inviting any group of educators to propose a small high school — limited to some 100 students per grade — with a focus on the Bronx, which had the highest concentration of low - performing schools.

At the same time, participating faculty will conduct research aimed at measuring the effectiveness of the program, identifying the key underlying forces that are shaping educational leadership in urban school systems, and developing a set of powerful ideas to enable district leadership teams to create high performing systems.