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The Asutifi North District is the only district selected to pilot a District Based WASH Coverage Initiative and its success will be replicated in Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana.

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«BE IT RESOLVED that the New Paltz Central School District Board of Education declares its opposition to any PILOT agreements that result in a reduction of real property taxes versus full taxation based on a full market value assessment determined by the New Paltz assessor's office; and

The Flexibility for Equitable Student Funding pilot gives districts that use student - based budgeting new freedom to allocate Title I and Title II dollars to schools along with state and local dollars.

Among the places considering, piloting, or implementing teacher - evaluation systems based at least in part on a set of performance - based standards are Ann Arbor, Mich.; Chicago; the District of Columbia; Elgin and Rockford, Ill.; Prince George's County, Md.; and select districts in states such as Idaho, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Districts are responding: As of spring 2014, four districts nationally are piloting Opportunity Culture models, and one, Charlotte - Mecklenburg, is taking its pilot efforts to scale based on recruiting results and demand fromDistricts are responding: As of spring 2014, four districts nationally are piloting Opportunity Culture models, and one, Charlotte - Mecklenburg, is taking its pilot efforts to scale based on recruiting results and demand fromdistricts nationally are piloting Opportunity Culture models, and one, Charlotte - Mecklenburg, is taking its pilot efforts to scale based on recruiting results and demand from schools.

There is a provision within ESSA known as the weighted student funding pilot that allows up to 50 districts to apply for permission to adopt weighted student funding systems or student - based budgeting where dollars do follow the child to whatever school they attend.

LAUSD has been negotiating with UTLA to try to put in place a pilot program with three percent of district teachers, who would be evaluated in part on student performance on the state's standards - based tests.

Georgia's Gwinnett County Public Schools, one of the nation's top urban school districts, has completed an initial pilot of the industry's first cognitive, tablet - based, vocabulary learning app.

For instance, universities and research contractors should be asked to submit proposals for helping state agencies and school districts not just in evaluating a specific program but in building the capacity of school agencies for piloting and evaluating initiatives on an ongoing basis.

Districts should consider creating pilot programs to transform the culture at high - need schools to help them become trauma sensitive, potentially utilizing the whole - school, inquiry - based process and related tools contained in the resource, Creating and Advocating for Trauma - Sensitive Schools.

Any district that chooses to use one of the other three piloted observation tools must pay for any expenses above the base cost supplied by the state, including the costs of technical support, training, and data management.

In this interactive map, the district's 189 public, charter, magnet and pilot high schools are color - coded by their Academic Performance Index score and sorted based on Adequate Yearly Progress proficiencies.

Both local school districts and a charter school will have the opportunity this coming school year to visit schools across the country that use competency - based education in a new pilot program from the Utah State Board of Education.

Pilots are district schools with lots of site - based control.

To prevent the closure, Bahnam worked with an outside organization and a 21 - member school - based design team, comprised of parents, students, teachers, and administrators to develop a proposal and petition the district for Pilot school status.

The law encourages local districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or rural / high poverty schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.

The Michigan State School Aid Act allocates funding for MIBLSI to pilot a program that will develop, enhance, and expand statewide systems of support for intermediate school districts and schools implementing an evidence - based, multi-tiered behavioral framework for improving behavioral outcomes and learning conditions for all students.

The Success Highways intervention was developed based on 20 years of research at the University of Wisconsin and a seven - year pilot program in an urban school district.

In the pilot, state test score gains in a particular class were analyzed and scored relative to the student's predicted growth based on past scores, and relative to the average gains seen across the district and within different groups of the student population.

Through evidence - based approaches piloted and now implemented in 30 major districts throughout the country, TDS has played a lead role in helping schools and districts mobilize existing staff and support organizations in ways that are proven to make considerable differences in attendance, climate and overall academic achievement.

The Utah State Board of Education announced that the following Utah school districts and charter schools have been accepted in the state's competency - based learning pilot program.

BBF develops partnerships with school districts, including fifteen pilot schools, and existing providers and creates evidence - based programs to develop a comprehensive, community - based network of services.

After a successful pilot program at South Bronx Preparatory, a district middle school located in a high - poverty neighborhood in New York City, Family Playlists are now exclusively available on the organization's new subscription - based platform for schools and districts, PowerMyLearning Connect: School Edition.

At one of the district's middle schools, the pilot in four 6th grade reading classrooms includes daily flexible instructional groups based on data, weekly goal setting, and giving students the ability to choose their station activities.

Memphis - Shelby County Schools to Pilot Student - Based Budgeting Tennessee's largest district seeks to improve funding equity across schools.

The pilot was conducted in five Title 1 schools across five school districts in North Carolina and yielded significant results that became the basis for a Javits Grant (PR / Award #S206A040057) awarded by the U.S. Department of Education for Bright IDEA 2 (2004 - 2010).

The eight pilot districts limit SBAC testing to just three grade levels, while the other grades experience district - developed competency - based performance tasks that ask students to explain, apply, and model their understanding of interdisciplinary real world problems.

Learn how the School District of South Milwaukee piloted a new process leveraging competency - based micro-credentials to help teachers advance on the salary schedule while honing high - quality educational practices.

Results: The ELL Collaborative developed a research - based rubric to understand what practices lead to high - performing campuses for ELLs, and districts piloted the rubric.

While CTE models have been piloted across the country, states should create or expand grant programs to encourage additional school districts to offer students opportunities for apprenticeships and project - based learning.

Madeleine Case, as director of a family - school partnership district initiative, drew from models of school - based and parent leadership teams to develop a pilot program called Families and Educators Together (FET).

NGO Care - India, in association with Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company, has launched a community - based micro health insurance programme in Kanyakumari district on a pilot basis.

Teaching Civil Engineering and Architecture class based on Project Lead the Way curriculum to 11th grade engineering students at a Los Angeles Unified School District pilot school