Sentences with phrase «public school districts retain»

As a result of private school choice programs, public school districts retain a portion of the funding for each child who leaves the public system.

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Annette L. Breaux, the curriculum coordinator for the Lafourche Parish Public Schools in Thibodaux, Louisiana, witnessed that sieve effect in her own district: new teachers were pouring in, but few were retained.

But in public schools, parents retain some power of choice if, for example, they can afford to select their place of residence to place their children in a particular school district.

TARBORO — Edgecombe County Public Schools is pursuing a new way to recruit and retain teachers that may lead to promotions and increased pay potential for high - achieving teachers in the district.

Ms. Anderson had argued that One Newark would offer more parents the opportunity to opt out of failing schools, and that by improving the smaller number of public schools that remained, it would ultimately help retain the families that might otherwise leave the district for charter schools.

This report provides a direct comparison of the human capital practices in public school districts with best practices elsewhere to underscore the need to reform district human capital practices in order to attract and retain top talent.

Like Framingham Public Schools, thousands of schools and districts trust TalentEd to provide world - class customer support alongside solutions that help them transform the way they recruit, hire, onboard, manage, develop and retain quality teachers andSchools, thousands of schools and districts trust TalentEd to provide world - class customer support alongside solutions that help them transform the way they recruit, hire, onboard, manage, develop and retain quality teachers andschools and districts trust TalentEd to provide world - class customer support alongside solutions that help them transform the way they recruit, hire, onboard, manage, develop and retain quality teachers and staff.

«New Jersey's LIFO law forces school districts like Newark to retain ineffective teachers and, in fact, put them back in the classroom while cutting spending to other critical areas of public education.

The state and the unions argued that the laws help school districts attract and retain teachers while the plaintiffs countered that they keep in place ineffective teachers whose instructional skills deny students the promise of a quality public education.

Renee Foose, superintendent of the Howard County Public School System, said the idea originated about a year ago when the district was struggling to attract and retain teachers.

Whether we are talking about classroom teachers, school principals or district superintendents, the public sector has difficulty attracting and retaining talent.

We are a group of 20 Oakland public district and charter school teachers serving on a Teacher Advisory Group brought together by Educate78, an Oakland nonprofit committed to attracting and retaining high - quality teachers in Oakland.

Many school districts experience difficulties attracting and retaining teachers, and the impending retirement of a substantial fraction of public school teachers raises the specter of severe

Denver Public Schools (DPS), a large urban school district that serves approximately 90,000 students, has made a strong commitment to recruiting and retaining great leaders and teachers.

In structure, Minneapolis» first self - governed school would resemble teacher - led programs in the Milwaukee public schools, where the teachers in charge of the new schools retain their union seniority and district benefits like their colleagues but work under a contract that makes them responsible for their schools.

Baltimore schools CEO Gregory Thornton told the City Council on Monday that the district is having difficulty retaining principals — but chided the city for not providing more money for its public schools.

Under Superintendent Chris Coffelt, Leon's public schools — known as the Central Decatur Community School District — set out in 2012 with a multi-faceted plan to recruit and retain teachers and improve student achievement under some especially challenging circumstances.

In part, it was a strategy to retain students as the district's gentrifying community increasingly chose private schools and the neighboring Denver public schools over the overwhelmingly poor and diverse Adams 50.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

The fact that Ferguson - Florissant has managed to retain its state accreditation while St. Louis was rated unaccredited until the 2011 - 2012 school year says less about the district's performance than about the slipshod approach Missouri has taken to overseeing its public education system.

Although the Boston Public Schools district does a relatively good job of recruiting teachers of color, they are not necessarily experts at retaining them, as attrition rates are rather high.