Sentences with phrase «quality as the school district»

I'm not advocating that a bad school district should have a great gifted program, but that the gifted program should be at the same level of quality as the school district.

Not exact matches

As an employer, Catapult Learning seeks employment candidates whose skills, training, and experience will enhance the organization's ability to offer quality teaching solutions and excellent support services to the schools and districts it serves.

«While there has been a slight decline in participation, it does not reflect the measurable and positive gains we have made as a school district in making improvements to the nutritional quality of our school breakfast and lunch programs.»

«Our goal as a department and a district is to make sure the last kid has the same choices as the first in the variety and the quality,» says Craig Schneider, director of nutrition for the Poudre School Ddistrict is to make sure the last kid has the same choices as the first in the variety and the quality,» says Craig Schneider, director of nutrition for the Poudre School DistrictDistrict.

I don't envy the task of a trying to ensure quality control at 300 local schools, and I'll write more about the issue of on - site quality control as I learn more from my district.

Ruth Jonen, food services director for Palatine Township High School District 211 in Chicago's northwest suburbs, defended the quality and safety of foods served in schools, saying they «by and large use the same food distributors as the restaurant down the road.»

As part of its initial consolidation of pre-kindergarten programs, the Executive Budget would require schools districts to «agree to adopt approved quality indicators within two years.»

About Mount Vernon City School District: With more than 8,000 students in 16 schools, the Mount Vernon City School District is committed to providing a quality education to its children as well as developing programs that meet the diverse academic and social needs of its students.

With more than 8,000 students in 16 schools, the Mount Vernon City School District is committed to providing a quality education to its children as well as developing programs that meet the diverse academic and social needs of its students.

As superintendent of the LaFayette Central School District, she's focusing on school quality and School District, she's focusing on school quality and school quality and crime.

«White parents may be avoiding school districts where black and Latino children live because they use racial composition as a proxy for quality of a school and a neighborhood,» she said.

L.A. School Report observes, «The quality of those courses, in which most of the work is done online and over a shorter period of time, has been questioned by LA Unified watchers as well as those within the district, including the school board president.&School Report observes, «The quality of those courses, in which most of the work is done online and over a shorter period of time, has been questioned by LA Unified watchers as well as those within the district, including the school board president.&school board president.»

Inter-district magnet schools in Connecticut provide a current example outside the scope of traditional school districts as to the way charters might draw students across district boundary lines to create high - quality, integrated schooling options.

Some organizations direct their activities only to district and / or charter school issues, such as improving teacher quality and effectiveness, developing new public charter schools, or closing and transforming failing district schools to create new high - quality schools of choice.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

For youth in the high - risk group, the gain as measured by these quality indicators is roughly equivalent to moving from one of the lowest - ranked schools to one around the district average.

To continue as a Course Access provider in Florida as part of the School District Virtual Course Offerings statute, FLVS and its competitors will need to build flexible, high - level quality content, leveraging adaptive technologies, and expanding access to content.

The first decade of the 21st century has also had a dominant strategy: incentive - based reforms, such as increasing competition among charter and district schools, merit - pay plans to improve teacher quality, and school - level accountability based on testing.

With funding from major foundations and with state and district efforts to train teachers to become content curators, as opposed to content consumers, OER is helping to mobilize educators and librarians to bring quality, curated content to school and college classrooms in ways that students learn best.

Poor quality and a lack of incentives for improvement extend to the traditional district schools as well.

As noted above, this initial estimate of the variability in principal effectiveness may partly reflect differences in school characteristics that are not under the principal's control, such as the quality of the school building, or decisions made by district administrators as well as unmeasured parental influenceAs noted above, this initial estimate of the variability in principal effectiveness may partly reflect differences in school characteristics that are not under the principal's control, such as the quality of the school building, or decisions made by district administrators as well as unmeasured parental influenceas the quality of the school building, or decisions made by district administrators as well as unmeasured parental influenceas well as unmeasured parental influenceas unmeasured parental influences.

The linchpin of the state's work has been providing incentives for districts and schools statewide to adopt and implement a high - quality and coherent curriculum, particularly in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics, and to use that curriculum as the hook on which everything else hangs: assessment, professional development, and teacher training.

The Broad plan, recast as Great Public Schools Now, «re-launched» in June with a changed emphasis on adding high - quality school seats wherever they are found, charter or district, a clear shift that resulted from the aggressive pushback against the original plan.

But even with new district leadership in St. Louis, it is unlikely that students will see much change in the quality of instruction as the public school cartel gears up for its next political battle over who gets what, when, and how.

In his new study, Boosting the Quality and Efficiency of Special Education, he and his team identified school districts that get similar (or superior) results for special - education students as their peer districts, yet do so at significantly lower cost.

Indeed, the most important (and uncertain) premise of Reading First was that it could catalyze and support meaningful change in the SEAs — could help them build agile expert systems that gave high - quality support to schools and districts — and thereby improve reading achievement among the poor, not just in isolated schools and districts as in the past but across entire states.

These charters are accountable to the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board (PCSB) for the quality and results of their pre-K programs — just as they are for grades K — 12 — but they are not subject to the kind of extensive, input - based quality requirements found in other pre-K programs.

As school enrollments continue to rise and more teachers retire, school districts across the country are valiantly trying to hire and retain enough high - quality educators to meet their needs.

Working for the past 20 years to define the characteristics and fundamental elements of an evidence - based high - quality induction program that accelerates the development of both teachers and their students, New Teacher Center (NTC) established the Teacher Induction Program Standards (TIPS) in an effort to create an industry standard that can be adopted by school districts, educational institutions, state agencies, and policymakers as the benchmark for success.

Improving School Environments Through Green Cleaning As research mounts about the link between indoor air quality and health, and as more children enter school with respiratory problems, schools, districts, and even whole states are switching to more environmentally - friendly cleaning aSchool Environments Through Green Cleaning As research mounts about the link between indoor air quality and health, and as more children enter school with respiratory problems, schools, districts, and even whole states are switching to more environmentally - friendly cleaning agentAs research mounts about the link between indoor air quality and health, and as more children enter school with respiratory problems, schools, districts, and even whole states are switching to more environmentally - friendly cleaning agentas more children enter school with respiratory problems, schools, districts, and even whole states are switching to more environmentally - friendly cleaning aschool with respiratory problems, schools, districts, and even whole states are switching to more environmentally - friendly cleaning agents.

The district has ramped up early education, and parents can access quality reports as they try to navigate school choices.

Before his role in Kentucky, Dr. Holliday previously served as superintendent of the 20,000 - student Iredell - Statesville school district, where he earned the 2009 North Carolina Superintendent of the Year Award as well as the 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which was created by an act of Congress in 1987 to recognize organizations with long - term improvement in quality and producQuality Award, which was created by an act of Congress in 1987 to recognize organizations with long - term improvement in quality and producquality and productivity.

These principles guide districts and schools as they design their own measurement and feedback systems to improve the quality of instruction, which will ultimately lead to enhanced student success.

The NCRPP research use survey focuses on the core of «research use» in three related, but separate, constructs: the ways that school and district leaders 1) apply research in their decision - making processes; 2) value research as an important component for decision - making; and 3) evaluate research quality.

Rather, the American Federation of Teachers, or AFT, recognized these districts as having a lengthy track record of innovation, and because they appear to have institutionalized a long - term collaborative partner - ship between administration and the local teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher quality.

As a mission - driven nonprofit organization, BIE creates, gathers, and shares high - quality PBL instructional practices and products and provides highly effective services to teachers, schools, and districts.

for a school designated as improvement / focused, the school shall be required to participate in an on - site review that shall be conducted by a school quality review team, with district representation, appointed by the commissioner.

Accreditation also measures different aspects of a district or school, in addition to student performance, such as parent communication and participation, improvement plans, leadership effectiveness, curriculum and instruction quality, student mentoring, use of technology, and professional development.

With a focus on equity, innovation, and quality, Dr. William R. Hite, Jr. serves as Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia, the largest public school system in the Commonwealth of PennsylSchool District of Philadelphia, the largest public school system in the Commonwealth of Pennsylschool system in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The parents union, along with the parent empowerment efforts of StudentsFirst's New York affiliate (which is helping families in the Big Apple's traditional district fight for school libraries as well as lobby for teacher quality and other reforms), is actively helping families do more than just have a voice.

One can even say that it is underlying disdain for the very kids in his district that is a critical reason why he is such an abject failure as a school leader: If you don't care for kids, you can not do the hard work of transforming the quality of instruction, curricula and leadership that is needed to give kids cultures of genius in which to succeed.

EW: As schools struggle to recruit and retain effective teachers — particularly schools in low - income areas — what would an Obama administration do to help districts hire and retain high - quality teachers?

States will not succeed if they don't get serious about improving their talent pipelines, and get more strategic about how to treat school districts as the front lines on quality assurance and how to treat schools as problem - solving organizations.

«Not only are we taking the programs, we want to take the students too,» White says, adding «We want to compete for those kids because no other school district in the state of Indiana provides as many quality educational options as IPS.»

It, however, should not be the district's job to mandate the services or structures schools take so long as the schools provide students with a quality education.

NCTR partners with school districts, charter management organizations, institutions of higher education, not - for - profits, and states to develop and support teacher residency programs as quality pipelines of effective and diverse new teachers.

This is due in large part to Association programs such as the High Quality Charter (HQC) Grant Program, introduced in 2006, which has provided $ 8 million in planning and start - up grants to support the development of new charter schools in high - need urban school districts throughout California.

This additional funding could help school districts provide a high quality education to all learners so long as the funding is carefully monitored.

DMHS was recognized as a National Magnet School of Excellence, US News & World Report top five LAUSD high school, and the third ranked high school in the district according to the School Quality and Improvement School of Excellence, US News & World Report top five LAUSD high school, and the third ranked high school in the district according to the School Quality and Improvement school, and the third ranked high school in the district according to the School Quality and Improvement school in the district according to the School Quality and Improvement School Quality and Improvement Index.

Data collection by School Nurses may be used by their districts for accountability measures, such as the chronic absenteeism rates required in the Every Student Succeeds Act and Ohio's school quality indiSchool Nurses may be used by their districts for accountability measures, such as the chronic absenteeism rates required in the Every Student Succeeds Act and Ohio's school quality indischool quality indicator.