Sentences with phrase «quality at district schools»

The district needed a way to quickly improve quality at district schools and reduce costs to better compete with the growing charter sector, she said.

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Unions at Kaiser Permanente, Harley Davidson (HOG), Southwest Airlines (LUV), ABC School District in Los Angeles and others are building and sustaining partnerships with employers to improve performance, quality and working conditions.

Already science students at nearby Deerfield High School are keeping tabs on water quality by testing it monthly, and the Highland Park Park District is working on an educational program for the slough.

Design, Setting, and Participants This descriptive, longitudinal study examined changes in the nutritional quality of 1741630 school meals at 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in an urban school district in Washington state.

This descriptive, longitudinal study examined changes in the nutritional quality of 1741630 school meals at 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in an urban school district in Washington state.

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.

«In our seven years at D.C. Public Schools, we have significantly increased the quality of food service while saving the District millions of dollars,» he said.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

The Alliance for Quality Education is firing back at Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who this morning accused school districts of playing politics when they say his proposed funding cuts would force teachers to lose their jobs, hurting kids in the process.

The Alliance for Quality Education looked at the school aid in the state budget allotted to 161 of the poorest schools among the over 700 districts in New York.

Alex Trikalinos, executive director of the state's Office of Educator Quality & Professional Development, said at the meeting that, under the repeal bill, school districts could find themselves in a situation where «students would essentially be double tested.»

The issue of equitable aid was at the heart of the $ 1.11 billion lawsuit brought by the Alliance for Quality Education on behalf of 26 students in eight small city school districts, including Kingston, in 2008.

At a time when school districts nationwide are experiencing teacher shortages, districts that historically have difficulty attracting and retaining quality teachers are really scrambling for staff.

A school's resources — everything from teacher salaries to curriculum to non-academic support programs — affect the quality of education it's able to deliver, but schools have no power to tax residents, and things like teacher salaries and teacher placement policies are determined at the district level.

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.»

School districts also have difficulty hiring quality principals, especially at the high school School districts also have difficulty hiring quality principals, especially at the high school school level.

«At such a critical time, when so many districts face a shortfall in certified teachers, this free service may have a tremendous impact on the way school districts find quality teachers,» Riley wrote in a statement released Sunday.

When the National Council on Teacher Quality looked at turnover within Miami - Dade County Public Schools, they found significant disparities even within the same district.

To achieve a similar breakthrough at the high school level, states must require districts to grant credit to any appropriate, quality course taken online, regardless of the provider.

This may reflect the fact that it is challenging in high - poverty schools to separate the effects of school circumstances from the quality of the principal, leading district administrators to give principals from high - poverty schools a chance at a different school.

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.

The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) highlighted AVID at a June 21st briefing on Capitol Hill with a presentation by Rob Gira ~ Executive Vice President ~ Quality ~ Research and Communication ~ from AVID National Center and several panelists representing AVID districts and schools in Fairfax County Public Schools (VA) ~ Fairfax City Public Schools (VA) and Pinellas Countschools in Fairfax County Public Schools (VA) ~ Fairfax City Public Schools (VA) and Pinellas CountSchools (VA) ~ Fairfax City Public Schools (VA) and Pinellas CountSchools (VA) and Pinellas County (FL).

23 - 27 — Professional development: «Total Quality Transformation: Train - the - Trainer,» conference, sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for staff members and others involved in leading total quality efforts at the school, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, Quality Transformation: Train - the - Trainer,» conference, sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for staff members and others involved in leading total quality efforts at the school, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, CSchool Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for staff members and others involved in leading total quality efforts at the school, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, CSchool Executives, for staff members and others involved in leading total quality efforts at the school, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, quality efforts at the school, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, Cschool, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, Calif..

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires states to report data on chronic absenteeism, but there is still much work to be done at the school and district level to ensure the quality and consistency of such data.

Evaluating ELLs for Special Needs a Challenge Education Week, August 29, 2012 «Faced with a class action five years ago over the poor quality of its special education services, the San Diego school district hired Thomas Hehir, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were faring.&school district hired Thomas Hehir, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were faring.&School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were faring.»

Based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, SDP partners with school districts, charter networks, state agencies, and nonprofits to bring high - quality research methods and data analysis to bear on strategic management and policy deciSchool of Education, SDP partners with school districts, charter networks, state agencies, and nonprofits to bring high - quality research methods and data analysis to bear on strategic management and policy decischool districts, charter networks, state agencies, and nonprofits to bring high - quality research methods and data analysis to bear on strategic management and policy decisions.

The Strategic Data Project (SDP), housed at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, partners with school districts, school networks, and state agencies to bring high - quality research methods and data analysis to bear on strategic management and policy decisions.

Part of the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University, SDP partners with school districts, charter school networks, state education agencies, and nonprofit organizations to bring high - quality research methods and data analysis to bear on strategic management and policy decisions.

Called Book Banter, administrators at Central Elementary School in Wilmette Public Schools District 39 started the program four years ago and have seen improvement in the amount and quality of teacher - parent dialogue, staff members at the K - 4 school told an audience at the 2007 Association for School Curriculum Development (ASCD) confeSchool in Wilmette Public Schools District 39 started the program four years ago and have seen improvement in the amount and quality of teacher - parent dialogue, staff members at the K - 4 school told an audience at the 2007 Association for School Curriculum Development (ASCD) confeschool told an audience at the 2007 Association for School Curriculum Development (ASCD) confeSchool Curriculum Development (ASCD) conference.

Ms. Boast leads Public Impact's work evaluating educational quality metrics at the school, district and state levels and developing accountability systems to monitor school performance.

Last week, BBA and the Learning Policy Institute got a first - hand look at a district embedding quality early childhood education in its comprehensive school improvement plan.

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An increased share of disadvantaged students could affect overall district test scores, but with a gradual demographic shift, changes might be small or imperceptible from year to year and don't necessarily indicate changes in school quality, said Michael Hansen, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.

Academic Gains, Double the # of Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?

Technology Lending Grants, aimed at ensuring equitable access to quality digital resources and courses for all students, have been awarded to 148 school districts and charters schools.

«Temporary staffing services for substitute teachers,» Max Longhurst an education specialist at the Substitute Teaching Institute at Utah State University noted, «may not be necessary in all areas, particularly in smaller school districts, but they do provide another option for larger systems struggling to provide quality education in the absence of the regular classroom teacher.»

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White House Council on Environmental Quality Acting Chair Mike Boots and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Mark Schaefer joined U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today to congratulate the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools and District Sustainability Awardees on their achievements at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

In an effort to raise standards around the quality and healthfulness of meals served at Park City schools, even beyond baseline USDA requirements, the Park City School District Child Nutrition Task Force has identified 15 additives / ingredients to remove from the menu (district - wide) over the next threDistrict Child Nutrition Task Force has identified 15 additives / ingredients to remove from the menu (district - wide) over the next thredistrict - wide) over the next three years.

What we haven't yet looked at, though, are the resources education leaders need in order to turn these concepts into reality and the top action steps that will support high - quality reading practice in their schools and districts.

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

Adamowski and his lackeys at the National Council on Teacher Quality (he's on the board, which he did not disclose when he hired them to assess Hartford schools) stated that it would be better if districts just cut the number of paid sick days teachers have.

Luis Mirón, director of the Loyola Institute for Quality and Equity in Education at Loyola University, said the success of what he called the «charter surge» has been based on temporary measures — a recovery school district that will eventually return schools to the Orleans Parish School Board and millions in federal recovery dollars, heschool district that will eventually return schools to the Orleans Parish School Board and millions in federal recovery dollars, heSchool Board and millions in federal recovery dollars, he said.

Wechsler joined other researchers and educators in two panel discussions, including representatives from the Bay Area Quality Early Learning Partnership, the Early Learning Lab, Educare California at Silicon Valley, First 5 California, First 5 Santa Clara, the Fresno Unified School District, Los Angeles Universal Preschool, New America, the Opportunity Institute, and the San Francisco Unified School District.

At Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada, SchoolSpring — the nation's largest K - 12 education - specific job board — helps leaders more effectively attract and hire quality teachers.

Charter School Finalists Now at Six Brooke plans to open a new school in Chelsea, a district much in need of high quality educational opSchool Finalists Now at Six Brooke plans to open a new school in Chelsea, a district much in need of high quality educational opschool in Chelsea, a district much in need of high quality educational options.

At Franklin County Schools, pairing Records & Contracts — the automated recordkeeping and process management solution from TalentEd — with an integrated applicant tracking system allows the district to rapidly place quality educators in front of students.

At the school and district levels, the School Quality Measures (SQM) project aims to better model the diverse perspectives and experiences of a range of school stakeholders when assessing school quschool and district levels, the School Quality Measures (SQM) project aims to better model the diverse perspectives and experiences of a range of school stakeholders when assessing school quSchool Quality Measures (SQM) project aims to better model the diverse perspectives and experiences of a range of school stakeholders when assessing school qQuality Measures (SQM) project aims to better model the diverse perspectives and experiences of a range of school stakeholders when assessing school quschool stakeholders when assessing school quschool qualityquality.

Research suggests that leadership is second only to teacher quality among school influences on student learning, but more needs to be known about whether efforts to improve leadership pay off for student achievement and whether these efforts can achieve results at the scale of an entire district.

However, the quality and utility of current school - level expenditure data are uncertain, and many school districts do not have experience in systematically tracking expenditures at the school level.