Sentences with phrase «ranked public school district»

My old house was located in a town with a highly - ranked public school district and the majority of the taxes paid by homeowners were fed into the schools.

Pre-Katrina, New Orleans had the next - to - lowest ranked public school district, in the next - to - lowest ranked state.

Not exact matches

Democratic District Leader Daniel Dromm racked up one more endorsement this week as state Assemblyman Jose Peralta (D - Jackson Heights) broke ranks with the Queens Democratic Party and endorsed the community activist and public school teacher in the race for City Councilwoman Helen Sears» (D - Jackson Heights) seat.

The Buffalo Public Schools district potentially faces two lawsuits: for not increasing the ranks of minority students at City Honors and for favoring current city students for admission over charter and parochial students.

Analysis of the new survey data show that when the public is armed with information about the local district's national ranking, the share assigning an «A» or «B» grade to the local schools falls by 11 percentage points.

Recruiting from the ranks of district paraprofessionals and non-certified teachers provides public schools with a pool of potential teachers who already live and work in the district.

If CCSS were to enhance public knowledge of the performance of local schools as compared to schools elsewhere in the state and nation, the impact on the school reform debate could be substantial, especially (but not exclusively) in those districts that are ranked below average nationally.

But we find little evidence of a public backlash against Common Core and test - based accountability, at least on the basis of new information about local school district rankings.

Information about local district rankings increases public support for school choice programs, including charter schools, parent trigger mechanisms, and, especially, school vouchers for all students.

Overall, public support for school choice increases when the public is informed of the local district's ranking in the state or nation.

In 1995, according to Dayton Public School Superintendent, James Williams, Allen Elementary ranked first in the district on standardized test scores; student absenteeism was the lowest in the district; 87 percent of the students regularly submitted homework; and only 8 students were suspended for bad behavior.

In the 2004 05 school year, Orleans Parish public schools ranked 67th out of 68 Louisiana districts in math and reading test scores.

Pre-Katrina, the New Orleans public school system was highly dysfunctional, and student test scores made it the second - lowest - ranked district in the second - lowest - ranked state in the country.

What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the traditional teacher.

She is now a freshman at Columbus High School in the public Muscogee County School District; it is one of the state's top - ranked magnet programs.

The «Funding Disparity Rank» (FDR) interacts with student poverty (measured by Free - Reduced Lunch (FRL)-RRB- rates to have a significant negative effect on school districts» Department of Public Instruction (DPI) issued report card scores, particularly in districts with higher rates of FRL.

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The schools — 16 in the Detroit Public Schools Community District and eight from the Education Achievement Authority, a soon - to - be-dissolved state - run recovery district for struggling schools — had been identified for closure earlier this year by the Michigan School Reform Office because they've ranked in the bottom 5 percent academically for three straightschools — 16 in the Detroit Public Schools Community District and eight from the Education Achievement Authority, a soon - to - be-dissolved state - run recovery district for struggling schools — had been identified for closure earlier this year by the Michigan School Reform Office because they've ranked in the bottom 5 percent academically for three straightSchools Community District and eight from the Education Achievement Authority, a soon - to - be-dissolved state - run recovery district for struggling schools — had been identified for closure earlier this year by the Michigan School Reform Office because they've ranked in the bottom 5 percent academically for three straighDistrict and eight from the Education Achievement Authority, a soon - to - be-dissolved state - run recovery district for struggling schools — had been identified for closure earlier this year by the Michigan School Reform Office because they've ranked in the bottom 5 percent academically for three straighdistrict for struggling schools — had been identified for closure earlier this year by the Michigan School Reform Office because they've ranked in the bottom 5 percent academically for three straightschools — had been identified for closure earlier this year by the Michigan School Reform Office because they've ranked in the bottom 5 percent academically for three straight years.

Detroit Public Schools overall rank last out of large urban school districts nationwide for the performance of African - American students in eight - grade math.

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Students are eligible for the program if the student's resident district is not a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating and the student satisfies one of the following conditions: the student attends a local public school that has received a grade D or F by the state's performance index score, the student is assigned to a community school but would otherwise be assigned to a qualifying school, the student attends a local public school that was ranked in the lowest 10 percent of public schools in two of the three most recent rankings and the public school was not declared to be excellent or effective in the most recent rating system, or the student is enrolling in grades K — 12 for the first time and would be assigned to a qualifying school as long as they are at least 5 years old by Jan. 1 of the school year.

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In 2016 North Carolina's spending on students continues to rank toward the bottom in the nation and as resegregation reemerges in our public schools, it is clear that there are districts and buildings that are better resourced to offer high quality education than others.

And the Aspire Public Schools ranked first in California among large districts with two - thirds or more low - income students, based on 2010 - 11 standardized test results, with 100 percent of graduating seniors accepted to four - year colleges or universities.

IMPACT, which school officials say was developed in close consultation with rank - and - file District teachers, is the purest expression yet of the data - driven culture that Rhee and her generation of education leaders are trying to establish in public schools.

This could take many forms, but is usually where a state or district agency uses an algorithm to assign parents to schools (whether charter, magnet, or their traditional neighborhood public school) based on their preference rankings.

Yet it is worth noting that the public - school systems in Montgomery County and the neighboring District of Columbia both spent about $ 15,000 per student in the 2007 - 2008 school year — and while Montgomery County has obviously gotten a respectable return on its investment, D.C. has performed dismally, ranking dead last in the nation on 2007 and 2009 NAEP math and reading scores for fourth graders.

For its 2015 rankings, U.S. News reviewed 29,070 public high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Within their respective districts (Cabarrus county and Iredell - Statesville), among other public elementary and middle schools Langtree ranked No. 4 in reading and No. 7 in math, while Cabarrus ranked No. 6 in reading and math and No. 5 in science.

In a comparison of proficiency rates of African - American students in public school districts in Illinois, Noble ranked in the top 30 percent in reading, math and science.

In a comparison of proficiency rates of low - income students in public school districts in Illinois, Noble ranked in the top 30 percent in reading and math.

He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.

With a mindset of «preparing today's learners to become tomorrow's leaders,» St Lucie Public Schools (SLPS) is proud of their B rating as the 2nd highest - ranked school district on the Treasure Coast.

Others say they look for homes outside of Cambridge in places like Brookline or Belmont to put their children in those public school districts, which rank higher than the Massachusetts state average on metrics such as college readiness, math proficiency, and English proficiency.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has called the progress of D.C. Public Schools «remarkable» while the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has ranked the District's charter sector as the best in the country.»

For the four school years from 2009 to 2013, even as poverty rates increased in the city, Cincinnati remained the state's highest - ranked urban school district (Cincinnati Public Schools, 2014).

As of 2014, DSST operated five of the top six public schools in Denver, according to the district's school performance rankings (Colorado Department of Education, 2014).

With a mindset of «preparing today's learners to become tomorrow's leaders,» St Lucie Public Schools (SLPS) is proud of their B rating as the 2nd highest - ranked school district on the

The so - called «Mangan Report,» presented to Illinois Vision 20/20, stated that «Illinois ranks second to last in the nation for state share of public school budget revenue; as a result, significant discrepancies across the state's nearly 900 school districts exist in terms of teacher quality, building infrastructure, and educational materials, such as technology.»

They also argued the rankings set a low bar for academic quality by comparing charter schools with local public districts, many of which are struggling urban schools, rather than with top - performing schools elsewhere.

Clearly a success story, the district was in «restructuring status» in 2009, and now, a few years later, the district is in good standing for academic progress, with Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools ranking in the top 27 percent of Tennessee districts.

We know that austerity, incessant testing regimes to rate and rank schools and state takeovers of schools and districts are intentional strategies to undermine public support for public schools, to facilitate the transfer of tax dollars to privatized schools, and to disenfranchise parents, educators and communities.

Nationally, Stifel ranks as the top bond underwriter for K - 12 public school districts.

Public school experts say that while the school ranking sites offer helpful data, parents seeking good school districts need to do more research than just rely on the sites alone.

Realtor.com recently completed a national study of homes within the boundaries of higher - rated public school districts versus homes in lower - ranked districts.

of homes within the boundaries of higher - rated public school districts versus homes in lower - ranked districts.