Sentences with phrase «rate local public schools»

Solid majorities back more funding for public schools and teacher pay, and overwhelming majorities rate local public schools and their teachers highly.

Another asks them to rate the local public schools on a scale from 1 to 10.

Not exact matches

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

Interpretation: Although the scale on which parents are asked to grade schools are different in the two surveys, results are broadly similar in that local schools get a substantially higher rating than the nation's schools and private schools get a substantially higher rating than public schools.

Whatever the interpretation, the far higher ratings the public assigned to its local schools is a legitimate puzzle.

Ratings of local public schools stand in stark contrast to assessments of post offices and police forces.

YES Prep Public Schools, winner of the 2012 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, has an enviable academic track record: They've eliminated achievement gaps, achieved a 100 percent graduation rate with all students accepted into 4 - year colleges — plus they partner with local traditional public scPublic Schools, winner of the 2012 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, has an enviable academic track record: They've eliminated achievement gaps, achieved a 100 percent graduation rate with all students accepted into 4 - year colleges — plus they partner with local traditional public sSchools, winner of the 2012 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, has an enviable academic track record: They've eliminated achievement gaps, achieved a 100 percent graduation rate with all students accepted into 4 - year colleges — plus they partner with local traditional public scPublic Charter Schools, has an enviable academic track record: They've eliminated achievement gaps, achieved a 100 percent graduation rate with all students accepted into 4 - year colleges — plus they partner with local traditional public sSchools, has an enviable academic track record: They've eliminated achievement gaps, achieved a 100 percent graduation rate with all students accepted into 4 - year colleges — plus they partner with local traditional public scpublic schoolsschools.

Political partisanship and ideology are key factors, as are ratings of the quality of local public schools.

Figure 1a: Relationship between the Average Grades Assigned to Local Public Schools and Proficiency Rates on State Tests

In fact, some of the local charter school networks with the highest discipline rates have long enjoyed reputations as «beat the odds» schools that supposedly serve students of color better than the Minneapolis Public Sschools that supposedly serve students of color better than the Minneapolis Public SchoolsSchools.

A few high - rated public schools run by the local board also participated for the first time but dropped out after the first round, returning to a selection process controlled by individual principals.

Eligibility for this program is determined in most cases by a child's family income (families below 250 % of federal poverty are eligible), the rating of their local public school (students from schools rated C or below are eligible), and grade level (kindergarten students are eligible without prior public school attendance).

The CSFB alumni survey found scholarship recipients enrolled in college at a higher rate than either the Baltimore City Public School (BCPS) ninth graders or the BCPS high school graduates who were tracked in two local stSchool (BCPS) ninth graders or the BCPS high school graduates who were tracked in two local stschool graduates who were tracked in two local studies.

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.

A 13 - year veteran teacher from an underperforming public school in Oakland, where The Teaching Well is attempting to reverse the local 70 % turnover rate highlights a standard teacher response to norms: ``... [Leadership is] just pushing too much at once... I can't get anything done because [they're] pushing for this thing to start and this thing to start and this thing to start.

that students attending private schools thanks to this program have equal or better academic performance than their peers in the local public schools, and have significantly higher graduation rates.

These seven charter public schools not only beat the average state high school graduation rate, but they also exceeded the average rates of their local districts or the counties where they are located.

Daniel A. Domenech, executive director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association stated, «The impact these changes would have on state and local governments to adequately and appropriately invest in and support critical infrastructure investments, including public schools, are unacceptable and put our nation on a path that undermines progress in student learning, graduation rates, college completion rates and career readiness.»

Des Moines is just one example of how public schools are working together with their local communities to improve graduation rates.

But what many of them are really doing is 1) self selecting students into their school via a lottery 2) lower % of ELL and SPED kids, who are more challenging and expensive to educate 3) kicking students out who can't cut it 4) claiming 100 % graduation rates or college admissions rates, unlike those terrible local traditional public schools

The State Department of Education's level of concern is about chronic and excessive absenteeism is so great, that just last month the State Board of Education announced their intention to «rank order» all Connecticut public schools based each school's level of student absenteeism and that poor absentee rates could lead to state takeover of local schools.

Consider the crime rate, public school ratings, your daily commute and local amenities when choosing a home.

For example, when the first wave of young, upscale urban pioneers settled in Chicago's long - neglected Wicker Park neighborhood, they wanted to send their kids to the local public schools, but the schools had substandard reading and math scores, dropout rates, and resources.

In Connecticut, cities and towns set rates and collect property taxes for the majority of local government services and public services, such as schools and infrastructure maintenance.

Michelle's team turned to the RPR School Report ---- an in - depth portrait of student populations, testing outcomes, parental reviews, ratings, and contact information about a local public or private sSchool Report ---- an in - depth portrait of student populations, testing outcomes, parental reviews, ratings, and contact information about a local public or private schoolschool.