Sentences with phrase «recent public school improvements»

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In response to written questions, a Chicago Public Schools spokesman said that recent food service improvements include the elimination of trans fats and deep - fat fryers; a universal breakfast program aimed at reaching more students; a sliced - fruit pilot program in 31 schools featuring produce from farms within 150 miles of Chicago; and an initiative to serve local, frozen vegeSchools spokesman said that recent food service improvements include the elimination of trans fats and deep - fat fryers; a universal breakfast program aimed at reaching more students; a sliced - fruit pilot program in 31 schools featuring produce from farms within 150 miles of Chicago; and an initiative to serve local, frozen vegeschools featuring produce from farms within 150 miles of Chicago; and an initiative to serve local, frozen vegetables.

And yet, «results,» or rather, academic improvement, act more like a fig leaf, especially in light of numerous recent studies that show charter schools, taken on the whole, actually do a worse job of educating students than regular public schools.

In a recent opinion piece for Education Week, Arthur Wise of the Center for Teaching Quality writes that current mainstream ideas on how to improve American public schools will result in «at best, a marginal improvement for small numbers of students.»

Two California charter school leaders — Yvonne Chan, principal of the Vaughn Next Century Learning Center, one of the most successful urban public schools in the U.S., and Larry Rosenstock, CEO and founding principal of High Tech High — participated in a recent summit focusing on innovative solutions to address school improvement nationwide.

The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) offers advice to its members: «The recognized need for public schools to support students in areas beyond academics is not new, but recent developments in social - emotional learning (SEL) go beyond what has come before — and are starting to show improvements in both student behavior and academic outcomes.»

Here in New York City, while we've seen some improvement in recent years, our public schools struggle with low graduation rates — about 65 percent by the latest measure.

In this issue, we highlight how to identify the need and create a vision for your facilities planning efforts, recent groundbreaking ceremonies for school improvement projects, and an upcoming CEFPI tour of the Vantage Program at Minnetonka Public Schools.

A majority of Uptown public schools continued the improvement that has characterized New Orleans schools in recent years, with Lusher and Audubon charter schools both earning «A» grades and New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School improving its score by more than 30 percent.

The Broad (rhymes with «road») Prize for Public Charter Schools is an annual award to honor the public charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for low - income students and students of Public Charter Schools is an annual award to honor the public charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for low - income students and students of public charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for low - income students and students of color.

The Broad (rhymes with «road») Prize for Public Charter Schools is a new annual award to honor the urban public charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority stuPublic Charter Schools is a new annual award to honor the urban public charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority stupublic charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority students.

Charters are accountable to the public for producing strong student results: 15 out of 16 recent studies show charter school students are outperforming their traditional school peers and showing the strongest improvement levels for underserved student populations.

The Broad (rhymes with «road») Prize for Public Charter Schools is an annual award to honor the urban public charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority stuPublic Charter Schools is an annual award to honor the urban public charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority stupublic charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority students.

A recent study by a team of highly acclaimed researchers used a «gold standard» experimental design and found that students who attended non-unionized charter schools in Boston rather than traditional public schools made dramatic academic improvements.