Sentences with phrase «requires priority schools»

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On top of having one of the best cohorts of teachers in the world (even primary school teachers are required to hold master's degrees), Finland has made hands - on subjects a priority.

It will require that we turn more of our attention homeward, away from raging national controversies and toward the everyday lives of our living moral communities — toward family, school, and congregation; toward civic priorities and local commitments; toward neighbors in need and friends in crisis.

Repeating the governor's claim that state cuts to education do not require layoffs, Mulgrew said it was clear that Mayor Bloomberg's priority «is not to get money for the schools; he would rather fight over who to lay off than fight on behalf of children.»

Lord Hill also assured peers that the academy funding agreements will require academies to comply with the school admissions code and law, as with all maintained schools, noting that «the code and related legislation outlaw additional selection and require the highest priority to be given to looked - after children.»

Principals are key change agents for their schools; driving change requires the management and leadership skills to help diverse stakeholders establish priorities and improve practice.

NCLB requires that priority in providing school choice be given to the lowest achieving children from low - income families.

• Supporting the teaching of computer coding across different year levels in schools; • Reforming the Australian Curriculum to give teachers more class time to teach science, maths and English; and, • Requiring that new primary school teachers graduate with a subject specialisation, with priority for STEM.

Although provisions in the currentlaw require states to develop equitableteacher - distribution plans, Wilkins says, theyhaven't been given high enough priority andthere aren't sufficient penalties for school districtsand states that don't take the requirementsseriously.

States would've been required to identify «schools in need of support» and «high - priority schools,» and the interventions for both would've been prescribed.

Arne Duncan has also espoused the wisdom of looking at progress over time, yet his ESEA waiver rules require state accountability systems to take proficiency rates into account — those are expected to be the drivers in identifying «focus» and «priority» schools.

«It's a lot of work and requires energy and a range of skills, but it's so important,» she says, noting that the consistent follow up is especially critical in school settings where there is always another priority and student plans sometimes become stagnant.

The solution «Having reviewed a range of solutions, we settled upon BlueSky Education's online performance management and CPD software because it provided the tools required to implement, manage and track a clear, consistent and robust appraisal policy, linked to school improvement priorities.

For example, some states prohibited districts from spending Title I on school climate supports, counselors, science, or other costs other than reading and math, even though that wasn't required by federal law and didn't reflect state policy priorities.

The combination of applicant priorities, preferences parents expressed for schools, and available spaces resulted in a complex structure with 150 different lotteries, which required a complex analytic approach to measure voucher effects that is described in study reports.

Inclusion requires a fundamental restructuring of our schools, placing priority on the creation of inclusive, collaborative learning communities in which high achievement for all is considered possible and desirable.

Lawmakers could explore rules that exempt e-schools from policies requiring all charters, virtual ones included, to accept every student who applies and instead allow e-schools to operate more like magnet schools with admissions procedures and priorities.

Although only those students from priority districts (Hartford and Bloomfield) are required to attend summer school if they are below the goal in reading, school staff are encouraging all students who did not meet goal to come, Kloczko says.

The rules also require all schools with that label to offer students a priority transfer and free bus ride to another school.

This requires «accountability» that truly prioritizes parent choice rather than a bait «n switch to reimpose mass political priorities, as current school voucher programs do.

Using Borland's conditions as well as other recommendations noted above, schools should make it a priority to engage in action that will increase the likelihood that gifted students will receive the educational program they need and require.

Districts strategically develop common school - level improvement plans, aligning the personnel and fiscal support they provide to schools to match the priorities in these plans — e.g., plans that prioritize a robust teacher evaluation system require district - level support for the implementation of an evaluation and professional growth framework.

The state's goal has been to come up with a system that will require schools and districts to measure how they are doing on eight «priority areas «ranging from test scores to less definable measures such as school climate.

The state's nearly 1,000 school districts are embarking on a slew of new reforms — including the Common Core standards, the New Generation Science Standards, Smarter Balanced assessments and focusing on several new «priority areas» specified in the state's new school financing law — that will require a highly trained and enthusiastic workforce to ensure their success.

In instances of the conversion of an existing public school to a public charter school, a description of the enrollment priority process for current students of the school to be converted and their siblings if the local school board requires it.

In instances of the conversion of an existing public school to a public charter school, the local school board may require that current students of the school to be converted and their siblings be given enrollment priority over the lottery process.

Leading a school in an increasingly challenged economic area has required a shift in priorities for school staff.

2013 Session Chalkboard's top priorities for the session were the School District Collaboration Fund; Oregon Beginning Teacher and Administrator Mentoring Program; New Models of Teacher Preparation; implementation of new performance evaluation systems required by legislation passed in 2011 (SB 290); and the Professional Development Clearinghouse.

The new education funding law requires that school districts involve parents in setting education goals and spending priorities through a Local Control and Accountability Plan.

These measures should align with states» long - term goals and signal their priorities, which require the time and attention of districts and schools.

Most essential, a federal stipulation should require that those urban students in the greatest need (those with lower achievement scores and those attending the most troubled and most crowded schools) receive priority.

I would love to know how their current Charter Schools are doing on the very criteria being proposed by the Governor (for new charter schools, anyway): * Require... charters to submit a recruitment and retention plan detailing plans to recruit, enroll, and retain priority student populations * Enable charter schools to propose modifications to their lottery procedures to give preference to priority student populations * Hold charter schools accountable for the success of their documented recruitment and retention practices for priority student populations when the State Board of Education considers schools for charter Schools are doing on the very criteria being proposed by the Governor (for new charter schools, anyway): * Require... charters to submit a recruitment and retention plan detailing plans to recruit, enroll, and retain priority student populations * Enable charter schools to propose modifications to their lottery procedures to give preference to priority student populations * Hold charter schools accountable for the success of their documented recruitment and retention practices for priority student populations when the State Board of Education considers schools for charter schools, anyway): * Require... charters to submit a recruitment and retention plan detailing plans to recruit, enroll, and retain priority student populations * Enable charter schools to propose modifications to their lottery procedures to give preference to priority student populations * Hold charter schools accountable for the success of their documented recruitment and retention practices for priority student populations when the State Board of Education considers schools for charter schools to propose modifications to their lottery procedures to give preference to priority student populations * Hold charter schools accountable for the success of their documented recruitment and retention practices for priority student populations when the State Board of Education considers schools for charter schools accountable for the success of their documented recruitment and retention practices for priority student populations when the State Board of Education considers schools for charter schools for charter renewal

The proposals, which would require approval by state legislators, include increasing the per - pupil grant for charter schools to a comparable statewide average rate, lifting caps on charter school enrollments, allowing priority school districts to form independently governed local charter schools, and revising state laws that limit funding for charter schools.

If the Board received more than 12 applications in a single year from qualified applicants, then the proposed law would require it to give priority to proposed charter schools or enrollment expansions in districts where student performance on statewide assessments is in the bottom 25 % of all districts in the previous two years and where demonstrated parent demand for additional public school options is greatest.

Improving access to and quality of arts learning first requires conducting audits of what exists by school, neighborhood or region and then making equitable access to arts learning a priority to help counteract the emphasis on tests scores.

Without the benefit of any public hearing, S.B. 2 would overturn decades of giving priority to funding of neighborhood public schools by adopting the «money follows the child» concept which shifts taxpayer money away from traditional public schools to charter schools without requiring these charter schools to meet the same accountability standards as other public schools.

And the state's new funding formula requires school districts to compile data in accountability plans to show whether they are meeting goals in eight priority areas, including available courses and suspensions and expulsions.

In contrast, the approach under waivers, dubbed turnaround, was much more focused — applying only to the 5 percent of schools identified as «priority» schools and based on key principles outlined by the Department (see sidebar Turnaround Principles).62 Fewer schools were part of the effort, but in turn, the effort was much more intensive and required significant changes in school operations, culture, leadership, and practice.63 The hope was that a more disruptive and ambitious strategy will yield dramatic results: after three years, these schools would no longer be in the bottom 5 percent, and another group of schools could be identified to undergo turnaround.

In listing nearly two dozen metrics to measure progress in the eight priority areas, the LCAP template requires districts to take surveys of parents, students and teachers for their views of school safety and «school connectedness.»

ZERO TO THREE priorities include maintaining local ability to use ESEA funds to support early childhood services; requiring data collection on how local educational agencies are using Title I funds for early childhood; promoting joint professional development for early childhood and early elementary school educators; ensuring literacy provisions include infants and toddlers; and requiring coordination between the K - 12 system and early childhood programs.