Sentences with phrase «results than district»

Charter schools had benefited over the years from a wealth of research that showed they were achieving better results than district schools and from news coverage that highlighted MCAS success.

Eligible organizations would have to operate existing charter schools with better test results than district schools.

It's worth noting, too, that charters don't necessarily achieve better results than their district counterparts.

Not exact matches

As a result, the interior of the institute looks less like a lab than like an ordinary Flatiron - district office: casually dressed people sitting all day at desks, staring at screens, under high ceilings.

A survey of New York City employers after implementation of the city's paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result of the law.26 In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.28

The committee, which has been meeting for more than a year, recently tabulated the results of a survey of residents conducted by the Mokena Park District regarding the future of Yunker Park.

Without financial participation from the Park District, village officials said they will spend more to develop the site rather than delay a project that is the result of 10 years of planning.

Kentucky districts participating in the national school meal programs served more than 128 million breakfasts and lunches during the 2013 - 14 school year, resulting in more than $ 265 million in federal reimbursements.

Alabama districts participating in national school meal programs served more than 129 million breakfasts and lunches during the 2013 - 14 school year, resulting in more than $ 272 million in federal reimbursements through the national school breakfast and lunch programs.

«The only reason I can think to do this is [is that] when real numbers come out in June and show less - than - positive results, it will be Bill de Blasio's administration's fault and not on Bloomberg's twelve - year legacy running the schools,» charged Miriam Aristy - Farer, President of District 6's Community Education Council (CEC).

More of his colleagues joined the movement after Trump fired back at the congressman on Twitter, saying he should spend more time fixing his «crime - infested district» than «falsely complaining» about the election results.

Masterpole led Republican Steve Kimatian 57 percent to 43 percent, holding onto more than a 2,012 vote lead in unofficial results, with 99 percent of the election districts reporting.

In close races, such as in the 14th City Council district, the official Board of Elections count could possibly result in a different winner than in the original poll count.

Republicans hold all of the state senate seats in Nassau and Suffolk counties, as pointed out by Daily Kos Elections, which can be a sign that the district is more competitive than the federal election results suggest.

With 99.6 percent of precincts reporting, Singas, the acting district attorney, led Murray, the longtime Hempstead Town supervisor, by 16 percentage points — or more than 30,000 votes, according to results from Nassau County Board of Elections.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said the results aren't an indication of things to come — even though the 18th Congressional District seat had been a safe one for Republicans for more than a decade and Trump carried the district by 20 percentage points District seat had been a safe one for Republicans for more than a decade and Trump carried the district by 20 percentage points district by 20 percentage points in 2016.

Some people argue that this might actually be a bigger problem than the intentional gerrymandering - one example is white flight, which in effect resulted in de-facto gerrymandering between downtowns and suburbs, even without redrawing districts.

According to the Citizens Budget Commission, most of the $ 1.4 million education increase in this year's budget is allocated outside Foundation Aid formulas; and as a result, affluent districts benefit proportionately more than the neediest districts.

As a result of the divided vote, the Democrat in the race won the conservative district for the first time in more than a century.

But ultimately she was both too new to the area and too liberal for much of the district — even though a portion of it featured some of Teachout's best results during her 2014 gubernatorial bid — and attack ads may have had a larger effect on her than on a longtime resident and political figure in Faso.

The incumbent Southampton Democrat was leading the St. James businessman by fewer than 3,500 votes in New York's 1st District race, according to unofficial results from the Suffolk County Board of Elections, but they did not include a reported 9,500 absentee ballots.

Out of 20 cases against correction officers opened by the Bronx district attorney's office in the last five years, only four resulted in prison sentences, three of them for less than two years.

Assembly District, pulling in nearly 500 more votes than her opponent out of nearly 4,000, according to unofficial Board of Elections results.

The results showed V.I.D. winning by more than 1,300 votes out of 11,000 cast, an extraordinary number of votes in a district leadership race.

Follow the 2014 local elections results live as more than 4,000 councillors are elected in England across metropolitan boroughs, unitary authorities, non-metropolitan districts and in every seat in every London borough.

Nanumba North District is one of the flash points identified in the country as a violent prone area, especially as the struggles with a serious chieftaincy dispute as a result of which a dusk to dawn curfew has been imposed on the Bimbilla Township for more than two years now.

If we had an 85 percent graduation rate and we were inching up toward 90 percent, if we didn't have the worst SAT scores among 50 upstate school districts, if we didn't have a Syracuse Teachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that category.

SciLine has provided referrals of more than 140 scientists from 33 states and the District of Columbia, with most of the resulting stories featuring quotes from those experts.

In more than two - thirds of the states, teacher unions, school districts, and other interested parties have filed similar lawsuits that seek judgments resembling the stunning result handed down in New York.

Conducted by the New Teacher Project, a New York City - based teacher - training organization, the report analyzes the results of a survey of more than 15,000 teachers and 1,300 administrators across four states and 12 districts.

The result is that smaller districts in many states receive more funds per pupil than do their larger counterparts.

As a result of the New Jersey Supreme Court's 1998 Abbott v. Burke ruling, per - pupil spending in some of the state's poorest districts, known as the Abbott districts, increased more than 41 percent from 1996 to 2003.

In other words, as a result of political opposition, the vast majority of school districts, even in conservative Texas, turned down extra money from the state rather than adopt merit pay.

(Indeed, according to the EdNext results, «charter parents are 15 percentage points more likely to say they have communicated with the school about volunteering» than district - school parents.)

Looking at each of the CMOs in the NewSchools portfolio individually, we find that half are producing breakthrough results, with average proficiency rates that are at least 15 percentage points higher than their local districts.

Instances of private placement that occur as a result of parental requests rather than at the initiative of school districts appear to be even more rare.

It bears noting that these charter results are significantly better than the national average CREDO reported in 2009, in which just 17 percent of charter schools in the 16 states they studied performed better than their district counterparts.

Only 28 percent of the more than 3,500 districts that responded to a nationwide survey last spring said they had completed the renovation and testing of their «mission critical» computer systems to make them «Y2K compliant,» the Education Department said in releasing the results on Aug. 27.

School district insolvencies are rare and most often the result of administrative or school board mismanagement and malfeasance, rather than from the consequence of diminished revenues and systematic budget cuts.

«There are districts with every risk factor in the world that are seeing results much more exciting than schools taking upper middle class kids and not screwing them up,» Carr told Education World.

Focusing on the systems as a whole also would have encouraged districts to be more honest in their observation ratings rather than creating the incentive for subjective observation ratings to compensate for value - added results that, by definition, grade teachers on a curve.

However, some pioneering districts, schools, and teachers achieved better, faster results than others.

When absenteeism increased last year in the Dallas Independent School District, resulting in the loss of more than $ 1 million in state aid, school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing grade.

Indeed, if anything, the results indicate that the most affluent districts fare better than the poorest districts, in terms of total funding, when Democrats are in power, although this difference is not statistically significant.

Not only have newspapers alleged cheating at a few specific schools in the District of Columbia during Michelle Rhee's tenure as Chancellor of Schools for the District of Columbia, but Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U. S. Department of Education, claims that the results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a test where cheating is improbable, reveal her to have been no more effective than her predecessors.

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

Based on a year of self - examination by 44 of the largest urban districts, «Challenges to Urban Education: Results in the Making,» casts the future of inner - city public schools in terms far more optimistic than other recent assessments.

In general, charter schools are held accountable for results, and in return they are given greater autonomy than district schools.

Meanwhile, should local schools perform higher than expected, as they may for at least some respondents living in districts in the upper half of the national rankings, then the opposite pattern of results may emerge.

Four recent rigorous studies — in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio — used different research designs and reached the same result: on average, students that use vouchers to attend private schools do less well on tests than similar students that do not attend private schools.