Sentences with phrase «reward school districts»

And by having an outcome based portion of our funding formula we can reward school districts that are meeting benchmarks.

As part of his proposed budget for fiscal 1992, President Bush includes $ 690 million in education initiatives, including plans to reward school districts that establish choice policies including private schools.

Our new accountability system will reward school districts and acknowledge them for high - quality career and tech programs, high - quality fine arts programs.

• Redesigning Education: Noting that New York is first in spending but 34th in results, Governor Cuomo proposed restructuring a portion of our education aid to create incentives that reward school districts for improving student performance and implementing management efficiency policies.

Cuomo launched the School District Management Efficiency Award, which will reward school districts that have implemented long - term efficiency or cost - saving measures in their management operations.

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First thing that I suggest doing is digging up a copy of your school district wellness policy and see if it includes anything about food rewards and classroom food.

For two years, I've been working to create healthier classrooms, stop junk food rewards, strengthen our school district wellness policy and push for fresh, wholesome cafeteria food — and there are days that I am just not sure how much more I have left in me.

I responded to the reader in a series three posts: Part One offered advice for bringing about change at the classroom level (e.g., teacher rewards and snacks); Part Two dealt with changing the school - wide food culture (fundraisers, wellness programs, etc.); and Part Three talked about change at the district level.

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

Cuomo and the legislature recently enacted a multi-year-plan that would reward taxpayers in local governments and schools with a tax freeze, if the governments and schools agree to share services and even merge two or more school districts together.

Teachers in 21 Kentucky schools and five districts are now eligible for cash rewards for improved student performance as a result of corrected scores on the 1996 state assessment.

Education World talked with administrators in several districts who use everything from fines to rewards to keep kids in school.

Having the chance to work with wonderful professionals in schools that are designed to meet the needs of their students but are not constrained by school district or national requirements really makes for a rewarding work environment.

In Indiana, school districts have the option of rewarding graduating high - school students with cash.

The competition ought to instead encourage districts to look away from seat time toward actual student learning; schools should be rewarded equally if this is accomplished through providing online course opportunities accessible from anywhere or through real - world learning.

Several school districts across the country are trying to change their teacher - salary structures in ways that would not only reward performance, but also allow effective teachers to reach top salary levels earlier in their careers, making teacher - compensation plans more in line with those in other occupations.

Although the federal government, states, school districts, and private foundations already have invested nearly $ 200 million in producing and rewarding National Board - certified teachers, this is the first study assessing whether the National Board has actually succeeded in identifying «expert» or «master» teachers who perform better than their uncertified peers.

The U.S. Department of Education is embracing an approach to spending that rewards states and districts for innovating instead of simply disbursing funds by formula to schools and districts with disadvantaged students, but this is leading to debates within the Democratic party, reports Nick Anderson of the Washington Post.

For the next several years, Mapp and colleagues consulted with USDOE to develop what came to be called the Dual Capacity - Building Framework for Family - School Partnerships, now released by the government as a downloadable, shareable model that schools and districts can use to build the kind of effective, mutually rewarding engagement that will make schools the center of their communities.

Illustrations by James Yang Offering financial incentives to improve education — providing money rewards to students, teachers, schools, or districts as a way to motivate them to try harder and do better — is one of the hottest topics in education today.

Second, school and district leaders can use VAMs to make workforce decisions — recognizing and rewarding effective teachers and denying tenure and dismissing the lowest - performing teachers, according to Corcoran and Goldhaber.

Within the evolving standards and accountability movement, states (rather than the nation or school districts) have borne the responsibility to develop standards, tests linked to those standards, and a system of rewards and punishments for schools depending on their performance.

To create such programs, states and districts must identify the most important elements of student performance (usually academic achievement), measure them (usually with state tests), calculate change in performance on a school - by - school basis, and provide rewards to schools that meet or beat performance improvement targets — all of which must be backed by system supports that enable all schools to boost results.

Since last year, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly $ 75 million in grants to schools and school districts interested in developing systems that reward good teaching and compensate teachers for taking jobs in hard - to - staff schools (low - performing and typically high - poverty schools).

Researchers have proposed that districts pay teachers a bonus for the days they don't take off, or give their schools the money that would have been spent on subs as a collective incentive, or set up a reward system for teachers with good attendance (the Columbia study found that only 3 percent of teachers had perfect attendance).

The criteria are set up, and students are rewarded district - wide at the trimester in the elementary level and at semester end in high school and middle school, as well as a year - end drawing for larger prizes.»

Released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, at Stanford University, the study comes as a growing number of school districts and charter schools around the country are experimenting with such reward programs in the hope of improving...

Rewards in the form of a waiver, or incentives in the form of a state innovation grant or site - based merit pay, could be included in a public academy contract with a host school district; so must corrective action policies for academic or fiscal malfeasance.

We analyzed test - score data and election results from 499 races over three election cycles in South Carolina to study whether voters punish and reward incumbent school board members on the basis of changes in student learning, as measured by standardized tests, in district schools.

There are isolated examples of school districts that reward teachers for high performance.

The White House holds that these proposals mark a «sea - change» in national education policy — «for the first time holding states and school districts accountable for progress and rewarding them for results.»

Taking Off the Heat On January 29, 2014 Marguerite Roza shared risks and rewards that emerge when districts «decentralize» engagement around financial decisions to the school level with Portfolio School District Network members in Houstoschool level with Portfolio School District Network members in HoustoSchool District Network members in Houston, TX.

By contrast, many school districts» incentive pay systems reward teachers for out - performing, rather than helping, their teammates.

«Today's investments will help these districts and school networks — and in time, all districts — develop better systems to identify and reward great teachers, make sure the highest - need students have access to the most effective teachers every year, and give all teachers the support they need to improve.»

On January 29, 2014 Marguerite Roza shared risks and rewards that emerge when districts «decentralize» engagement around financial decisions to the school level with Portfolio School District Network members in Houstoschool level with Portfolio School District Network members in HoustoSchool District Network members in Houston, TX.

With increasing teacher - turnover rates in high - poverty and urban districts, school and district leaders need to make sure that the job is satisfying and rewarding — and quality collaboration time can help lower turnover rates.

An incoming presidential administration could even seek congressional approval for competitions to reward states and school districts for collecting, using, and disseminating evidence.

Philadelphia, Guilford County, N.C., and four small districts in northern New Mexico have scooped up the last of the $ 42 million in federal grant money on offer this fall for rewarding teachers and principals who get higher student test scores in needy schools.

Curtis works with school systems, foundations, higher education and education policy organizations on a variety of topics including urban district improvement strategy, superintendent and principal leadership development, and how to make teaching a compelling and rewarding career.

In an attempt to reward good schools, the district offered last week to let them skip certain requirements in training, such as centrally sponsored staff development, and in curricular initiatives, such as spending two hours a day on reading.

To attract high - aptitude women back into teaching, school districts need to reward teachers in the same way that college graduates are paid in other professions - that is, according to their performance.

Over time, as it becomes clearer which programs consistently graduate high - performing principals, this new approach would create a robust marketplace that rewards institutional excellence and helps school districts make smart hiring decisions.

And it offers financial rewards to urban school districts that improve performance through initiatives like merit pay for teachers.

• Making it possible for districts to reward teachers for innovation, although that would be defined and negotiated in each school district.

In «Part Five: Three Perspectives On Launching A Residency from California State University, Fresno» Drs. Paul Beare, Cathy Yun and Lisa Bennett write about the university's important partnerships with both rural and urban school districts, their focus on teacher professional development and the rewards and challenges of building three different residencies — each with a unique focus.

He describes his 38 year career with the school district as «awesome and very rewarding».

Fortunately, a growing body of evidence from school districts shows how educational organizations can rethink the way they manage human capital: how they hire, train, place, evaluate, and reward educators, as well as redesign central offices into problem - solving organizations.

Reliance upon supplemental funding through bonds and overrides disadvantages schools; while wealthy districts may be able to generate additional resources, they don't always have community support and underprivileged communities — serving Latino students in particular — often don't take the risk due to the little reward.

CAP surveyed a sample of 108 nationally representative school districts and asked them to describe how they recruit new talent, select whom to hire, induct new teachers, develop teachers» skills, and measure and reward teachers» success in the classroom.

Race To The Top, as we've written, is an Obama administration initiative to reward districts that «demonstrate how they can personalize education for all students in their schools.»