CASEL facilitates a learning community of
school district staff whose work focuses on research and evaluation.
Not exact matches
Eastport - South Manor
school officials,
whose district is among four on Long Island identified by the state comptroller as fiscally stressed, have begun notifying residents that belt - tightening measures — including
staff and program cuts — may lie ahead.
Eastport - South Manor
school officials,
whose district is among four on Long Island identified by the state comptroller Thursday as fiscally stressed, have begun notifying residents that belt - tightening measures — including
staff and program cuts — may lie ahead.
Armed with this information,
staff members at the
school district, city, and partner organizations have been developing strategies and practices that give both dropouts and at - risk students a web of increased support and services, including providing dropout - prevention specialists in several high
schools, establishing accelerated - learning programs for older students who are behind on credits, and implementing reading programs for older students
whose skills are well below grade level.
That is the case in Connecticut,
whose state legislature revised its law regulating cell phone possession in
schools to give local
districts more latitude in dealing with the issue, said Vincent Mustaro, senior
staff associate for policy for the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE).
The information obtained by a mentor through interaction with the new teacher while engaged in the mentoring activities of the program shall not be used for evaluating or disciplining the new teacher, unless withholding such information poses a danger to the life, health, or safety if an individual, including but not limited to students and
staff of the
school; or unless such information indicates that the new teacher has been convicted of a crime, or has committed an act which raises a reasonable question as to the new teacher's moral character; or unless the
school district or BOCES has entered into an agreement, negotiated pursuant to article 14 of the Civil Service Law
whose terms are in effect, that provides that the information obtained by the mentor through intervention with the new teacher while engaged in the mentoring activities of the program may be used for evaluating or disciplining the new teacher.
Passed in 2010, the California law enables parents
whose children attend a persistently failing
school to «trigger» reforms, including replacing
staff or turning the
school into a charter, by presenting their
school district with a petition containing at least 51 percent of their signatures.
District staff discovered that many of those who signed the petition were parents
whose children already attended a Rocketship
school, and who stated they had no meaningful interest in enrolling their child in a new Rocketship
school.
On behalf of parents of public
school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board of Education Committee meeting to review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner of Education and other State Department of Education
staff as they relate to the issue of a parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local
school districts should deal with children
whose parents have opted them out of the SBAC testing.