Sentences with phrase «school districts»

You might say that we actually have over 14,000 systems, which is the number of school districts in the country.

Yes, a vast majority of school districts in the country are run by elected boards.

After teachers paid 3,000 house calls to improve relations with the parents of their students, all nine schools in the city's unified school district pilot program reported improvement in the classroom.

The instruments are then donated to the city school district for students.

Known as «sequestration,» the cuts are costing the district hundreds of millions of dollars in Title I money for school districts with high percentages of low - income students.

She is actively involved in supporting local school districts in their efforts to support students with learning differences.

Compensation should be bench - marked by similar personnel in public school districts with less than 1,000 students for small charters with less than 600 students.

Conducted sales presentations to principals and educators within the county school district.

This annual analysis looks at school breakfast participation and policies in 75 large school districts across the country to evaluate successful practices in reaching more low - income children with school breakfast.

They launched a sustained and unfortunately successful effort at merging small schools into large ones, and independent school districts into large, consolidated districts.

More is being spent by school districts on transportation in the 1997 - 98 school year.

Poor test results and low graduation rates continue to characterize city school districts across the state.

But some education specialists say that elected school boards in general pose problems for urban school districts with challenges related to poverty.

He has long been at war with teacher unions and his handling of school aid and pushing charter schools have brought opposition from school districts as well as teacher unions.

Critics may complain that spending on school district central offices and school building administration would be cut by only 5 % under a 5 % reduction or 7.5 % under a 10 % reduction.

If you are actively seeking a teaching job, you are likely looking to distribute your teaching resume to as many school districts as possible to increase your probability of obtaining that dream job.

For all of our attention to testing and assessment, student achievement measures are largely irrelevant to judging the performance of many school district employees.

This translates into an overall response rate of 47 percent and a response rate for high school districts of 57 percent.

One of us recently asked a local school district superintendent in a largely rural state to identify the most important qualities he looked for when hiring new teachers.

Their Recovery school district is beating the traditional district scores substantially.

The result was a natural experiment: some low - spending districts, mainly in rural areas, ended up with higher funding per student, whereas other school districts did not.

Federal civil rights laws require school districts receiving federal funding to intervene when peer bullying and harassment occurs.

The question now is: do charters share responsibility to help pay down the pension legacy costs of area school districts?

Big - city school districts do not use relaxed hiring rules in order to hire retired rocket scientists to teach math or gifted authors to teach high - school composition.

This graphic has been shared with school district boards and a variety of other people throughout the province.

The majority of them are residents of large urban school districts where the cap has been hit.

When I look at school districts around the country, I see public education becoming more about politics and less about students and families.

Public school experts say that while the school ranking sites offer helpful data, parents seeking good school districts need to do more research than just rely on the sites alone.

If it passes, it can help school districts use their increased flexibility to spare a lot more teachers.

That measure would also allow school districts to set up charitable foundations.

Most of our staff works from within school district offices and hand in hand with district personnel.

Most school districts provide new teachers with a mentor during their first year.

This grant is for programs and projects that directly benefit students for which school district funding may not be available.

* In most states, charter school districts reported spending less money per pupil than traditional public schools on instruction, student support services and teacher salaries.

Use whatever word set that your local school district uses.

But he said school district officials did everything in their power to keep it on track.

Even more interesting are the districts undergoing dramatic restructuring without achievement school districts paving the way.

In many school districts around the country, however, the majority of students do not have smartphones.

This article identifies four programs that have the potential to help school districts provide equal access, treatment, and opportunity for ALL students.

She is particularly interested in how school district central offices innovate and collaborate to improve opportunities for all youth to learn.

For the record, there are some questionable practices in suburban school districts as well, and some students «passing» who probably shouldn't be.

We need to stop competitive grants for school funding, which puts the poorer school districts at a further disadvantage.

If school districts do not provide preparation for faculty on how to meaningfully incorporate the technology into their lessons, teachers will often resist its integration.

Currently, in our work in the eight new school districts school breakfast participation has already increased by 96 percent.

The intermediate school district serving your community also has information available.