Sentences with phrase «school districts across the country said»

According to a nationwide survey to be released soon by the National Education Association (nea), more than one in three of the 1,326 elementary - and secondary - school teachers chosen randomly from different - sized school districts across the country said they «certainly» or «probably» would not become teachers again if they were given the choice.

Not exact matches

Kay Brown, who produced the GAO study of eight districts, says they visited a range of schools across the country with differing levels of participation in free and reduced lunch and with widely different characteristics.

«In these extremely difficult financial times facing every municipality and school district across the country, the county has to pursue any and every avenue of cost savings,» he said in an interview this week.

«Because of the amount of time kids spend in school, and given the fact that many first - time allergic reactions occur on school grounds, it is imperative for school districts across the country to provide access to emergency epinephrine to students who may not otherwise have access to the potentially life - saving medication,» Gupta said.

I used my experience to explain the impact particular legislation would have on schools and districts,» says Payzant, who began his teaching career at Belmont (Mass.) High School and went on to serve as superintendent of four districts across the country.

Barbara Duffield, policy director for the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, said that while many school districts across the country are collaborating with shelters to arrange housing and services for homeless students, Maplewood Richmond Heights has gone one step further and committed resources to provide housing.

You can draw a straight line... between unfair funding, serious resource deficiencies, particularly in high - poverty schools and districts across the country and low outcomes,» said David Sciarra, executive director at Education Law Center.

«When you look at the annals of state intervention in local school districts across the country... there's virtually no track record, nor extant examples of states effectively turning around academic performance in local school districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Educschool districts across the country... there's virtually no track record, nor extant examples of states effectively turning around academic performance in local school districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Educschool districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of EducSchool of Education.

«We searched for two decades to support a program that wouldn't be just a Band - Aid and create a national model that could be replicated at districts across the country,» said Melanie Lundquist, who was honored with her husband by the school board last week.

«I think the legacy of both Michelle and Joel is that tough but necessary decisions yield results,» said Tim Daly, the president of The New Teacher Project, which works with school districts across the country to train and hire effective teachers.

Richard Barth, CEO of the KIPP Foundation, says similar collaborations have sprung up across the country, where civic leaders have moved past the «charter vs. district debate» and are asking themselves: «How do we just make sure that every child in the city gets to wake up in the morning and go to a great school?»

I am pleased to say that unions in conjunction with their school districts across the country are working to enhance student learning with teacher induction programs based on the successful medical model.

I am pleased to say that unions in conjunction with their school districts across the country are working to enhance student learning with teacher induction programs b

School districts across the country have turned to international recruiting to fill jobs, get bilingual teachers and help expose students to diverse cultures, say education organizations.

School districts across the country are competing to attract the nation's best teachers, said Tim McConnell, associate superintendent over human resources.

«This is an issue becoming more and more present in school districts across the country, so it's not surprising that we're seeing this develop more in North Carolina,» said Micah Johnson, Timeout Youth's director of School Outschool districts across the country, so it's not surprising that we're seeing this develop more in North Carolina,» said Micah Johnson, Timeout Youth's director of School OutSchool Outreach.

We learned a great deal from our pilot at South Bronx Preparatory, and we are excited to continue to enhance Family Playlists and ultimately transform family engagement in schools and districts across the country,» said PowerMyLearning CEO and Co-Founder Elisabeth Stock.

Board members were «knee - deep» in the controversial process of streamlining school attendance boundaries at the time but began gathering information about how other districts across the country were handling superintendent searches, he said.

«In working together with the parents and the charter school operator to arrive at this decision,» said Desert Trails Parent Union lead coordinator Cynthia Ramirez in a press statement, «the school board has set an example for other parents and districts across the country on how to use Parent Trigger legislation to transform otherwise failing public schools.»

While schools across the country are talking about making this shift back to kindergarten «the way it used to be,» it's still rare for a whole district to focus so much energy on actually making such a change, says Ritchie.

«While we are grateful that Congress rejected proposals to eliminate this critical funding source for developing strong educators and school leaders, ensuring that districts across the country have the resources to build solid school leadership pipelines requires the full Title II amount authorized under ESSA,» said NYC Leadership Academy President & CEO Irma Zardoya.

Mendez said the district will keep looking for ways to help its teachers find affordable housing, a challenge facing school districts across the country.

In a rebuttal to those who say states should use common tests so that the public can compare how students perform across state boundaries, fewer than one in five public school parents said it was important to know how children in their communities performed on standardized tests compared with students in other districts, states or countries.

«All across the country, school districts are beginning to recognize that a well - rounded education must be about more than higher test scores or rigid academic assessments,» said Jennifer Buffett, co-president of the NoVo Foundation.