Sentences with phrase «school districts across the state still»

As the school year starts, many school districts across the state still need to grapple with the issue of a teacher evaluation system, especially if they want to continue to receive state aid.

But with teachers unions leading the charge, many school districts across the state still fail to allocate space equitably to charters.

Not exact matches

While school accountability systems across the country identify failing schools, districts and states still wrestle with how to fix them.

Furthermore, the most recent state test scores showed that Denver performed better than most districts in the state, showing commendable improvements in turnaround schools located in Far Northeast and Northwest Denver, even though the district is still far from its own goal of 3.5 percent improvement in growth across all subjects.

Today, with a budget approved that includes at least a temporary respite on the harshestimpacts of the state's class size controversy, school districts across the state may still face packed classes in grades 4 - 12, the loss of planning periods for teachers or major job losses next year when more stringent class - size regulations are scheduled to take effect.

The best professional learning for teachers helps them acquire, practice, and apply new skills to better serve their students.2 But despite annual investments of $ 18 billion by federal, state, and local agencies into professional learning for educators, many teachers still do not receive the kind of professional learning that helps them grow and improve their practice.3 Less than one - quarter of teachers say that they have changed their instruction as a result of professional learning, likely in part due to the lack of a consistent professional learning strategy across states and school districts.4 Learning Forward, a nonprofit association dedicated to supporting professional learning for educators, contends that the current state of professional learning is one of «inertia.»