Sentences with phrase «school districts flexibility»

The California state school board has agreed to continue allowing school districts flexibility in how they carry out a new state law that calls for limited - English - proficient students to be taught mostly in English.

Saying that the state's education code allows school districts flexibility in laying off teachers in order to comply with constitutional requirements to provide equal education to all students, a Superior Court judge granted an injunction today that prevents the Los Angeles Unified School District from laying off teachers at Gompers, Liechty and Markham middle schools this year.

NSBA advocates for a comprehensive, strategic reauthorization of ESEA that provides school districts the flexibility and resources they need to respond to the educational challenges in their local communities.

«That would give school districts the flexibility to direct funds toward educational programs and services that would most benefit their students.»

about Court Urged to Maintain School District Flexibility in Responding to Disability Harassment Complaints

The bill, expected to be taken up by the U.S. Senate as early as next week, contains specific legislative language on local governance that restores the balance between federal and local government and provides states and school districts the flexibility needed to support student learning and achievement.

While still leaving local school districts the flexibility to establish their own pay scale, the District of Columbia should articulate policies that definitively discourage them from tying compensation to advanced degrees, in light of the extensive research showing that such degrees do not have an impact on teacher effectiveness.

Recommendation: To improve SFAs» ability to design menus that comply with the new lunch requirements, the Secretary of Agriculture should modify federal regulations or guidance to allow school districts flexibility in complying with the defined calorie ranges for schools with students in both the grades 6 - 8 and 9 - 12 groups.

We need to give school districts the flexibility to make decisions at the local level that support our students» overall success and ensure financial resources are not being taken away from instruction.»

Eliminate federally mandated interventions and allow states and school districts the flexibility to develop and implement appropriate school improvement strategies;

Significantly, the law allows school districts the flexibility to develop more innovative CTE programs and provide students a clear path to graduation.

Two of those six school districts offer one example: During the 2013 — 14 school year, only 4 percent of teachers in South Bend were rated «Highly Effective» compared to 15 percent in Fort Wayne.70 Among the states that provide school districts flexibility to design their own systems, fewer than half require that the state review and approve district models.71

The textbook publishers, who have long dominated the education content industry, benefit from that model (my colleague Laura Hazard Owen provides a nice snapshot of that market here), but Fletcher said more states need to encourage the development of content marketplaces by giving schools and school districts the flexibility to select the content their students will use.