Sentences with phrase «school districts money»

Besides saving school districts money on transportation, fuel, and food services, the longer concentrated class time can result in higher test scores, according to some studies.

In terms of funding, although the start - up costs can be expensive, blended learning often saves school districts money in the long run.

Financially, it costs school districts money to recruit and train new teachers, so an increase in retention rates would let them save on those costs (although they have to pay more experienced teachers hirer salaries).

While most school closures are decided locally, the Education Department's School Improvement Grant gives underperforming school districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including closures.

Shortening the school year would not harm overall education outcomes in the long run, but would save school districts money on operational costs, said state Sen. Videt Carmichael, the chairman of the Senate...

The classes aren't paid for with school district money; they're funded through private donations, but the school district administers manages them.

Sunshine collects enough school district money to cover costs and pay its management firm, Accelerated Learning Solutions (ALS), a more than $ 1.5 million - a-year «management fee,» 2015 financial records show — more than what the school spends on instruction.

To provide additional funding for students «at risk» — those in poverty or headed for academic failure — most states adjust each district's aid level through a weight or use categorical programs to grant school districts money that typically must be spent on specific services.

NAEP testing doesn't affect curriculum or cost local school districts any money.

More than 20 percent of North Carolina teachers are chronically absent from work, state officials say, costing school districts money to hire substitutes and hurting student learning.

A new federal investment in school facilities would help raise student achievement, save school districts money on energy costs, and spur the troubled U.S. economy, Rep. George Miller, D - Calif., the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, said at a hearing last week.

Although it saved the school district money and made a more appropriate start time for learning for the high school kids, it left a bunch of 11, 12, and 13 year olds unsupervised from 2:30 — 6, which is kind of a long time IME.

Test scores increased less ~ and achievement gaps grew more ~ in reform cities than in other urban districts Test - based accountability prompted churn that thinned the ranks of experienced teachers ~ but not necessarily bad teachers School closures did not send students to better schools or save school districts money

In addition to the effect these absences have on student achievement, they also cost the school districts money, since the Texas state revenue formula is based on daily attendance.

principal when I was job seeking told me that at my age, I would cost a school district money because I would be someone who would stay at the job, get my master's and retire, whereas younger teachers might not stay in the profession and the districts could keep rehiring young teachers at base salary.

The state expects to lend about 200 school districts money to help them start the school year.