Sentences with phrase «school districts where»

The Nation's Report Card has charted significant progress in school districts where the test has been given since 2003.

New data from researchers at Stanford, based on some 300 million elementary - school test scores across more than 11,000 school districts, reveals the school districts where children are showing the most growth.

New analysis by StudentsFirstNY has revealed eight community school districts where zero traditional middle schools meet basic standards.

«There is a tipping point for LEAs,» cautioned Cowell, explaining that in school districts where there are high concentrations of charter schools, students» educational experiences in traditional public schools could be compromised as funds are siphoned away from those budgets and into the coffers of charters.

She will be based in the organization's New York City office but will routinely travel statewide focusing on the largest school districts where charters are located.

«There are many relatively high - poverty school districts where students appear to be learning at a faster rate than kids in other, less poor districts,» said lead researcher Sean Reardon.

There are 11 school districts where a teacher can save up for a down payment in five years or less, seven of which are in a single state: Texas.

Meanwhile, unlike what is happening in Connecticut, the Governor of New York and his administration have made it clear that parents do have the right to opt their children out of the testing and that New York will not take any action to punish students, parents, teachers or school districts where parents have utilized that right.

Annotate.net gives extreme flexibility to school districts where the technology roadmap for 1:1 implementation is still evolving.

The Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) Award for Urban School Board Excellence was created in 2004 to recognize the leadership of urban school districts where effective school board governance has an impact on student achievement, and this year's winner has more than demonstrated its leadership in reshaping the academic program and the success of its students.

School districts where more than 10 percent of students miss required statewide exams for a second consecutive year will lose funding and may have their performance ratings downgraded.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis announced that in the 101 school districts where principals completed the Pennsylvania Inspired Leadership (PIL) program, researchers found evidence of achievement at the elementary, middle and high school levels.

In school year 2013 - 14 alone, New York State invested $ 1.26 billion in school facilities aid to school districts where charter schools operate without public facility funding.

«As a nation and a state, we have clearly failed to address the inequalities that disproportionally impact many urban school districts where kids are poor and segregated.

In other school districts where problems with cheating in online courses have been noted, principals openly advised teachers to do this, a practice known as providing «answer checks.»

«It was an example of the kind of contract that existed in some school districts where the limitations placed on teachers» time and the specificity of what administrators had to do [for] an evaluation [to] hold weight was so rigid that more often than not, teachers could not be evaluated out of the school system.»

The school leaders emphasized that the proposed $ 93 million cut to the Geographic Cost of Education Index — the component of the state's funding formula that gives more money to school districts where the cost of educating students is higher — would disproportionaly impact their students, and thwart their efforts to close the achievement gap for their poorest and academically challenged students.

The change affected school districts where the charter school was approved by the state's Charter School Commission over the objections of the local district.

Charter schools are included in the local school districts where they are located.

Estimate for Several Dozen School Districts Where Voters Approved Bond Measures Only Before Enactment of Proposition 39 or Lack Data

Is this proposed measure really simply a way to protect property - rich «Basic Aid» school districts where local property tax revenues exceed the amounts districts would otherwise receive from the usual state funding formulas?

But glaring inequities can be found in some middle - class school districts where quirks in the funding formula cause communities with similar needs to receive widely different levels of aid.

There are even some school districts where teachers have been asked to drop novels altogether to meet the new nonfiction requirements.

His focus is on learning style theory and teaching strategies, and he has been credited with bringing several school districts out of the doldrums of performance improvement to high - performing school districts where students can and do learn.

Iowa is shifting its approach to accountability - from limited prescriptive solutions, to a state accountability system that provides support to school districts where and when they need it most.

This second scatterplot chart only compares charter schools with the public school districts where they are located.

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

«We have people who are paying more than half their income in rent, and we have whole school districts where poverty is erasing any opportunity for Americans to climb that ladder.»

However, an insistence on the secular control of public funds meant that Catholic and other church - based schools could not receive publicly funded vouchers, even in academically failing school districts where other private schools are unavailable to poor students.

These stats, while modest, are staggering for a school of our size, especially if you count the number of kids in the school districts where we've had superintendents.

We did this by comparing changes in funding in school districts where the state's school - finance system has been ruled unconstitutional in a court challenge to funding changes in comparable districts in states where no SFJ has been issued.

In Florida, for example, in 33 out of the 44 school districts where at least 10 schools were graded in 2017, at least one school received a grade of A while at least one other school received a grade of D or F.

These results far outpace the two South Bronx school districts where most Icahn schools are located: District 9 (13 percent proficient in English, 17 percent in math) and District 11 (21 percent and 26 percent).

Arizona school districts where a significant number of children left for charter schools responded with leadership changes and other attempts to draw students back to the district.

The results are striking in the few school districts where I have seen this happen.

There is even more support — and consensus — on allowing states to take control of local school districts where there is evidence of financial mismanagement.

For example, in a forthcoming analysis in three school districts where it was possible to track teachers» student achievement growth over many years, Doug Staiger and I found that of those teachers who were in the bottom quartile of value - added in a single year, 55 to 65 percent were in the bottom quartile over their careers and 82 to 87 percent were in the bottom half.

Choices for parents who think their kids might benefit from a special program at a school in a nearby school district: In California, some school districts where enrollment was dropping are taking advantage of the state's District of Choice law, which allows districts to compete for students by offering innovative programs and options that parents want.

More importantly, FOSS is adopted in 50 of the 100 largest urban school districts where FOSS reaches large populations of under - served students.

«White parents may be avoiding school districts where black and Latino children live because they use racial composition as a proxy for quality of a school and a neighborhood,» she said.

And for those in large cities, they have multiple school districts where they could choose to buy homes.

Indeed it may be more pressing, he notes, in school districts where test scores have been perennially low, and where larger disparities in school quality may exist.

There are 950 public and non-public schools in the 14 school districts where Success is hoping to open schools.

In school districts where the budget failed to pass, a second vote may be held on June 15 or school boards may forgo a second vote and adopt a contingency budget.

New York, NY — New analysis by StudentsFirstNY has revealed eight community school districts where zero traditional middle schools meet basic standards.

More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

We have many low - performing school districts where parents need charter schools as an option.»

Under CEP, schools or school districts where 40 percent of the student body directly qualifies for free meals (via food stamps or other nutrition assistance or welfare programs) may offer those meals free to all students.

Under the program, schools or school districts where 40 percent of the students meet the requirement for a free lunch can also provide meals to all students for free.

Specifically, in the Munster, ID and Caroline County, MD school districts where percentages dropped off after the prices went up — Did those students switch to a la carte and spend less than $ 2.72 on food that was nutritionally worse?