Sentences with phrase «schools across district lines»

In 1996, Connecticut's highest court ordered the legislature to find a way to integrate Hartford's schools across district lines, according to an Abell Foundation report suggesting such a model could be applied to Baltimore.

Districts with very high or low FRPL rates can do little to remedy segregation within their district boundaries (although they can often do a lot by working with neighboring districts to allow students to attend schools across district lines)

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson has urged black parents to follow the example of the three Hartford, Conn., parents who have been charged with «stealing an education» because they enrolled their children in school across district lines in suburban Bloomfield.

Not exact matches

According to him, the upgrade of the public libraries in schools across the six education districts in the State was in line with the commitment of the present administration to expand access to knowledge for Lagosians.

At the same time, schools remain heavily segregated - particularly across district lines - with most minority children heavily concentrated in certain urban districts.

The Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School (WPCCS) opened its virtual doors in the fall of 2000 as Pennsylvania's second cybercharter and the first to offer its services across district lines.

Given that charter schools can and do enroll students across traditional boundary lines, our analysis took into account the demographic composition of students in the entire metro area, as opposed to a single school district.

Inter-district magnet schools in Connecticut provide a current example outside the scope of traditional school districts as to the way charters might draw students across district boundary lines to create high - quality, integrated schooling options.

Several school districts across the country are trying to change their teacher - salary structures in ways that would not only reward performance, but also allow effective teachers to reach top salary levels earlier in their careers, making teacher - compensation plans more in line with those in other occupations.

Missouri's pension boundaries would make it practically impossible for high - performing school districts to operate a program, run a school, or loan teachers within the Saint Louis or Kansas City boundaries, just as state pension boundaries would make it impossible for schools to effectively work across state lines.

Letters from the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to school district officials, threatening prosecution if disparities in discipline rates and resources across racial and ethnic lines are not justified, will be withdrawn or simply ignored.

In Milliken, a 5 - 4 majority of the United States Supreme Court virtually prohibited bussing across school district lines to desegregate metropolitan areas, which in many ways marked the Court's — and the country's — turn away from efforts to integrate schools.

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.

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That reform would mandate the most ambitious kind of integration: with students of different classes and races, from cities and adjacent suburbs, transported across district lines to go to school together.

White parents who could not afford public schools, but wanted their children to socialize only with others of their race and caste, could simply move across the district line to avoid desegregation.

USCS took advantage of a tool that the Morningside Center for Social Responsibility has helped hundreds of school districts across the country use, to open the lines of communication and bring disparate voices together.

To this day, the Spencer kids are bused across two district boundary lines to get to their nearest school.

Tuition at the 3 - D School is about $ 10,000, which is in line with what school districts spend per student on average across the School is about $ 10,000, which is in line with what school districts spend per student on average across the school districts spend per student on average across the state.

«As the new school year begins, newspapers across the country are reporting on school districts» search for minority teachers, especially African American teachers — evidence that we, as a society, continue to navigate around the color line,» Bristol wrote in a guest column on the Albert Shanker Institute blog.

'» The CEL work with professional learning communities has helped open new lines of communication across the district, says the Garfield High School principal.

Jennifer Niles, the District's deputy mayor for education, said that the District needs to do far more work to understand why students weave in and out of the city's schools and across state lines into Maryland and Virginia.

In Figure 2, the curved lines provide a sense of how this relationship varied across districts.6 The lines indicate the upper and lower bounds for the shares of 4th graders who met the ELA standard in 68 percent of demographically similar school districts.7 Overall, the scores were lower in districts with larger shares of high - need students, but in some districts student performance was either better or worse than expected, based on the shares of high - need students.8 The orange dots (for the CST) and the teal dots (for the SBAC) represent the 20 school districts that were furthest above or below expectations — these dots are mostly outside the curved lines.

Similarly, once the pathway for transferring licenses across state lines opens up, states would need to implement policies specifically designed to attract high - quality teachers to work in high - need school districts, particularly in rural locales, in order to limit shortages in those areas.

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While the end of court - ordered desegregation measures has caused a modest increase in segregation within public school districts, a large majority of racial segregation occurs across district lines.

For example, technology can enable a teacher in one school district to educate students hailing from multiple districts within a state or across state lines through virtual or online courses.

Increased accountability and scrutiny for school districts across the county has put renewed focus on an old problem: the persistent achievement gap dividing students along the lines of race, class, language and disability.

Generally speaking, town tuitioning allows students who live in towns that don't have district public schools to receive their per - pupil education tax dollars to pay tuition at a neighboring town's public school or a private school of their choice — sometimes even across state lines for families who live close to state borders.

We learned early on that several factors are especially important in making sound decisions about technology: the support and active engagement of school boards and affected stakeholders, the need for systemic efforts across districts rather than just at the building or classroom level, and a clear line of sight between what was being purchased and how it would be deployed and actually used.

Furthermore, I discuss one past solution, busing across district lines, that I argue has failed to rectify segregation in schools.

Well, human appraisers can often spot where a very nearby comp is completely off - target because it's across a city or neighborhood line, in a very different school district, or otherwise in a location that makes the comp property's value significantly different from yours.