Sentences with phrase «schools in a single district»

Children enrolled in six schools (three intervention and three control schools in a single district) were the participants in the study.

The attention needs to shift; behind Denver, Aurora is home to the largest number of the state's failing schools in a single district, and some of the lowest academic achievement in the metro area.

Children enrolled in six schools (three intervention and three control schools in a single district) were the participants in the study.

Not exact matches

For any single property, total school district taxes can not be more than $ 5 per $ 1,000 in market value and total general government taxes can not be more than $ 10 per $ 1,000 in market value.

The state's «education tax» supports schools (as do local school district taxes in most other states) and is the largest single source of property taxes in Vermont.

Hawaii is unique in that the entire state constitutes a single school district.

This pilot study took place in eleven elementary schools within a single Oregon school district.

Cosmas, the Buffalo Grove mother of two, was instrumental in getting her school district and park district together after an acquaintance, a single father, told her how much less he was paying for child care through a school - park program in a neighboring community.

My school district here in Houston is doing a lot of things right, but it's still selling garbage like this to our middle and high school kids every single day:

Lavine's single, unified vision leading the school district and city could build off the successful Career and Technical Education model in Syracuse.

This race is expected to turn on the question of charter schools, and it remains unclear if there's enough passion in the district on that single issue to overcome the power of incumbency.

Once again, there's not a single contested race in any North Fork school district.

Recall Cuomo's 2011 - 12 budget address in which he singled out superintendents — particularly Syosset's Carole Hankin, whose more than $ 500,000 in salary and benefits is the highest in the state — as a prime example of wasteful spending by school districts.

Let me give you an example of how merging school districts in one Erie County town could result in millions of dollars in savings without the closing of one school or the layoff of a single teacher, teacher's aide, janitor or other direct educator to children.

He does this because NYSUT stopped endorsing him and he rakes in tens of thousands of dollars from the charter school industry, despite not have a single charter school in his district.

The city is also implementing a $ 15 million «Single Shepherd» program to hire more guidance counselors for middle and high schoolers in low - performing Districts 7 and 23.

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

The administration has also already announced a $ 51 million plan to expand Advanced Placement courses, with full implementation at high schools expected by 2021 and a $ 15 million program called «Single Shepherd» to hire guidance counselors for each middle and high school student in low - performing school Districts 7 and 23, which will be fully implemented by next fall.

Day and supporters of his proposals gathered just outside the Estates at Sky View development, where the Hershkowitz family is building 20 single family homes on a site that is just east of the Palisades Interstate Parkway in the town of Ramapo and the East Ramapo school district.

«About 87,000 New York City schoolkids live in homeless shelters or temporary housing, and not a single school district is spared from this epidemic,» said Borough President KATZ.

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For the first time, families will be able to apply for pre-K in both district schools and NYC Early Education Centers through a single application.

For the first time, families will be able to apply for pre-K in both district schools and NYC Early Education Centers through a single application unveiled last month by City schools Chancellor Carmen Farina.

The research team — led by professor Jeannette Ickovics, director of CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) at the School of Public Health — surveyed 1,649 middle - school students randomly selected from a single urban school district in ConnecSchool of Public Health — surveyed 1,649 middle - school students randomly selected from a single urban school district in Connecschool students randomly selected from a single urban school district in Connecschool district in Connecticut.

We have experienced this negative phenomenon first - hand by having had a district - wide contract rescinded before the program even started due to fear caused by media attention generated from a single parent in single school who took offense to a classroom teacher leading mandala coloring and using the term, «Namaste,» with her students.

Is this a case of a single failing school in the midst of a successful school district or is it a case where many or most of a district's schools are failing?

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.

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.

Consequently, the movement of a single student from one sector to another has a much larger impact on the proportion of students with IEPs enrolled in charter schools than on the proportion of students with IEPs enrolled in district schools.

This would, in turn, allow state leaders to give district - run schools charter - like autonomy and create a single citywide accountability system.

The strength of PowerTeacher is not so much in how it helps a single educator organize, but how it can be utilized throughout a school system or district.

With the largest single pool of federal education dollars in history flowing to states and school districts, education - related companies have been looking to gain a share of the cash, marketing themselves as uniquely equipped to help with improvement efforts.

In four states — Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, and West Virginia — there is not a single traditional school district with average student achievement in math above the 50th percentilIn four states — Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, and West Virginia — there is not a single traditional school district with average student achievement in math above the 50th percentilin math above the 50th percentile.

Robert Smotherman, superintendent of the Bardstown Independent School District in Kentucky and past president of the Kentucky Association for Year - Round Schooling, also thinks single - track year - round education is the way to go.

Last August, the American Civil Liberties Union won the latest in a series of lawsuits against single - sex public schools in a district where, it argued, children were given no other choice.

According to research from Stanford, Bay State charter pupils gain 1.5 months more learning in reading during a single school year than their district - schooled counterparts.

And while assessment as part of a single study is unlikely to take more than a few hours for any individual participant, there are many large schools and districts in which numerous studies are under way.

That may not appear to be much these days, when a single failed firm may gobble up $ 85 billion in government money, but recall that this was a school district, in 1984, of 37,000 students (it had fallen from 51,000 at the beginning of the case), with a budget of less than $ 100 million.

«The brilliance of what happened in Louisiana is they didn't make a single choice for any school district in the state.

As the city stabilizes, will leaders resist the urge to consolidate power into a single district, instead allowing permanent diversity in schools and school suppliers?

In the lower court's view, Detroit and the suburban districts were merely different components of a single Michigan school system, so district boundaries could be ignored in developing a remedIn the lower court's view, Detroit and the suburban districts were merely different components of a single Michigan school system, so district boundaries could be ignored in developing a remedin developing a remedy.

If a single - salary schedule for a school district yields a large surplus of qualified applicants for elementary education, social studies, and physical education, but no qualified applicants in physics or speech pathology, is teachers» pay in this district adequate?

I've come to view annual testing of kids in reading and math, and the disaggregating and public reporting of their performance at the school (and district) level, as the single best feature of NCLB and the one that most needs preserving.

Developing systems that support teachers in sustained professional learning and refinement of teaching practice is perhaps the single most important way to promote student learning and educational opportunity in schools or districts.

Because «comparable educational opportunities» are difficult to define and expensive to implement, most school districts in this country opted to avoid the inherent hassles of maintaining single - sex schools.

These subgroup ratings weigh heavily in the overall performance rating for a school or district because the rating given by the state is based on the lowest performance on any single criterion (TAAS, dropout rate, attendance rate) for any subpopulation.

In fact, the district - based system (a single public sector operator of schools) that we've had for the last century is extraordinarily rational when viewed from above.

Or will you read ESSA as requiring a «single accountability system,» meaning one - size - fits - all for all schools and districts in the state?

Cost estimates for increasing allocated time in school vary by state, but by one estimate it would cost approximately $ 50 million annually for each district in California to add a single instructional day.

Single - gender education has long been a pillar in the world of private schools, but in the past decade, several big - city school districts have opened all - boys schools designed to improve academic achievement and social - emotional skills for non-white students.