Sentences with phrase «schools in your geographic area»

Chartering showed that the district does not need to own and operate all public schools in a geographic area.

For eons, the plot was the same: the district owns and operates all public schools in a geographic area.

For a century, that term meant having one government operator of schools in each geographic area, purposely similar schools, kids assigned to schools based on home address, and schools existing in perpetuity regardless of performance.

Project Appleseed says realtors often have information about the reputation of particular schools in a geographic area.

Let's assume a conservative estimate of six schools in your geographic area, each with 400 students.

Not exact matches

School desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the SSchool desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the Sschool district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the South).

Traditionally, everyone had one public school to which they were assigned on the basis of where they lived with elementary schools being more numerous and in smaller geographic catchment areas than middle schools than high schools.

Lead author Maria Panteli, from Queen Mary's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, said: «This is the first study to investigate outliers in world music with such a large scale and tracing the geographic origin of these recordings could help identify areas of the world that have developed a unique musical character.»

We can not adjust for more local differences, such as by catchment area, so it is possible that some of the differences identified in Table 2 are due to differences in the geographic placement of these schools within districts.

In other words, the geographic placement of charter schools practically ensures that they will enroll higher percentages of minorities than will the average public school in the nation, in states, and in large metropolitan areaIn other words, the geographic placement of charter schools practically ensures that they will enroll higher percentages of minorities than will the average public school in the nation, in states, and in large metropolitan areain the nation, in states, and in large metropolitan areain states, and in large metropolitan areain large metropolitan areas.

Through the Isolated Children's Parents» Association, or ICPA, thousands of parents in Australia's tiniest towns and remote areas can bend the ears of national politicians and state education leaders who make the rules for schools in a nation similar in geographic...

The Ritter team reanalysis instead compared the racial enrollment of charter schools to that of central - city schools, describing it as «the best available unit of comparison,» and argued that the geographic concentration of charter schools in urban areas merits a comparison of schools located only within urban districts.

By contrast, public schools almost exclusively enroll students who live in the geographic area surrounding the school.

If there is competition among many public school districts and private schools in a given geographic area, the schools will offer better services at a lower cost.

But the aspect I'm most concerned about relates to governance, whether the public — the adults in the geographic area served by the system of schools — is able to shape the contours of the system.

Such reasonable growth is supported by the NewSchools Venture Fund in San Francisco, which announced in 2007 that it would focus its current wave of funding on Achievement First, Lighthouse Academies, Uncommon Schools, and a handful of other centrally managed CMOs that are growing within specific geographic areas.

Another project led by Umaña - Taylor is a longitudinal study of adolescents in two different high schools in two distinct geographic areas — Michigan and Arizona — which poses the question:

We should not expect that any one school will be able to meet the needs of every child who happens to live in a certain geographic area.

LEAs may use for this purpose either the same source of data used to select and allocate funds among public schools (i.e., usually free or free and reduced - price school lunch data) or one of a specified range of alternatives, such as data from an income survey of private school families, private school scholarship applications, or estimates based on the assumption that the percentage of students attending a private school who are from low - income families is the same as that for public school students who reside in the same geographic area.

«It doesn't make sense to put too much of anything — whether it's Starbucks, or McDonalds, or schools — in the same geographic area, especially when the population base does not support it,» Bewley said.

(September 1, 2015, Columbia, MD) Charter Schools Development Corporation (CSDC) is pleased to announce that it has received a $ 5 million grant under the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Credit Enhancement for Charter Schools Facilities Program that will enable the organization to expand its lending and development capacity to multiple charter schools over a broad geographic area, with a new emphasis on serving schools located in rural commuSchools Development Corporation (CSDC) is pleased to announce that it has received a $ 5 million grant under the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Credit Enhancement for Charter Schools Facilities Program that will enable the organization to expand its lending and development capacity to multiple charter schools over a broad geographic area, with a new emphasis on serving schools located in rural commuSchools Facilities Program that will enable the organization to expand its lending and development capacity to multiple charter schools over a broad geographic area, with a new emphasis on serving schools located in rural commuschools over a broad geographic area, with a new emphasis on serving schools located in rural commuschools located in rural communities.

I've argued in earlier columns that because charter schools aren't bound to geographic zones, they should be strategically placed to integrate areas where racial and economic segregation is reinforced by district lines.

Even if just a handful of students utilized the vouchers, a district such as Hot Springs County — which covers a wide geographic area with one school in each grade span — would face difficult decisions such as reducing classes and course offerings, cutting activities, or reducing student supports to compensate for the reduced funding when students leave.

Because charter schools in many states and districts aren't bound to a particular geographic area, they have more leeway than traditional public schools in deciding where they can locate.

Encourage the National Center for Education Statistics to collect data on teacher recruitment and retention that would allow for a comparative analysis of the teacher shortage in states and districts by school level (elementary, middle, high); subject area; geographic region (rural, suburban, urban); gender; and race.

To express concern regarding the difficulty of school leaders to staff teaching positions in certain subject areas and geographic regions, and to offer policy recommendations that will help ensure each student is taught by highly prepared and effective teachers.

Students would be eligible for district transportation to the school, located at 1402 Pankratz St., if they live in the established geographic attendance areas of the six surrounding elementary schools: Lakeview, Gompers, Emerson, Mendota, Hawthorne and Sandburg.

Sometimes principals meet in cadres or networks organized by school level and geographic area, but most of these cadres are not designed as collegial communities for solving problems collectively or deepening understanding of instructional issues.

At Nexus Academy of Lansing, the Success Highways assessment revealed that students lacked connections with each other — typical for a new school serving a large geographic area — and many had felt bullied in their previous schools.

Although income for educators with teaching certification in Oklahoma will vary depending upon factors such as geographic location, school district, and area of specialization, the state of Oklahoma's minimum teacher salary ranges from $ 31,600 to $ 46,000.

Yet many states face a shortage of teachers, particularly in specific subject areas, geographic regions or high - need schools.

As of last April, every state had reported a teacher shortage in at least one content or geographic area for the 2012 - 13 school year, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Although there is no overall shortage of good, licensed teachers, spot shortages in some specialties and in certain geographic locations DO exist and the unions have not done much to help school boards recruit and retain effective teachers in those areas.

As schools of choice, charters, like magnet schools, could be accessible to students from across a geographic area, rather than limiting enrollment based on what neighborhood a child's family could afford to live in, the way many traditional public schools do.

The papers draw upon different geographic and topical areas of focus — India and the making of a moral panic of child criminality and discourses of girl empowerment, Iran and the making of entrepreneurial subjectivities, and Kenya and the making of the impoverished target of low - fee schooling — in order to challenge traditional constructions of their «fields.»

Based on the demographics and the geographic area, are you outperforming other schools in the area?

Given the wide geographic variation in the density of high - performing school places, the government's # 72 million opportunity areas initiative «seems a positive step towards addressing this challenge», the EPI said.

There are also 4,500 magnet schools throughout the country, public schools that specialize in an area of expertise, and draw students from a wider geographic area.

Adopt area - wide school improvement strategies that connect multiple schools in a defined geographic area with community assets and external partners, and that provide flexibility to schools in the chosen area to innovate in key areas of school operations.

The school was the first charter middle school to serve students in Los Angeles and was so successful and well received by the community, that Dr. Elliot subsequently founded several more schools to serve the same geographic area.

The Centier Bank Performer of the Week is open to any male / female student athlete who participates in any IHSAA sanctioned sport and whose school is in the Centier Bank geographic area.

For instance, he has spoken out against House Bill 1723, which would place a moratorium on the creation of new charter schools, and also to limit the growth of existing institutions in applicable geographic areas.

In addition, Lusher has long guaranteed kindergarten admission to residents of a small geographic area around the school.

Misher emphasized that the main focus of the school would be to develop proficient readers in a geographic area where students» reading proficiency is abysmally low.

To further examine these disparities, this study will shed light on the role of credit constraints in school investments and the role district debt may play in school resource provision and student achievement across varied geographic areas and diverse student populations.

Anderson Union sued when Shasta Charter rented meeting space three days a week at an elementary school located in Anderson Union's geographic area.

The study also identified costs in related areas in response to school district or charter school characteristics including: transportation of students, geographic isolation, state pension system costs and enrollment size.

Addressing these concerns will require OverDrive and our library partners to cooperate to honor geographic and territorial rights for digital book lending, as well as to review and audit policies regarding an eBook borrower's relationship to the library (i.e. customer lives, works, attends school in service area, etc.).

«The population of adults without a high school diploma is as high as 60 percent in some of the geographic areas served by our library system,» says John Szabo, the City Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, which serves over four million people.

I'd not previously realized this more nasty aspect of the publishers» attack on public libraries, requiring «OverDrive and our library partners to cooperate to honor geographic and territorial rights for digital book lending, as well as to review and audit policies regarding an eBook borrower's relationship to the library (i.e. customer lives, works, attends school in service area, etc.).»