Sentences with phrase «schools less incentive»

He rejected a measure that would have exempted the state's growing Latino population from testing in English until they had been in California's schools for three years, a proposal he said would give the schools less incentive to teach English quickly.

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Given the attractions of Emily Carr's new campus, as well as the new SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, students would have less incentive to go to Cap.

But this also gives top talent at lesser schools incentive to transfer if they think they have a legitimate shot at PT for a better school.

Naturally, parents are most interested in finding the best schools for their own children; they have less incentive to care about the overall performance of an entire system of schools.

Meanwhile, Jabbar's finding that most schools compete in less - than - impressive ways rings true, but that is largely a product of the incoherent incentives in K - 12 choice settings (see here for an extended discussion) rather than evidence that «competition doesn't work» — which seems to be the take of some observers and outlets.

They save taxpayers money, because the average voucher ends up costing less than educating the same student in public school and because the voucher curbs public - school financial incentives to inflate the special education rolls.

If we accidentally create incentives for schools and teachers to focus solely on academic achievement and ignore the rest, we could be making our children and our nation less competitive, not more so.

If performance is to be rewarded, the unions insist that the rewards go to whole schools rather than individual teachers - which dilutes the impact on teacher incentives, but induces less competition among union members.

And as well as being of questionable effectiveness, incentive schemes often result in unintended and undesirable behaviours on the part of teachers and schools, ranging from the narrowing of the school curriculum, to withholding less able students from testing, to providing inappropriate assistance to students during tests.

In this sense, the very people who should have been most enthusiastic about Catholic schools — the clergy and devout parents — had less and less incentive to save them.

Requiring districts to equalize their state / local spending in each Title I school with the average spending in non-Title I schools can create incentives for districts to adjust which schools they designate as Title I. For example, if a district's lower - poverty Title I schools (which could still be high poverty schools), have new, less - expensive teachers, kicking those schools out of Title I would lower average spending in non-Title I schools.

The main incentive for conservatives to ignore less appealing aspects of the bill and pass it was the inclusion of a provision to allow the portability of Title 1 funds, which many believed important to the School Choice movement.

An individual who holds an active National Board Certificate issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and is assigned as a building administrator, a supervisor in a central office position, or a teacher who is teaching less than 50 percent of the regular school day shall be excluded from the incentive awards.

Ariely examines what makes us more and less likely to cheat, including biases incentives, signed pledges, social dynamics, and other factors that impact honesty in the office, on Wall Street, in schools and everywhere in our lives.

There was arguably less incentive for local authorities, knowing the DfE would fund decent MAT - led schools, to fulfil their duties to meet the need for bums on seats; especially with the «500 free schools over the course of a Parliament» target introduced by David Cameron.

But when all pupils starting school will be entitled to free meals, there will be less incentive for parents to come forward for means - testing.

A host of factors — lack of accountability for school performance, staffing practices that strip school systems of incentives to take teacher evaluation seriously, teacher union ambivalence, and public education's practice of using teacher credentials as a proxy for teacher quality — have produced superficial and capricious teacher evaluation systems that often don't even directly address the quality of instruction, much less measure students» learning.

In fact, like most charter schools, even those in public - private partnerships, receive on average 30 % less per pupil than their traditional school peers whose management has no accountability or incentive to improve student outcomes.

«Otherwise it creates a downward spiral, where every public school has an incentive to convert to a charter and / or every family has an incentive to choose a better - funded charter school, leaving fewer and fewer students — and less and less funding — in the regular school system to cover the legacy costs.»

e. Any incentive for teachers included in a compensation system developed and implemented by a local school division must meet the following criteria: 1) designate incentive payments as a range or tiers for target groups, such as differentiating between the teacher of record or teachers in support positions; 2) have a maximum payment to a teacher of $ 5,000 per year; 3) prorate payments for teachers who have taught for less than a full school year; and 4) performance evaluations for participating teachers must be completed in a timeline that provides sufficient time to distribute incentive funds to teachers and submit reimbursement requests to the Department of Education no later than June 1, 2015, for the first year and June 1, 2016, for the second year.