Sentences with phrase «schools over more than a decade»

Three consecutive Indianapolis mayors from both sides of the political aisle have strategically built — with robust private funding — a system of high - quality charter schools over more than a decade.

Not exact matches

«A trade war could lead to more than a year's worth of lost wage growth over the next decade,» says Kent Smetters, director of the Budget Model and a professor at the Wharton School of Business.

The Association of Theological Schools (ATS), which includes more than 270 institutions in the US and Canada, found that extension enrollment has dipped by about 26 percent over the past decade, according to self - reported and adjusted figures, while online numbers have more than doubled.

Ivan Lafayette, the former legislator who served the Jackson Heights and Woodside area for more than three decades, has endorsed school teacher and activist Daniel Dromm over incumbent City Councilwoman Helen Sears (D - Jackson Heights) in the race for the 25th District seat.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

The city school system — the largest of its kind in the country — is on the verge of dramatic change, and Gov. Cuomo has bet his second term on an aggressive campaign to transform a system he claims has failed more than 250,000 students over the past decade while state bureaucrats twiddled their thumbs.

Education Week is reporting on an Empire Center's report that says over the past decade «public schools hired nearly 15,000 teachers and almost 9,000 administrators, guidance counselors and other support workers over the last 10 years as enrollment dropped by more than 121,000 students.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» Azzopardi said.

«Over the last decade, we've transformed the landscape in city schools, giving parents more high - performing options than ever before and delivering historic gains for our students,» said DOE spokesman Devon Puglia.

In the teeth of the worst recession in decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real education.

And Mr. de Blasio's control of city schools was unmistakably questioned, more than a decade after the state granted his predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg, authority over education.

People who ate a diet high in nuts and legumes, low - fat dairy, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables and low in red and processed meat, sugar - sweetened beverages and sodium were at a significantly lower risk of developing chronic kidney disease over the course of more than two decades, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.

It is for all these reasons and more that President Barack Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 on December 13, 2010, a law that will not only change the nutritional guidelines of the 65 - year - old National School Lunch Program, but will also provide the program's first noninflationary budget increase in more than three decades; a total of $ 4.5 billion over 10 years, which includes an additional 6 cents per meal, per child.

Now more than a decade old, at various times the school tried consensus - based governance and failed, struggled to get teachers to collaborate on instructional strategies, and butted heads over race and student favoritism.

Disagreement over the governance of Newark schools goes back more than two decades; the state took over the district in 1995 after documenting years of academic failure, unsafe buildings, corruption, and lavish spending by elected school board members.

Not only are people inclined to like their local schools more than schools across the nation, but we see a clear upward trend in the percentage of the public awarding their schools either an A or a B. Over the course of the decade, the shift upward has been from 43 % to 55 %.

If just one - tenth of one - percent of these funds find their way into charter school development projects, that would mean $ 6 billion in new capital going towards charter construction — nearly three times the amount of investment that the NMTC program spurred over more than a decade.

She said: «For me, I do worry that a return to more selection risks undermining the progress that we have seen over the course of the last decade in our schools, by throwing something else into the education debate rather than focusing on every school offering an excellent education.»

Privileging DPS stability over charter schools was a deal breaker for the reform - minded forces that DeVos had been helping grow for more than two decades, and they wielded considerable influence in reshaping the law.

Private school choice is already spreading across the country, with states tripling the number of programs over the last decade to more than 60 today.

It comes more than three weeks after the Federal Government announced it would increase its school funding offer by $ 18 billion over a decade.

The Youth Sport Trust's annual survey is just one example from more than forty research projects undertaken over the last decade that provide evidence for the positive impact that effective school sports provision can make.

Farsaii has pioneered a 1 - to - 1 laptop program in the Irving Independent School District for more than a decade, serving over 10,000 students annually.

Enrollment in educator preparation programs has dropped by more than 70 percent over the last decade, and has fallen below the number of estimated hires by school districts around the state.

But it's difficult not to think of what could have been had he used his formidable gifts and intellect to help the school district in more productive ways than litigation over the past three decades.

On top of that level of taxpayer spending over the past several decades, «Philanthropists have poured more than $ 120 million into the school system since 2007,» the Post reports.

Over the course of two decades we have partnered with more than half of New York City's 1,750 - plus public schools.

In addition to more than eight out of 10 high school students graduating on time, the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade and minority students have led the way in increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly strict.

The state, which took over the McDowell public schools nearly a decade ago, has failed to make much of a dent in the county's abysmal test scores and a dropout rate more than three times the national average.

Asked about the «increased focus on standardized testing and data in public schools over the past decade,» 33 percent feels that it has «had little effect,» while 36 percent believes it has «actually done more harm than good.»

In a brainstorming session Tuesday that was described in the agenda as discussing «vision elements and core values» rather than specifics of the strategic plan, the school board was led by Jeff Nelsen of Targeted Leadership Consulting who has coached more than 2,000 principals and school leaders over the past decade.

Over the last decade, the number of L.A. charter schools has more than tripled.

And Mr. de Blasio's control of city schools was unmistakably questioned, more than a decade after the state granted his predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg, authority over education.

More than 70 percent of public school parents said that they believed the scores will likely be the same or higher than previous years» scores on the completely different California Standards Tests that students had been taking for over a decade.

In January, Schools Week revealed that more than 1,200 schools in England have not had a full inspection in seven years, and more than 100 have been left alone for over a Schools Week revealed that more than 1,200 schools in England have not had a full inspection in seven years, and more than 100 have been left alone for over a schools in England have not had a full inspection in seven years, and more than 100 have been left alone for over a decade.

For over a decade Sean acted, directed and designed sets for the Interact Story Theatre, a professional theatre company that has served more than 4,000 schools, museums, libraries, and festivals around the world.

In terms of optimism over whether schools are better than a decade ago, countries such as China, India, South Korea and Vietnam were much more likely to think schools had improved.

«Over the next decade we will hire more than 2 million teachers for America's schools.

K12's award winning curriculum serves more than 2,000 schools and school districts and has delivered more than four million courses over the past decade.

When it comes to education reform, perhaps no city has inspired more controversy and acclaim over the last decade than Washington, D.C. Even today, uttering the name «Michelle Rhee» — the city's first schools chancellor appointed in 2007 after a major shakeup in the district — still evokes heated reactions from local residents.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

Dawn has over two decades of experience working to improve curriculum and teaching in schools and districts in more than 25 states.

For more than a decade, the debate over public school reform has created friction between teachers unions, administrators, school boards, parents, policymakers, and other stakeholders in public education and has fueled disagreements over how to improve the quality of teaching and learning for children.

By Barnett Berry and Patrick M. Shields Over the next decade, we will recruit and hire more than 2 million teachers for America's schools.

Over the last decade, more than 1,800 Catholic schools have closed or consolidated.

This equates to more than $ 72 million in lost funding to charter schools, a number that could be as large as $ 200 million if charter schools continue growing as they have over the past decade.

Over the last decade, the number of charter schools has more than tripled.

A little over a decade ago, Chicago Public Schools began tracking the number of freshmen failing two or more classes who had a 10 percent absence rate or more than eighteen unexcused absences in a year.

The NHSC's ruling today takes some wind out of the sails of the Florida School Boards Association (FSBA), which is inexplicably suing the Sunshine State over its more - than - decade - old scholarship tax credit law, in a complaint that mirrors the legal reasoning of the NH petitioners.

New schools and renovation projects have totaled $ 650 million over the past decade, more than any other school system in the state.