Sentences with phrase «several large high schools»

Before becoming education secretary in 2009, Arne Duncan was chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, which received $ 20 million from Gates to break up several large high schools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropout rate.

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A large group of Gray High School products — including a five - star and several four - stars in the 2019 class — is expected to be in Ann Arbor in February.

Several other large high schools in the area, including Maine South in Park Ridge and Barrington, use a homeroom program to help students develop an affinity for the school and classmates.

The school is one of several new schools with vocational and academic themes established as part of the 196,000 - student district's efforts to break up larger high schools into...

A recent investigation revealed that several high schools in Washington, D.C., skirted district rules to graduate large numbers of their students who didn't meet the standards for earning diplomas.

The federal government's own comprehensive analysis of Title I, mandated by Congress, conducted by RAND among others, and published in 2007 after several years of NCLB experience, found the largest academic gains since 2000 and 2003 among students in high - poverty schools.

Over the past several years Florida has attempted substantial reforms of its struggling public school system, the fourth - largest in the country and one that consistently ranks close to the bottom on academic indicators, including high - school graduation rates and scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

After a very public courting by several large school systems, Rudolph F. Crew signed a contract last week to head the Miami - Dade County schools, a deal that will make him one of the highest - paid superintendents in the country.

The foundation encouraged urban school districts to close large, dysfunctional high schools and replace them with smaller ones, either in alternative spaces or by placing several schools within the building that once housed the large one.

In recent years, several studies using randomized admission lotteries have found large and persistent impacts on student achievement, even for middle school and high school students.

But it also includes several of D.C.'s large comprehensive high schools: Cardozo (64 percent male), Roosevelt at McFarland (61 percent), and Coolidge (56 percent), as well as Phelps, D.C.'s only selective career technical education school (62 percent).

So what's wrong with the idea of making the four - year college - prep curriculum the default curriculum for all students, as some states have done, or making completion of the curriculum required for admission to a state's four - year public university system a condition of high school graduation, as several large districts in California have done?

In several of the higher - performing districts in our sample (including large urban / suburban as well as rural districts), for example, district leaders and school personnel described recent and ongoing district - wide efforts to support teacher implementation of differentiated instruction.

In one large, high - performing suburban district (i.e., 90 % or more of students in most schools achieving at or above state proficiency standards), district leaders noticed demographic changes occurring in several elementary schools.

As a former high school and middle school principal, she implemented several service learning and community anti-bullying and harassment programs, and worked with large urban districts on building internal leadership capacity and minority leader recruitment.

Their work uncovered that turnover and repeated waves of new teachers create several problems for schools and communities: (1) high turnover schools employ a large number of novice teachers; (2) turnover creates unstable teaching assignments; (3) turnover hinders relationships between teachers, students, and families; and (4) turnover disrupts the social capital needed to support expanded leadership opportunities for teachers.

Atlanta Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Lisa Bracken said the school district has higher costs for several reasons: The expense of city living drives up teacher pay; the district has «low population» schools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligSchools Chief Financial Officer Lisa Bracken said the school district has higher costs for several reasons: The expense of city living drives up teacher pay; the district has «low population» schools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligschools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligations.

He won several large commissions for churches, hospitals and schools in northern England throughout his career, such as St Thomas à Becket School in Wakefield and St Wilfrid's Catholic High School in Featherstone, and taught artists such as Antony Gormley (b. 1950) and Martin Jennings (b. 1957).

Several people are injured after a shooting at a south Florida high school, and the suspect is still at large, police said.

Largest of these is Cahuilla Park, located just north of Claremont High School at Indian Hill Blvd. & Scripps Dr. Within the park are eight tennis courts, a basketball court, a skate park, a picnic area, a playground and several baseball fields.