Sentences with phrase «small school districts also»

Not exact matches

The company works mainly with wineries, but has also designed apparel for school districts, small and large companies, hospitals, fire departments, sports teams and municipalities.

Easton, with AQE, says he's also hopeful about a newer lawsuit, filed in 2014 by eight small city school districts in New York, now winding its way through the courts.

NYSUT, meanwhile, backed a study to determine whether any changes to the funding formula is necessary, which would also take into consideration the impact on a small school district when a resident receives a windfall through inheritance or winning the lottery — a factor that throw aid formulations out of whack in areas with few wealthy people.

Easton said he's also hopeful about a newer lawsuit, filed in 2014 by eight small school city districts in New York, which is now winding its way through the courts.

Maintaining dozens of small school districts in a metropolitan area, each with its own highly paid administrators and transportation budgets, is also extremely costly.

School districts also have the smallest staffs when compared to other authorizers (proving my point, I'd argue, that districts weren't designed and will never have the right mindset to authorize at the highest levels).

Oklahoma also makes adjustments in its formula for small schools, different grade levels, teacher experience and education, and the geographic isolation of districts.

[10] To these two we can add MDRC's study of small high schools in New York City, which also showed positive effects and could be used by districts for struggling high schools.

The center also plans to work with school districts throughout the region to create as many as 20 new small schools over the next five years.

«The New England Center for Small Schools will not only support existing small schools, but also provide resources for schools and districts interested in reinventing and reorganizing old systems.&rSmall Schools will not only support existing small schools, but also provide resources for schools and districts interested in reinventing and reorganizing old systems.Schools will not only support existing small schools, but also provide resources for schools and districts interested in reinventing and reorganizing old systems.&rsmall schools, but also provide resources for schools and districts interested in reinventing and reorganizing old systems.schools, but also provide resources for schools and districts interested in reinventing and reorganizing old systems.schools and districts interested in reinventing and reorganizing old systems.»

Having their initial application for federal funds denied was «heartbreaking,» said Calhoun County Schools E-rate coordinator Kim Poteete, who also serves as the small district's alternative schools director, crisis managment coordinator, discipline committee chair, and federal programs coordSchools E-rate coordinator Kim Poteete, who also serves as the small district's alternative schools director, crisis managment coordinator, discipline committee chair, and federal programs coordschools director, crisis managment coordinator, discipline committee chair, and federal programs coordinator.

Most of the best - performing school districts in his ranking were small, and many of them were also made up of charter schools.

The state also makes an adjustment for districts with small schools, different grade levels served, and teacher experience.

I also find that charter school entry has only a small impact on the probability of students exiting nearby district schools.

It also appears that charter schools may have small, negative effects on absenteeism at nearby district schools.

For our analysis of the relationship between district improvement efforts and state influences (see also section 3.3), we focused mainly on the small - to medium - sized districts, given that more than 90 % of school districts in the United States serve less than 25,000 students, and given our impression that much research on the district role in educational reform is concentrated on the experiences of large, urban districts.

But if there's such a thing as a school district that's too small, is there also such a thing as a district that's too big?

In contrast, a middle school in a small, high - poverty district in one of our southern states also failed to meet AYP targets (the district had a history of adequate, albeit not high performance, across its schools on state proficiency tests).

Testimony will also be provided by representatives from the United Federation of Teachers, New York State School Boards Association, New York State Council of School Superintendents, Conference of Big 5 School Districts, New York State Association of School Attorneys, Small City School Districts and Council of School Supervisors & Administrators.

Seven years ago the high school instituted the use of Odysseyware, in part because of the broad range of electives it offered the small district, and also because of its impressive use of interactive multimedia to demonstrate concepts.

Federal law in postsecondary education must also be a robust source of support for local innovation, research, and implementation of strategies designed to improve teacher and principal effectiveness and include: Evidence - based preparation and professional development; Evidence - based evaluation systems that include, in part, student performance; Alternative certification programs that meet workforce needs; State and school district flexibility regarding credentials for small and / or rural schools, special education programs, English learners and specialized programs such as science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics; and Locally - determined compensation and teacher and principal assignment policies.

As the district expands this approach into other schools, schools are also paying smaller supplements to teachers on teams led by excellent teachers.

The researchers will also establish special panels on poverty; preschool; small, medium and large school districts; and geographically isolated districts.

Also, many districts reconstitute (change the faculty and staff) comprehensive schools when they change to small schools, but this was not the case in Boston.

Research also suggests that impoverished regions in particular benefit from smaller schools and districts, and can suffer irreversible damage if consolidation occurs.

We also need a plan to evaluate and scale these assessments up along the way, starting with small pilots in a few schools, with incentives to build demand so that successful ideas reach more students in more districts and become worthy alternatives to current high - stakes testing.

District leaders also worked hard to protect the 75 percent of ILD time devoted to schools, even as they faced major structural changes — the merger of Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools, followed by several smaller county municipalities leaving the newly formed dDistrict leaders also worked hard to protect the 75 percent of ILD time devoted to schools, even as they faced major structural changes — the merger of Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools, followed by several smaller county municipalities leaving the newly formed dischools, even as they faced major structural changes — the merger of Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools, followed by several smaller county municipalities leaving the newly formed diSchools and Shelby County Schools, followed by several smaller county municipalities leaving the newly formed diSchools, followed by several smaller county municipalities leaving the newly formed districtdistrict.

This law will also help many high - need areas of the state where the small size of many of the school districts, such as in the Delta, has made the creation of a charter school virtually impossible.

Last week, we told you about Steve Barr's interest in starting pilot schools, which are small schools with under 500 kids that operate within the district but can also obtain waivers from labor agreements — the closest thing to an autonomous charter.

Smaller classes would also prompt a need for new classroom space in many schools and districts, with school administrators complaining they would need to spend millions in local dollars to boost school infrastructure or refit mobile classroom units.

They also complained that giving local school boards greater freedom might harm smaller districts that more heavily rely on ISD services.

The new model also sets out to solve a perennial problem in the fair student funding model: Small schools don't have enough students to generate the funding they need to operate and the district has had to supplement their budgets.

When working in the village schools, Mr. Walker, whose wife also spent many years in the district as a teacher and now works in the main office, said he declared he would never move to Bethel or work out of the district office, because he valued his experiences in the smaller schools.

PPIC also said that the state needs to develop new ways to protect small school districts from the extraordinary costs associated with an unexpected enrollment of one or two SWDs.

And although there are a handful of parent - led groups working hard in the state, what strikes us about the «movement» is that it has taken hold everywhere, in bigger, county and district - wide groups, but also in small, school - centered groups like ours, and among individual parents across the city and state.

A number of principals also pointed to the small size of their districts as an important contributor to positive district - school relations.

Schools are also allowed to shield from charter use rooms not used for classrooms such as Small Learning Community sites, space for district police, regional special educational testing centers, health center clinics, food service and Beyond the Bell programs.

The proposal also includes additional flexibility for districts with schools serving a lot of students with disabilities or English learners, those with small schools, and those with a single school.

We also provide pest control services to a growing number of small to medium - sized businesses, several local restaurants, and just picked up the service for the Greenville County School District.