Sentences with phrase «small school districts did»

PARSS began in 1983 as a group of public school superintendents who expressed concern that Pennsylvania students in rural and small school districts did not have access to the same quality of education afforded to students attending school in the more metropolitan areas of the state.

Not exact matches

Our small school district in rural Nebraska does breakfast before school, and although my girls do not go, I would say that it is a nice blend of students (not just economically disadvantaged kids) and works fairly well.

Just to give you an idea of what we do — the core of our customers are small and medium sized public and private schools (or districts) that typically do not have the adequate infrastructure to cook from scratch or the economies of scale in their buying power to source our level of ingredients.

The Cuomo Administration report has angered business groups, who say the study is skewed, and does not look at impacts a two thirds wage hike would have on small business owners, small farms, and local governments and school districts.

The parents and children in Utica and seven other upstate school districts involved in the so - called «Small Cities Lawsuit» say their fight for obtaining more education funding is not done yet.

Compliance with the law is especially difficult for small school districts, most of which do not have an athletic trainer, Olson explained.

In just the D.C. district ANet schools, the increases were smaller — 4 percent in English and 6.6 percent in math — but still better than the improvement of less than 2 percent posted by district schools that didn't partner with ANet.

Further, districts often compound these inequities by distributing a smaller share of unrestricted funds to the same schools that are shortchanged in salary dollars.What we don't yet know about school funding inequalities is whether and how these discrepancies have changed in recent years.

(Almost all the African - American students came from schools with average test scores below the district mean; the few that did not had almost identical average impacts, but the number of available observations was too small to recover precise estimates.)

Lots of educators who decide to create small schools, often by negotiating special arrangements with the local school district, do so because they don't have any confidence that the system can be changed in any real way.

Small school districts may think they don't qualify for the funds because of their size, or because their community is not impoverished.

An important limitation of this measure is that it does not take into account the wide variation in the geographic size of districts (e.g., a small district could be classified as sparse even if it has many schools per square mile and a large district could be classified as dense even if it has very few schools per square miles).

And, second, smaller districts — where most Americans attend school — do not have a sufficient sample size within their own data to detect the hoped - for effects.

And it's the small - to medium - sized districts — which serve nearly half of the nation's public school students — that could benefit the most from this initiative, as they don't have the scale to have much central - office capacity.

«Several schools in each district are assigned as model schools and given a small amount of money from the district or the city to do some action research - style work.

«We actually do think that urban school districts should create smaller schools because it's doing so much for the students,» Wasley explained.

Cruz doesn't credit the district's service focus with all of that success; he maintains it's but one strategy in a larger program that includes keeping schools small, providing tutoring for students, and offering fun after - school classes.

A few years ago, I did a small, informal research project examining the mission and vision statements adopted by the nation's hundred largest school districts to see whether they still view the preparation of students for participation in democratic life as an essential focus of their work.

An increased share of disadvantaged students could affect overall district test scores, but with a gradual demographic shift, changes might be small or imperceptible from year to year and don't necessarily indicate changes in school quality, said Michael Hansen, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.

Commenting on the small differences in satisfaction levels among parents with children in the charter and chosen district sectors, Paul E. Peterson, professor of government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, notes that «chosen district schools serve a smaller percentage of students of color than charters do, and they are more likely to use examinations as entry requirements, while most charter schools must accept all applicants or use a lottery to select among them.»

The opening of a charter school leads to small reductions in enrollment at nearby district schools, but does not change the percentage of students from underrepresented minority groups, special education students, or LEP students.

«Temporary staffing services for substitute teachers,» Max Longhurst an education specialist at the Substitute Teaching Institute at Utah State University noted, «may not be necessary in all areas, particularly in smaller school districts, but they do provide another option for larger systems struggling to provide quality education in the absence of the regular classroom teacher.»

bsallamack - One thing the district has done has been to sacrifice smaller class sizes (now in the mid 20's and up) to keep as many counselors in the schools as possible.

Synthia loves the smaller class sizes saying she didn't want her daughter to get drowned out in the larger district schools.

We'd be remiss if we didn't mention that WNYC recently did its own dive into the data to find out if charters or districts are better at retaining their students — and they found that in NYC, across all grades, a smaller percentage of charter students transferred out of their schools than did students at district schools.

While district officials complain that New Jersey «s interpretation of the No Child Left Behind Act makes little sense in the small schools in their district — unfairly penalizing schools with a few students who are struggling — they have not done much by way of response.

Our entire intention behind this school is not just to make a small impact for a small community, but to create a model for what could be done at other district schools.

77 percent agree that small charter schools should receive additional incremental funding, just as small district schools do;

Mark Hovatter, chief facilities executive for the district, said, «I am a parent and I love the parent center projects because it costs a small amount of money and we do something that is so critical for the schools.»

At CCE, we are doing our small part with our Massachusetts Personalized Learning Network, comprised of urban public in - district schools that are designed around 21st - century innovative principles such as competency - based progression, anytime / anywhere and engaged learning, personal learning pathways, and robust performance assessments.

In Ohio, we have been working with more than 60 districts on a continuous improvement framework that helps districts and schools focus on doing a few small, but powerful, practices.

Federal School Improvement Grants are usually passed through the state and on to school districts, but small rural districts often don't have the capacity to administer the grants themsSchool Improvement Grants are usually passed through the state and on to school districts, but small rural districts often don't have the capacity to administer the grants themsschool districts, but small rural districts often don't have the capacity to administer the grants themselves.

Teachers in a small, southwest Kansas school district have decertified from the state's main teachers union, the fifth group of teachers to do so in the past year.

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Schools that do not get federal poverty money and have decent grades will have to make smaller changes that can be monitored by district administrators.

While the argument could be made that smaller school districts must spend more on non-teachers because certain positions are necessary regardless of a district's size, that does not translate with the data we have found.

Even with 60 new schools, charters would make up a smaller proportion of all schools at CPS than they do at some other large urban districts — in New Orleans, for example, about 70 percent of schoolchildren attend charters.

``... [NYC] charter schools enroll a smaller percentage of special education students than do district schools.

The District is a relatively small city and allows its students to ride Metrobus or Metrorail at no cost through the Kids Ride Free program, but does not offer public school transportation.

Denver, Chicago and Cleveland have embraced school choice on a smaller scale, but none give as much freedom — to parents and campuses — as New Orleans does: About 84 % of its 42,000 public school students attend charters, the largest share of any district in the U.S.

«I don't think large is inherently bad,» CMS Superintendent Clayton Wilcox told Policy Watch Wednesday, hours after a legislative study committee dominated by Republicans convened to consider whether students in mammoth districts like CMS and Wake County Schools, the state's largest school system, would be better served by smaller districts piloted by local municipalities.

The legislature was focused on the problems in Denver and other Front Range school districts, taking little notice of the good work being done in the rest of Colorado, particularly in Colorado's small, rural schools.

Green Dot had a vision of creating small, successful charter schools and in doing so, demonstrating to the school district and the public - at - large that there was a more effective way to provide public education to low - income, high - risk youth.

Such as, «In (insert your local school district) Prop. 30 funds have allowed us to (insert what you've been able to do with the funding like negotiate for smaller class sizes, rehired XX teachers and counselors, restored salary cuts with an increase of XX %, reinstated music, P.E. and art, etc.).»

We need to carefully weigh the quality of each Charter School against the resources available within the district, recognizing that some students will do better in a smaller setting.

School districts were forced to reduce average class size in part to pay for teachers of special education students, who require small class sizes, and they will have to continue to do that.

CRPE has launched a small study of how independent, district, and charter high schools minimize student attrition and admit and integrate new students to replace those who do leave.

Of the state's 115 local school boards, only a few small rural districts don't pay any additional supplements on top of the state's base salary.

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.

«Smaller school district teachers have to be trained in all areas they teach, so they meet highly - qualified status, or they have to hire more people to do the job,» Smith said.