He added that in
small school districts there is accountability, but not in NYC.
Not exact matches
Whether
small or large
districts, these professionals give it
there all through effective oversight of all aspects of foodservice operations, including budgeting, staffing, training, marketing and community outreach,
school nutrition directors ensure the overall success of
school meal programs.
When the Rochester
School Board decided its superintendent search process would not be open to the public, board President Van White pointed out that
there would still be ample community input in the form of
small focus groups as well as a survey posted on the
district website.
So
there willl continue to be cuts... but especially upstate, they were disproportionately hit in terms of rural
districts and
small city
school districts.»
New Mexico's charter cap shields
small districts from enrollment loss, and as a result, the state's charters cluster primarily in urban settings (51 percent of charter
schools operate
there compared to 21 percent of New Mexico's
district schools) and in suburbs (which host 12.3 percent of the state's charters but only 8.2 percent of its
district schools).
(As of September 2003,
there were 15
small schools in the
district.)
Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or
small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness —
there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by
district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.
In this relatively new and
small school there is a special education teacher, psychologist and therapists made available through collaboration with the public
school district.
Research has shown that beyond very
small schools and
school districts,
there are few opportunities for economies of scale in education because most of the costs increase with enrollments and are not fixed costs that decline with additional clients.
Yes, many will take a course here and
there, but the comprehensive high
school in most suburban
districts and proliferation of
small high
schools in urban systems will continue to enroll the vast majority of eligible teenagers.
While
there has been a gradual increase in the number of
school - based health clinics, which provide preventive and remedial care and even crisis interventions, clinics serve only a
small minority of students, and few states and
districts have policies in place to help them scale up and become sustainable.
The couple's first child was born
there in 1964, but in 1969 Payzant was tapped for his first
district leadership position and came back east to take the reins of a
small, 4,500 - student
school district in Springfield, Pennsylvania.
Because the city is
smaller than many urban
districts,
school leaders could be very selective in choosing from the pool of educators who wanted to come and work
there.
There is growing policy; fiscal and practical support for prosocial educational and
school climate improvement efforts from federal agencies, state departments of education and large and
small districts across America.
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?
There is a
small number of
school districts around the country that have development offices.
This may be a benefit of
smaller schools and
smaller districts —
there's no place to hide someone who is sub par.
The state would have to examine ways to compensate high quality teachers in rural areas where
there may not be a low performing
school to move to, Hall said, otherwise
smaller districts will likely suffer from a lack of quality teachers.
There is a lot of debate about should LAUSD be broken up into
smaller districts, but we have found it is having
small schools that matters,» Suitor said.
There's research that points to positive academic outcomes from both
smaller and larger
school districts, according to Bastian.
Houck says
there may not be improvements
districts became
smaller, but still had large
schools.
She said
there were «some gaps» in broadband access at some
schools, but mostly in
small rural
districts.
In the Delta town of Drew, Mississippi, education advocates say
there aren't enough books to go around four years after state legislators consolidated the
small school system into a countywide
district.
The most interesting conclusion is that
there are several distinct regional
school markets in a
district as
small as DC and they are interrelated with residential / class segregation.
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.
In Maryland, the
small cadre of reformers
there (including the Old Line State branch of 50 CAN and the Center for Education Reform) are looking to rewrite the state's charter
school law, which favors
districts at children's expense.
There are very few
districts such as Raleigh that have at any point actively tried to desegregate
schools by socioeconomic indicators, and the
small size of
districts in many states makes it impossible in a practical sense to try.
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.
Sylmar was at 6 am,
there was damage, but proper repairs were made almost instantly, no whining over budget restrictions.Whitter Narrows was at 8 am, a
small school district, parents just dropping off kids whom they just snatched up and took home.Current concern is over the many charter
schools who are moving into temporary start - up quarters which may not be up to code.To not build
schools to code is uncivilized.
Typically the areas where
there is
small to no discount are the higher income areas or areas with good
school districts.