Sentences with phrase «so few school districts»

«While it is welcome news that so few school districts across the state have been classified as in fiscal stress, school officials should remain vigilant and carefully consider how their budgeting decisions will affect their long - term fiscal condition and local taxpayers,» DiNapoli said in a statement.

Not exact matches

More than once I've said here «that there are few jobs on this planet harder than managing a district's school food program» and I've tried hard to explain to disgruntled parents the external forces which make the job so difficult.

In fact, the response was so incredible that we saved a few of those interviews to share with you directly here at Beyond Breakfast, including today's conversation with Laurence Spring, Superintendent of the Schenectady School District in Upstate New York.

Noting that fewer than 1 percent of the students eligible to transfer under the law did so in the 2003 - 04 school year, the GAO found that districts often do not give parents reliable information about their educational options until after the school year has started.

There are also large numbers of classrooms in the [Boston school] district â $» maybe a third â $» where there's very little learning going on because teachers are spending so much time on behavior management, even when it's just a few kids.

Few jurisdictions have passed significant voucher and tax - credit legislation, and most have hedged charter laws with one or another of a multiplicity of provisos — that charters are limited in number, can only be authorized by school districts (their natural enemies), can not enroll more than a fixed number of students, get less money per pupil than district - run schools, and so on.

The department should remember that while many states permit linking teachers to student test scores, few districts actually do so, and that while Virginia and Mississippi have each had a charter law for more than a decade, combined they have only five charter schools.

In Pharr - San Juan - Alamo Independent School District (PSJA), located a few miles from the Mexican border, nearly all high school students are enrolled in college courses so that they work towards an associate's degree while still in high sSchool District (PSJA), located a few miles from the Mexican border, nearly all high school students are enrolled in college courses so that they work towards an associate's degree while still in high sschool students are enrolled in college courses so that they work towards an associate's degree while still in high schoolschool.

For instance, although most of the studies cited above do include statistical controls for peer effects (the mean characteristics of other student in a class or school), very few states or districts do so when generating value - added estimates.

There is an anti-charter narrative so strong that it defies reason, and few illustrate it better than the board of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

A few years ago, the school district was doing so badly on state - mandated tests that it was eligible for takeover by the state.

This may mean breaking down district silos and having fewer points of contact for schools so that they can address challenges more quickly.

«We are proud of the steps New York City has taken in recent years to strengthen tenure but we also recognize that we still don't have a fully fair, efficient system that protects teachers and students,» said April Rose, a fourth grade teacher in Queens, N.Y. «Our vision for tenure is to set a high bar and a clear process, and in doing so, allow district and school leaders to focus on more pressing concerns like reducing attrition among educators in their first few years and creating safe, supportive school environments.»

In the end, Oregon agreed that it would do so beginning in 2013 - 14 — but won't spell out the specifics until after it has tried a couple of approaches in a few pilot school districts during the coming year.

A decreased Title I allocation is challenging for a district because it can result in fewer district schools receiving funds under Title I. Under Title I school allocation rules, many schools with high numbers of low - income children do not receive support from Title I because they are surrounded by other schools that are even poorer, so the Title I money «runs out» before those schools have the opportunity to receive funds.

So why is it that so few schools and districts fail to translate this acknowledgment into a vigorous, systematic, and unapologetic effort to recruit people to our professioSo why is it that so few schools and districts fail to translate this acknowledgment into a vigorous, systematic, and unapologetic effort to recruit people to our professioso few schools and districts fail to translate this acknowledgment into a vigorous, systematic, and unapologetic effort to recruit people to our profession?

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.

On the other, few would say that over the past seven years Booker has been actively involved in decision - making in the district, even when Gov. Chris Christie all but offered him the keys to the schools after the Zuckerberg gift even without the legal authority to do so.

Two of their initial successes — Rhode Island (RI - CAN) and New York (NY - CAN), both states where Achievement First is aggressively trying to expand so that they can meet their goal of having 35 schools in the next few years so that they organization will be larger than 95 % of the school districts in the nation.

The grants are designed to encourage school districts to rearrange responsibilities so that others in the central office assume some of the compliance duties and supervisors have more time to spend with fewer principals.

The grants will allow school districts to restructure workloads so that supervisors have fewer principals to manage, more time to spend in schools and more ability to focus on mentoring and solving problems with their principals, said Jody Spiro, director of education leadership at Wallace.

And because teacher salaries make up about 60 percent or so of the typical district's budget, these data demonstrate some fairly hefty gaps in spending between schools that serve more students of color and those that serve fewer such students.

Traditionally, classes in Virginia schools start the day after Labor Day, but Prince William and some other districts got a waiver to start early because it tallied so many snow days during the past few years.

Peer effect is a critical missing measure in studies that purport to show charter effectiveness (CREDO NJ for example)-- because it's really hard to separate «school effect» from «peer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it through.

With fewer red schools, will the district not take turnaround or restart actions in schools where performance is still so low?

Much of the effective schools» research ignored the role of the district or identified districts as partly to blame for allowing ineffective schools to exist and persist along side a few so - called effective schools (e.g., Edmonds, 1979).

Amid local efforts to improve education outcomes in districts with fewer resources, superintendents expressed worries last year that lawmakers would not pass meaningful school finance reform without a ruling from the Texas Supreme Court ordering them to do so.

In a rebuttal to those who say states should use common tests so that the public can compare how students perform across state boundaries, fewer than one in five public school parents said it was important to know how children in their communities performed on standardized tests compared with students in other districts, states or countries.

If so, you might want to narrow down your focus to a niche that fewer investors, and agents are working, or farm a specific area that has a lot of older homes in need of remodeling, that is in a good school district, etc., and would justify rehabbing.

This school has one of the most progressive principals in teh school district from what I've seen so far and heard from staff parents and friends (giving informative and inspiring daily morning assemblies on the playground which quite a few parents attend) and this school feels more inclusive from what i can tell so far since my child transferred from Fox Elementary in his second half off Kindergarten.