Sentences with phrase «sometimes by school district»

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One of the primary concerns of the DWPC is one shared by Kingston City School District Superintendent Paul Padalino: Test results sometimes take over a year to be revealed.

Cuomo has argued his $ 1.5 billion cut can be weathered by local school districts without teacher layoffs, and said school funding is sometimes absorbed by the «education bureaucracy.»

A recent study conducted by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), one of the world's largest teacher unions, found that many U.S. school districts routinely practice social promotion, despite public policies — and sometimes laws — meant to prevent it.

The NAEP scores they focus on do not correspond in most of the cases to the relevant years in which the court orders were actually implemented; they ignore the fact that, as in Kentucky, initial increases in funding are sometimes followed by substantial decreases in later years; and their use of NAEP scores makes no sense in a state like New Jersey, where the court orders covered only a subset of the state's students (i.e., students in 31 poor urban school districts) and not the full statewide populations represented by NAEP scores.

Although they're «schools of choice,» they are operated in more top - down fashion by districts, states, or sometimes universities rather than as freestanding and self - propelled institutions under their states» charter laws.

Educational barriers and challenges often vary by region, yet at districts where odds seem disproportionately stacked against student success — such as Jefferson County Schools (JCS) in rural West Virginia — school leaders know that delivering excellence in education requires vision, strategy and, sometimes, complete process overhaul.

Sometimes these are lessons that have been structured by their school district to promote student success on standardized tests.

For example, multiple exams are sometimes given in the same subjects and grades to the same students because not all results yield data by item, grade, subject, student, or school — thereby prompting districts to give another exam in order to get data at the desired level of granularity.

The scholarship allows a student to choose among a list of private schools, and sometimes public schools outside of the district, approved by the school tuition organization.

But I would point to the fact that many teacher preparation programs don't offer future teachers as much clinical training as they ought to receive — especially training in high - needs schools; that districts are by and large not as effective as they might be at teacher induction and professional development; that teachers are generally under - compensated and specific individual excellence isn't rewarded; and that the policy contexts in which teachers work are being constantly revised in ways that are sometimes contrary to research evidence.

Sometimes, courses are designed and taught by experienced teachers in the district.9 Often, the university faculty members who teach courses are involved in local schools and are themselves former teachers.

Yet public school districts have no alternatives; almost all of them are joined by statute to state pension systems (or, sometimes, to their own local pension systems).

Education Savings Accounts (sometimes known as opportunity scholarships) which allow students to have their own personal education accounts funded by a major portion of their state allocation to their public school district, allowing them to choose a variety of private schools, tutors, online learning options and more.

How a student is taught and what materials are used to teach are decisions made by the classroom teacher, school, and sometimes school district.

ISDs — which sometimes go by the name Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA) or Educational Service Agency (ESA)-- work with local school districts, the Michigan Department of Education, business and industry and community groups.

In spite of the many millions of dollars poured into expounding the theory of paying teachers for higher student test scores (sometimes mislabeled as «merit pay»), a new study by Vanderbilt University's National Center on Performance Incentives found that the use of merit pay for teachers in the Nashville school district produced no difference even according to their measure, test outcomes for students.

Bus drivers must have a CDL license and sometimes need other certifications if required by the school district.