Sentences with phrase «statewide district»

Creating a new statewide district will also require a constitutional amendment.

Likewise, officials in New Jersey and Wisconsin have toyed with the idea of statewide districts, but nothing more.

Equity: West Virginia has the third - best coefficient of variation of the 50 states: Only Florida and Hawaii, which has a single statewide district, do better.

States have taken over a lot of districts in the past few decades (think Newark, Oakland, Philadelphia) but only since 2004 and the creation of the Louisiana Recovery School District have there been these hybrid statewide districts.

South Carolina appears on track to enact legislation that would create both a statewide authorizer for charter schools and a new statewide district exclusively for those schools.

In fact, some states, like Tennessee and Louisiana, are putting failing schools in a separate statewide district and handing them over to charter school operators or outside organizations.

Statewide district enrollment is down 1 percent during that same time period.

The current statewide district reimbursement rate for home - to - school transportation, according to Torres, is 38 percent.

Six states (Virginia, Texas, Nevada, Georgia, Mississippi, and Arkansas) have taken concrete steps toward establishment of statewide districts, although Virginia's already - enacted district was struck down by state courts.

Meanwhile, Roberts is planning the execution of the Educational Achievement System, the new statewide district that will take over Michigan's lowest - performing schools.

The statewide district attorneys association has blasted the executive order as unnecessary, and the group is considering potential legal action.

A «rule of construction» in the legislation explains that states can allocate these funds to statewide districts (like the RSD) or consortia of districts so long as these are legally established as LEAs.

The legislation, which emerged late in last year's session, would pull some of the state's lowest - performing schools into one statewide district, which could be operated with charter - like flexibility or handed over to for - profit charter operators to manage.

The Mississippi Board of Education will govern the statewide district, and the committee will decide which school districts are absorbed into the ASD.

It's been three years since Tennessee implemented the Achievement School District (ASD), a statewide district to turnaround the state's lowest - performing schools by pulling individual schools under state control.

In the past decade, the debate over school control has shifted to include «takeover districts» in which schools that are deemed «chronically failing» are removed from the local school district and placed in a statewide district with a separate governance structure that is far less transpar - ent and accountable to the public.

After he won a second term, though, the Republican instead unveiled a proposal to create a statewide district with the power to take over Georgia's most distressed schools.

The state Senate - vetted version approved by the House last week and turned over to the governor will force five low - performing elementary schools, which have not been selected yet, into one statewide district.

Tennessee also shows that statewide districts can affect district - led turnaround efforts, as seen in how Shelby County Schools have made a strong effort to address its low - performing schools.