Sentences with phrase «story of a public school district»

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I would love to see a round up of success stories from large public school districts that don't have celebrity personalities who can influence school boards and reasonable budgets driving change.

Back in 2004, Spencer Hsu told the story of how the first federal voucher program was launched, when George W. Bush signed legislation providing grants worth as much as $ 7,500 each to children from dozens of public schools in the District of Columbia for their use at private or religious schools in a five - year experiment.

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There are an endless number of interesting stories that could be told with this information, but the one that really stood out to us is that achievement in many of our affluent suburban public school districts barely keeps pace with that of the average student in a developed country.

A story about school construction in urban districts in the July 14, 1999, issue of Education Week misidentified Stan Childress, a Detroit public schools spokesman.

Everyone with a stake in education is encouraged to support this campaign by sharing why they #LovePublicEducation on social media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, et al.); by submitting a story that details the importance of public education, here; by adopting a resolution in support of public education in your own school district (read ours, here.)

In this report, we share our vision behind Transcend + NewSchools Collaborative, how we designed and evolved the program, our key results and lessons learned, and the stories of four participating teams (District of Columbia Public Schools, Gestalt Community Schools, Hiawatha Academies, and Spring Branch Independent School District).

WILL officials suggested the base salary data, obtained from the Department of Public Instruction, didn't tell the whole story because it doesn't account for bonuses and merit pay increases that have surfaced in some school districts since the law was enacted.

Though voucher school proponents love to talk about «choice» and «achievement,» the real story is that these schools do a serious disservice to students, families, educators, public school districts and state taxpayers and we don't want anymore of them in Milwaukee!

In the course of reporting a story about Michelle Rhee, the controversial former District of Columbia chancellor seeking to take her brand of education reform to statehouses across the country, the Los Angeles Times asked her spokeswoman a simple question: Do Rhee's children attend public or private school?

The earlier preliminary look at NAEP TUDA (National Assessment of Educational Progress, Trial Urban District Assessment) biennial results for Atlanta Public Schools (APS; «Atlanta») offered the immediate data story that, in recent years, since 2015, the district's White - Black academic achievement gaps have been made unusuallDistrict Assessment) biennial results for Atlanta Public Schools (APS; «Atlanta») offered the immediate data story that, in recent years, since 2015, the district's White - Black academic achievement gaps have been made unusualldistrict's White - Black academic achievement gaps have been made unusually worse.

Earlier this year, as the truly repulsive story of Mark Berndt (warning: the link is not for the faint of heart)-- an elementary teacher in the L.A. Unified School District accused of committing unspeakable acts against his students — came to light, I noted here on Public Sector Inc. that the failure to prevent his crimes owed in part to the influence of the California Teachers Association, the teachers union that is the state's most powerful special interest.

This roundup of Texas Tribune public education stories has relative information for all school districts at all levels.

The story of Next is unique in that it is the result of a mutually beneficial public - public partnership between a charter school and a traditional school district.

Join Mike Rubino, Boston Public School's (BPS) formative assessment manager, and Deborah Farrington, director of assessment services for Measured Progress, as they share Boston's story of using common district assessments as formative feedback.

(Interestingly, the shoemaker's innovation fund website isn't very current, as its top story is from 2010 and touts the leadership skills of ex-Atlanta Public Schools chief Beverly Hall, who is now embroiled in a cheating scandal that has enveloped her former district.)

In this report, we share our vision behind the program; how we designed and evolved it; our key results; what we learned; and the stories of four participating teams (District of Columbia Public Schools, Gestalt Community Schools, Hiawatha Academies, and Spring Branch Independent School District.)

Clearly a success story, the district was in «restructuring status» in 2009, and now, a few years later, the district is in good standing for academic progress, with Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools ranking in the top 27 percent of Tennessee districts.

Building a Better Pipeline to the Principalship: The SABLE Story In response to a shortage of qualified leaders, the Atlanta Public Schools developed the Superintendent's Academy for Building Leaders in Education (SABLE), which prepares aspiring principals with the specific standards, core values, knowledge and skills required to lead the district's sSchools developed the Superintendent's Academy for Building Leaders in Education (SABLE), which prepares aspiring principals with the specific standards, core values, knowledge and skills required to lead the district's schoolsschools.

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