Sentences with phrase «students on a priority basis»

This is new — after the budget cuts, LAUSD could only enroll a small number of students on a priority basis.

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In a statement, Cuomo's spokesman Rich Azzopardi said, «The governor's priority is providing education funding based on the number of students it helps, not growing the education bureaucracy to serve the demands of the special interests.

Speaking further, Bichi who said one of the factors responsible for the mass failure, examination malpractices and cultism in Nigerian schools from primary to tertiary level is the misplacement of priorities by the governments, parents, teachers and students blamed the problems on the absence of Social Workers who can help to discover students» potentials and guide them based on their uniqueness.

# 3: Place a high priority on activities that connect students with one another and school staff, including adviser - advisee times, advisory periods and class meetings, cross-age, interest - based activities in and after school, and meaningful service projects.

Removing the need for paper - based evidence and portfolios, and offering technology such as smartphone apps will help to put the power back into teachers» hands and reduce the overall burden, allowing them to focus on the main priority: teaching their students.

If the school can not accommodate all families applying for that grade, then the algorithm makes tentative assignments based on the school's priority groupings (e.g., whether the student lives within the school's broad catchment area) and students» lottery numbers.

Her work centers around five essential school priorities: • Supporting school leadership • Using data transparently for accountability • Coordinating a multitier system of support • Providing embedded professional development based on best practices • Engaging parents and families This free one - hour webinar is sponsored by Learning Ally, a national nonprofit providing resources, training, and technology for teachers and schools; and 80,000 human - voiced audiobooks for students with learning & visual disabilities.

Second, particularly in states operating Title I under the statutory provisions, individual students may be selected to receive supplementary educational services or priority for school choice options on the basis of their family's low income.

Funding for Student's Sake: How to Stop Financing Tomorrow's Schools Based on Today's Priorities In this essay Marguerite partners with Larry Miller (CRPE) and Suzanne Simburg, to discuss how new funding and allocation models can encourage productive local decision making and how states can seize the rare opportunity many now...

Accordingly, they place high value on priorities such as staffing their faculty with doctorate - level researchers, giving their professors academic freedom regarding how they structure their courses, expanding their course offerings, and awarding degrees based on students» completion of seat - time - based credit hours.

How it works: the state identifies its bottom five percent of schools based on their students» performance on standardized tests and marks them «priority schools,» placing them within the state - controlled Achievement School District with the goal of lifting them up into the state's top 25 percent within five years.

With more school statistics than previously available, the site allows students, parents and community members to «evaluate schools based on their priorities, rather than simply by last year's test scores,» Baesler said.

However, when the program is comparing two students who have applied to the same selective high school, the decision is made based on the school's order of priority for the applicants.

The 2013 initiative gave $ 5,000 to teachers with high «value added» scores, based on student test scores, who agreed to stay in the state's «priority schools» for another school year.

Tennessee's 83 priority schools are defined as those in the bottom 5 percent based on student - proficiency rates.

Our policy priorities are based on research, both locally and nationally that show that an emphasis on early interventions for at - risk students and increased access to educational options are straightforward, effective means of improving academic performance for all students.

This chapter of «student Supports: Getting the Most out of Your LCFF Investment,» details how school districts can establish or expand their own school - based health centers to support progress on the LCFF priorities.

TODAY»S FEDERAL REGISTER: PRIORITIES FOR CHARTER SCHOOL GRANTS: The Education Department is pondering whether grants to nonprofit organizations that run charter school projects [http://1.usa.gov/17v5Lqz] should be weighted based on whether they improve efficiency through economies of scale, improve accountability, recruit and serve students with disabilities and English - language learners more effectively and combine technology - based instruction with classroom teaching.

Such an educational system would be based on student performance as its cornerstone, with the enhancement and progress of this performance on all levels being a top priority.

Districts could request the collaborative's help, or a county office and the state superintendent might assign the collaborative based on a district's failure to show improvement in priority areas, especially for high - needs students receiving extra money under the formula.

The 2010 program's «absolute priority 1» required districts to set up performance - based compensation systems tied closely — though exactly how closely was not specified — to student growth as measured by performance on standardized tests.

The money is for public schools on a competitive basis, with priority given to those on the Governor's Office of Student Achievement's persistently low - performing list.

During the session, experts will share information on specific provisions in ESSA that can be used to bolster states» school leadership investments, especially for the lowest - performing schools, schools with large, persistent achievement gaps, and other schools identified as a state priority based on other crucial indicators of school capacity and performance and student success.

We enroll students based on school priority and schedule, but definitely want to match you to a student that you feel comfortable tutoring.

Students must be identified and served, on a priority basis, based on multiple, objective, and educationally - related criteria.

Reaching understanding across the school district community on which needs represent the highest priorities for action based upon the potential to improve overall student and school performance and growth;

There is no entrance criteria or qualifications; students who live in the immediate area are given first priority and then seats are awarded on a first - come, first - served basis.

Political challenges and other education priorities have also led to slower progress toward implementing additional evaluation policies, particularly the use of student growth measures based on state assessments in evaluating teachers.59 60 States have responded to public backlash by decreasing the weighting of value - added scores or other student growth measures in teacher evaluation ratings.

Rokita concluded the hearing by affirming that empowering states and school districts to develop evaluation systems based, in part, on student achievement would remain a top priority for the committee.

Great classroom teachers understand that classroom learning success is based on a variety of key elements, with positive relationships with students being the highest priority.

Approves and periodically reviews a district plan to build collaborative relationships with key stakeholders at all levels based on gaining support for student achievement as the district's top priority.

Based on my own experiences working within a law society and in the field of legal malpractice insurance, I'm not sure that this priority has always been sufficiently emphasized in lawyer training and I was therefore quite pleased to hear that law students and articling students were both this week hearing of the importance of integrity in their professional lives.

I agree with this priority, but based on my experience explaining the system to students, lawyers, and the public, I think the ways the laws are published is confusing and creates barriers to access.