Sentences with phrase «surrounding school districts»

Those programs include early - childhood programs for the state's 16 largest and neediest cities, school library improvements, 16 urban charter schools, and additional funding for magnet schools to attract students from surrounding school districts.

Kansas City schools were already predominantly minority, and the Supreme Court had ruled in the Detroit case that surrounding school districts not found guilty of segregation could not be pulled into a case to provide more white students for desegregation.

This problem is magnified in Dallas (and other surrounding school districts in North Texas), where in each of the past three years, Dallas Independent School District has lost nearly 20 percent of its teacher workforce, requiring the district to hire on average about 2,000 new teachers every year.

Unlike other Massachusetts charter schools that are viewed with hostility by their traditional counterparts, Phoenix has a collaborative relationship with surrounding school districts.

On Sunday, the Houston Chronicle published a front page story about improvements to school food in Houston ISD and surrounding school districts.

They're among the highest in the entire state, and the local school district has double the budget of most of the surrounding school districts!

As a result, most Michigan charter schools are completely autonomous from the surrounding school districts, and it is difficult for school districts to block their entry.

This type of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is significant variation in student demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the issue at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and racial sorting.

By 2005, nearly 20,000 students in Milwaukee (nearly a fifth of the surrounding school district) used a public voucher to attend one of more than 100 private schools.

One of them is I.O.U. (It's On Us, Miami), funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to educate parents about the issues affecting children within the surrounding school district.

None of the surrounding school districts would take them.

Would you like for MCPS to share your application with surrounding school districts that may be seeking qualified candidates?

Typically teacher candidates are restricted to surrounding school districts to complete field experiences during this period of preparation to allow for postsecondary supervision.

Before joining CRSS, she was a reporter for more than 18 years at the Houston Chronicle, spending 13 of those years covering K - 12 education in Houston and surrounding school districts.

Still Phoenix Academies illustrate one of the important innovations that have emerged from the charter school movement, and that not all charters are at odds with their surrounding schools districts.

Their study focused on 10 of Edison's oldest schools — all operating for at least four years — and compared student test data from the Edison schools with data on schools in the surrounding school districts as well as with state and national norms on standardized tests.