Sentences with phrase «targeted urban districts»

Much of the aid targeted urban districts with heavy concentrations of low - income and special - education populations.

Not exact matches

And although charters enroll only 5 percent of America's K - 12 students, to the cash - strapped, high - poverty urban districts that have been targeted for charter expansions, that number represents a shift of roughly $ 38.7 billion per year in lost tax dollars and mass closings of neighborhood schools.

Howell neglects to mention that among the 14 largest urban districts in Massachusetts, Worcester had the second highest percentage (68 percent) of schools meeting state targets for making «adequate yearly progress» under the law; the statewide average was 48 percent.

«The charter school industry has targeted our relatively small urban district with an over-saturation of charters that causes a financial drain, without concern for the impact on the majority of students who will continue to attend the public schools.»

One of the large, low - SES urban districts in our sample, for example, had been classified under AYP regulations as in need of district - level intervention by the state, because so many of its schools were not meeting AYP targets.

There also are serious concerns about many urban districts clustering special education students and over-classifying young men of color inappropriately, all of which call into question what kinds of targets are appropriate to set for any school to meet.

In one high - performing midwestern urban district, for example, two schools became a focus for district intervention during the final year of our study because they failed to meet AYP targets (the first two schools to be designated in that status).

Their investments in CMO growth have been targeted to specific urban school districts that have been considered difficult, if not impossible, to reform.

The state's big - spending lists also always include a few so - called Abbott districts, the high - poverty urban districts targeted under the state Supreme Court's Abbott v. Burke rulings.

Poor - performing urban districts, more than suburban and rural schools, often are targeted for takeover by their respective states, as documented in some recent cases:

Location: Escondido, CA Setting: Urban School Type: District Targeted Grades: 9 - 12 Number of Participating Students: 501 - 1,000 Number of Participating Teachers: Less than 10 Curriculum Areas: Literacy, Science

Alternatively, no - excuses charter schools have sprung up in a number of urban, heavily minority districts around the country, targeting their efforts at the populations of disadvantaged students in those locations.

Settings: Urban and Suburban School Types: District, Charter Targeted Grades: 6 - 12 Number of Participating Students: More than 1,000 Number of Participating Teachers: More than 200 Curriculum Areas: All

One of my biggest issues about Adamowski has been that he targets urban (or minority) school districts for his so - called reforms that amount to no more than institutionalized racism.

Leading Educators also provides targeted Strategic Support Initiatives on a contract basis to districts in Denver, Houston, Washington, D.C., and New York City, and in partnership with the Academy for Urban School Leadership, and Teach for America.

Settings: Urban, Rural, Suburban School Types: District, Charter Targeted Grades: K - 8 Number of Participating Students: More than 1,000 Number of Participating Teachers: 51 - 200 Curriculum Areas: Global Languages, Literacy, Math

The rapid formation of ten Districts illustrates the value of this private - sector led approach to transform the urban core of cities and meet impressive emissions reduction targets.

It joins a network of 2030 Districts working to meet the energy, water and vehicle emissions reduction targets for existing urban areas and -LSB-...]

Our portfolio is mainly comprised of multi-tenant, Class A office properties located in dense, urban areas or central business districts, mixed - use retail or grocery - anchored centers in high barrier - to - entry locations featuring credit - quality anchors, as well as Class A multifamily properties, including student housing assets, strategically positioned in our target markets and in high - demand locations.