Sentences with phrase «teachers than a district»

«A district that can put $ 14,000 behind each child can attract different teachers than a district that can put $ 6,000 behind each child,» added Bard.

It alleges that a review of the research on charter schools leads to the conclusions that, overall, charter schools: 1) fail to raise student achievement more than traditional district schools do; 2) aren't innovative and don't pass innovations along to district schools; 3) exacerbate the racial and ethnic isolation of students; 4) provide a worse environment for teachers than district schools; and 5) spend more on administration and less on instruction than public schools.

For example, a district with more black and Hispanic students had lower - ranking teachers than a district with more white and Asian students.

In New York, districts that used only a limited set of recruitment practices hired less qualified teachers than districts that actively recruited candidates.27 However, teacher recruitment by districts remains a poorly researched and poorly understood component of the teacher pipeline.

Not exact matches

Major Arizona school districts in metro Phoenix and Tucson were still closed for the day on Thursday following Gov. Ducey's signing of budget legislation providing more than $ 300 million in raises for many of the state's striking teachers.

Teachers and other staff in public schools are often moved from school to school when allegations emerge, rather than the school attempting to remove the teacher from the district.»

The deal comes hot on the heels of Canada's Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan Board and United States - based Renewable Resources Group purchase of Macquarie Group's owned and operated almond properties, also in the Sunraysia district of north - west Victoria, for more than $ 115 million earlier this month.

Well I should add that my husband is high school teacher (though in a different district than IC), so it isn't too hard to follow education issues.

Schools chief Jean - Claude Brizard upped the ante later in the evening on WTTW's «Chicago Tonight,» saying he would be willing to give elementary school teachers a 2 percent raise this year if it means the district could implement a longer school day this year rather than waiting until next year.

Teachers in the district's three schools are paid about $ 12,000 more than the state average, and the schools offer an array of top - notch educational opportunities, including low class size, foreign language instruction, fine arts and orchestra programs, low - cost preschool and a full - day kindergarten, before - and after - school care, and several extracurricular sports teams.

More than 100 stakeholders, including school food service and nutrition directors, teachers, current students, youth ambassadors, district and school administrators, and representatives of the state departments of education, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Parent Teacher Association, nonprofit organizations, and industry, attended a meeting October 16 - 17, 2014, in Washington, D.C., hosted by the... Read More

More than 100 stakeholders, including school food service and nutrition directors, teachers, current students, youth ambassadors, district and school administrators, and representatives of the state departments of education, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Parent Teacher Association, nonprofit organizations, and industry, attended a meeting October 16 - 17, 2014, in Washington, D.C., hosted by the...

If your school district is anything like my school district, once those teacher assignments come out for the upcoming school year, the feeding frenzy begins and people start interrogating everyone who has a kid older than theirs about teachers.

FAIRPORT, N.Y. — The Fairport Central School District is considering a budget that would cut more than 40 jobs, including 29 teachers.

The district had no training space that could accommodate groups larger than 50 people, limiting its ability to efficiently train larger groups of teachers, offer curricula to a larger population of students, or...

Rochester City School District teachers and staff went door - to - door Thursday, visiting roughly 200 students who missed more than 10 percent of school last year.

Those cuts, in fact, come at a time when there are 15,000 fewer teachers and support staff in New York state public schools than two years ago, and as districts statewide expect to lay off at least 10,000 more employees in 2011 - 12.

Ivan Lafayette, the former legislator who served the Jackson Heights and Woodside area for more than three decades, has endorsed school teacher and activist Daniel Dromm over incumbent City Councilwoman Helen Sears (D - Jackson Heights) in the race for the 25th District seat.

Long Island's 126 school districts pay into the third state pension fund - the Teachers» Retirement System, which operates on a different fiscal year than the other two systems.

New York, NY — More than 500 district school parents rallied outside City Hall today to demand answers from Mayor de Blasio about the Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR).

New York City spends more money on fringe benefits for teachers and other education personnel than any other school district in country, according to a new study.

The suit mentions the Common Core curriculum, noting additional federal funds districts have received through Race to the Top have constituted less than one - third of the amount needed for proper implementation, and the state has so far not provided additional funds to cover that cost, or the additional costs of the new teacher performance evaluation requirements.

«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

Quinn was particularly critical of the health benefits currently in place for Buffalo teachers, which he said cost the district more than $ 19,000 per policy each year.

Teachers in the Kingston City School District returned to the classroom this year with more to think about than usual.

Cuomo has charged the panel with examining everything from teacher recruitment and performance, to whether the current school calendar is appropriate, and how the state's more than 700 school districts are structured.

Carl Korn, a spokesman for New York State United Teachers, the state's largest teachers union, said that since so few districts must renegotiate the plans, the process will be «a bit more manageable» than if all districtsTeachers, the state's largest teachers union, said that since so few districts must renegotiate the plans, the process will be «a bit more manageable» than if all districtsteachers union, said that since so few districts must renegotiate the plans, the process will be «a bit more manageable» than if all districts had to.

Students In High Poverty Districts More Than Twice as Likely to be Taught by Non-Effective Teachers

The repeal bill would make school districts» use of state assessments in evaluating teachers and principals optional rather than mandatory, and would allow districts to use alternative exams of their own choosing, provided such tests were approved by the commissioner.

Twenty - three percent of public school teachers and administrators in New York school districts outside New York City were paid more than $ 100,000 during the 2016 - 17 school year, according to data added today to SeeThroughNY.

Superintendent Nancy Carney said 26 teachers have agreed to retire early, which she estimates will save the district more than $ 2 million in 2016 - 17.

He does addition and subtraction and he's on a level higher than his class,» said Davis, who serves as the parent teacher association president at the co-located District 75 school that serves students with special needs.

New research from the National Bureau of Economics confirms what teachers have always known: Money does make a difference for schools, and districts with large proportions of high - need students need comparatively more money than districts with fewer high - need students.

From the late 1990s to the early aughts school districts were putting in less than one percent of teachers» salaries, while teachers contributed around 3 percent because the economy was doing well.

A median is a midpoint, with half of the teachers in a given district being paid more than the median, and half being paid less.

«By working together and recognizing their shared responsibility to all Los Angeles public school students, United Teachers Los Angeles and the district were able to keep more than 4,000 teachers in classrooms, preserve early childhood education and prevent class - size increases,» said AFT President Randi WeiTeachers Los Angeles and the district were able to keep more than 4,000 teachers in classrooms, preserve early childhood education and prevent class - size increases,» said AFT President Randi Weiteachers in classrooms, preserve early childhood education and prevent class - size increases,» said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

Understanding students in the Syracuse City School District is easier said than done, especially if a teacher didn't attend an urban school as a kid, Scott said.

If we had an 85 percent graduation rate and we were inching up toward 90 percent, if we didn't have the worst SAT scores among 50 upstate school districts, if we didn't have a Syracuse Teachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that cTeachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that cteachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that cteachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that cteachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that category.

People - it is one race in a heavily Republican district - this means nothing for the November elections - although, if the dems put up somebody who was accomplished more than a school teacher - they could have won this seat - and it is pretty pathetic that a former congressman only won by 5 % over a school teacher - so you republicans, I wouldn't be jumping for joy

More than half of school districts on Long Island now have at least some board members emphatically against Common Core - aligned standardized tests and how they are weighted in teacher evaluations.

With more than 15,000 votes cast in the 107th Assembly District, the Democratic candidate, Cindy Doran, a retired teacher and county legislator, lost to Jake Ashby, an Army veteran and county lawmaker, by fewer than 300 votes.

After the proposition passed, state union representatives immediately lobbied the state attorney general to issue a «clarification» explaining that performance pay actually meant an across - the - board bonus for every teacher in a school or district, regardless of performance, and that funding classrooms directly actually meant passing the funding through the district first so the district, rather than the school, can make the major funding decisions.

In fact, more districts cut the number of working days for teachers than addressed the spiraling cost of health benefits.

Breaux: New Teacher Induction provides overviews and contact information for more than 30 highly successful, easily replicable induction programs used in rural, urban, and suburban school districts across the United States.

Female teachers in large urban school districts would require a 25 percent initial increase in compensation, rising to more than 40 percent when they reach three to five years of experience.

Across all four districts, which together serve more than 465,000 students, the researchers found new elementary teachers were assigned students who had performed.1 to.3 of a standard deviation below their peers who were assigned to teachers with four years of experience or more — meaning that these students were about three to nine months of schooling behind their classmates.

The average job switcher moving from one district to another moved to a district whose average achievement was 0.07 standard deviations higher on the TAAS than the district the teacher left.

For male teachers with fewer than three years of experience, the estimated change in the probability of switching districts for a 10 percent increase in salary is 2.6 percentage points; for men with three to five years of experience, the estimated change for a salary increase of the same magnitude is 3.4 percentage points; for still more experienced male teachers, financial effects trail off, down to essentially zero for those with more than 20 years of experience.

I. N. Berlin, a professor of psychiatry and psychiatric consultant to school districts in San Francisco, San Joaquin County, and Stockton, California, argued that some mental pathologies that were causal factors in teacher maladjustment and ineffectiveness in the classroom were, unfortunately, exacerbated rather than alleviated by teacher education.

Since 1990 the New York - based Teach for America (TFA) program has placed more than 7,000 teachers in some of the nation's most challenging school districts.