Sentences with phrase «than school districts»

At least 35 states allow entities other than school districts, such as state universities or a statewide board, to sponsor charter schools.

Another proposal would require teachers to list their home address, rather than their school district address, when they apply for a state teaching license.

It is no bargain that many teachers who teach in a public charter school are paid less than their school district counterparts because of the funding gap.

However, even with the funding «following the student,» charter public schools receive less funding for each student than a school district would if it were to serve the same student.

The private sector can offer nurses higher salaries than school districts and even throw in signing bonuses.

For example, the current teacher contract doesn't provide for bonuses, so signing and year - end bonuses may come from private donations, rather than the school district, he said.

LA Unified is already home to more independent charter schools than any school district in the country.

Supporters of charter school expansion believe that multiple authorizers will issue more charters, in part, because they are less hostile to charter schools than school districts.

Every single one of Connecticut's major charter schools is even more segregated than the school districts they serve and charter schools in Connecticut fail to enroll or maintain student populations that include students that are not fluent in English, students who go home to households where English is not the primary language and students who require special education services.

As you can see, on average school districts rated «A» and «B» spend significantly less than school districts rated «C» and «D.» There were no school districts rated «F» last year.

Every person who qualifies for the above - explained exemption is entitled to «an additional exemption of up to $ 25,000 on the assessed valuation greater than $ 50,000 for all levies other than school district levies.»

If I were running the government, I would see to it that school districts that serve the poor would have a larger share of the tax revenue than school districts that serve the affluent, for in the poor districts there is far more ground to be made up to provide the open equality of opportunity, and equality of opportunity must be a part of every just society.

City and county governments are more prone to overriding the cap more often than school districts.

A 2013 - 14 variation on this bill, sponsored by Republican Sen. Andrew Lanza of Staten Island, would have covered all retirees other than school district employees, building on the unwise precedent created by a provision in then - Gov.

The teachers in these groups typically think of themselves as «solutions - oriented problem solvers» rather than school district adversaries.

Also, children in yoga were significantly more physically fit than the school district average, based on scores from the annual California Physical Fitness Test.

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

Conceptually, Portfolio Management is no different from School Districts, so there is no reason to expect it to be any better at quality control than School Districts are.

Arguably, colleges and universities have a lot more information at the time they hire faculty than school districts do.

Lindsey Gordon, general counsel for the Texas Association of Charter Schools, said the organization supports the Legislature's current framework, and protested that charter schools are not harder to sue than school districts.

California's 58 county offices of education generally receive far less attention than the school districts within their geographic boundaries.

Academically, New Orleans is improving faster than any school district in Louisiana.

The school compensates teachers the same as or more than school district counterparts while spending at a more efficient per - pupil rate.

This in turn means that some school districts who have an easier time passing a local levy will have class sizes that are much lower than school districts that can not pass a local levy.

In that case, they specifically noted that Legislature, still exercising their constitutional role in funding and organizing Washington schools, «found entities other than school districts qualified to educate our youth.»

He made five overarching points: that's it's possible to implement measures of teacher effectiveness, that LA Unified has a higher ratio of ineffective teachers than school districts studied by other researchers, that a disproportionate number of ineffective teachers in LA Unified serve Latino and African American students, that effective teachers have a causal effect on student achievement and that teachers have long - term impacts not only on student achievement but also lifetime earnings.

Putting Bridgeport aside, New Haven and Hartford spend more per student than any school district in the state — and have very little to show for it.

As you can see, on average school districts rated «A» and «B» spend significantly less than school districts rated «C» and «D.» There were no school districts rated....

There is no state agency auditing LEA's and to assume that there is a greater risk at charter schools than school districts, particularly in light of all the real time oversight on financial reports, is simply unfounded.

So he exhorted lawmakers to consider «chartering,» as a way to allow entities other than school districts to establish new public schools that would be open to students regardless of where they lived, thereby beginning to withdraw the monopoly school districts held over the provision of public education.

Charter schools are public schools that operate under their own guidelines and answer to their own school board rather than a school district.

What if cities (rather than school districts) were to create corporations, authorize them to do financing, and assign them the task of managing the public - school facilities portfolio so that both district and charter schools could be housed?

We have twice as many teacher preparation programs (28,000) than school districts (about 14,000).

In permitting — for the first time — entities other than school districts to create new public schools, states are taking a bold step toward reform that can produce the diverse educational opportunities that our children need.

The amendment gives the legislature free rein to increase or otherwise change current authorization of charter schools to other entities than school districts, municipalities, businesses, colleges / universities

At the DLC's national convention in May of 1991, Bill Clinton and DLC delegates would endorse an education agenda that included, among other things, school choice, accountability, and Kolderie's idea, which the DLC explained as «giving entities other than school districts» the chance to operate public schools.

Currently, about 151,000 students now attend charters in LA Unified, which has more charter schools, 264, than any school district in the country.

«Percentage-wise, someone said Gary had more charters than any school district in the country, so the idea of two more, I think certainly would impact negatively on traditional schools.»

«There's opposition because the charter school movement changes the fundamental power structure of public education, saying that entities other than school districts can successfully run public schools.»

Every single one of Connecticut's major charter schools is even more segregated than the school districts that they serve and as proof of their use of de facto segregation, every charter school, along with Perry's own Capital Prep., fails to enroll or maintain their fair share of Hispanic students, students that aren't fluent in English or students that go home households where English is not the primary language.