Sentences with phrase «third largest school system»

So of course he was ready to head the third largest school system in the USA.

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The third category of systemic approaches includes all those which aim at making the emotional climate of larger face - to - face systems (such as churches, schools, industries, and social agencies) more growth - enabling.

The only course that is sustainable, for both chartering and urban education, embraces a third, more expansive view of the movement's future: replace the district - based system in America's large cities with fluid, self - improving systems of charter schools.

After an all - night negotiating session, the Chicago Teachers Union and the board of education reached agreement last week on a new contract that narrowly averted a strike in the nation's third - largest school system.

Yet speakers at the third annual Achievement Gap Initiative Conference, «Structures, Cultures, and Achievement Gaps: New Research with Implications for Public Engagement,» argued that educators and school systems play a large role in the achievement gap issue as well.

The superintendent of Wisconsin's third - largest school system, with almost 23,000 students and 42 schools, Michele Hancock arrived in the Kenosha Unified School District in July 2010 with a strong vision for improving student achievement through transformschool system, with almost 23,000 students and 42 schools, Michele Hancock arrived in the Kenosha Unified School District in July 2010 with a strong vision for improving student achievement through transformSchool District in July 2010 with a strong vision for improving student achievement through transformation.

The Chicago school system, the nation's third largest, hired 2,236 new teachers for the 2000 - 01 school year — up by more than 300 from last year, according to data released this month.

With neither Gov. Bruce Rauner nor state lawmakers acting to bail out the nation's third - largest school system, teachers are taking to the streets for a day to pressure a deadlocked Springfield to help shore up Chicago Public Schools» precarious finances.

Chicago is home to the third largest school district in the country, one of the largest charter school systems, and the largest Catholic school system

The Chicago Public Schools system (CPS) is the nation's third - largest school district, with a total of 400,545 students enrolled at the start of the 2013 - 14 year.

When the Illinois legislature gave Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley direct control of the city's faltering school system in 1995, Daley appointed Vallas, the city's budget director, to take the reins of the nation's third largest district.

The new evaluation system, designed to keep administrators and teachers focused on instruction, is unrolling amid a historic — and historically distracting — year in the nation's third - largest school district.

The weeklong teachers» strike in Chicago has crippled the nation's third - largest public school system as union leaders fought against budget cuts and a reform agenda laid out by the city's Democratic mayor, Rahm Emanuel.

The CTU is the largest local in the state and the Chicago Public School system is the third largest in the country.

«ESSA shifts much of the responsibility for student outcomes to states, which must develop robust accountability systems that target large graduation rate gaps that continue to exist between different groups of students, as well as high schools that fail to graduate one - third or more of their students,» said Gov. Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education.

A CPS first - year teacher with a master's degree earns $ 54,161, the third - highest salary among the 50 largest school districts, behind the Baltimore City Public School System in Maryland ($ 59,904) and New York City ($ 54school districts, behind the Baltimore City Public School System in Maryland ($ 59,904) and New York City ($ 54School System in Maryland ($ 59,904) and New York City ($ 54,459).

Covering the third largest school district in the country showed me the brokenness and inequity of the traditional public school system.

The county government and public school system are the city's second and third largest employers, collectively employing over 10 percent of the population.