Sentences with phrase «third of all public school district»

53 school districts — nearly one - third of all public school district in Georgia and reaching over 1 million students — are now participating in farm to school programs and recognized through the Golden Radish Awards.

A recently released report on virtual schooling from the National Center for Education Statistics (Setzer & Lewis, 2005) indicated that about one - third of public school districts in the U.S. had students enrolled in distance education courses during the 2002 - 2003 school year.

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The report also shows that American Indian students, who account for less than 2 percent of the student population statewide, received more than one - third of all corporal punishment in North Carolina public schools, although most of that disparity was driven by one school district, Robeson County.

Long Island school districts lack a reliable funding stream for public pre-K and serve less than one - third of an estimated 28,000 eligible 4 - year - old children, even as support grows for a universal program available to all children.

More than half of Long Island students eligible to take the state Common Core test in English Language Arts refused to take the exam this week, according to a Newsday survey of public school districts ending Thursday, the third and final day of the assessment.

When state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi of the Third Judicial District retired from his second 14 - year term half way through on June 26, the Albany Democrat and former public defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's opublic defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's oPublic Defender's office.

Administrators in the Buffalo Public School District have ratified a three - year agreement that would see their salaries increase by 12 percent in the first year of the pact and by 2.5 percent and 2.75 percent in the second and third years of the agreement.

For the study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the researchers followed the progress of 989 graduates of the Chicago Public School District's CPC program, which provided intensive instruction in reading and math from preschool through third grade as part of a school reform School District's CPC program, which provided intensive instruction in reading and math from preschool through third grade as part of a school reform school reform model.

Since the Orange County Public Schools, in Orlando, Florida, installed Computrace on its 26,000 computers, the school district has recovered a third of some 70 stolen laptops.

As the leader of the Chicago Public Schools, America's third - largest urban school district, Arne has launched key initiatives all with a singular aim: improving student performance.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

Third, and most interesting, there is diversity in the suppliers of K — 12 public education: the Orleans Parish School board oversees a number of traditional public schools and charters; the state board of education authorizes several charters; and the Recovery School District (an entity created before Katrina to assume control of failing city schools) manages both charters and traditional public schools.

Its teachers were in 3,200 public schools in 2013 (nationwide, two - thirds of those were district schools), and 57,000 college students applied to become corps members.

«The question remains,» says Carroll, «as charter schools continue to grow in the city — within a year of this September roughly a third of public school children in Albany will be in charter schools — will the district put its head in the sand or finally be forced to reform its schools in order to compete?»

Different districts choose different strategies: according to NCES Public School Universe data, thousands of Title I schools nationally have fewer than a third of their students eligible for free lunch, while at the same time thousands of non-Title I schools have over half their students eligible.

In the District of Columbia, for example, where nearly 100 charter campuses are educating more than one - third of the public school students, charters are increasingly accepted as an integral part of the public education delivery system: Sixty - three percent of D.C. residents know they are public schools.

Mellios is the director of education tools and technology for Chicago public schools, the third largest district in the nation.

The report's author, Wellesley College economics professor Eunice S. Han, looked for empirical evidence of the effects of strong teacher unions from about 4,600 districts — a third of U.S. public school districts — which included approximately 37,200 teachers within 7,500 schools.

He also previously served as Chief Financial Officer at Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third - largest school district, under the leadership of Arne Duncan, the former U.S. Secretary of Education.

Caroline Hoxby's «remarkable study» of New York City's charters, as John Merrow describes it (see here) would surely suggest that they do: «The lottery winners [those who attended the charters] went to 48 public charter schools, and those who finished 8th grade performed nearly as well as students in affluent suburban districts, closing what the researchers call the «Harlem - Scarsdale achievement gap» by 86 percent in math and about two - thirds in English.»

In 16 states, one - third or more of all public school students are enrolled in rural school districts.

Eight years ago, after 21 years of serving as principal of a small, rural elementary school that housed preschool through third grade, I accepted a position as principal of a startup public school preschool in a large urban district.

The lawyers of the firm have more collective experience dealing with the legal issues confronting school districts than any other firm in the State and presently provide legal advice to more than two - thirds of the State's public school districts.

Denver Public Schools now prioritizes seating at 20 low - poverty schools for low - income students, and it recently opened a comprehensive high school that reserves a third of available seats for students residing in high - poverty neighborhoods.71 In 2012, Denver launched the first unified enrollment system for all traditional public and charter schools in the disPublic Schools now prioritizes seating at 20 low - poverty schools for low - income students, and it recently opened a comprehensive high school that reserves a third of available seats for students residing in high - poverty neighborhoods.71 In 2012, Denver launched the first unified enrollment system for all traditional public and charter schools in the diSchools now prioritizes seating at 20 low - poverty schools for low - income students, and it recently opened a comprehensive high school that reserves a third of available seats for students residing in high - poverty neighborhoods.71 In 2012, Denver launched the first unified enrollment system for all traditional public and charter schools in the dischools for low - income students, and it recently opened a comprehensive high school that reserves a third of available seats for students residing in high - poverty neighborhoods.71 In 2012, Denver launched the first unified enrollment system for all traditional public and charter schools in the dispublic and charter schools in the dischools in the district.

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

Today, Chicago Public Schools — the third largest school district in the nation serving over 400,000 students — will stand with its sister cities in adopting a policy and programming blueprint that increases the access to, equity in, and quality of arts education.

The K12 program is offered through K12 partner public schools in approximately two - thirds of the states and the District of Columbia, and through private schools serving students in all 50 states and more than 100 countries.

«This is a third way, a hybrid in between charter schools and district schools, and it's growing in number throughout the country,» said Sean Gill, a research analyst for the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington.

Some two thirds of students in public schools have the option of changing school buildings within their districts or neighboring districts.

The study of charter schools in 15 states and the District of Columbia found that, nationally, only 17 % of charter schools do better academically than their traditional counterparts, and more than a third «deliver learning results that are significantly worse than their student [s] would have realized had they remained in traditional public schools.»

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.

Joseph Escobedo serves as the Director of Charter Schools for Albuquerque Public Schools, one of the largest urban school districts in the country, serving about one - third of all the students in the state of New Mexico.

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But two neighboring school districts declined to take the students before a third, Pittsburgh Public Schools, found room at one of the city's lowest - performing high schools, located in one of its poorest neighboSchools, found room at one of the city's lowest - performing high schools, located in one of its poorest neighboschools, located in one of its poorest neighborhoods.

That is less than a third of the nearly $ 10,000 per student that the Greenwood Public School District spends while not being able to provide basics like textbooks to take home.

The co-chairmen of the Park City School District Master Planning Committee Sean Morgan and Rory Murphy answer more questions following the third and final public input session before the committee makes its recommendation to the Park City School Board.

In Clinton Public Schools, a suburban district outside of Jackson, officials have tried to deal with inadequate funding by cutting teacher assistants from second - and third - grade classes.

In a Common Core survey conducted last October by the Consortium for the Implementation of the Common Core State Standards and the County Offices of Education, which covered 818 districts representing 83 percent of California's public school enrollment, only about one - third of school districts have created a scope and sequence for the the Common Core standards in either English Language Arts or mathematics for at least some grades.

At Public School 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, part of District 15, more than a third of the eligible students did not sit for the tests last year, and the principal, Elizabeth Phillips, has in the past been outspoken in opposing them.

And the Aspire Public Schools ranked first in California among large districts with two - thirds or more low - income students, based on 2010 - 11 standardized test results, with 100 percent of graduating seniors accepted to four - year colleges or universities.

If Gov. Phil Bryant does not agree to a rumored - but - still - quiet deal with the Jackson mayor and a large philanthropic foundation to provide a third option, Jackson Public Schools will face one of two options for the Mississippi Board of Education — and the state — to take over the district.

There are two cities in N.J. where charter school growth is indeed challenging district budgets: Newark and Camden, where the demand by parents for alternative public schools is extremely high and as many as a third of students attend charters.

We have the third largest public school district, the largest parochial school district, and a substantial proportion of students in charter schools.

Students in the study were in the third grade as of spring 2013 and enrolled in a public school in one of five urban districts: Boston; Dallas; Duval County, Fla.; Pittsburgh; or Rochester, N.Y. Researchers used a randomized controlled trial to assess the effects of district - run voluntary summer programs on student achievement and social and emotional skills in the fall after the students participated in the summer program.

Priority for enrollment in a Horace Mann charter school shall be given first to students actually enrolled in the school on the date that the application is filed with the board and to their siblings; second to other students actually enrolled in the public schools of the district where the Horace Mann charter school is to be located; and third to other resident students.

All public school districts and charter schools that enroll K - 2 students must annually submit data on reading proficiency for all students in Kindergarten through Grade 2, and develop a Local Literacy Plans that guides the work toward all students reading well by the end of third grade, a required component of districts» World's Best Workforce Plans.

Ostro previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Chicago Public Schools, where she helped usher in a more equitable, student - based school funding model while responsible for financial operations of the third largest district in the country and a nearly $ 6 billion annual budget.

In its ruling in the suit brought by more than two - thirds of the state's public school districts, the court urged the Legislature to reform the school finance system.

The third report to be released by the end of the year will be an in depth look at teacher compensation, benefits and issues related to travel costs for school personnel which, in many cases, exceed what much larger public districts expends for the same item.

With just under two - thirds of New York State's school districts counted, the New York State Allies for Public Education, a pro opt - out group of parents and teachers that are counting opt - out students district by district, announced yesterday that 177,249 students had already been opted out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core testing scheme.