Sentences with phrase «to reward schools»

Illinois Democrats are pushing legislation to reward schools that use funding to hire therapists instead of armed guards.

We looked south of the border to the Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranking conducted by the Aspen Institute, which had established criteria rewarding schools for emphasizing social responsibility, environmental sustainability and community engagement through institutional support, student initiatives and coursework.

When 11 - 1 Baylor was shut out of the inaugural bracket, athletic directors nationwide agreed the committee rewarded schools for aggressive out - of - conference schedules.

This event is all about rewarding school patrollers for their hard work over the school year.

Recognizing these economic benefits, more states are proposing legislation that rewards schools for local food purchases, like NY Governor Cuomo's recently proposed legislation that includes increasing state reimbursements for schools purchasing at least 30 percent of their ingredients within the state.

Building that foundation from the beginning of the school year will foster goodwill and give you and your child a better opportunity for a memorable and rewarding school year.

Cuomo launched the School District Management Efficiency Award, which will reward school districts that have implemented long - term efficiency or cost - saving measures in their management operations.

• Redesigning Education: Noting that New York is first in spending but 34th in results, Governor Cuomo proposed restructuring a portion of our education aid to create incentives that reward school districts for improving student performance and implementing management efficiency policies.

«However, it is also necessary that there should be transparency and accountability regarding the use of public money to recognise and reward school leaders.

In addition, Borough President Katz will recognize the nine Queens high schools that were recently designated as «Reward Schools» by the New York State Commissioner of Education for having made the most significant progress or have the highest achievement in the state with no significant gaps in student achievement.

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) is set to reward school children who partake in the assembly's «Me and my tree competition», which forms part of the Kumasi Urban Forestry Project.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — New York State Commissioner John B. King, Jr. has identified 354 high achieving and high progress schools as Reward Schools.

Healthy Schools London rewards schools that are creating environments conducive to the health and well ‑ being of pupils, with a particular focus on encouraging a healthy weight.

• There was a widespread, well - justified concern that prior accountability measures based primarily on achievement levels (proficiency rates) unfairly penalized schools serving more disadvantaged students and failed to reward schools for strong test score growth.

Our new accountability system will reward school districts and acknowledge them for high - quality career and tech programs, high - quality fine arts programs.

A state can propose its own approach to accountability, for example — as long as it includes «annual measurable objectives,» «priority schools,» «focus schools,» «reward schools,» and on and on and on.

Although the waivers provided more flexibility, states still had to develop an array of targets; identify (federally defined) priority, focus, and reward schools; and follow a prescribed set of interventions.

But when policy intervenes to reshape the teacher's priorities, it is invariably on behalf of the laggards, for they are the beneficiaries of major governmental efforts — such as NCLB and IDEA — to advance the education of youngsters who face difficulties and to reward schools and teachers that accomplish this.

They have, in sum, rewarded school administrations for never making tough decisions.

As part of his proposed budget for fiscal 1992, President Bush includes $ 690 million in education initiatives, including plans to reward school districts that establish choice policies including private schools.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

Therefore, when policymakers seek to reward schools for improvements in test scores, they should do so based on multiple years rather than a single year of data.

If students progress based on competency instead of cohort, the state should presumably reward schools and providers that help students progress faster.

Texas, for example, rewards schools based on value - added achievement gains calculated using two - stage regression analysis.

There were far fewer provisions for positive incentives, either to reward schools that did well or to help the students that weren't doing as well.

«Through the Special Education Recognition Award, we will reward schools that are truly successful in improving outcomes for some of our most vulnerable students, and to identify innovative and successful practices to share with all of our schools,» said Acting Commissioner Cerf.

There was no research to support these strategies, but they were widely accepted anyway, as were proposals to reward the schools that succeeded on state tests and penalize those that did not.

The program called for rewarding schools with high and improving scores and imposing sanctions, including school closure, on low - performing schools.

U.S. News made this adjustment again to reward schools in their state for exceptionally high performance on state assessment tests, regardless of their poverty level, as well as to prevent schools in their state with exceptionally low state assessment test performance from being able to win a gold, silver or bronze medal.

Our analysis showed that states that reward schools for success and sanction schools that are failing had significantly higher achievement levels than states without these incentives.

The government should automatically reward schools that successfully and consistently improve results for their disadvantaged pupils.

BASIS does well because the ranking system is designed to reward schools that have a high - achieving student body and give lots of AP tests.

Harbor City International School Minnesota Reward School for 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Authorizer is Volunteers of America Located in downtown Duluth near Canal Park and Lake Superior Our student population is 215; our average class size is 18.

Four of the schools with the biggest gains, including Hiram W. Johnson High, are now designated as exemplary «Reward Schools» under the CORE waiver.

Beyond pride of place, Reward Schools don't earn much of a reward, although those receiving federal Title I funds can potentially receive financial rewards under the state's system.

We need to allow more genuinely vocational options and reward schools for making that curriculum choice.

Recognized by the Georgia Department of Education as a Highest Performing Reward School (top five percent of Title I schools in the state) for four consecutive years

More than 50 public schools have been singled out by the Christie administration as «Reward Schools» thanks to their students high overall performance or progress on state tests.

When pressed by Hull MP and former NUT activist Emma Hardy on whether changes to gradings could reward schools that took large numbers of pupils with special education needs or excluded pupils, Spielman said this was an «interesting suggestion for the new framework».

The Texas Education Agency recognized Summit as a Title 1 Reward school, one of eleven schools in the state that achieved high academic results for all student groups.

And $ 10,000 goes toward rewarding schools that meet the district - wide attendance targets.

These biases reward schools with resources and acclaim.

The staff said it was the most rewarding school they'd ever worked in because of the progress all abilities of kids made.

«EEP was named a reward school for growth and achievement.

Our leaders seek to solve the problem of the poor by blaming the teachers and schools that seek to serve them, calling the deepening levels of poverty an «excuse,» rewarding schools that keep out and push out the highest need students, and threatening those who work with new immigrant students still learning English and the growing number of those who are homeless, without health care and without food.

And by having an outcome based portion of our funding formula we can reward school districts that are meeting benchmarks.

But rather than requiring these charter schools to develop plans to address this segregation, Stefan Pryor and this present Connecticut State Board of Education has been rewarding these schools by extending their charters and giving them even more funds.

Now, we are recognized as a Kentucky Rewards school, a National School of Merit, a national pilot site for Plato software, a national demonstration site for Project CHILD, and a Distinguished Media Center for Kentucky.

Under her academic leadership, Ivy Preparatory Academy at Gwinnett was designated as a 2011 - 2012 Georgia Department of Education «Rewards School», a distinction given to the state's highest performing schools.

The Utah State Office of Education has identified Title I Reward Schools for the 2012 ‐ 2013 School Year.