Sentences with phrase «to run a school district»

A school board is charged with the responsibility of running a school district, and the hiring of school administrators is an important part of that function.

Data in the report show that in state - run school districts across the country in 2014 - 15, fully 97 % of the students were African American and Latino.

But district managers complain that the «fixed costs» associated with running a school district are hard to adjust when revenues drop.

There are potential reductions in the financial costs of running a school district.

Just last week, we sat down to talk with the 2013 Winston Industries Award Grant winner, Renee Frederick of Warrior Run School District (PA), and we discussed the huge difference the new Winston equipment has made in her kitchen.

Chester E. Finn, Jr. identifies several problems with relying on local school boards to run school districts in» Lost at Sea» (co-authored with Lisa Graham Keegan) and «The Problems of Education Governance in Twenty - First Century America.»

The move toward hiring leaders who have not come up through the education ranks is «recognition that [running a school district] requires a real team of people with very different skills, including management skills of a scope and scale that might be found in individuals from outside education,» Seltz commented.

The doctoral degree, which will start with an initial cohort of 25 in August 2010, is designed to give students a deeper understanding of not only teaching and learning, but also the management and leadership skills needed to successfully run a school district or have a senior role at an education nonprofit, government agency, or even in the private sector.

The complicated structure of federal education policy has thus created an army of Lilliputians who lock in the multitude of grants even though the work of keeping those grants coming often makes it harder to actually run school districts.

And I am confident Sue Townsend will do a great job running the school district for the next four years.

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It highlights the effort of the librarians at Warrior Run School District (WRSD) in Pennsylvania to get everyone in the community to build a culture of reading.

Accreditation is no longer in jeopardy and he says the new board members know not to meddle in the nitty gritty of running the school district.

The School Nutrition Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2013 recipient of the SNF / Winston Industries Equipment Award Grant is the Warrior Run School District, located in Turbotville, Pennsylvania.

The award includes ten pieces of commercial kitchen equipment which will be utilized throughout the Warrior Run School District.

A school district could in theory reject the funding that the DOE offers and run their school district any way they want.

If elected, Lavine aims to run the school district.

In the future, as choice becomes a standard feature of K - 12 schooling, the education system will be composed not of centralized, government - run school districts, but of independently operated and competing education - delivery organizations.

Revelations that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan kept a log of calls from powerful people trying to get students into top Chicago high schools when he ran the school district have raised new questions about the city's admissions practices.

Similarly, the trend toward bringing in outsiders to run school districts is now at least a decade old.

Those opportunities involved Yamashiro consulting for not one but two, state - run school districts.

The nation's second state - run school district, Tennessee's Achievement School District oversees 12 schools in the city and plans to run more than 50, most of them within Memphis, over the next five years.

«We believe the judge in this case did not take into consideration the overwhelming amount of evidence that show that these statutes work very well all over the state in well - run school districts,» said Frank Wells, a spokesman for the California Teachers Association.

«For North Carolina, the Achievement School District would be just another business vehicle to establish more charter schools via a state - run school district that forces schools to be converted,» said Hoyt.

We run the school district in Newark, not them.»

That move came during a hastily - called meeting of the SRC, the entity that runs the school district, on Monday morning.

Like those working in the city's public schools, advocates of a state - run school district that consists primarily of charter schools undoubtedly believe this will improve schools and help kids.

«None of you CEOs run your companies by committee, so why should we run a school district by committee?»

We are a team of educators, designers, technologists, curriculum developers, product specialists, operations experts, and implementation partners who have run school districts, created award - winning instructional programs, led large - scale deployments across the country, and trained thousands of teachers.

Let's say you are running a school district.

Concerns about superintendents with little or no curriculum expertise — increasingly common in the last decade, as leaders from other fields have been tapped to run school districts — have led to arrangements where a «chief academic officer» is made second - in - command, as happened in New York City with Cathie Black.

In the case of Arlene Ackerman, who has run the School District of Philadelphia since June 2008, that has meant offering her not just a base salary of $ 348,140 but also an annual performance bonus of up to 20 percent her base salary and, this year, a retention bonus of $ 100,000.

Running a school district is not without challenges.

The bill also would prevent the state from using vouchers and charters as school turnaround interventions, bar the creation of a state - run school district, and require districts and the state to negotiate any school improvement plan with the local teachers union.