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New Orleans, well known for the charter school transformation that has reshaped public education in the city after Hurricane Katrina, tops all school districts with 92 percent of students enrolled in a charter school in the district.

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Localecopia Marketplace is now making inroads with farm - to - school for 5 school districts (3 of which are the top 11 in the country).

Auburn School District hosted a tasting table at Rainier Middle School, and were joined by Farmer Amy Moreno - Sills from Four Elements Farm, where studnets enjoyed samples of fruits and vegetables, including Four Elements Farm carrots with tops.

«With mayoral control restored, our school district is in the top five in the city and we have to keep it that way,» Halloran said, referring to Distdistrict is in the top five in the city and we have to keep it that way,» Halloran said, referring to DistrictDistrict 26.

Under the bill, introduced late last week, the top 20 percent of the state's highest performing school districts would be allowed to submit their current evaluation plans along with a request for a waiver to the Department of Education.

To avert a situation where New York is forced to return hundreds of millions of sorely - needed federal dollars, we urge you to consider introducing «shot clock» style measures to ensure that all school districts will fully implement the state's new teacher evaluation framework in accordance with the Race to the Top timeline.

Eight of the top 10 New York state school retirees with annual payouts of more than $ 205,000 are ex-superintendents from well - heeled school districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties, according to an analysis by the Empire Center for New York State Policy.

Three top officials in the current Rochester School District administration will be leaving along with their boss in the near future.

The Buffalo school district is parting ways with two top administrators who do not have the proper state certifications to carry out their duties.

Of the region's main three city school districts, Troy topped the list with a 74 percent graduation rate, while Schenectady had a 56 percent rate.

Western New York has independent school districts with several ranking among the top in New York State.

For families with high income, school districts are a top consideration when deciding where they will live, Owens said.

The 58 - year - old administrator has said he will resign at the end of this school year from the top job in a district grappling with unyielding academic shortcomings, alleged test tampering, and missing candy money and equipment.

Now, the Obama administration has sought to boost school improvement through Race to the Top by getting states and districts to compete for some federal dollars with promises to execute needed reforms.

With districts and schools under tremendous pressure to make every dollar count, California teachers can now download top - rated content from the site at no charge, said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell.

In addition, as a result of its reputation within the educational consulting sector, the organization has also developed a relationship with the prestigious Broad Prize, which annually awards one million dollars to the top performing urban school districts in the United States.

We must understand that, for Obama in particular, his experience was profoundly shaped by the opportunity to attend a top - flight independent school — an environment that correlates with his message and the success of many new black leaders — instead of what was almost surely an underperforming district school in Hawaii.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

Several school districts across the country are trying to change their teacher - salary structures in ways that would not only reward performance, but also allow effective teachers to reach top salary levels earlier in their careers, making teacher - compensation plans more in line with those in other occupations.

Those top charters have also demonstrated an ability to team up with troubled traditional urban school districts — a role that probably represents the best shot for providing better schools for all.

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The District of Columbia schools» work developing open resources was initially supported with a grant from the Obama administration's Race to the Top program seven years ago, and the school system has continued to devote its own money to sustaining and improving that academic content.

Proponents of such top - down management argue that many schools would simply fail if they were left to sink or swim on their own, with no assistance from the district.

The union had worked with the school district to institute peer review, a program where top - flight teachers evaluated new teachers and even veteran teachers who had severe problems.

School districts, much like other organizations, can be top - down with mandates and requirements.

If, as has been the case in a number of places, the comparison group is all the teachers in a given grade in the school district — with, say, the top 15 percent of the 4th grade teachers receiving an award — what is the significance of a big or small school?

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the aschool, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the aSchool District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

Judy Burton, the district's top LEARN administrator, said she will meet with parents, administrators and Callahan later this month to try to determine if adjustments to the school's bilingual program are needed.

On top of the turnover in leadership, the district is grappling with the need to close or consolidate schools given declining enrollment while juggling a $ 30 million budget shortfall over the next year.

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Some of the districts» top - performing public high schools were among those with the highest number of students who didn't take the exams: Northside College Prep and Lane Technical High School on the North Side and Lindblom Math & Science Academy, a selective - enrollment school located in the West Englewood neighboSchool on the North Side and Lindblom Math & Science Academy, a selective - enrollment school located in the West Englewood neighboschool located in the West Englewood neighborhood.

There is little desire among school board members to send the district into more turmoil with another swift change at the top.

The appointment of publishing executive Cathleen P. Black to be the new chancellor of New York City's schools was in jeopardy last week after an advisory panel and the state commissioner of education made it clear they would like to see someone with education experience serving in the district's top job.

What one education advocate describes as a «perfect storm» over school finance is brewing in Georgia, as a top lawmaker pushes to replace local property taxes for education with a statewide sales tax, even as the state gears up to fight a lawsuit from school districts over the current funding formula.

If the bottom 10 percent of schools were closed in Cleveland, for example, while the top performers significantly expanded, within five years the city could have charter schools substantially outperforming their home district and on par with the state's results.

As part of its Race to the Top initiative, The Florida Department of Education, through its Partnership with Learning Sciences International, will provide School Districts across the State with a Research Based Framework and Implementation Services for a Teacher Evaluation System.

Mr. Pastorek said the state must still work with school districts to figure out what other factors on which teacher evaluations should be based, but the goal would be for all districts participating in the Race to the Top initiatives to use a uniform system.

iObservation is uniquely positioned to help schools, districts, and states develop programs that align with Race to the Top's requirements for classroom observation, monitoring, professional development, and reporting.

This view was not universally shared among school personnel, who pointed to a track record of good results on the old state test and rankings, where Tortuga Shoals was always in the top 10 percent of the districts in the region.303 To legitimate these directions for improvement, the superintendent commissioned a curriculum audit by outside consultants, with the expectation that results from this audit would provide direction and legitimacy to a new plan for improving teaching and learning in the district.

The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday denied a request by the state's top education official to extend a flexibility waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, a decision that will place restrictions on nearly $ 30 million in annual federal funding for local school districts beginning with the 2015 - 2016 school year.

The top public comprehensive district high schools all serve more affluent communities with one notable exception:

The top three are Dallas Independent School District with $ 2.8 billion, Houston ISD with $ 2.32 billion, and Cypress - Fairbanks ISD in suburban Houston with $ 2.09 billion.

How it works: the state identifies its bottom five percent of schools based on their students» performance on standardized tests and marks them «priority schools,» placing them within the state - controlled Achievement School District with the goal of lifting them up into the state's top 25 percent within five years.

Schools and districts are learning to identify star teachers using powerful predictive analytics While many schools and districts are struggling with the teacher shortage, others are identifying and hiring top eduSchools and districts are learning to identify star teachers using powerful predictive analytics While many schools and districts are struggling with the teacher shortage, others are identifying and hiring top eduschools and districts are struggling with the teacher shortage, others are identifying and hiring top educators.

This report provides a direct comparison of the human capital practices in public school districts with best practices elsewhere to underscore the need to reform district human capital practices in order to attract and retain top talent.

And it was right on the border of Garden City, a very affluent neighborhood with a top - notch public school district.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

«It's about finding your weaknesses and trying to identify things that you can do in your school or as an individual to get better.34» Indeed, the assessment calls for documentation that a principal has undergone at least 20 hours of professional development during the review year.35 Along with addressing weaknesses, the Gwinnett County evaluation process rewards excellence: The district gives top performing schools a cash incentive that principals can spend as they wish.

Race to the Top offers grants to states and school districts that change their education policies to conform with policies approved by the Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who accompanied Obama on the school visit.