Sentences with phrase «typical district»

In this study, 72 secondary English teachers from the Santa Ana Unified School District were randomly assigned to participate in the Pathway Project, a cognitive strategies approach to teaching interpretive reading and analytical writing, or to a control condition involving typical district training focusing on teaching content from the textbook.
While ERS found that in most cases the systems they studied invest more than typical districts do in professional learning, what is most critical to these systems» success is that they spend their dollars differently.
The major issue is when chains like HCZ claim to be doing better than typical districts using the «same» resources with the «same» students.
The property is well - located in a noble and typical district known as los Cigarrales, perfect both for business and leisure travellers alike.
In addition, the average daily lunch participation rates for a typical district continue to decline, with district - wide lunch participation dropping to 61 percent, down from 64 percent in 2014 and 68 percent in 2011.
The contribution rate dropped 1.5 percentage points; in a typical district where teacher salaries make up 60 percent of total expenditures, the pension adjustment alone will boost available resources by 0.5 to 1 percent next year.
The typical state legislative district in North Dakota only has 6,700 voters in a presidential general election, and in the typical district an independent for the legislature needs 250 signatures.
«In a district, let's say a typical district, you had three people running for three seats.
For example, the U.S. House petition would go from approximately 18,000 signatures in the typical district, to approximately 14,000.
The law requires signatures equal to 4 % of the number of registered voters, or approximately 20,000 valid signatures in the typical district.
If so, this would only magnify the analytical problem, for if the top - spending districts are not comparable, then their spending level does not indicate what would happen if funds were added to a typical district.
Rather, nearly two - thirds of the typical district school's costs change with student enrollment.
They've proven themselves able to secure the requisite start - up capital — by becoming enterprising fundraisers, by «partnering» with others who have deeper pockets, by finding creative ways to keep start - up costs down, or by going without amenities that are standard - issue in the typical district school.
In the typical district, a teacher has to stay nine years just to break even on the tuition cost of the degree.
It would inherit the student achievement results, policies, and practices of a typical district.
The typical district has a budgeting process that results in its permanently «living on the edge,» with revenues just matching costs.
The typical district spends more than 80 percent of its revenues on salaries and benefits, and salaries tend to ratchet only one way — up.
In a typical district, he might be right.
Salary and benefits funding for instructional employees represents the largest spending area in the typical district, bringing to mind the old Willie Sutton adage about robbing banks «because that's where the money is.»
Almost unbelievably in this day and age, the typical district spends 40 or more minutes a year per student collecting, processing, and reporting the data required by the U.S. Department of Education under the No Child Left Behind Act.
Furthermore, at the typical district - managed school, programs and activities have often been thrown together chef - salad style.
And because teacher salaries make up about 60 percent or so of the typical district's budget, these data demonstrate some fairly hefty gaps in spending between schools that serve more students of color and those that serve fewer such students.
For example, all four of the systems invest more in instructional leaders and curricula - specific activities than typical districts.
Using a randomized controlled trial in two districts — Broward County Public Schools and Chicago Public Schools — the SRI team compared the teacher and student outcomes of teachers who received the NTC mentoring (treatment) with those of teachers who received the typical district supports (control).
The typical district library supervisor is female, white, a former classroom teacher, and a former school librarian with an MLS degree.
In the afternoon, you will begin your Arequipa city tour in the historical center, visiting the Santa Catalina Convent, the Plaza de Armas, the Jesuit Church of La Compañia and its beautifully - painted Chapel, the Church of San Francisco, the San Lazaro District, Selva Alegre and the typical Districts of Cayma and Yanahuara for a breathtaking view of the Misti Volcano.
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