Sentences with phrase «under school district management»

The policy intervention in Philadelphia raises questions of general interest: Do students at schools assigned to for - profit or nonprofit managers learn more than would be expected had those schools remained under school district management?

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N.J.S.A. 18A: 40 - 41.5 (2010) provides immunity from liability for school districts for the death or injury of a person due to the action or inaction of persons employed by or under contract with a youth sports team, provided there is an insurance policy of not less than $ 50,000 per person per incident, and a statement of compliance with the school district or nonpublic school's policies for the management of concussions and other head injuries.

In management consulting, the crucial assumptions are that 1) each organization possesses a unique culture and set of goals; therefore, the same intervention is likely to elicit different results depending on a school's history, organization, personnel, and politics; and 2) suggestions for change should creatively blend knowledge from many different sources — from general organizational theories, from deep insight into the district or schools under study, and from «craft» knowledge of what is likely to improve schools or districts with particular characteristics.

The district has placed nearly all of our schools under the same superintendent, in order to facilitate alignment of the district's management and our support.

Since 2008, the Strategic Data Project (SDP), under Harvard's Center for Policy Education Research, has placed fellows like Bowman in state education agencies, school districts, and charter school management organizations where they are helping policymakers to decode an avalanche of educational data.

At schools under for - profit management, students learned on average 25 percent of a standard deviation more in math each year of the six years of the intervention than they would have had the school been under district management.

The reading performance of students at the five schools was, on average, 18 percent of a standard deviation below what could have been expected had the schools been under district management, a difference that is statistically significant in three of the six years.

We therefore employed a «difference - in - differences» analysis to estimate the impact of attending a for - profit or nonprofit privately managed school (relative to attending that school had it remained under district management).

At schools under nonprofit management, students learned, on average for the six years, 21 percent of a standard deviation less in math each year than they would have had their school remained under district management.

His diocese, which covers 40 schools in three counties that run the gamut from wealthy to downright impoverished, recently centralized all operations under three professionals experienced in doing all the things required to run a healthy school district: marketing, financial management and fundraising.

The District of Columbia school system was given hope last week that Congress might be more willing to provide extra financial help now that the ailing system is under new management.

«For more than 30 years, CEC has partnered with schools and districts under the theory that labor - management collaboration has a critical impact on student achievement, school climate and teacher performance,» says CEC Co-Executive Director Jo Anderson.

At Mastery, the trio met with about a dozen 11th graders who attended the school four years earlier when it was under district management.

The day - to - day operations of the district's 89 schools currently under traditional management (stretched across the 13 cities and the county's unincorporated areas outside of Atlanta) would fall into the hands of each school's principals and parents in a manner similar to that of the district's 12 charter schools.

It's the vehicle that enables shared responsibility; it's the vehicle that has all our backs as opposed to throwing us under the bus, or under the bicycle,» she told an audience of union leaders and school and district administrators from across the country at the West Coast Labor Management Institute.

During the final year of operation under the ISD, the team engages in a process for effectively returning the school to the control and management of the local district.

The office of School Safety and Emergency Management provides oversight to all district sites under the One Schoolhouse approach.

CSUSA is the first education management company to receive district accreditation through AdvancED which allows all schools opened under its management to be accredited the first year.

CTAC was engaged by the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) to assess and monitor pupil achievement in the Berkeley Unified and Vallejo City Unified school districts, districts coming under state supervision due to district fiscal conditions.

DeKalb Schools administration has decided that PACs will now operate under the control and management of the DeKalb County School District.

A financially failed school district must get its finances in balance to move on, which Muskegon Heights accomplished while under emergency management.

But while the reforms a decade ago kept a solid majority of public schools under traditional district management, the current blueprint has the potential to impact every school.

Philadelphia's experience with outsourcing the management of 45 schools showed that even with additional expenditures, student achievement gains were no greater in those managed by outside organizations than in those remaining under district management (Gill, Zimmer, Christman, & Blanc, 2007).

Several studies of LSC reform conclude that site - based management under parent - majority LSCs successfully raised academic achievement.3 Further study showed that schools where LSCs were allowed to continue as the main policy - making body for the school after mayoral control was established in 1995 improved substantially more than schools where the district intervened and usurped LSC control.4

The article also references the closure of the Rochester Leadership Academy Charter School (a school under the management of the NHA) due to poor academic performance; however, given that the schools we examined exhibited slightly better academic performance than the schools in their surrounding districts, it is hard to know which is the exception and which is theSchool (a school under the management of the NHA) due to poor academic performance; however, given that the schools we examined exhibited slightly better academic performance than the schools in their surrounding districts, it is hard to know which is the exception and which is theschool under the management of the NHA) due to poor academic performance; however, given that the schools we examined exhibited slightly better academic performance than the schools in their surrounding districts, it is hard to know which is the exception and which is the rule.

(Calif.) Despite strong opposition from school management groups, the final state budget approved Sunday night includes provisions restricting the size of reserves that districts can accumulate under certain economic conditions.

He or she is usually hired by a district's school board and is responsible for general management duties which may include hiring appropriate staff for different schools under his or her control.