Sentences with phrase «urban district gave»

The widescreen compositions and thrumming music evokes John Carpenter's early, scary movies but the use of nearabandoned neighbourhoods and urban districts gives it an unusual, subtly haunted post millennial feel.

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Next we heard from Mark Terry, who gave a compelling comparison of his old school district — a low SES urban district with a high ELL population, an 85 % free / reduced qualifying rate, and a high need for meal and nutrition education services — and his current district, which is more affluent with a much lower free / reduced qualification rate and a community of parents who have high expectations for student success and a healthy lifestyle.

Another report says that the menu will now include «Salvadorean beef stew, chicken tandoori, Asian pad thai, California sushi roll and teriyaki beef and broccoli with brown rice,» but also notes the district says the changes were already in the pipeline well before Jamie even showed up in L.A. (And given what I know about school food procurement in my own large urban district, which I'm told can have a year - long lag time, that seems likely to be true.)

Well, now you can get solid information from a resource all your own: an anonymous food services director from a relatively large, urban school district has agreed to give straight answers to Lunch Tray readers» questions!

Gun rights groups claim a slim majority for their position in the Senate, given the two or three Democratic Senators representing rural districts who often vote against gun control — although there are also Republican Senators from urban districts who tend to waver.

Hunter is the mother of a high school student, which she says gives her insights into issues an urban district faces.

To identify more precisely the independent effects of the multiple factors affecting teachers» choices, we use regression analysis to estimate the separate effects of salary differences and school characteristics on the probability that a teacher will leave a school district in a given year, holding constant a variety of other factors, including class size and the type of community (urban, suburban, or rural) in which the district is located.

State accountability systems emphasize in - state comparisons between suburban and urban districts, which give impressions of relatively high achievement in more affluent suburban districts.

The prize, which gives the winning district $ 500,000 for student scholarships for college, is being touted as urban public education's most prestigious award.

In 2005 and 2006, the department gave several urban school districts (Anchorage, Boston, Chicago, Hillsborough County [Florida], and Memphis) permission to serve as tutoring providers, even though they were themselves «in need of improvement» under the law.

Throughout the duration of the urban district's failed career, we've focused incessantly on the classroom — giving its teachers more money, reducing the number of kids sitting inside its four walls, adjusting what's taught, how it's taught, how we assess what's taught, and on and on and on.

In this presentation given at the 39th annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy Cory Edmonds shared the findings of an Edunomics Lab study exploring seven urban school districts utilizing a student based allocation formula to...

All the same, the prize «gave urban districts something to strive for, something to learn from.

Over the span of three years, dozens of education experts and researchers, 3,000 teacher volunteers in six urban districts, 20,000 videotaped lessons, student surveys, and student performance on state and supplemental higher - order thinking skills tests, have given us a much better understanding of what great teaching looks like.

A high proportion of minority students taking part in school - choice programs isn't a surprise, given that many are located in urban districts with stressed public schools.

And there are a lot of talented educators who have given their hearts and souls to their kids in urban districts.

For our analysis of the relationship between district improvement efforts and state influences (see also section 3.3), we focused mainly on the small - to medium - sized districts, given that more than 90 % of school districts in the United States serve less than 25,000 students, and given our impression that much research on the district role in educational reform is concentrated on the experiences of large, urban districts.

Researchers David Blazar (Doctoral Candidate at Harvard), Erica Litke (Assistant Professor at University of Delaware), and Johanna Barmore (Doctoral Candidate at Harvard) examined (1) the comparability of teachers» value - added estimates within and across four urban districts and (2), given the extent to which variations observed, how and whether said value - added estimates consistently captured differences in teachers» observed, videotaped, and scored classroom practices.

In some large urban districts, including New York City and Washington, D.C., principals have been given greater autonomy over budgeting and personnel decisions — they have a lot of latitude in how to spend money and whom to hire.

The exchange program would give urban teachers opportunities they wouldn't have elsewhere, Sternberg said, and allow teachers to exchange ideas between districts.

Given that the LSP is the first statewide voucher program systematically studied (other rigorously studied programs serve smaller samples of students in urban school districts), the program's scale may have played a role;

In many urban districts, more than half of teachers leave within five years, the research shows, and they abandon charter school posts at especially high rates, a significant problem given the growing presence of charters in many metropolitan areas.

New York City's public school system, the largest in the country, yesterday won the Broad Prize, given each year to an urban school district that has made great improvements in student achievement, particularly in closing gaps between white and minority students.

Some of the most dramatic gains in urban education have come from school districts using a «portfolio strategy»: negotiating performance agreements with some mix of traditional, charter and hybrid public schools, allowing them great autonomy, letting them handcraft their schools to fit the needs of their students, giving parents their choice of schools, replicating successful schools and replacing failing schools.

The Urban Hope Act is just a small piece of what the Christie administration seeks to accomplish in Camden, with the work on the existing district schools a major challenge given the state's track record.

Providing a rigorous pre-college curriculum has long been a struggle in many of the more than 7,100 U.S. rural school districts, where a lack of teachers, dwindling enrollment numbers and tight budgets make it difficult to offer electives, foreign languages and even basic classes that are a given in many suburban and urban schools.

In 2005 the city was a finalist for the Broad Prize for Urban Education, given annually to the best urban school district in the couUrban Education, given annually to the best urban school district in the couurban school district in the country.

Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control to schools in the hiring of teachers, reducing, for example, the importance of seniority.

We are in a small community, but want to prepare our students and give them the same opportunities as a large urban or suburban district.»

In this presentation given at the 39th annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy Cory Edmonds shared the findings of an Edunomics Lab study exploring seven urban school districts utilizing a student based allocation formula to determine the portion of total district funds allocated by the formula.

According to a published report in the Connecticut Post, the «Education Reform Plan» that Governor Malloy will announce later this week will include Commissioner of Education Stephan Pryor's plan to give charter schools more public funds including money that will be shifted from helping Connecticut's poorest urban districts.

Governor Malloy and Commissioner of Education Stephan Pryor have announced a plan to give charter schools more public funds including money that will be shifted from helping Connecticut's poorest urban districts.

From 2002 to 2014, the foundation awarded the Broad Prize for Urban Education, which gave scholarships to graduating seniors from top - performing districts, including Houston, Boston, and New York City.

The scholarships were awarded to students in five school districts that were finalists for the 2010 Broad (pronounced like «road») Prize, the largest education prize in the country given each year to urban school districts that demonstrate the greatest overall performance and improvement in student achievement while reducing achievement gaps among income and ethnic groups.

The left - leaning national organization looked at the number of standardized tests given in 14 districts — both urban and suburban — in seven states during the 2013 - 14 school year.

«I was given the opportunity through Adams County School District 50 to attend the University of Northern Colorado Center for Urban Education.

The Christina School District in Delaware, comprised of both urban and suburban schools with a diverse group of learners, was interested in how technology could be used to improve their math instruction while still giving individual schools and teachers as much autonomy as possible.