Sentences with phrase «urban districts»

A similar pattern was seen among Latino and white students, particularly in urban districts with charter schools.

Particularly in large urban districts, funding levels for disadvantaged or struggling students are often more than equal.

Hispanic, Asian and poor students surpassed the gains of all other urban districts in reading.

20 % decreases in state's topping off of the revenue limit bucket left many large urban districts with two choices during the Great Recession - 1.

And wouldn't the combined efforts of a consortium of huge urban districts like my own command the market power to make such changes worthwhile?

We did a study on this last year and found that, in many urban districts at least, there basically was no process.

My big vision is for urban districts developed on a bicycle mobility platform.

While relatively few districts saw significant gains over 2015, urban districts as a whole seem to be gaining faster than the national average.

Now we're on par with other urban districts across the country — in many cases, we are beginning to surpass those districts.

It makes him the highest paid school leader of any major urban district in the state.

But to this day, there is not a single high - performing urban district in this country.

That means poorer urban districts often don't have nearly the same resources as their affluent suburban counterparts.

Meeting these conditions is difficult in most urban districts, and impossible in rural districts.

We've been trying to improve urban districts for half a century.

State accountability testing shows suburban districts doing better than the rest of the state, which consists largely of big urban districts.

How, if at all, do states work differently with rural versus urban districts on school turnaround, and is this differentiation important?

I strongly oppose permitting districts — especially failing urban districts — to authorize charters.

It's also seen evolving attitudes toward discipline, with tactics such as restorative justice starting to replace zero - tolerance approaches, including in high - poverty urban districts.

It is estimated that urban districts need about $ 50 billion just to repair their crumbling school facilities.

And it raises this question: How much time would it take to turn around a struggling urban district?

This article details an experiment in which a broad and diverse range of information about schools was assembled and presented to stakeholders in a small urban district.

The assessments, which are also known as «the nation's report card,» provide a common measurement of student progress across states and selected urban districts throughout the country.

Not everyone considers school boards bad, and those who say they are bad for running large urban districts do not necessarily extend that view to suburban or rural districts.

They show how urban district averages are getting closer to those of the nation as a whole.

And it serves as a model for other urban districts who recognize the drop - out crisis is a major education and economic issue.

The public school analogue is the deeply troubled traditional urban district.

Urban districts typically spend up to 85 percent of their budgets on payroll.

It should come as no surprise that urban districts tend to have lower graduation rates than suburban ones.

However, even when urban districts do get the money to build and repair schools, it does not mean improvements will be implemented and made - at least not in a timely fashion.

One urban district gave principals value - added information on novice teachers, but continued to let principals use their own judgment on teacher renewal.

More than half of participating large urban districts said they didn't have enough time to hire qualified staff, according to the urban schools group survey.

Thus it might not matter how much urban districts spend, because as long as they spend less than other districts they will get the same poor - quality teachers.

The bad news is that from 2016 to 2017, schools statewide saw a 2 percent dip in student participation, with many large urban districts showing disappointing double - digit decreases.

The study's sample was a mid-sized urban district that, faced with declining enrollment, chose to make student achievement a major criterion in determining which schools would be closed.

I don't think this transition is possible (hence my argument for ending and replacing urban districts).

Much of the aid targeted urban districts with heavy concentrations of low - income and special - education populations.

Within five years, the district intends to be the first urban district to offer K - 8 computer courses.

No big urban district anywhere is living up to its mission.

Could it be that the test results for urban districts announced a few weeks ago are the first sign that student achievement is being held back by these cuts?

The evaluation of principals: What and how do states and urban districts assess leadership?

But real, meaningful change at a district level — at least in an huge, urban district like mine — often feels out of reach.

A decade and a half of top - down reform of the district has left a system that ranks near the bottom of urban districts.

A total of 76 schools in four urban districts across four states participated.

Or are other urban districts with similar student populations better at improving performance?

In one of the large, low - performing urban districts in our sample, district administrators expressed the belief that principals were essentially born, not made.

Many of the nation's teachers, especially in the poorest urban districts and in the 5,000 school districts classified as rural, had fallen short of that standard.

If breaking up large urban districts into smaller ones was an integral part of the solution, he certainly never mentioned it.