Sentences with phrase «urban districts like»

That's quite an accomplishment considering that nationwide, 20 percent of all new teachers leave the classroom within three years, and in urban districts like San Francisco, close to 50 percent of newcomers flee the profession during their first five years of teaching.

Urban districts like mine are often training grounds for talented, beginning educators who leave urban schools for jobs in the suburbs, where resources and learning conditions are more conductive to school success.

For more than two decades, the opening and closing of charter schools have resulted in gaps in learning, impeding the academic progress of black and brown children in urban districts like Trenton.

He describes how administrators in urban districts like Cincinnati, Ohio; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Hillsborough County, Florida, have reached out to teachers and teacher unions to develop collaborative school improvement efforts that have produced impressive results.

By blaming seniority for losing «passionate, hardworking, effective teachers» to budget - based layoffs, he pits new teachers against veteran teachers instead of focusing on the huge numbers of excellent teachers who regularly leave urban districts like Oakland.

For non-tested grades and subjects, we are looking at a number of states and large urban districts like Memphis, Washington, D.C., and New Haven.

After three decades of competition, Milwaukee schools — public district, voucher, and charter collectively — perform about as well as similar high - poverty voucher - free urban districts like Detroit, Memphis and Buffalo.

We did some rapid prototyping of ideas, worked in local urban districts like Trenton to see what worked, made changes based on what we saw, and tried again.

These have made the difficulties in Michigan's low - income urban districts like Detroit even worse, according to David Arsen, professor of education policy in the MSU College of Education.

The superintendent said she's aware of the challenges faced in urban districts like Rochester: poor attendance, low graduation rates, and students who can't afford a school lunch, for starters.

They include urban districts like Newark, Elizabeth and Passaic, as well as suburban ones including Edison, East Windsor Regional and Livingston.

And turnaround schools, both in Chicago and in other urban districts like Philadelphia, are experiencing significant enrollment loss — driven largely by the rapid expansion of charter high schools — that in some ways hinders improvement.

The current cap on charter schools in Massachusetts is binding only in urban districts like Boston, Holyoke, Chelsea, and Lawrence, where a sizable fraction of students already attend charters.

The state's education troubles were hardly limited to urban districts like Providence, Central Falls, Newport, and West Warwick, all of which had per - pupil expenditures well above the state average.

«The greatest problem facing urban districts like Syracuse is teacher turnover.

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?

The piece doesn't offer much in the way of solutions, but I thought it did a great job of capturing the current, entrenched problems in school food, at least in large, urban districts like L.A. and Houston.

In a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm, that additional food waste and expense for my district is likely to be considerable.

But I fear that Jane may be creating false expectations that much can be achieved with a mere snap of the fingers when — at least in a large, urban district like mine, with a FSMC to boot — I'm finding that it's a much slower, more painful battle.

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

Unlike a large urban district like my own, where close to 90 % of children qualify for free / reduced price lunch, in these affluent areas only a handful of children are economically disadvantaged.

In one of its public statements, FOCUS had said the antibiotic - free chicken costs «a few pennies more,» but a few pennies can add up significantly in a large, urban district like Chicago.

Dana has intimate familiarity with what it takes to make significant changes in a large, urban district like my own, and she is less - than - starry - eyed about the ability of any other district to follow suit without outside funding — over and above the current USDA reimbursement rate, OR that amount plus six cents.

And in a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm among our 300 schools, paying for that 1/2 cup increase is likely to be a big drain on our school food budget.

that his admirable program could be reproduced in a larger urban district like my own (Houston ISD).

Syracuse City School District Superintendent Sharon Contreras says that can be a big issue, especially in an urban district like Syracuse.

For a high - poverty urban district like LAUSD, where declining birth rates, reduced immigration, gentrification and the expansion of charters have left neighborhood schools scrambling for resources, education researchers believe that community schooling offers the first meaningful bang for its buck in delivering equity for its highest - needs students.

Not exact matches

Imagine that you've been crowned Food Services Director for a huge urban school district (say, Houston) and can change the menus any way you like.

You've told us that Carpinteria is «an example of what other schools can do,» so how can I get my huge urban school district to serve food just like that?»

But if districts are able to combine their considerable purchasing power, as is the case with the Urban School Food Alliance (discussed in past TLT posts linked below), we may start to see more «real food» offerings like Back to the Roots cereal on kids» trays.

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Like many large, urban school districts, Houston ISD does almost all of its cooking at a huge central kitchen, with the food then trucked to our 300 individual schools for reheating and other final preparation.

Redistricting in the early 1990s was bad enough, with certain Democratic urban legislators teaming up with suburban Republicans to sketch sprawling monsters linking scattered pockets of (presumably) like - minded voters, in the process often creating a slew of safe Republican districts enveloping a handful of others packed to the gills with minority and other reliably Democratic voters.

It's partly because Republicans created boundaries efficiently in redistricting and partly because the most Democratic districts in the country, like those in urban portions of New York or Chicago, are even more Democratic than the reddest districts of the country are Republican, meaning there are fewer Democratic voters remaining to distribute to swing districts.

Heastie says problems facing an urban center like Syracuse are the same ones facing his home district in the Bronx.

Although state lawmakers restored some of the school funding last year, especially to urban schools like the Syracuse City School District, rural and surburban districts still get hammered by the GEA.

For an urban school district like the Syracuse City School District, scores were in the singledistrict like the Syracuse City School District, scores were in the singleDistrict, scores were in the single digits.

After briefly landing in urban slums like the Kibera district in Nairobi, Kenya, their sights may have turned to higher - income countries like the United States.

It all looks like a very mediocre attempt at a «Blade Runner-esque» grimy neon lit urban district.

Sadly these incentives will be strongest in largely minority, urban school districts, like Baltimore's, where disruptive student behavior is a more significant problem.

It was certainly unusual for an affluent, high - performing suburban district like Douglas County to aggressively pursue a mix of policies mix primarily designed for poor, low - performing urban districts.

Third, because of current federal and state law, the SEA must be involved in many activities, whereas independent charter authorizers and entities like Louisiana's RSD make the urban district expendable.

We're seeing strong, transformation - minded leaders who have a talent mindset at a number of urban school districts, like our mutual friend Kaya Henderson at D.C. Public Schools.

3) Superintendents like Paul Vallas, Joel Klein, and Tom Boasberg and a fast - growing number of urban districts understand that the traditional district system is broken, have closed ineffective schools and opened effective ones, and have committed to legal autonomy at the school level and a bare - bones central office.

This is invaluable to those interested in dramatically improving urban schooling, but especially for those, like me, who are convinced that the traditional urban district structure should've been banished from the theater a long time ago.

The return of many white, upper - middle - class, educated parents — and their young children — to city centers has caused some urban districts, like those in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, to actively encourage these families to send their children to local district schools.

Majority - minority school districts like Detroit's have little recourse beyond pursuing voluntary and fairly limited interdistrict busing (usually one - way) or, in a few instances (Chattanooga - Hamilton County and Charlotte - Mecklenburg are examples), consolidating urban and suburban districts.

The results put the district far behind other urban school districts, and behind even other midwestern industrial cities like Cleveland and Chicago (see Figure 2).

The NAEP scores they focus on do not correspond in most of the cases to the relevant years in which the court orders were actually implemented; they ignore the fact that, as in Kentucky, initial increases in funding are sometimes followed by substantial decreases in later years; and their use of NAEP scores makes no sense in a state like New Jersey, where the court orders covered only a subset of the state's students (i.e., students in 31 poor urban school districts) and not the full statewide populations represented by NAEP scores.

Urban school districts like Seattle that signed up to participate in these voluntary national tests ought to have that opportunity.