Sentences with phrase «urban districts on»

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

As a former high school and middle school principal, she implemented several service learning and community anti-bullying and harassment programs, and worked with large urban districts on building internal leadership capacity and minority leader recruitment.

In 1993, Chicago students scored between 0.4 and 0.8 standard deviations below students in other urban districts on the IGAP.

Meanwhile, two - thirds of CPS schools failed to meet state proficiency standards under Illinois's accountability system, and Chicago remained among the nation's lowest - performing urban districts on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Her tenure was marked by consecutive years of enrollment growth, an increase in graduation rates, improvements in student satisfaction and teacher retention, increases in AP participation and pass rates, and the greatest growth of any urban district on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) over multiple years.

While most of Chicago's high school seniors hope to attend college, the school system has a long way to go to make that vision a reality, according to a new report that is among the first to track the post-high-school experiences of graduates from a major urban district on a broad scale.

Not exact matches

Before opening my own studio, I was a strategic consultant for public school districts with a focus on urban and low - income communities.

Researchers at the Urban Institute and Georgetown University's Center on Health Insurance Reforms interviewed a range of insurers participating in ACA marketplaces in 28 states and the District of Columbia to determine their strategies for the 2018 and 2019 plan years.

Toronto, May 21, 2009 — Toronto's MaRS Discovery District has combined the creative genius of science and technology with the drive of entrepreneurs and capital to create a marriage that will see more Canadian ideas commercialized in this country and for those efforts it has won the Canadian Urban Institute's 2009 Creative City Award to be granted to MaRS on June 5 at the Urban Leadership Awards in Toronto.

An arena district north of downtown developed on clear urban development concepts could help revitalize a rougher part of the downtown core.

For a long time I've wanted to write on TLT about School Food FOCUS (Food Options for Children in Urban Schools), a national collaborative that brings together the thirty largest school districts in the country to improve school food.

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.

Two days ago, the Los Angeles Times ran an opinion piece by Robert Gottlieb, director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College, with an update on school food in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Over the last month, urban - design contractor Altamanu evaluated 16 Park District parks — all but the district's playground spaces for young children — based on criteria the board had deDistrict parks — all but the district's playground spaces for young children — based on criteria the board had dedistrict's playground spaces for young children — based on criteria the board had developed.

Although other places have open - air shows where exhibitors display plants and garden design ideas, the Park District calls its event «the one and only garden show in America that focuses on urban gardening.»

Using longitudinally linked, student - level data collected from two urban school districts, New York City and Washington, DC, Mathematica estimated the impacts of five EL middle schools on students» reading and math test scores.

Researchers collected data on plate waste in four urban, low - income school districts both before and after the new standards were implemented, and found that under the new standards:

The six districts formed the Urban School Food Alliance in 2012 to combine their purchasing power of $ 520 million to force lower prices on better quality food, supplies and more environmentally friendly packaging and cutlery.

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.

In a densely populated urban or suburban area, for instance, broadcast TV advertising is impractical for many campaigns because too many spots will be wasted on viewers outside district lines.

-- In his home district on the Lower East Side, there is abundant evidence that Silver kept his seat of power by blocking the creation of affordable housing in a 20 - block area known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area... Their goal was to preserve the influence of a shrinking Jewish community that made up Silver's political base.

Still, she defended her record on guns in Buffalo, arguing she could support the needs of hunters in her own district with tamping down gun violence in urban areas.

Whilst showering praise on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for scrapping the «nuisance levy» imposed by the previous government on head porters (kayayei) and for its determination to stem the tide of rural - urban migration through the one - district - one - factory and one - village - one - dam policies, the organisation also called for a probe into the running of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA).

Off topic questions included: the ISIS in Iraq and potential threats to New York, his hair color in a World Cup themed picture, the City's negotiations with CW Capital concerning Stuyvesant Town, whether he concerned that religion - affiliated CBO's pre-K programs will involve some religious instruction or indoctrination, the Rent Guidelines Board and a possible rent increase, rating his administration on it's FOIL responsiveness, whether subway dancers are a «sign of urban decay», whether he is contemplating a special district for failing schools and whether there is symbolism is seeking to bring the Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn rather than Manhattan and whether he has coordinated that effort with Hillary Clinton.

«It is crucial that parents and members of the public know that this bond proposition, which will greatly benefit students in urban school districts around Westchester, will need support on Election Day,» said Williams.

New York City students did better on the tests than their upstate counterparts in large urban districts.

The researchers confirmed that deprivation in England is heavily skewed towards urban areas, with the top five districts of deprivation in Northern England — Middlesbrough, Knowsley on Merseyside, Kingston - upon - Hull, Liverpool and Manchester.

Researchers from NYU Langone's Department of Population Health will evaluate these services so that the NYC Department of Education and other urban school districts can continue to improve on efforts to provide high - quality family - centered educational experiences to all children.

Stephanie Anzman - Frasca, Ph.D., of ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Boston, and co-authors used data from 446 public elementary schools in a large, urban school district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievement.

Because it wasn't glorious enough to be the most coveted kitchen ceramics brand in the Bay Area, the overachievers at Sausalito - based Heath Ceramics recently added on The Boiler Room — an urban, Mission district space that's part gallery, part event venue, where the brand hosts social and cultural gatherings and exhibits for the public.

The market for administrators in urban school districts is increasingly becoming national in scope, yet for mobile administrators retirement benefit systems with 5 - to 10 - year vesting systems can have a devastating effect on retirement savings.

Months before taking office, he engaged in an extended effort to educate himself on the problems and prospects of urban — school district management.

A decade ago, the Cleveland Heights - University Heights City School District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a large urban high school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the building.

The driving force of this relationship is not teachers» leaving urban districts for suburban ones; on the contrary, most of the difference in leaving rates between these types of schools is caused by teachers moving to new schools within their original district.

To explore the influence of school choice on district policy and practice, we scoured media sources for evidence of urban public - school districts» responses to charter competition.

We chose three urban districts with high percentages of minority and low - income students (at least 60 percent on both counts) in each region (Northeast, Midwest, South, West).

The forthcoming second edition of Education Week's 50 - state report card on public education finds huge gaps between the performance of students in urban and nonurban school districts.

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.

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

Agreement between school boards and superintendents over achievement goals, an emphasis on the lowest - performing students, and the adoption of districtwide curricula are among the most successful strategies being used in four urban school districts, concludes a report released last week.

Previous Voucher Research The IES evaluation of the DC OSP adds to a growing body of research on means - tested school voucher programs in urban districts across the nation.

The elites, the wealthy families that have a disproportionate influence on politics, clearly recognize the dysfunction of large urban school districts and have sought refuge in affluent suburban districts for their own children.

Teachers unions put boots on the streets in key electoral districts (when is the last time an urban center was considered a «key electoral district?»)

The Milwaukee school choice program and the response of Milwaukee Public Schools are especially significant in light of Frederick M. Hess's study of the effects of competition on large urban school districts.

The Council of the Great City Schools, a Washington - based advocacy group for 66 of the nation's largest urban school districts, presented Mr. Forgione with the award at a dinner on Oct. 23, during its annual conference in Houston.

Hess uses these case studies to speculate on how choice might be introduced in ways that both respect the built - in political and organizational constraints of urban school districts and lead to school improvement.

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty judges.

On the 2011 Trial Urban District Assessment of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Boston ranked third out of 21 comparable districts in 8th - grade math and seventh in reading.

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

For a century, we relied on the district system to deliver urban public education.