Sentences with phrase «urban districts showing»

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.

Two years later, scores in the urban districts showed only glacial improvement.

Not exact matches

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.)

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.»

The Chicago Park District is planning to dig up its front yard for an open - air garden show in Grant Park in May where area landscape architects, nurseries and institutions can demonstrate techniques for urban gardeners and spread Chicago's reputation as a green city.

Elia said the latest data shows that urban school districts are capable of graduating students, but might need more options from which kids can choose.

So I have recently started adulting after a long run with school and internships... I have Summer's off as I am a guidance counselor in an urban school district... I am finding my middle ground of going to shows and also...

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

Evidence shows constructive district reactions to presence of charter schools in urban districts

The statement includes a list of these developments: the US Supreme Court ruled scholarships constitutional; numerous studies showed these programs benefit needy kids; families empowered with this choice express great satisfaction; urban districts continue to struggle despite great effort; chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats; and smart accountability systems can ensure only high - quality private schools participate in these programs.

He has already shown promise of turning the 33,400 - student district into a model for urban school reform.

Plaintiffs in these lawsuits say they favor high standards and accountability and then point to data showing that large numbers of students in urban districts fail to meet heightened standards.

The 55 urban districts in the study showed more progress in mathematics than in reading on statewide tests.

But, it says, «in comparison with other urban districts, the District's scores were similar; many others also showed consistently significant gains.»

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

Specifically, from 2003 — 2005 Boston's fourth - and eighth - grade students have shown the largest improvement in math scores of the 11 major cities participating in the National Assessment of Educational Progress Trial Urban District Assessment.

Turnarounds have consistently shown themselves to be ineffective — truly an unscalable strategy for improving urban districts — and our relentless preoccupation with improving the worst schools actually inhibits the development of a healthy urban public - education industry.

Urban school districts in particular have begun to show considerable progress in raising test scores and turning around low - performing schools.»

Houston, by far the largest of the six urban districts, made greater progress in reading and math than all but one of the major urban districts, San Antonio, which showed remarkable gains.

In addition, while the Florida study shows that although the «negative effects of entering a middle school are somewhat smaller outside of urban districts,... they remain substantial even in rural areas.»

Our papers in Educational Policy show that CBAs in larger districts tend to regulate far more elements of district decision - making, and CBAs in urban areas are more restrictive with respect to what administrators can and can not do than in smaller or non-urban areas.

More than 80 percent of students use the scholarships to attend religious schools, with most coming from large, urban districts, a recent state report shows.

That is, urban districts have failed for fifty years; their failure preceded charters; and D.C. has shown that the district can progress while chartering grows to 50 percent.

Ostensibly, these youngsters are still being educated and will return to their regular schools.In truth, most of these students are ghosts; they disappear but are still carried on the attendance rolls for purposes of state support.Every urban district has thousands of such ghosts; some tens of thousands.If all the ghosts on the books actually showed up, no urban school district would be able to cope without a new bond issue for building significantly more schools.

However, a comparison with other urban districts in Illinois and the Midwest, such as Cincinnati, Gary, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and St. Louis, none of which created a similar accountability system during this period, shows that Chicago's trend is unique (see Figure 2).

They show the contrasts we would expect between a high school in an urban and predominantly black school district, and one in a suburban, predominantly white, and middle - class county.

The Trial Urban District Assessment shows that students in all 10 districts participating in the study scored below nationwide...

«This isn't to disparage what's going on in the district, but the results show that charters are a viable option for children in our urban centers.»

Any doubt about the progress being made by the public school system — and the efficacy of its hard - won reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C. Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nation.

Of the six variables from the second round of the principal survey, only one, District Focus on Data - Based Decision Making, showed a significant main effect (F = 3.45, p =.018); principals in urban districts rated it higher than principals in suburban districts.

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.

In choosing New York for the $ 500,000 prize, the panel noted that the city outperformed other large urban districts in the state on math and reading tests and showed greater improvement at all grade levels.

The three California districts «did consistently better at a time when many urban districts that were tested showed declines,» said Linda Darling Hammond, president of the Learning Policy Institute, a research and policy organization in Palo Alto.

Houston also has the highest SAT participation rate of any urban school district in the competition — two - thirds higher than the Texas average — and showed the highest increase in Advanced Placement exam participation for all students.

Every year, urban school districts across the country release test scores showing dismal student proficiency in math and reading, especially for students in poverty.

There are studies that show that kids in poor urban districts make as much progress as others during the academic year, but they slip back during the summer.

Using publicly available data from the California Department of Education (CDE), the results show that charter schools are making significant gains in narrowing the achievement gap, with African American students consistently earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide in many urban districts and across subjects.

Research shows many schools face challenges in retaining high - quality teachers, especially urban school districts and small, rural school districts.

«As we have shown, the negative financial impacts are large, particularly in the urban and densely populated district of Durham but also in some of the non-urban counties as well.

Urban school districts may have shown slightly more improvement than the nation as a whole, where results were largely stagnant.

What Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and governors across the country want to show the voting public is that corporate reform and privatization of our schools is the answer to the achievement gap between children living in urban and suburban districts, as well as between the US and the rest of the world.

He found that the studies show that while there are some examples of success, particularly in large urban school districts that primarily serve students of color like those in New York City and Boston, they also show that across the nation, there is little evidence that charters do better than traditional public schools when it comes to student test scores.

The data, which looked at 21 urban school districts, shows that urban education still lags behind the country's suburban and rural schools, and that while cities gained a bit of ground on math, reading scores were stagnant.

«In presenting these excellence awards, CUBE is not only holding these districts up and celebrating their success, but by recognizing these districts, «the bar» has effectively been raised showing other urban districts what excellence and achievement looks like,» said Van Henri White, CUBE Steering Committee Chair and President of the Rochester New York School Board.

-- The news wasn't all bad: Results of the Trial Urban District Assessment, also released today, show D.C. as a standout performer, with fourth graders making significant gains in math and reading.

But a small number of other urban school districts are much further along, and they're beginning to show results that ought to persuade many others to follow suit.

«Today's results show that our nation's large urban districts continue to make progress in mathematics.

Elsewhere, similar solutions are likely in the near future, as the trend of hiring leaders with backgrounds in business, law, politics, the media or the military to run large urban school districts has shown little sign of abating.

Most studies show that suburban and rural school districts have lower attrition rates than urban districts.

Place - based scholarship programs such as the Kalamazoo Promise, in which all students graduating from specific high - poverty urban school districts qualify for free college tuition, also have been shown to increase high school outcomes and college matriculation (Bartik and Lachowska, 2012; Andrews, DesJardins and Ranchhod, 2010).