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The same fate could be visited upon other large, urban districts who fall into the free market education trap.

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.

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The city's urban plan was the brainchild of French immigrant and architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who envisioned an egalitarian design for the District — a vision that was a physical manifestation of the American dream.

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By both Roman Catholics and Protestants, and especially by Protestants, efforts were being made to reach the young and to follow those who were moving into the urban districts and factory towns.

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.

Many urban districts are overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats, who get 80 % or 90 % of the vote.

Male District Leader 22nd A.D. Part B: Ronald Kim is an impressive candidate who has previously worked for Councilman John Liu and was a National Urban Fellow.

Public Advocate Letitia James; Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer; District Leader Carlina Rivera, who is running for Mendez's seat; District Leader Anthony Feliciano; Jamila Hammami, director of the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project; the Urban Justice Center; and faith leaders from the Islamic Council of America and Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, will also be participating in the rally.

«The fact that someone who grew up in the most urban area of the nation — Hell's Kitchen — could be welcomed into dairy barns in Delhi, and small businesses in Monticello, and mix with today's college students at New Paltz, while returning home at night to Orange County and being welcomed there also, is something that is a testament to the people of the 42nd Senate District,» said Bonacic.

Republicans, who enjoy a large advantage in registered voters in the mixed urban and rural district, will also hold a runoff.

These patterns were even more pronounced for teachers who moved from urban to suburban districts.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

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.

Not only did the district, the largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the urban poor who entered high school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded in getting those students to graduation.

«We were all interested in district - level reforms and thought why not form a team and see how we could do in a high pressure, interesting situation with people who know a lot about urban school districts,» Spears explains.

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.

More recently, we drew heavily on those experiences to create Opportunity by Design, an initiative of Carnegie Corporation of New York that is enabling a select group of urban districts to design new secondary schools that serve all students, particularly those who are underprepared and need to accelerate and recuperate their learning.

One of our studies was a randomized trial in a large urban district that found significant positive effects on reading achievement for students who used Accelerated Reader according to the publisher's recommendations.

Her stormy tenure is being closely watched by school reformers, the teacher unions, urban educators and Congressional Democrats, who variously believe that the chancellor is either the troubled district's last hope — or worst nightmare.)

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

Urban school leaders who join me at the program will learn more about their personal leadership style and how they can use it most effectively to improve teaching and learning in their schools and districts.

Even those who don't like my left - right combination — bring it to an end and replace it with a true system of schools — never counterpunch with, «The urban district is doing great!»

In some urban school districts, the percentage of 4th - graders who can not read at the basic level exceeds 70 percent.

The other reform strategy pursued in recent years, by large urban districts from New York to San Diego, is to recruit celebrity superintendents from other professions, such as Joel Klein, the Clinton administration's antitrust official, who is now serving as chancellor of the New York City schools.

79, president of the foundation, «when we developed the conviction that dramatic structural change was going to be necessary in Boston and other urban public school systems in order to generate broad improvement in the academic achievement of the mostly low - income, minority students who populate these districts today.»

Klein is coauthor of «Blended Learning in Practice: Four District School Journeys,» a case study of the Oakland project written with Carrie McPherson Douglass, who's now with the Cities for Education Entrepreneurship Trust, an umbrella organization for urban reform groups nationwide.

In both urban and rural communities, 64 percent of parents say they are «very satisfied» with their child's charter school, compared to 54 percent of urban parents and 56 percent of rural parents who say they are «very satisfied» with their child's assigned - district school.

The question the initiative seeks to answer is: «If an urban district and its principal training programs provide large numbers of talented, aspiring principals with the right training and on - the - job evaluation and support, will the result be a pipeline of principals who can improve teaching and student achievement district - wide, especially in schools with the greatest needs?»

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

School districts from coast to coast are launching ambitious initiatives to attract and retain teachers, especially teachers who belong to minority groups and teachers certified in critical - need areas or those willing to teach in urban or rural schools.

Ms. Clayton, who had the longest tenure of any head of a large urban district, decided to take advantage of a state - sponsored early - retirement package.

In an era when education leaders are held accountable for raising the academic performance of all students, the job of leading today's schools has seriously outpaced the available training, especially for state and district leaders who set policy for and lead complex urban districts.

Because the city is smaller than many urban districts, school leaders could be very selective in choosing from the pool of educators who wanted to come and work there.

«The charter school industry has targeted our relatively small urban district with an over-saturation of charters that causes a financial drain, without concern for the impact on the majority of students who will continue to attend the public schools.»

Building Principal Pipelines: A Job That Urban Districts Can Do www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/pages/perspective-building-principal-pipelines-update.aspx In the quest to ensure that all schools have leaders who focus on improving instruction, this guide sheds light on how school districts can build a pipeline of effective school prDistricts Can Do www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/pages/perspective-building-principal-pipelines-update.aspx In the quest to ensure that all schools have leaders who focus on improving instruction, this guide sheds light on how school districts can build a pipeline of effective school prdistricts can build a pipeline of effective school principals.

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.

The Mississippi Department of Education is planning to launch a program that will create a «sustainable pipeline of educators who are members of the community in which they teach, particularly in urban and isolated rural districts.»

Jim Spady, a longtime advocate of charters who runs the Washington Charter School Resource Center, said he believes charter operators are looking for urban districts.

The Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create obstacles to learUrban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create obstacles to learurban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create obstacles to learning.

For fifty years, the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create serious obstacles to learUrban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create serious obstacles to learurban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create serious obstacles to learning.

Unlike most large urban districts, who partner with external organizations to provide coaching to their leaders, our district chose to meet this need by creating an internal service provider.

«If students knew when they woke up in the morning that what they had to say really mattered in what changes were made in the school - they would really come,» says RaShawn, 17, who attends an overcrowded urban high school his district has labeled as failing.

This provision is a direct result of the marriage between big money, i.e., Gates Foundation, Broad folks, Walton Family, etc. and TFA who supplies urban and poor districts with inexperienced teachers.

Charters were just one piece of a broader dream for advocates, who sought to make New York City — the nation's largest school district — into the central urban laboratory for education reform.

Investments Must Count Urban School districts are forced to spend millions every year on teacher recruitment - often affecting those students who need experienced teachers.

UNCF's Vice President Sekou Biddle, who has worked in urban public education reform for almost two decades and served on the District of Columbia State Board of Education, helps facilitate these conversations.

For a long time now, major urban city districts have used «rubber rooms» to oust veteran teachers, minority teachers, political rascals who won't keep their mouths shut about the districts (at both the local / school and central office level.

Some districts will look for applicants with experience in urban settings or use research - based tools to help identify potential teachers who would be successful in an urban setting.

Either way, something must be done to recruit minorities into the teaching profession or to recruit individuals who are equipped and passionate about teaching in urban or majority - minority school districts.