Sentences with phrase «urban public districts»

These include substantial spending to boost student achievement in urban schools, networks of charter schools as alternatives in urban public districts, and academic benchmarks on standardized tests for schools as well as students.

These students attend an urban public district school, the Springfield Renaissance School in Springfield, Massachusetts, an EL Education school.

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.

She contends that educational choice will create a «two - tiered system in urban districts, with charter schools for motivated students and public schools for those left behind.»

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.

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.

«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.

SUNY Buffalo State and the Buffalo Public School District announced the launch the Urban Teacher Academy to be located at McKinley High School Monday at a news conference.

Collectively, the six districts educate 45 percent of the state's public school children, and the conference seeks to speak with one voice in advocating for urban education issues.

The Buffalo Public School District and SUNY Buffalo State have launched the city's first - ever Urban Teacher Academy for high school students.

WBFO's Eileen Buckley says the Buffalo Public School District and Buffalo State have launched the city's first - ever Urban Teachers Academy for high school students.

The research team — led by professor Jeannette Ickovics, director of CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) at the School of Public Health — surveyed 1,649 middle - school students randomly selected from a single urban school district in Connecticut.

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 Council of the Great City Schools, based in Washington, is a national policy and research organization in urban education that represents 65 urban public school districts.

Prior to his appointment by the Governor, he was Superintendent of Public Education in San Diego City Schools, the nation's eighth largest urban school district.

TRENTON, NJ — Education Commissioner Saul A. Cooperman of New Jersey last week began proceedings to take control of the Jersey City public schools, describing the urban district as «bleak» and rife with political patronage, cronyism, and fiscal misdealings.

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.

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.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools reports that, nationwide, 55.6 percent of charter schools operate in urban areas, as compared to only 24.5 percent of district schools.

As the leader of the Chicago Public Schools, America's third - largest urban school district, Arne has launched key initiatives all with a singular aim: improving student performance.

As with many other public schools in urban districts, Wildwood has been up against some tough resource challenges:

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.

USP codirector Senior Lecturer Deborah Jewell - Sherman was pleased with the event as a celebration of the program and Peterkin, noting that it attracted not only alums from around the country, but also superintendents from large urban districts such as Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall.

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.

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.

With urban and suburban districts facing the deepest budget cuts they've seen since the recession of the mid-1980s — and a milder recession in the early 2000s — the prospects for comprehensive arts education in most K - 12 public schools appear bleak, and even schools with minimal programs may lose what they considered to be bare bones to begin with.

We already have an impressive joint project with the Business School, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is an executive education program that unites the faculty resources of both schools to address the specific challenges faced by nine urban school districts from across the country.

April 7, 2016 — To better meet the unique needs of different students, urban districts are increasingly expanding the options available to families by providing a variety of public schools: traditional, magnet, charter, and hybrid models.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

Prior to joining MCPS, Dr. Starr was the superintendent of Stamford (Conn.) Public Schools, and held executive - level positions in urban and suburban districts, including New York City Public Schools.

The prize, which gives the winning district $ 500,000 for student scholarships for college, is being touted as urban public education's most prestigious award.

A story about school construction in urban districts in the July 14, 1999, issue of Education Week misidentified Stan Childress, a Detroit public schools spokesman.

It will be a state - led initiative to replace the urban district as the delivery system for public schooling, thereby breaking with 100 years of history.

While class - size reduction has helped achievement in most of California's large urban school districts, not all of those have enjoyed such results, says a study by the Public Policy Institute of California.

I teach science (AP Chemistry, Physics, Chemistry and Biology) at a large, comprehensive, urban public high school in Los Angeles Unified School District.

Urban schools cope with complex issues, so the more the staff, the press, and the public understand about a district, the easier it can be to build support.

The report focused on urban districts because they serve so many students, according to Nora Carr, the author of the toolkit and senior vice president of public relations for Luquire - George Andrews, a media and communications firm in Charlotte, N.C.

Because of the size of city school districts — New York City is the nation's largest school system with 1,189 public schools and 78,100 teachers — urban educators often teach large numbers of at - risk students.

A behavioral argument could also be made: that the state's reform policies, its public shaming and sanctions for low - performing schools, would most strongly influence the behavior of urban districts, which tend to have a history of low performance and mismanagement.

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.

This study will shed light on this issue in a large urban school district and reinforce the importance of partnerships between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Boston Public Schools.»

A small number of progressive leaders of major urban school systems are using school closure and replacement to transform their long - broken districts: Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City has closed nearly 100 traditional public schools and opened more than 300 new schools.

The award is presented by the council, a coalition of the nation's largest urban public school districts, and ARAMARK, a food and facility services company.

February 14: Driving Change: Challenges Superintendents Face in Urban Schools Kaya Henderson, Dean's Distinguished Visiting Fellow and former chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools, was joined by Tommy Chang, superintendent of Boston Public Schools, and Tom Boasberg, superintendent of Denver Public Schools.

The image of today's public schools as violence - ridden creates a big challenge for public - relations professionals, top communications specialists from two urban districts say.

As the traditional urban school district is slowly replaced by a system marked by an array of nongovernmental school providers, new policies (undergirded by a new understanding of the government's role in public schooling) are needed.

Based on a year of self - examination by 44 of the largest urban districts, «Challenges to Urban Education: Results in the Making,» casts the future of inner - city public schools in terms far more optimistic than other recent assessmurban districts, «Challenges to Urban Education: Results in the Making,» casts the future of inner - city public schools in terms far more optimistic than other recent assessmUrban Education: Results in the Making,» casts the future of inner - city public schools in terms far more optimistic than other recent assessments.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).