Sentences with phrase «urban school district like»

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

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

These include large urban school districts like Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, and New York, and nonprofit education - focused groups such as Achieve, Jobs for the Future, KIPP, the New Teacher Project, the New Schools Venture Fund, and Teach For America.

The legislature has willingly and knowingly severely underfunded urban school districts like Bridgeport for decades, but now wants to potentially point their finger at those very same cities and claim they are at fault for the performance of their public schools while allowing the proliferation of charter schools, which this year alone drained $ 5 million dollars from the BPS.

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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.

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.

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.

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 thschool funding last year, especially to urban schools like the Syracuse City School District, rural and surburban districts still get hammered by thSchool District, rural and surburban districts still get hammered by the GEA.

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

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.

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!»

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 syschools) 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 sySchools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

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.

Charter and magnet schools are often a coveted choice for parents in urban public school districts like New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford as parents search for alternatives to their local schools.

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.

Like Chicago, these urban districts — such as Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami, St. Louis and Cleveland — are struggling to figure out the role of failing neighborhood high schools that have been on life support for decades.

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.

Like students in many urban schools, BPS students have lower test scores, lower high school graduation rates, and are less likely to go to college than students from nearby suburban districts.

Like equalization formulas in other states, the one in Kansas was designed to help poor, primarily urban districts, not the sprawling, land - rich agricultural areas of the state, like Beloit, where Mr. Bottom serves as superintendent of schoLike equalization formulas in other states, the one in Kansas was designed to help poor, primarily urban districts, not the sprawling, land - rich agricultural areas of the state, like Beloit, where Mr. Bottom serves as superintendent of scholike Beloit, where Mr. Bottom serves as superintendent of schools.

Hoxby also finds that urban areas with a large number of school districts, and therefore many options for families choosing where to reside, tend to have higher test scores than cities like Miami, where one school district covers anyone living close enough to work in the city.

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.

And it offers financial rewards to urban school districts that improve performance through initiatives like merit pay for teachers.

In large urban districts, like the Los Angeles Unified School District or Chicago Public Schools, poverty, violence and trauma can be barriers to learning for thousands of students.

Like most urban school districts, about 20 % of our workforce leaves the classroom annually.

«Like many other large urban school districts in the country, Boston administrators and educators are concerned about suspension rates, dropout rates, and academic achievement challenges,» explains Nova Biro, Open Circle Co-Director.

Sen. Bob Hall, R - Edgewood, noted that while a program like the one introduced in Richardson may work for larger, urban school districts, it would put small, rural districts at even more of a disadvantage in staffing classrooms with high quality teachers.

Charter schools did not cause urban school districts to fail; urban school districts failed and caused parents to demand better options, like charter schools.

The appeal around SEL is significant enough that now California's CORE districts, which serve over a million students in major urban areas like Los Angeles and San Francisco, now require social - emotional skills to make up 8 % of a school's evaluation.

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.

What is annoying, to say the least, is that despite these difficult economic times, and while we're making a special effort to invest in our poorest, most challenged urban school districts, we've got school administrators like Paul Vallas and Steven Adamowski who begin by hiring consultants and laying off the very Connecticut residents who have been working so hard to make a difference.

Philadelphia, like most urban school districts, spends a significant amount of money on things most suburban districts do not, such as increased security measures, school police, metal detectors, non-teaching hallway patrols, health services, detention centers, discipline schools, teen parenting centers, daycare, nurseries, and non-English-speaking classes.

Like most urban districts, teachers in the New Orleans Public Schools for decades worked under union - negotiated contracts.

There are also urban districts that have not done that: that have, like San Francisco, put more money into the schools serving high - need kids with a weighted student formula; that have really worked to have a better, stronger hiring process; that have put in place induction [mentoring], and stronger feedback, and teacher evaluation systems.

Like many urban districts, the Indianapolis school system has daunting challenges: It's been losing enrollment for decades, leaving a concentrated population of low - income minority students within its borders, while passing rates on state assessments for the 2014 - 15 school year were not quite at 30 percent.

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.

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.

On that measure, DCPS has improved — in fact, as DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson likes to point out, it's the fastest - improving urban school district in the country.

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.

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 sucUrban 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 sucurban schools for jobs in the suburbs, where resources and learning conditions are more conductive to school success.