Sentences with phrase «vast school system»

The principals and teachers of our schools are well - educated, motivated and committed people who are eager to share their faith and talents with the children in our vast school system.

Earlier this week, an Assembly bill was approved that extends the ability of counties to keep a higher sales tax in place, while also continuing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's control over the city's vast school system for another two years.

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Blame it on their helicopter parents, Instagram, or the way the educational system has been schooling kids via group activities for decades — the vast majority of Millennials have no qualms about being the center of attention.

The number of state school students entering the university system is at record levels, and the vast majority of universities are very grateful for this.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

He has argued that the current system is not accurate since the vast majority of teachers have been rated «effective» or «highly effective,» while most elementary and middle schools students have failed state - administered math and English exams.

The authors were unable to include the vast New York City school system because of the confusing and inconsistent way its districts keep disciplinary records.

Finally, The Observatory is a partner with the Pocahontas County School System, providing a vast number of services to the local schools.

The authors point out that the Cincinnati system of evaluation is different from the standard practice in place in most American school districts, where perfunctory evaluations assign the vast majority of teachers «satisfactory» ratings, leading many to «characterize classroom observation as a hopelessly flawed approach to assessing teacher effectiveness.»

It's such a vast system, and one has to realize that just because you pull the lever in Albany it will not necessarily impact practice in district X or school Y.

The vast majority of state accountability systems simply report the average scores for each school, sometimes disaggregating by racial and ethnic groups.

But even at Piney Branch, which benefits from the vast resources of a huge, affluent school system in Montgomery County, Maryland, it sure seems rickety, held with lots of duct tape and chewing gum, and subject to collapse without just the right staff and parent support.

One wonders if those who brought this suit are willing to press their equality claims to their logical conclusions and challenge the vast array of inequalities poor and minority children might experience in public school systems.

Marshalling a vast array of data and summarizing the relevant literature, he makes a compelling case that nothing that we have done, to date, has had a meaningful, system - wide positive impact on urban schools» performance.

A poll this month by Louis Harris & Associates has found that a majority of Americans support a vast overhaul of the education system, and that nearly three - quarters of the respondents believe teachers, rather than legislatures or school boards, should enact the reforms.

Urban public school systems, no matter their structure, will educate the vast majority of students living in cities for generations to come.

Yes, many will take a course here and there, but the comprehensive high school in most suburban districts and proliferation of small high schools in urban systems will continue to enroll the vast majority of eligible teenagers.

According to the Common Core of Data, DCPS employed nearly 3,800 teachers in 2010 - 11, so even though the retirement system also includes other classes of workers employed by DCPS (certain public charter school employees are also eligible to be participants), the vast majority of DCRB's members appear to be DCPS teachers.

And if you are finding your way across our vast globe, we suggest you check out some of the many incredible and unique school systems our world has to offer!

It does not prescribe particular systems or interventions for the vast majority of schools, instead setting strong goals for states and giving them the flexibility to determine how their schools and districts will meet them.

These school systems do not have vast resources at their disposal to build whatever kind of support system their schools may need.

It bemoans the fact, for example, that «while schools that earn Celebration Eligible or Reward status under Minnesota's accountability system demonstrate higher on - track rates for both white and African American students than schools identified for intervention, the difference in on - track rates for white and African American students among these recognized schools are still vast.»

Teacher degree and experience levels: Teachers» education (degree) and experience levels are probably the most widely studied teacher attributes, both because they are easy to measure and because they are, in the vast majority of school systems, the sole determinants of teachers» salaries.

If a school system is not well equipped to understand the state of teaching practice within its classrooms, then it will have a difficult time planning and implementing strategies for improvement to meet the development needs of the vast majority of its teachers.

The candidate is Ray Corns, who as a circuit - court judge in 1988 ruled that the state's system of school finance was unconstitutional because it allowed vast differences between...

The file is an Excel file so is compatible with the vast majority of school or home systems.

All four schools systems are widely recognized as examples where corporate education reform and privatization have or are failing the vast majority of students.

Until recently, teacher evaluations were little more than a formality in most school systems, with the vast majority of instructors getting top ratings, often based on a principal's superficial impressions.

In short, there is a vast support system for students who are searching for ways to finance their education beyond high school.

«The president doesn't believe that vouchers are a long - term answer to our educational problems and the challenges that face our public school system, where the vast majority of — of students are educated in this country.»

Private school vouchers drain money away from public schools; have not conclusively been proven to result in increased student achievement; reduce accountability in the education system; and ultimately harm public schools, which the vast majority of students attend.

Forty schools won't upset the state's vast public school system, nor will they transform the quality of education.

... Few ardent supporters of public education really understand what it takes to provide high - quality learning opportunities for children in a public school classroom, and for that reason few are aware of the vast chasm between public school systems that are well provisioned to do so and those that aren't.

Many of the disparities were attributable to vast differences in the amount and value of taxable property within school systems, which ranged from a few hundred dollars to millions of dollars in taxable revenue per pupil.

The new system will apply to public schools including the vast majority of charter schools across Wisconsin.

But NYC's traditional public school system is on a fast track to nowhere without a successful strategy to turn around the vast majority of non-charter, non-selective admissions schools that continue to fail to prepare students for colleges and careers.

In the same way, DeVos's denunciations of the federal government and her refusal to make even a tepid call - out to the value of the public education system, can't help but have an effect on the way some Americans feel about their neighborhood public schools, which educate the vast majority of the country's schoolchildren.

Sadly, what we found was that even when technology tested well in experiments, the attempt to scale up its impact was limited by the availability of strong leadership, good teachers, and involved parents — all elements that are unfortunately in short supply in India's vast but woefully underfunded government school system.

For more information on the reliability of many evaluation systems, particularly the binary systems used by the vast majority of school districts, see S. Glazerman, D. Goldhaber, S. Loeb, S. Raudenbush, D. Staiger, and G. Whitehurst, «Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of Value - Added.»

These points capture just some of the many facts indicative of the vast racial differences within the American school system.

In this era of a new administration in Washington that has espoused many viewpoints fundamentally at odds with the values held by the vast majority of Californians, we look forward to working with you to ensure that California's public school system, including its vibrant charter school sector, continues to ensure that absolutely all students regardless of immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, class, faith, or disability may access high quality public school options.

Within DC's traditional public school system, the vast majority of schools are required to admit all students who live within certain geographic boundaries.

In the short run, we must bring vast pressure to bear on the U.S. president to implement a system of incentives like the one that I've described, or any other strategy he may contrive, to give the children of the inner - city poor the same full opportunity for first - rate integrated schooling that he himself enjoyed and is now providing his own children.

Mr Lightman said Ofqual's letter was helpful to schools, but highlighted the «vast range of reforms that are going on and the enormous uncertainty across the system».

Without standardized testing we wouldn't know that vast inequities pervade our public school system.

Under its «school - led» policy, the infrastructure is becoming increasingly fragmented, with a massive expansion of School Direct, the accreditation of vast numbers of new small - scale training providers and a rather chaotic and rigged new recruitment sschool - led» policy, the infrastructure is becoming increasingly fragmented, with a massive expansion of School Direct, the accreditation of vast numbers of new small - scale training providers and a rather chaotic and rigged new recruitment sSchool Direct, the accreditation of vast numbers of new small - scale training providers and a rather chaotic and rigged new recruitment system.

Developing a research - based evaluation system is a huge undertaking, one that is prohibitive for the vast majority of school districts in both cost and time.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Reorganized the filing system by introducing more effective ways of records management, including electronic filing systems • Implemented a vast series of school procedures within a record time of 3 months • Reduced financial pressure on parents by suggesting that school supplies be provided by the school • Trained and inducted 15 new administrative employees within 5 months

It should be noted, however, that the vast majority of adolescents of this age are still enrolled in the school system in France.