Sentences with phrase «very few school districts»

EN: Very few school districts in the country have been able to introduce merit pay.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: You mentioned parental notification and, as far as we can tell, very few school districts have taken the step of notifying parents about the qualifications of their teachers.

Very few school districts offer full ingredient disclosures on their websites, but the majority of them use existing FDA nutrient claims («low - fat milk,» «fat - free milk») to describe milk on their printed and online school meal menus.

Very few school districts offer full ingredient disclosures on their websites, but the majority of them use FDA nutrient content claims («low - fat» milk, «fat - free» milk) to describe milk on their menus.

Not exact matches

Finally, the big savings from P2 are really only realized if your entire district is very low income; implementing it in just a few very low income schools within a district which is less than 85 % low income may not save much.

Leah Schmidt, president of the School Nutrition Association and director of nutrition programs at a Kansas City, Mo. school district, said any schools that would consider forgoing the federal funds would have to have very few students eating the free and reduced - cost School Nutrition Association and director of nutrition programs at a Kansas City, Mo. school district, said any schools that would consider forgoing the federal funds would have to have very few students eating the free and reduced - cost school district, said any schools that would consider forgoing the federal funds would have to have very few students eating the free and reduced - cost meals.

«If I were to go to my district tonight at a meeting with the community, or school or a function and ask people if they thought the city was better prepared today for a storm than they were three years ago, very few hands would go up,» Queens Councilman Eric Ulrich said.

«For the past few years, my office had one Deputy dedicated as an SRO for all of these school districts, but today I am very pleased to say we can better serve these schools and communities with an additional SRO.

His analysis reveals that «the enrollment of students with severe disabilities accounts for very little of the gap, as there are very few of these students» in either charter or district - operated schools.

There are also large numbers of classrooms in the [Boston school] district â $» maybe a third â $» where there's very little learning going on because teachers are spending so much time on behavior management, even when it's just a few kids.

Detroit parents still have very few high - quality options, despite a number of different reform interventions, including putting a state - appointed emergency manager in charge of the district, pulling the lowest - performing schools into a statewide turnaround district, and allowing a significant number of charter schools to operate.

An important limitation of this measure is that it does not take into account the wide variation in the geographic size of districts (e.g., a small district could be classified as sparse even if it has many schools per square mile and a large district could be classified as dense even if it has very few schools per square miles).

Indeed, there are very few other ways in which district officials can be held accountable for school performance.

Research has shown that beyond very small schools and school districts, there are few opportunities for economies of scale in education because most of the costs increase with enrollments and are not fixed costs that decline with additional clients.

Just by cutting one to two hours out of my office day to spend a few minutes in each classroom and hallway of my small school district, I've learned more about the little (but often very important) things going on than I would have learned from email, phone calls or hearsay.

The former is more likely to happen in school districts that have very few whites left and in districts that have had strong appeals court opinions rejecting the use of race altogether.

Most recently, before retiring last year, Harris devised a way to overhaul how the district deals with teacher absences — something very few schools around the country have found ways to address creatively.

But another finding of Stuit's is just as important: He could find very few charters located near the lowest - performing district schools:

For instance, although most of the studies cited above do include statistical controls for peer effects (the mean characteristics of other student in a class or school), very few states or districts do so when generating value - added estimates.

The fundamental problem limiting the development of an evidence base is that very few states track school and district textbook adoptions.

For instance, the authors excluded districts with poverty rates of less than 20 percent or more than 80 percent — districts with extremely high or low rates can do very little to remedy segregation within their district boundaries.69 The authors also excluded school districts with fewer than ten schools.

In northwestern Connecticut where Explorations is located, very few educational options exist beyond traditional district schools and a local vocational school.

Last time I checked, the highest performing charters were doing better than their district counterparts in urban districts, but very few of these schools have come close to closing the achievement gap when it comes to college and career - readiness.

Here in Connecticut Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education has pontificated that there were very few technical problems with the Common Core SBAC test in Connecticut, although no independent analysis of the claim has been completed and even the claim that there were «few problems» is suspect considering that in at least two Connecticut School Districts students were given the wrong test and the community's entire results had to be thrown out.

With traffic congestion on the forefront of concerns in Park City, is it acceptable to have very few students on a school bus that could fit dozens more — simply due to school district policy?

Unfortunately, subsequent regulatory additions of onerous «guidelines» for implementation of the rule by school districts had the effect of aborting the innovation and very few temporary certificates were issued, despite the documented demand for them by large numbers of applicants.

Matriculation and graduation are the few separation rates teacher prep programs should celebrate; in the very least, the public should expect students, schools and districts to get their dowries back.

Nearly 9 in 10 respondents said it was a problem for public schools in low - income communities to have fewer qualified teachers than public schools in wealthier areas, and a majority felt that shortages should not be resolved by recruiting individuals who are not fully prepared — the very thing many districts have been forced to do in response to deep shortages across the state.

Indeed, very few, if any, Colorado school districts have consistently made this level of progress.

Unfortunately, even if most CT districts do well, even excellently, 40 % of school children are in the failing or low performing districts (there are fewer urban districts but they are very large).

The first year of teaching is often a blur of lessons learned in the hot seat while students fail to learn all that they could.13 Nearly 1 in 7 new teachers leave the classroom before completing their third year, with most citing classroom management, the burden of curriculum freedom, and unsupportive school environments as their greatest challenges.14 According to the National Center for Education Statistics, teachers with three or fewer years of teaching experience are less likely than more experienced teachers to report being very well - prepared to maintain order and discipline in the classroom.15 Additionally, new teachers were less likely than more experienced teachers to report being well - prepared to implement state or district curricula.16 Residency and induction programs can provide essential practical training in classroom management, assessment and data literacy, and differentiation or special education techniques.17

Meanwhile, compared to high - poverty districts, few, if any, Commonwealth charter schools enroll the same percentage of children from low - income families, children with special needs, or children learning English as a second language — the very students who struggle most with standardized MCAS tests.

Yet, when The Wallace Foundation became involved in education leadership, very few states had a comprehensive plan for improving district and school leadership.

There are very few districts such as Raleigh that have at any point actively tried to desegregate schools by socioeconomic indicators, and the small size of districts in many states makes it impossible in a practical sense to try.

«We are very hopeful and optimistic that there will be fewer than 300 individuals,» said Edie House - Foster, the school district spokeswoman.

Catalyst reports that in Matteson School District 162, which Davis serves as schools superintendent, «very few students are held back and the process is subjective, done in consultation with teachers, parents and principals.

Very few district schools actually reflect their district average.

The Innovative School District — a school turnaround model born out of similar reform efforts that experienced mixed records in Tennessee, Michigan, Louisiana and a few other states — is getting off to a slow start due at least in part to a contentious and very public struggle to select low - performing schools that were willing to undergo such a controversial experSchool District — a school turnaround model born out of similar reform efforts that experienced mixed records in Tennessee, Michigan, Louisiana and a few other states — is getting off to a slow start due at least in part to a contentious and very public struggle to select low - performing schools that were willing to undergo such a controversial experschool turnaround model born out of similar reform efforts that experienced mixed records in Tennessee, Michigan, Louisiana and a few other states — is getting off to a slow start due at least in part to a contentious and very public struggle to select low - performing schools that were willing to undergo such a controversial experiment.

The only BASIS school in this report that enrolled significantly more students of color than the surrounding district was BASIS Chandler, and in this case it was because the majority of students were Asian; there were very few Black and Hispanic students in that population.