Sentences with phrase «very small school districts»

The study found that while school district consolidation among the very small school districts could result in cost savings, the consolidation of the large metropolitan area districts would likely increase costs, said Greg Branch, deputy director of the Texas Schools Project, which oversaw the research project.

Not exact matches

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).

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 AFT claims that charter schools are more racially homogeneous than district schools, citing research that makes much of very small differences (normally less than 10 percent) between charter and nearby district school student bodies.

That path is a limited replication of No Excuses schools that rely on a very unusual labor pool (young, often work 60 + hours per week, often from top universities); the creation of many more charters that, on average, aren't different in performance from district schools; districts adopting «lite» versions of No Excuses models while pruning small numbers of very low performing teachers; and some amount of shift to online learning.

A new Achievement School District (ASD), modeled after those in Louisiana and Tennessee, is charged with transforming these very low - performing schools by taking in a small number (no more than six per year) and pairing them with successful charter networks, with the hope that they will return to district supervision once they're District (ASD), modeled after those in Louisiana and Tennessee, is charged with transforming these very low - performing schools by taking in a small number (no more than six per year) and pairing them with successful charter networks, with the hope that they will return to district supervision once they're district supervision once they're humming.

We purposely chose schools that were very different (big / small, urban / rural, traditional / progressive, district / charter) so we could be certain we were designing a solution that worked for everyone.

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.

«If the Trump Administration is seriously committed to a full range of choice, the fact is that most choice programs usually stratify students by race and that this small program to help school districts create voluntary programs to support integrated schools, which have very well documented benefits and many families desire, and should be part of true choice.»

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Very small schools and districts should form consortia with other schools and districts for this purpose, and leverage the resources among participants.

For starters, the charter schools are very small compared with traditional district schools, each founded with only two grades at a time, adding a new grade level each year.

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HB 97 improves ethics and transparency standards for charters and temporarily makes very small reductions in school district payments to cyber charters.

Four different district panels (very small, small, moderate, and large size districts), panels on charter schools and geographically isolated districts will then meet to review all previous work, make adjustments to fit district size context, and identify the resources needed at the district level to ensure success at the school level.

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.

More detailed analysis of state - and district - level performance finds that a very small proportion of school districts perform well relative to other countries.

Folks want accountability tests to apply to all districts and schools in the state (with perhaps the exception of very small units with less than 100 students), and with that feature on the list for accountability tests, matrix tests won't work.

Gaining that experience, particularly in small school districts or rural special education agencies, can be very difficult.