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The fact is charter schools are not being held accountable in the same way district public schools are and we can be pretty sure that now that one of Achievement First's founders is the Commissioner of Education — we won't be seeing a lot more criticism of Achievement First.

Not exact matches

Amanda Bot made her way to Orange County Public Schools from her native Minnesota — where she attended the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities for her bachelor's degree — but not before she completed an internship with the Sarasota County School District.

We recently sat down with Kern Halls, Area Manager of Orange County Public School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field school events and field trips.

Almost all of our public school districts deal with F&R eligibility in some way.

If you come from a low - income home — that's 2/3 of the District of Columbia Public School students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store on the way to school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrSchool students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store on the way to school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrschool, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrition?

Buffalo Public Schools are changing the way the district hires teachers, planning to do it much earlier when the talent pool is larger.

«I think it was a way for him to con the public into saying that he really supports our students and parents and teachers and school districts, when in reality, he did not.»

When state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi of the Third Judicial District retired from his second 14 - year term half way through on June 26, the Albany Democrat and former public defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's opublic defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's oPublic Defender's office.

Syracuse City School District superintendent Sharon Contreras apologized Wednesday night for the way news about plans to phase out three of the city's schools was made public.

In a sense, by establishing public school choice, all three of the decentralized school districts have found a way to approximate the proven power of competition in a governmental setting.

Having established that the form of parental school choice offered within school districts is a harmful way of ability tracking, Burris uses that example to tarnish parental school choice in its other forms of public charter schooling and private school vouchers as well.

While the exact way forward may vary from one district to another, there should be no further delay in creating state laws and regulations that level the playing field between charters and other public schools.

Information on how funds are allocated between different programs and expenses and how funds are distributed between states, districts, schools, and students could also influence public opinion in important ways.»

So he exhorted lawmakers to consider «chartering,» as a way to allow entities other than school districts to establish new public schools that would be open to students regardless of where they lived, thereby beginning to withdraw the monopoly school districts held over the provision of public education.

The baseline is that virtual schools are also accountable through NLCB in the same way that all public schools are, although when districts wrap a virtual school into an existing school the data may not be disaggregated.

As public budgets have grown tighter over the past decade, states and school districts have sought ways to control the growth of spending.

Disrupting our K — 12 schools or our public school districts is impossible today because there is no nonconsumption of education in this country, but helping our schools use disruptive innovation to disrupt the classroom — the way they arrange teaching and learning — is possible.

True, the revenue amounts received by charters and TPS are more even once you exclude all of the ways that district - run public schools are forced to be inefficient.

The 22,395 - student Federal Way district, located between Seattle and Tacoma, declared in its lawsuit — filed Nov. 21 in King County Superior Court — that the formula violates the state constitutional requirement that the state create a «general and uniform» system of public schools.

Meanwhile, the first significant budget cuts in recent memory forced public school districts to tighten their belts in unprecedented ways.

Public schools in Charlotte, N.C., could go the way of modern - day sports stadiums under a proposal that would allow district officials to name rooms and other school facilities for corporate donors.

Almost three - quarters of respondents from the general public think school districts should be notified if parents intend to homeschool their children, however; 68 percent of parents feel the same way.

Developing a more comprehensive source of information about barriers to attracting good candidates and about ways in which school districts, professional associations, and institutions of higher education can contribute to ensuring that these candidates are prepared and ready to move into leadership positions is an investment that would pay high dividends to our public schools and the children they serve.»

Join Todd Wirt, assistant superintendent for academics with Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), N.C., and Carol Wetzel, senior director with Discovery Education, as they discuss the challenges WCPSS faced implementing Common Core State Standards across the district and how they determined the best way to scale professional development for its 11,000 teachers as they embarked on this digital and instructional journey.

Omaha's Learning Community is an example of this, whereby 11 school districts (Omaha Public Schools plus 10 suburban districts) across two counties participate in open enrollment, and magnet schools are used to encourage two - way transfer of students between urban and suburban disSchools plus 10 suburban districts) across two counties participate in open enrollment, and magnet schools are used to encourage two - way transfer of students between urban and suburban disschools are used to encourage two - way transfer of students between urban and suburban districts.

This whole district public school vs. charter public school — I don't think parents think of it that way.

These services and benefits must be 1) delivered in a timely way, and 2) comparable to the services and benefits the district provides to the children and teachers in its public schools.

Public school districts similarly offer choice and magnet programs that entice students to leave zoned schools, which theoretically «hurts» the zoned schools in the same way as you suggest vouchers do.

After Lynchburg (Virginia) City Public Schools officials learned in fall 2007 that a middle - school student had MRSA, school officials cleaned desks and common areas and alerted parents about the causes of the infection and ways to stop transmission, said Anne Bond - Gentry, the districts coordinator of student services.

But it is clear that the typical arguments that drive charter - related controversies and public debate fail to capture the ways in which district and charter schools affect one another.

If Edison, which now works in various ways in nearly 1,000 schools and serves more than 300,000 students, were a public school district, I would be one of the longest - serving heads of a major school system in the United States (average tenure for the superintendent of a major system is less than four years).

TARBORO — Edgecombe County Public Schools is pursuing a new way to recruit and retain teachers that may lead to promotions and increased pay potential for high - achieving teachers in the district.

With public schools, he wants to change the way funds are distributed so that districts with concentrations of poor and English learning students receive greater funding, although there is some controversy that not all such districts will benefit as described.

I watch higher - income parents, mostly white, buy their way into high - performing suburban districts while demanding a «moratorium» on public charters in order to deny the school choice they exercise to low - income families, primarily of color.

The other thing that we're really looking at, and this is coming from our state and local school district affiliates, as people have now started to see charter schools as: Wow, there are studies that say they are really no better, depending on which charter schools and how selective they are, and they're not really improving the public schools the way the original concept had hoped.

Bubbling opposition to the idea of a phased - in approach that entails co-locating charter schools within traditional public schools and allowing the charters to expand one grade at a time — a tactic that charter operators endorse as a way to gradually build community support and resources, but local school districts are reluctant to participate in.

The Education Evaluator is an easy transparent way to find and compare public schools - district and charter - in your neighborhood.

And if the folks in district public schools want some insight into our secret sauce, we should come right out with it: we are free to evaluate our staff in a way that makes sense to our school and our mission.

Denver Public Schools hosts endless visits from civic and district leaders looking for ways to reinvent public educPublic Schools hosts endless visits from civic and district leaders looking for ways to reinvent public educpublic education.

As the head of family engagement in Washington state's Federal Way Public Schools, Trise Moore helps parents navigate a large bureaucracy and puts them at the center of the district's decisionmaking.

Like Framingham Public Schools, thousands of schools and districts trust TalentEd to provide world - class customer support alongside solutions that help them transform the way they recruit, hire, onboard, manage, develop and retain quality teachers andSchools, thousands of schools and districts trust TalentEd to provide world - class customer support alongside solutions that help them transform the way they recruit, hire, onboard, manage, develop and retain quality teachers andschools and districts trust TalentEd to provide world - class customer support alongside solutions that help them transform the way they recruit, hire, onboard, manage, develop and retain quality teachers and staff.

Leaders in nine communities across the U.S. have signed on to a District - Charter Collaboration Compact, an initiative to highlight new ways that public charter schools and traditional public schools are working...

PEAPS - LA is encouraged by the District's efforts to provide clearer school quality information to families, and believes the new School Finder should be designed in a way that works for all families, provides easy comparisons between schools, and provides useful information on all public school opschool quality information to families, and believes the new School Finder should be designed in a way that works for all families, provides easy comparisons between schools, and provides useful information on all public school opSchool Finder should be designed in a way that works for all families, provides easy comparisons between schools, and provides useful information on all public school opschool options.

«This is a third way, a hybrid in between charter schools and district schools, and it's growing in number throughout the country,» said Sean Gill, a research analyst for the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington.

While some incredible women are breaking through barriers and leading notable public school districts, charter management organizations and non-profits currently, our education sector still has a long way to go to ensure that ALL talented individuals (especially women and people of color) have access to positions and people of influence.

63 More than 56,000 public schools currently receive grants through Title I, Part A, but few districts are using these funds to support students» learning mindsets and skills in a targeted, coherent, and systemic way.64

A massive property tax hike is the «most likely» way for the financially teetering Chicago Public Schools to find its way out of a sea of red ink, a major Wall Street ratings agency said Thursday — a conclusion district officials were quick to reject.

Supporters of charter schools, which are funded with the taxpayer dollars that a local school district would otherwise get to educate a student, say the schools allow for innovative ways to teach outside the confines of the red tape found in traditional public schools.

Nearly 60 percent of school districts in Wisconsin use MAP in some way, according to the Department of Public Instruction.

◦ the ways in which the school will achieve a racial / ethnic balance reflective of the community it serves or within the racial / ethnic range of other public schools in the same school district