Sentences with phrase «with particular school districts»

We encourage minority - owned business enterprises and women - owned business enterprises to contact us for consideration in our internal work as well as collaborate on current and future projects with particular school districts, including the Dallas Independent School District and the Houston Independent School District.

Not exact matches

Too often, glowing media reports about a particular district's healthful school food leave readers with the impression that if only their own district's employees had the will and creativity, they achieve the same results.

He works tirelessly for his students, his district and far beyond — with particular commitment to create a Farm to School program that features local produce in school School program that features local produce in school school meals.

Whether someone's son or daughter sprains an ankle, cuts their arm, twists their knee, or, more seriously, injures their head, a school district's ability to provide that particular student - athlete with the proper care is an enormous value.

Another important factor to consider when comparing your school or district with another one is how many students are qualified for free and reduced price lunch in each, and what percentage of the cafeteria volume is represented by paying students; note that the percentage of students in any category eating in the cafeteria is not the same thing as the number of students who are classified as being in that particular category.

We must understand that, for Obama in particular, his experience was profoundly shaped by the opportunity to attend a top - flight independent school — an environment that correlates with his message and the success of many new black leaders — instead of what was almost surely an underperforming district school in Hawaii.

Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

In management consulting, the crucial assumptions are that 1) each organization possesses a unique culture and set of goals; therefore, the same intervention is likely to elicit different results depending on a school's history, organization, personnel, and politics; and 2) suggestions for change should creatively blend knowledge from many different sources — from general organizational theories, from deep insight into the district or schools under study, and from «craft» knowledge of what is likely to improve schools or districts with particular characteristics.

Contracting also enables a district to assign schools with particular academic challenges - say, the lowest test scores - to a private manager, while devoting its energies to district - wide improvements.

In response, savvy exam school promoters sometimes enter into treaties with the regular high schools — a sort of reverse quota system — and promise not to admit more than so many youngsters from particular districts or neighborhoods.

The authors stated that they were unable to come up with particular ways in which school districts could spend money to improve the average verbal ability of their teachers (though other researchers such as Ferguson and Manski have suggested that higher teacher salaries might do so), so they left out possible ways that money might be spent to raise verbal ability.

I might ask about how the school prepares students for state assessment tests, what particular challenges the job presents, the skills the district is looking for in the principal they hire, but certainly I asked nothing to do with salary or vacation days, since those questions would send wrong signals in an initial interview.

The mean of these school - level values for each district tells us, for example, that a district with an imbalance score for any particular racial group that is positive has, on average, public high schools that over represent that group relative to their neighborhoods.

It's never acceptable for charters to refuse to provide special education services or to «counsel out» or refuse to serve students with disabilities, but it's a particular problem when charters comprise nearly half of all public schools in a district.

One particular school district, Los Angeles Unified (LAUSD), has a long and remarkably troubled history with this product.

In particular, students at co-located district schools, where their school shares a building with a charter school, experience the most sharply positive spillover effects.

Contemporary accountability policies have created the added expectation that districts will differentiate support to schools on the basis of achievement results from state testing programs and other accountability measures, with particular attention to be given to schools where large numbers of students are not meeting standards of proficiency.

The goal is to ensure that every district in the country not only tracks chronic absence data beginning in kindergarten or ideally earlier, but also partners with families and community agencies to intervene when attendance is a problem for children or particular schools.

Many educational leadership programs have or are developing partnerships with local schools and districts in an effort to increase the relevancy of their preparation programs to the particular needs of local educational communities.

The Chief Financial Officer of Springfield, who had to go through the challenges of pricing all of the district supports for schools, said that even while the district may lose some funding because schools may decide to not to buy a particular service, this new process with defined district service prices and contracts allowed the district to be far more customer orientated and effective.

Even for middle - class households with the wherewithal to relocate, the reality that districts often arbitrarily change their zoning policies — especially based on the clout of the families who live in a particular area — means that simply moving residences doesn't guarantee that those families will get into one of the few high - quality traditional schools for which you made such a move.

Also, the district has oftentimes applied the policy in a discriminatory fashion, with the district searching students more frequently in schools that serve more low - income students and students of color and allowing its administrators to target particular students.

States have set up command - and - control frameworks, viewing districts rather than schools as public education's first responders, which is at odds with school - level efforts to address the particular needs of students and communities.

The effectiveness of teachers in service may not correspond with their effectiveness at the time they were trained, and it is certainly plausible that the impact of training a year after graduation would be different than it is five or 10 years later, when a teacher has acculturated to his particular school or district.

Any full - time employee shall be eligible for participation in any sick leave pool after 1 year of employment with the district school system, provided the employee has accrued a minimum amount of unused sick leave which shall be established by rule and provided, further, a sick leave pool is established that allows participation by that particular employee.

Some school districts will start with a particular grade or subject, while others will begin with the teachers who are most eager to learn about and use digital learning tools.

The final two suggestions, to make the portfolio in line with district requirements and make the portfolio a school or content area requirement, were beyond the scope of this particular exploration.

Lowry said small school districts in rural areas, in particular, are having a tough time cutting costs because they start out with small budgets.

In particular, according to the report, principals, teachers and parents cited as positives greater control over how and when they hire, the ability to opt out of direct teacher placements by the district and the use of one - year contracts to ensure new hires are a good fit with the school's mission.

If the district data shows that a particular neighborhood is struggling with high levels of chronic absence, perhaps the work can be aligned with existing community resources targeting the same geographic area, such as a community schools or neighborhood revitalization effort.

In particular, the district faces a continual challenge with the turnover of new teachers in high need schools.

In this particular case, Endrew F., a child with autism who attended preschool through fourth grade in Colorado's Douglas County School District, was making little academic progress.

addressed to U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, requesting that the U.S. Department of Education stay on track to implement new data tracking rules that would standardize how states identify school districts with «significant disproportionality,» or high rates of students from particular racial or ethnic groups that are placed in restrictive settings or are subject to discipline.

Representatives from Lockheed Martin, the Onondaga County District Attorney's office, local law enforcement, the Syracuse City School District and a number of other professions spent time speaking with the students about the education they would need to succeed in a particular job.

However, districts could lose all that additional funding if any particular school site exceeds the required class size, unless school officials have negotiated a collective bargaining agreement with their teachers» union that sets class sizes at a different level, according to the analysis.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, A + Colorado, and 111 other organizations signed a letter addressed to U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, requesting that the U.S. Department of Education stay on track to implement new data tracking rules that would standardize how states identify school districts with «significant disproportionality,» or high rates of students from particular racial or ethnic groups that are placed in restrictive settings or are subject to discipline.

Through this program, parents with students at a particular grade level with class sizes that are at or approaching the district guideline will be notified about the option to voluntarily transfer their children to other specified schools that have space available at that grade level.

Even for districts with sufficient applicants, it can be challenging to ensure that the principals who are recruited and selected have the requisite skills and expertise, are a good match for a particular school or district need, and present an approach that aligns with that of district leadership.

But as troubling as Hollywood's problem is, there is another, much more consequential profession with an even more striking lack of diversity: that of education leaders — in particular, state education commissioners and school district superintendents.

The first three districts, in particular, raise the question of whether affluent communities with successful school districts are an appropriate fit for charter schools.

TFA in particular has been a policy lightning rod, given its limited upfront training, aggressive expansion during a period of significant teacher layoffs, and fees it charges to school districts with which it contracts to place teachers.

Below are the stories of five more teachers, schools, and districts who have found success with their particular implementation.

In particular, we will look at how regional consortia of K — 12 school districts, postsecondary institutions, and local industry partners, supported with state, federal, and Irvine Foundation funding, are advancing two areas of Linked Learning that have been underdeveloped in the initiative districts: work - based learning and postsecondary partnerships.

Buckley said that federal officials did not come up with these potential elements out of thin air — they were chosen because certain school districts or states had sought that particular data element in the past.

The California Collaborative on District Reform joins researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders in ongoing, evidence - based dialogue and collective action to improve outcomes for all students in California's urban school systems, with particular attention to equity and access for traditionally under - served students in the state.

The issue is of particular importance to large urban school districts with high percentages of students of color and English learners.

The four new grantees will serve 13 high - need school districts, with a particular focus on 11 rural communities.

AIR experts have worked with clients at all levels — states, districts, and schools — to design tools and supports that are flexible and customized to their particular needs.

The state board resolved that any school district that assigned students to a particular level based on assessed or perceived readiness had to disclose this fact to parents and report to the state the research proving that this separate placement was necessary, the length of time it planned to deny children in lower levels access to learning with higher - achieving peers, and the demographic characteristics of those children denied access to higher - achieving peers.»

All of our work with school districts and staff includes custom consultation, coaching, and facilitation to address issues particular to a specific context.