They looked at Buffalo and Albany, two cities with relatively large concentrations of charter schools, and
with public school districts facing stagnant, and shrinking student enrollments.
Not exact matches
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.
Similarly,
schools and
districts, when
faced with competition, might make
public statements about how they need to change but never translate these statements into action.
And their revised strategy of operating
public schools under contract
with public school districts was flawed by an underestimation of the political resistance they would
face and their inability to control costs or quality within the
public system.
With urban and suburban districts facing the deepest budget cuts they've seen since the recession of the mid-1980s — and a milder recession in the early 2000s — the prospects for comprehensive arts education in most K - 12 public schools appear bleak, and even schools with minimal programs may lose what they considered to be bare bones to begin w
With urban and suburban
districts facing the deepest budget cuts they've seen since the recession of the mid-1980s — and a milder recession in the early 2000s — the prospects for comprehensive arts education in most K - 12
public schools appear bleak, and even
schools with minimal programs may lose what they considered to be bare bones to begin w
with minimal programs may lose what they considered to be bare bones to begin
withwith.
We already have an impressive joint project
with the Business
School, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is an executive education program that unites the faculty resources of both schools to address the specific challenges faced by nine urban school districts from across the co
School, the
Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is an executive education program that unites the faculty resources of both
schools to address the specific challenges
faced by nine urban
school districts from across the co
school districts from across the country.
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.
For example,
Facing History has a long - standing partnership
with the Boston
Public Schools (BPS) through which we have developed units for the
district's civics and history curriculum in grades 8, 9, 10, and 11, reaching over 12,000 students each year.
The Chicago
public schools are
facing a budget crisis so severe that it threatens to shut down the system next fall unless the Illinois legislature comes up
with more money,
district officials warned last week.
The Marlboro Township
Public Schools are a high - performing suburban district that was facing problems many successful schools have dealt with: how to get their high - achieving students to reach even higher, and how to keep them e
Schools are a high - performing suburban
district that was
facing problems many successful
schools have dealt with: how to get their high - achieving students to reach even higher, and how to keep them e
schools have dealt
with: how to get their high - achieving students to reach even higher, and how to keep them engaged.
Oregon's
public school districts are
facing a fiscal crisis, but it has nothing to do
with inadequate funding.
With disagreements swirling about the Park City
School District's $ 56 million bond as Election Day nears, voters got to see supporters and detractors
face off in a
public setting Tuesday one last time before heading to the polls.
Newark
Public Schools face a serious problem: Enrollment in the struggling state - administered
district is projected to plummet in the coming years, and
with that revenues will decline.
Yet many suburban
districts now rival urban
districts in the challenges they
face, having experienced dramatic population changes in just the past decade,
with fast growing numbers of English Language Learners and students living in poverty attending Read more about Suburban
Schools: The Unrecognized Frontier in
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But
faced with fiscal crises and achievement gaps of their own,
public school districts are also thinking twice.
Faced with a billion dollar budget deficit, Chicago's
public school system is the most recent urban
district to announce a massive closure of
schools.
If Gov. Phil Bryant does not agree to a rumored - but - still - quiet deal
with the Jackson mayor and a large philanthropic foundation to provide a third option, Jackson
Public Schools will
face one of two options for the Mississippi Board of Education — and the state — to take over the
district.
Both the conference and the event are part of
Facing History's continuing partnership
with the Boston
Public Schools to create curriculum and professional development for teachers on civil rights throughout the
district.
As the Milwaukee
Public School District grapples with a $ 30 million budget deficit, the school board continues to play around the edges while ignoring a glaring solution that is right in front of their
School District grapples
with a $ 30 million budget deficit, the
school board continues to play around the edges while ignoring a glaring solution that is right in front of their
school board continues to play around the edges while ignoring a glaring solution that is right in front of their
face.
Rebekah Kim, principal of Midway Elementary
School in the Highline
Public Schools district in Burien, Wash.,
faced a similar challenge: How to maintain the sacredness of her time
with teachers, while providing meaningful, personalized feedback to grow teaching practice.
Principals serve as the
public face of the
school, communicating
with parent and community groups,
school board and
district officials, and student committees.
For these reasons, the 2017 EdCan Network Indigenous «Innovation that Sticks» Dropout Prevention Case Study Research Program will focus on one alternative
school,
public school or
school district with a specialized dropout prevention program for students who identify as First Nation, Inuit and Métis, anywhere in Canada to share
with educators
facing similar challenges across Canada.
One Greater Houston
school district,
facing up to some under - performing
schools, has sought to improve them by partnering
with area charter
schools to bring
public and charter students under one roof.
Third, the
public sector is faltering in many urban areas — cities and
school districts face long - term structural challenges to match revenues
with expenditures.
For decades, the life cycle of the young, middle - class D.C. resident has gone something like this: Move to the
District, get a good job, meet a nice boy or girl, get married, have a kid and —
faced with mediocre
public schools or the prospect of tens of thousands of dollars in yearly private
school tuition — move to the suburbs.
Collaborated
with a team to implement a high volume,
public facing web site using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL to assist
school districts with Common Core Standards compliance.
Home buyers in the
District face a complex system of traditional
public schools,
public charter
schools and magnet
schools with a range of quality from low performing to high performing
schools found in every ward.