Sentences with phrase «with traditional districts»

I believe we'll continue to innovate in our classrooms and communities, and improve partnerships with traditional districts to expand the reach of successful programs.

Unlike other players in the school reform movement, Parent Power activists are grassroots - oriented players, often coming from backgrounds outside of education and policymaking circles, and have actually have dealt day - to - day with traditional districts which have treated them as little more than nuisances and pests.

And even as they badmouth families, they also engage in intimidating families daring to speak out on the ground, and are working together with traditional districts to push back against Parent Power and choice initiatives in states such as Mississippi and Alabama.

The report ignores the judgments of parents and students, uses bizarre definitions of such terms as innovation and accountability, compares charter schools with the ideal school rather than with traditional district schools, and presents confusing and out - of - context discussions of such admittedly complex matters as school finance and student achievement.

Choice Media TV looks into why the NAACP joined a lawsuit to evict charter schools from buildings they share with traditional district schools in New York.

My colleagues in Washington, D.C. (see «D.C. Students Benefit from Both Sectors,» forum, Spring 2015) contend that the best educational model is one in which charter schools coexist with traditional district schools.

Thus, to compare charter school enrollment (clustered in municipalities with atypically high proportions of Black and Hispanic residents) with traditional district enrollment, which skews White, is to compare apples and oranges.

Charter school quality has become a mixed bag: Despite some great schools across the country, most are on par with traditional district schools, and too many underperform.

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.

Wilson and Trichter closely compare New York City charter schools» per - pupil costs with traditional district schools» when pension costs are taken into account.

These independently operated campuses compete with traditional district - run schools for students and state funding.

Not exact matches

«Next year, we want to expand to work with both charters and traditional district schools in other urban regions.»

Change the ITC standard for obtaining an injunction to better align it with the traditional four - factor test in eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, to enhance consistency in the standards applied at the ITC and district courts.

That wasn't even Olson's case, but with assists from a federal district court judge who came out as being in a same - sex relationship only after ruling and retiring, and elected officials who chose to forgo their traditional duty to vigorously defend state law, Olson and Boies did succeed in disenfranchising millions of Californians on a procedural technicality.

Having been recently acquired by James Cropper — based in Cumbria at the heart of England's Lake District — 2015 sees Croxley Heritage re-launched to carry the values and traditions of one of the world's oldest and most sought after paper products, with the brand's custodians encouraging buyers to rediscover the romance of beautifully made, traditional stationery.

More than 350 people ringed the pond's shores for the Waukegan Park District's Fourth Annual Gone Fishin» Derby, an event that also blurred traditional gender and age differences associated with angling.

As a result of concerns such as Kingsley's, the Arlington Heights Park District has decided to revamp its improvement plans, combining the best features of a water park with the traditional neighborhood swimming pool concept.

Using goats also will cost less than $ 5,000, compared with about $ 10,000 if the district used more traditional eradication methods, officials said.

Plus, more - traditional mass outreach may still work in online social settings, since extensive advertising on MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn is still relatively untested, and campaigns with the resources to buy ads targeted at their particular electoral districts may find them an effective way to tap a politically active audience.

Traditional rulers from Delta Central Senatorial District have passed a vote of confidence (VoC) on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, expressing satisfaction with his administration's delivery of dividends of democracy.

But it came apart for Democrats in traditional Republican strongholds, as Mary Beth Maio appears to have held on to her seat with a 798 - 656 win over Gerard Lyons in the Lloyd - Marlborough 10th District, Carl Belfiglio dumped Democrat Roscoe Pecora in Esopus, and Wayne Harris and former legislature chairman Richard Gerentine went unopposed.

About 80 traditional leaders from some selected districts in the Northern Region have been educated on the risks associated with violation of mentally challenged people rights.

The Chief explained that, project is being anticipated to lure the private sector that would bring major developmental projects the District and the entire Kwahu traditional area, with particular emphasis on the poor road network and economic boost.

Fernandez, who said he has been doing «traditional campaigning» with community walkthroughs, has been endorsed by several labor unions, including the District Council 9 International Union of Painters and Allied Traders, the PEF Political Action Committee Region 10 and the Local 46 Metallic Lathers & Reinforcing Iron Workers.

With Kennell saying he doesn't see the group participating in the traditional electioneering that usually defines political clubs» role in city politics, and an admission from Ciotti that the group hasn't established a strategy for accomplishing its stated goals, it's unclear exactly how the group will reach out and effect the district.

The Paramount Chief of Challa Traditional Area in the Nkwanta District of the Volta Region, Nana Addo Kanewu, has urged President John Dramani Mahama to ignore his detractors and continue with his good works ahead of the December 7 polls.

The Coney Island section of the district primarily consists of blacks and Russian - speaking immigrants, while the Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bath Beach neighborhoods are traditional ethnic Italian and Irish strongholds with growing Asian and Eastern European populations.

The bill would also do away with the traditional school budget vote and require districts to simply ask voters to support a tax increase.

From the bohemian Shimokitazawa district to the more traditional Asakusa area, the wild and eclectic creativity of Japanese consumers has wielded enormous influence on fashion here and beyond, spawning a plethora of websites and social media accounts with street style snapshots of Tokyoites dressed in everything from punk otaku to dolly kei style.

Unlike traditional dating sites, you'll be able to anonymously rate singles in District of Columbia, and we'll match you with people who are mutually interested in you.

These calculations showed that principals controlled 6 percent of their budgets in New York City, a traditional «unitary» district, contrasted with 92 percent in Edmonton, one of the decentralized «multidivisional» districts.

With a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter schoWith a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter schowith a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter district and charter schools.

When the charter movement began in the early 1990s, few students were leaving the traditional system, and district officials were not particularly threatened with the loss of revenues as students and their funding went to other providers.

I just haven't seen the kind of drive for continuous improvement in traditional districts that I've witnessed in charter networks like KIPP and Achievement First, where the very organizational DNA is obsessed with excellence and continuous improvement, always looking for more effective approaches to teaching and learning.

These organizations differ from traditional district construction agencies by combining financing with a broader development role, serving, in effect, as both the «facilities office» and the chief financial officer in getting projects done.

ESSA's flexibility coupled with the fact that some cities now have fewer than half their schools within the traditional district can enable state leaders to apply charter - style accountability to district - run schools.

As in Salt Lake City, «districts are starting to create lab schools to try personalized, student - centered strategies with hopes of finding what will transfer to traditional schools,» said Calkins of Educause.

Whether this pattern is indicative of general receptiveness on the part of these districts toward alternatives to public schools or a long - standing dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, it certainly suggests that private schools do not serve as a hindrance to the start - up of public charter schools.

Pasadena Unified School District is a diverse district with four traditional and two alternative high schools, five middle schools, and seventeen elementary District is a diverse district with four traditional and two alternative high schools, five middle schools, and seventeen elementary district with four traditional and two alternative high schools, five middle schools, and seventeen elementary schools.

In addition to charter schools, students can enroll at one of 38 innovation schools, district - operated schools pioneering new school models with more autonomy than traditional district schools.

In four states — Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, and West Virginia — there is not a single traditional school district with average student achievement in math above the 50th percentile.

In 17 states, there is not a single traditional district with average achievement in the upper third relative to our global comparison group.

This role also lets aspiring teachers focus more than traditional student teachers would on relationships with students and families, aspects the district considers critical to successful teaching.

The length of day, the hiring and compensation procedures, the employee training programs, and the curricula are substantially similar across all traditional district systems, from the 2,000 - student system with a 10 percent poverty rate to the 25,000 - student district with an 80 percent poverty rate.

So I'm not okay with the argument or attitude that reformers should either replace all of the traditional public schools with charter schools or just «let districts be districts,» as Mike Petrilli recently argued.

Those top charters have also demonstrated an ability to team up with troubled traditional urban school districts — a role that probably represents the best shot for providing better schools for all.

When one of Washington, D.C.'s highest - performing traditional public schools pursued plans to convert to a charter in 2006, the district agreed to several of its demands in exchange for the school's agreement to stop flirting with charter status.

Cocreated with a former colleague, the database allows administrators to capture data that is particularly relevant when serving challenged populations of students, many of whom enroll at BDEA after unsuccessful starts in traditional district high schools or local charter schools.

Both Detroit's charter and traditional public - school sectors serve predominantly African American families (roughly 85 percent) with limited economic resources (in charters, 84.5 percent qualify for free or reduced - price lunch versus 81.6 percent in district schools).

So, too, are numerous traditional school districts — including those who run their own programs and those who oversee contracts with private providers.