Comparison Of The Youngstown City School District

In addition to the comparison of schools, they have certified teachers in the suburban schools. They are more efficient in teaching and have good connections with their students. In addition, they challenged and often informed their students to be

That means that out of 50 states there is only one state where teachers are paid worse. The feeling is that if the teachers are paid higher salaries more people might go into the field. Which means there would be more people to choose from that are actually qualified. Texas should be worried about the future this information predicts because if teachers aren’t paid equally there is a good chance they will move to states that have a competitive salary. To improve this reality Texas needs to give every resident the choice of school district. The guidelines should not be drawn by county but should be drawn by the willingness of the parent to travel and enforce a perfect attendance record for the student and also the hard work and effort put forth by the student to achieve high marks on their report card. By doing this I believe Texas’ Scholastics Assessment Test (SAT) scores which as of now rank 46 out of 50 will greatly improve. The student will strive to do better because they will know that the penalty of them doing poorly will result in transferring to a school closer to their

The experiment started when Karen Lott, the principal of Brennan-Rogers, chose to extend the school day by an hour and 25 minutes. Her reason, she wanted to close the gap between her low performing school and the neighboring high performing schools. The result, Brennan-Rogers School had exhausted teachers and students and the same test results. The question that begged for an answer was why would a principal extend a school day to bring up test scores? In 2010 the Katherine Brennan School merged with other neighboring schools due to federal funding. This merge brought together a low income school with high income schools. The result was devastating for the children. Student behavior was out of control, a student set another student’s hair on fire (Bailey, 2014). Behavior was determined as the cause of low test scores. Only 12 percent of third graders met state reading goals compared to the 57 percent met by the district.

There is strong evidence that points to a link between the way schools are currently funded and the disparity in student performance between the urban and suburban environments. The District of Columbia, which has 189 public schools, 5,000 teachers, and a Pre-K-12 enrollment of 79,000 students, spends $6,773 per pupil not including Special Education or English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). In comparison, Montgomery County has 190 public schools, 10,700 teachers, and a Pre-K-12 enrollment of 136,653 students. Montgomery County spends approximately $8,688 per pupil. It should also be pointed out that the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) expenditures amounted to $807 million last year in comparison to Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), which expects to spend an enormous $1.3 billion during Fiscal Year 2002. Without equal funding, the two systems already begin with an unequal playing field.

This chapter presents the research findings used to address the research questions presented in Chapter One. To that end, demographic is presented for each of the eighteen school districts studied in rural Kentucky. In addition, statistical analyses is presented as it relates to student success in each of the eighteen school districts at the third grade, the sixth grade, and the eleventh grade levels in the content area of reading. The data examined is from the 2015-2016 school year testing cycle as required by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The statistical analyses focuses on the relationship between students’ success, based on the results of the Kentucky Performance Rating for Educational Progress data, and superintendent tenure in each of the districts.

If I had to choose one of these school districts to work in I would probably pick Sheridan County School District #2. It would be a better fit because of the pay and benefits offered by the district and fits my professional goals better. However, if by chance I won the lottery or something, I would absolutely teach in Dalton County because it fits my personal goals

With this information, a region of schools can compare their results and figure out how well a region is doing in comparison to other regions. However, this is not completely valid due to the difference in assessment in each region. Therefore, they cannot be accurately compared to other regions because of this difference. (Costa and Kallick, 1995)

Most school districts in urban America use a zoning system to determine what school a certain area in that city goes. In many cities, there are what people call, “good schools” and “bad schools.” To explain, Essentially, your school could be what the people in your city call “the bad school.” For Norfolk Public Schools, Booker T. Washington High School(BTW) happens to be “the bad school.” For a while this school was unaccredited and therefore the students’

The statistics for the district and state are similar. 3.1% of district students dropped out, comparable to the 2.1% of Texas students who dropped out. The district has 84.4% of their students graduate in time while Texas has 89% graduate. The average state SAT score is 1394 and Arlington ISD’s average is 3 points higher. The state average score for ACT on the other hand is 20.6 and while lower, the district’s average of 20.1 is still very close. Test scores and the rate of graduating students reflect the academic success of a school district because these are two things colleges and employers look

Facts: Kentucky’s 168 school districts ranked nationally in the lower 20-25% in virtually every academic category. Educational standards throughout the state’s districts were not uniform, and found to disproportionately hinder the academic growth of minority and socioeconomically poorer

I was not surprised at the ratings that I gave my school district, although there are plenty of good things that are happening in the school that I work in, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done for our district as a whole. In my school we have two extremely dedicated full-time ELL

After gathering all the information from the DESE website about Warren Elementary and the Francis Howell School District, I also looked at some of the information from the state of Missouri. The data that I found on Warren Elementary for the enrollment is that the majority of students are white (85.2%), the next was African Americans (7.2%), the school didn’t count the other ethnicities (Asian, Hispanic and Indian) in the total because the percent was too low to be factored in. According to DESE the attendance rate for Warren Elementary was 95.8% this is a good percent considering this is just for one school. I did look up the percent for the school district as a whole and it is 96.2%. When looking up some of the information on this particular school, I wanted to compare the numbers to the school districts numbers and these next few categories look to be on the higher side for one school compared to the whole district. The percent for free and reduced lunches for Warren Elementary was 14.9%, for the Francis Howell School District it was 19.9%. As far as the student/teacher ratio its 18 students: 1 teacher, the Francis Howell school district its 15 students: 1 teacher. Obviously, these are just average numbers and are going to fluctuate from each school and the district. The next section of data that I collected was on the AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) status for NCLB, the data on the DESE website was a little outdated it had information from 2009-2011 (no date for

Despite being named sixth in the nation of Forbes 's “Best Schools For Your Real Estate Buck” list (Easy Reader), Manhattan Beach Unified School District is not without fault. It is easy to consider a district subjectively “good” or subjectively “bad”, however in every case of this evaluation process, there are little to no actual guidelines,

The questions are asked are urban school districts, educated of the same level as its counterparts. Some question we need to ask during this research is as follows: do urban schools have larger enrollments, on average, than suburban or rural schools at both the elementary and secondary levels? Do urban teachers had fewer resources available to them and less control over their curriculum than teachers in other locations, as did teachers in urban high poverty schools compared with those in rural high poverty schools? At least as likely to have a parent who completed college? At least as likely to have parents with high expectations for their

The first school in the district to present was Bradford Area High School. The principle, Mr. Ray, spoke saying that overall the school scored a 77.9%. The goal he has set for his school is to improve college prep classes, mastery skills in standardized testing, and to continue to revamp the science curriculum since it is the lowest scores on the state’s testing. I feel this could affect me as a future teacher because I would know what I need to work on more with my students. In addition, this could mean more jobs available to college prep classes.