Not exact matches
Stay tuned to Beyond Breakfast for Part Two
of our interview with Burke County Public Schools» Nutrition Director and
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics president - elect Donna Martin, to find
out how teachers reacted to breakfast - in - the - classroom as the program was expanded
district - wide, and some student - favorite school breakfast menu items.
If you want to know what led a bunch
of shivering teenagers to sort through the trash behind Prosser Career
Academy one recent, icy day, try to get your head around this statistic: Every day, kids in the Chicago Public Schools
district throw
out nearly a quarter
of a million lunch and breakfast trays made
of polystyrene foam.
And the inability to serve all parents looking to send their children to a Success
Academy school — there are currently 19,000 applicants for 2,688 open seats this fall, which translates to seven applicants for every open seat — she dubbed a «tragedy» that leaves thousands
of families disappointed, left to seek
out supplementary schooling options in their zoned
district.
It's like saying the
Academy doesn't like movies about South Africa just because they didn't nominate «Invictus» while forgetting that they also nominated «
District 9»
out of a very slim field
of films about that topic.
Attendance for students in that program was 87.5 percent, almost 10 percent higher than the
district average, and only 3.4 percent
of students in
academies there dropped
out of school — less than one - third the figure for students districtwide.
The Enota Multiple Intelligences
Academy grew
out of the reorganization, in 2003,
of the Gainesville City School
District.
While some
of the city's public charter schools operate
out of privately owned buildings, all Success
Academy schools are co-located with
district schools.
Collegiate's
academies haven't been without their critics, who often point
out that the schools have some
of the
district's highest
out -
of - school suspension rates.
While only some
of Meredith's students want to join the
academy debate team — which Meredith and Cammon principal Tamika Green proudly boast beat
out several all - gifted debate teams from the
district's more affluent middle schools — all
of her students seemed excited about the class's projects.
High - performing charter schools in the Recovery School
District — such as Sophie B. Wright, Lafayette Academy and several KIPP campuses in Uptown — are concerned that the Orleans Parish School Board will take an administrative fee out of their federal grants if they return to the district, amid broader issues of trust and autonomy, reports Jessica Williams of T
District — such as Sophie B. Wright, Lafayette
Academy and several KIPP campuses in Uptown — are concerned that the Orleans Parish School Board will take an administrative fee
out of their federal grants if they return to the
district, amid broader issues of trust and autonomy, reports Jessica Williams of T
district, amid broader issues
of trust and autonomy, reports Jessica Williams
of The Lens.
All
out -
of -
district daytime transportation is canceled when on snow routes or a delayed start (e.g. Northwest Career and Technical
Academy).
If any instructional supervisors in the
district are
academy - eligible, TEAM coaches will gather enrollment information and submit that to director
of leader effectiveness, Martha Moore, who will then reach
out to those supervisors with information on the potential cohort.
Located in the Mission
district of San Francisco, O'Connell partners with City College, City Build, and the
Academy of Art to round
out student learning experiences.
Recognizing the
District of Columbia's need for a school that serves students at risk
of dropping
out of school, Kingsman
Academy welcomes all students, especially those who are over-aged and under - credited, have attendance problems, or have behavioral or emotional challenges.
It sounds as if Vallas, like Adamowski, listens to select, sometimes hand - picked parents — such as those who want
out -
of -
district choice opportunities, like the costliest one, Norwich Free
Academy.
The Student Fair Access to School Act
of 2017 has the potential to cut
out -
of - school suspensions by about half, but the city should look to other
districts like Chicago and Philadelphia as well as D.C. schools such as Kingsman
Academy PCS and Ron Brown College Preparatory HS to anticipate unintended consequences
of a top - down discipline reform.