Like many large, urban school districts, Houston
ISD does almost all of its cooking at a huge central kitchen, with the food then trucked to our 300 individual schools for reheating and other final preparation.
Meanwhile, Houston
ISD does a brisk business in items like pizza and corn dogs, «carnival» foods the district is terrified to discontinue lest student participation drop and the entire school lunch program sink into the red.
ISD didn't answer, so I didn't get to get into it, but my point was that God is not a tyrant.
So what are
ISDs doing with all of this extra revenue?
This is not the case with ISDs, however, and the number of students served by
ISDs did not increase much from 1995 to 2009.
Not exact matches
It
isd what Tony Adam, Maritn Keown and other Arsenal greats used to
do week in week out.
Houston
ISD is also making slow but steady progress and I feel it doesn't always get enough press.
And, as my recent, dispiriting experience in Houston
ISD well illustrated, even after requested reforms are implemented, parents may still need to act as watch dogs to make sure their district doesn't backslide on its promises.
[Editorial note: This is true of everything I write on The Lunch Tray, but let me be clear that all opinions expressed here are entirely my own and
do not reflect the views of the Houston
ISD School Health Advisory Council or any of its members.]
I believe — based on prior conversations with Houston
ISD food services — that (1) the Frito Pie is made from baked, whole grain chips; (2) the chili contains beef and beans (the beans are a new addition); (3) there is some whole grain in the pizza crust (but I don't know the percentage), and (4) both dishes use low - fat (or maybe reduced - fat) cheese.
note: Don't miss our 2011 interview with Dora Rivas, then director of Dallas
ISD nutrition services for more on BIC's early days in Dallas.)
When I walked into my first Houston
ISD School Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, I knew next to nothing about school food except that my district seemed to be
doing a pretty poor job of preparing it.
Yesterday I attended a Houston
ISD Nutrition Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, something I've
done almost every month during the school year for the last four and a half years.
When Dallas
ISD goes on winter break this year, cafeterias at several campuses will stay open so kids don't go hungry.
Do you remember that plaintive post I wrote last month, in which I shamelessly begged a «school food visionary» to come to Houston
ISD?
very curious to see what Spring Branch
ISD will
do with the extra.06 per meal.
If you don't have a background in Instructional Systems Design, consider outsourcing, or at least have an
ISD consultant review your lesson plan.
If a school is
doing well, has a reputation of excellent teaching, [and] is engaging and motivating its students, its achievement almost always stems from the successful leadership of its principal,» said Duncan Klussman, RYHT program volunteer chair and superintendent of Spring Branch
ISD.
I've been
doing ISD for over 20 years and I've been told I have many of these qualities to a fault.
Local schools in the Ingham
ISD service area
do an outstanding job educating our youth.
«I am even aware of some firms who are marketing themselves to
ISD's claiming they
do not
do business with charters but in fact
do.
They
do not necessarily reflect the views of Montcalm Area
ISD or its staff.
NovaNet
does not provide such tests, but Austin
ISD employs its own tests in combination with the company's online curriculum.
As a result of this decision, the NLRA
does not apply to Texas charter schools and public charter school employees are treated in the same manner as
ISD employees for purpose of the NLRA.
«We
do face competition — and that's a reality,» Reyne Telles, Austin
ISD's executive director of communication and community engagement, told a TV station.
The program has a 10 percent window of families that must pay a monthly tuition fee, because they don't meet the eligibility requirements — which, as in Dallas
ISD's program, stipulate eligible four year - olds must have limited English proficiency, qualify for free or reduced lunch, be homeless or in foster care, and / or have a parent active in the military, as Breitbart Texas reported.
After getting his bachelor's degree from St. Mary's University, Veselka spent five years as a classroom teacher in San Antonio at North East
ISD, where he
did his student teaching.
Don't live inside of Houston
ISD boundaries?
«This is a great opportunity for Houston area school districts to partner with Rice University and the Kinder Institute to produce world class research that will inform the work we
do with students each day,» said Scott Muri, superintendent of Spring Branch
ISD in west Houston.
All of the reviews for this school are correct it is a top notch school the assistant principal is the only person that I have met in this school who I don't care for but the principal Carrol Wicker White is superb she takes as much time as necessary to speak and meet with parents and addresses their concerns.The teacher our son had this year is exceptional she is caring compassionate and very smart and handles challenges very well.Parents are very involved and kids are well taken care of and happy.We want to move to Carroll
isd for high school but we will not leave this elementary school until our son finishes fourth grade because as great as the schools are in Carroll the elementary schools can not compare to this one this school truly is remarkable.