Sentences with phrase «in a few school districts»

The results are striking in the few school districts where I have seen this happen.

I've sat through many, many team meetings and ppts in a few school districts.

Not exact matches

A few months ago, our kids» school district, one of the largest in South Carolina, was hit with a virus that spread «ransomware,» a malicious software designed to block computer systems by encrypting the data in which the attackers gain access.

While Christoph Cardinal Schönborn and Professor Stephen Barr were arguing over questions of evolution and teleology in the last few issues of First Things, down in Pennsylvania Judge John E. Jones III was deciding Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

Forty years ago, The Nutrition Group began as a relatively small company that provided meals for summer camps, senior congregate dining programs and a few school districts in Pennsylvania.

There are a few public charter schools in our district, a public International Baccalaureate school, as well as many traditional public schools.

But as I read through all that advice, I could only think of a post I wrote back in 2014 in which I mused that «there are few jobs on this planet harder than managing a district's school food program.»

«The Arlington Heights Park District has experienced a «recreation renaissance» of sorts over the past few years especially since opening the doors to the new Pioneer Park Community Center in 2008 and since unveiling the cooperatively installed and managed synthetic turf field with District 214 at Hersey High School in 2011,» said Maryfran Leno, Park Board President.

A few years ago, she expelled chocolate milk from lunchrooms in the Boulder Valley School District.

Check back on the blog next week for an in - depth look at both visits, as well as our interviews with the cafeteria manager, district director, school principals — and even a few thoughts from students about what they like about BIC.

According to the survey, a whopping «75 percent of school leaders encourage an increase in federal funding for school districts to comply with the new standards,» while 15 % fewer of those surveyed support the «flexibility» (SNA's favorite buzzword for: «gutting of regulations») which the SNA is now doggedly pursuing on Capitol Hill via its high - powered lobbyists.

In the last few weeks I've been surprised to find myself in the role of School Food Reform Naysayer, which isn't what you'd expect from someone who serves on her district's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee and its Student Health Advisory Council and who is a daily kid - and - food bloggeIn the last few weeks I've been surprised to find myself in the role of School Food Reform Naysayer, which isn't what you'd expect from someone who serves on her district's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee and its Student Health Advisory Council and who is a daily kid - and - food bloggein the role of School Food Reform Naysayer, which isn't what you'd expect from someone who serves on her district's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee and its Student Health Advisory Council and who is a daily kid - and - food blogger.

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The city has taken some of the frustration out of the planning process over the last few weeks by taking a more active role in the purchase of the land on 95th Street near Neuqua Valley High School from the Park District.

Todd Drafall, the district's business manager, said the schools are open to providing healthy food options but are limited by finances, which were further strained by a slight increase in the past few years of students qualifying for free and reduced - cost lunches.

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar deal Coke struck with our district a few years back — more on that to come), snack vending machines, branded products like Papa John's pizza in the lunch room, and more.

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But in the intervening four years, in which I educated myself about the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), started this blog, continued to work closely with my district, and also met school food professionals around the country, I've come to believe that there are few jobs on this planet harder than managing a district's school food prSchool Lunch Program (NSLP), started this blog, continued to work closely with my district, and also met school food professionals around the country, I've come to believe that there are few jobs on this planet harder than managing a district's school food prschool food professionals around the country, I've come to believe that there are few jobs on this planet harder than managing a district's school food prschool food program.

Making the switch for a few weeks, in a pilot program at one school, allows the opportunity to see what happens before going district wide, and also to try innovative strategies for maintaining participation.

In fact, the response was so incredible that we saved a few of those interviews to share with you directly here at Beyond Breakfast, including today's conversation with Laurence Spring, Superintendent of the Schenectady School District in Upstate New YorIn fact, the response was so incredible that we saved a few of those interviews to share with you directly here at Beyond Breakfast, including today's conversation with Laurence Spring, Superintendent of the Schenectady School District in Upstate New Yorin Upstate New York.

Lunch Tray readers often contact me for help in getting junk food out of their children's classrooms, but few seem to know that as of next school year, districts will for the first time have to impose a nutritional standard for classroom food.

The petition garnered over a quarter of a million signatures in just a few days and ultimately led the USDA to change its policy, allowing school districts for the first time to opt out of receiving beef containing LFTB.

Finally, the big savings from P2 are really only realized if your entire district is very low income; implementing it in just a few very low income schools within a district which is less than 85 % low income may not save much.

The Scarsdale School district has been spending a lot of time in the last few years emphasizing math and empathy.

Those cuts, in fact, come at a time when there are 15,000 fewer teachers and support staff in New York state public schools than two years ago, and as districts statewide expect to lay off at least 10,000 more employees in 2011 - 12.

Cuomo, speaking to reporters in Syracuse a few days before the school districts asked for the money, said it's going to be difficult next year to fulfill all the requests for more funds.

I hope that funds from the proposal are concentrated more in those districts where the fewest students have access to the type of gifted and talented programs that feed into the specialized high schools,» said Carole Brown, member of Stuyvesant Black Alumni Diversity Initiative, Stuyvesant High School Class of 1981, Fordham University» 85, Columbia University «90.

Charter advocates were dismayed when the governor appeared alongside Mulgrew in September, for an event that touted New York's plentiful state spending on district schools, which Cuomo had criticized a few years earlier.

Other expenses include a few thousand on school supplies, which he handed out in his district a few weeks ago, $ 14,000 in contributions to other political campaigns, and $ 3,243 to the State Board of Elections for violation fees (Espada has a history of failing to file his campaign disclosure reports.)

NYSUT, meanwhile, backed a study to determine whether any changes to the funding formula is necessary, which would also take into consideration the impact on a small school district when a resident receives a windfall through inheritance or winning the lottery — a factor that throw aid formulations out of whack in areas with few wealthy people.

«While it is welcome news that so few school districts across the state have been classified as in fiscal stress, school officials should remain vigilant and carefully consider how their budgeting decisions will affect their long - term fiscal condition and local taxpayers,» DiNapoli said in a statement.

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

Cuomo, speaking to reporters in Syracuse a few days before the school districts asked for the money, says it's going to be difficult next year to fulfill all the requests for more funds.

ALBANY — Few upstate school districts plan to launch full - day pre-kindergarten programs in September, even though Governor Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers provided $ 40 million in the state budget for that purpose.

School Board Vice President Thomas Ham echoed the senator's remarks regarding the relationship between mandates and funding, and said any additional funding Saugerties has received in the past few years has been offset by increased mandates, leaving the district at «status quo.»

Deputy Superintendent Walker's evident pride in his district no doubt stems partly from the multitude of awards and honors the Suffern schools have received in the past few years.

A few weeks after the ruling, researchers from the University of Buffalo, lead by Catherine Cook - Cottone, Ph.D., interviewed 32 school personnel who were involved with the lawsuit, including district superintendents, assistants, school principals, classroom teachers, instructors of the EUSD HWP, and University of San Diego researchers who were originally involved in studying the program.

In fact, school districts might see some of the $ 100 billion from the economic - stimulus package within a few weeks.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuSchool District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuSchool District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuschool system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sdistrict of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

A few reports of obstructionist behavior by districts stand out and have been chronicled in these pages by Joe Williams («Games Charter Opponents Play,» features, Winter 2007) and Nelson Smith («Whose School Buildings Are They, Anyway?»

A few days after the data - day review, I visited Powell Elementary, a district school in northeast D.C., for a learning walk on peer - group feedback, or how to get teachers to help one another figure out how to reteach a troublesome lesson.

In both cities (especially in Denver), the special education gap grows as students proceed from kindergarten through the 5th grade, and charters classify fewer students as SLD than do district schoolIn both cities (especially in Denver), the special education gap grows as students proceed from kindergarten through the 5th grade, and charters classify fewer students as SLD than do district schoolin Denver), the special education gap grows as students proceed from kindergarten through the 5th grade, and charters classify fewer students as SLD than do district schools.

During the past few years, the Los Angeles school district has engaged in overwhelming, intentionally harassing audits, which go well beyond any reasonable accountability and have cost the taxpayers millions of dollars.

The new law includes provisions implementing a proposal Mr. Bush made in last year's gubernatorial campaign to allow for the creation of «home rule» school districts, which could vote to operate under fewer state regulations in exchange for promising to improve student achievement.

Annette L. Breaux, the curriculum coordinator for the Lafourche Parish Public Schools in Thibodaux, Louisiana, witnessed that sieve effect in her own district: new teachers were pouring in, but few were retained.

Mike Antonucci, whose Education Intelligence Agency bird - dogs union doings, wrote in June that almost a third of the nation's largest school districts, the 82 with enrollment of 50,000 or more, had fewer students in 2006 than in 2001.

Klein goes through a few of these testing issues — whether parents can opt their kids out of tests, whether school districts can choose their own tests, and how big a role tests should play in accountability — and explains where the House stands, where the Senate stands, and the pros and cons of both sides.

In other words, those who choose to change schools within districts appear to follow the same attributes, seeking out schools with fewer academically and economically disadvantaged students.

In «Inside Successful District - Charter Compacts,» Richard Whitmire looks at a few places where charter schools and traditional district schools are working tDistrict - Charter Compacts,» Richard Whitmire looks at a few places where charter schools and traditional district schools are working tdistrict schools are working together.

There has been a gradual increase over the past decade in the percentage of districts offering pay incentives for shortage areas (see Figure 4), but recent evidence (see work by Katharine Strunk with Jason Grissom, Tammy Kolbe, and Dara Zeehandelaar) shows that few districts are truly strategic in matching incentives to staffing needs, and as a consequence, school systems continue to struggle to fill teaching slots in math and science.