Sentences with phrase «just as a district»

«Just as district officials penalized Columbus High School educators, NCLB punishes schools when they can't «fix» students» low achievement,» she says.
States must make their exit criteria for identified schools transparent and publicly available, just as districts must ensure that school improvement plans are publicly posted to build awareness and understanding among the local community.
That funding was cut by state lawmakers last week, putting the mentoring program's future in question — just as some districts are struggling to retain teachers.
«The charter sector is really run state by state, just as our district - managed public schools are, and most policy is at the state or local level, and that's true for charter schools as well,» New York City Charter School Center CEO James Merriman said.

Not exact matches

In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican - leaning seats.
As soon as I sold that townhome in 2009, I simultaneously bought a 3bd, 2 ba 1437 sq ft SFM in the best school district in the county and really for probably > 100 miles for $ 155k just on the edge of towAs soon as I sold that townhome in 2009, I simultaneously bought a 3bd, 2 ba 1437 sq ft SFM in the best school district in the county and really for probably > 100 miles for $ 155k just on the edge of towas I sold that townhome in 2009, I simultaneously bought a 3bd, 2 ba 1437 sq ft SFM in the best school district in the county and really for probably > 100 miles for $ 155k just on the edge of town.
The county encompasses just 13 tax districts, as much of the county is unincorporated.
To incubate innovation districts, companies need to aggregate and concentrate their energy on developing the bigger picture on a regional basis as opposed to just focusing on the traditional for profit business model.
Just think of them as the district attorneys of each Catholic community in the world.
«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.
Or a majority might even have been assembled to sustain the laws on abortion, as a majority on the Court had been assembled, just two years earlier, in U.S. v. Vuitch, to sustain a law on abortion in the District of Columbia.
Another letter from Luther the District Vicar earlier the same year was to his old friend Lang, just after the latter's appointment as Superior at Erfurt.
Just like, there are variants in any organization, US Military, School Districts, etc., bad people who got into the the Catholic Church as Priests have had a very detrimental effect on the communities and the Church.
Will Conor Lamb, a Catholic who just won as an «anti-Pelosi» Democrat in a district Trump had carried by some 20 points, and others like him move from being «personally» against abortion to letting their faith inform their profession?
The first photo is actually just the Distillery District here in Toronto; the carousel was there as part of the Christmas Market.
«With a great location just two blocks from Metrorail and close to many leading corporate offices and key government agencies such as the ATF, the NoMa district with its chic vibe, truly pairs well with the feel of our hotel.»
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The overground trains now have automatic doors and are quieter, but Rainham Station, Barking Station, the District Line, Upton Park Station and Green Street all looked and smelt just the same as they did when we were young teenagers.
The picturesque shopping district — sometimes referred to as the Rodeo Drive of Sarasota — is lined with palm trees and just a few short blocks from Lido Beach.
I just wish more school districts would use the forerunner's of providing meals with real ingredients as a roadmap to improve their own programs.
It has gone from near - barren to bustling under the leadership of supervisor Jim Hobson, the former gang leader - turned - Vietnam War hero who organized this year's banquet just as he did for 11 years at his former park district post, Kiwanis Playground on the Far North Side.
As for what the General meant there, I think he was just speaking generally about whomever is running a district's food program that way — I doubt he was indirectly referring to FSMCs.
When Daley asked him to take over the park in 1998, Uhlir was just out the door of the Chicago Park District, retired from 25 years of service, including time spent in such positions as chief architect, director of architecture, engineering and planning, and, finally, director of research and planning.
ALC undercuts the federal meal program, just as you say, and I've been told by experts that in districts in which ALC is dropped, participation goes up.
And, just as you say, the good news is that some school districts are also following suit, so that kids who buy school lunch rather than bringing from home are more likely than ever to see whole fruit over canned, etc..
The PAC suggested that parent volunteers, already staffing cafeterias around the district, could be drafted as «food boosters» to explain new foods and encourage sampling, with stickers, presentations and / or just a whole lot of enthusiasm.
Here in Houston we've already implemented the same program district - wide, and for those unfamiliar with it, «in - class breakfast» means just that: children receive a free breakfast (regardless of economic need) and bring it into their classrooms to eat at their desks as the school day begins.
I'm all for «spinach salad with raspberry vinaigrette, feta cheese and candied walnuts,» but it is just patently untrue that such foods can be obtained for the same price as, e.g., the breaded chicken patties my district ships in from Tyson's.
Dana — Totally agree that the refusal to let him film was perversely a boon to the show and no doubt the producers / JO recognized that immediately or they would have, as you said, just moved on to another district.
«We need wider hours, we need to be open longer hours and on holidays - it is just common sense, «said Richard Devine, elected in May as chairman of the park district board.
«There's just a tremendous amount of waste that we see as parents,» said Susan Gallo, whose two children attend schools in the district.
Thursday «s «meeting «in the park district headquarters administration building at 425 E. McFetridge Drive, just north of Soldier Field, was brief but raucous as about 50 newspersons and about 100 spectators filled the small auditorium.
Madison also said that as executive vice president of the district, he will implement a program of affirmative action in hiring and in the letting of service contracts, just as Washington has attempted to do as mayor.
On Wednesday, a new version of the statue, known as Fountain Girl, was officially welcomed back by the Chicago Park District during an unveiling ceremony at the gateway to the park just east of the Chicago History Museum.
These are just a few of the initial ideas that the Park District is considering implementing as soon as possible to alleviate conflicts between wheeled and non-wheeled visitors.
There, staff members from the Park District's Heller Nature Center dished out samples of both the just - tapped sap and the good stuff along with such facts as: Only the maple trees in North America grow in the right climate to produce the properly sweet sap that can be turned into maple syrup.
Just as there are different boundaries for School Districts, there are different boundaries for Park Districts within a Village.
I was attending my very first HISD Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting in February 2010, just as the First Class Breakfast program was being fully rolled out across the district at the direction of Superintendent Terry Grier.
Pleading guilty were the former chief, James Parks, under whose leadership the force bulged to more than 80 officers even though the Park District owned just a single tot lot, and Marshall Thompson, a former sergeant with the Maywood Park District Police Department, who acted as a «bagman» in the scheme.
King denied Cali's allegations and said the Park District responded as quickly as possible, holding a meeting Wednesday, just three business days after Cali's resignation.
It's not about changing the entire National School Lunch Program at once, it's about changing one school and one district at a time, just as the early proponents of the NSLP did.»
side district) as a head cook, so my boss, the district's food service director, deals with more of the suggestions and changes, but I do assist with menu planning and have served on district committees, and do encounter the suggestions from parents who might be eating with a child (may I admit I cringe most of all when the sentence starts with «I don't know why you don't just...»)?
To that end, we're very much in favor of connecting school districts with farms to provide fresh food from their own regions and, as Bettina mentioned, we've already helped Saint Paul Public Schools and Denver Public Schools to do just that.
It turns out breakfast - in - the - classroom has been just as good for the school district as it has for the students.
«Perhaps we should just eliminate flavored milk from schools, as opposed to adding chemicals to it,» said Cooper, director of nutrition services for the Boulder Valley School District in Colorado.
As labor accounts for about the same amount as the typical school district pays for food (about 44 % of the budget for the program), it is impossible to determine if other schools or other districts could try to do a similar program with a local restaurant, or even just with their own chef and cooking facilities, unless they know the labor costAs labor accounts for about the same amount as the typical school district pays for food (about 44 % of the budget for the program), it is impossible to determine if other schools or other districts could try to do a similar program with a local restaurant, or even just with their own chef and cooking facilities, unless they know the labor costas the typical school district pays for food (about 44 % of the budget for the program), it is impossible to determine if other schools or other districts could try to do a similar program with a local restaurant, or even just with their own chef and cooking facilities, unless they know the labor costs.
«The racquet club was built as a revenue - producing facility to help subsidize the Park District,» said Russell, whose club averages just over $ 400,000 in revenues annually.
Just as gyms in New Lenox School District 122 and the Lincoln - Way High School fieldhouse are used for both school and park programs, the recreation center would be used for both medically based and recreational fitness programs, he said.
He doesn't dumb down his food and kids rise to the occasion, eating foods that I know my own district would be afraid to serve on the theory that «kids just don't like X.» And he clearly doesn't feel that his job ends with the service of a meal — as discussed above, he uses his time and energy to bring kids into the kitchen, providing cooking and nutrition education that will serve his students well in the long run.
Schwartz, who also is an advisory board member with the International Racquet Sports Association, wants the portion of the Park District that is being run to make a profit to pay property and income taxes just as private sector businesses do.
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