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FRAC's latest School Breakfast Scorecard report was released earlier this week, along with their annual School Breakfast: Making it Work in Large School Districts report.

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Last month FRAC released its 2014 - 15 School Breakfast Scorecard, as well as their annual large district school breakfast report, School Breakfast: Making it Work in Large DistSchool Breakfast Scorecard, as well as their annual large district school breakfast report, School Breakfast: Making it Work in Large Distrlarge district school breakfast report, School Breakfast: Making it Work in Large Distschool breakfast report, School Breakfast: Making it Work in Large DistSchool Breakfast: Making it Work in Large DistrLarge Districts.

If you're working in a large school district, you'll find the information in this report to be especially valuable.

Last week, the Washington Post reported that the Urban School Food Alliance (USFA), a forward - thinking group of six large urban school districts, is using its considerable joint purchasing power to replace the spork with compostable forks, spoons and knives, a change that reportedly will affect 2.8 million children in 4,500 scSchool Food Alliance (USFA), a forward - thinking group of six large urban school districts, is using its considerable joint purchasing power to replace the spork with compostable forks, spoons and knives, a change that reportedly will affect 2.8 million children in 4,500 scschool districts, is using its considerable joint purchasing power to replace the spork with compostable forks, spoons and knives, a change that reportedly will affect 2.8 million children in 4,500 schools.

Another report says that the menu will now include «Salvadorean beef stew, chicken tandoori, Asian pad thai, California sushi roll and teriyaki beef and broccoli with brown rice,» but also notes the district says the changes were already in the pipeline well before Jamie even showed up in L.A. (And given what I know about school food procurement in my own large urban district, which I'm told can have a year - long lag time, that seems likely to be true.)

A group known as The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine have published a 2007 school lunch report card, grading 22 elementary schools from the 100 largest educational districts in the United States.

FRAC's School Breakfast: Making it Work in Large School Districts, a companion report to the Scorecard, examines School Breakfast Program participation rates and trends in 75 of America's largest school distSchool Breakfast: Making it Work in Large School Districts, a companion report to the Scorecard, examines School Breakfast Program participation rates and trends in 75 of America's largest school distSchool Districts, a companion report to the Scorecard, examines School Breakfast Program participation rates and trends in 75 of America's largest school dDistricts, a companion report to the Scorecard, examines School Breakfast Program participation rates and trends in 75 of America's largest school distSchool Breakfast Program participation rates and trends in 75 of America's largest school distschool districtsdistricts.

Data are also featured in FRAC's reports, School Breakfast Scorecard: School Year 2016 - 2017 (pdf), and School Breakfast: Making it Work in Large School Districts (pdf), released February 13, 2018.

FRAC's School Breakfast Scorecard and Large District Report can help you put together compelling data to promote your school breakfast program for National School Breakfast Week — and all yearSchool Breakfast Scorecard and Large District Report can help you put together compelling data to promote your school breakfast program for National School Breakfast Week — and all yearschool breakfast program for National School Breakfast Week — and all yearSchool Breakfast Week — and all year long.

Further, FRAC publishes two important school breakfast reports annually: School Breakfast Scorecard and their large district rschool breakfast reports annually: School Breakfast Scorecard and their large district rSchool Breakfast Scorecard and their large district report.

For example, a 2005 report in Illinois found almost no opposition to arts education among principals and district superintendents, yet there were large disparities in school offerings around the state.

California's school funding model is nearly «impossible to comprehend» and should be made more transparent and more focused on helping districts that serve large numbers of students who are the most expensive to educate, a new report argues.

In a book that Smerdon and Borman would curate for the Urban Institute in 2009, Saving America's High Schools, many of the members of the research team expanded on the findings from the Gates report, offering a wealth of specific findings for many of the larger districts receiving Gates funds.

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), which maintains a database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, reports that the contracts give their teachers, on average, 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

Adequate, fair funding: University of Arkansas analysts report that the typical charter gets 28 percent less funding per pupil than nearby district schools, in large part because few charters share in the locally generated portion of K — 12 funding.

Just five of the teacher contracts in the nation's largest school districts grant school leaders the kind of flexibility they need to run schools well, but two - thirds of the rest do not obviously hamstring administrators with rules applying to teachers, according to a report released today by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

«The Widget Effect,» a widely read 2009 report from The New Teacher Project, surveyed the teacher evaluation systems in 14 large American school districts and concluded that status quo systems provide little information on how performance differs from teacher to teacher.

To be sure, it's just a plan, and large school districts are certainly famous for their ability to churn out weighty reports that go nowhere.

In its latest «report card» on the subject, the health watchdog group graded the nutritional quality of the elementary school lunches served in 18 of the largest school districts participating in the federally funded National School Lunch Prschool lunches served in 18 of the largest school districts participating in the federally funded National School Lunch Prschool districts participating in the federally funded National School Lunch PrSchool Lunch Program.

Due in large part to an «enormous» concentration of special - needs pupils, students in District of Columbia public schools are receiving an education far inferior to that of their counterparts in two neighboring suburban districts, according to a recent report by a coalition of parents and business leaders.

More than half of the roughly 5,000 parents polled by the United Federation of Teachers reported such conditions in the nation's largest school district.

• See how the MAP Insights and Instructional Insights reports provide you with instant analysis of your schools and district; the narrative reporting tells a larger story and makes it easy to understand the results.

Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob, for example, report that exit exam requirements reduced high school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects in states with more difficult examinations, and with effects concentrated among black students and among students in districts with large percentages of students of color.

New report blasts CO for allowing districts to net more school funding by breaking away from larger districts chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2017/...

The Hechinger Report is investigating how professional - development funds are spent in the country's largest school system — New York City — as well as in other districts around the nation to see what we can learn from schools, districts and countries that excel at ongoing teacher training.

Our analysis applied special scrutiny to alternative schools in Orlando, Florida, the nation's tenth largest district, where our reporting indicates thousands of students leaving for - profit alternative schools without diplomas aren't counted as dropouts.

More than 80 percent of students use the scholarships to attend religious schools, with most coming from large, urban districts, a recent state report shows.

Education Week reported in June that its high school graduation rate — 86 percent — was the highest among the nation's 50 largest districts for the third straight year.

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It's the only school district to do so among large districts throughout the state, according to a district report.

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The report concludes that districts with a large number of struggling students may need more guidance from the state and suggests they look to schools and districts that have had greater success with high - need students for improvement ideas.

The Trial Urban District Assessment of the Nation's Report Card expanded for 2017, by adding both new districts and a measure of all large school districts.

Two large Colorado districts are considering pushing back high school start times, Ann Schimke reports in Chalkbeat Colorado.

The first is a database on the extent and characteristics of school choice in the nation's 100 + largest school districts, as reported in the Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI), the most recent version of which is found here.

Low - income, African - American, and Hispanic students in the 50 largest districts in Texas are less likely to attend schools with experienced teachers than high - income and white students in those same districts, concludes a report by the Education Trust, a Washington - based nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

«In the District of Columbia, where 11.3 percent of students are enrolled in charter schools — by far the highest percentage of any state — the charter school advantage is large,» the report said.

The 2011 findings are based on annual report cards issued by The Education Trust - West revealing how well California's 147 largest unified school districts serve these student groups.

The report Bennett cited says many of Indiana's 293 school districts are just too small to take advantage of the cost efficiencies larger districts enjoy:

The report said the charter has a lean administrative staff and slightly larger classes — 31 students compared with an average of about 26 or 27 in district schools — so it can pour resources into teacher pay and training.

The Marquette poll reported that 37 percent of Wisconsin voters would support a statewide expansion of the program while another 14 percent would support its expansion to large school districts with some failing schools.

The moderating effects of organizational characteristics are to be expected, since district size and school size almost always «make a difference,» no matter what the focus of the research is.180 Elementary schools are typically more sensitive than secondary schools to leadership influence, although previous leader - efficacy research has reported mostly non-significant effects.181 And the rapid turnover of principals has been widely decried as anathema to school improvement efforts.182 Now we have some evidence that the positive effects of leader efficacy are also moderated by school and district size (the larger the organization, the less sense of efficacy among principals).

The number of black public school teachers in nine cities — including the country's three largest school districts — dropped between 2002 and 2012, raising questions about whether those school systems are doing enough to maintain a diverse teaching corps, according to a new report to be released Wednesday.

Evidence offered: «A 2009 report from America's Promise Alliance, a national advocacy and research organization headed by retired General Colin Powell, showed IPS had the lowest graduation rate among central city school districts in the nation's largest 50 cities.»

Average district per - pupil spending does not always capture staffing and funding inequities.14 Many districts do not consider actual teacher salaries when budgeting for and reporting each school's expenditures, and the highest - poverty schools are often staffed by less - experienced teachers who typically earn lower salaries.15 Because educator salaries are, by far, schools» largest budget item, schools serving the poorest children end up spending much less on what matters most for their students» learning.

United Teachers Los Angeles reported that 66 % of 16,892 members who voted approved the agreement with the nation's second - largest school district.

Two years earlier, a report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA documented large racial disparities in California school districts» disciplinary practices.

New data related to the White House report released Tuesday found that many of these large school districts poised to lose funding serve largely black or Hispanic populations.