Sentences with phrase «like district public schools»

Charter schools in particular are not at all like district public schools.

Like district public schools, they are funded according to enrollment and receive funding from the district and the state according to the number of students attending.

Charters are not funded like district public schools because they differ from public schools.

Like district public schools, charter schools are funded according to enrollment (also called average daily attendance, or ADA), and receive funding from the district and the state according to the number of students attending.

Like district public schools, charter schools are required to adhere to all federal, state, and local education, health, and safety rules and regulations.

Not exact matches

Whether developing their own school or district - wide app, or using technology from companies like Nutrislice like Chesterfield County Public Schools, the practice is becoming popular with everyone — students, parents, administrators, and school staff.

We recently sat down with Kern Halls, Area Manager of Orange County Public School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field school events and field trips.

Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proSchool District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool lunch, is procured.

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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.

«The amazing thing is how the school smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bschool smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bSchool Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bschool district is more than six times bigger.

Several schools and hospitals in the Chicago area use sensory equipment to help people with disabilities regulate their emotions or stimulate their senses but the equipment is rarer in public recreational settings like a park district, said local occupational therapists and a representative from Flaghouse, the company that sold the sensory equipment to SEASPAR and other Chicago organizations.

As the chairperson of the nutrition committee of HISD's School Health Advisory Council (SHAC), I'm working with a dedicated group of parents and public health professionals to address the issue of a la carte foods in HISD — both the items sold by the district itself (like the Flaming Hot Cheetos above) and items sold by parent and student groups (usually in violation of state rules) as campus fundraisers.

For many years now, I've sat in school food conferences and listened to (or heard about) people like Ann Cooper of the Boulder Valley School District, Bertrand Weber of Minneapolis Public Schools and Betti Wiggins of Detroit Public Schools — all committed, caring school food professionals who've radically transformed their district's meals for the bschool food conferences and listened to (or heard about) people like Ann Cooper of the Boulder Valley School District, Bertrand Weber of Minneapolis Public Schools and Betti Wiggins of Detroit Public Schools — all committed, caring school food professionals who've radically transformed their district's meals for the bSchool District, Bertrand Weber of Minneapolis Public Schools and Betti Wiggins of Detroit Public Schools — all committed, caring school food professionals who've radically transformed their district's meals for theDistrict, Bertrand Weber of Minneapolis Public Schools and Betti Wiggins of Detroit Public Schools — all committed, caring school food professionals who've radically transformed their district's meals for the bschool food professionals who've radically transformed their district's meals for thedistrict's meals for the better.

Although still required to provide a free lunch to their low income students, public school districts like the one in the article (which in 2009 - 10 had only 1.1 % low income children) can easily afford to feed such tiny numbers of students for free even without the government reimbursement.

He's certainly concerned about how institutions like school districts and public authorities manage their funds.

Although state legislation authorizing mayoral control of the Buffalo Public Schools still lacks a Republican sponsor in the GOP - dominated Senate, that hasn't stopped city power brokers from quietly plotting what a takeover of the troubled district would look like.

This week, the Kingston City School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests iSchool District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests ischool districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math

This week, the Kingston City School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades 3 - 8.

The man who wanted to improve public schools is closing them, in a city where some school districts (like District 24) are packed to the brim with students.

These included changing the format of Panel for Educational Policy meetings to allow for more public comment, revising the city's school closing and co-location processes to make it more difficult for the city to close or co-locate schools, adding parent training centers so that parents in groups like the Community Education Councils can participate knowledgeably in the structures of governance, and restoring a degree of authority to district superintendents vis - à - vis principals.

For example, your elected officials should be focused on things like equal access to essential public services, fair governmental priorities and policies, city hall policies, school district choices, and public health measures.

Our CRPE colleagues Paul Hill and Ashley Jochim have proposed a more radical solution: a new institution (a community board) that would oversee all public schools and get the school district out of the business of oversight (the district would become a school operator, much like a charter management organization).

If no, then will you bring to an end private contributions — like those made by the Fund for Public Schools and the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller foundations — to the school district of New York City?

The school already has over a decade's experience opening its campus to public school enrichment camps and initiatives like Growing Girls and Gardens, where they are taking best practices from their venerable independent school for girls, working with the school district, and applying the learning to benefit some of the city's neediest students — walking the walk to offer outstanding education and opportunity for promising girls.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

We're seeing strong, transformation - minded leaders who have a talent mindset at a number of urban school districts, like our mutual friend Kaya Henderson at D.C. Public Schools.

Like district schools, charter schools receive most of their funding from public sources and are subject to state regulation.

Like district schools, public charters are legally required to educate all students regardless of the difficulties they bring with them.

One such effort is being led by K - 12 systems like the District of Columbia public schools, which has sought to customize content to teachers» needs and deepen their understanding of academic material by giving them a role in developing it.

He took classes he enjoyed, like social sciences and history, and also picked up work as a substitute teacher in the public school district.

Like many districts, Boston Public Schools (BPS) has initiatives to encourage minorities to become teachers (14 percent of bps students are white, compared with more than 60 percent of bps teachers).

It combines classes in education, business, and public policy that train students to lead large school districts, head government education agencies, or work for nonprofits like Teach for America....

The 161 charter schools operating within the district's boundaries ranged from fragile mom - and - pop organizations to those run by franchise firms like the Alliance for College - Ready Public Schools and the Knowledge Is Power Program schools operating within the district's boundaries ranged from fragile mom - and - pop organizations to those run by franchise firms like the Alliance for College - Ready Public Schools and the Knowledge Is Power Program Schools and the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP).

Districts like Denver Public Schools are starting to create meaningful, differential roles for teachers.

The charter schools were, like the school districts and county boards of education challenging their charters, creatures of the state «authorized to maintain» public schools.

But he also hails visionaries like Harlem Children's Zone's Geoffrey Canada; District of Columbia public schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee; and Bill Strickland, founder of Pittsburgh's Manchester Craftsmen's Guild.

Some districts in the largely rural state have long - standing voucher - like programs, called «tuitioning,» in which they pay to enroll students at secular private schools or public schools in other districts when...

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

«Folks like this use comedy and music and are fun, but in the midst of their humor, they have really good substance,» said Fred Morton, superintendent of the Henrico County Public Schools in Richmond, Virginia, who has used Wavelength in his current and former district.

Gove's earnestly pursued and widely touted «academies» scheme, which allows district - operated public schools to convert to charter - like status and be managed by outside groups, has led to a major scandal in Birmingham, where a handful of such schools were taken over by fundamentalist Muslims.

As districts like Philadelphia seek to «turn around» their public schools, let's not forget the lesson of the lost alternative schools.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school syschools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sySchools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

Like many large districts, the 35,000 - student Minneapolis Public Schools has both self - contained classrooms and inclusion programs for the nearly 900 students with autism.

For public school educators who want to jump start this process, like Scott Spector, the Los Angeles Unified School District's director of educational technology, the challenge will be to find the right champion in the right department within the many overlapping schools and institutes of a university seschool educators who want to jump start this process, like Scott Spector, the Los Angeles Unified School District's director of educational technology, the challenge will be to find the right champion in the right department within the many overlapping schools and institutes of a university seSchool District's director of educational technology, the challenge will be to find the right champion in the right department within the many overlapping schools and institutes of a university setting.

As a result of winning against schools like Yale, Cornell, and Duke, the team earned a $ 5,000 cash prize, a trip to Washington D.C., and an opportunity to meet chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools Michellschools like Yale, Cornell, and Duke, the team earned a $ 5,000 cash prize, a trip to Washington D.C., and an opportunity to meet chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools MichellSchools Michelle Rhee.

Like many school districts across the country, D.C. Public Schools leaves the decision on whether to include cursive as part of the curriculum up to individual principals and teachers.

The book The Prize details how the reform effort in Newark Public Schools failed, in large part, because Newark residents and district employees felt like reform was done to them, not with them.

While Senate Bill 1 was a step toward long - term sustainability, it significantly increased the financial burden on public entities like school districts, straining the rest of their budgets.