Sentences with phrase «while public school districts»

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While federal gun control laws are stalled, the group's school violence prevention training programs are expanding rapidly across the country, including to the Los Angeles public school district.

It's a culinary miracle: Revolution Foods makes school lunches that are junk - free, freshly prepared, and locally made, while staying within public school districts» ultra-tight budgets.

Broward School Board members took a stand against arming school employees Tuesday, while facing harsh public criticism about how well the district protects and cares for its stuSchool Board members took a stand against arming school employees Tuesday, while facing harsh public criticism about how well the district protects and cares for its stuschool employees Tuesday, while facing harsh public criticism about how well the district protects and cares for its students.

Child Nutrition Services - Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) Child Nutrition Services (CNS) assists school districts and other program sponsors in providing quality nutrition programs that promote life - long healthful living while providing nutritious meals each day that prepare children for learning.

Furthermore, many public schools lack the facilities for cooking and food storage that Chef Boundas has at his disposal, and while I didn't find out exactly what Chef Boundas pays his labor, it may well be less than labor costs would be in a highly unionized district.

«In our seven years at D.C. Public Schools, we have significantly increased the quality of food service while saving the District millions of dollars,» he said.

«The contract with the teachers» union expired in October 2009, while contracts with the union for principals and other school administrators and District Council 37, the city's largest public employee union, expired in March 2010.

While thousands of students have left rural public districts, poverty rates in these schools have increased, according to the analysis by the New York State Association of School Business Officials.

While waiting for district - by - district allotment information, sources said Buffalo Public Schools are in line for a 3.36 percent school aid hike from the current year, up $ 6.8 million over Cuomo's plan in January.

While I recognize that it is not the Board's nor the district's role or responsibility to take such things into consideration, I do believe that we have an obligation to utilize community resources whenever possible as that only serves to strengthen the community in which the children served by the Buffalo Public Schools live.

Superintendents and education representatives from all 133 school districts in Virginia told the state's elected officials that they can't have «best - in - the - nation public education and a best - in - the - world work force» while cutting the education budget for the third year in a row.

Roughly 9,000 students, the vast majority of them black or Latino, attend public schools in the district, while about 24,000 students who live there attend yeshivas.

While county government does not have oversight of public school districts, I believe...

Roughly 8,500 students, most of them black and Latino, attend the public schools in East Ramapo, while another 23,000 students in the district attend private schools, mostly yeshivas.

The addition of Pay for Success financing in the Chicago Public School District shows the feasibility of scaling CPC P - 3 while continuing to improve effectiveness.

While schools often are required to ask students for proof that they live within a district, school officials essentially are barred from asking about immigration status and can not block a child's access to a public K - 12 school based on such status, under a landmark 1982 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plyler v. Doe.

While the exact way forward may vary from one district to another, there should be no further delay in creating state laws and regulations that level the playing field between charters and other public schools.

Two of the six sites — Somers Elementary and the Hudson district — are public schools to which students are assigned, while the other four are schools of choice.

But while there are now many outstanding public schools in the District, there clearly aren't enough of them.

Amy Carter attended a District of Columbia public school while her father was president.

While the school district contended that the language of IDEA demanded attendance at a public school first, the Second Circuit had already ruled in a prior case that this was an incorrect reading of the law, and could unreasonably require parents either to place children in an inadequate program or shoulder the financial burden of a private education, a result it called «absurd.»

While districts have developed their own guidelines for when to close a school, Bryan Hassel, cofounder of Public Impact, an education consulting firm in Chapel Hill, N.C., says there has been less thought given to how closings should unfold.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — In some school districts across the United States, public school buildings sit vacant while nearby charter schools searching for space are turned away.

Kamras, who currently serves as the chief of human capital for the District of Columbia Public Schools, has a varied perspective echoed today by many inside and outside education: While great teachers may be underpaid, new evaluation criteria are critical to determine appropriate salary levels.

Working in a public school district where school closings due to budget shortfalls are now a reality, while at the same time trying to avoid embarrassing situations, I encouraged my team of education technologists to consider three different solutions for use on our network.

Did high - income whites and blacks bring their children into the district's public schools, while low - income blacks and Hispanics moved out?

While we encourage readers to be cautious about applying our findings without qualification to all public schools, we also encourage school districts to support research that can identify middle - school effects in other settings, especially since we find the consequences of attending a middle school for student achievement to be substantial and troubling.

But while voucher programs, for example, have overcome legal prohibitions in some states, political resistance to the flow of substantial public funds to schools not under the control of districts remains intense.

While they are supported by many families, charter schools face frequent public criticism — including by Baraka — that they are destroying the school district.

While class - size reduction has helped achievement in most of California's large urban school districts, not all of those have enjoyed such results, says a study by the Public Policy Institute of California.

James Copeland, an architect with Mosely Architects in Richmond, Virginia, which works with school districts, said that while public - private partnerships may not be less expensive, as hoped, they have other benefits.

When the school district of Philadelphia teamed up with the Microsoft Corporation in 2006 to redesign the American high school, the result was the School of the Future, hailed by National Public Radio as «the next big thing»... While technology was a crucial element at the School of the Future, the redesign sought fundamentally to rethink the models for teaching and learning... Whatschool district of Philadelphia teamed up with the Microsoft Corporation in 2006 to redesign the American high school, the result was the School of the Future, hailed by National Public Radio as «the next big thing»... While technology was a crucial element at the School of the Future, the redesign sought fundamentally to rethink the models for teaching and learning... Whatschool, the result was the School of the Future, hailed by National Public Radio as «the next big thing»... While technology was a crucial element at the School of the Future, the redesign sought fundamentally to rethink the models for teaching and learning... WhatSchool of the Future, hailed by National Public Radio as «the next big thing»... While technology was a crucial element at the School of the Future, the redesign sought fundamentally to rethink the models for teaching and learning... WhatSchool of the Future, the redesign sought fundamentally to rethink the models for teaching and learning... What Next?

Different districts choose different strategies: according to NCES Public School Universe data, thousands of Title I schools nationally have fewer than a third of their students eligible for free lunch, while at the same time thousands of non-Title I schools have over half their students eligible.

While discipline policies vary across schools, districts, and states — and as the nation's largest school district the New York City public schools are likely more bureaucratized and formalized in matters of school discipline than smaller districts — the scale, scope, and level of complexity of the legal regulations affecting day - to - day school practices appear quite formidable.

The findings, if unsurprising, are nonetheless sobering: the extent of public school choice has been negligible; participation in supplemental educational services, while rising, remains low; and the law's restructuring requirements for schools and districts are being deployed in their mildest forms.

«While the District's public school system... must be reformed, school vouchers are not the answer,» he said at the time.

While these schools receive public funds, they operate unfettered by most state and local district regulations governing other public schools.

The average combined reading and math test scores one year prior to the management change at schools assigned to for - profit and nonprofit entities were 0.39 and 0.13 standard deviations below the Philadelphia average, respectively, while the pre-intervention scores of the full set of 142 regular public schools were 0.19 standard deviations above the district average.

While many of the nation's public schools remain stubbornly segregated by race and income, some charter schools and districts are starting to experiment with using weighted lotteries to increase diversity.

Another 21 percent of the public are unsure, while fully 63 percent of the public say that school districts should not take into account students» racial background.

IMPACT, the controversial teacher - evaluation system recently introduced in the District of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of EdDistrict of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Eddistrict to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Eddistrict's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Public school districts are facing twin challenges: maintaining a labor supply of qualified teachers while shoring up the deteriorating system that compensates them.

While some of the city's public charter schools operate out of privately owned buildings, all Success Academy schools are co-located with district schools.

A recent Stanford study (PDF) found that public charters in Washington, D.C. and New York substantially outperformed similar district schools, while public charters in Nevada and Texas lagged far behind their district peers.

State and federal law require each public school district and each approved private school to report to OSPI all known incidents involving the possession of weapons on school premises, transportation systems, or in areas of facilities while being used exclusively by public or private schools.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots gPublic Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots gpublic schools into charter school operators and grassroots schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

Indeed, while public charter schools are free from some of the regulations that district schools must follow they are still publicly funded.

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.

«While the status quo tried to paint this as a charter school land grab, it has proven to be a long overdue dose of transparency for Arkansas's school districts and their stewardship of the public's resources,» Newton said.

Similarly, English teachers in Miami - Dade County Public Schools demonstrate a persistent effect on math that is 46 percent as large as their effect on English, while math teachers in the district have a persistent effect on English that is less than five percent as large as their persistent effect on math.