Sentences with phrase «about school district staff»

This publication provides data about school district staff, average salaries of staff by various classifications, and information on students related to enrollment by grade, gender and ethnicity.

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This spring, the foundation's staff attorney sent a lawyer representing the district a letter about complaints of alleged discriminatory hiring and religious promotion in another county high school and praise music being played in an elementary school classroom.

To continue engaging younger students, Robert and his staff also plan to introduce the district's new salad bar mascot and lunch superhero in March, to get students «super» - excited about healthy school food.

In other schools in the district, staff were a little more nervous about the introduction of salad bars to their cafeterias.

Jessica currently works in many different school districts teaching the kitchen staff to improve their culinary skills and talking to the students about cooked - from - scratch foods.

In other schools in the district, staff were a little more nervous about the introduction of salad bars to their cafeterias.

Walla Walla, June 2013 Food services staff from school districts in SE Washington came together on a rare rainy day in Walla Walla to visit Blue Mountain Seed to learn about chickpea production and processing, tour Welcome Table Farm to see vegetable production and visit the farm animals.

Sharing non-school nutrition stories about your school or district: student and staff achievements, special events, and sports news.

In recent years, the city's school district has made several decisions to help close budget gaps, including cutting about 200 staff positions.

Judge previously was dean of students for the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, where he oversaw educational and disciplinary decisions for nearly 600 high school students and supervised about 20 instructional and 15 non-instructional staff meSchool District of Middletown, where he oversaw educational and disciplinary decisions for nearly 600 high school students and supervised about 20 instructional and 15 non-instructional staff meschool students and supervised about 20 instructional and 15 non-instructional staff members.

Each of the district's four high schools is also establishing a higher education center, staffed with counselors who will talk to parents and students about the college application process, Tanakeyowma noted.

Prior to this year, students could wear black or khaki jeans, and they would get into debates with staff about the color of their jeans, said Barbara Carrington, principal of Crosby High School, one of three high schools in the district.

Superintendent William A. Anton last week proposed shortening the school year from 180 to 163 days beginning next fall in an effort to save the district about $ 160 million in staff and teacher salaries and other costs.

When districts and schools worry too much about the headlines or parent concerns and they don't intentionally carve out time for ongoing, comprehensive training for all staff?

While fewer than one - third of staff believe the district has a positive image, about two - thirds say morale is high and about 90 percent are proud to work at their school.

Urban schools cope with complex issues, so the more the staff, the press, and the public understand about a district, the easier it can be to build support.

According to a teachers union watchdog group, «The Newark school district has about 3,850 tenured instructional staff.

At the time, the Houston Independent School District doled out money to schools for nonteaching staff members — like assistant principals, clerks, and librarians — based on a set of enrollment formulas that topped out at about 1,200 children.

The first two districts received about 30 applications per position last year in previously hard - to - staff schools — making sustainably higher pay and increased planning time good not just for teachers, but for districts, too.

Federal guidelines now ask school and district staff to use research evidence when making decisions about policies and programs.

About 1,500 miles to the north, the school budget in Gloucester, Massachusetts, has fallen so far behind its needs that the district has had to lay off more than 60 staff in the past four years, reports Ed Shoucair, president of the Gloucester Education Foundation.

«We have gotten a lot of information about major changes and school districts looking at policies,» according to Naomi Gittins, staff attorney for the NSBA.

«School boards should consider starting a discussion with school district staff and their communities about building a comprehensive student privacy protection program,» said NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. GeSchool boards should consider starting a discussion with school district staff and their communities about building a comprehensive student privacy protection program,» said NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Geschool district staff and their communities about building a comprehensive student privacy protection program,» said NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel.

In the event of a workplace immigration raid in the district, implement a plan to protect the safety of all immigrant students and brief principals and other school staff about their role in ensuring child well - being, coordinate with churches and community organizations to ensure that each student has adult supervision at home, and assure parents that schools will be a safe haven for their children.

Using descriptive information gathered from middle schools already implementing RTI, this resource provides information to school, district, and state administrators and staff about how the essential components of RTI might be implemented in middle schools.

The district conducts an annual climate survey — reaching parents, students, business people, faculty and staff members from local colleges, and other community partners including members of faith - based organizations — to learn what community people think about school and district programs and practices.

The tools and resources developed through this project provide district and school staff with information to facilitate consistent decisions about prior schooling data.

But schools associated with CASEL — about 30 out of 80 in the district this year — stress building a school climate and training for all staff.

Leaders in these districts engaged school staff members in collaborative inquiry about the unique circumstances affecting student learning or teacher performance in their schools.

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 school staff had little positive to say about that consultant «s input, and district leaders did not report any district initiatives to deal with the situation other than supporting and relying on the principal and teachers to find a solution.

Per you point about getting the «same» amount of money, first AF schools are not unionized and AF got a bill passed last year that allows charter schools to have up to 30 % of its teacher staff not certified — those two things raise the costs in district public schools.

Overall, the cuts to staff would save the district about $ 9.2 million and 72 percent of the positions would come from staffing based at schools.

Parents and children, along with community leaders, school staff and three school board members, listen as Superintendent Jen Cheatham speaks about the annual performance report for the district Monday at a news conference at Glendale Elementary Sschool staff and three school board members, listen as Superintendent Jen Cheatham speaks about the annual performance report for the district Monday at a news conference at Glendale Elementary Sschool board members, listen as Superintendent Jen Cheatham speaks about the annual performance report for the district Monday at a news conference at Glendale Elementary SchoolSchool.

School districts spend about 60 percent of their budgets on teacher and staff compensation, so a 10 percent increase in retirement contributions means roughly 6 percent of the entire budget has to be reallocated from educating children to paying off underfunded pension plans.

The series includes a guide to help district and state leaders choose the best restructuring option for each school, updated in a 2nd edition released in 2009, and white papers identifying what we know from research about when the first four restructuring options under NCLB work: reopening as a charter school, contracting with external providers, turnarounds with new leaders and staff, and state takeovers.

Julie Kowal offers expert advice about strategies for motivating and redeploying staff, and discusses the district's role in supporting principals» staffing changes in turnaround schools.

Jim Buckheit, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators, estimates school districts have lost about 30,000 teachers, support staff and professional staff over the past three and a half School Administrators, estimates school districts have lost about 30,000 teachers, support staff and professional staff over the past three and a half school districts have lost about 30,000 teachers, support staff and professional staff over the past three and a half years.

Forum Curriculum for Improving Education Data: A Resource for Local Education Agencies is a curriculum designed to support the training by qualified instructors of K — 12 school and district staff about the issues pertaining to the production of high - quality education data.

The Boston school district, for instance, is aiming to trim the central office staff of about 700 people by about 100 next year, mainly through attrition, as part of an effort to close a $ 100 million budget gap, according to district spokesman Lee McGuire.

Only about 10 of the district's 50 schools have yet to start their transition, which is designed at the school level, based on the desires of local parents, teachers, students and staff members.

One difference between high - achieving school districts and those that fall somewhere in the middle or are considered struggling is that staff members in schools that excel maintain lively conversations about educational shifts and solutions, while struggling schools tend to focus on problems.

The first two districts received about 30 applications per «reach» position last year in previously hard - to - staff schools — making sustainably higher pay and increased planning time good not just for teachers, but for districts, too.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

Madison's public schools will need to get by with about 50 fewer staff members next year due to enrollment declines and budget cuts, according to the district's latest projections.

About 40 officials from Wasatch Front School Districts will join staff from the Utah State Office of Education this week for a two - day training on how to identify and prevent harassment and bullying in Utah schools.

Specifically, officials at the state and district levels have had difficulty building staff capacity for implementing the reforms, meeting the requirements to develop teacher evaluations and increase student learning time, and gathering data on performance in SIG schools to make decisions about future grant renewals.

When staff from San Mateo County, Redwood City, Redwood City School District, Sequoia Union High School District, community - based organizations, and private funders realized that they were meeting multiple times about different issues affecting the same children and families, they decided to formalize their partnerships through the creation of Redwood City 2020.

But hiring nonunion staff could raise other legal issues because Madison's current collective bargaining agreement with Madison Teachers Inc. requires district schools to employ union staff — although Howard said there's disagreement about that interpretation.

In a fact sheet about the proposal, the department encouraged districts to avoid forced staff transfers and consider «instead investing in providing the resources that students need to learn and that will attract staff to choose to work in Title I schools.»