Sentences with phrase «adopted by the school district»

Other: The Education Service Center Child Nutrition Program (ESC / CNP) Specialist in the Department of Agriculture reviewed all local wellness policies adopted by the school districts in their region and completed a Wellness Policy Checklist to verify all local wellness policies meet the minimum federal requirements.

A Supreme Court decision a decade ago eliminated the use of certain types of district policies that had been voluntarily adopted by some school districts to address rising segregation.

Working for the past 20 years to define the characteristics and fundamental elements of an evidence - based high - quality induction program that accelerates the development of both teachers and their students, New Teacher Center (NTC) established the Teacher Induction Program Standards (TIPS) in an effort to create an industry standard that can be adopted by school districts, educational institutions, state agencies, and policymakers as the benchmark for success.

... art, health, physical education, and other assigned district curriculum to pupils in a classroom, utilizing course of study adopted by the school district, and other district approved learning...

As the fall progressed, however, he realized the new Spanish textbooks adopted by the school district included references to many of the pop - culture questions from the pre-test.

The English curriculum has been adopted by school districts from New York City to Huntington, West Virginia, to Oakland.

The way I understand it, The Kobo is being adopted by school districts nationwide.

Not exact matches

Additional Accountability Requirements: The Statewide School Wellness Policy (2005) adopted by the State Board of Education requires school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school School Wellness Policy (2005) adopted by the State Board of Education requires school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school school level.

Additional Content Requirements: Administrative Code N.J.A.C. 2:36 - 1.7 required districts to adopt a school nutrition policy by September 2006.

Adopted by the State Board of Education, the action guide includes lessons learned from the state's school nutrition policy pilot projects to help inform districts in implementing and developing their wellness policies.

For those competitive sports not governed by NIAA, the board of trustees of each school district must adopt a policy concerning the prevention and treatment of injuries to the head, including concussions.

The Oakland, California Unified School District recently made news by adopting a Good Food Procurement Program (GFPP).

School districts that adopt a GFPP seek to promote health and well - being by offering generous portions of vegetables, fruit, whole grains and minimally processed foods, while reducing salt, added sugars, saturated fats, and red meat consumption, and eliminating artificial additives.

TLT: So how much of what you do at Holy Trinity can be adopted by other school districts, in your opinion?

School districts are due to adopt the new teacher evaluation criteria by November or miss out on a boost in education aid.

He noted that school districts must adopt their budget by later this month so that they can go to voters in May.

More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

Adopted by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state lawmakers in 2011, the property - tax cap mandates that school districts, town boards, county boards and other local governments keep the growth of their tax levies at 2 percent or the rate of inflation — whichever is lower.

The Rye City School District, in partnership with the Rye City Police Department, has spearheaded a local chapter of the Adopt - a-School program, which was originally developed in 1994 as a community outreach program by the FBI.

Under the measure approved in the budget, school districts must adopt the evaluation criteria by Nov. 15 or risk losing a boost in state education aid.

Most school districts have managed to adopt budgets within the state's property tax cap and have those spending plans approved by voters, largely without a negative impact on their credit ratings, a report released by Moody's on Friday found.

Prior to 2011, the Ithaca School District built up a $ 7.3 million fund balance by adopting conservative budgets.

• The proposed 2018 - 2019 budget adopted by the Morrisville - Eaton Central School District is $ 16.5 million, a 3 percent increase from the 2017 - 2018 budget.

• The proposed 2018 - 2019 budget adopted by the Madison Central School District is $ 9.95 million, a 1 percent decrease from the 2017 - 2018 budget.

• The proposed 2018 - 2019 budget adopted by the Chittenango Central School District is $ 39.27 million, a 3 percent increase from the 2018 - 2018 budget.

Among the key findings of the state comptroller's office audit of the Willsboro Central School District: The district overestimated appropriations in the adopted budgets by more than 10 percent over the past three years; the district has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and district officials did not develop a multi-year financiDistrict: The district overestimated appropriations in the adopted budgets by more than 10 percent over the past three years; the district has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and district officials did not develop a multi-year financidistrict overestimated appropriations in the adopted budgets by more than 10 percent over the past three years; the district has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and district officials did not develop a multi-year financidistrict has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and district officials did not develop a multi-year financidistrict officials did not develop a multi-year financial plan.

The ban, adopted by a margin of 58 % to 42 %, applies to any school district, college or university, or government agency showing preferential treatment based on race, gender, or ethnicity.

The district's diploma guarantee will be based on job skills identified by the U.S. Labor Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, or SCANs, which last summer released a set of job competencies that it urged school districts to adopt.

The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

The Constitution can not be colorblind in the real world, he said, and school districts can adopt race - conscious measures as long as they don't treat «each student in a different fashion solely on the basis of a systematic, individual typing by race.»

Washington — By 1978, three years after the enactment of P.L. 94 - 142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, school officials had successfully adopted most of the law's procedural safeguards, according to a federally - supported study of several school districts over a period of four years.

But others have attributed the Florida gains to an amendment to the Florida Constitution, adopted by the voters in 2002, which requires every school district to reduce its average class size.

At the same time, hold districts accountable from the state and federal levels, by making their (bad) results transparent and forcing them to adopt meaningful (and unpleasant) reforms in their failing schools.

Winnie Hu writes in the New York Times about school districts adopting Singapore Math, which is thought to provide a better foundation for higher - order math skills by teaching fewer topics but in more depth.

Saying they support «diversity by choice,» members of a task force led by three local mayors are urging the Wake County, N.C., school district to abandon a student - assignment plan that aims for economic integration and adopt a neighborhood - schools approach instead.

Of these I am most familiar with the Everyday Mathematics (EM) series for grades K - 6 because this one was adopted by the Fairfax County school district in Virginia, where I live.

A district also must focus early wins on student learning to fit the turnaround formula, perhaps by adopting similar goals for one subset of struggling children or a few low - performing schools.

Two well - known commercial reading programs, which have been adopted by some of the nation's largest school districts and have met the strict requirements for research - based programs under the federal Reading First initiative, failed to earn ratings from the What Works Clearinghouse because they do not have any studies that satisfy the agency's rigorous evidence standards.

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were developed by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia with the strong support of the U.S. Department of Education (ED).

Hopefully, prompting from the guidance to look at the variation in disciplinary responses by schools within the district would encourage the local school board to voluntarily eliminate suspensions for attendance violations and adopt (district - wide) those responses already working well in its less racially isolated schools.

The bill, which the Governor had declared dead during the regular session, will make Washington only the second state to mandate that all school districts adopt policies allowing intradistrict transfers by students, according to several observers of the school - choice movement.

The proposal being designed by the panel's Republican leaders would share a central feature of the Clinton Administration's Goals 2000 strategy — a requirement that states and school districts adopt challenging academic - performance standards and assessments with which to measure students» progress toward meeting them.

This led me to wonder: with more and more districts adopting online grading programs accessible to families outside of school, can grading periods be flexed by individual teachers?

A few years ago, I did a small, informal research project examining the mission and vision statements adopted by the nation's hundred largest school districts to see whether they still view the preparation of students for participation in democratic life as an essential focus of their work.

The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 that required schools to adopt written policies regarding nutrition and exercise by the start of the 2006 - 2007 school year prompted the creation of the Ridley School District Student Wellness Pschool year prompted the creation of the Ridley School District Student Wellness PSchool District Student Wellness Policy.

The program works with youth - serving government agencies, District schools and youth - serving government grantees to ensure bullying prevention policies are adopted and implemented in ways consistent with the best practices adopted by the Youth Bullying Prevention Task Force.

By 2012, 45 states plus the District of Columbia and all Department of Defense schools had adopted the Common Core and were in the process of putting the standards into place.

Everyone with a stake in education is encouraged to support this campaign by sharing why they #LovePublicEducation on social media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, et al.); by submitting a story that details the importance of public education, here; by adopting a resolution in support of public education in your own school district (read ours, here.)

[n6] Early in its history, Texas adopted a dual approach to the financing of its schools, relying on mutual participation by the local school districts and the State.

Requires school districts and government entities to adopt policies requiring that multiuser restrooms and changing facilities be designated for and used by people based on their «biological sex.»