These schools, if approved, would benefit from changes made to the charter school law in 2016 that
allows students in school districts rated «C,» «D,» or «F» to cross district lines to attend a charter school.
Conversely, the first vote on SB 2161 in the Senate would have allowed any student in the state to cross district lines and would have permitted charter schools to open in school districts rated «C.» The compromise bill that ultimately passed, SB 2161,
allows students in school districts rated «C,» «D,» or «F» to cross district lines to attend a charter school.
The initial House legislation, HB 1044, would have only
allowed students in school districts rated «D» or «F» to cross district lines.
Because of the new law passed earlier this year
allowing students in school districts rated «C,» «D,» or «F» to cross district lines to attend a charter school, students from every neighboring school district outside of the Sunflower County Consolidated School District would be eligible to attend.
This bill will
allow students in school districts rated «C,» «D,» or «F» to cross district lines to attend a charter school.
Not exact matches
The
school district also
allows frozen and canned local product into their «Harvest of the Month» program to show
students that local food comes
in many forms — and doesn't always have to be fresh!
The grant will
allow us to continue our work funding alternative breakfast programs; to date, the Partners for BIC have helped 36
school districts in 18 states feed over 63,000 additional
students at
school breakfast.
The CEP
allows districts and
schools to serve free meals without paperwork if at least 40 percent of their
students are already automatically enrolled for free
school meals due to their participation
in other means - tested programs, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
In Crystal Lake, the city, Park
District and local
schools have created a program that
allows some middle -
school students to act as helpers at neighborhood elementary
schools.
North Shore
School District 112 joins a growing list of schools in the Chicago area and nationwide trying to find the right balance between protecting allergic students and allowing others to eat typical school lunch fare, such as a peanut butter and jelly san
School District 112 joins a growing list of
schools in the Chicago area and nationwide trying to find the right balance between protecting allergic
students and
allowing others to eat typical
school lunch fare, such as a peanut butter and jelly san
school lunch fare, such as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
The Community Eligibility Program (CEP) is a meal service option for
schools and
school districts in low - income areas —
allowing the nation's highest poverty
schools and
districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled
students without the burden of collecting household applications.
Recommendation: To improve SFAs» ability to design menus that comply with the new lunch requirements, the Secretary of Agriculture should modify federal regulations or guidance to
allow school districts flexibility
in complying with the defined calorie ranges for
schools with
students in both the grades 6 - 8 and 9 - 12 groups.
In August 2015, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent a joint letter to the
School Superintendents Association announcing that the CEP is expanding to allow all high - poverty school districts to offer free lunch and breakfast to students without requiring their families to submit applica
School Superintendents Association announcing that the CEP is expanding to
allow all high - poverty
school districts to offer free lunch and breakfast to students without requiring their families to submit applica
school districts to offer free lunch and breakfast to
students without requiring their families to submit applications.
Education analysts at both the state and local levels asserted Wednesday that more than $ 2 billion
in added funding will be needed
in 2016 - 17 just to
allow the state's 700 - plus
school districts to continue offering
student services at current levels.
When the Hamburg
School District on Tuesday adopted a new policy allowing transgender students access to restrooms and locker rooms for the gender that they identify with, it very well may have been the first district in Erie County t
District on Tuesday adopted a new policy
allowing transgender
students access to restrooms and locker rooms for the gender that they identify with, it very well may have been the first
district in Erie County t
district in Erie County to do so.
Districts are making major investments
in school connectivity,
school security, and
in individual devices that will
allow students access to the internet to expand their knowledge, to practice skills where they need additional help, and to learn how to communicate and share their knowledge with others.»
Cuomo and the state Education Department recently awarded competitive grant funding to launch or expand pre-K programs
in 27
school districts, which will
allow thousands more
students to begin full - day programs throughout the state.
Nearby Monroe County has an urban - suburban program that
allows students from the city to attend
school in suburban
districts, and vice versa.
It would be fair to
allow all current
students in the G&T programs
in District 30 to continue so that they may auto - articulate into their own middle
school and continue through 8th grade.
Included among the proposed reforms is a teacher evaluation system based half on
student test scores, an increase
in the length of time before a teacher is eligible for tenure and
allowing the state to take over failing
schools and
districts.
In the interest of child safety, individual
schools and entire
school districts often install content filters that aggressively block these Web 2.0 tools — not only social - networking sites but also blogs, wikis, and other Web pages that
allow educators and
students to create and access content.
Even after
allowing for the cost of educating
students with special needs, S&P's analysis showed a wide dispersion across
school districts in the spending observed to achieve equivalent outcomes.
Choices for parents who think their kids might benefit from a special program at a
school in a nearby school district: In California, some school districts where enrollment was dropping are taking advantage of the state's District of Choice law, which allows districts to compete for students by offering innovative programs and options that parents wan
in a nearby
school district: In California, some school districts where enrollment was dropping are taking advantage of the state's District of Choice law, which allows districts to compete for students by offering innovative programs and options that paren
district:
In California, some school districts where enrollment was dropping are taking advantage of the state's District of Choice law, which allows districts to compete for students by offering innovative programs and options that parents wan
In California, some
school districts where enrollment was dropping are taking advantage of the state's
District of Choice law, which allows districts to compete for students by offering innovative programs and options that paren
District of Choice law, which
allows districts to compete for
students by offering innovative programs and options that parents want.
In this rural county, where
school buses still sometimes travel on dirt roads, the Flat Stanley Project
allowed students «to see things they would never see,» says Pat Hendrickson, a
district technology coach.
In the Mount Lebanon, Pa., school district, students have typically been allowed to take part in graduation exercises only when they have completed their studies and are leaving schoo
In the Mount Lebanon, Pa.,
school district,
students have typically been
allowed to take part
in graduation exercises only when they have completed their studies and are leaving schoo
in graduation exercises only when they have completed their studies and are leaving
school.
The new law includes provisions implementing a proposal Mr. Bush made
in last year's gubernatorial campaign to
allow for the creation of «home rule»
school districts, which could vote to operate under fewer state regulations
in exchange for promising to improve
student achievement.
The system attaches funds to individual
students, rather than to
schools or
school districts, and then
allows students to choose any public
school in the
district, with neighborhood
students» having preference at each
school.
A
school that misses AYP two years
in a row has to
allow students to transfer to a better - performing public
school in the same
district.
Apple made significant changes to the iOS platform with its announcement of iOS 9.3 which bought several education specific features such as
allowing for the sharing of devices across several
students, a classroom application which will provide
in class control of devices, and managed Apple IDs which can be created
in bulk and managed by the
school district.
Chicago, Rochester Offer Flexible Graduation Options Two urban
school districts — Rochester, New York, and Chicago, Illinois — are launching programs this fall that will
allow students to graduate from high
school in three, four, or five years.
Members of Congress debated a directive to drive down disproportionately high discipline rates for
students of color with Republicans questioning whether similar policies
in a Florida
district allowed the accused Parkland, Fla., shooter to avoid being arrested despite his reportedly frequent discipline issues at
school.
The authors note that strong leadership
in the state and
district superintendents» offices, along with more
district and
school staff experience, will
allow schools to concentrate less on basic survival and more on effective operations and better
student outcomes.
A pioneering effort of the Hudson
School District and the Concord Consortium of Massachusetts allows students from around the world to schedule classes at their convenience in subjects not offered at their local s
School District and the Concord Consortium of Massachusetts
allows students from around the world to schedule classes at their convenience
in subjects not offered at their local
schoolschool.
Over the last eight years, the
district has spent $ 32 million on the hardware systems necessary to track
student demographic and performance data districtwide, and another $ 2 million on additional computers that
allow teachers to access the system; much of this funding has come from the federal E-Rate program, which has allocated more than $ 10 billion toward Internet infrastructure
in K — 12
schools and libraries since 1996 (see «World Wide Wonder?»
The GRC
allows users to compare
student achievement
in virtually every one of the nearly 14,000
school districts in the United States against the achievement
in a set of 25 developed countries.
As such, transforming
districts and
schools to competency - based systems is not a simply policy change: it's a fundamental reconfiguration of teams and structures inside
schools, that
allows for
students to progress at their own pace and demonstrate mastery
in a variety of ways.
On Oct. 5, Ms. Neeley had sent a guidance letter to
school boards
allowing them to grant their
district superintendents the authority to ask the state for permission to exceed the class - size cap of 22
students per teacher
in grades K - 4.
Dennis Harper, former technology coordinator for the Olympia
School District,
in Olympia, Washington, won a federal grant that
allowed him to develop a program that paired
students familiar with technology with teachers who aren't tech savvy but who know their subjects well.
Cocreated with a former colleague, the database
allows administrators to capture data that is particularly relevant when serving challenged populations of
students, many of whom enroll at BDEA after unsuccessful starts
in traditional
district high
schools or local charter
schools.
Students in this special - education class at Redwood Heights Elementary School, in Oakland, California, come to school with a range of disabilities, and the goal of the district and teachers is to design whatever plan is necessary to allow the students to achieve their po
Students in this special - education class at Redwood Heights Elementary
School, in Oakland, California, come to school with a range of disabilities, and the goal of the district and teachers is to design whatever plan is necessary to allow the students to achieve their pote
School,
in Oakland, California, come to
school with a range of disabilities, and the goal of the district and teachers is to design whatever plan is necessary to allow the students to achieve their pote
school with a range of disabilities, and the goal of the
district and teachers is to design whatever plan is necessary to
allow the
students to achieve their po
students to achieve their potential.
In a more controversial move, in 1996, HISD began allowing students from overcrowded schools to attend private, non-religious schools at district expens
In a more controversial move,
in 1996, HISD began allowing students from overcrowded schools to attend private, non-religious schools at district expens
in 1996, HISD began
allowing students from overcrowded
schools to attend private, non-religious
schools at
district expense.
Catheterizing a
student's bladder
in order to
allow her to urinate is not a «related service» as defined under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, argued James W. Deatherage on behalf of the
district in Irving Independent School District v. Tatro (Case No. 83
district in Irving Independent
School District v. Tatro (Case No. 83
District v. Tatro (Case No. 83 - 558).
Hidalgo Early College High
School —
in fact, the entire Hidalgo Independent
School District — simply won't
allow demographics to dictate the future of its
students.
First, it can
allow districts to game accountability systems by rearranging
school calendars so that
students have more time
in school prior to the exam, even as the overall length of the
school year remains constant.
Last spring, as part of an education - reform package, the South Dakota legislature approved a «family option» measure
allowing parents
in districts with high -
school enrollments of fewer than 45
students the option of sending children to larger
schools in neighboring
districts.
The Discovering series, which the Seattle
district already used
in elementary and middle
schools, allegedly
allows students to learn math principles on their own through «inquiry - based learning.»
Two urban
school districts — Rochester, New York, and Chicago, Illinois — are launching programs this fall that will
allow students to graduate from high
school in three, four, or five years.
The decisions have the immediate effect of
allowing two
students to press forward with claims for damages against the Bradford Area
school district in Pennsylvania for negligence
in failing to prevent the incidents, some of which took place during summer vacation.
In 2012, then schools superintendent Cary Matsuoka asked principals at all district schools to come up with redesign plans that would integrate technology; use data to inform instruction; allow flexibility in space, time, and student grouping; and center on student learnin
In 2012, then
schools superintendent Cary Matsuoka asked principals at all
district schools to come up with redesign plans that would integrate technology; use data to inform instruction;
allow flexibility
in space, time, and student grouping; and center on student learnin
in space, time, and
student grouping; and center on
student learning.
SDP's analyses identified
students at risk of dropping out of high
school as early as ninth grade,
allowing the
district to identify
schools with high numbers of
students in need of intervention.