Sentences with phrase «amount about the district»

These kinds of adjustments usually occur only when a parent has learned a considerable amount about the district and it's key decision - makers.

Not exact matches

The National School Boards Association has been particularly vocal about this point, saying that it will actually cost school districts an additional 11 to 25 cents to cover the Institute of Medicine's nutritional recommendations, which call for increasing the minimum amounts of fruits and vegetables as well as for weekly requirements for «dark green and orange vegetables.»

Cherveny estimated that the district will need to borrow about $ 3.1 million, but the actual amount will be announced at the public hearing.The board last week also directed President David Gervais to sign an agreement between the Park District and the Village of Cary to double the impact fees developers have to pay to the Park Ddistrict will need to borrow about $ 3.1 million, but the actual amount will be announced at the public hearing.The board last week also directed President David Gervais to sign an agreement between the Park District and the Village of Cary to double the impact fees developers have to pay to the Park DDistrict and the Village of Cary to double the impact fees developers have to pay to the Park DistrictDistrict.

A TLT reader is concerned about the amount of processed meat used in her district - nuggets and pre-fab patties — and would like her district to use more raw meats prepared on site.

Just think about how much the school nutrition personnel in your district would contribute to SNF annually if each person committed to a nickel a day — and then multiply that amount by the number of school districts participating in the school nutrition program.

John Wassinger, Bensenville Park District president, responded: «About us being «expansionists,» there is a certain amount of McCarthyism that happens in Bensenville.

Mike Adams, executive director of the Park District, said the district would be able to get about $ 16 million in financing, but must seek the remaining amount using tax increment financing (TIF) dollars and / orDistrict, said the district would be able to get about $ 16 million in financing, but must seek the remaining amount using tax increment financing (TIF) dollars and / ordistrict would be able to get about $ 16 million in financing, but must seek the remaining amount using tax increment financing (TIF) dollars and / or grants.

PALATINE — The Salt Creek Rural Park District Board of Commissioners Tuesday night approved a tax levy for 1999 of $ 1,298,400, which is about the same amount that was levied the previous year and should not result in increased taxes.

District - wide, parks facilities have amounted to about $ 100 million in assets and improvements since 1925, with the Pioneer area accumulating the largest portion of that.

Dana has intimate familiarity with what it takes to make significant changes in a large, urban district like my own, and she is less - than - starry - eyed about the ability of any other district to follow suit without outside funding — over and above the current USDA reimbursement rate, OR that amount plus six cents.

The park district has faced criticism over the last year about whether its funding and improvement plans properly spread equal amounts of money around to each facility.

Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «kids and food, in school and out» but in the near future I plan to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the lunch program in my own school district (Houston ISD) and presumably elsewhere in the country.

As labor accounts for about the same amount as the typical school district pays for food (about 44 % of the budget for the program), it is impossible to determine if other schools or other districts could try to do a similar program with a local restaurant, or even just with their own chef and cooking facilities, unless they know the labor costs.

The amount of MNP money that a school district receives varies from one community to another; in 2009 - 10, Oakland got about 16 cents, while next door in Berkeley, the amount was more like $ 1.40.

That's despite a considerable amount of grumbling by local municipal and school district officials and business leaders about the lack of mandate relief that was promised by the administration to take the edge off the cap's impact, but so far has not materialized.

Entergy has «payment in lieu of taxes» deals with Buchanan, the Hendrick Hudson school district, the city of Peekskill and Westchester County that were expected to amount to about $ 31 million in revenue for those government entities in 2015 and rise annually along with the state property tax cap.

The smallest amount was in Community District 12 in the northern Williamsbridge and Wakefield neighborhoods, which saw about $ 61.4 million.

District 30, one of three elementary school districts in Valley Stream that feeds into a central high school district, had underbudgeted the amount it would receive from the mall's tax agreement by almost $ 3 million — about half of which goes to the high school dDistrict 30, one of three elementary school districts in Valley Stream that feeds into a central high school district, had underbudgeted the amount it would receive from the mall's tax agreement by almost $ 3 million — about half of which goes to the high school ddistrict, had underbudgeted the amount it would receive from the mall's tax agreement by almost $ 3 million — about half of which goes to the high school districtdistrict.

Cuomo is projecting a 3.8 percent increase for school aid, which amounts to about $ 807 million, including formula - based aid to districts and targeted funding streams for pre-kindergarten, after - school programs and merit incentives for teachers.

The Oneidas said the tweet amounted to racist hate speech and spent about $ 600,000 against Tenney's campaign in a 2016 Republican primary in the 22nd Congressional District.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent about $ 7 million in more than three dozen districts this week, catching up to the National Republican Congressional Committee in the total amount of money spent on ads thus far.

A proposed change in the Minnesota school - aid formula would raise the level of state support for local districts by about 15 percent, but at the same time would reduce state - subsidized property - tax credits, thereby leaving the amount of money schools receive essentially unchanged.

In response to longstanding concerns about the nutritional quality of school meals, five school districts this fall began using new menus and recipes in an unusual effort funded by the U.S. Agriculture Department to lower the amount of fat and sodium in school breakfasts and lunches.

About 20 percent are outperforming the districts by a modest amount (proficiency rates that are between 5 and 15 percent higher than the districts).

Its principal task: to distribute federal funds to states and local school districts amounting to about 8 percent of the total spent nationally on education.

In sum, clear majorities of uninformed respondents want their districts to spend more, but when respondents are told current expenditure levels, they take those amounts into account — an indication that public thinking on expenditures would change if residents were better informed about actual fiscal practices in their schools.

Funding Source: James Irvine Foundation to support school districts participating in the ConnectEd - directed California Linked Learning District Initiative Amount: About $ 12 million Number of Programs: 9 school districts received $ 125,000 planning grants followed by $ 1 million implementation grants to develop systems of 6 - 8 pathway options; and 2 districts received planning grants of $ 125,000 each.

Arkansas's original study, conducted the same year, cost about the same initially but rose to over twice that amount ($ 800,000) when the authors accepted a commission to ascertain whether districts used their extra money in a way consistent with the consultants» evidence - based policies.

Broad Prize: In the Feb. 9 California section, an article about the suspension of the $ 1 - million Broad Prize for urban school districts listed the amount of a separate Broad prize for charter schools as $ 500,000.

As one program leader noted, the «district / school needs to be realistic about the level of impact that can be expected», given the amount of release time that teacher leaders have to work with teachers.

One recent example of research about the link between the principal and teachers «professional development is provided by the study of IFL (Institute for Learning) implementation strategies in three urban school districts.127 That study found that teachers reported varying amounts of instructional support provided by their principals.

CREDO released a 2014 report (http://credo.stanford.edu/pdfs/LA2014ReleaseFinal.pdf) finding that the typical LA charter school student gains more learning in a year than his / her district school peer, amounting to about 50 more days of learning in reading and an additional 79 days of learning in math.

One of the strange things about these spreadsheets was that each type of FTE cost the same exact amount of money, no matter how many years someone had worked for the district.

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.

Thousands of families in Chicago Public Schools, affluent suburban districts and downstate allowed their children to forgo the exams, often citing the length of the tests and concerns about the amount of testing in schools.

The proposal requires DPI to reduce a school district's funding by the same amount that is paid per student to independent charter schools, currently about $ 8,000.

Relatively, things are about the same, as the lowest spending district in 2009 - 10 spent 43 % of the amount spent in the highest spending district, 2 % more than 16 years ago.

For Portage, the voucher program now costs the school district about $ 210,000, Poches said, and the possible financial impact will remain but the amount is unknown.

The districts also lose state aid based on the amount claimed for a voucher, which is capped at about $ 7,300 for K - 8 and $ 8,000 for high school.

«I believe that the state has a tremendous amount to say about what these tests mean to individual students, schools and districts,» Bernal said.

On average, the federal government contributes about 10 percent to the total amount spent on public education, but these dollars account for a larger portion of many high - poverty districts» budgets.11 For example, Los Angeles Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally owned land.

Because owners of cottages pay the same amount as owners of office buildings, about a dozen school districts have explored other approaches to spread the burden, like charging by the lot size or a building's square footage.

«When you're talking about a large amount of children, it's also very difficult to convince all of the kids to not look up... Scottsdale's not going to take the chance,» a district spokesman told the local CBS affiliate.

the typical student in a New York City public charter school gains more learning in a year than his or her peer in a district public school, amounting to about one more month of learning in reading and five more months of learning in math.

The results could amount to a cautionary flag about paying teachers for the performance of their students, a reform strategy the Obama administration and many states and school districts have favored despite lukewarm support or outright opposition from teachers» unions.

* Assure a stronger focus on equity by (a) asking states not just about the amount of funding in education, but also about the fairness of its distribution to high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority districts and schools, and (b) asking states to document their efforts (required under federal law) to address gaps in teacher quality between high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority schools.

But when its contract was approaching expiration a few years ago, the town decided to give local parents the option of sending their children to private schools as well, and the town would cover tuition up to the amount that it was spending per pupil at the neighboring district school (about $ 12,000).

«Indeed, we could save ourselves a large amount of money and time and replace the entire MCAS with «How many bathrooms does your home have» and get roughly the same information about students and districts.

I'm talking about pensions — the amount of money school districts must contribute annually to cover their teachers and other staff members in retirement.

Education officials in several states and districts have been remarkably secretive about their plans to share substantial amounts of students» personal information with a corporation called inBloom Inc., and through inBloom, with for - profit vendors.