Sentences with phrase «as school districts move»

I haven't yet researched it, but my sense is that this waste is only growing in quantity as school districts move from what many of us remember from childhood — on site cafeteria cooking with reusable trays and real silverware — to food prepared off - site and packaged for reheating.

Not exact matches

After taking a look at Lion Kona beans processing equipment and drying porch, the tour moved to farming land in Hawaii is leased from the school district, which was granted ownership of more than 365,000 acres of land in 1883 as part of a bequest from Princess Bernice Pauahi, the last royal descendant of the Kamehameha line.

When the district introduced the salad bars to the elementary schools, Director Leu strategically organized the salad bars to keep students moving through the lines as quickly as possible.

My ex spouse and I agreed that, because my work was an hour away from our pre-divorce home, I would move out and our girls would stay with him so as to not change school districts.

MF: As we continued to support schools with resources and tools to try and help them move to scratch cooking, we kept running into districts that wanted more and more connection with Ann and feedback from Ann.

Through working with partners and collaborators such as Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Northwest Community Healthcare, Arlington Heights Park District Parks Foundation, Wheeling Community Consolidated School District # 21, Prospect Heights School District # 23, Arlington Heights School District # 25, Village of Arlington Heights and the Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce Wellness Committee, the process creates analysis, and then moves to creating strategic concepts for improvement, future modeling and surveillance of outcomes over time.

If you or your children are in any way dissatisfied with their schools, or if (as we did) you move away and are not impressed with what is available in your new district, consider the alternative — to educate them out of school.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia on Thursday appointed veteran administrator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead school district, a highly unusual move to bolster efforts to turn around the chronically troubled system.

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«The comptroller is really looking at, as we move into next year, whether or not the tax cap, which is at its lower point ever for school districts for the upcoming fiscal year, for 2016 - 17, to see the impact of that and whether or not if forces more districts to spend down that fund balance, to rely on borrowing, and if the impact does push anybody else into fiscal stress next year,» Butry says.

In a letter to schools chancellor Carmen Farina, the Community Education Council for District 3 said P.S. 452 should move as a key part of redrawing the catchment areas for at least 11 elementary schools from the West 60s to West 116th Street.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, in a highly unusual move, appointed veteran educator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead school district to bolster efforts to turn around the chronically troubled system.

District 2 will also be returning to the town hall, as it was moved to Westport Central School while renovations were being made at the WADA building.

Rhoads said Curran has little chance of recouping all the fees as youth groups will seek to move to fields run by towns, villages and school districts.

It was a very significant increase and many other districts as well, made great progress in moving finally toward the elimination of what is known as the «gap elimination adjustment» that has been particularly crippling to the many school districts.

Before moving to San Francisco, Carranza served as the Northwest Region superintendent for the Clark County School District in Las Vegas.

Currently, Buchanan receives $ 3 million in tax breaks as per a payment in lieu of taxes agreement, and Joseph Hochreiter, superintendent of the Hendrick Hudson school district, has said that the closure of the plant would negate a third of the district's tax base, and has therefore halted intentions to move forward on a $ 14 million capital improvement project.

When the district introduced the salad bars to the elementary schools, Director Leu strategically organized the salad bars to keep students moving through the lines as quickly as possible.

A number of districts across the country have moved to equalize across schools the share of poor students, as measured by eligibility for subsidized lunch.

Cleveland voters last week soundly rejected a levy intended to bolster the school district's finances, a move widely interpreted as a referendum on the performance of its leader, Barbara Byrd - Bennett.

Read more about how schools and districts can move beyond these «pockets of excellence» to create a broad - based approach — and how to support teachers as they expand their classroom practices, as well as their confidence and capacities.

As Levinson recently told the Harvard EdCast, «These are not the six most important cases or the only cases we need, but they seem to traverse a lot of important ground in education ethics, moving from the classroom to the school to the district and even the state level.»

In a particularly bold move, the independent commission of educators, researchers, and child advocates recommends that federal funds be used as leverage to force states to «equalize» the resources available to school districts.

As part of a move toward site - based management, some schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District have tried to involve parents and teachers in hiring principals and other staff members.

But Education Elements is smart to understand both how steep the design challenges can be for districts in moving to blended - learning models — and consequently where the action is today — as well as the opportunities blended learning presents to rethink the use of time in school, such that it can create schools that transform teaching and learning for both teachers and students and rack up some wins in the process.

It is human nature to feel defensive when being critiqued; it is our work as leaders (of districts, schools, classrooms) to move beyond defensiveness and embrace feedback as sustenance for our own ongoing learning, growth, and improvement.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

Over a third of Grand Rapids» schools had fallen below 60 percent of capacity, including two brand - new ones, as more and more families decamped for local charter and private schools, or moved to other districts.

Her goal now is to bring Breakthrough's model to a traditional public school district, hopefully starting as an assistant principal next year and then moving up to principal.

For youth in the high - risk group, the gain as measured by these quality indicators is roughly equivalent to moving from one of the lowest - ranked schools to one around the district average.

For example, suppose a district draws attendance boundaries to integrate schools and that, as a result, families decide to move (for any reason) to other neighborhoods within the district.

This «move up» enables students to meet with their new teachers, get to know the new facilities they will be attending, and ask questions, said DeGenova, who is assistant principal at Slippery Rock (Pennsylvania) Area High School and as well as a part - time elementary principal at the district's Har - Mer Elementary School.

«To me, that says that people see our schools as our hope and our vehicle to move out of that sense of frustration,» said Leticia Quezada, a member of the Los Angeles Unified School District board.

Moving swiftly to name a leader to carry on the district's path - breaking school - reform program, the Rochester, N.Y., board of education announced last week that it would appoint one of the system's top administrators, Manuel J. Rivera, to succeed Peter McWalters as superintendent.

Recommendations for states, districts, and individual schools include improved teacher training, support for e-learning and virtual schools, stronger technology leadership, a move toward more digital content and away from reliance on textbooks, better use of broadband, and integration of data systems for such uses as online testing, understanding relationships between decisions, allocation of resources and student achievement, and tailoring instruction to individual students.

That includes youngsters moving from one Riverside school to another as well as those transferring in or out, those on District of Choice transfers, and those on year - to - year approvals.

Although Oakland had long been known as a troubled school district, it had appeared to be moving in the right direction under Chaconas.

Our reasoning, then and now, is to move toward a «tight - loose» approach to education governance: «tight» as to the results we want our schools to achieve but «loose» as to how schools, districts, and states get there.

«Save Our Summers» movements have for years decried the benefits of additional instructional days and proclaimed the benefits of summer vacation, and the movements have grown as states have considered extending the school year and individual school districts have moved up their start dates.

But, as cited on the National Center for Education Statistics website, school districts began moving away from the junior high model in the 1960s and rapidly toward the creation of middle schools starting in grade six or even grade five.

«I hope I have had the effect on at least a few of my students that both of these teachers had on me,» added Newlin, who recently moved from the principalship to a district - level (Kent County Public Schools, Chestertown, Maryland) position as supervisor of mathematics.

As your school or school district moves toward full implementation of the CCSS, it is important to determine what is most important for student learning, as well as how you can best support your teachers and classroomAs your school or school district moves toward full implementation of the CCSS, it is important to determine what is most important for student learning, as well as how you can best support your teachers and classroomas well as how you can best support your teachers and classroomas how you can best support your teachers and classrooms.

As schools across the country move toward implementing the Common Core State Standards, district officials face a major challenge: How do they make the new academic expectations understandable to parents?

A survey by EdSource of six California districts — Garden Grove Unified, Santa Ana Unified, Whittier Union High School District, Visalia Unified, Oakland Unified and San Jose Unified — showed that all are relying on coaches as they move forward to implement the Common Core.

At its higher levels, the taxonomy «moves you more toward project - based learning that requires synthesis and problem - solving, as opposed to rote recitation, where you told me the answer, I memorized it and I recited it back to you,» said Santa Ana Unified School District Superintendent Rick Miller.

Known as the Talent Transfer Initiative (TTI), the intervention identified a district's highest - performing teachers and offered them incentives for moving to and staying in its low - performing schools for at least two years.

As schools and districts across the country continue to move forward in implementing the Common Core State Standards, two multi-state consortia ---LSB-...]

The 125 - school district wants to move toward more student - centered learning as it works to close opportunity and achievement gaps.

Alexandria, Va. (April 28, 2014)- As school districts increasingly move to cloud computing instead of on - site data storage, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and its Council of School Attorneys (COSA) have released a guide for school boards introducing the legal issues associated with protecting student data and suggesting best pracschool districts increasingly move to cloud computing instead of on - site data storage, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and its Council of School Attorneys (COSA) have released a guide for school boards introducing the legal issues associated with protecting student data and suggesting best pracSchool Boards Association (NSBA) and its Council of School Attorneys (COSA) have released a guide for school boards introducing the legal issues associated with protecting student data and suggesting best pracSchool Attorneys (COSA) have released a guide for school boards introducing the legal issues associated with protecting student data and suggesting best pracschool boards introducing the legal issues associated with protecting student data and suggesting best practices.

«Some are mislabeling students or finding ways of moving them off the books,» and in some places, such as in Detroit and Camden, N.J., districts are making it easier to get a diploma at the very same time officials talk about making school more rigorous.