Sentences with phrase «as smaller school districts»

Medina replied she had «advised both the (Los Angeles Unified School District) board as well as smaller school districts in negotiating separation, so in some instances in a more aggressive posture.»

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Forty years ago, The Nutrition Group began as a relatively small company that provided meals for summer camps, senior congregate dining programs and a few school districts in Pennsylvania.

He received an Ed.M and was hired as Director of Alternative Education for a small school district on the central California coast.

Even for parents in relatively small suburban school districts, such as those in Evanston, the school food system can seem too big to change.

Hired by a management company to serve as the nutrition director of a small local school district, Valenza brought his restaurant management skills to the school lunch arena and made it his mission to serve up fresh, healthy meals to New Jersey's kids.

He said leading a smaller school district is good because it gives the candidate more hands - on experience with specific parts of district business, such as finance and human resources.

The bill, largely the same as the version introduced last Congress, would give school districts and food service administrators the tools and resources they need to prepare meals that meet the updated USDA school food standards by providing loan guarantees for kitchen infrastructure and equipment upgrades, authorizing grants for small but critical equipment purchases, and supporting innovative training opportunities to strengthen the school food service workforce.

Regrettably, the NYS funding formula is no longer sustainable for small districts such as Greene Central School.»

So why is it as the population of Cheektowaga gets substantially smaller, meaning the tax base and number of children attending school gets smaller, we still have 5 major school districts?

When the Rochester School Board decided its superintendent search process would not be open to the public, board President Van White pointed out that there would still be ample community input in the form of small focus groups as well as a survey posted on the district website.

The Oysterponds school district in Orient, one of the smallest schools in the state, is the only district on Long Island that failed to have its teacher evaluation plan approved by Thursday's deadline and is expected to lose some state aid as a result of not having an approved - plan in place.

As part of a $ 14 million redesign, all 12,000 high school students in the district would undergo career education in small «career academies» within the existing schools.

A charter approved as part of the district's small - schools reform plan, Carver took over a failing high school in a poor neighborhood on the edge of the city.

The study examines the unions» goals and leadership as well as the role they played in three small suburban and rural school districts in New York State from the early 1960's to the late 1970's.

As shown in Figure 1b, the share of students with autism is 0.2 percentage points smaller in charters than in district schools in Denver and 1 percentage point smaller in New York City.

New Mexico's charter cap shields small districts from enrollment loss, and as a result, the state's charters cluster primarily in urban settings (51 percent of charter schools operate there compared to 21 percent of New Mexico's district schools) and in suburbs (which host 12.3 percent of the state's charters but only 8.2 percent of its district schools).

As is now well known, after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana's newly created Recovery School District (RSD), which operated on a small scale before the storm, rapidly expanded its footprint in New Orleans.

Other adjustments to the formula include additional money for small districts, safe schools, and supplemental academic instruction, such as tutoring and after - school programs.

I spent 11 years as a middle school science teacher and three years as a professional developer for small and rural districts in Florida, and have been a middle school assistant principal for the past three years.

White flight almost certainly altered the effects of desegregation policies in many cities, especially in places such as the Northeast, where school districts within metropolitan areas tend to be small and numerous.

Each district's foundation level is adjusted by such factors as the «teacher - training and - experience index,» by the number of special education students, and for small rural schools and districts.

(As of September 2003, there were 15 small schools in the district.)

That's why districts throughout the country are working to personalize learning by creating small schools or reorganizing large schools into small learning communities, as part of their strategy for reducing the dropout rate.

Without appropriate planning, meeting their needs can over-stretch district budgets, especially in smaller jurisdictions (and free - standing schools such as charters), putting pressure on the education of other children, causing fiscal distress, and giving rise to political discord.

If a school district has only one elementary school, as is the case in some small New England districts, intradistrict choice will not have an impact.

An important limitation of this measure is that it does not take into account the wide variation in the geographic size of districts (e.g., a small district could be classified as sparse even if it has many schools per square mile and a large district could be classified as dense even if it has very few schools per square miles).

These are usually «freemium» models where teachers pay nothing for basic access and a small amount for additional features such as classroom dashboards and reports; school - or district - wide packages come with a licensing fee.

And it's the small - to medium - sized districts — which serve nearly half of the nation's public school students — that could benefit the most from this initiative, as they don't have the scale to have much central - office capacity.

While discipline policies vary across schools, districts, and states — and as the nation's largest school district the New York City public schools are likely more bureaucratized and formalized in matters of school discipline than smaller districts — the scale, scope, and level of complexity of the legal regulations affecting day - to - day school practices appear quite formidable.

The center also plans to work with school districts throughout the region to create as many as 20 new small schools over the next five years.

They might offer a car or a house as part of the deal, but North Dakota school boards are still having trouble attracting superintendents to their small - town districts.

Back in the United States, we find a dizzying assortment of gifted and talented programs in many districts, a handful of states that require «gifted» students to be «identified» (though not necessarily «served»), and a small but distinguished array of super high schools such as New York's Stuyvesant High School and Virginia's Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

«Several schools in each district are assigned as model schools and given a small amount of money from the district or the city to do some action research - style work.

At the district level, organizing campaigns have led to the development of new, small schools, «grow your own» teacher programs, and the adoption of college prep curricula as mandatory in all schools.

If, as has been the case in a number of places, the comparison group is all the teachers in a given grade in the school district — with, say, the top 15 percent of the 4th grade teachers receiving an award — what is the significance of a big or small school?

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.

During our work with district, charter, and private schools — large, small, urban, rural, as well as progressive and traditional — the master scheduling process tends to be more alike than different.

Academic Boot Camps Get Students in Test Shape Concentrated reading and test - taking instruction in small groups — known as boot camps — is one of the strategies a California school district uses to help elementary and middle - school students on the cusp of proficiency improve their reading and test scores.

Saving a Community's Heart: The Small Rural School At the center of many small, rural communities is the school — and as states look for ways to save money, more small districts are being consolidSmall Rural School At the center of many small, rural communities is the school — and as states look for ways to save money, more small districts are being consoliSchool At the center of many small, rural communities is the school — and as states look for ways to save money, more small districts are being consolidsmall, rural communities is the school — and as states look for ways to save money, more small districts are being consolischool — and as states look for ways to save money, more small districts are being consolidsmall districts are being consolidated.

Having their initial application for federal funds denied was «heartbreaking,» said Calhoun County Schools E-rate coordinator Kim Poteete, who also serves as the small district's alternative schools director, crisis managment coordinator, discipline committee chair, and federal programs coordSchools E-rate coordinator Kim Poteete, who also serves as the small district's alternative schools director, crisis managment coordinator, discipline committee chair, and federal programs coordschools director, crisis managment coordinator, discipline committee chair, and federal programs coordinator.

Relinquishers, in contrast, believe that the job of the school district is to empower charter school operators to teach as they see fit, subject to oversight from a small and nimble central office.

As a former superintendent, Vander Ark knew that the big - school habit was deeply ingrained; he was not sure whether districts would support or disrupt attempts to create small schools.

Commenting on the small differences in satisfaction levels among parents with children in the charter and chosen district sectors, Paul E. Peterson, professor of government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, notes that «chosen district schools serve a smaller percentage of students of color than charters do, and they are more likely to use examinations as entry requirements, while most charter schools must accept all applicants or use a lottery to select among them.»

During his first five years as chief of Boston schools, Payzant focused the district on literacy instruction, creating a new team of literacy coaches who worked with classroom teachers in a small set of schools, using money freed up from an «audit» of professional development endeavors that revealed too many disparate efforts around the district.

As long as choice plans are small and the financial pinch on districts is modest, it is unlikely that public school educators or policymakers will feel compelled to respond to competitioAs long as choice plans are small and the financial pinch on districts is modest, it is unlikely that public school educators or policymakers will feel compelled to respond to competitioas choice plans are small and the financial pinch on districts is modest, it is unlikely that public school educators or policymakers will feel compelled to respond to competition.

The Cambridge, Mass., school system has joined a small but growing number of districts seeking to integrate schools on the basis of income rather than race — helping to expand what some experts see as a coming trend in American education.

PLCs are small units within schools, typically consisting of only four or five classrooms, four or five teachers (who are district employees paid the same as other district teachers), and under 100 students, who apply for admission.

The number of schools failing to meet AYP targets was nil or small in many of these districts (e.g., 2 of 60 schools in one large district), although in one state an entire district was designated as «in need of improvement.»

bsallamack - One thing the district has done has been to sacrifice smaller class sizes (now in the mid 20's and up) to keep as many counselors in the schools as possible.

But if there's such a thing as a school district that's too small, is there also such a thing as a district that's too big?