Sentences with phrase «at a district where»

As most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challenges.

Educational barriers and challenges often vary by region, yet at districts where odds seem disproportionately stacked against student success — such as Jefferson County Schools (JCS) in rural West Virginia — school leaders know that delivering excellence in education requires vision, strategy and, sometimes, complete process overhaul.

«Our approach is look at states, and then within states, to look at the districts where we feel like we can, over time, have a significant impact,» said Jonah Edelman, the founder and CEO of Stand for Children.

Since leaving, he has taken an administrative position at a district where he would get to help principals do what he felt he had been unable to.

Now here is a caveat: a former administrator from the suburban school is an important person at the district where I was recently hired.

Even at a district where one middle school feeds into one high school, students enter 9th grade performing at various levels.

Not exact matches

CIBC recently sent up shop at MaRS Discovery District, where it hopes to work with existing startups there to develop new products and services.

His lawyers filed two motions in the United States District Court in California, where Daniels sued to get out of the NDA that bars her from speaking out about the alleged affair, saying that Daniels has violated the agreement at least 20 times and could be subject to damages of $ 20 million.

Mark lives in Salem, Oregon, where he serves on the school district budget committee as well as a number of church boards and committees at the local, state, and regional level.

This is at least the second building in the District where multiple properties have been used as short - term tourist rentals while it was under rent - controlled restrictions.

On August 15, Ajay Agrawal spoke from the stage at MaRS Discovery District, where over 250 investors, mentors, and industry leaders gathered to hear a selection of Next 36 and Next Founders...

If you have taken your time to study the bitcoin exchange and trading cum financial consulting industry, you will realize that financial consultancy agencies are willing to pay expensive rents in order to stay in a busy business district; a place where business activities and financial activities are at its peak.

It never says anything of public school districts, where reports say children are at far greater risk of abuse.

At a party, I met a man who worked for a company in the financial district and he became intrigued with our ministry, expressing interest in working with people with AIDS in a poverty area where we work.

@SIM34, probably not, but i do know that crosses and stars of david where cut from the metal and given to families and to some museums... idk if any will be on display at the museum at the memorial, but they are some at a little museum / workshop in the meat packing district.

The modern city, where more and more of us want to live, enjoys its munificence at the expense of the rural areas as Arthur E. Holt has forcibly brought home in This Nation Under God.6 Those fortunate enough to live in suburbs or other desirable residential districts enjoy their space and light partly through the exploitation of the crowded and blighted areas.

«Take a look, for example, at U.S. schools where 4,322 districts across the country now have farm - to - school programs — a more than four-fold increase since 2006.»

Bennett entered her idea to make healthy snacks from produce that would otherwise go to waste in Mess Hall's Launch Pad contest, where she competed against other food entrepreneurs and startups for investment and space at the District's newest food incubator.

Every Day is a Vacation Day at Coconutz Chicago Where the Warm, Lap of Luxury Returns to the Division Street Entertainment District

Headrick grew up in Fort Worth, where he was an All - District fullback at North Side High School, an institution that produced Yale Lary, Jim Shofner and Tommy Runnels among its professional football alumni, Olympic shot - putter Darrow Hooper and the famous football coaches Matty Bell and Bo McMillin.

You can watch the replay of the first ever Serie A eSports match online here whilst Italian readers can attend the eSports festival where they can watch the stream at the Guido Reni District in Rome.

He replaced Harvey Kitani, a friend and mentor who was the head coach at the Melrose Ave. school where L.A.'s Fairfax District meets the world - famous Melrose District since 1981 - 82.

Park District Supt. Tim Mitchell's comments came at a City Council hearing where aldermen — who last December approved Mayor Daley's parking meter deal with little scrutiny — sought to...

If a child goes missing, for example, the park district will be able to determine exactly when and where they were last at one of the beaches.

Park District Supt. Tim Mitchell's comments came at a City Council hearing where aldermen — who last December approved Mayor Richard Daley's parking meter deal with little...

Kings recently worked at the Glenview Park District, where he spent 11 years as an IT technician, providing comprehensive network infrastructure, help desk and workstation support.

Similarly, I once met a dynamic culinary arts teacher in my district, Kellie Karavias, who worked with the principal at her former school to completely integrate health and nutrition programs throughout the day, including the building of an in - school, instructional kitchen, «Five a Day Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their families.

Chris has his own blog, as he describes below, and I asked him if he would be willing to share here his efforts to try to improve this situation in his Iowa City school district, where he is now the parent of three children and teaches legal writing and analysis at the University of Iowa College of Law (but the opinions he expresses here are entirely his own).

Kings recently worked at the Glenview Park District, where...

This is where staff at both the Arlington Heights Park District (AHPD) and the Mt. Prospect Park District (MPPD) hope residents will come in.

The Park District is also a participating agency at our Senior Center where a list of programs and classes are offered.

The program is currently being piloted in the Highline School District where prior to the pilot only about 30 percent of students at Midway Elementary School were eating breakfast — now they are serving 80 - 90 percent of the students daily.

Nooksack School District hosted afternoon sessions at Nooksack Elementary, where Georgia Johnson (LaConner School District) taught a kitchen skills workshop, and farmers came together to discuss farm to school opportunities.

Also that nice central kitchen at MLK Middle School in Berkeley where so many of that district's lunches are produced, was paid for by the citizens of Berkeley via a bond they approved a decade ago.

Parking would be available underground in an area where the Park District's administration building now stands at 425 E. McFetridge Drive, she said.

«Any time there's snow cover, people use that as an opportunity to not pick up after their dogs,» said Kelly O'Brien, park operations manager for the Naperville Park District, where dogs are allowed at all 140 parks.

It «s the field house of Avalon Park on the South Side, a monument to the Chicago Park District «s longstanding devotion to organized recreational programs — at the expense, critics say, of attractive, well - maintained parks where people can stroll or sit in comfort and safety.

FRANKFORT SQUARE — The Park District will hold ribbon - cutting ceremonies Thursday at two parks where playground improvements have been finished with funds from a state grant.

Other reinforcements have been made by the Park District at Lawrence Avenue, where a berm, a mound of earth several hundred yards long, has raised the level of the shore by several feet.

It's been quite a feat, though, district employees say, to pull things off smoothly in the building where at least nine district officials at any one time work out of three offices (one of which doubles as a reception area), a copy room and a basement that contains a pre-school room, two closets and a bathroom.

«We are committed to continuing to increase the services and the quality of the services that the Chicago Park District provides to the citizens of Chicago,» Parks Supt. Forrest Claypool said at Kenwood Community Park, 1330 E. 50th St., one of the locations where day camp hours will be extended.

«We're not against skateboarding; we are fighting about where it is,» said resident Bob Phillips at a recent Park District Board meeting.

At the Markham Park District, where he enjoyed a free lunch recently with about 80 other kids, Nathaniel showed off his knowledge.

A park district consultant hired to analyze the radiation problem at the site - a former city garbage dump where dirt laced with thorium and radium was left a generation ago - has reported that the contamination is more than 12 times greater in volume than had been suspected.

We would like to know more about these programs, so today at the School Nutrition Association convention (where 4,500 school district people are gathering), I'm announcing a national survey to gather baseline data on farm to school.

«Unfortunately, she works in a semi-rural district in a tight - knit community where change isn't always at the top of the list of things to do,» he said.

In Chicago, Park District officials are working with area residents on a $ 105,000 plan to restore 1 1/2 acres of wetlands where the North Branch of the Chicago River wends its way through Gompers Park at the southwest corner of Foster Avenue and Pulaski Road.

Now the Park District is proceeding with plans to develop part of the land at the northeast corner of Rohlwing and Biesterfield Roads, where four soccer fields will be built this summer.

In the Bridgeport neighborhood, the district expects to finish paying for landscaping at Canal Origins Park, 2701 S. Ashland Ave., where work was completed this summer.

The idea of creating a written policy that would require wristbands at any event or fundraiser where alcohol is sold on park district property was discussed by parks commissioners at a recent meeting, but tabled until the June 18 meeting.