Sentences with phrase «back key school»

Regular TLT readers know all about the (misguided) Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill passed by the House Education & the Workforce Committee, a bill which would roll back key school food reforms and put economically disadvantaged kids at risk.

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This year's Tigers, four of whom never played high school basketball, work intensely at forcing breaks, at rolling back to receive passes, at remembering to key an outside play with a bounce pass to a forward.

That's because, despite having supported the HHFKA's passage back in 2010, the SNA is now fighting vigorously to roll back in Congress many of the law's key nutritional requirements — and it is doing so on the grounds that kids are allegedly rejecting healthier school food en masse.

But if the leading voice of school food professionals isn't even raising the issue, it seems all the more likely that Congress will agree to cost - free roll - backs of the law's key advancements.

We've certainly known this was coming, but Helena Bottemiller Evich of Politico has written an informative preview of how the new, Republican - controlled Congress is planning on rolling back several key Obama administration food policy initiatives, including improvements to school food.

Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»

And the one key piece of information I'm missing (and can't get until Lolo's schools are back in session) is how much of that $ 1.75 goes toward food.

A group supportive of charter schools and education reform that backed Republicans in key state Senate races spent $ 4.2 million on advertising, mail and GOTV to help give the GOP conference full control of the chamber.

Key legislative Democrats, with strong teachers - union backing, have sought to give the Regents, who are controlled by the Legislature's Democratic majority, sole control over charter schools.

In the second fall inspired look, we took a few more back - to - school key pieces from Target and layered his look with a button - up and tee.

The American is very much a thriller from the old school; it has a very 70s, continental vibe that reminded me a little of The Day Of The Jackal as the low key, almost laid back approach is a million miles away from the wobbly - cam and SFX orientated efforts of the ADHD generation.

In one key scene between the two, Milo talks about how their father (who not - coincidentally ended his own life by jumping off a bridge many years ago) once told him when he was a boy that the kids who were popular in high school were only going to see their lives go downhill from there while Milo would flourish once he was able to step out into the real world — the heartbreak comes when Milo, holding back tears, states that he was the one it never got better for.

Majella O'Sullivan HIS visit was unannounced and low - key but Hollywood star Michael Fassbender was welcomed back with open arms at his old school.

2008's Adoration was a tentative step back toward his old - school style, but he quickly followed it with 2009's Chloe, which transformed Anne Fontaine's low - key marital drama Nathalie... into a sleazy erotic thriller.

Back in 2009, then - Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had hoped this key initiative would yield «transformation, not tinkering,» aiming to «turn around 1,000 schools every year for five years.»

In this new paradigm, students have become the key players in the events of Back - to - School Night.

That was the angle drew national attention to this local race, but the key issue was how to help the district schools move beyond failed reforms backed by the previous board majority.

In addition to losing quality if key choice backers were to support charters to the exclusion of private school choice, there are obvious political advantages to backing both types of choice.

Looking back, one of the key lessons learned was the importance of sharing decision - making across three of our major school governing bodies.

A key assumption underpinning the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education back in 1983 was that America's economic well - being was intimately tied to the quality of its schools.

More and more schools are dialing back the pressure and using lower - key measures of student learning throughout the school year.

Washington — The Bush Administration has apparently backed away from a controversial proposal in President Reagan's last budget that would have changed a key provision of the school - lunch program.

A great back to school or after the holidays role - play pack suitable for Key Sage one Geography but can also be used in EYFS classes.

They have negotiated sponsorship deals and set up key distributor relationships, run a successful launch event and built a business plan for their profits, reinvesting part back into the business and school while also donating part to a bee conservation charity.

With soft landings, the handover of a school or academy is treated as a gradual process, rather than the standard way of doing things where the tape is cut, the head teacher given the keys, and the builder allowed to leg it into the night with a cheque in the back pocket.

Longer experiences can be truly life changing or enhancing, memorable and meaningful but the key is to make the learning transferable back into school and life beyond.

The quiz goes down particularly well at key points in the school year: end of year, back to school, Christmas and so on.

School is back in session, and debate over the Common Core is boiling away in key states.

ESSA provides a unique opportunity for the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to chart a path for shifting key decisions related to accountability, school improvement, teacher quality, and funding back to the state and local level.

Resource Title Back to School (Cross Curricular) Powerpoint Quiz Age / Year Group Upper Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 Total Pages in download ❤ 25 File Type PDF and Powerpoint included Resource Content Want to start the new off with some fun?

«As school leaders, principals play a key role in evaluating and supporting teachers and we need to make sure that they get fair and useful feed - back that will ultimately benefit both teachers and students» said Evan Stone, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of E4E.

The New York Times reported that the trigger law portrayed in Won't Back Down differs from its real life counterparts in a key respect: Unlike standard parent triggers laws which require just a majority of parents» signatures to trigger a turnaround, the law in the movie requires support from a majority of a school's teachers as well.

Career - technical education (CTE) is back in the policy spotlight, as Governor Schwarzeneggger and key legislators seek strategies to strengthen California's much - criticized high schools.

(Calif.) With a key committee vote set for today on legislation that would place a $ 9 billion, statewide school facilities bond on the November ballot, one group backing the proposal is already nearly a third of the way toward reaching its campaign finance goal of $ 1.6 million.

Some three years ago, Panega and other high school superintendents were pushing back on the plethora of state exams that took away from key instruction time.

And Rep. Edward Hanes, Jr. (D - Forsyth), a key sponsor of the school voucher bill, backed off on his support as it became clear the budget bill would pass — with the school voucher legislation included.

He is backed by the Legislature, the State Board of Education (whose members he appoints), as well as other key education constituencies such as the state's leading teachers unions and professional organizations representing school administrators and school board members.

Woods» history with the charter school network stretches back to 2002, when he entered KIPP DC KEY Academy, in Washington, D.C., as a 10 - year - old fifth grader.

The last paragraph is key - «To date, the obsession with school structures has allowed the focus in education policy to move away from tackling failure and the long tail of underachievement, setting our schools system back immeasurably.

One key feature of the zone is that it allows the schools within it to opt out of paying for some district services and get back the amount of money they would have spent.

With backing from Republican education leaders, a key House committee Wednesday approved a bill that could be a first step toward trying to revise how money is distributed to school districts.

Much educational research has shown that student summer activities — whether pure academic work, or just going to the library or reading and writing anything — play a key part in whether those students avoid «summer slide,» where students come back to school behind where they were three months earlier.

The Key Communicator should work with the other teachers and principal in their school to build consensus around the learning opportunities to connect it back to what students are learning in the classroom.

These events seek feedback from parents on key initiatives of the district and then focus on empowering parents to take materials and learning back to their school to engage other parents.

And behind all that is the reality that a number of the key players behind charter schools are among Bronin's biggest campaign donors... money that is so important to Bronin that he refused to give back those funds and thus lost the endorsement of the Hartford Federation of Teachers.

The CCEE plays a key role in California's Statewide System of Support which acts like a safety net to help struggling districts and schools get back on track.

Hartford, Connecticut — Today, the Northeast Charter Schools Network (NECSN) joined Governor Dannel P. Malloy, students and clergy to rally on the steps of the State Capitol and urge state legislators not to back down from key parts of last year's education reform law (Public Act 12 - 116).

Looking back to the key concepts and essential questions that underlie content standards can help identify learning goals and provide the starting point for planning both curriculum and school improvement.

«Commuters rely on this key link every day to get to jobs, shopping, school and back to their homes, and these funds are a down payment on our commitment to restoring this important transportation connection to the people of Tennessee,» said Secretary Foxx.

We've been making the most of the back - to - school season by going over the key parts of online veterinary marketing.