Sentences with phrase «benefit schools serving»

The 63 grants benefit schools serving a total of over 34,000 students and include 9 charter management organizations responsible for 42 schools, 14 individual charter schools and 10 other schools, including several serving children with special needs.

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The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

And far many more benefited as the Church aided the poor, treated the sick and helped assimilate wave uponwave of immigrants... Neighborhoods were anchored by parish churches, and by parochial schools that still serve as models of education.»

«The NCAA's current rules severely restrict the ways in which the players can market themselves and license their name, image, and likeness — all to the benefit of the member schools and the NCAA,» says Sathya Gosselin, a Hausfeld LLP attorney who has served as trial counsel in the landmark O'Bannon v. NCAA litigation.

But having more money in the pool also improves the food that can be served, and while I believe some parents at these schools complain, I've also heard anecdotally that when every child and teacher is sitting down to the same meal, it can have benefits like a more cohesive environment, opportunities for informal nutrition education, and a greater likelihood that kids will try new foods.

WIC (Burlington Office, serving all of Chittenden County)- Vermont Department of Health 802-863-7323; WIC breastfeeding peer counselors and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant on staff, free monthly breastfeeding classes, support, nutrition information, monthly food benefit and breast pumps for moms returning to work or school.

This event is an opportunity to applaud this year's honorees, share memories with old and new friends, celebrate our successes and raise funds to ensure that SNF can continue to support education, research and scholarships for the benefit of the school nutrition community and the millions of students SNA members serve every day.

School meal providers are also required to source 30 % of the food they serve from small - scale local producers, so each region's economy also benefits.

then on the other side, pictures of the food we wanted to be serving, the all organic, locally grown, politcally correct fruits and vegetables grown on the worker - owned co-op farm where everyone had great health care benefits, and the free range, non-corn-fed animals who never had an unhappy day in their lives until they were turned into school lunches.

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

«Working collaboratively with the Broome County Promise Zone, those interested in serving as mentors will be matched with children in schools that are part of CCPA's University - assisted community school effort, which aims to level the playing field for students from low - income families who lack some of the supports for academic success from which children from middle - class families benefit,» Bronstein said.

The rationale for using spironolactone - an inexpensive, generic, medication - stems from the pioneering research of Bertram Pitt, MD, University of Michigan School of Medicine, who showed the benefit of this class of drugs in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction, and who also served as chair of the TOPCAT Steering Committee.

Mike White, who scripted biting, edgy satire of this sort («The Good Girl,»» Chuck and Buck») before making his fortune with «School of Rock,» serves up an unsettling and generally deft comedy of manners with this clash, a film that greatly benefits from subtle, stinging performances by Salma Hayek and as her opposite number, John Lithgow.

To be clear, I continue to question whether the ed reform movement at large is properly viewed as a race - focused «social justice» movement or a broad school improvement initiative benefitting all children, thereby serving social justice ends.

Fewer schools serving lower - income communities offer service - learning programs (29 percent versus 36 percent), even though principals at lower - income schools place a higher value on the benefits of service - learning projects.

In contrast, as district employees, these aspiring teachers will receive a salary and benefits, along with credit for being student teachers while they serve full - time in three Opportunity Culture schools under the district's highest - performing educators.

The service - learning projects they participate in at City College benefit the community and give students the opportunity to practice their research and writing skills, add to their career or college resumes, and learn technology skills that will serve them well in the years after high school.

Until CMOs can benefit from the billions of dollars of school bonds raised by districts, they will need «equity - like» investments from philanthropy in order to expand and effectively serve more students.

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.

Although the 40 - year - old statute appears to have been the only one of its kind in the nation, officials from nonprofit institutions across the board, including boarding schools and private colleges, had expressed fears that if Maine's approach were upheld, more states might seek to provide greater tax benefits to institutions that mostly serve in - state residents.

There's no denying that a number of that state's schools serving nonpoor communities have weak academic performance records, that some are also mismanaged and fiscally wasteful and that plenty of families don't realize this, and that more than a few real - estate agents benefit from their ignorance.

The 2016 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al - Khalifa Prize recognizing two outstanding projects that make innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education for the benefit of disadvantaged groups will be awarded on 21 February to the Online School Project, operated by Jaago Foundation in rural Bangladesh, and to Harnessing the Power of ICTs in Higher Education, run by the German NGO Kiron that serves displaced persons.

A session on teacher pensions featured a presentation from Cory Koedel, Shawn Ni, Michael Podgursky, and P. Brett Xiang analyzing how well defined benefit pension plans serve urban and charter school teachers in Missouri.

By incorporating teacher and student input into the gorgeous new middle school that will serve the district's most disadvantaged students starting next year, Frederick County is also ensuring that those early benefits it is carefully cultivating continue to grow.

A religious charter - school system would serve the same educational and spiritual needs in America's inner cities — and it would have the added benefit of holding the schools accountable for their results.

We demonstrate in a forthcoming Social Science Quarterly article that in advertisements for teaching positions, KIPP schools consistently emphasize public service incentives, serving kids, while nearby traditional public schools emphasize private incentives, namely salary and benefits.

In addition to serving students well, these schools have become actively engaged in the broader movement, to the benefit of charter schools in the Central Valley and beyond.

Charter Schools Can Serve the Community; Educators Must Work with District to Benefit Students By CRAIG CLOHESSY, Daily News City Editor

To start, our school identified students who could benefit from having a staff member serve as an academic coach.

The audience for this book could include novice principals and those looking for a place to begin school improvement efforts, as well as anyone who is seeking motivation to overcome school challenges for the benefit of the students they serve.

Second, the current formulas also benefit states with more children in each household, whether or not the states serve more children in their public schools.

This qualitative study of some of the highest - performing charter schools in California offers new insights into the best ways to serve students with disabilities in all schools, in particular the benefits of inclusive education.

The community eligibility provision allows schools with high numbers of low - income children serve breakfast and lunch at no charge without collecting school - meal - benefit applications.

But in many cases, these school grades have raised concerns and questions about how effectively they improve public education, how fair it is to punish schools that serve disadvantaged communities, and the potential for politicians to game the system for their own benefit.

They also realized that formalizing their professional partnership and creating one 501c3 corporation, would result in a multitude of benefits for all the schools, their stakeholders and the communities they chose to serve.

Moreover, if researchers can identify, in particular, why some teachers are more effective with under - served populations, school reform efforts might greatly benefit.

The recently reported plan to serve half of all Los Angeles» students in charter schools can benefit 100 percent of the city's children.

For this reason, NCSECS and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (the National Alliance) recently filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the Petitioner in Endrew F. NCSECS and the National Alliance are urging the Supreme Court to adopt a high standard of educational benefit consistent with the charter school movement's commitment to serving students with disabilities enrolled in charter schools, and its high expectations for all stSchools (the National Alliance) recently filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the Petitioner in Endrew F. NCSECS and the National Alliance are urging the Supreme Court to adopt a high standard of educational benefit consistent with the charter school movement's commitment to serving students with disabilities enrolled in charter schools, and its high expectations for all stschools, and its high expectations for all students.

The Arizona Charter Schools Association has served as technical advisors to two of the subcommittees and will stay heavily involved in the process as the state continues to move toward building a system that will benefit all of Arizona's students.

At 6 pm, dinner will be served and the group will open up the discussion on public education and how the development of community schools can benefit children, families and neighborhoods.

Many charter schools serve especially disadvantaged populations because it is exactly those students whom education reforms are intended to benefit.

We do not take lightly the responsibilities that come with managing high quality public charter schools that directly benefit the communities we serve.

At Oyler School, which serves mostly poor families with roots in Appalachia, hundreds of students have benefited from an on - site vision clinic.

More than 8,700 students currently benefit from the Louisiana Scholarship Program, Tuition Donation Credit Program and School Choice Program for Certain Students with Exceptionalities, which serves students with disabilities.

«The Court of Appeals finding properly acknowledges that the school district's responsibility under the IDEA is not to cure or remediate all effects of a child's disability, but to serve students with a demonstrated «need» for special education and related services in order to benefit from his or her education,» said NSBA Associate Executive Director and General Counsel Francisco M. Negrón, Jr. «Given that the student in this case is academically successful, it may be more appropriate to address non-educational concerns through other accommodations.»

Now retired from Fenton, Joe utilizes his 45 years of experience in both the private sector and public education by advising current charter school operators and serving on several boards of organizations benefiting charter school students.

Specifically, we wanted the research team to help us and others across the valley: understand near - term trends in changing demographics of school - age children for Ada and Canyon counties; identify «hot spots» in development and where demand for new school services may be greatest; discuss school quality in these growth areas — how many students are attending low - performing schools or could benefit from different school options; and discuss how the changing student demographics might be served by new school options.

Westgate Community School is a small school of innovation that seeks to serve gifted students who would benefit from a creative, collaborative and less traditional educational enviroSchool is a small school of innovation that seeks to serve gifted students who would benefit from a creative, collaborative and less traditional educational enviroschool of innovation that seeks to serve gifted students who would benefit from a creative, collaborative and less traditional educational environment.

In order to best serve the District's students and the community, middle school students should benefit by a dedicated middle school site that is tailored to the specific educational and physical needs of middle school students.

California's 1,184 charter public schools, which serve more than 547,000 students across the state, will also benefit from the over $ 6 billion increase for education funding, including $ 53.1 billion in funding for the Local Control Funding Formula in the coming year.