Sentences with phrase «big changes to the school»

The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 introduced big changes to school nutrition standards (which govern school lunch and breakfast programs that receive federal government funding).

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It wasn't until they opened up beyond the big schools and changed from a «rate your peers» website to an open social network that it really started to grow massively.

The same three factors that cause measles to spread through a grade school classroom, writes Gladwell, can be used to explain the Hush Puppies phenomenon: (1) contagiousness, (2) the fact that little causes can have big effects, and (3) the way change often occurs at one dramatic moment rather than gradually.

Jeff Bergstrand, University of Notre Dame Mendoza School of Business, discusses how schools are changing their curriculum to address the collection and analysis big data.

«The PCs continue to make big promises — schools, seniors facilities, changes to health care, but we deserve better.

Since becoming the food service director for Ellensburg School District three years ago Garmong has been working to make big changes to the food served in his cafeterias.

And if your little one is going to school for the first time, I KNOW you're worried about how you are going to get a meal on the table after this big life change of starting school along with every change that may come along with it.

The «big ones» get picked up from school at 2:45 pm, we come home to change clothes, eat a snack, pick up Gabriel from school, and head out to our after - school activities.

I'm a big proponent of classroom education and never would have pictured myself as a home - schooling parent, but if anything could convince me to change my tune, it's a science teacher opposing solar farms because they might suck up too much energy from the sun.

In middle school, more homework and big projects hijacked precious family weekends — just when my kids needed more sleep, more time to adjust to their rapidly changing brains, and more healthy time with friends, and when my husband and I needed some rest.

School food, and the changes that are being made, is such a huge mountain to climb that it is helpful to have the tools and information parents like me need to provide to our own schools so that they can better understand the big picture as well.

School officials, especially in big cities, were concerned about how the changes might affect their ability to feed needy students.

So, we're excited about the big changes ahead, looking forward to the extra time we'll have to grow our business... but cherishing the last sweet weeks before their schooling journeys begin.

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

Any big change — such as starting a new school, the arrival of a sibling, or moving to a new home — can make it hard for a child to focus on another challenge like potty training.

Shifting back into rules and expectations and school work is a big change, and one that many kids need time to adjust into.

Increased pressures at school and within peer groups, along with confusion and anxiety over puberty, are often cited reasons for the increased emotionality in young teens (for more on how to talk to your child about puberty, read up on puberty's big changes and the hormonal and bodily changes it brings).

We've made it through lots of transitions in the last 6 months — started full day nursery school, potty trained, moved into a big kid bed — and although each of those changes had bumps in the road, we are in a good spot except going back to sleep at night.

It's simultaneously raising a huge alarm about how important but minimized school lunch is, and giving you the ammunition and morale to start making good changes on small and bigger scales.

Similarly, Big Food likely also supports the cap on sodium reductions (salt is 1/3 of Big Food's palatability arsenal; see: Michael Moss's Salt Sugar Fat) as well as the requested change to a la carte rules (who profits from all that frozen pizza schools want to serve every day?)

In our school district in Boulder, CO we are blessed to have Chef Ann Cooper, who is a BIG advocate for healthy foods and also a huge change maker in school lunches with her Chef Ann Foundation.

The kids tell me the food sucks now lol but they do nt see the bigger picture either... while it was a different era for us when us parents were in school; the fundamental rights shouldve remained the same... which is give the kids their choices... the Federal Gov can INCLUDE nutritious items on the free lunch menus while including more choices for them instead of reducing them to avoid social stigmas within the student body of the schools... Kids can be so cruel... Ive lived that first hand... I'm wondering who to contact to protest these changes.

Another big change children need to prepare for during this time is starting middle or junior high school.

Security and theft are big issues, and the dining room is just a big, scary place... If I could hope for one change it would be for smaller schools... it is just one solution for a system that needs a lot of solutions and a lot of change... longer lunch periods, teachers willing to eat with the students, nutrition education, getting rid of the soda and snack vending machines that fund the sports programs, and more money and support for school food service programs...

Ideally, start shifting their schedule earlier 1 to 2 weeks before school starts, because little changes every few days can keep them from getting overtired, as opposed to big changes, all at once.

School food reform is a BIG, multi-faceted issue, and working with your district to create change can feel like biting off more than...

Sal Valenza of the West New York School District in New Jersey, which also serves primarily Latino students who overwhelmingly receive free and reduced lunch, has also had positive feedback from the students and administrators, and says changes to nutritional standards nationwide could have a big impact.

Although separation anxiety is typically associated with infants and toddlers, the intense fear of leaving a parent or loved one can rear its ugly head later — especially when your child is on the threshold of a big change, like starting school or moving to a new school.

Since becoming the food service director for Ellensburg School District three years ago Garmong has been working to make big changes to the food served in his cafeterias.

I also share some big news: in the past, even a school willing to pay for its own salad bar could not get the district to stock it with food, but with changes to the way our menus will be planned, starting next year this will no longer be the case.

The de Blasio administration's long - awaited plan for integrating NYC schools was promised by the mayor to be a «bigger vision,» but it has landed with a whimper and not a bang, focusing mostly on small bore policy changes.

And he's convinced that Miliband will find it hard to unveil a credible set of alternatives to big - ticket items like public sector pension changes, NHS reform, new schools and other shake - ups.

De Blasio said that issuing up to 50,000 parking placards to NYC public school workers is not a big deal because the number of reserved spots around schools won't change.

Big changes are going on at academically troubled BUILD Academy as it transitions to BUILD Community School.

That is why at our conference, instead of trying to create some artificial dividing lines between Liberal Democrat policy and Conservative policy, my message will be: if you want rid of Gordon Brown and the big brother state, and if you care about our schools, our quality of life and our liberties, then join us in one national movement that can bring real change.

«We have a real shot to flip the State Senate this fall so we can build a New York that works for all of us: reforming our broken criminal justice system, fighting climate change and creating good jobs, expanding opportunities for immigrant New Yorkers, fully funding all of our schools and public universities, and taking on big money in politics to expand and protect our democracy.

Shelley Mayer is the Change We Need From Yonkers to Bedford, from White Plains to the Sound Shore, Shelley knows our communities and has always been willing to stand up against the status quo to protect Westchester, Her children all attended public schools here, so she's always been an advocate for better school funding and tuition relief, She fought the NRA to pass effective, common - sense gun laws, and defeated big pharma to give us better tools to fight opioid abuse.

At least three Republican senators are demanding big 11th - hour changes to the plan, including prohibiting the University of Wisconsin System from spending on diversity training, greatly raising the income eligibility limit for the statewide school - voucher program and repealing the state's remaining prevailing - wage laws within months.

The biggest change outlined in today's white paper is the well - publicised move to force all English schools to become academies.

The biggest change stems from lawmakers» plans to spend at least $ 400 million in response to the mass shooting Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that left 17 people dead.

The language of the so - called «Big Ugly,» the 72 - page bill with all the legislative changes from this session, allows for 50 slots from the overall cap to be «granted to a charter for a school to be located in a city having a population of one million or more.»

Cuomo only asking the people to support the cap without any mention of mandate relief is the hamburger bun without the burger and simply fuels the opposition's (they say mandate relief before tax cap) claim that tax cap alone is a big - government scheme to take power away from and defund local towns and school districts and increase the power of the larger state government which created the property tax problem in the first place by passing the mandates which are the biggest property tax drivers and now refuses to change those mandates.

The new state budget includes big changes for teacher performance reviews, which will be redesigned by schools and the New York State Education Department to rely more heavily on standardized tests.

The new state budget includes big changes for teacher performance reviews, which will be redesigned by schools and the state education department to rely more heavily on standardized tests.

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Making small, consistent changes to the types of protein - and carbohydrate - rich foods we eat may have a big impact on long - term weight gain, according to a new study led by researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University.

In the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10 - year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

It's not uncommon for teenagers to have trouble falling asleep before 11 p.m. School responsibilities and social distractions are two big reasons, but hormonal changes around puberty can also have a lot to do with teens» shifted sleep schedule.

I decided to tag along and check out the changes to the High Point area as I went to school back when overalls and plaid shirts were cool and worn three sizes too big.

If you want to see a big change in classrooms and schools, be prepared to design much stronger supports for teachers and students.