Sentences with phrase «big federal school»

RH: When he was a candidate, President Trump talked about launching a big federal school choice initiative.

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Federal documents taken from a sports agency college basketball corruption case reveal potential widespread NCAA violations, with those documents possibly exposing the sports biggest players and schools, reports Yahoo! Sports» Pat Forde and Pete Thamel.

We have three elementary [schools] that qualify for the federal fruit and veggie bar, and our [backpack program] is really big — it's a really big deal.»

(And btw, I am not a big fan of Federal funding for school food programs.

The suggested boost in dairy intake could spell big profits for the industry, as federal nutrition programs such as school lunch menus are adjusted to conform.»

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While the French food culture in itself encourages eating local, there is another even bigger reason why the French school system can put locally grown foods on the school lunch menus: the monies for the school lunches are organized within local municipalities, not primarily on a federal level, as they are in America.

School districts that comply with the new standards will receive an additional federal payment of 6 cents for each lunch served, a pretty big incentive to get with the program.

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.

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).

«If you can find a corrupt mayor of New York City, holy moly, that's a big prize,» said Jennifer Rodgers, a former federal prosecutor who now heads the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Federal Girls college (FGC) is still another big government secondary school you find Teaching jobs.

Let the big science and technology organizations in government — the federal labs, all the places that need technological people — become part of First the same way corporate sponsors do: by adopting high schools and supporting teams.

«Some of the biggest frustrations that I face as principal range from a shortage of quality teachers and under - funded federal and state mandates to aging facilities,» said principal Roy Sprinkle of the Bay Haven School in Sarasota, Florida.

Big changes to the E-rate program made by the Federal Communications Commission over the past 18 months are showing up in dramatic ways in this year's requests for telecommunications - related funding by schools and libraries.

The big questions in New York City are whether federal funds can improve schools when so many other attempts have fallen short and whether the «restarts» will even register in an environment of constant change.

Barring more big federal bailouts — which this year's election would seem to make ever less likely — school budgets are going to be strapped for years to come and cost - cutting, together with eking greater value out of the remaining dollars, is going to occupy the education - policy center ring.

Unlike cities like Boston, where Mayor Thomas Menino installed Thomas Payzant, a nationally known education leader, or San Diego, where former federal prosecutor turned schools chief Alan Bersin brought in the big education guns in the form of New York City's Tony Alvarado (who some say would have joined Vallas if he had asked), Vallas rarely availed himself of that kind of advice.

The chairman of the House education committee released a proposal late last week that would allow states and school districts to transfer money between several big - ticket programs contained in the main federal K - 12 law.

The tax - credit structure could be a way to promote school choice on a federal level without writing big checks, and without running into problems with the Constitution over religion in schools.

WASHINGTON — The number of schools participating in the federal school - breakfast program jumped 8.9 percent this fiscal year — the biggest increase in 13 years — due to a sluggish economy and stepped - up efforts to sign up schools, a research and advocacy group reported last week.

The school district could not know exactly what Corbett planned to do with the education budget, but it recognized that a big increase in state funding to offset the elimination of federal stimulus funding was unlikely.

Central Falls, R.I., where an entire high school teaching staff was recently fired, is the latest example of a growing trend: no - nonsense superintendents attempting to improve their schools by firing teachers perceived to be incompetent to secure a bigger share of federal education dollars.

Should federal administrators have a big say on what schools teach their students on this politically loaded topic?

Since Donald Trump's election and Betsy DeVos's selection as Secretary of Education put private - school - choice programs in the national spotlight — after years of slow - and - steady growth at the state level — advocates across Twitter and the blogosphere have been offering ideas on what a big push at the federal level might look like.

Moreover, the federal share of the school dollar — a dime — isn't big enough to yield much leverage over how the system works.

Peterson: Since John Dewey, school reformers have tried to customize education to the needs of each child, but each step towards customization has required a big step toward centralization (bigger schools, larger school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability school reformers have tried to customize education to the needs of each child, but each step towards customization has required a big step toward centralization (bigger schools, larger school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability works.

In «The Long Path to ESSA,» Rick Hess and Max Eden explain how we got this new federal education law and the big picture of what will mean for schools and states.

The polls by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK) found a perceived lack of funding to be the biggest problem facing schools in respondents» communities, with AFT also identifying local and federal education budget cuts as the most worrisome trend in education.

For the past three decades, public school accountability had generally been heading in one direction: toward common standards, standardized tests, and a bigger role for the federal government in shaping how states gauge student performance and improve schools.

Wall Street is one of the biggest backers of charter schools these days, because they're investing in — they make — there's something called the new markets tax credit, where they get — and Juan González wrote about this — they're able to make a tremendous return on their investment in charters, because of write - offs on federal taxes by investing in charters.

The new Every Student Succeeds Act, which takes full effect in the 2017 - 18 school year, rolls back much of the federal government's big footprint in education policy, on everything from testing and teacher quality to low - performing schools.

But instead of just handing over big checks to school districts on the basis of need, the federal government showers the states with dozens of small programs.

But these charter efforts remained a tiny percentage of federal spending, Bush was rebuffed on an effort to make school choice a much bigger component of NCLB, and the Obama administration did its best to anesthetize the D.C. voucher program.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which goes into full effect in the 2018 — 19 school year, rolled back much of the federal government's big footprint in education policy, on everything from testing and teacher quality to low - performing schools.

«If it is true, as Rep. Messer says, that the big tax reform bill will not include a school choice component, then it is fair to say that a big new federal push on private school choice is dead,» Petrilli said.

At the same time, some of the biggest gains came on campuses in low - income areas, schools often considered failing by state and federal standards.

A steady concentration of state and federal authority has strengthened top - down decision - making, particularly in big cities where mayors and noneducators run schools.

With unprecedented federal investment in failing schools through the multi-billion-dollar School Improvement Grant program, it's been a big year for school turnaround efSchool Improvement Grant program, it's been a big year for school turnaround efschool turnaround efforts.

Schools have made big changes against a tight clock, a consequence of the program's genesis: the 2009 stimulus package, which sought to pump job - boosting federal money into the economy.

That's because schools had been big beneficiaries of federal stimulus funds to revive the economy after the 2008 recession, but by 2011, those funds had been exhausted.

New Jersey schools are in the throes of some pretty big changes in the classroom, some forced on them by the federal government, others by the state, and some coming from the districts themselves.

Revamping a strategy in play when state leaders first hesitated on joining the federal Race to the Top competition, California will reportedly file for the second phase of the race in an application centered only around three of the state's biggest school districts.

Loud protests and initiatives, big and small, have created cracks in the standardized testing movement, resulting in the passage of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, which now requires multiple indicators for making determinations of school quality and student progress.

Without tinkering with the big federal education law, Trump and the Republican - controlled Congress could conceivably lean into the tax - credit idea, using the federal tax code to make it easier for students to leave the public school system.

Kelly's experience in the classroom and in federal education policy underscores the breadth and depth she will bring to the school board to solve some of the district's biggest challenges.

It will be a big investment for a school that took in a total of $ 2.7 million in federal, state and local education dollars for the 2011 - 12 school year, according to DPI funding estimates.

The hottest item at the recent meeting of the Council of Chief State School Officers was ESSA, the new federal education legislation that replaced No Child Left Behind, but the big question on the minds of Read more about ESSA: Time for States to Seize the Initiative -LSB-...]