Sentences with phrase «biggest school district just»

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The two - school district has just received two brand new salad bars, one sized for k - 6 students, the other for grades 7 - 12, and today is their big debut.

The Glen Ellyn school district is just one employer these days edging employees toward living healthier, leaner lives, and «Biggest Loser» competitions, fashioned after the popular TV show, are one way they're doing it.

Finally, the big savings from P2 are really only realized if your entire district is very low income; implementing it in just a few very low income schools within a district which is less than 85 % low income may not save much.

That's a big departure from the state - level Race to the Top competitions, which just looked at educators who actually work in schools, not district - level leaders.»

Just in the nick of time, another Teach for America / Joel Klein School of Big City Reform alumnus is heading off to take the reins of a troubled city school disSchool of Big City Reform alumnus is heading off to take the reins of a troubled city school disschool district.

As you will see in the summary report (by Fordham's Dara Zeehandelaar and Amber Winkler) and several technical papers to follow, economist and pension expert Robert Costrell and education - finance expert Larry Maloney parsed the budgets of the Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Philadelphia school districts to estimate just how big an impact their pension and retiree - health - care obligations will have on their bottom line in coming years.

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.

This report parses the budgets of the Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Philadelphia school districts to estimate just how big an impact their pension and retiree health care obligations will have on their bottom line in coming years.

The parents union, along with the parent empowerment efforts of StudentsFirst's New York affiliate (which is helping families in the Big Apple's traditional district fight for school libraries as well as lobby for teacher quality and other reforms), is actively helping families do more than just have a voice.

But the Rochester City Schools had the worst results among the «Big 5 School Districts,» with just 7.6 percent of the students in grades 3 - 8 proficient in English Language Arts and 7.9 percent proficient in math.

As per Weingarten: «Over a year ago, the Washington [DC] Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT program here].

Our theory is that right now, as big decisions are made that affect kids and the school site, there are usually just two seats at the table; the district bureaucracy and the teachers union.

Because there can be so much variation in poverty within a school district (just think about the socio - economic differences between Tribeca and the Bronx), the Department of Education is making a big push to calculate exactly how much each school spends on a student.

In St. John the Baptist Parish Public Schools — a district just outside of New Orleans where 85 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch — the state's efforts to prioritize aligned instructional materials are having a big impact.

Reviewing the latest distribution of colors from the Denver Public Schools (DPS) release of the 2017 School Performance Framework (SPF), you would think that DPS made the biggest improvement of any school system in the history of American public education in just one year, where the district went from identifying 1 in 7 elementary schSchools (DPS) release of the 2017 School Performance Framework (SPF), you would think that DPS made the biggest improvement of any school system in the history of American public education in just one year, where the district went from identifying 1 in 7 elementary schoSchool Performance Framework (SPF), you would think that DPS made the biggest improvement of any school system in the history of American public education in just one year, where the district went from identifying 1 in 7 elementary schoschool system in the history of American public education in just one year, where the district went from identifying 1 in 7 elementary schoolsschools...

Big changes demand big help, and we've just released our free Opportunity Culture Toolkit, which walks districts and schools through all the phases of building an Opportunity CultuBig changes demand big help, and we've just released our free Opportunity Culture Toolkit, which walks districts and schools through all the phases of building an Opportunity Cultubig help, and we've just released our free Opportunity Culture Toolkit, which walks districts and schools through all the phases of building an Opportunity Culture.

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Meanwhile poor families are learning the hard way that many teachers and school leaders working in suburbia can be just as condescending to them — and think as lowly of the potential of their kids — as the instructors and school leaders in the big - city districts these families left behind.

It is more than just structures and the ethics of the four critical questions and 3 big ideas, if you are to improve the overall teaching and learning in your classrooms, schools, districts, states, and provinces.

A home within a great school district has always been a good selling point, but now a new study performed by ATTOM Data Solutions shows just how big the impact of high - performing education is on home values.