Sentences with phrase «challenge in your school district»

Common Core State Standards: Progress and Challenges in School Districts» Implementation is based on the responses of a nationally representative sample of school district officials surveyed earlier this year on the issue of academic standards.

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Challenging perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, this emotionally resonant drama for readers of Lisa Wingate and Jodi Picoult explores three different women navigating challenges in a changing school district — and in their lives.

Though Wilma works in a public school district rather than a private catering service, I think you'll see that she and Justin share many of the same challenges.

But when there's real progress underway — when the White House advances early childhood education; when a culture of school food reform is the new normal in districts nationwide; when the work takes on a life of its own — then the entrepreneur is ready to take on a different challenge, and begin work anew.

The #GoldenRadish committee keeps adding new categories — Outstanding District award in 2015 and a planned 2017 Platinum award — challenging districts to grow better and better farm to school programs.

Yet I don't think that failure has been due to a lack of commitment on the part of my district; rather, as explained to those of us on the Nutrition Services Parent Advisory Committee, a district as large as ours (300 schools) faces unique challenges in relying on local sources to supply produce for its 200,000 meals served daily.

Stevens County, May 2014 WSDA worked closely with local partners to host an event in Northeast Washington, an area with some remote school districts that have previously faced challenges to getting fresh produce distribution.

It was wonderful to hear feedback from school nutrition professionals on what challenges they have faced and conquered to bring breakfast - in - the - classroom to their schools and districts.

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Actually, the USDA memo on the two year waiver on 100 % whole grain rich foods states that «school districts that wish to take advantage of this two - year flexibility must obtain approval from their state agency by demonstrating that they experienced significant challenges in preparing and serving whole grain - rich pasta products in their schools».

In the piece, I address why America's school meals so often pale in comparison to those in other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challengIn the piece, I address why America's school meals so often pale in comparison to those in other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challengin comparison to those in other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challengin other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challenge.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman makes permanent a ban he put in place in May after a legal challenge by Dawn Sherman, a student at Buffalo Grove High School, and her atheist activist father, Rob Sherman.

Established in 2009, the Stanford University / San Francisco Unified School District Partnership brings the most advanced education research to bear on major challenges identified by the school leaders in one of California's largest and most diverse distSchool District Partnership brings the most advanced education research to bear on major challenges identified by the school leaders in one of California's largest and most diverse distschool leaders in one of California's largest and most diverse districts.

(CNN)-- Dana Woldow issues a challenge to every member of Congress: «Try school cafeteria food in your district.

But in a sign of how challenging this transition can be for schools, district figures show that lunch sales for September through December dropped by about 5 percentage points since the previous year, or more than 20,000 lunches a day.

We encourage school districts that do not currently serve breakfast after the bell to adapt their School Breakfast Program to a BAB model to participate in this chalschool districts that do not currently serve breakfast after the bell to adapt their School Breakfast Program to a BAB model to participate in this chalSchool Breakfast Program to a BAB model to participate in this challenge.

Membership Section Meetings Monday, July 13 and Tuesday, July 14 Membership Section Meetings allow peers from districts and schools all over the country to come together and discuss the best practice and challenges in your program.

In response to feedback from states and districts regarding operational challenges caused by the meat and grain restrictions, USDA lifted the limits temporarily, first for the remainder of school year 2012 - 2013 and then for school year 2013 - 2014.

Although USDA has acknowledged that menu planning in such schools can be challenging, USDA's current guidance does not provide these districts flexibility to assist their efforts to comply.

This report focuses on one crucial set of challenges that school districts face in meeting nutrition standards for meals: the need for improved equipment and infrastructure.

Thornton reported that school districts across the country have faced challenges in implementing the updated standards.

School districts faced several challenges implementing the new lunch requirements in school year 2012 - 2013, according to the eight districts GAO visited and food service and industry officials GAO interviewed from across the country; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) response to some of these challenges has been liSchool districts faced several challenges implementing the new lunch requirements in school year 2012 - 2013, according to the eight districts GAO visited and food service and industry officials GAO interviewed from across the country; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) response to some of these challenges has been lischool year 2012 - 2013, according to the eight districts GAO visited and food service and industry officials GAO interviewed from across the country; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) response to some of these challenges has been limited.

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In a districts which use a central kitchen (like LAUSD and my own HISD), ensuring that food is properly reheated and assembled at hundreds of satellite schools is a real challenge that I've written about before («Many a Slip Twixt Kitchen and School.»)

Having worked with Ann for the last five years, and seeing what it takes to change school food in just one district, I am in awe and incredibly grateful for those who have taken on this challenge.

Mr. Appiah is reported to have challenged the irate NDC supporters in the district to ensure that a picture of the former President is attached to all secondary schools in the country if they want him to maintain the one on the Nchumuruman Senior High School.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

Yehuda Weissmandl, President of the East Ramapo School Board, says in a statement he welcomes the designation of Szuberla and Sipple as monitors for the district and that over the last 18 months, state education department monitors have been invaluable in helping the district meet difficult challenges and make significant improvements.

Even though Rockland school districts are facing challenges, they have not been hit as hard as northern counties where enrollment rates in some districts have dropped by as much as 25 percent since 2000, and are expected to continue dropping.

The National Democratic Congress Minority in Parliament will challenge the School Feeding Programme's 30 percent allocation of the schools in each district as protocol for the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, «I want to serve notice that the Minority will challenge it because we think that it should not be allowed to go and this is not a charge...

The National Democratic Congress Minority in Parliament will challenge the School Feeding Programme's 30 percent allocation of the schools in each district as protocol for the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection,

«Carl challenges the status quo,» Quinn said, adding that Paladino's presence helped the school district make important strides in recent years.

The waiting lists to get into charter schools are around the block in the districts of state Assembly members who haven't challenged attempts to limit the alternative schools, according to data obtained by The Post.

Challenges still remain for school districts in New York, especially in upstate regions.

Poughkeepsie... Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro congratulates three local student teams, all from the Arlington School District, who were finalists in the Lexus ECO Challenge.

He first challenged an incumbent state assemblyman and then a sitting congressman in a predominantly black district in central Brooklyn, drawing support from unconventional precincts — including charter - school donors and conservative pro-Israel activists — on his way to Washington.

In the Spring of 2012, following 16 months of challenging and collaborative work by a dedicated group of community volunteers and Buffalo School District professionals and students, the BUFFALO BOARD of EDUCATION approved a comprehensive and updated District wide Wellness Policy.

But some education specialists say that elected school boards in general pose problems for urban school districts with challenges related to poverty.

With nearly 11,000 students in 10 schools, the City School District of New Rochelle, through an active partnership amongst community, parents, staff and students, provides a high - quality and challenging education for every child, in a safe, nurturing environment that embraces rich diversity and drives success.

But equity is a big challenge for the Buffalo Public Schools, which is at a disadvantage in this arms race because — unlike the suburban districts — it doesn't have the ability to levy taxes.

Other challenges, it said, included special schools, such as schools for the blind and the deaf, which were either closing down or about to do so, subvention not being released to the psychiatric hospital in Accra, nearly all statutory funds being in arrears and a significant number of public sector workers, including nurses and district chief executives employed by the government over a year ago not being paid.

New teachers deal with a multitude of challenges during their first year in the classroom, which is why many school districts develop mentoring programs to ease that transition.

The League helps members pilot new tech programs in their schools, meet information technology (IT) developers, and troubleshoot challenges in their districts.

Before adding more charters or other new schools, the district should wait for the data to come in to justify doing so... We challenge Superintendent Tom Boasberg and our board to commit to a level playing field so neighborhood schools receive the same resources as charter and innovation schools.

Clearly, only his desire for further challenging and serious public service could have led him to consider the superintendency of the troubled San Diego public schools, the eighth - largest school district in the United States.

Since 1990 the New York - based Teach for America (TFA) program has placed more than 7,000 teachers in some of the nation's most challenging school districts.

But Education Elements is smart to understand both how steep the design challenges can be for districts in moving to blended - learning models — and consequently where the action is today — as well as the opportunities blended learning presents to rethink the use of time in school, such that it can create schools that transform teaching and learning for both teachers and students and rack up some wins in the process.

Throughout the spring, VOISE designers have been up to their laptops in the typical challenges of opening a new school in a large urban district: community outreach, teacher recruitment, student enrollment, fundraising, and a bit of bureaucracy, to boot.

A colleague in my school district, Elizabeth Jones, introduced me to Elizabeth Coatsworth's poem «Swift Things Are Beautiful,» and I challenge you to read it without immediately wanting to write about finding the beauty in other opposites and inversions.

One of the challenges of using digital tools to connect the schools in our district is the time it takes to familiarize our teachers and students with a new tool.