Sentences with phrase «child in the district»

As compared to parents with children in district schools, charter - school parents are 14 percentage points more likely to perceive a lack of extracurricular activities as a serious problem.

That means thousands of children in those districts, and many thousands more elsewhere, have gone three months or more without permanent teachers this school year.

It's a great opportunity for children in this district whose families often do not have the resources to go on trips far beyond the neighborhood.

Some 100 other children in the district either attend private preschool or stay home.

Children in the district after - school program participated in a 60 - min program in which teachers were able to select from 16 different enrichment activities that were designed to improve student attendance.

And she says children in her district often don't know the basics about how to respond to a tick bite.

In order for school districts to be eligible for funding, they need to meet a threshold of eligible children in their district.

I said — this letter was written by the teacher of a third grade gifted child in my district.

Across the state, charter school children receive less funding for their education than children in district schools, resulting in a gap of thousands less per child per year.

Why would you not want to know how your child and your school are doing compared to other children in the district, region, and State?

Children in the district after - school program participated in a 60 - minute program in which teachers were able to select from 16 different enrichment activities that were designed to improve student attendance.

Charter school parents do not have access to the DOE parent portal ARIS to view their child's standardized test score results like parents with children in district schools do.

«Our new school in District 6 will absolutely serve children in the district and we have an excellent track record of educating students with disabilities and [English language learners],» Lyon said.

Recruitment efforts to enroll children in district pre-school programs, adult education opportunities, and community services

The Republican - controlled Congress in 2004 approved a voucher program that provides direct federal funding to help poor children in the District of Columbia attend private schools.

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«I think she felt there should have been more transparency in the process and was very concerned that board members had not been contacted earlier and given the information we were subsequently asked to use to make a decision that really impacts not only children in the district, but also a number of people who are employed in the district,» Nevergold said.

They help give us new ideas for lines and help expose the younger children in the district to more exciting menu items, in some cases food they've never tried outside of school.»

About 70 percent of all school children in the District qualify for free or reduced - price meals and receive the majority of their daily nutrition at school.

«It also effectively punishes districts, voters, taxpayers and school children in districts where school boards and voters exercise their constitutionally protected right to exceed the tax cap, by denying tax credits to otherwise eligible taxpayers in such districts.

Another parent, Jennifer Smith Couti, who has one child in the district said: «We moved here from Chappaqua for all the diversity this community has to offer.

On a positive note, the candidates who were present all appeared to be genuinely concerned with addressing the issues facing children in District 10 public schools.

The researchers used body mass index (BMI) measurements from American Indian children (ages 7 - 18 years) from 117 school districts that encompassed tribal lands in California between 2001 and 2012 and compared children in districts with tribal lands that either did or did not gain or expand a casino.

But despite these efforts, significant gaps still exist between Hispanic and African - American students» scores and those of Asians and white children in both districts.

Currently the District offers Universal Prekindergarten and annually applies for a waiver to include a small number of 3 year old children in District classrooms only.

Research tells us that children in districts whose school boards appropriately and consistently use assessment data achieve higher levels of academic excellence.

The offense is that for generations children in these districts have been deprived of their constitutionally - mandated thorough and effective education.

We look forward to seeing high - performing public charter schools open in these buildings and expand access to an excellent education for more children in the District.»

Most children in the district now go to charters, private schools or schools in the suburbs, a clear vote of no confidence by Detroit parents.

The funding disparity reaches throughout the state, and is even worse in cities like Buffalo where students only receive 60 cents for every dollar children in district schools get.

«This reauthorization provides hope and opportunity to thousands of children in the District of Columbia whose parents only seek to provide them with better futures and a chance to succeed and achieve their dreams.»

Consistent with prior research, we find that parents in the private sector are far more satisfied with most aspects of their children's schools than are parents with children in district schools.

(Ky.) Beginning this summer, teachers in one Kentucky school district can enroll their own children in a district - run childcare program that officials say they hope will boost educator attendance and retainment.

That is true even when poor children in the District are compared only with poor children in, say, Atlanta.»

«We just want our children to have the same opportunities to get to college that other children in the district have, and this was our only way to do it.

After weeks in legislative limbo, a plan to provide federally financed, $ 7,500 tuition vouchers for children in the District of Columbia appeared late last week to be headed for passage in Congress.

The families filed a lawsuit in Erie County Court — Brown v. New York — that says the state's funding scheme for charter school kids is inequitable and unconstitutional, depriving the children who attend these schools of the same resources that children in district schools receive.

Advocating for your special needs child will benefit all children in the district.

Venusto, 45, worked for the Northwestern Lehigh School District as administrative office secretary from 2008 through April 2011 and has at least two children in the district, according to reports.

More than 500 families have two students attending Downers Grove North or Downers Grove South and about three dozen families have at least three children in the district, officials said.

Oakland Unified School District Nutrition Services spends about $ 9 million on food, serves nearly 20,000 daily lunches per day, and is an important source of healthy food for children in the district — about 68 % of whom are eligible for free or reduced - price meals.

Nutritious school food is paramount to the health and learning of children in the District.

But that felt a little sneaky and wrong, too, because PAC's charter expressly states the committee is only for parents with children in the district.

Ultimately, the issue of a la carte touches on the larger philosophical question of how we want to feed the children in our district, * both in the a la carte line and in the reimbursable meal line.

Instead, I trace my activism to a particular HISD meeting in the spring of 2010, when I learned for the first time that over 80 percent of the children in my district (and, as I would later learn, 21 million kids across the country) eat school meals out of economic need.

The new Breakfast in the Classroom Resource Center has everything you need to help and guide you as you bring breakfast in the classroom to the children in your district.

Children in the District of Columbia are at risk of serious health problems stemming from hunger, poor nutrition, inadequate physical activity, and environmental degradation in our community.

The stat - fact sheet, like this one below for Assemblyman David Weprin's district, provide data on the number of children in the district, their racial identity as well as income levels.