Sentences with phrase «children out of their school districts»

Vouchers allow parents to receive public funding to help them move their children out of their school districts and into the private or parochial schools they prefer.

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Soon after the Civil Eats piece came out, four Nutrition Services employees devoted what must have been considerable time and effort (not to mention the taxpayer dollars that directly pay their salaries) to write a scholarly article for the Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk entitled «Sugar In School Breakfasts: A School District» s Perspective.»

If you or your children are in any way dissatisfied with their schools, or if (as we did) you move away and are not impressed with what is available in your new district, consider the alternative — to educate them out of school.

But while studies suggest that salad bars can help boost children's consumption of fruits and vegetables, some school districts decline to install salad bars claiming they are unsanitary, especially for small elementary school students with active hands and faces that often come up short of the barriers that are meant to keep coughs and sneezes out of food.

A few years ago, I brought it to the attention of the food service director of my children's school district after my son got sick eating the [sic] school lunch and after the school closed down parent access to the school lunch area after they found out I went through food laws and regulations training.

When your child ages out of the program, the local school district takes over and is required to offer services or placement in a special needs preschool.

In far too many school districts, there are students who would qualify for free meals, except for the fact that their family never fills out the form, either because they forget, or they don't understand that it is important, or (more often) the child is too embarrassed to self - identify as poor in front of his classmates, and so he either doesn't give his parents the form or doesn't turn it in at school.

Lunch Tray readers often contact me for help in getting junk food out of their children's classrooms, but few seem to know that as of next school year, districts will for the first time have to impose a nutritional standard for classroom food.

I know why though: my child got into the Dual Language Charter School and so I had to pull her out of the Public school disSchool and so I had to pull her out of the Public school disschool district.

A threat posted on Facebook last night prompted a number of Scotia - Glenville parents to pull their children out of school today — the day of a planned walkout to protest gun violence, district officials said.

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

A judge has thrown out a lawsuit against the town of Newtown and its school district by the parents of two children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, ruling that school officials» actions are protected by government immunity in school district by the parents of two children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, ruling that school officials» actions are protected by government immunity in School massacre, ruling that school officials» actions are protected by government immunity in school officials» actions are protected by government immunity in the...

And the inability to serve all parents looking to send their children to a Success Academy school — there are currently 19,000 applicants for 2,688 open seats this fall, which translates to seven applicants for every open seat — she dubbed a «tragedy» that leaves thousands of families disappointed, left to seek out supplementary schooling options in their zoned district.

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.

The goal is to target districts with high rates of childhood homelessness or few safe after - school options to help ensure children have a safe and productive place to go when school lets out.

«You have the option to pay for your child to go to a nonpublic school, or you have the option to move out of the city altogether to go to a suburban school district,» she said.

Dinowitz said Verdi routinely allowed out - of - district children into the school despite a severe overcrowding problem.

«We are narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, and children are missing out on a rich and meaningful education,» said Shirley Verrico, a parent who lives in the Williamsville Central School District and is a member of Western New York Allies.

This past weekend, I partnered with my colleagues Senator Jeff Klein, and Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, in retelling the story of the Three Kings, while giving out toys to children of the Sack Wern & Clason Point sections of my district, as well as the Holy Cross School.

Addressing that chronic absenteeism was like untangling a rope, loosening knotted - up, long - established habits, cultural issues, and the persistent barriers of poverty that can keep children out of school, leaders in the district of 835 students said.

But in states and school districts with strong unions and charter laws of similar strength, more families have sought out alternatives for their children in charter schools.

The budget also creates the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship, which will give approximately 13,000 special needs children scholarships that can be used to pay for private school tuition, to defer the costs of attending an out - of - district public school, or for other services.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

At the time, the Houston Independent School District doled out money to schools for nonteaching staff members — like assistant principals, clerks, and librarians — based on a set of enrollment formulas that topped out at about 1,200 children.

Can one believe that the practices of those millions can be changed for the better by the competition of charter schools (1.5 million children versus 50 million in district schools), by promotion and compensation and dismissal based on test scores of their classes, by the elimination of «last in, first out» layoff rules?

Admissions preference may be given to children in low - performing schools, or to children who will increase diversity in their new school, or, in less - populated states, to those who live closer to an out - of - district school than to one that is in the district.

School districts confront the challenges of rolling out No Child Left Behind's school choice and supplemental services provSchool districts confront the challenges of rolling out No Child Left Behind's school choice and supplemental services provschool choice and supplemental services provisions

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, families and teachers in school districts that serve low - income students and students of color struggle to understand how to address the highly punitive, push - out climate of overtesting brought on by the No Child Left Behind Act, the ESEA's last reauthorization.

The graph shows a simple correlation between black - white discipline disparities (the percentage of black students given one or more out - of - school suspensions in 2013 — 14 divided by the percentage of white students given the same) versus black - white poverty disparities (the percentage of black children between the ages of five and seventeen in the district living below the poverty line divided by the percentage of white children living below the poverty line).

An article in the Oct. 25, 2006, issue of Education Week on charter schools in the District of Columbia («At Age 10, Booming D.C. Charters Feel «Growing Pains»») should have said that 118 out of 146 regular public schools in the city did not make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act for last school year.

He remembers a parent that called for help getting her child transferred out of a district school after the school had three principals in one year.

We can NOT allow parents to continue to be «arrested and criminalized» for placing their children in out - of - district public schools to ensure the quality, high - performing education that their in - district public schools are continually unable to provide.......

School districts around our nation have had their fair share of walkouts, strikes and labor disputes, but for some parents at Lusher Charter School, the way this panned out at their children's school was disheartSchool districts around our nation have had their fair share of walkouts, strikes and labor disputes, but for some parents at Lusher Charter School, the way this panned out at their children's school was disheartSchool, the way this panned out at their children's school was disheartschool was disheartening.

And in New Jersey, as in Connecticut, school districts have not only tried to stop parents from opting their children out of the tests but have then withheld information about how many parents are actually refusing to allow their children to take the destructive Common Core tests.

Two out of every five children suspended in by Maryland's districts and other school operations were suspended again during in 2010 - 2011.

Last year, similar conduct was found in some Long Island districts to keep children from war - torn Central America out of their schools.

In the last several years, through the direct assistance of city departments, the district has been able to institute new behavioral health supports, create 12 new community schools, improve out - of - school time programming, increase early literacy, better prepare children for kindergarten, bring critical infrastructure repair, and end the teachers» contract stalemate.

Renton School District officials are warning parents that pulling children out of under - achieving Dimmitt Middle School could result in a long bus trip — to a crowded sSchool District officials are warning parents that pulling children out of under - achieving Dimmitt Middle School could result in a long bus trip — to a crowded sSchool could result in a long bus trip — to a crowded schoolschool.

Under the OSA, businesses receive tax credits worth 85 percent of their contributions to nonprofit scholarship organizations, which provide scholarships for low - and middle - income children to pay tuition at private schools or out - of - district public schools or to cover eligible homeschooling expenses.

Forty - one states, Washington D.C. and a group of eight districts in California have been let out of some of the No Child Left Behind law's biggest requirements — getting 100 percent of students to proficiency in math and reading by the end of this school year, paying for tutors for students at low - performing schools and allowing students to transfer to other schools.

A decreased Title I allocation is challenging for a district because it can result in fewer district schools receiving funds under Title I. Under Title I school allocation rules, many schools with high numbers of low - income children do not receive support from Title I because they are surrounded by other schools that are even poorer, so the Title I money «runs out» before those schools have the opportunity to receive funds.

In a letter to parents from the Oregon Department of Education, near where the parent would sign to opt a student out, was the line: «I understand that by signing this form I may lose valuable information about how well my child is progressing... (and) may impact my school and district's efforts to equitably distribute resources and support student learning.»

In 2016, nine urban school districts and their out - of - school time partners were awarded grants to help the partners collaborate on creating a plan to support the development of children's social and emotional skills by improving adult practices and climate during the school day and afterschool.

While you have almost seven out of 10 saying they would prefer something other than a district school, 80 percent of them are sending their children to district schools.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

The «Challenge Program» or «GATE Program» or «Enrichment Hour» or pull - out is not, repeat not, the extent of Gifted Education accommodations available to your child, regardless in which School District you reside and regardless of who tells you that it is.

He is the author of several strength - based assessments for children which have been adopted by more than 5,000 school districts, out - of - school - time organizations, and other programs.

More and more, families are not waiting for schools or districts to improve: they are pulling their children out immediately in search of better options.

Charter schools now educate one out of every 10 students in the city and serve more children than the districts of Washington, Baltimore, Boston and San Francisco.

Since the members of the illegal Board of Education refused to do their jobs, Bridgeport residents should step in and demand that Vallas explain the following: (1) What factors did he use to decide that the cut in out of district placements should be 20 %, (2) how many Bridgeport students will be impacted by this cut, (3) how many IEPs have been changed to remove the out - of - district placements that had previously been ordered, and (4) how many children have been moved back into the school system to date.