Sentences with phrase «class kids in the district»

When busing ended I had the sense that many in Denver felt that the district could get back to business as usual, maintaining traditional neighborhood schools and creating magnets seemingly designed to keep white middle class kids in the district.

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In a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm, that additional food waste and expense for my district is likely to be considerablIn a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm, that additional food waste and expense for my district is likely to be considerablin - class breakfast is the norm, that additional food waste and expense for my district is likely to be considerable.

Thus, districts with in - class breakfast programs have an economic incentive to serve as many meals as possible, regardless of whether some meals are being served to kids who have no need for it — and whose parents would greatly prefer they not partake of it.

I am jealous of the fact that you can take your kids to the park on a beautiful day, or go outside and play in freshly fallen snow, or take advantage of the classes the park district offers.

And in a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm among our 300 schools, paying for that 1/2 cup increase is likely to be a big drain on our school food budget.

Dr. R. Stephen Green, Superintendent of the Dekalb County, Georgia School District, engaged in «experiential learning» when he joined students at Druid Hills Middle School on May 17th for a yoga class led by Grounded Kids Yoga / Atlanta Yoga Movement instructor Cheryl Crawford.

«Born Into Brothels,» the story of children in the red - light district of Calcutta, is probably the favorite, because of the emotional subject matter, although the filmmakers were handicapped by the impossibility of filming most of the people in the area, and ended up with a film about bright kids taking photography classes.

I loved the fact that kids got to know the world outside school and learned that with technology they could talk to people anywhere, said Luisa Ojeda - Vera, a kindergarten teacher at Florida's Sand Pine Elementary School, whose students used Skype to connect with a class at another school in the district.

And this spring, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill called the FIT Kids Act that aims to enlist schools in the war against obesity by requiring districts to report what is taking place in P.E. classes.

For kids in the district's welding classes, a water - jet cutter not only represents the latest in high tech cutting equipment, using high water pressure to quickly slice through metal, it also teaches the math needed to program the machine.

«There are districts with every risk factor in the world that are seeing results much more exciting than schools taking upper middle class kids and not screwing them up,» Carr told Education World.

It reports, among other things, that without its 1,963 transfer students — who, Oak Park said, generate the same $ 5,537 in revenue as in - district kids — it would have to close an elementary school, limit Advanced Placement and honors programs, scale back arts programming, and increase class sizes.

The school districts in the country making the most progress with low - income students, places such as Tampa, Charlotte and Long Beach, have middle - class kids in the mix.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

Baker acknowledges the controversy over whether reducing class sizes actually improves student outcomes, but asserts that classes should not be allowed to increase beyond 30 kids in a class in high poverty districts.

The defendants also argue that the plaintiffs failed to prove they are members of a «suspect class,» which basically means plaintiffs didn't prove that school districts harmed a specific group — in this case, minority kids from low - income families — by moving ineffective teachers into schools populated by members of the group.

She said District 218 began to pull kids from remedial classes a few years ago because students in those classes were not meeting academic standards in science.

The kids attending the schools named in the lawsuit generate per - pupil funding for their districts and schools, but the students are often warehoused in «service» classes where they receive no actual instruction with large class sizes and long - term substitutes.

«The idea of providing first class learning technology to all the kids in the district, not just the kids who could afford it, is certainly a worthy educational goal,» said Charles Taylor Kerchner, a professor at Claremont Graduate University.

I probably cover Lakewood's morally and fiscally bankrupt schools too often, but this Ocean County school district that enrolls almost entirely Latino and Black low - income students pushes all my education reform buttons: tyranny of the majority (in this case the ultra-Orthodox residents who control the municipal government and the school board); lack of accountability; lack of school choice for poor kids of color but anything goes (at public expense) for children of the ruling class; discrimination against minority special education students.

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.

El - Students in my District are experiencing 40 kids to a class and furlough days to pay for «increased Salaries, Pensions and benefits.

For decades, the life cycle of the young, middle - class D.C. resident has gone something like this: Move to the District, get a good job, meet a nice boy or girl, get married, have a kid and — faced with mediocre public schools or the prospect of tens of thousands of dollars in yearly private school tuition — move to the suburbs.

At that time, I was substitute teaching all over San Juan School District where the first of my five kids was going to school, and I noticed, this was 37 years ago, and I noticed a handful of kids in every class where I was substitute teaching.