Sentences with phrase «come out of school districts»

Money allocated to charter schools does not come out of school districts» budgets.

Not exact matches

Representatives from some of the district's salad bar funders, including the Idaho Potato Commission and Tour de Fresh, even came out to visit the schools.

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.»

Representatives from some of the district's salad bar funders, including the Idaho Potato Commission and Tour de Fresh, even came out to visit the schools.

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.

HOFFMAN ESTATES — Dozens of concerned citizens came out to the Hoffman Estates Park District board meeting this week to push for improvements to Colony Park and the playground next to MacArthur School.

«The only reason I can think to do this is [is that] when real numbers come out in June and show less - than - positive results, it will be Bill de Blasio's administration's fault and not on Bloomberg's twelve - year legacy running the schools,» charged Miriam Aristy - Farer, President of District 6's Community Education Council (CEC).

«If you work in a district like that, no matter how effective you are you come out with a scarlet A on your head,» he said, to applause from the audience, which included state legislators, Board of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officials.

Come September, new budget projections hit at about $ 4.5 billion by year's end, payments stop to localities, contractors, and school districts because the bank will be broke — out of cash again.

Some 100 parents and residents came out for the chance to tell the Wappingers Central School District Board of Education what they thought about the new Common Core learning standards.

«Whatever the governor comes out with, we do look at that and school districts look at that and they like to kind of touch and feel it and play with and get ready for preparation of their budget,» Flanagan said.

The measure also comes as school districts across the state on Tuesday reported high numbers of students choosing to opt out of the current round of English Language Arts standardized tests that will run for the next two weeks.

Ms. Barron also noted that her husband, despite being relegated near the bottom of the list when it comes to discretionary money doled out to the district from the speaker's office, secured funds for park renovations, school constructions and affordable housing.

State officials also are requiring the District to come up with a backup plan to phase out East High School in case Education Commissioner John King doesn't approve the takeover plan by the University of Rochester.

«There is a fear out there, and it's understandable on the part of school districts, that... when the grant comes to an end, there will be pressure for them to continue the work, and they clearly don't have the resources to do that,» said Richard Iannuzzi, president of New York State United Teachers.

The state Department of Education has given the Syracuse City School District two extra weeks to come up with plans to phase out two underperforming schools in the city.

The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

Edison Schools Inc., already pummeled by falling stock prices and opposition to its work, is being booted out of school districts in Texas and Georgia, and has come under investigation by state and federal authorities who want to know how it secured two contracts in Pennsylvania.

As you've said many times, putting each school on a performance contract and separating school operations from district oversight comes out of CRPE's central thesis.

Grossman says one great example of this comes out of the Baltimore City Public School district, which participated for five years in the PELP summer program.

Lipkin, who came out in the early 1980s after teaching for almost 15 years, stresses the range of experiences a student can have within the same school or district.

The authors stated that they were unable to come up with particular ways in which school districts could spend money to improve the average verbal ability of their teachers (though other researchers such as Ferguson and Manski have suggested that higher teacher salaries might do so), so they left out possible ways that money might be spent to raise verbal ability.

The program, which pairs older and younger students for technological training, grew out of a need to improve students» skills after the school went one - to - one — part of Meriden's larger push to modernize teaching and learning district - wide after Benigni came on board.

One such tool comes out of a Chicago - area school district, and it aims to help educators better determine whether a student is college and career ready.

«Most studies of district turnarounds are places like New Orleans, where the district or the schools were in this really extreme state, but this is the first recent example of a turnaround just coming out of policy,» says Deming.

Perhaps the best two pieces I've come across are from the Newark Star - Ledger's Tom Moran including an opinion piece on where things stand that notes district progress along with charter school improvements and reformers» misguided focus on the parts of the story Russakoff leaves out (Newark students are better off, despite the political noise) and also a Q & A with Russakoff in which the author rebuts a deeply flawed NYT review, proposes a forensic audit of Newark's $ 23,000 - per student spending, but calls the Zuckerberg - funded reform efforts a «wash» over all (Author Dale Russakoff discusses new book).

For example, we have kids coming out of Camden traditional schools and moving to renaissance schools (district - charter hybrids) or charters, and the other way around.

My district is rated eighty - third out of eighty - six in the region, a position it has pretty consistently held since such lists have been kept, and yet one of the most common comments I hear when the subject of school failure comes up is, «We have good schools here; you just have to take advantage of them.»

Pavlov came up with Click to add MIRS Bill Hound SB 0103, a significant departure from the O'Brien - Zemke bills in that it gave more deference to the tools local school districts could use in grading teachers and stripped out the requirement that one of four specific vendors be chosen.

The next round of tests is coming up, and there are questions about what the high opt - out numbers mean... for teacher evaluations, for school district funding, and more.

Whereas it might (absent intervention by a district's personnel director) be possible for the principal of a disadvantaged school to hire a «high - cost» teacher today, the principal would not be willing to do so if the extra cost were going to come out of the principal's own budget.

The news coming out of the Tacoma School District recently shines a spotlight on educational policy at its most witless.

To get in touch with the district side, contact your school board representative at [email protected] and look out for a new Labor Relations section of the OUSD website coming soon.

While voucher usage is higher in big cities, the financial effect is felt in every school district because the voucher dollars come out of Tuition Support, in effect reducing the dollars supporting students in all public schools.

In the end, Oregon agreed that it would do so beginning in 2013 - 14 — but won't spell out the specifics until after it has tried a couple of approaches in a few pilot school districts during the coming year.

Learned, a veteran in school finance who came out of retirement to take the job, pored over the district's books and came to a quick conclusion: «My thought was, boy, I sure liked retirement,» he said.

When it comes to assessing social - emotional learning (SEL), there is a spectrum of complexity, and some schools and districts shy away from it simply out of fear of punitive outcomes or common misconceptions about what's involved.

But coming out of nowhere to claim the sixth spot in the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools» annual report is a Georgia district of 26,000 about an hour's drive from Atlanta.

By the end of the school year, the results that were coming out of my classes with the CREATE model had shocked the entire community and even aroused the interest of educators throughout the district.

Through secondary analysis, CPE found that mayoral takeovers are «a rare, and largely urban phenomenon,» and out of more than 13,000 school districts in the U.S., only about 20 have come under formal mayoral control in the last 20 years.

The State Journal determined the number of districts with contracts by compiling information from the Wisconsin Association of School Boards, which reported 119 of its members have contracts this year; the list of WERC recertification filings, which came from 144 districts without teacher contracts; and a survey of the remaining 161 out of 424 school distSchool Boards, which reported 119 of its members have contracts this year; the list of WERC recertification filings, which came from 144 districts without teacher contracts; and a survey of the remaining 161 out of 424 school distschool districts.

«One thing we took out of our Race to the Top experience was to make the local school districts the centers of innovation when it came to evaluation,» Bennett said.

NOTE: These results seem somewhat similar to the so - far disappointing results coming out of Tennessee's Achievement School District.

Some have come out to oppose the Governor's proposals, but I will tell you that it is wrong to cheat public charter school kids out of the resources given to district school kids.

Yesterday, Louisiana Commissioner of Education, Paul White, and the Recovery School District's Superintendent, Patrick Dobard, issued a press release crowing about the improved standardized test scores that are coming out of New Orleans.

Register's announcement of changes in East Nashville comes amid a report detailing the increased costs charter schools impose on MNPS and reports out of Memphis that rather than turn more schools in that district's Innovation Zone, the Director of Schools there is seeking to «double down» on what's working: District management of schools with increased investment, support, and flexischools impose on MNPS and reports out of Memphis that rather than turn more schools in that district's Innovation Zone, the Director of Schools there is seeking to «double down» on what's working: District management of schools with increased investment, support, and flexischools in that district's Innovation Zone, the Director of Schools there is seeking to «double down» on what's working: District management of schools with increased investment, support, and flexdistrict's Innovation Zone, the Director of Schools there is seeking to «double down» on what's working: District management of schools with increased investment, support, and flexiSchools there is seeking to «double down» on what's working: District management of schools with increased investment, support, and flexDistrict management of schools with increased investment, support, and flexischools with increased investment, support, and flexibility.

An out - of - state reporter recently checked a seemingly obvious fact with the head of the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools: The «recovery» in the Recovery School District's name refers to coming back from Katrina, right?

«Research shows the best thing you can do to overcome bad parents or no parents or stressed out overworked parents who often come in these generational poverty school districts is four years in a row of an empathetic, well - trained, dedicated teacher,» said longtime education advocate Andy Mullins, who now works as chief of staff to the chancellor at the University of Mississippi.

Buckley said that federal officials did not come up with these potential elements out of thin air — they were chosen because certain school districts or states had sought that particular data element in the past.

The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, the union representing educators in the city's school district, came out swinging on Monday just hours after the announcement that the School Reform Commission had canceled their conschool district, came out swinging on Monday just hours after the announcement that the School Reform Commission had canceled their conSchool Reform Commission had canceled their contract.