Sentences with phrase «comes as school districts»

Jennifer Marten, a Gifted & Talented coordinator in Plymouth, said the announcement of the evaluation panel comes as school districts map out their futures without collective bargaining.

A highly anticipated announcement by North Carolina lawmakers comes as school districts have warned that they don't have the thousands of additional classrooms or teachers needed to meet the state requirement to reduce class sizes in kindergarten

The result comes as school districts next year will have to submit budgets with a cap that is virtually at zero, due to the low rate of inflation.

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.

It also comes as school districts and local governments are budgeting within a tax cap with the lowest allowable limit in the levy increase since the measure first took effect in 2012.

Not exact matches

As most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challengeAs most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challengeas poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challenges.

The program made huge inroads into schools because it often cost school districts nothing and came with a uniformed police officer as an instructor.

This year, a Maryland school district decided to remove even a reference to «Christmas» in the school calendar — as though the reference amounted to religious oppression and removal would make people forget what holiday comes round every 25th of December.

As school districts roll out these changes, they should expect lower contributions from parent organizations and put scaffolding in place for both: Teacher who rely on that outside money, and those parents who want to fundraise but need to come up with new funding methods.

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

Use the positive school breakfast messaging that comes with NSBW as a springboard to advocate for BIC in your school or district.

The request to count salsa as a vegetable came from school districts in the West and Southwest.

Liberty Lake (KXLY)- Local foods coming to school cafeterias today Andy Billig, representative for the 3rd legislative district in Spokane, says this project is not only good for students, but business as well.

It would take an entire book to explain how flawed the NSLP has become, how, starting in the 1970s and 80s, the program morphed from an anti-hunger initiative into one in which school districts were so starved of cash by the federal government (thank you, Ronald Reagan) that school children came to be seen as «customers» whose palates must be pleased at all costs, with heavier reliance on junk food a la carte sales and «carnival food» menus.

«April seamlessly coordinates the Market — the families coming through, volunteers handing out food, and many student volunteers serving as «runners» for those needing extra help,» said Dina Wiroll, Food Service Director at Assabet Valley Regional Technical School District.

The findings come as districts across the country implement the national Smart Snacks in School standards, which set basic limits on the fat, salt, and calories allowed in items sold through vending machines, school stores, and a la carte cafeteria School standards, which set basic limits on the fat, salt, and calories allowed in items sold through vending machines, school stores, and a la carte cafeteria school stores, and a la carte cafeteria menus.

Late last month, Dana looked at stigma from a slightly different angle, as it relates to candy - and - soda - filled food trucks being allowed to come close to school campuses in her district of San Francisco.

When we asked Darlene Birdsong, cafeteria manager at Redwood Elementary in the Vicksburg Warren School District, if her ANC First Timer award came as a surprise she burst into laughter.

When Vicksburg Warren School District's Director of Child Nutrition Laura Bounds learned about the School Nutrition Hero Award one person immediately came to mind as the perfect nominee — cafeteria manager Sandy Hearn.

The report released by the association comes as voters in school districts across the state are set to consider education budgets this month.

Those cuts, in fact, come at a time when there are 15,000 fewer teachers and support staff in New York state public schools than two years ago, and as districts statewide expect to lay off at least 10,000 more employees in 2011 - 12.

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Another parent who had gone through the admission process without paying for anything at the St. Mary's Boys Senior High School at Apowa in the Ahanta West District also explained that «it has come as a relief to me.

NYSUT's spending on behalf of mainly Democratic Senate candidates in swing districts comes as supporters of charter schools have spent heavily in independent expenditure efforts of their own.

We do know, however, that due to opposition in both houses, education spending in the budget is no longer linked to the reforms, and lawmakers expect to have a district - by - district breakdown of school aid — also known in Albany as «school runs» — in the coming days.

The Buffalo school board plans to appoint former Erie 1 BOCES Superintendent Donald Ogilvie as interim superintendent — the first in a likely series of dramatic changes to come for the district.

As Buffalo Public Schools near the start of the long process for admission to the city's criteria school next year, the district is asking city residents to come up with ideas for improving racial and ethnic diversity in the sSchools near the start of the long process for admission to the city's criteria school next year, the district is asking city residents to come up with ideas for improving racial and ethnic diversity in the schoolsschools.

As details about the pair of bids received by the Kingston City School District for its Crown Street headquarters come

A 61 - page report entitled «East Ramapo: A School District in Crisis» comes from fiscal monitor Henry Greenberg, who was appointed by the state Education Department in June to assess the district whose finances, as Greenberg puts it, teeter on the edge of dDistrict in Crisis» comes from fiscal monitor Henry Greenberg, who was appointed by the state Education Department in June to assess the district whose finances, as Greenberg puts it, teeter on the edge of ddistrict whose finances, as Greenberg puts it, teeter on the edge of disaster.

The Buffalo News reports the issue has come to the forefront as school districts say proposed state school aid cuts would force a new round of layoffs in the coming year.

Both the Syracuse school district and state education officials are being hush about the future of one of the city's elementary schools, possibly because the district is still scrambling to come up with a plan, as sources have indicated to WRVO.

My former school district recently contacted me, wanted me to come back as a substitute and I had to say «NO.

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.

Guest blogger Tom Whitby examines how a school district's professional development decisions come down to cost, and then proposes maximizing the trend of DIY PD as a cost - effective answer to the problem.

Over the past few years, as cash - strapped states and school districts have faced tough budget decisions, spending on teacher compensation has come under the microscope.

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.

Clear Expectations Required for Next Hillsborough Superintendent, Expert Says Tampa Bay Times, 1/22/15 «Andres Antonio Alonso, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said Elia's abrupt dismissal without cause came as a surprise to the world that knows the Hillsborough district as one focused on stability and innovation, not turbulence.»

Newark, New Jersey, superintendent Cami Anderson (see «Newark's Superintendent Rolls Up Her Sleeves and Gets to Work,» features, Winter 2013) recalls that when she served as area superintendent for New York City's alternative schools and programs, the district had two «conventional wisdoms» when it came to evaluating guidance counselors and social workers: «The first was you'd be violating student confidentiality if you observed guidance counselors or social workers interacting with kids one - on - one, and the second was, if you weren't licensed as a clinical supervisor, you didn't have the authority to evaluate or document performance for these people.»

For the next several years, Mapp and colleagues consulted with USDOE to develop what came to be called the Dual Capacity - Building Framework for Family - School Partnerships, now released by the government as a downloadable, shareable model that schools and districts can use to build the kind of effective, mutually rewarding engagement that will make schools the center of their communities.

For the next several years, Mapp and colleagues consulted with USDOE to develop what came to be called the Dual Capacity - Building Framework for Family - School Partnerships, now released by the government as a downloadable, shareable model that schools and districts can use...

Each year, as predictably as classes end in June, the School District of Philadelphia faces a budget crisis for the coming schoolSchool District of Philadelphia faces a budget crisis for the coming schoolschool year.

Before coming to the Baldwin, she worked at Brown University for three years as a coordinator for a desegregation assistance center, charged with helping New England school districts comply with desegregation plans.

Better still, access to the software and a Help desk is coming as early as September, and will probably be less than $ 10 a month — or free if your school or school district installs it on its own server.

Some of the most dramatic gains in urban education have come from school districts using what's known as a «portfolio strategy.»

I've come to view annual testing of kids in reading and math, and the disaggregating and public reporting of their performance at the school (and district) level, as the single best feature of NCLB and the one that most needs preserving.

The recommendations come from the Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission, known as the A + Commission, which has spent a year weighing how to hold the state's public schools and districts more accountable for students» academic performance.

Released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, at Stanford University, the study comes as a growing number of school districts and charter schools around the country are experimenting with such reward programs in the hope of improving...

When school levies come up for a vote, don't districts want as many taxpayers as possible to have a direct stake in the outcome?

Unions deserve their share of the blame for making it tough to remove lousy teachers, but the fact that 99 % of teachers are routinely rated as satisfactory can be chalked up almost entirely to school and district leaders failing to do their job when it comes to evaluating personnel (unless you happen to believe we have 3.4 million phenomenal teachers).

These are usually «freemium» models where teachers pay nothing for basic access and a small amount for additional features such as classroom dashboards and reports; school - or district - wide packages come with a licensing fee.