Sentences with phrase «counted as a school district»

If the voucher program were counted as a school district in 2015, it would rank ninth in the state for annual performance growth.

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I do not know any School District that actually counts it as a vegetable.

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

Absentee ballots have been counted, and confirm incumbent Carl Paladino as the winner of the Park District Buffalo School Board seat by a 132 - vote margin.

Johnson and other local school administrators have contended that use of such figures is misleading, in part because districts can not count on money not detailed in the itemized, district - by - district lists known as «runs.»

Poor school districts, which often count tired buildings and outdated equipment among their many troubles, are increasingly focusing on brick - and - mortar issues as they challenge state school - finance systems.

Our analysis applied special scrutiny to alternative schools in Orlando, Florida, the nation's tenth largest district, where our reporting indicates thousands of students leaving for - profit alternative schools without diplomas aren't counted as dropouts.

If an LEA chooses to participate and has at least 40 percent of its student population counted as Identified Students, that LEA then provides free breakfast and lunch to every student within each school in its district.

As The Wichita Eagle explains, the suit was filed by four school districts but the ruling applies to all of Kansas» public schools: «The districts claimed the state had failed in its constitutional duty to provide «suitable» funding for public education on two counts: Ensuring adequate state funding overall, and equitably distributing it among districts.»

An audit of three Oklahoma school districts has found that 98 percent of the children the districts counted as participants in the federal migrant education program during the 2003 - 04 school year didn't meet eligibility requirements.

Texas schools would count the salaries of librarians — but not those of nurses, guidance counselors, or bus drivers — as instructional expenses under proposed rules that would define how districts would comply with a new state mandate to spend 65 percent of their budgets on classroom costs.

This is in part because of the complexity of current funding streams, and because schools and districts struggle to determine what counts as a professional learning cost.

Whether the test count as 20 % or 50 % (probably somewhere in between) of a teacher's evaluation will be a collective bargaining decision in each separate school district.

In addition, if the weights increase as a result of the study, so too would school districts» WADA counts.

Each student in one of these categories would be counted as 1.2 students and would thus capture additional funding for their school districts.

Preliminary hires the district made through the end of June 2015, pointed to an upswing, «about 10 to 15 percent more racial diversity,» says Lloyd, who was counting on a more noticeable bump as the hiring concluded before school started.

Jennifer Zaheer, whose sons attend Sunset Hills Elementary in San Diego, serves as the Character Counts liaison for the Palomar Council PTA, the umbrella organization for more than 30 PTAs in the Poway Unified School District.

Putting an end to traditional enrollment counts — and only providing districts with dollars based on whether the student is actually attending school — will force districts to look at the underlying reasons why chronic truancy is a problem in the first place, as well as address the issues by providing children with high - quality teaching and strong, college - preparatory curricula.

While districts under control of mayors such as New York City and Chicago can count on the considerable political heft of municipal chief executives (and in the case of the Big Apple, the wallet of Mayor Michael Bloomberg) to beat back traditionalists in Albany and Springfield, districts with traditional school board governance structures often have few tools at their disposal against NEA and AFT locals with waning - but - still - more considerable political influence in statehouse corridors.

At last count, school districts in the process of becoming certified as IBO programs or considering adding IBO programs (including PYP, MYP and / or DP) included Berkley, Clarkston, Fenton, Grand Rapids, Grosse Pointe, Livonia, the Macomb Intermediate School District, Novi, Owosso, Rochester, Royal Oak, and Utica.5 There may be other districts that should be a part of this list; and the number has probably grown since this article went to school districts in the process of becoming certified as IBO programs or considering adding IBO programs (including PYP, MYP and / or DP) included Berkley, Clarkston, Fenton, Grand Rapids, Grosse Pointe, Livonia, the Macomb Intermediate School District, Novi, Owosso, Rochester, Royal Oak, and Utica.5 There may be other districts that should be a part of this list; and the number has probably grown since this article went to School District, Novi, Owosso, Rochester, Royal Oak, and Utica.5 There may be other districts that should be a part of this list; and the number has probably grown since this article went to press.

Magnet Schools of America commissioned a study with the University of North Carolina — Charlotte's Urban Institute to compile a comprehensive and more current count of the number of magnet schools across the country, as many school districts have broadened what it means to be a magnet Schools of America commissioned a study with the University of North Carolina — Charlotte's Urban Institute to compile a comprehensive and more current count of the number of magnet schools across the country, as many school districts have broadened what it means to be a magnet schools across the country, as many school districts have broadened what it means to be a magnet school.

The traditional organizational chart listing those who report to the principal or school leader formally defines who counts as being inside the organization, but schools can also draw in parents, community members, district administrators, and other educators to develop a larger school community.

A district student counts as one student, while a charter elementary school student and charter high school student count as nine - tenths and six - fifths of a student, respectively.

The $ 80 million error arose when lawmakers voted earlier this month to count as state aid certain money that school districts raise by taxing local property owners.

While every state and school district differs slightly, below you will find useful detail surrounding some of the Math concepts children will likely be covering in 3rd Grade Math such as: Addition and Subtraction Math Facts, Adding and Subtracting Larger Numbers, Multiplication and Division Math Facts, Skip Counting and Using a Hundreds Board, Money, Place Value, Telling Time, Measurement, Shapes and Solids, Lines and Angles, Symmetry, Fractions, Data Management and Analysis, Estimating, Area and Perimeter, Capacity and Weight, Decimals, Patterns, Circumference and Diameter, Long Multiplication, Percentages, Ordered Pairs on a Coordinate Grid, and Probability.

While every state and school district differs slightly, below you will find useful detail surrounding some of the Math concepts children will likely be covering in 2nd Grade Math such as: Addition and Subtraction Math Facts, Adding and Subtracting Larger Numbers, Multiplication and Division Math Facts, Skip Counting and Using a Hundreds Board, Money, Place Value, Telling Time, Measurement, Shapes and Solids, Lines and Angles, Symmetry, Fractions, Data Management and Analysis, Estimating, Area and Perimeter, Capacity and Weight, Decimals, and Patterns.

But instead of being counted as students of the Tacoma School District, they are counted as if they lived in Forks on the Olympic Peninsula.

While every state and school district differs slightly, below you will find many of the Math concepts children will likely be covering in 1st Grade Math such as Skip Counting and Using a Hundreds Board, Math Facts, Money, Place Value, Telling Time, Measurement, Shapes and Solids, Symmetry, Fractions, Patterns, and Graphs.

«Search» is confined to finding students who re-enrolled in Texas public schools but had been reported as dropouts in the previous year's dropout reports, with corresponding adjustments made to district counts.

Socrative officials say more than 350,000 teachers have registered for free accounts, and that more than 1700 districts or schools count at least 20 teachers as users.

In exchange, the district counts enrollment numbers and student - test scores from the innovation - network schools as part of its overall data picture.

Shelton's superintendent of schools knows perfectly well that if parents «insist that the child not be testing» then «In these cases, the district generally does not test the student and the student is counted as «absent» (for purposes of testing).»

Many educators and scholars documented these perverse outcomes over the last decade and, as a result, the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaced NCLB, allows states to count English learners in the English learner group for up to 4 years after they are reclassified, so that the overall progress of English learners in schools and districts is more visible in the accountability system.

While CEP is a valuable nutrition program, it makes FRPL functionally unusable as a proxy for counting low - income students and has the effect of artificially inflating FRPL rates in participating schools and districts because all students receive no - cost meals, regardless of family income.

This week in #nced: 26 Districts and Counting Close As Teachers Rally for Public School Support; Gov. Roy Cooper Wants to Give Teachers and State Workers a Big Raise

SALT LAKE CITY — Just as students and teachers count down the days until summer vacation, school district employees who clean schools, conduct maintenance and keep the grounds tidy are hard at work to meet a different deadline: the start of the academic year.