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• Harkness Capital made an investment of an undisclosed amount in Southwest Foodservice Excellence, a Scottsdale, Ariz. - based provider of outsourced food services to K - 12 public school districts.

The school was famous in 1995 when a movie called «Dangerous Minds» featuring actress Michelle Pfeiffer was based on a true story about Carlmont HS during a time when East Palo Alto was the murder capital city in the nation and there were 4 regions that segregated each students to attend (4) public high schools in the Sequoia District: Menlo - Atherton, Woodside, Sequoia and Carlmont.

During a public hearing on the issue, district officials explained the staff cut was based in part on the current number of students registered for school next year.

For the Chicago Public Schools, the empty seats undermine efforts to boost achievement and cost the district millions in attendance - based funding.

Project Produce Fruit & Veggie Grants Sponsor: Chef Ann Foundation Award Package: $ 2,500 Who qualifies: Public K - 12 schools or school districts participating in the National School Lunch Program Application deadline: None - awards made on a rolling basis Full details, criteria, and applischool districts participating in the National School Lunch Program Application deadline: None - awards made on a rolling basis Full details, criteria, and appliSchool Lunch Program Application deadline: None - awards made on a rolling basis Full details, criteria, and application

Nina Hansen, vice president of operations for the Enosburg Falls - based Abbey Group, which runs the food service programs at 70 Vermont public and private schools, as well as schools in New York and New Hampshire, said these unpaid bills are a problem in many districts, but none of the schools her company serves would stop a student from eating because of it.

Three of the largest districts in Illinois — Chicago Public Schools, Naperville and Elgin - based U-46 — say they do not offer it.

Three of the largest districts in Illinois — Chicago Public Schools, Naperville and Elgin - based U-46 — say they do not offer artificially sweetened milk.

The Chicago - based Thomas More Society, on behalf of former Arlington Heights resident Jim Finnegan, sent a letter to Park District officials and village leaders this week asking that a privately funded Nativity scene be allowed in the public North School Park.

The report includes county - and district - level statistics for New York State's public schools which is based on data from the New York State Education Department.

• Proposition 3 - authorize the Hamilton Central School District to levy a tax in the amount of $ 132,535 and pay the trustees of the Hamilton Public library for the support and basis of the library.

The Buffalo Public School District has agreed to work toward resolving the admission requirements for criteria based - schools.

When state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi of the Third Judicial District retired from his second 14 - year term half way through on June 26, the Albany Democrat and former public defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's opublic defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's oPublic Defender's office.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

The Buffalo Public School District is working toward more changes to the admissions process for the city's criteria - based schools.

The Education Investment Tax Credit will increase funds in two areas — donations to public schools, school districts and teacher - driven projects; and scholarships to help low - and middle - income students attend religious and other tuition - based schools, according to the NY Archdiocese.

They analyzed nearly 70,000 school records for students in district - based traditional public kindergarten in New York City in 2009, and linked the records to demographic information and neighborhood characteristics.

While schools often are required to ask students for proof that they live within a district, school officials essentially are barred from asking about immigration status and can not block a child's access to a public K - 12 school based on such status, under a landmark 1982 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plyler v. Doe.

The Council of the Great City Schools, based in Washington, is a national policy and research organization in urban education that represents 65 urban public school districts.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

«There's still plenty of work ahead and some pretty radical changes taking place,» explained Mike Martin, director of curriculum and technology at Montpelier Public Schools in Vermont, whose district starting transitioning to a competency - based model in 2013.

HGSE will partner with Cambridge Public Schools, Boston Renaissance Charter School, Prospect Hill Academy Charter School, the Richard J. Murphy School in Boston, and the Education Collaborative — a consortium of 11 metro - west districts — to offer content training and classroom - based support to middle - school mathematics teaSchool, Prospect Hill Academy Charter School, the Richard J. Murphy School in Boston, and the Education Collaborative — a consortium of 11 metro - west districts — to offer content training and classroom - based support to middle - school mathematics teaSchool, the Richard J. Murphy School in Boston, and the Education Collaborative — a consortium of 11 metro - west districts — to offer content training and classroom - based support to middle - school mathematics teaSchool in Boston, and the Education Collaborative — a consortium of 11 metro - west districts — to offer content training and classroom - based support to middle - school mathematics teaschool mathematics teachers.

In an unprecedented move, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office brought criminal charges of grand theft last week against 43 public - school teachers who received salary increases based on fraudulently obtained college credits.

Consultant for inner - city public school districts, specializing in customized models and solutions based on the assets of the particular districts / cities

But based on the amount of student improvement, Hartford Public Schools administrators placed the pre-K - to - grade -6-school into the category of defined autonomy at the district level.

The Spokane (Washington) Public Schools, along with many other school districts, has made a living embracing this simple concept: If we assess our students beforehand, create a common curriculum based upon what the students need to have, then teach that curriculum and fill in what the students don't have, and then assess the students again to be sure they got it, we'll probably be okay.

Based on responses from more than 1,200 elementary, middle, and high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, the survey numbers are estimates for all 79,000 public schools in the United States, extrapolated from the survey sample.

Allocating funds based on the number and characteristics of students that attend a school, instead of more typical methods of district - based budgeting and funding personnel, has the potential to facilitate public school choice by helping to ensure district schools of choice receive equitable funding.

Meanwhile, for those who tend to agree with Immanuel Kant that social and emotional learning are best when based on abstractions and not bound up with the vagaries of faith, there are public district and charter schools.

The language in the budget proposal says it would be an increase of $ 1 billion in Title I to encourage states and districts to adopt student - based funding systems where money, including state, local and federal funds, follows the child to the school that they attend within the public sector.

Further, it is unlikely that district authorizers will move beyond the regulatory - driven, compliance - based accountability systems that are the hallmark of public education or the troubling hit - and - miss formation of new schools that is raising questions about the ability of charter schools to deliver improvement on the scale that our country needs.

The first teachers» union contract approved for one of Massachusetts» 57 charter schools that operate outside a local public school district will allow performance - based teacher pay and a longer school day.

«Districts can be so hard to change,» said Dan Challener, president of the Public Education Foundation, an independent, nonprofit, community - based organization that provides training, research, and resources to teachers, principals, and schools in the Hamilton County area of Tennessee.

The following Florida districts are among the nation's 100 largest public school districts, based on 1992 - 93 enrollment figures from the U.S. Department of Education.

ESD gave just 16 percent of the city's public schools (district or charter) a C + or better in 2014, based on a combination of academic status, progress, and school climate measures.

Rewards in the form of a waiver, or incentives in the form of a state innovation grant or site - based merit pay, could be included in a public academy contract with a host school district; so must corrective action policies for academic or fiscal malfeasance.

By using the threat of effectively denying the children of military personnel access to public education, the bill seeks to force the federal government either to increase its impact - aid payments to districts or to establish separate schools, with full federal funding, on the bases.

The schools operated by CMOs often receive less overall public funding on a per - pupil basis than comparable district - run public schools, with the deficit ranging from approximately 10 to 30 percent.

In each district, we sampled up to two elementary schools and two high schools, making sure to capture representative samples of public, private and charter schools based on demographics.

In a survey of all school districts conducted between July and September, the Connecticut - based market - research firm found that 31,069 schools started using computers in classes last year, and that almost 56,000 public schools now use them.

In fact, the district - based system (a single public sector operator of schools) that we've had for the last century is extraordinarily rational when viewed from above.

But we find little evidence of a public backlash against Common Core and test - based accountability, at least on the basis of new information about local school district rankings.

Based on a year of self - examination by 44 of the largest urban districts, «Challenges to Urban Education: Results in the Making,» casts the future of inner - city public schools in terms far more optimistic than other recent assessments.

These charters are accountable to the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board (PCSB) for the quality and results of their pre-K programs — just as they are for grades K — 12 — but they are not subject to the kind of extensive, input - based quality requirements found in other pre-K programs.

And second, though charters» current locations are partly based on student need, they also reflect political compromises: In many states, suburban Republican lawmakers have been happy to support charters so long as they don't threaten the traditional public schools in their own leafy districts.

As a long - time member of the Public Education Leadership Project, a joint initiative between HBS and HGSE, Higgins co-authored a book with her colleagues on managing central office - school relationships called, Achieving Coherence in District Improvement; this book is based upon their work with large urban districts over a ten - year time period.

The average scholarship amount, based on the public - school district in which students live, ranges from nearly $ 4,500 in kindergarten to $ 5,600 in high school.

To investigate the public's views about race - and income - based enrollment programs, we asked Americans one of two variations of the following question: «In order to promote diversity, should public school districts be allowed to take the racial background [family income] of students into account when assigning students to schools?»

Leveling the Playing Field: Creating Funding Equity Through Student - Based Budgeting When Cincinnati Public Schools devised a reform strategy for improving student performance, it became clear that the district's traditional budgeting system was inadequate.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child