Sentences with phrase «efforts in our school districts»

The PAI provides parents with tools and resources to lead grassroots advocacy efforts in their school districts.

STEDI.org has forged ahead implementing research - based practices to improve recruiting, training, and retention efforts in school districts throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

CTAC has successfully partnered on school improvement efforts in school districts throughout the country, including:

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

Guidance Materials: Guidance for the Development of California School Wellness Policies (2005), developed in a collaborative effort between the Department of Education and other organizations, provides districts with suggestions and concrete recommendations for meeting Section 204 requirements.

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.»

Chris has his own blog, as he describes below, and I asked him if he would be willing to share here his efforts to try to improve this situation in his Iowa City school district, where he is now the parent of three children and teaches legal writing and analysis at the University of Iowa College of Law (but the opinions he expresses here are entirely his own).

Schools and districts in Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah can apply NOW for breakfast - in - the - classroom grant money to cover the upfront costs often associated with the startup and implementation of breakfast in the classroom and «grab n» go» programs, such as purchasing equipment, outreach efforts to parents, program promotion, and other related expenses.

Due to her generous and heartfelt efforts across the district and in her community, the non-profit School Nutrition Foundation (SNF) has recognized April as one of five 2018 national School Nutrition Heroes.

This project created Farm to School Programs in Auburn and Renton School Districts and expanded the existing successful Farm to School Program in Kent School Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sSchool Programs in Auburn and Renton School Districts and expanded the existing successful Farm to School Program in Kent School Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sSchool Districts and expanded the existing successful Farm to School Program in Kent School Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sSchool Program in Kent School Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sSchool Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sschool meals and snacks.

In an effort to attract more students to try school meals and welcome them in district cafeterias, food service professionals have been creating exciting food arIn an effort to attract more students to try school meals and welcome them in district cafeterias, food service professionals have been creating exciting food arin district cafeterias, food service professionals have been creating exciting food art.

So, in an obvious effort to undo some of the reputational damage, LAUSD's school board eventually voted on and approved a district - wide ban on flavored milk.

In partnership with our good friends at the Walmart Foundation, the AASA is providing school districts the opportunity to apply for school breakfast «mini-grants,» in an effort to increase school breakfast participation using alternative breakfast strategieIn partnership with our good friends at the Walmart Foundation, the AASA is providing school districts the opportunity to apply for school breakfast «mini-grants,» in an effort to increase school breakfast participation using alternative breakfast strategiein an effort to increase school breakfast participation using alternative breakfast strategies.

HISD is partnering with the Texas Department of Agriculture and local farmers and growers in an effort to serve more homegrown fruits and vegetables in district schools.

The school district's efforts to buy better quality ingredients from local businesses fit in well with the city of Austin's Good Food Purchasing program, an initiative to harness the buying power of big institutions to benefit the local economy and support the city's sustainability goals.

Last summer the American Heart Association conducted a workshop for the food managers of the 12 Chicago school districts under the AHA's Hearty School Lunch Program, a national effort to educate lunchroom staff in creating more healthful school districts under the AHA's Hearty School Lunch Program, a national effort to educate lunchroom staff in creating more healthful School Lunch Program, a national effort to educate lunchroom staff in creating more healthful meals.

«The amazing thing is how the school smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bschool smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bSchool Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bschool district is more than six times bigger.

The spirit of cooperation was evident in the Safety Town, Counselor - In - The - Park and Ecology Corps programs, all cooperative efforts between the Park District and the Village, school districts, Illinois Department of Labor, and the Junior Women's Cluin the Safety Town, Counselor - In - The - Park and Ecology Corps programs, all cooperative efforts between the Park District and the Village, school districts, Illinois Department of Labor, and the Junior Women's CluIn - The - Park and Ecology Corps programs, all cooperative efforts between the Park District and the Village, school districts, Illinois Department of Labor, and the Junior Women's Club.

Following several public meetings and many discussions with High School District 214, whose swim teams used the indoor pool for practices and meets, about a combined effort to renovate and expand the pool, a plan was approved by the Park Board in December 2002.

Federal and state agencies, school districts, and education stakeholders must continue their efforts to increase participation in the School Breakfast Program.&school districts, and education stakeholders must continue their efforts to increase participation in the School Breakfast Program.&School Breakfast Program.»

Empowering local school districts to produce and serve nutritious, scratch - cooked meals was at the heart of the School Food Initiative's efforts to improve the health and life outcomes for children in Santa Barbara Cschool districts to produce and serve nutritious, scratch - cooked meals was at the heart of the School Food Initiative's efforts to improve the health and life outcomes for children in Santa Barbara CSchool Food Initiative's efforts to improve the health and life outcomes for children in Santa Barbara County.

Although USDA has acknowledged that menu planning in such schools can be challenging, USDA's current guidance does not provide these districts flexibility to assist their efforts to comply.

The training began with a core group of 120 employees over the summer in an effort to ensure that 30 schools across the district started the school year with personnel who had participated in the training.

In addition, attendees joined small group discussions about effective and successful policies and practices at the school, district, and state level pertaining to three groups of activities that catalyze efforts to meet and exceed Smart Snacks requirements:

After eight years of work to «fix school food», I am convinced that while on paper it may be possible to draw up a budget to operate a school meal program, including all of the expenses — food, labor, overhead, kitchen facilities, equipment, staff training, office expenses, everything it takes to run a meal program — with nutritious scratch cooked lunches for $ 2.72 apiece, no district of any size is, in fact, doing it, despite the best efforts of many capable people like Ann Cooper.

Using their considerable market power, some districts have been able to force dairies to make lower sugar flavored milk, and I've been told that my own Houston school district (7th largest in the country) is embarking on a similar effort.

I had stumbled across a story about her on CNN which described her efforts to improve the meals in San Francisco USD, the district in which her three sons had gone to school.

Through her efforts to help children everywhere — be it through her «Blessings in a Bag» backpack program for students in her district, or charity fundraisers for childhood cancer awareness — Sam Ingram exemplifies what it means to be a School Nutrition Hero.

We love the recent post over at the USDA blog by Dr. Robert Lewis of the El Monte School District, in which Dr. Lewis writes about his district's efforts to improve the lives of students using health - promoting messages in the clDistrict, in which Dr. Lewis writes about his district's efforts to improve the lives of students using health - promoting messages in the cldistrict's efforts to improve the lives of students using health - promoting messages in the classroom.

A number of Assembly members who haven't spoken out against efforts to limit charter schools have long waiting lists in their districts of kids wanting to get into those schools.

In a press release out this morning, Kremer praised the efforts of the school districts.

A committee of the state Board of Regents recommends spending $ 2.1 billion more on schools in the new state budget, saying it's time to continue an effort begun a decade ago to funnel more money to the state's poorest school districts.

Public Employees Discount In an effort to encourage public employees to reside within the City of Syracuse the Land Bank will offer any full - time employee of the City of Syracuse, Onondaga County, or Syracuse City School District a sales price discount.

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

In an effort to cut costs, the Connecticut towns of Monroe and Easton have joined talks with nine other school districts to consider regionalizing their resources.

Tisch said she opposed the move to «decouple» students» test scores from teachers» job ratings on grounds that it might detract from state efforts to improve instruction in low - performing school districts.

Metropolitan, municipal, and district assemblies must also make provision in their annual plans and budgets to support monitoring by the school feeding desk officer to complement efforts of zonal coordinators, it added.

The projects range from two municipalities partnering together to county government - led projects with multiple local municipalities and school districts partnering in shared efforts.

Huntley, who previously worked as the president of Community School Board 28, has focused a lot of her efforts in Albany on improving the schools in her district and helping residents with the foreclosure crisis.

The state labeled Hughes a «persistently low - achieving» school in early 2010 because of its low test scores, and despite an infusion of state funding and efforts to turn it around, it has not markedly improved, district Chief Academic Officer Laura Kelley said.

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.

Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has a high number of failing schools in his Bronx district, responds to Cuomo's recent highlighting of that fact in an effort to push his education reform agenda.

School districts, teachers unions and local government officials are concerned that the cap was passed without a real effort at chipping away at unfunded state mandates, while the Cuomo team argues that once the cap is in place, governments and school boards will be forced to make the difficult (and presumably correct) spending choices while retaining essential serSchool districts, teachers unions and local government officials are concerned that the cap was passed without a real effort at chipping away at unfunded state mandates, while the Cuomo team argues that once the cap is in place, governments and school boards will be forced to make the difficult (and presumably correct) spending choices while retaining essential serschool boards will be forced to make the difficult (and presumably correct) spending choices while retaining essential services.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, in a highly unusual move, appointed veteran educator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead school district to bolster efforts to turn around the chronically troubled system.

«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.

Further, to reduce and eliminate the disconnect between the interests of the school board and the children actually attending the schools, I will explore several options and, once educational experts, legal experts, and district parents have weighed in, will push with sustained effort to make the fixes.

The Utica City School District received more than $ 4 million from the state to increase the number of hours kids are in school during the year, in an effort to increase the district's Common Core test sSchool District received more than $ 4 million from the state to increase the number of hours kids are in school during the year, in an effort to increase the district's Common Core testDistrict received more than $ 4 million from the state to increase the number of hours kids are in school during the year, in an effort to increase the district's Common Core test sschool during the year, in an effort to increase the district's Common Core testdistrict's Common Core test scores.

Off topic questions included: the ISIS in Iraq and potential threats to New York, his hair color in a World Cup themed picture, the City's negotiations with CW Capital concerning Stuyvesant Town, whether he concerned that religion - affiliated CBO's pre-K programs will involve some religious instruction or indoctrination, the Rent Guidelines Board and a possible rent increase, rating his administration on it's FOIL responsiveness, whether subway dancers are a «sign of urban decay», whether he is contemplating a special district for failing schools and whether there is symbolism is seeking to bring the Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn rather than Manhattan and whether he has coordinated that effort with Hillary Clinton.

Bridgeton — Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assemblyman John Burzichelli joined with local officials, educators and others in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Bridgeton School District as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE&school funding for the Bridgeton School District as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE&School District as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE&school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

At noon, NYC Councilman Mathieu Eugene joins elected officials, school administrators, and clergy members for the launch of «District 40 Cares,» a collaborative relief effort to provide supplies to those affected by the devastation caused by hurricanes in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean and the earthquake in Mexico, 900 Rogers Ave., Brooklyn.