Sentences with phrase «expensive as school districts»

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For Illinois schools, the ban's biggest impact would be the elimination of fried foods, said Vanover, who believes it would be too expensive for most districts to switch over to natural oils such as peanut or olive oil.

School districts — including my own — often dismiss salad bars as wasteful and expensive, but I've read that they're usually well - received by children, especially when there's an education component to the salad bar's introduction.

Instead, school districts, eager to be perceived as plugged in and afraid of being penalized for low test scores, have bought into expensive drill - and - kill software — the kind that costs a fortune and displays a silly animation of fireworks or cheering crowds for every five correct answers — with only minimal improvements on test scores and scant evidence of long - term progress among students.

James Copeland, an architect with Mosely Architects in Richmond, Virginia, which works with school districts, said that while public - private partnerships may not be less expensive, as hoped, they have other benefits.

Christy Moustris, who oversees the two dozen academies and pathway programs in Elk Grove Unified School District, says those focused on themes like health sciences require more expensive equipment than, say, a business academy, but, on average, Moustris estimates the need as follows:

I recognize that every student is unique and every school has distinctive circumstances, but your district's tech needs are probably not as singular as you may think — and custom tailoring is expensive.

Requiring districts to equalize their state / local spending in each Title I school with the average spending in non-Title I schools can create incentives for districts to adjust which schools they designate as Title I. For example, if a district's lower - poverty Title I schools (which could still be high poverty schools), have new, less - expensive teachers, kicking those schools out of Title I would lower average spending in non-Title I schools.

While not a major force in most rural districts, brick - and - mortar charter schools — far more expensive to operate — can create turmoil in a small district, especially one that sets itself up as a competitor to the community's public schools.

Some also say that the effort to reward higher - performing schools would come at the expensive of schools already facing a steep climb, in districts such as Milwaukee Public Sschools would come at the expensive of schools already facing a steep climb, in districts such as Milwaukee Public Sschools already facing a steep climb, in districts such as Milwaukee Public SchoolsSchools.

That's the view of several charter advocates and close observers of the district, as well as one of the victorious candidates in last week's runoff election, the most expensive school board race in U.S. history.

Remember, this year's Los Angeles School Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School DisSchool Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School Disschool board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School DisSchool District.

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