Sentences with phrase «few school districts offer»

Very few school districts offer full ingredient disclosures on their websites, but the majority of them use existing FDA nutrient claims («low - fat milk,» «fat - free milk») to describe milk on their printed and online school meal menus.

Very few school districts offer full ingredient disclosures on their websites, but the majority of them use FDA nutrient content claims («low - fat» milk, «fat - free» milk) to describe milk on their menus.

Not exact matches

We are sure you have heard over the last few days that the contractor the Arlington Heights Park District has been using to provide coaching for our travel team programs recently entered into an agreement with High School District 214 and will be offering a program out of Rolling Meadows High School.

There has been a gradual increase over the past decade in the percentage of districts offering pay incentives for shortage areas (see Figure 4), but recent evidence (see work by Katharine Strunk with Jason Grissom, Tammy Kolbe, and Dara Zeehandelaar) shows that few districts are truly strategic in matching incentives to staffing needs, and as a consequence, school systems continue to struggle to fill teaching slots in math and science.

These obstacles are compounded by the fact that few districts are making it easy for parents to exercise their right to choose or to avail themselves of the related option that offers «supplemental services,» such as after - school tutoring, to students who remain in schools that have failed to improve student performance.

In some districts, school lunch menus are being pared down to fewer selections, instead of the array of healthy options districts would like to offer.

These sites all offer users the ability to compare their school with others in the same school district or state (because standard tests in each state vary, it's difficult to make such comparisons across districts in different states), and a few rank schools based on test performance or other factors.

Many job offers [from other districts] do nt come in until the day school opens or a few days before, which is a problem for us, Sirois added.

The SRI study offers few specifics about individual schools as part of an agreement with the districts.

State tests tend to provide results that are too coarse to offer more than a snapshot of student and school performance, and few district data systems link student achievement metrics to teachers, practices, or programs in a way that can help determine what is working.

Because high performing educators in those small districts have fewer schools to move around to if they want to receive additional pay to work in lower performing schools as required under such programs, those teachers would be more likely to choose to work in a district that can offer that sort of advantage — something Hall said would simply draw even more quality teachers away from rural schools.

On the other, few would say that over the past seven years Booker has been actively involved in decision - making in the district, even when Gov. Chris Christie all but offered him the keys to the schools after the Zuckerberg gift even without the legal authority to do so.

A few years ago, the Holmes County school district offered a few college - level AP courses at only one of its three high schools.

A few teachers in 2015 reported that they were still being offered one - size - fits - all PD and irrelevant PD content for technology integration in their school districts.

Keep the data focused on just a few data sets that offer information on how to contribute to employee performance, school or district outcomes, and most importantly, student achievement,» said Tony Davis, Ph.D., project consultant for McREL International and 28 - year veteran education who held roles as a teacher, assistant principal, principal and K - 12 human resources administrator.

But Missouri offers few options for kids to escape failing or even mediocre traditional district schools — and shuts them down when possible.

Two of those six school districts offer one example: During the 2013 — 14 school year, only 4 percent of teachers in South Bend were rated «Highly Effective» compared to 15 percent in Fort Wayne.70 Among the states that provide school districts flexibility to design their own systems, fewer than half require that the state review and approve district models.71

Miami - Dade County Public Schools is also one of a few public school districts in the United States to offer optional International Studies Programs and bilingual education.

These are only a few examples of how today's ISDs serve urban, suburban and rural K — 12 districts, enabling even the most challenged school to offer otherwise unavailable educational opportunities to its students.

Overton said Pre-K used to be offered to Camden students in a private facility, but the district made a decision a few years ago to house it in their elementary schools — in part because they believed it would be a positive experience for Pre-K students to gain early exposure to their future school facilities and staff.