Sentences with phrase «few school districts provide»

I know that lots of kids no longer go to their neighborhood schools and few school districts provide buses.

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Forty years ago, The Nutrition Group began as a relatively small company that provided meals for summer camps, senior congregate dining programs and a few school districts in Pennsylvania.

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.

Todd Drafall, the district's business manager, said the schools are open to providing healthy food options but are limited by finances, which were further strained by a slight increase in the past few years of students qualifying for free and reduced - cost lunches.

It makes no sense to provide more funding to school districts that now have fewer students based on a budget from six years ago.»

ALBANY — Few upstate school districts plan to launch full - day pre-kindergarten programs in September, even though Governor Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers provided $ 40 million in the state budget for that purpose.

Charters appear to provide fewer extracurricular activities than either private or district schools, perhaps because they are newer and often have less - lavish facilities and limited space for playgrounds and sports activities.

And though the authors of this report acknowledge the «countless intervening factors» that «no doubt affect a school board member's ability to influence district achievement» and which they haven't covered in this report, they nevertheless provide an invaluable guide to policymakers for making a few simple changes in board governance that could effect major improvements for student academic performance.

Fewer than 40 of the district's 194 schools volunteered to participate in the program, in which teachers and other staff members, parents, and community members form school - community councils to provide oversight for school policy in consultation with the school principal, according to Rodney Davis, director of information services.

For the first time in decades, real per pupil spending will decline this year, forcing school districts to make painful budget choices — providing fewer services with their diminished resources.

Winnie Hu writes in the New York Times about school districts adopting Singapore Math, which is thought to provide a better foundation for higher - order math skills by teaching fewer topics but in more depth.

The scaling of high - performing CMOs provides one of the highest levels of return and leverage for philanthropic funds, particularly when you consider that CMOs tend to deliver much higher student achievement than the local district; these schools will continue to serve students in a high - quality way over time; and there are few investments in K — 12 that have consistently yielded this level of performance.

«Rather than using taxpayer dollars to provide vouchers to a few, we must focus our resources and efforts on concrete reforms that make our public schools better for all of the District's schoolchildren.»

It says that to get federal money, districts have to prove a few things — among them, that they're using state and local dollars to provide roughly the same services to kids in poor and non-poor schools alike.

While there has been a gradual increase in the number of school - based health clinics, which provide preventive and remedial care and even crisis interventions, clinics serve only a small minority of students, and few states and districts have policies in place to help them scale up and become sustainable.

Although enforcing new standards may be a few years away, they will provide guidelines for school districts and parents of hearing - impaired children.

Only a few have made sustained efforts at capacity building (such as Missouri «s 1993 Outstanding Schools Act provided funding for a state - wide teacher professional development system, or New Jersey «s provision of significant additional resources to high poverty «Abbott» school districts).

Because few states have adopted comprehensive approaches to reform, state policy provides agencies and school districts with general directions for improving teaching and learning, but guidance for more specific means of achieving the goals in question is limited.

As reported yesterday in Dropout Nation, the civil rights collection's data on whether districts are providing comprehensive college - preparatory education to all of its students is flawed because it focuses on proportionality of course participation compared to overall district enrollment; this doesn't fully reveal the extent of how few kids — especially those from poor and minority backgrounds — are not getting the preparation they need to do well in traditional colleges, technical schools, and apprenticeships (and ultimately, in the adult world).

Save for a few instances, such as the initial efforts of Southern governors (including Alexander during his tenure as Tennessee's governor) and chambers of commerce during the 1970s that spurred what became the modern school reform movement, it has been the federal government that has been the driving force in coaxing states to take full responsibility for the districts they control as part of their constitutional provisions requiring them to provide education.

Assault on High School Sports: Destroys Florida High School Athletes Association by turning student athletes into free agents, prevents school districts from having their own policies, allows transfers to other schools without regulations, creates unfair advantages for a few schools, and encourages athlete recruitment by neglecting to provide for transportSchool Sports: Destroys Florida High School Athletes Association by turning student athletes into free agents, prevents school districts from having their own policies, allows transfers to other schools without regulations, creates unfair advantages for a few schools, and encourages athlete recruitment by neglecting to provide for transportSchool Athletes Association by turning student athletes into free agents, prevents school districts from having their own policies, allows transfers to other schools without regulations, creates unfair advantages for a few schools, and encourages athlete recruitment by neglecting to provide for transportschool districts from having their own policies, allows transfers to other schools without regulations, creates unfair advantages for a few schools, and encourages athlete recruitment by neglecting to provide for transportation.

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.

High School Sports: Destroys Florida High School Athletes Association by turning student athletes into free agents, prevents school districts from having their own policies, allows transfers without regulations, creates unfair advantages for a few schools, encourages athlete recruitment by neglecting to provide for transportSchool Sports: Destroys Florida High School Athletes Association by turning student athletes into free agents, prevents school districts from having their own policies, allows transfers without regulations, creates unfair advantages for a few schools, encourages athlete recruitment by neglecting to provide for transportSchool Athletes Association by turning student athletes into free agents, prevents school districts from having their own policies, allows transfers without regulations, creates unfair advantages for a few schools, encourages athlete recruitment by neglecting to provide for transportschool districts from having their own policies, allows transfers without regulations, creates unfair advantages for a few schools, encourages athlete recruitment by neglecting to provide for transportation.

Joanna Fox of the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University reviews research related to community partnerships that support keeping students in school and on track to graduation, provided snapshots of community and non-profit organizations dropout prevention efforts, and shares success stories of a few schools and districts — Dothan City Schools, Alabama; Harris County Schools in Houston, Texas; and New York City Sschools and districts — Dothan City Schools, Alabama; Harris County Schools in Houston, Texas; and New York City SSchools, Alabama; Harris County Schools in Houston, Texas; and New York City SSchools in Houston, Texas; and New York City SchoolsSchools.

It comes as no surprise that the majority of states provide fewer dollars per student to their highest - poverty school districts than to their lowest - poverty districts and that most states have funding gaps between the schools that have the most minority students and those that have the fewest.

Enrollment in teacher preparation programs plummets; these programs are unable to provide a sufficient supply of replacement teachers for local school districts, even as fewer teachers are needed.

The first year of teaching is often a blur of lessons learned in the hot seat while students fail to learn all that they could.13 Nearly 1 in 7 new teachers leave the classroom before completing their third year, with most citing classroom management, the burden of curriculum freedom, and unsupportive school environments as their greatest challenges.14 According to the National Center for Education Statistics, teachers with three or fewer years of teaching experience are less likely than more experienced teachers to report being very well - prepared to maintain order and discipline in the classroom.15 Additionally, new teachers were less likely than more experienced teachers to report being well - prepared to implement state or district curricula.16 Residency and induction programs can provide essential practical training in classroom management, assessment and data literacy, and differentiation or special education techniques.17

The Resident Educator Program is a multi-year, comprehensive program in which Ohio school districts provide a coordinated set of supports for teachers during their first few years in the classroom.

There are a few school districts (San Francisco and San Jose) that either are or are planning to, provide subsidized housing for new teachers.

In addition, when asked during the hearing if he would intervene as Assistant Secretary if Black students in a school district were receiving lower quality teachers, fewer books, fewer AP classes and fewer educational resources than White students, Mr. Marcus would not commit to addressing this clear violation of civil rights laws that prohibit districts from providing students of color with inferior resources.

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

After eliminating the districts with fewer than 10 school - aged children, those that are not unified and those that do not provide a K - 12 curriculum, we identified the 10 districts with the highest median income among residents and the 10 with the lowest median income.

If they did, they would know that Alexander's plan would all but solidify the Obama Administration's move over the past few years to eviscerate No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, which have exposed the failure of traditional districts to provide high - quality teaching, curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).

(10) A regulation under subclause (2)(k)(i) shall not provide for more than 22 or fewer than five members on any district school board.