Sentences with phrase «focused school district»

To nurture systemwide, sustainable excellence, it takes a dynamic and student - focused school district.

Equity - driven achievement - focused school districts.

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«We should be focused on arming law enforcement,» said Mr. Scott, who has proposed helping school districts pay for an armed police officer or sheriff's deputy at every school, and for every 1,000 students in large high schools.

Before opening my own studio, I was a strategic consultant for public school districts with a focus on urban and low - income communities.

Two months after a massacre in Parkland made security the top focus in Broward County schools, many parents and students say the school district is doing too little to ensure safety.

The increase in funding will help ensure that students, teachers and school district staff can focus their energy on teaching and learning.

ATA is focused on developing strategic relationships with educators, administrators, and board members to ensure that most underserved schools in the district are identified and ultimately, helped.

With the generous support of the Walmart Foundation, the newest phase of Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom shifts our focus from direct implementation in individual schools to a state - level expansion; this expansion will allow us to work in partnership with local organizations to provide district - and school - level technical assistance and support for start - up breakfast - in - the - classroom programs.

For a long time I've wanted to write on TLT about School Food FOCUS (Food Options for Children in Urban Schools), a national collaborative that brings together the thirty largest school districts in the country to improve schoolSchool Food FOCUS (Food Options for Children in Urban Schools), a national collaborative that brings together the thirty largest school districts in the country to improve schoolschool districts in the country to improve schoolschool food.

A: We focused the survey on school or school district level nutrition services professionals.

In early 2010, Siegel became interested in improving the food in her children's school district, Houston ISD, and soon after launched The Lunch Tray, a blog focusing on «kids and food, in school and out.»

The Issaquah School District PTSA, in partnership with the Issaquah Schools Foundation and Swedish Hospital, bring you ParentWiser, a lecture series focused on bringing parents of our schools the latest research and information to be the most effective parents they Schools Foundation and Swedish Hospital, bring you ParentWiser, a lecture series focused on bringing parents of our schools the latest research and information to be the most effective parents they schools the latest research and information to be the most effective parents they can be.

Back in 2011, I wrote a piece questioning Oliver's laser - like focus on banning flavored milk in LAUSD, which struck me as low - hanging fruit and maybe the least of that district's school food problems.

Statewide Training and Technical Assistance for School Districts focused on local procurement and the Unprocessed Fruit and Vegetable Pilot Program.

That the stupid cookie or candy included, or the extra bag of cheetos is going to make them banshees in the classroom where your and my child are trying to focus... I would say that even in most districts that the nutritional value on a reimbursable tray is probably better than the brown bag that is being brought to school by most!

Efforts such as School Food Focus» National Learning Lab, Center for Ecoliteracy's California Thursdays, and Meatless Mondays have helped the District make substantial progress with their farm - to - school efSchool Food Focus» National Learning Lab, Center for Ecoliteracy's California Thursdays, and Meatless Mondays have helped the District make substantial progress with their farm - to - school efschool efforts.

Moreover, school districts themselves are too often cash - strapped and preoccupied with other goals to focus on changing their food.

According to FOCUS, school districts in Colorado and San Diego have already made significant progress toward developing their own regional food hubs.

When FOCUS works with a school district, it sets three main goals for school food: making it more healthful in general, obtaining more of it from local farms, and making it sustainable.

The idea behind FOCUS is simple: large school districts procure so much food that they have considerable market power (second only to the U.S. military when it comes to food purchasing), which FOCUS helps them leverage to pressure manufacturers into producing better food.

For instance, with two dual - language Vietnamese schools in the district now, Tanner and her team added banh mi and pho to the menu served at all the schools, not just the two with a focus on that language and culture.

«Buying raw frozen chicken at this scale is unheard of,» said Laura Stanley, of national co-operative School Food FOCUS, which helped the district procure the chicken.

Lunch Lessons offers a variety of services to assist school districts and their community partners in realizing their vision for school food service, including: educational programming through speaking engagements; workshops that address a variety of needs from fiscal to culinary training; focused analysis of various aspects of existing programs; as well as full assessments which analyze all aspects of the food service department and provide recommendations to assist in strategic planning and goal setting.

«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.

A primary focus will be the «After - Three Connection,» opening seven park district sites to some 300 elementary school children in the critical after - school hours of 3 to 6 p.m. Offerings will include arts and crafts, sports, music, gymnastics, homework help and such specialized pursuits as fencing, African dance, rap sessions, stained glass, woodworking and cooking.

This report focuses on one crucial set of challenges that school districts face in meeting nutrition standards for meals: the need for improved equipment and infrastructure.

«Our School District is focused on ensuring that every child receives the best education possible, and Ms. Green's role with our organization is critical to achieving that mission,» Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower said.

FOCUS and the other partners that helped CPS to do this — the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, Whole Foods Market, and Healthy Schools Campaign — are getting calls from districts interested in following Chicago's example.

At School Food FOCUS, where I work with some of largest districts in the nation on school food procurement issues, antibiotics overuse in poultry production is part of mySchool Food FOCUS, where I work with some of largest districts in the nation on school food procurement issues, antibiotics overuse in poultry production is part of myschool food procurement issues, antibiotics overuse in poultry production is part of my beat.

Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «kids and food, in school and out» but in the near future I plan to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the lunch program in my own school district (Houston ISD) and presumably elsewhere in the country.

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The elementary school district launched its junior high - focused STEM program with the inaugural Design and Modeling course last school year.

School Food Focus has improved the supply chain for healthier school food for nearly a decade, by working collaboratively with school district leadership, school food industry, farmers, producers, distributors, and government parSchool Food Focus has improved the supply chain for healthier school food for nearly a decade, by working collaboratively with school district leadership, school food industry, farmers, producers, distributors, and government parschool food for nearly a decade, by working collaboratively with school district leadership, school food industry, farmers, producers, distributors, and government parschool district leadership, school food industry, farmers, producers, distributors, and government parschool food industry, farmers, producers, distributors, and government partners.

Administration (Key Area 3): Presentations will focus on ways to manage and administer the challenges of today's school nutrition program, including ensuring sound business and financial practices, human resources excellence and district organization.

The program focused on how the dropout issue in the Rochester City School District impacts the community as a whole and possible solutions to the problem.

An official from Cuomo's office told POLITICO the proposal would focus more on the methodology of how districts are distributing funds, and wouldn't infringe on voter rights as local voters approve the district budget as a whole and not how resources are distributed by school building.

The Executive Budget includes a $ 5 million increase to expand pre-kindergarten for 3 - and 4 - year - olds, with a focus on high - need school districts.

They discussed a job for Brendan as a litigator who would focus on school district matters and other work.

When asked what issues he would focus on to serve specifically the town / village of Harrison, Buchwald said that he would continue to push for the passage of a local hotel occupancy tax, attempt to relieve some of the property tax burden specific to Harrison, seek funding to repave the state roads within the town, and continue his support of the «great Harrison Central School District.»

Newsday's calculations focus on operating funds, because those are widely considered a more meaningful measure of what a district receives than aid for school construction and renovation, which may or may not go to a district in a given year, depending on whether the work is completed then.

Elizabeth Mascitti - Miller, Chief of the Receivership Schools for the Rochester City School District said they are disappointed but focusing on moving forward.

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.

«It can be difficult to see that when you are simply bombarded with stories that focus on the problems that the Buffalo School district has.»

When the Rochester School Board decided its superintendent search process would not be open to the public, board President Van White pointed out that there would still be ample community input in the form of small focus groups as well as a survey posted on the district website.

«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.

Flanagan said his conference will remain focused on restoring the Gap Elimination Adjustment, a statutory formula that has distributed cuts across school districts in recent years, as the state has grappled with budget deficits.

Tiger Ventures is an innovative pilot program focusing on entrepreneurial teaching for 8th and 9th graders in Union - Endicott school district.

WBFO's Focus on Education reporter Eileen Buckley reports on how the Cheektowaga - Sloan Union Free School District is working more closely with its parents.

Amid a fiscal crisis, taxes rose, and school aid was cut through a program called the Gap Elimination Adjustment that focused most on wealthier, suburban districts generally represented by Republicans.

Lavine, focusing on education policy, said improved school districts and graduation rates would help prevent crime and reduce the city's high rate of poverty.