Sentences with phrase «for kids in the district»

Everybody who is involved with the organization donates their time and energy to ensure good food for kids in the District.

«It's a great opportunity and it's going to be a great role model for the kids in the district,» Alicea said.

For kids in the district's welding classes, a water - jet cutter not only represents the latest in high tech cutting equipment, using high water pressure to quickly slice through metal, it also teaches the math needed to program the machine.

The new superintendent of Hartford Public Schools (an ERS partner), Dr. Leslie Torres - Rodriguez, approached the challenge by asking: «What do I want schools to do for kids in my district?»

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Rick Santorum is a lier, he lied about living in a school district and having the school district pay for his kids internet schooling while renting the house out and living in DC.

Also I know of rual school districts that take the first day of hunting season off because they know alot of kids will not be in so why cant the NYC schools do that for days they know their good sized population of Muslim kids wont be in?

The company is very active in the local school district where it provides healthy breakfast for kids, sports equipment and even books.

A few years earlier, visiting the Pediatrics Unit at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, he had been genuinely overwhelmed at seeing kids the same age as his own dying of leukemia, and on a walking tour later on in the Lake District with his wife he had had the idea of this marathon hike to raise money for a leukemia research charity.

Kids with delinquent meal account balances are not the first thing most people think of when they consider charitable giving, but this Santa's gesture was thoughtful and kind and will make a huge difference for a lot of kids in his district this yKids with delinquent meal account balances are not the first thing most people think of when they consider charitable giving, but this Santa's gesture was thoughtful and kind and will make a huge difference for a lot of kids in his district this ykids in his district this year.

For those heading to the Distillery District with kids in tow, I definitely don't mean to dissuade you.

A walk along the trails of Thorn Creek, hosted by The Forest Preserve District of Will County and sponsored by the Thorn Creek Audubon Society, is a chance for kids to discover not only why leaves change in the fall, but why different trees turn different colors.

In a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm, that additional food waste and expense for my district is likely to be considerablIn a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm, that additional food waste and expense for my district is likely to be considerablin - class breakfast is the norm, that additional food waste and expense for my district is likely to be considerable.

Late last month, the Montgomery County (Maryland) PTA delegates voted in favor of a resolution, promoted by Real Food For Kids — Montgomery (RFKM), which seeks to greatly improve the school food in that district.

I greatly disliked the nutrient standard method, formerly used by my district, because it seemed to create an odd «nutritionism» approach — as when Houston kids were actually required to take a package of animal crackers every morning at breakfast for the iron contained in the fortified flour.

In particular, Saidel said the company is focusing on helping districts get waivers for four products especially popular with kids: pizza crust, biscuits, tortillas and pasta.»

Many parents today also choose alternative options, such as academic redshirting, or the practice of postponing for a year school entry for kids whose birthdays are close to cut - off date (often in or around September for most districts).

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

If I had any long term plans, it would be for Feed the Future Forward to have made a difference with school or district policies and that they have found a way to budget for all our kids to eat while they are enrolled in their schools.

ALREADY?!? It's hard to believe, but in many school districts, kids have already traded swimsuits and flip flops for spiral notebooks and pencil boxes.

Thus, districts with in - class breakfast programs have an economic incentive to serve as many meals as possible, regardless of whether some meals are being served to kids who have no need for it — and whose parents would greatly prefer they not partake of it.

«In Arlington Heights, we're not seeing a lot of needy kids, but these families are very busy,» said Coletta Hines - Newell, the director of food services for Arlington Heights Elementary School District 25, where officials kicked the pilot breakfast program last week.

but again, there were too many questions like «where do i start, what is feasible in my district, why did the chocolate milk come back and why is it so hard to get it off the menu (i know the answer to that now), why are there so many excuses and not enough nourishing food for kids, why does it have to take a decade or three to make a few menu reform changes?

I take your point about the letter from Ray Cortines but I do still wonder whether the «new menu» (for which Jamie seems to take more than a bit of credit in the season finale) was already in the works before he came to L.A. My guess is still yes, just because there's likely to be considerable lag time in planning and procuring a new menu for a district of 700,000 kids.

Thanks for mentioning how «districts are still unconscionably underfunded when it comes to school food, and Big Food still plays too large of a lobbying role in shaping what appears on kids» trays.»

While Houston ISD's breakfast menu is used as a springboard for discussion in the piece, it's certainly not alone in serving kids too much sugar; similar breakfast menus can be found in districts all over the country.

«There are food insecure and hungry kids in every Congressional district and every demographic,» Lucy Melcher, the director of advocacy and government relations for the nonprofit Share Our Strength said in a statement to The Washington Post.

I recently read with interest that Real Food for Kids — Montgomery (RFKM), a parent group in the Montgomery County (MD) Public School system, has persuaded the district to eliminate Baked Doritos and Baked Cheetos from items sold to students a la carte.

«Right now, we do n`t have the space for any new programs, and we «re sending some of our kids to Bensenville and Addison districts so they can take part in other activities, «O`Brien said.

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There I explain the many factors, including chronic federal underfunding and quirks in the federal rules (such as no requirement that protein be offered, and the allowance of juice as a substitute for half of kids» fruit quota), which incentivize districts around the country to serve breakfasts nearly identical to the ones served in my district.

But if chocolate milk is viewed by school districts as «soda in drag,» as Ann Cooper, the director of nutrition services for the Boulder Valley School District in Colorado called it, should our kids really be drinking it?

«All it said was I wanted to thank the Cary Park District for showing how anal - retentive Cary could be by driving around for five hours taking decibel readings and telling kids not to pee in the weeds.»

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I recently read with interest that Real Food for Kids - Montgomery (RFKM), a parent group in the Montgomery County (MD) Public School system, has persuaded the district to eliminate Baked Doritos and Baked Cheetos from items sold to students a la... [Continue reading]

Yet because 80 % or more of HISD students qualify for free or reduced price meals, I've often wondered if stigma is really an issue in my district; in other words, if most kids qualify for federal assistance, maybe there's less shame in taking advantage of those benefits.

Let's examine whether we could follow the lead of forward - thinking districts like San Francisco USD by getting rid of our «a la carte» lines entirely, so that all kids can get a balanced meal (instead of grabbing nachos and a slushie and calling it lunch) and no Houston kid gets his picture put on Facebook to shame him for eating in the «poor kids & # 822....

Swept up in a Michelle Obama - led tide of enthusiasm for healthy eating, the school district kicked off this year by banning nachos and chicken nuggets from the cafeterias, and feeding the kids healthy and often vegetarian food.

In districts where schools pay their food service provider a flat rate for meals, rebates represent corporate profit that goes to shareholders instead of into the food kids are being served.

Most raise their prices for kids who can pay, according to research by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were available.

The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act will expand the number of children in school lunch programs by 115,000, increase the reimbursement rate to school districts for meals by six cents and replace the junk food available outside the cafeteria, such as in vending machines, with more healthful options.

In many school districts, the kids eating school lunch are not paying for it.

In other words, it's up to each school district, and by extension the community that agrees to its budget, to figure out how to cover the debts of kids who can't pay for meals.

These are just some of the reasons anti-hunger advocates want New York City to join this expanding federal program that allows all kids in a given district to eat for free.

«Our goal as a department and a district is to make sure the last kid has the same choices as the first in the variety and the quality,» says Craig Schneider, director of nutrition for the Poudre School Ddistrict is to make sure the last kid has the same choices as the first in the variety and the quality,» says Craig Schneider, director of nutrition for the Poudre School DistrictDistrict.

With districts that have lower percentages of kids on the free and reduced lunch program (like mine at 22 %), it's harder because you have less volume in purchasing and less funds for developing the program.

It's certainly a win - win situation for these schools, but it also creates a disturbing picture of rich kids nibbling on sushi and having enough money for the team uniforms, while poor kids in a neighboring district are not only getting eating subpar food, they're often selling candy and other junk food to raise money for those same uniforms, further contributing to poor health habits that may last a lifetime.

-LSB-...] Assuming your district is offering healthful foods on the lunch line, consider a gathering a group of parent volunteers to act as new food «boosters» in the cafeteria — handing out «I Tried It» stickers and praise for kids who taste new, healthful foods.

All schools need do is follow the lead of Berkeley and other school districts that understand that tons of sugar can not be good for kids in the middle of an obesity epidemic.

I'd recently joined our district's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee (reluctantly because, after all, my own kids won't even eat school food), and then, realizing how much I had to learn about the byzantine National School Lunch Program, I'd read Janet Poppendeick's Free For All: Fixing School Food in America — a consciousness - raising experience.

If the measure fails, Walters said, «families looking to buy homes in the district may look elsewhere to find the best parks for their kids.»