Sentences with phrase «for other schools around the country»

While this may sound like an unrealistic model for other schools around the country — and it certainly costs a pretty penny to send your kids to such a utopia — Amis Cameron is on a mission to spread the MUSE method of sustainable, healthy eats elsewhere.

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The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

Additional Masses are held around the clock to accommodate the thousands of school groups, parish youth groups, families, and others who find whatever way they can to make it to Washington from all over the country for the march.

Returning to school, which was admirable for birding, being small and in the country, with nothing but fields, woods, and streams for miles around, I began to learn the small land birds of eastern Pennsylvania and in a few years knew them fairly completely without any assistance from others except the Reed's guide.

My sources for most food reform issues are, most notably, Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, by Janet Poppendieck, but also countless other books, articles, blog posts, and phone conversations with other school food reformers around the coSchool Food in America, by Janet Poppendieck, but also countless other books, articles, blog posts, and phone conversations with other school food reformers around the coschool food reformers around the country.

(And these donuts actually have less sugar than a lot of other sweetened grain items served for breakfast by schools around the country, at least before the frosting and sprinkles are added by the district.)

As the school year gears up for TLT» ers around the country, I wanted to share two school lunch items with you, one related to lunch in the cafeteria and the other to home - packed lunches.

These success stories illustrate the hard work of your school nutrition colleagues around the country; we find them so inspiring, and collecting stories like these can help you make the case — to your principal, your staff, and your administrators — for school breakfast, and other school wellness programs.

Or just call her Mrs. Q. That's the moniker chosen by the anonymous teacher who has vowed to eat school lunches for a year and blog the results in hopes of inspiring change at her school and others around the country.

She vowed to eat school lunches for a year and blog the results in hopes of inspiring change at her school and others around the country.

I often share digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.

Cuomo decried the spate of anti-Semitic acts around the country and touted his proposal to provide $ 25 million in additional funding for schools and other potential targets to enhance security.

That's because the arrays will also allow Butte students to get real world training for the green jobs of tomorrow, much like the semiannual Solar Decathlon, which pits students from schools around the country against each other to design and build solar - powered houses.

This style time video is a perfect guideline for what to wear for some of our state football teams, but they can easily be associated with national leagues and other schools around the country, as well as good looks to transition into the new season.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

The administration has yet to release a proposal for how the federal government might foster more school choice in states and localities around the country, although its initial budget proposal included additional funding for charters and other forms of public school choice, as well as funding for a new private school choice program.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

As some school districts around the country weigh whether or not mandatory eLearning days will be right for them, others...

As some school districts around the country weigh whether or not mandatory eLearning days will be right for them, others are already enjoying the benefits brought on by this new learning initiative.

Schools are changing in response to this reality, and in Transforming Schools Using Project - Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards, Bob Lenz, Justin Wells, and Sally Kingston draw on the example of the Envision Education schools, as well as other leading schools around the country, to show how the concept of deeper learning can meet the need for students who are both college and career ready and engaged in their own eduSchools are changing in response to this reality, and in Transforming Schools Using Project - Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards, Bob Lenz, Justin Wells, and Sally Kingston draw on the example of the Envision Education schools, as well as other leading schools around the country, to show how the concept of deeper learning can meet the need for students who are both college and career ready and engaged in their own eduSchools Using Project - Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards, Bob Lenz, Justin Wells, and Sally Kingston draw on the example of the Envision Education schools, as well as other leading schools around the country, to show how the concept of deeper learning can meet the need for students who are both college and career ready and engaged in their own eduschools, as well as other leading schools around the country, to show how the concept of deeper learning can meet the need for students who are both college and career ready and engaged in their own eduschools around the country, to show how the concept of deeper learning can meet the need for students who are both college and career ready and engaged in their own education.

«Local philanthropists, educators, judges, clergy and others around the country are starting local residential schools rather than just despair of the conditions so many youth live in, and fail in,» said Heidi Goldsmith, founder and executive director of the Washington - based Coalition for Residential Education.

Compare the EEI score and other metrics for your school to up to 9 other schools from around the country, using our «similar schools engine» or select your own.

Developed Maine's first statewide school accountability system (A-F school grades) to ensure transparency in school performance for families and students; joining other states and cities around the country who offer these grades on schools — grades that are based on information Maine already collected but that had been sitting in file cabinets at the Department of Education.

Trump's nomination for Education Secretary is Betsy DeVos, who has spent millions to advance charter schools and other forms of «school choice» around the country.

American middle and high school teachers report spending more time at the front of the classroom than teachers in nearly every other country in the developed world.9 While U.S. teachers deliver instruction for about 80 percent of their workday, the international average is around 60 percent — and teachers in high - performing nations like Japan, Korea, and Singapore spend only about one - third of their time providing instruction directly to students.10 We know that it does not have to be this way for U.S. teachers.

Those fellows are paid a salary for two years to develop a project to improve public schools in Indianapolis that can be replicated in other school districts around the country.

In fact, people can obtain a dog from any of the schools, save five (which serve only their own geographical regions), and many dogs from The Seeing Eye, Leader Dogs, Guiding Eyes and the other schools work on the west coast, while many dogs from Guide Dogs for the Blind work all around the country.

The Green Schools Conference & Expo is the premier education and engagement opportunity for teachers, parents, students, school and district staff, educational leaders, building industry professionals, non-profit partners and others who are passionate about the future of green schools throughout the country and around theSchools Conference & Expo is the premier education and engagement opportunity for teachers, parents, students, school and district staff, educational leaders, building industry professionals, non-profit partners and others who are passionate about the future of green schools throughout the country and around theschools throughout the country and around the world.

On March 14, the students walked out of their classrooms, fighting for change and joined by students from more than 3,000 other schools around the country.

More than 150,000 Australians will declare their support today for ending health inequality between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other Australians, with a record number of schools, community groups, health services, businesses and government offices hosting over 1,548 events around the country to mark National Close the Gap Day on 19 March 2015.