Sentences with phrase «ground as school districts»

Today, the four - day plan has spread to a number of states across the country, and the idea continues to gain ground as school districts battle tight budgets.

Not exact matches

Their district is able to prep all salad bar ingredients at their central kitchen, freeing up space at school sites for cooking items such as local drumsticks, raw ground beef, and raw ground turkey.

In his current role as neuropsychological consultant to several large school districts in the Boston area, he is on the ground, in schools and working with kids and their teachers several days each week.

The USDA's announcement on Thursday that school districts will be able to opt out of an ammonium - hydroxide treated ground beef filler known as both Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB) and «pink slime» is not exactly inspiring confidence.

Their district is able to prep all salad bar ingredients at their central kitchen, freeing up space at school sites for cooking items such as local drumsticks, raw ground beef, and raw ground turkey.

So I have recently started adulting after a long run with school and internships... I have Summer's off as I am a guidance counselor in an urban school district... I am finding my middle ground of going to shows and also...

Though specific ways to implement the plans were not addressed, he stressed the need to use troubled urban school districts as a testing ground for...

As Levinson recently told the Harvard EdCast, «These are not the six most important cases or the only cases we need, but they seem to traverse a lot of important ground in education ethics, moving from the classroom to the school to the district and even the state level.»

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

In some of the cities known as ground zero for noisy fights about charter schools, quiet partnerships are underway between district and charter leaders.

The specter of inappropriate testing and drill - based instruction has hovered over early education for decades, but it gained new haunting ground in the mid - to late 2000s as school districts attempted to fulfill or dodge NCLB requirements.

Given the evidence that students from disadvantaged backgrounds lose ground academically over the summer while other students do not, districts that serve large populations of low - income students should be most interested in trading class size for school days as a strategy to improve student achievement.

Gov. McDonnell broke ground on new K - 12 policies this year, such as a law that creates an «opportunity education district» through which the state can assume control of struggling schools, said Robert Pianta, the dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia.

The fact that the AFT affiliate, like its counterparts in other districts, have the advantage of bodies on the ground — and in the case of race between Zimmer and Anderson, used it to their advantage — is another reminder that the school reform movement must do a better job of building grassroots support, especially among the 11.7 million single - parent families for whose children the failures of big - city districts such as L.A. Unified prove to weigh most - heavily.

As promised, herein lies the beginning stages of my first Maker project grounded in critical pedagogy guided by the Oakland Unified School District's (OUSD) Ethnic Studies framework and the Critical Friends Protocol (CFP) with members of the Radical STEMM Educators of the Bay Area.

Academica West and Eminent Technical Solutions aren't simply ground - maintenance companies — they function as the information technology and human resources departments for Ascent Academy and 16 other charter schools, which on paper are their own school districts.

Under his leadership, CSSR bas become recognized as a leading provider of ground breaking technical assistance to support both policy change and change leadership at the school and district level — leading to a richer more personalized school experience for all youth.

As the first city in the country to offer this ground - breaking opportunity to successful district schools, The Mind Trust could not be more excited to partner with great schools to support them in achieving increased autonomy to protect the fidelity of their successful educational models.

Despite these challenges, they are optimistic that their voices and those of other students across New York City's public schools will gain ground — as the nation's largest school district struggles to raise its own quality review score from «developing» to «proficient.»

Or how about the ground swell of parent support for the exclusive little Montessori school that Nate Snow, CT's TFA director and failed candidate for B'port BoE (republican ticket) wants the district to pay for as a local charter?

If a person establishes that he or she has experienced disadvantageous treatment because of a prohibited ground, then, at that point, the respondent can avoid liability under the Code if it can justify the disadvantageous treatment, including by establishing that the individual's Code - related needs could not be accommodated without undue hardship (see s. 11 and s. 17 of the Code, as well as Baber v. York Region District School Board, 2011 HRTO 213 (CanLII) at para. 88 to 95).