Sentences with phrase «help kids in that district»

With 337 active robots circulating across nine countries, and municipalities such as Breda in the Netherlands recently purchasing five robots to help kids in that district alone, it's clear people are catching on to the fact that robots aren't a far - off futuristic solution.

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Create a mentoring program where Amazon engineers, economists, data scientists, accountants, and other professionals are partnered with hard science teachers in our school districts to help show kids what it's like to work in STEM;

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.»

In this regard, I'm reminded of attending my district's «Food Show» earlier this year and seeing «veggie stix» and a cheese - coated «lentil chip» designed to help school districts meet the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act's new vegetable requirements.

Looking at the lunches in the Toms River school district I can not help but wonder» would I let my kids eat what is served in the school cafeteria on a daily basis?»

We'll even look at ways people can help improve urban districts, whether they have kids in the district or not.

The business officials agreed that enrollment is down overall, but «high need» districts with lots of kids in poverty or those who don't speak English are seeing an increase, which also helps push up overall costs.

The bill would help pay for buses to drive kids in rural areas to the summer meal programs, increase access to farm - to - table foods, and also lower the threshold for school districts to qualify for free summer meal programs.

His help does nothing to make the situation look more hopeful for these two kids who hail from the poorest district in the land.

That means we now have the power to identify — in every state, district, and school — the teachers likeliest to help kids learn.

Interdistrict open enrollment can help many kids, but in Ohio, some public school districts remain less than «open to all.»

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

The kids love to show off their rooms, and it helps break down the walls that have often existed between teachers and parents in the district, Riley says.

The partnership with the Parks District served more than 10,000 Chicago students in 1996 with an after - school program that gave kids an hour of homework help and two hours of recreation and cultural events at the parks before their parents picked them up after work.

Instead of going back to an accountability approach that was supposedly «demoralizing» teachers and school leaders charged with helping poor and minority kids succeed, Petrilli and others prefer the new approaches, which attempt to focus on the growth schools and districts make in helping our most - vulnerable.

Early in the episode, Evers pointed to his experience as state superintendent as a qualification, but Holtz argued that of the two, only he had experience «taking a large urban district and helping it so that it becomes successful for achievement for our minority kids.»

Paired with entertaining cartoon - like graphics, it is software that schools in 48 states plus the District of Columbia and three provinces of Canada now use to help teachers engage kids with an often troublesome subject.

The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System is being dropped by half of Massachusetts school districts in favour of a new test (PARCC) which the Commissioner of the state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said would «help the state reduce the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, white and minority, by giving teachers better information about which kids need extra support».

«I've seen huge disparities, where I've gone into classrooms in urban districts and the paint is peeling and there's not a computer in sight, to very high - end districts where every kid has an iPad they can bring home,» said Lisa Gillis, president of Integrated Educational Strategies, a national nonprofit based in California that helps schools implement digital curricula.

«This grant will give direct financial support to the district's vision and help improve the opportunities for the kids in these schools.»

Putting SEL into practice in such a widespread manner, especially in major urban school districts, will allow CASEL to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in creating better learning environments, helping kids succeed in a variety of ways, and reducing problem behaviors.

As Dropout Nation has reported over the past year, the Obama waiver gambit is already allowing 37 states and the District of Columbia to ignore poor and minority kids, rendering them invisible altogether, through such subterfuges as lumping all of subgroups into a so - called super subgroup category that obscures data on the performance of districts and schools in helping each and all kids.

Its focus on reading, math, and science, along with the law's aspirational goal that all children were proficient in all subjects, forced states to take seriously the quality of curricula being provided in schools (as well as shined harsh light on the failures of districts in helping all kids learn).

Like those working in the city's public schools, advocates of a state - run school district that consists primarily of charter schools undoubtedly believe this will improve schools and help kids.

That achievement gap helps explain why the American Civil Liberties Union recently sued school districts in Compton and Los Angeles on behalf of kids in low - income schools.

It has been clear long ago that the Obama waiver gambit allows states to ignore poor and minority kids, rendering them invisible altogether, through such subterfuges as lumping all of subgroups into a so - called super subgroup category that obscures data on the performance of districts and schools in helping each and all kids.

In addition to increasing funding to help close the per - pupil funding gap between charter and district schools, Connecticut lawmakers were able to expand an innovative district / charter partnership program to more than 30 districts and provide funding to offer more new charter school seats to the nearly 4,000 kids stuck on waitlists.

Students, families, and educators from Bethel School District in Eugene, Oregon are using data to help keep kids on track for graduation and...

Busting LAUSD and every other school district in the state for negligence should help kids, but it's anyone's guess as to when.

With that said, I plan to attend the session in August which will help me better serve ALL the kids within our district.