Sentences with phrase «high quality schools serving»

Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, the Indianapolis Public Schools Board of School Commissioners and Superintendent Dr. Lewis D. Ferebee are pleased to join The Mind Trust in announcing a new initiative that will leverage the talent of excellent leaders, the power of a new law, and the support of district resources to multiply the number of high quality schools serving students in IPS.

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Every state should determine how much high - quality education costs and guarantee that every school — especially those serving poor and minority children — has at least that much money.

We go above and beyond what USDA requires in school meals by ensuring all our meals are free from artificial colors, flavors and sweeteners, ensuring that our food is delivered fresh to schools each day, and ensuring that the quality of the ingredients in everything we offer is of a high quality that we would (and do) serve to our own children.

Today, the Foodservice segment serves high quality products to broadline distributors, institutions, quick service restaurants, and casual dining, including but not limited to restaurants, schools, hospitals and other catering formats.

This course will help you create a roadmap for long - term change so you can meet your goal of serving the highest quality food to kids in school every day.

Investing in kitchens and cafeterias helps schools serve high - quality, nutritious meals students love, but the cost can be prohibitive — that's where the Winston Industries Equipment Grant comes in.

Local school districts have been improving the quality of food they've been serving for years, but Tanner wanted to see the district leverage its considerable buying power to serve higher quality food to more students, more consistently.

Ruth Jonen, food services director for Palatine Township High School District 211 in Chicago's northwest suburbs, defended the quality and safety of foods served in schools, saying they «by and large use the same food distributors as the restaurant down the road.»

Every now and then, an article will appear somewhere touting a «school food miracle worker» who is able to serve what appears to be healthier, higher quality food than what is typically found in school lunch programs, and sometimes the claim is made that the meals cost no more than what a typical school district spends on a less healthy meal.

Despite reports highlighting poor quality of meals being served Senior High School students under the free SHS programme, the School Feeding Programme is insisting its Nutrition Department collaborates with caterers under the programme to prepare nutritious meals for pupils.

Serving as a think - tank intermediary to devise such a strategy, PASA developed a plan called Learning in Communities / Providence, led by Rhode Island Kids Count (RIKC) and funded by the Wallace Foundation, which had taken an interest in the needs of the city's after - school programs in April 2003 after several studies reported that high - quality after - school programs are an affordable and effective way to improve school attendance and success.

Help can include targeted, high - quality professional development; curriculum improvements; additional time for student learning after school or in the summers; establishment of wraparound services, including community school models; redesign of schools to support personalization and more authentic work in classrooms and internships; or pairing of struggling schools with successful ones serving similar students.

Her community outreach includes serving as chairman of After School Matters, a non-profit that provides Chicago teens with high quality, out - of - school time proSchool Matters, a non-profit that provides Chicago teens with high quality, out - of - school time proschool time programs.

Making existing schools in the sector better — too many of them can not yet claim to deliver a high - quality education — and replicating the best of them to serve more kids are important priorities.

The Charter School Growth Fund invests in CMOs that operate networks of high - quality charter schools, providing grant and loan financing packages that enable these organizations to expand their capacity to serve more low - income and minority students.

It was thought early on that public charter schools would serve as «laboratories of education,» where independence, flexibility, and innovation would produce high - quality learning environments that could be replicated across the country.

The scaling of high - performing CMOs provides one of the highest levels of return and leverage for philanthropic funds, particularly when you consider that CMOs tend to deliver much higher student achievement than the local district; these schools will continue to serve students in a high - quality way over time; and there are few investments in K — 12 that have consistently yielded this level of performance.

Prior to his time in Chicago, Knowles served as deputy superintendent for teaching and learning at the Boston Public Schools — where he created two organizations devoted to building the pipeline of high quality teachers and school leaders — and served as codirector of the Boston Annenberg Challenge, a nationally recognized effort to improve literacy instruction.

Salaries paid to personnel in public schools impact both the ability to attract high - quality professionals to serve students and the budgets of the school districts in which teachers, central office administrators, school leaders, and support personnel work.

provide staff ongoing, high - quality job - embedded professional development (e.g., regarding subject - specific pedagogy, instruction that reflects a deeper understanding of the community served by the school or differentiated instruction) that is aligned with the school's comprehensive instructional program and designed with school staff to ensure they are equipped to facilitate effective teaching and learning and have the capacity to successfully implement school reform strategies;

High - quality principals, therefore, are vital to the effectiveness of our nation's public schools, especially those serving the children with the fewest advantages in life.

Her turn from university teacher preparation to the daily life of a high school affords her opportunities to live her commitments to quality teaching and to fostering a vibrant, affirming school community focused on delivering powerful learning experiences that guide students to find their purpose and to serve their community.

[Other school reformers offer other approaches, including the expansion of high - quality charter schools serving Black children, which could also help.]

Does the school employ a variety of collegial and sustained professional development activities (e.g., mentoring relationships between new teachers and experienced teachers, high - quality teacher induction programs, professional development drawing on school - level expertise, professional learning communities, collaboration among teachers, and relationships between teacher teams and social service support providers that serve students and families)?

He went on to serve in the New York City Department of Education, where he helped open new, high - quality district and charter schools, support the turnaround of struggling schools, and advocate for admission and enrollment changes that led to thousands more New York City students being better prepared for college and careers.

As we reflect on this moment in urban Catholic education, the Jubilee closings should not cause us to lose faith in our future; rather, we have an opportunity to work together and identify new ways — from donor relations to cost - sharing collaboration — to maintain and grow our national network of high - quality Catholic schools, especially those that serve lower - income populations in urban areas.

Ensuring quality teachers in every classroom by recruiting, training, retaining, and rewarding teachers and school leaders; creating career ladders and increasing pay for effective teachers who serve as mentors, teach in high - need subjects, such as math and science, and who excel in the classroom; and by identifying ineffective and struggling teachers, providing them with individual help and support, and removing them from the classroom in a quick and fair way if they still underperform.

Award expansion grants to high - quality charters to expand their capacity to serve students attending eligible schools.

We know a lot of high - quality people have volunteered to serve on the new Washington Charter School Commission, including

Imagine Schools partners with parents and guardians to educate their children, providing high quality schools that develop the character and enrich the minds of the students we are privileged toSchools partners with parents and guardians to educate their children, providing high quality schools that develop the character and enrich the minds of the students we are privileged toschools that develop the character and enrich the minds of the students we are privileged to serve.

Those included the location of charter facilities; the concern that charter schools were not serving their «fair share» of high - need students; and the impact of charters on the district's budget and teacher quality because of state - imposed constraints on the district's ability to dismiss ineffective teachers.

Strict and often arbitrary regulation by state and federal officials may have acted as a barrier to entry or served as a deterrent for higher quality private schools.

A new report from The Alliance for Quality Education, Education Law Center and the Public Policy and Education Fund finds that the state's 2016 budget underfunds 81 percent of high needs schools in New York, including in 30 of the 33 districts serving high numbers of students of color.

These videos offer images of high quality early learning in a first - grade classroom at Bronx Community Charter School, a public, independent New York City charter school serving the diverse community of the northwest School, a public, independent New York City charter school serving the diverse community of the northwest school serving the diverse community of the northwest Bronx.

We accelerate the development of new quality schools by backing new schools, scaling up high performing schools, supporting restart schools, and piloting solutions for serving the most at - risk students, like special education, English Learners and foster youth.

As a growing, intentionally diverse network that is part of the Charter School Growth Fund portfolio, BVP offers a high - quality public school choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves approximately 1,600 scholars in grades KSchool Growth Fund portfolio, BVP offers a high - quality public school choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves approximately 1,600 scholars in grades Kschool choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves approximately 1,600 scholars in grades K - 11.

As a growing network that is part of the Charter School Growth Fund portfolio, BVP offers a high - quality public school choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves 1,800 scholars in grades K - 12 across 6 scSchool Growth Fund portfolio, BVP offers a high - quality public school choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves 1,800 scholars in grades K - 12 across 6 scschool choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves 1,800 scholars in grades K - 12 across 6 schools.

The reality is that schools serving high proportions of black and Latino students — typically in low - income communities — tend to suffer from a range of stresses that affect the quality of the education they can provide, including factors such as high teacher turnover, shortages of basic materials, fewer counselors, overcrowding, and poorly maintained facilities.

From 2002 to 2015, he served on the organization's leadership design and developmental team, designing and facilitating high - quality professional development for school leaders across the United States and around the world.

Peer problems, geographic mobility, and challenges in attracting and retaining good teachers have made it difficult to provide consistently high - quality learning experiences in schools serving a large proportion of low - income students.

Serving children from age 3 through middle school, we provide education of the highest quality for children of all racial, cultural, religious, and economic backgrounds.

Simply put, there are not enough high - quality, college - preparatory schools available to serve the thousands of dropouts and struggling students in Massachusetts.

She went on to serve as a graduate research assistant for the Texas speaker of the House of Representatives in Austin, a research team leader for Independent Colleges and Universities of Texas, and as a policy intern for The Education Trust - West, where she researched and co-authored briefs on teacher quality and a standard curriculum for all California high school students.

Pilot an approach to teacher development that ensures a sustainable talent pipeline serving the DC public Montessori community through a model that combines high quality Montessori training and surround with both regional and school - based communities of Montessori practice.

«We are extremely excited to add him to our team as we focus on launching and supporting high - quality schools so they can serve even more students in our city.»

«I don't know how yet; it hasn't been worked out, but there is an interest in helping high - quality schools that serve low - income kids.»

She previously served as the Director of the Office of Early Childhood Education in the District of Columbia Public Schools, where she oversaw the operations of programs serving three - and four - year old children in high quality, comprehensive classrooms.

In its lawsuit, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine claims such food products violate California's education code, which requires schools to serve meals of the «highest quality» and «greatest nutrition possible.»

Serving as the advocacy organization that builds the policy environment needed to grow as quickly as possible the number of students attending high quality charter public schools.

Under ESSA, a new preschool program will, for the first time, «promote coordination in early learning among local communities; align preschool with early elementary school; and build the capacity of teachers, leaders, and others serving young children to provide the highest - quality early learning opportunities.»