Sentences with phrase «huge school district»

On February 14, 2005, State Supreme Court Justice Leland DeGrasse, who had overseen the case from the beginning, awarded the city a staggering $ 5.6 billion more per year for its schools, a 43 percent increase to the city's $ 12.9 billion school budget, an amount that would raise per - pupil spending to more than $ 18,000 per year and make New York City's huge school district (with more than a third of the children in the state) among the richest in the state, if not the country.

Not exact matches

The program made huge inroads into schools because it often cost school districts nothing and came with a uniformed police officer as an instructor.

From working with school districts for several years in a variety of capacities, I know that this detailed plan of action is something that would be required of almost ANY outsider coming in to work with the school and students, especially if that outsider happens to have a HUGE media presence.

Imagine that you've been crowned Food Services Director for a huge urban school district (say, Houston) and can change the menus any way you like.

Imagine that you've been crowned Food Services Director for a huge urban school district (say, Houston) and can change the menus any way you... [Continue reading]

You've told us that Carpinteria is «an example of what other schools can do,» so how can I get my huge urban school district to serve food just like that?»

Not only are we up against a school district food system that is set in it's ways, we're battling a larger food culture that values high calorie, highly processed convenience food AND huge food lobbies that have great influence over Congress and the legislation that is passed.

When my school district (SFUSD) first proposed banning soda back in 2003, there was huge outrage among the students.

Recently Jenna gave us a good look at what's going on with school lunches here in the U.S., and shared the awesome work she's doing in her district — she is only one person and is still making a huge impact.

The DC school district's position directly pits Chartwell's business interests against the rights of DC parents to know if (a) their school district is being unlawfully denied funds to which it is entitled and (b) if huge food manufacturers are wielding undue influence over the FSMC, resulting in that much more processed, sugary foods on school lunch trays.

In our school district in Boulder, CO we are blessed to have Chef Ann Cooper, who is a BIG advocate for healthy foods and also a huge change maker in school lunches with her Chef Ann Foundation.

So I'm not saying it can't or shouldn't be done and there are districts that are working hard to improve their food, but I definitely feel a huge amount of sympathy for school food providers that I didn't have back in May, 2010.

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

Like many large, urban school districts, Houston ISD does almost all of its cooking at a huge central kitchen, with the food then trucked to our 300 individual schools for reheating and other final preparation.

I do try very hard to be objective on this blog and to always consider the monumental task facing my (or any) school district trying to feed huge numbers of kids on very little money.

With a huge spike in the price for a life - saving shot, school districts are wondering how they will be affected in the future.

Bubba's endorsement came a day before US Education Secretary Arne Duncan — a huge charter booster — is scheduled to visit a Brooklyn charter school that happens to be in the district of Senate leader John Sampson, who passed the cap - raiser earlier this month.

New York taxpayers caught a huge break yesterday, when Gov. Cuomo vetoed a bill that would've let school districts borrow to cover pension costs.

Mandates are also a huge chunk of the typical school district's expenses as well.

The middle school I am in is huge — one of the largest schools in the district.

The forthcoming second edition of Education Week's 50 - state report card on public education finds huge gaps between the performance of students in urban and nonurban school districts.

This enormous cash nexus that swamps anything any business entity has contributed creates a huge problem for President Obama's Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, who is asking states and school districts to put merit pay into place.

Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia) has 186,785 students and 196 schools, so transforming a district of this size into a 21st - century learning environment is a huge underSchools (Virginia) has 186,785 students and 196 schools, so transforming a district of this size into a 21st - century learning environment is a huge underschools, so transforming a district of this size into a 21st - century learning environment is a huge undertaking.

«We proved that parents have and can continue to have a huge impact in our school and our district,» adds McReynolds.

The huge Los Angeles Unified School District would be more segregated and not necessarily more efficiently managed if it were reorganized into several smaller districts, according to a study prepared for the California state legislature.

So, if you put it all together it becomes quite huge, but you have from district level onwards estimates of basic reading, arithmetic and of course schooling that is then put together in the big aggregate report, which is called the ASER Report.

«The South had the stick of the Civil Rights Act but they also had the carrot of ESEA, which was a huge boon to poor southern school districts.»

«Keppel and Howe were absolutely central to the desegregation of the South... The South had the stick of the Civil Rights Act but they also had the carrot of ESEA, which was a huge boon to poor southern school districts.»

Indeed, if we compute the turnout gap between teachers and average citizens in each district, the median gap over all districts and elections (both school - board and bond) was 36.5 percent, which is a huge number given the very low turnout overall.

We would gain a better appreciation of the huge amount of conflicting advice and pressure that school districts and their leaders face.

Allows districts to use a locally determined, nationally recognized test like the ACT or SAT instead of the state test in high schools, which could have huge implications for classroom practice

A huge swath of civil rights groups had been working intensely for months, pushing lawmakers to write a bill that would continue to hold states and school districts accountable for how they serve the country's most vulnerable kids.

Recognized by the Dole Food Company for her efforts to improve student nutrition, both in her school, and in other state school districts, Mosso knew she had won a huge victory when one of her students showed up on his birthday with a fruit tray instead of cupcakes!

Todd Ziebarth said «the most compelling thing isn't us... it's legislators hearing the huge difference that these schools are making in the lives of kids in their district.»

This was a huge breakthrough for the district sector to be able to have the same flexibility from laws and rules as did the charter sector and teachers have the autonomy of chartered school teachers and also keep the same amount of money as district schools which is considerably more than the chartered schools.

«Our school district continues to be mired in a huge fiscal deficit, with schools unable to provide even the most basic resources for children.

We made sure legislators understood the critical need for fair funding since charter kids from NYC to Buffalo still face a huge funding disparity compared to district school kids.

This huge hike in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) block grant was signed into law last month and it may help your district acquire essential digital tools that support both teaching and learning in the schools that need it most.

Teacher retention is a huge issue that all school and district administrators face.

We computed real - dollar school budgets, based on actual staff salaries, and found huge within - district variations in per pupil spending.

Additionally, the release of her latest book, «#eWalkThrough: Digital System for Instructional Leaders» has had a huge impact in the field as districts and schools implement the process.

«I think 53 percent of school districts are reporting having a bilingual teachers shortage, which are planning to expand their bilingual programs, so this is going to be a huge challenge and something that districts need to be very focused on,» she said.

The organization has scored some huge advocacy wins at the state legislature in recent years to benefit charter schools including changes to zoning laws, impact fees, property taxes and the transferring of academic credits between charters and districts.

But most importantly, this bill could bankrupt local school districts that would be required to pay for the CEQA analysis, and face huge legal liabilities if they were sued under the CEQA act; the districts — not the charters — could be liable as the zoning exemption approval agency.

Instead, it actually spends $ 105 million less on TAs than what was planned for the upcoming year, which means local school districts are taking a 22 percent hit to their teacher assistant funding stream — and that's on top of huge cuts to TAs over the past several years.

The districts on the list range from systems in growing suburban pockets, to countywide districts that cover huge expanses of territory with wide disparities in income and resources, to crowded urban districts that have to cope with both the deterioration of aging facilities and the construction of new schools to accommodate growth.

The best policy is likely to push these decisions about teacher compensation downward below the district level to the school level, as the teachers» present management will likely be better positioned to judge the value and relevance of teachers» (often commendable) efforts to improve their subject knowledge than is the personnel office of a huge, wasteful district like LAUSD, while making these decisions at the state level is even less likely to prove efficient.

Therefore school districts and State Departments of Education play a huge role in the process of equitable funding for charter schools.

Switching to a mayor - led school system can provide a huge boost in student achievement, and cities across the country are experimenting with this new method of district control.

«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.