Sentences with phrase «in a school district like»

Renting would've been nice, but we couldn't find a rental in a school district we liked.

Before his election to the Assembly, Mr. Alessi was the downstate director of intergovernmental affairs for the state comptroller, where he says he helped uncover corruption in school districts like Roslyn and William Floyd.

These results add to evidence that boosting student achievement has few simple fixes — particularly in a school district like Houston, in which 88 percent of students are black or Hispanic, about 30 percent have limited English proficiency, and about 80 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

In school districts like Fairfax County and Montgomery County, you have to get graduate degrees in school administration and education leadership.

If I was in a school district like this, and I had kids in school there, I'd have book reading parties for the kids that wanted to read the books.

Not exact matches

In Oakland, one of the nation's most diverse cities, Jackson says he would like to see Uber hire local workers and businesses and invest in the community, including the Oakland Unified School DistricIn Oakland, one of the nation's most diverse cities, Jackson says he would like to see Uber hire local workers and businesses and invest in the community, including the Oakland Unified School Districin the community, including the Oakland Unified School District.

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 the case of religious expression, having a government authority like a school district abuse their authority by forcing the graduating class to listen to only one religious viewpoint and prayer is reprehensible from a legal standpoint regardless of what corrupt judge you find to rule differently.

Just like, there are variants in any organization, US Military, School Districts, etc., bad people who got into the the Catholic Church as Priests have had a very detrimental effect on the communities and the Church.

With 61 schools in the district unequally equipped for lunch service, heat and serve seemed like the only option.

From 56 - student New Harmony High in the utopian settlement of the same name, to sprawling Ben Davis High in suburban Indianapolis, with its largest - in - the - state enrollment of 2,798; from schools with picturesque handles like Turkey Run (enrollment 164) and Rising Sun (252), to consolidated districts that go by neologisms like Tri-West Hendricks (301) and Jac - Cen - Del (228), the eyes of March are on the tournament.

So before we ever see federal funding levels adequate to finance «real food,» «clean label» meals like those in this Minnesota district, it's going to take a truly seismic shift in how our nation thinks generally about food and the feeding of its school children.

The piece doesn't offer much in the way of solutions, but I thought it did a great job of capturing the current, entrenched problems in school food, at least in large, urban districts like L.A. and Houston.

Most importantly, given the almost 14 million kids who eat school breakfast every day, I'm hopeful that the AHA recommendation, along with the new DGA on added sugar, will eventually make insanely sugary school breakfasts like this one (offered in my district before recent reforms were instituted) a thing of the past:

Teal Carpenter will bring home a Cambro Breakfast Cart like the one pictured to Gloversville Enlarged School District in NY.

Poached chicken sliders, grilled zucchini chips and toasted chickpeas may sound like food you'd sample at a chic healthy eatery, but those items are on the new school lunch menu in a northwest suburban district.

Do you work in a district in one of our ten target states, and would like to see breakfast - in - the - classroom in your school?

«And when I can't get student feedback, I can usually rely on the [school] cooks to know what the kids in their district will like.»

These may sound like extreme measures for an afternoon errand, but there is only one office supply store in our town and it services the entire school district; over the years I have learned to contingency plan and pack.

Poached chicken sliders, grilled zucchini «chips» and toasted chickpeas may seem like menu items at a chic eatery, but the offerings actually are options in new school lunches at one Northwest Suburban school district.

But most of all, I wondered why no one seemed to be talking about taking the more moderate step — as some school districts already have — of getting dairies to lower the sugar content in the milk (and get rid of other objectionable ingredients like high fructose corn syrup and artificial flavors and colors) before we decide to ban flavored milk altogether.

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

There are so many things I'd love to see tackled when it comes to school lunch, especially in my children's district, like the lack of kitchen space to prepare fresh foods, the lack of variety of fruits and vegetables, and the seemingly endless breaded chicken in various forms.

With 61 schools in the district unequally equipped for lunch service, heat and serve seemed like the only option.

Twenty edible school gardens in the district served as learning labs for lessons like composting and food chains.

Back in 2011, I wrote a piece questioning Oliver's laser - like focus on banning flavored milk in LAUSD, which struck me as low - hanging fruit and maybe the least of that district's school food problems.

Check back on the blog next week for an in - depth look at both visits, as well as our interviews with the cafeteria manager, district director, school principals — and even a few thoughts from students about what they like about BIC.

Whenever I see stories like this, in which a school or a school district seems to be doing something «miraculous,» I'm immediately skeptical.

We recently sat down with Kern Halls, Area Manager of Orange County Public School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field school events and field trips.

Durbin urged the USDA to «work with CPS to ensure that the school districts, which rely on individual data acquired through school lunch applications, are able to participate in an innovative program like» this one.

Elmhurst Community Unit School District 205 saw scores for many students drop in the recently - released Illinois State Board of Education school report cards for 2012 - 2013, and like districts across the state is struggling to help parents undersSchool District 205 saw scores for many students drop in the recently - released Illinois State Board of Education school report cards for 2012 - 2013, and like districts across the state is struggling to help parents undersschool report cards for 2012 - 2013, and like districts across the state is struggling to help parents understand..

But if districts are able to combine their considerable purchasing power, as is the case with the Urban School Food Alliance (discussed in past TLT posts linked below), we may start to see more «real food» offerings like Back to the Roots cereal on kids» trays.

If at any time you feel like something isn't right, contact your school - district's Parents As Teachers program (birth - 5), Early Childhood Special Education office (3 - 5 years) or school based Speech - Language Pathologist (5 and older) and they will point you in the right direction.

And if you're a layperson like me, I also recommend taking a look at the slides for this 2012 School Nutrition Association presentation by two food service directors, just to get a taste of the struggles districts face in handling this delicate issue and the costs they incur both in lost meal charges in trying to collect on delinquent accounts.

But, if the same thing happened at LAUSD on a larger scale because the LAUSD has so many more students than than West Virginia school district, then the costs would have been so enormous that I don't think the producers could have stepped in to cover those costs like they did last season.

My school district here in Houston is doing a lot of things right, but it's still selling garbage like this to our middle and high school kids every single day:

Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proSchool District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool lunch, is procured.

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Board member Sheila Pacholski said she would like to have the school board review the issue in January to determine whether the tax benefits the school district receives from owning its own autos justifies the cost of the car.

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar deal Coke struck with our district a few years back — more on that to come), snack vending machines, branded products like Papa John's pizza in the lunch room, and more.

Well, here in San Francisco, like a lot of school districts in this country, we don't.

«Based on research and experience, more and more local districts are rejecting the use of ineffective strategies like corporal punishment as an acceptable form of school discipline in favor of effective techniques, like the Positive Behavioral Support system favored by most educators,» said Vitaglione.

«The amazing thing is how the school smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bschool smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bSchool Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bschool district is more than six times bigger.

As states prepare to implement ESSA in the upcoming school year, many — like Kentucky — have been gathering feedback from stakeholders and creating state accountability plans, and school districts are beginning to identify priorities for funding at the school level.

Just want to say that tomorrow is the last day of school in our district, which means I'm running around like crazy today.

Why isn't every school district in Vermont more like Milton?

Several schools and hospitals in the Chicago area use sensory equipment to help people with disabilities regulate their emotions or stimulate their senses but the equipment is rarer in public recreational settings like a park district, said local occupational therapists and a representative from Flaghouse, the company that sold the sensory equipment to SEASPAR and other Chicago organizations.

As the chairperson of the nutrition committee of HISD's School Health Advisory Council (SHAC), I'm working with a dedicated group of parents and public health professionals to address the issue of a la carte foods in HISD — both the items sold by the district itself (like the Flaming Hot Cheetos above) and items sold by parent and student groups (usually in violation of state rules) as campus fundraisers.

Last year, with a new district wellness policy in place, my kids» school parties looked like they'd been hacked from my Healthy School Party Food Pinterest school parties looked like they'd been hacked from my Healthy School Party Food Pinterest School Party Food Pinterest board.

Back then, I couldn't imagine what the future would look like for Morgan blazing the trail in our school district.