Sentences with phrase «influence over school district»

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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.

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.

Unveiled this month, the plan would potentially give the federal government far more influence over classroom practices that traditionally have been left to states, school districts, and individual teachers.

The chief executive officers of our nation's state departments of education and city school districts have enormous influence over the future of learning in America.

Choice policies are likely to elicit more extensive responses in large districts, where individual families have less influence over policies and programs than in small school districts.

A Value - Added Model (VAM) is a multivariate (multiple variable) student growth model that attempts to account or statistically control for all potential student, teacher, school, district, and external influences on outcome measures (i.e., growth in student achievement over time).

We believe that districts can get the biggest benefit by intentionally focusing on high - leverage indicators — those that are highly predictive of outcomes that matter to us and that relate to aspects of students» lives over which schools have some influence.

SEDL's policy research focused on the following school reform strategies as they played out in selected states and local districts: resource allocation in local districts, teacher mentoring, policymaker participation in community dialogues on education reform, and the charter school as a policy instrument affecting school - site influence over education reform.

In my experience working with numerous policy and practice issues with school districts over the years, if a small group of parents exert their influence and assert that something is essential to the education and well - being of students that are not currently being addressed, schools and school districts have no choice but to take notice and respond.

In my experience working with numerous policy and practice issues with school districts over the years, if a small group of parents exert their influence and assert that something is essential to the education and well - being of students that is not currently being addressed, schools and school districts have no choice but to take notice and respond.