Sentences with phrase «kids in a given district»

These are just some of the reasons anti-hunger advocates want New York City to join this expanding federal program that allows all kids in a given district to eat for free.

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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:

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As I said in my May post, any roll - back of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act rules is misguided, given that 99 percent of districts were reportedly already meeting the more rigorous standards.

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

We are thrilled people want to be in Ossining, it is a wonderful community but now we need the State to come in and adjust this formula to give these kids the money their School District needs.»

«Because of the amount of time kids spend in school, and given the fact that many first - time allergic reactions occur on school grounds, it is imperative for school districts across the country to provide access to emergency epinephrine to students who may not otherwise have access to the potentially life - saving medication,» Gupta said.

Compared to the general Nevada funding formula or the formulas that govern most district and charter schools nationally, the Nevada ESA program looks positively progressive in giving more money to kids starting off with less.

A transit bus turned art studio visits rural districts, low - income housing areas, and parks in and around Eugene to give kids access to art.

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,»).

Riverside gives admissions preferences to in - district kids over out - of - district students, except at its STEM school, where both enter the same lottery.

One can even say that it is underlying disdain for the very kids in his district that is a critical reason why he is such an abject failure as a school leader: If you don't care for kids, you can not do the hard work of transforming the quality of instruction, curricula and leadership that is needed to give kids cultures of genius in which to succeed.

And there are a lot of talented educators who have given their hearts and souls to their kids in urban districts.

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.

But if Indianapolis is going to fully seize this moment and give dramatically more kids better educational opportunities, we need to invest more public resources in the most successful programs and schools, regardless of whether they are run by or part of a traditional school district.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

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».

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

California Upends School Funding To Give Poor Kids A Boost As the school year begins, districts in cities such as Oakland, Fresno and Los Angeles have not gone on a hiring spree.

The Governor and the legislature also passed a local control funding bill which gave local districts more say in how they are run but also gave more money to districts that have a higher proportion of low - income students or second language kids.

«(We're) giving kids authentic tasks that real people in the real world are trying to tackle and solve that don't have a multiple choice Scantron answer,» said ALA Principal Kathy Beiser, Trinity alumna and former principal at North East Independent School District's (NEISD) International School of the Americas, which leverages a similar partnership model with Trinity.

If «poor kids can't learn» given the lavish resources present in our former Abbott districts, and a teaching force that either can not or need not be improved, why should the good taxpayers of New Jersey continue to fund this dysfunction?

Elsewhere and also even within Los Angeles, a very robust charter sector really anchoring what we know is true of Los Angeles kids is that our kids can do better when given the right supports and the right school ecosystem to really make an impact in their lives, and I'm tremendously excited to initiate this work now with the district as a partner.

«I've spent time in hundreds of different school models, if not a thousand, just given the roles I've had in education over the years, and I think you can become kind of numb or just comfortable with the status quo of classrooms in which kids aren't engaged, and the teachers have lost their mojo or love for teaching because they're given a scripted curriculum from their district that they have to follow, and they have no ability to be entrepreneurial or creative.»

MSLA's Teacher Leadership Model We've created our own school called the Math and Science Leadership Academy that really came up with the belief system that it wasn't the contract that was in the way or that it really wasn't the district curriculum mandates — it was to give teachers the freedom to do what's right for the kids.

Given that the percentage of low - income suburban fourth - grade young men struggling with literacy is only seven percentage points lower than that for big - city counterparts (and only six points lower for suburban fourth - grade young women peers than for big - city counterparts), suburban districts are doing as poorly as big - city counterparts in providing the poorest kids with high - quality education needed for success in an increasingly knowledge - based economy.

The claim raised a few eyebrows, given that white kids are on the rise in DCPS, private school enrollment has been declining, and DCPS had to start a fraud unit because suburban parents were faking residence to get their kids into district schools.

Located in the best rated school district in Western New York, it gives great opportunities to kids who inspire to do big things in their future.