Sentences with phrase «kids in our district whose»

«We have a lot of kids in our district whose parents don't advocate for them, and we need to advocate for them.»

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Many parents today also choose alternative options, such as academic redshirting, or the practice of postponing for a year school entry for kids whose birthdays are close to cut - off date (often in or around September for most districts).

Thus, districts with in - class breakfast programs have an economic incentive to serve as many meals as possible, regardless of whether some meals are being served to kids who have no need for it — and whose parents would greatly prefer they not partake of it.

Legislator James Maisano, whose district includes parts of New Rochelle and Pelham, said «This was a terrific county / city effort, and when the work is completed, New Rochelle's kids will have one of the finest athletic facilities in the county.

I loved the fact that kids got to know the world outside school and learned that with technology they could talk to people anywhere, said Luisa Ojeda - Vera, a kindergarten teacher at Florida's Sand Pine Elementary School, whose students used Skype to connect with a class at another school in the district.

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,»).

Yet school boards in districts with especially active parents, weak unions, limited budgets, and kids whose needs are going unmet may have incentives to embrace technological change and become early adopters.

Beth Pictor, whose two kids are in the Southwest Allen County School district, says she's had to teach her kids stress management techniques to cope with test anxiety.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

Quite simply, parents whose kids are doing great in traditional district schools rarely choose charters.

The anti-reformers only produce delay in improvements and insulation from the people whose kids are being victimized in our large urban districts by putting teachers first in too many ways.

«This is one campus that is in and run by a district, that is not - for - profit, and whose goal, aside from educating the kids, is to develop best practices and then have them radiate out to the other campuses,» he told the Rivard Report.