Sentences with phrase «kids in the district»

Right now, the statewide program is capped — no more than one percent of kids in a district can participate.

Do you have any idea how many kids in this district have never, and I mean NEVER had a new pair of shoes?

This is not to say the urgent need to extend quality options somehow means abandoning kids in district - run schools.

Kids in districts across the state are showing up for a test that is not happening.

Everybody who is involved with the organization donates their time and energy to ensure good food for kids in the District.

The previous board went so far as to spend time and money trying to figure out how to keep kids in district schools, including launching a unified enrollment system this year that excludes charters.

Topping that list is keeping kids in the district.

Katherin Crossling who has three kids in the district said she was shocked to learn about the frozen aid: «We have a $ 16 million dollar gap.

«Yes some kids needs more time, most kids in our district need more time... but all of our teachers need more time to be more thoughtful about the practice and to prepare better and to learn from each other,» Urbanski said.

«This wasn't about winning a seat... This was about kids in the district.»

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.

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

In the charter school world our kids are subject to the same accountability measures as kids in district schools, and most of us would probably argue that they are held to even stricter accountability.

When busing ended I had the sense that many in Denver felt that the district could get back to business as usual, maintaining traditional neighborhood schools and creating magnets seemingly designed to keep white middle class kids in the district.

This means that 9.2 percent of black kids in the district were condemned to its special ed ghettos.

«It's leading states like Georgia in the reverse way: Its locales don't want to send the local portion of their student funding to a state authorizer who has authority over kids in their district,» he said.

With 337 active robots circulating across nine countries, and municipalities such as Breda in the Netherlands recently purchasing five robots to help kids in that district alone, it's clear people are catching on to the fact that robots aren't a far - off futuristic solution.

Once a school obtained a waiver, only half of its grain foods had to be whole - grain rich — meaning kids in those districts could be eating as little as 25 percent whole grain.

The new superintendent of Hartford Public Schools (an ERS partner), Dr. Leslie Torres - Rodriguez, approached the challenge by asking: «What do I want schools to do for kids in my district?»

Success officials note that 4 percent of their students are former special ed and 5 percent former ELL, and that Success students are declassified at a higher rate than kids in district schools.

Kids with delinquent meal account balances are not the first thing most people think of when they consider charitable giving, but this Santa's gesture was thoughtful and kind and will make a huge difference for a lot of kids in his district this year.

«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.»

«If I had my «druthers every kid in the district would get a breakfast,» said Dr. Maxwell.

In «Why You Should Let Your Kids Eat School Meals,» Ken argues that if all kids in her district ate school meals — not just the 76 % of DC kids on free or reduced price lunch — every DC public school family would have skin in the game, and parents would start to agitate for better meals that benefit everyone.

We have about 3000 kids in our district.

I also expressed concern about possible plans to introduce additional healthy entrees that would only be available on the «a la carte» line for paying students, since almost 80 % of the kids in our district qualify for free / reduced lunch.

We'll even look at ways people can help improve urban districts, whether they have kids in the district or not.

Assemblyman Keith Wright (left) said he «hates» charter co-locations — despite the fact that nearly 4,000 kids in his district are hoping to be as lucky as this Success Academy Harlem student.

I see my mission on this board as a mission to do something really positive for the 33,000 kids in the district.»

«It's a great opportunity and it's going to be a great role model for the kids in the district,» Alicea said.

A lot of young families get married and don't want to put their kids in the district.

In 1994, the first time the new Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) tests were given to all 4th -, 8th -, and 10th - grade students, half the kids in the district failed.

For kids in the district's welding classes, a water - jet cutter not only represents the latest in high tech cutting equipment, using high water pressure to quickly slice through metal, it also teaches the math needed to program the machine.

He also declared that many of the kids in his district are «dirty, nasty, bad» and praised volunteers for sullying their hands with them.

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.»

As parents of kids in the district, they were involved in the PTA and saw the schools» problems firsthand.

Rochester charter kids only receive 68 cents on the dollar compared to kids in district schools.

«The idea of providing first class learning technology to all the kids in the district, not just the kids who could afford it, is certainly a worthy educational goal,» said Charles Taylor Kerchner, a professor at Claremont Graduate University.