Sentences with phrase «kids out of the district»

There are options besides Districts of Choice and charter schools for parents to transfer their kids out of their districts:

More and more families are pulling their kids out of the district because Eggleton's schools aren't as safe or supportive as they used to be.

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So, kids — instead of just complaining, how about rolling up your sleeves and trying to figure out a way to improve the food in your school district?

As Chicago Public Schools pushes ahead with a district - wide roll - out of its Breakfast in the Classroom program, concerns are mounting from some parents worried about kids» allergies

«Last year, we moved our kids, now 7 and 9, out of a private parochial school into our public school district's gifted and talented program.

Under this temporary compromise, schools still must serve kids fruits and vegetables, but any district which can show «hardship» may be allowed to waive out of the requirement that all grain foods served be 51 % whole grain.

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«Anywhere you go, you hear parents saying that middle school kids get left out,» said Figaro, the coordinator of the Park District's program.

In other words, it's up to each school district, and by extension the community that agrees to its budget, to figure out how to cover the debts of kids who can't pay for meals.

«The Cary Park District and particularly the Cary Youth organizations are going to have to figure out how they're going to keep accommodating the number of kids moving into the community,» Carstens said.

-LSB-...] Assuming your district is offering healthful foods on the lunch line, consider a gathering a group of parent volunteers to act as new food «boosters» in the cafeteria — handing out «I Tried It» stickers and praise for kids who taste new, healthful foods.

Parents freaked out after reports surfaced last week that school districts around the country were serving kids hamburgers containing up to 15 percent of the processed product known in the meat industry as «Lean Finely Textured Beef» or «Lean Beef Trimmings,» produced by Beef Products Inc..

Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «kids and food, in school and out» but in the near future I plan to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the lunch program in my own school district (Houston ISD) and presumably elsewhere in the country.

If you want to know what led a bunch of shivering teenagers to sort through the trash behind Prosser Career Academy one recent, icy day, try to get your head around this statistic: Every day, kids in the Chicago Public Schools district throw out nearly a quarter of a million lunch and breakfast trays made of polystyrene foam.

I don't profess to understand the intricacies of how my district figures out the calories (I do know it's averaged over a week) but it seemed to me that a kid ought to come out at less than 664 caloires if they're not taking all the food, rather than over that figure.

A number of Assembly members who haven't spoken out against efforts to limit charter schools have long waiting lists in their districts of kids wanting to get into those schools.

Klein goes through a few of these testing issues — whether parents can opt their kids out of tests, whether school districts can choose their own tests, and how big a role tests should play in accountability — and explains where the House stands, where the Senate stands, and the pros and cons of both sides.

In the absence of new ideas — and different policies — local districts will carry out predictable and harmful cuts that will hurt kids and impede achievement.

In an effort to lower chronic absenteeism among its Native American elementary school students, the district worked with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde to hire a coordinator who worked with families to address transportation, bullying, and other issues that were keeping kids out of school.

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

It used to be that black families living east of Rock Creek Park could send their kids to schools «west of the park» via the district's out - of - boundary choice system.

We picked rural districts — which are almost 575 out of our 600 - and we looked for a local institution or organisation in each district, which could be a college, an NGO, a university, a women's group — any organised group that actually was interested in thinking about their kids.

District Buys House for Homeless Kids Concerned that students with unstable or no homes often wound up dropping out of school, the Maplewood Richmond Heights (Missouri) School District decided to buy a house and convert it to a group home for homeless teens.

With a $ 5.9 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, a local philanthropic organization, they set out to transform the prevailing vision of what preK - 12 education is for — as one district official put it, «to meet the needs of the kids» future, and not the teachers» past.»

But I've seen enough to restate with fair confidence an earlier (and better informed) Fordham judgment, namely that millions of American school - kids would be better served if their states, districts and schools set out in a serious way to impart these skills and content to their pupils rather than the nebulous and flaccid curricular goals that they're now using.

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

«I had this drive to know that there's millions of kids out there like me who are not served well by the existing system,» says Hay, who over his career worked in a range of environments from affluent communities to a struggling district turnaround school.

Wealthy districts that get additional funding from their taxpayers aren't likely to want to share it with out - of - district kids.

If the only alternative to the charter is the district school you just pulled your kid out of how lousy does the charter have to be before the district school starts to look good?

During this academic year, however, the district plans to invest only about $ 10.8 million in this goal out of more than $ 870 million in funds specifically to support disadvantaged kids.

For example, we have kids coming out of Camden traditional schools and moving to renaissance schools (district - charter hybrids) or charters, and the other way around.

«But what if parents of kids left out sue, or parents join with the teachers» union yelling to bring back the old district?

The level of support in the classroom for teachers and kids didn't change, though, and in fact became strained because of the money that was flowing out of the district into charters.

Some of the real things that cost districts include clerical and other errors and litigation such as this $ 4.5 M settlement that was paid out due to teachers that sexually molest your kids!

«We've reached out to the district and had some productive conversations that will hopefully lead to a strong relationship based on our mutual interest of doing what's best for kids.»

In fact, Black children account for 78.8 percent of all children suspended by the district in 2013 - 2014 — or four out of ever five kids suspended one or more times that year — while White peers accounted for a mere 33.7 percent of students suspended.

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.

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When asked directly in the fall why the district hadn't done anything like it before, Gipson said, «As we are coming out of one of the worst financial times in educational history, as a leader I'm happy it is happening now for kids and we can put the resources behind it to make sure it happens for kids.»

Ending traditional school funding — especially the use of property tax dollars as a funding source for districts and schools (which account for 34 percent of school funding in the Wolverine State)-- would get rid of excuses traditional districts use to oppose all forms of school choice, keep poor and minority kids out of the schools they operate, and refuse to take on other systemic reforms.

Some have come out to oppose the Governor's proposals, but I will tell you that it is wrong to cheat public charter school kids out of the resources given to district school kids.

Every year, hundreds of kids are kicked out of suburban Philadelphia school districts for residency fraud.

And it turned out to be a nuclear explosion, because it wasn't in the interest of the school district to tell the community how each and every kid was doing on their test.»

As the parents of a 2e daughter who was emotionally abused by her school and the district, we fully understand that there are many misconceptions out there about our special kids.

«I do not want my tax dollars wasted on this stuff because at the end of the day the money they spend on this will cause already strapped districts to cut out of school the things that kids love — art, music, gym, language.»

WASHINGTON — A close examination of two medium - sized school districts» standardized testing calendars found that kids are losing out on receiving a full, high - quality education because of pervasive test preparation and testing, according to a report released today by the American Federation of Teachers.

• San Dieguito Union High School District had some problems this summer after parents of disabled students in an adult transition program found out their kids would be in portable classrooms instead of inside a newly renovated, state - of - the - art middle school campus.

But as Dropout Nation noted last month, Ferguson - Florissant's high graduation rate may be a result of its overuse of suspensions and expulsions, which lead to kids being pushed out of the district and end up in St. Louis and other surrounding school systems.

The state's move to essentially accredit Normandy shut the door on kids from that district being able to transfer out of it into better - performing districts.

Michigan's school choice policy has opened the door for thousands of parents across the state to take their kids out of their home school district and go to schools in neighboring districts.