Sentences with phrase «kinds of school districts»

A non - profit charter school authorizer in Minnesota called Innovative Quality Schools (see https://iqsmn.org) provides a good example of how this kind of school district could operate.

Opened in the fall of 2012, the idea was to create a bold new kind of school district that was run by the state and less restricted by administrative red tape, in order to do some radical turn - around work in some of Michigan's worst schools.

Not exact matches

That's the kind of question people ask before they even get to academic questions,» Patrick Sanchez, Superintendent of Newark, California Unified School District told CNBC.

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

The high school kind of serves as a guinea pig to see what will be successful elsewhere in the district.

«This is an issue we're trying to resolve,» said Michael Cook, a spokesman for the Las Cruces, N.M., Public School District, which he said was trying to make certain that any student who can't afford the main meal on the menu «is served some kind of alternative» rather than go hungry.

The district awards a single food service contract for its 600 schools, discouraging the kind of relatively small, nimble operation Boundas runs.

The district also infuriated scores of parents when it shuttered all 54 of its full - day school - based programs in June — the kind of extended preschool program the district said last year it wanted to beef up.

This article from a local Boulder, CO paper discusses the newly - launched fundraising campaign, and points up the very issue we've been talking about so much in recent weeks here on TLT: namely, can a district offer the kind of healthful food that Chef Ann champions without extra funding (over and above what the USDA reimburses schools)?

You have created one of the kindest, most open and accommodating school districts in the nation.

However, from my personal experience and from what I've heard from many parents in different school districts, it's not uncommon for food service to balk at changes of any kind.

My guess is this will prompt some kind of law change regarding school district contracts behind the scenes on the slick.

As co-chair of my school district's student nutrition committee for the past 8 years, I get exactly the same kind of feedback from parents and other advocates — some demand farm - to - school, some want only organic, some want to ban HFCS, etc. — and few understand the USDA regs which govern the meal program, or the limits of what can be accomplished on the inadequate government reimbursement.

One school or district may have a partnership with a large corporation, like Whole Foods, allowing them to source some healthier food items for a favorable price; if your school district can't get the same deal, then this will affect whether you can offer the same kind of meal for the same price as a district which does have a low cost source for better food.

What kind of communication exists between government and school districts and things like that.

What we are doing at the city level with the City School District is partnering with our light manufacturers and our other business entities who are constantly saying to us, we have openings for people, for jobs but we can't get the right kind of skills or people with these skills.

«Whatever the governor comes out with, we do look at that and school districts look at that and they like to kind of touch and feel it and play with and get ready for preparation of their budget,» Flanagan said.

The Kingston City School District returns to class for the 2014 - 15 school year next week, but what kind of changes will students see when they're all finished with summer School District returns to class for the 2014 - 15 school year next week, but what kind of changes will students see when they're all finished with summer school year next week, but what kind of changes will students see when they're all finished with summer break?

«In most school districts, you have constant dialogue between labor and management on how to improve the teaching and learning process, and those kinds of conversations happen all through the year,» Korn said.

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

«The study is relevant for parents choosing what schools to enroll their children in, and for school districts in deciding what kinds of schools to offer,» says one of the study's authors, Angeline Lillard, of the University of Virginia, USA.

GE Power Makes Milestone Investment in Schenectady City School District for First - of - its - Kind Mobile Technology Lab

Thirteen states and many more school districts have adopted some kind of choice plan in the past five years.

What kinds of capacities exist at the district level to really support school improvements?

Despite different histories and demographics, there have been similarities among school districts in the district - level strategies for implementation that are important to study to take the kind of courses developed in the Knowledge in Action research to scale.

94, a teacher librarian for the Santa Clara United School District, while this kind of training in critical thinking is more needed than ever for students, it's not always a priority everywhere.

We find that when a district increases per - pupil school spending by $ 100 due to reforms, spending on instruction increases by about $ 70, spending on support services increases by roughly $ 40, spending on capital increases by about $ 10, while there are reductions in other kinds of school spending, on average.

«In our district, there are supposed to be crisis teams in every school trained to deal with at - risk kids and how to recognize the warning signs of the kind of depression that leads to suicide,» says Rosemary Rubin, a counselor in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and co-chairman of the Los Angeles County Child and Adolescent Suicide Review Codistrict, there are supposed to be crisis teams in every school trained to deal with at - risk kids and how to recognize the warning signs of the kind of depression that leads to suicide,» says Rosemary Rubin, a counselor in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and co-chairman of the Los Angeles County Child and Adolescent Suicide Review Commschool trained to deal with at - risk kids and how to recognize the warning signs of the kind of depression that leads to suicide,» says Rosemary Rubin, a counselor in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and co-chairman of the Los Angeles County Child and Adolescent Suicide Review CommSchool District (LAUSD) and co-chairman of the Los Angeles County Child and Adolescent Suicide Review CoDistrict (LAUSD) and co-chairman of the Los Angeles County Child and Adolescent Suicide Review Committee.

Consequently, school districts lack the kind of research - based evidence necessary to choose among such programs; often the only information they have comes from the program developers themselves.

As long as the elites hold onto the belief that their own school districts are excellent, they have little desire to push for the kind of significant systemic reforms that might improve their districts as well as the large urban districts.

Not only did the district, the largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the urban poor who entered high school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded in getting those students to graduation.

On the other hand, schools are prescriptive about all kinds of personal habits and behaviors, from teaching small children to share to warning older kids about the dangers of drinking and smoking (to say nothing of district - mandated sex education and HIV prevention programs).

California school officials were correct to withhold special - education funds from a school district that refused to comply with special - education law, the U.S. Education Department has ruled in a case that may be the first of its kind in the nation.

Vermont educators who have had their licenses revoked or suspended for any reason are now listed on a public Web site, believed to be one of the first of its kind in the nation, that aims to make such information more easily available to families and hiring school districts.

Instead of an impressionistic study of the sort offered by Mirel, the kinds of reports that would be helpful to education professionals, and ultimately to students, include evaluations of designs that track individual student performance year to year; the percentage of students reaching local and state standards; a more widely disseminated study of design implementation so others can benefit from lessons learned; and the establishment of a district - wide roadmap for bringing comprehensive school improvement to fruition.

«Given the inward focus of the program, I was uncertain if there would be an audience for this kind of leadership development, particularly during these tight economic times when school districts, colleges, and universities are all looking very carefully at every dime they spend,» Zolner says.

Finally, we should continue to provide incentives for and encouragement to charters and educational management organizations to join the state and districts in the kind of novel forms of school turnaround work and governance now being pioneered in Lawrence.

For the next several years, Mapp and colleagues consulted with USDOE to develop what came to be called the Dual Capacity - Building Framework for Family - School Partnerships, now released by the government as a downloadable, shareable model that schools and districts can use to build the kind of effective, mutually rewarding engagement that will make schools the center of their communities.

Under these circumstances, the kind of casual comparisons made by the media of achievement before and after Proposition 227 and across school districts are risky.

Silva, who has served as a security consultant to school districts across the country, describes informal mediation as the kind of proactive work the staff does all day, every day.

Instead, school districts, eager to be perceived as plugged in and afraid of being penalized for low test scores, have bought into expensive drill - and - kill software — the kind that costs a fortune and displays a silly animation of fireworks or cheering crowds for every five correct answers — with only minimal improvements on test scores and scant evidence of long - term progress among students.

Local school districts now constitute 90 percent of charter school authorizers and could have fostered the kind of cross-fertilization Shanker envisioned, but they've tended instead to treat charters as distant cousins.

Also, the District of Columbia is alleged to have provided traditional public schools with supplemental funding, support for operational expenses, and in - kind services, such as security from city police, that it has not granted to charters.

Just five of the teacher contracts in the nation's largest school districts grant school leaders the kind of flexibility they need to run schools well, but two - thirds of the rest do not obviously hamstring administrators with rules applying to teachers, according to a report released today by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

That's why the Romney plan is apt to do some good in states (and districts) that want to extend more school choices to their students — the federal dime can join the 90 cents in state and local funds in the kids» backpacks — but won't make much difference in places that aren't willing to put their own resources into this kind of reform.

Joined by similar teams from seven other large districts, they camped out in dorm - like quarters while engaging in the kind of deep thinking about organizational change that, while common among captains of industry, is rare for most school administrators.

The strike, believed to be the first job action of its kind for school bus drivers in the Los Angeles Unified School District in 30 years, forced officials in the nation's second - largest district to cancel all field trips and sporting events and find other means to get 18,000 students to their scschool bus drivers in the Los Angeles Unified School District in 30 years, forced officials in the nation's second - largest district to cancel all field trips and sporting events and find other means to get 18,000 students to their scSchool District in 30 years, forced officials in the nation's second - largest district to cancel all field trips and sporting events and find other means to get 18,000 students to their District in 30 years, forced officials in the nation's second - largest district to cancel all field trips and sporting events and find other means to get 18,000 students to their district to cancel all field trips and sporting events and find other means to get 18,000 students to their schools.

But if you're able to start with the kinds of things that teachers actually need, rather than what the school or district needs, engagement should improve — eventually.

These charters are accountable to the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board (PCSB) for the quality and results of their pre-K programs — just as they are for grades K — 12 — but they are not subject to the kind of extensive, input - based quality requirements found in other pre-K programs.

Under the proposal, parents would take a weekend course in which they would learn about their child's school district, the importance of reading at home, and suggestions for «what kind of TV your child should watch and what kind they shouldn't watch,»...