Sentences with phrase «largest high school district»

Schuler, who heads the state's second - largest high school district, was Illinois» finalist for the honor given by AASA, the School Superintendents Association.

Illinois» largest high school district violated federal law by barring a transgender student from using the girls» locker room, authorities concluded Monday.

Arlington Heights - based Township High School District 214, the state's second - largest high school district, is one system that's pushing back.

Not exact matches

«We should be focused on arming law enforcement,» said Mr. Scott, who has proposed helping school districts pay for an armed police officer or sheriff's deputy at every school, and for every 1,000 students in large high schools.

From 56 - student New Harmony High in the utopian settlement of the same name, to sprawling Ben Davis High in suburban Indianapolis, with its largest - in - the - state enrollment of 2,798; from schools with picturesque handles like Turkey Run (enrollment 164) and Rising Sun (252), to consolidated districts that go by neologisms like Tri-West Hendricks (301) and Jac - Cen - Del (228), the eyes of March are on the tournament.

As you can see, the schools that benefit the most from competitive equity divisions are the high - enrollment, big schools of larger districts like Sacramento Unified, Stockton Unified, East Side Union High School District of San Jose and othhigh - enrollment, big schools of larger districts like Sacramento Unified, Stockton Unified, East Side Union High School District of San Jose and othHigh School District of San Jose and others.

[21] Similarly, the School Nutrition Association estimated that the cost of providing a school lunch was $ 2.92 for the 2008 - 2009 school year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high schSchool Nutrition Association estimated that the cost of providing a school lunch was $ 2.92 for the 2008 - 2009 school year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high schschool lunch was $ 2.92 for the 2008 - 2009 school year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high schschool year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high schools).

Stated another way, the average revenue for a paid lunch in these largest school districts is only about 77 percent of the federal reimbursement provided for free lunches in elementary schools and 90 percent of the federal reimbursement in high schools.

Not only are we up against a school district food system that is set in it's ways, we're battling a larger food culture that values high calorie, highly processed convenience food AND huge food lobbies that have great influence over Congress and the legislation that is passed.

The superintendent of northwest suburban Township High School District 214 — one of the largest in the state — will be deeply involved with AASA, the national school superintendents associSchool District 214 — one of the largest in the state — will be deeply involved with AASA, the national school superintendents associschool superintendents association.

An Orland Park Village Board committee delayed a possible decision on the matter until its Feb. 26 meeting, saying it wanted to ask the Orland Park - based school district to agree to allow the larger Sandburg High School campus to be annexed asschool district to agree to allow the larger Sandburg High School campus to be annexed asSchool campus to be annexed as well.

This study took place in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district that serves predominantly low - income, racial / ethnic minority students.

This longitudinal study in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanschool district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanschool lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanSchool Lunch Program meal standards.

Ruth Jonen, food services director for Palatine Township High School District 211 in Chicago's northwest suburbs, defended the quality and safety of foods served in schools, saying they «by and large use the same food distributors as the restaurant down the road.»

[37] Mahopac is the largest school district in Putnam County, educating more than 5,000 students in four elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school (1600 students).

New research from the National Bureau of Economics confirms what teachers have always known: Money does make a difference for schools, and districts with large proportions of high - need students need comparatively more money than districts with fewer high - need students.

This has meant larger class sizes, the elimination of entire programs and the elimination of electives at the high school level — and every district in New York has suffered.

Williamsville, the Buffalo area's largest suburban school district, is tied for the second - highest number of candidates running for School Board out of the 37 districts in Erie and Niagara couschool district, is tied for the second - highest number of candidates running for School Board out of the 37 districts in Erie and Niagara couSchool Board out of the 37 districts in Erie and Niagara counties.

The school is one of several new schools with vocational and academic themes established as part of the 196,000 - student district's efforts to break up larger high schools into...

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

A decade ago, the Cleveland Heights - University Heights City School District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a large urban high school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the buiSchool District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a large urban high school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the buischool with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the building.

With a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter district and charter schools.

A recent investigation revealed that several high schools in Washington, D.C., skirted district rules to graduate large numbers of their students who didn't meet the standards for earning diplomas.

The district also repurposed an old golf cart — adding coolers, heaters, and ice bags — to bring dinner to students at high poverty schools who participate in after - school activities that may be spread out over a large campus.

In response to large within - state differences in per - pupil spending across wealthy / high - income and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned school finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many states implemented legislative reforms that spawned important changes in public education funding.

The «special masters» will work with state officials and plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which resulted in a decision by the state's highest court that the state was inadequately financing the nation's largest school district.

Districts might, for example, allocate a relatively larger share of resources to high schools because they are expected to provide a diverse curriculum.

Our research begins to fill this gap with two studies of the G&T programs available to high - achieving middle - school students in a large urban school district in the southwestern United States which, to preserve anonymity we shall refer to as LUSD.

A former high school principal in DeKalb County, Mr. Pritchett is the district's executive director of business and plant services and the point person for the largest school...

We removed the state's four largest urban districts from the sample and found between - school inequities were still much higher than inequities between 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.

In a book that Smerdon and Borman would curate for the Urban Institute in 2009, Saving America's High Schools, many of the members of the research team expanded on the findings from the Gates report, offering a wealth of specific findings for many of the larger districts receiving Gates funds.

School districts consolidated, creating enrollment areas large enough to support a high sSchool districts consolidated, creating enrollment areas large enough to support a high schoolschool.

School district administrators tend to focus on high «fixed costs» involved in running schools and they refer to personnel salary and benefits as their largest fixed cost.

When we examined noncategorical per - pupil funding in the state's four largest school districts — Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston — the levels of inequity were even higher and each district was remarkably different from the others.

He also points out, correctly, that all that many districts offer these students is a chance to muddle through four years (or more) in a large, comprehensive high school, in hopes of earning a diploma that by no means signals readiness for college or a career.

One superintendent of a large, urban school district said that low - income high - school students in his district were beginning to take MOOCs in greater numbers than students from more privileged backgrounds.

This is a transcript from a student focus group conducted by Education Week on March 6, 2003 with high school seniors in a large, diverse high school in a mid-Atlantic state in an approximately 11,000 student urban / suburban fringe school district.

As superintendents of seven large school districts west of the Mississippi — districts with long histories of high student achievement — we...

That isn't unusual either: in some of the country's larger school districts — including Maryland's Baltimore County, Florida's Hillsborough County, Georgia's Cobb County, and Colorado's Jefferson County — substitutes need only a high - school GED.

School and district administrators can apply these suggestions to their own goals, including reminding parents and the community at large that the world is more technologically complex than it was when they studied math in high school and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving sSchool and district administrators can apply these suggestions to their own goals, including reminding parents and the community at large that the world is more technologically complex than it was when they studied math in high school and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving sschool and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving skills.

Greene's «High School Graduation Rates in the United States» (revised in 2002) employs a unique method for calculating graduation rates and presents his own rates for each of the 50 states, for distinct racial and ethnic group breakdowns, and for the 50 largest school distSchool Graduation Rates in the United States» (revised in 2002) employs a unique method for calculating graduation rates and presents his own rates for each of the 50 states, for distinct racial and ethnic group breakdowns, and for the 50 largest school distschool districts.

I teach science (AP Chemistry, Physics, Chemistry and Biology) at a large, comprehensive, urban public high school in Los Angeles Unified School Disschool in Los Angeles Unified School DisSchool District.

The criteria are set up, and students are rewarded district - wide at the trimester in the elementary level and at semester end in high school and middle school, as well as a year - end drawing for larger prizes.»

All that said, Chicago isn't the only urban school district in the nation struggling with the demands of educating a large number of high - need students.

A research team led by Harvard Graduate School of Education's Susan Moore Johnson at the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers spoke to 95 teachers and administrators in six high - poverty, high - minority schools in a large, urban district.

This analysis makes clear that large differences in the performance of high - SES students and low - SES students in the same schools do exist; that these apparent gaps are not simply reflective of gaps in preparation; and that while the variation across school districts is substantial, the variation within school districts may be even larger (at least among the largest districts in Florida).

The foundation encouraged urban school districts to close large, dysfunctional high schools and replace them with smaller ones, either in alternative spaces or by placing several schools within the building that once housed the large one.

A wealth of research demonstrates that in most high - suspending schools and districts, the majority of the offenses and largest share of racial disparities are punishments for minor nonviolent violations of school codes of conduct, not unlawful or dangerous behavior.

It's apparent from Figure 5 that school districts vary considerably in their test performance gaps between high - SES and low - SES students; this is unsurprising given the large cross-district variation in racial / ethnic gaps found in the work by Reardon and colleagues mentioned in the introduction.