Sentences with phrase «largest school district in the state»

It doesn't make sense that one of the largest school districts in the state can't make a change.

The changes are being backed by a broader group called the Educational Conference Board, whose membership includes the Council of School Superintendents, the New York State Schools Boards Association, School Administrators Association of NEw York State as well as NYSUT and the Conference of Big 5, the five largest school districts in the state.

Georgia's Gwinnett County Public Schools, one of the nation's top urban school districts and the largest school district in the state, has recently experienced the benefits of this collaboration by piloting a new adaptive cognitive vocabulary app that's enabled by this new platform.

The three largest school districts in the state are taking different approaches on whether or not to authorize charter schools, approved by state voters in November.

It is the largest school district in the state, and a quarter of all students are English learners.

Their plan will gut Milwaukee Public Schools, the largest school district in the state of Wisconsin, by converting it to the same type of takeover district that has produced disastrous results in cities like Detroit and New Orleans.

Currently Milwaukee Public Schools is the largest school district in the state of Wisconsin with approximately 77,000 students as of 2017.

And not just for kindergarten through third grade, says Kerry Crutchfield, budget director for Winston - Salem / Forsyth County Schools, the fourth largest school district in the state.

Among those with contracts are unions in 10 of the 11 largest school districts in the state.

Despite this increase, compared to other large school districts in the state, DPS has the highest number of students choosing to enroll elsewhere.

AMERICAN FORK — It's been a year since Samuel Y. Jarman took charge of the largest school district in the state.

We analyzed data from the 10 largest school districts in the state of Tennessee based on population data (found here).

School District U-46, based in Elgin, is the second largest school district in the state.

In Bridgeport and Hartford, two of the largest school districts in the state, only a quarter of the students are reading at grade level and half are significantly behind.»

Previously, he was the Supervisor of District Communications for Mesa Public Schools, the largest school district in the state.

It is hoped all our expressions and testimony will assist the students, parents and staff members in their battle to preserve the last three librarians who remain, in one of the largest school districts in the state.

Arlington ISD is the 11th largest school district in the state of Texas.

Eva is the founder of Success Academies, currently the 7th largest school district in the State of New York with over 15,500 students.

Many improved 1 % to 2.5 % percent from 2011 to 2012 — making Denver, once again, one of the most improved large school districts in the state.

New and existing charter schools added an estimated 56,000 new students this year, the largest single - year enrollment increase in history and equivalent to adding the entire enrollment of the ninth largest school district in the state.

When testing began on the first Monday in March hundreds of students in Albuquerque, the largest school district in the state, walked out of their schools to protest the tests and the policies surrounding them.

GOP leaders want you to believe that the best way to rebuild our schools is by completely wiping away the largest school district in the state of Wisconsin and building a contingency of schools with full autonomy and no accountability, even though they are entitled to public dollars.

Not exact matches

The state's «education tax» supports schools (as do local school district taxes in most other states) and is the largest single source of property taxes in Vermont.

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.

The district is the second - largest public school district in the state, and the 14th - largest district in the nation.

Prior to her work with the State agency, Jessica worked as a program manager in one of Oregon's largest school districts, Portland Public 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.

Use the scorecard to track national and state trends in school breakfast service and participation, and take a closer look at how 73 of the country's largest school districts are managing breakfast programs.

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.

The recall spans 38 school districts in 29 states, including my own district of Houston ISD, the nation's seventh largest.

The Ventura County SELPA is the second largest SELPA in the state, serving over 16,000 students with disabilities in the 21 districts in Ventura County, the Ventura County Office of Education and the Las Virgenes Unified School District in Los Angeles County.

A group known as The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine have published a 2007 school lunch report card, grading 22 elementary schools from the 100 largest educational districts in the United States.

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.

Did you know that Minneapolis Public Schools, the third - largest district in the state, does not have a kitchen per se?

To a large extent, state fiscal policies have caused great pressure on property taxes in needy cities, counties and school districts, including decisions: to reduce revenue sharing; to decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read more)

ALBANY — Several education groups are criticizing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal that New York's largest school districts submit school - level funding plans for state approval or risk losing increases in aid.

The statement in large part places the onus on school districts to find ways of spending the money the state sent to them, not simply adding more cash to their coffers.

«It is nearly unthinkable that, in this day and age, one of the largest and most diverse school districts in the United States would allow racial discrimination and retaliation to flourish.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday proposed a $ 100 million fund to aid underperforming schools «north of the Bronx,» a large chunk of which would help close a $ 28 million deficit in Yonkers, the state's fifth - largest school district.

For New York City, the State's largest school district, a four - percent increase in State aid is worth approximately $ 300 million.

For New York City, the State's largest school district, a four percent increase in State aid is worth approximately $ 300 million.

Should a large share of the state's 600 - plus school districts choose to use alternative exams, the commissioner and her department would face a massive task in screening such tests.

New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is out with his annual fiscal stress scores for school districts, and two in the Hudson Valley show large swings.

Cuomo only asking the people to support the cap without any mention of mandate relief is the hamburger bun without the burger and simply fuels the opposition's (they say mandate relief before tax cap) claim that tax cap alone is a big - government scheme to take power away from and defund local towns and school districts and increase the power of the larger state government which created the property tax problem in the first place by passing the mandates which are the biggest property tax drivers and now refuses to change those mandates.

Incumbent Democratic Cecilia Tkaczyk, a former school board member and owner of a sheep farm, is fighting what's turning out to be our region's most expensive state race for the large, oddly - configured 46th state Senate district against Republican George Amedore, a former Assemblyman and owner of a second generation Rotterdam - area homebuilding company, who she defeated by 18 votes in a tense recount two years ago.

Since August 2016, Carranza, 51, has been serving as superintendent of the Houston Independent School District — the largest school district in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student populSchool District — the largest school district in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student popDistrict — the largest school district in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student populschool district in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student popdistrict in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student popdistrict in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student population.

In his first budget address to the legislature, Murphy said he would use the extra revenue to ramp up state aid for school districts, increase funding for the beleaguered NJ Transit and a make a larger payment into the cash - strapped public worker pension system.

The New York State board of Regents, after a lengthy closed door session, chose MaryEllen Elia, a former western New York school teacher who was most recently the superintendent of a large school district in Florida.

Asked how she plans to scale up her network, Moskowitz said, «We're about the seventh - largest school district in New York state.

Stephanie Anzman - Frasca, Ph.D., of ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Boston, and co-authors used data from 446 public elementary schools in a large, urban school district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievschool district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievSchool Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievschool attendance and academic achievement.