No less important are the main factors that generate the gap: students entering charters may differ from those entering district schools (with respect to their special education needs), and students leaving charters may differ from
those leaving district schools.
When a student
leaves a district school to attend a charter school, the district is also relieved of the cost of educating that student.
The Roosevelt district, an inner - city district in Phoenix that was hit hard by charters, sent letters to local charter parents asking why they had
left district schools and explaining how the district would serve them better.
Some students told us they had been counseled to
leave district schools, though district officials have contested those claims.
Not exact matches
Several parents accused the
district of failing to learn any lessons from the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High
School in Colorado that
left 13 people dead.
If the frequent transfers — records show there were six in three years — did little to stanch Cruz's disruptive behavior, they eventually became the only option
left in the
school district's toolbox.
She contends that educational choice will create a «two - tiered system in urban
districts, with charter
schools for motivated students and public
schools for those
left behind.»
Leave it up to the individual
school districts.
In the Warta
district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic
schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were
left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.
He
left Cherokee High
School in North Carolina with the best rebound record in the state, both All - District and All - State, and was named his school's Academic Athlete of the
School in North Carolina with the best rebound record in the state, both All -
District and All - State, and was named his
school's Academic Athlete of the
school's Academic Athlete of the Year.
For Maryjo and Steve Cubberly, the Park
District and
schools were the big attractions behind
leaving their Mt. Prospect home of 10 years for a larger one in Arlington Heights» Scarsdale subdivision two years ago.
One possible plan is to ask Des Plaines
School District 62 to allow park district staff members to pass out books to students as they leave school on certain days, Hecker
School District 62 to allow park district staff members to pass out books to students as they leave school on certain days, Heck
District 62 to allow park
district staff members to pass out books to students as they leave school on certain days, Heck
district staff members to pass out books to students as they
leave school on certain days, Hecker
school on certain days, Hecker said.
Too often, glowing media reports about a particular
district's healthful
school food
leave readers with the impression that if only their own
district's employees had the will and creativity, they achieve the same results.
Several people involved in Berkeley's
school food program, including Bonnie Christensen, executive chef in Berkeley's
school district, were also kind enough to stop by and
leave their thoughts.
The Park Board voted unanimously Monday to turn down the
school district's proposal because it would
leave too much park land unusable, said Park Board President Ken Nolan.
«Anywhere you go, you hear parents saying that middle
school kids get
left out,» said Figaro, the coordinator of the Park
District's program.
Parents of latch - key children in Indian Prairie Community Unit
School District 204 may soon have an alternative to leaving their children at home before and after s
School District 204 may soon have an alternative to
leaving their children at home before and after
schoolschool.
When Taylor
left SMMUSD, he was eager to apply his salad bar model to a
school district that was three times larger and far less affluent.
But when placed into
districts and
schools that have suffered long - term neglect and inequity, many of them either
leave the setting,
leave the profession, or
leave their passion for teaching behind.
When Lake Forest
School District 67 could not stock low - fat strawberry milk for a short span this fall — leaving students with a choice of plain, chocolate or organic milk — several parents voiced concerns that kids might miss the daily serving of calcium, a district spokeswom
District 67 could not stock low - fat strawberry milk for a short span this fall —
leaving students with a choice of plain, chocolate or organic milk — several parents voiced concerns that kids might miss the daily serving of calcium, a
district spokeswom
district spokeswoman said.
For example, one food services official, whose
district includes
schools serving 7th through 12th graders, developed menus with calorie counts between the grades 6 - 8 maximum and the grades 9 - 12 minimum,
leaving the lunches out of compliance with both sets of restrictions.
Identifying trainers who understand the material, know how to train and motivate adults, and
leave trainees feeling satisfied by the experience — and sharing this information with other
school districts in the area.
With 14 applicants vying for a seat
left vacant by outgoing board president Sam Black in Glen Ellyn
District 41,
school board members this week selected Cathryn Wilkinson, the former associate dean of Fine and Applied Arts at the College of DuPage to fill the spot.
He responded well to criticisms of the law's meal standards, including allegedly increased plate waste (debunked by the Harvard
School of Public Health) and tales of
districts leaving the NSLP in droves (actually, only 59 out of 99,000 have
left, according to Vilsack, and Dana Woldow has reported they often suffer financially as a result).
From
left to right: Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black, Georgia Organics Executive Director Alice Rolls, Cherokee County
School District School Nutrition Director Tina Farmer, Georgia Department of Health Commissioner Dr. J. Patrick O'Neal, UGA Associate Dean for Extension Dr. Laura Perry Johnson, and Georgia State Superintendent of
Schools Richard Woods.
The problem is,
school districts are
left holding the financial bag in terms of increased costs and food waste when kids don't get on board immediately with the new regime.
When I
left Berkeley, I wondered why every
school district hadn't thought of breakfast in the classroom.
Now that USDA has
left the choice to use LBT up to each
school district, and because individual grocery chains have always had the ability to chose to sell meat with or without it, it's been interesting to see that local efforts are starting to spring up to influence these potential LBT purchasers.
For two years, I've been working to create healthier classrooms, stop junk food rewards, strengthen our
school district wellness policy and push for fresh, wholesome cafeteria food — and there are days that I am just not sure how much more I have
left in me.
Shimon Waronker, the embattled superintendent of the Hempstead
school district, was placed on administrative
leave by the
district's
school board majority — an action, which if it holds up, will ban the former New York City educator from intervening in the operations of Long Island's most troubled
school system.
Richard Buery, a New York City deputy mayor who tried to build bridges between the
district and charter
schools, will
leave to take a senior post this month at KIPP, a national charter -
school network.
Incoming NYC
schools boss Richard Carranza
left his previous
district in Houston in the lurch by quitting after just 18 months on the job, critics say.
Early in her career, in 1982, she «
left a tenured professorship at Yale Law
School to toil in the low - rent vineyards of the Brooklyn
District Attorney,» The New York Times reported in 1998.
An administrator has been placed on
leave in the Salamanca City Central
School District.
Elia
left her superintendent post in January after she was fired by the
district's
school board in a close vote, which ultimately proved to be a controversial decision.
An «irate voter» kicked doors and a table before
leaving the Eugene Auer Elementary
School, the Middle Country Central
School District in Centereach wrote Wednesday in a letter to the county Board of Elections.
Nevertheless, advocates have pushed him to spend more, arguing urban and rural
school districts have been
left short changed by the state's complicated formula for funding
schools.
His conference, he said, doesn't want to see «600
school districts around the state not get the funding that is needed to educate our children... We probably will put forward some legislation to deal with this situation before we
leave.»
New Park
District School Board Member Catherine Flanagan - Priore (second from
left) takes her seat at the table.
Take that out of the proposed $ 805 million in
school spending for this year and it
leaves only $ 105 million which will hurt all of the
school districts and be particularly devastating to those in poorer areas that desperately need funds.
The
School Board this week announced the retirement of Mullen Elementary
School Principal Larry Badgley, who will
leave the
district at the end of August after a 23 - year career as an administrator in the
district.
According to Onondaga County
District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, Boykins was suspended from
school that day and told to
leave campus.
Susan Schnebel, superintendent of Islip
schools, said that next year's downward fluctuation in the cap could
leave her
district with $ 1.1 million less in operating funds than it has this year.
While thousands of students have
left rural public
districts, poverty rates in these
schools have increased, according to the analysis by the New York State Association of
School Business Officials.
PLATTSBURGH — No stone is being
left unturned for the search of a new superintendent for Plattsburgh City
School District.
And the inability to serve all parents looking to send their children to a Success Academy
school — there are currently 19,000 applicants for 2,688 open seats this fall, which translates to seven applicants for every open seat — she dubbed a «tragedy» that
leaves thousands of families disappointed,
left to seek out supplementary
schooling options in their zoned
district.
Leon County
School Superintendent Rocky Hanna says that will
leave the
district with little flexibility to put money toward other priorities.
The Syracuse City
School District's transition away from heavy reliance on out - of - school suspensions for discipline has been tough on many teachers, but a recent workshop with a former school dropout left attendees feeling ho
School District's transition away from heavy reliance on out - of -
school suspensions for discipline has been tough on many teachers, but a recent workshop with a former school dropout left attendees feeling ho
school suspensions for discipline has been tough on many teachers, but a recent workshop with a former
school dropout left attendees feeling ho
school dropout
left attendees feeling hopeful.
Erie County Health Commissioner Gale Burstein said that testing children for lead is better
left to primary care practices, but she didn't elaborate on why she doesn't support the
school district's proposal.
She also suggested
leaving the Onteora
district and joining with Zena elementary independently, «a
school that is also struggling.»