Sentences with phrase «like most district schools»

Yet most charter schools, like most district schools, continue to look fairly similar to the schools Americans have attended for the last 100 years, while the world has changed dramatically.

Not exact matches

In Oakland, one of the nation's most diverse cities, Jackson says he would like to see Uber hire local workers and businesses and invest in the community, including the Oakland Unified School District.

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 others.

Most importantly, given the almost 14 million kids who eat school breakfast every day, I'm hopeful that the AHA recommendation, along with the new DGA on added sugar, will eventually make insanely sugary school breakfasts like this one (offered in my district before recent reforms were instituted) a thing of the past:

But most of all, I wondered why no one seemed to be talking about taking the more moderate step — as some school districts already have — of getting dairies to lower the sugar content in the milk (and get rid of other objectionable ingredients like high fructose corn syrup and artificial flavors and colors) before we decide to ban flavored milk altogether.

Like most other districts around the country, it features school food formulations of highly processed breakfast items like Pop Tarts, Cocoa Puffs Bars, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cerLike most other districts around the country, it features school food formulations of highly processed breakfast items like Pop Tarts, Cocoa Puffs Bars, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cerlike Pop Tarts, Cocoa Puffs Bars, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal:

«Based on research and experience, more and more local districts are rejecting the use of ineffective strategies like corporal punishment as an acceptable form of school discipline in favor of effective techniques, like the Positive Behavioral Support system favored by most educators,» said Vitaglione.

District 214 said it wants to cut itself loose from National School Lunch and the $ 900,000 subsidy it receives because most of its food service revenue comes from the a la carte menu, which sells things like pizza, fries and Subway sandwiches and generates $ 2.2 million.

TLT: My school district, like most, supplements the revenue it gets from the National School Lunch Program by selling «a la carte» foods like chips and ice cream at full price toschool district, like most, supplements the revenue it gets from the National School Lunch Program by selling «a la carte» foods like chips and ice cream at full price toSchool Lunch Program by selling «a la carte» foods like chips and ice cream at full price to kids.

In the absence of a sizable, well - organized and mobilized block of voters, the path of least resistance for most mayors is to focus on things that are within their control (like a school district), rather than on things are not (like independent education entrepreneurs).

Rules like the so - called comparability loophole — which allows districts to use average instead of actual teacher salaries for budget calculations — mean federal dollars are not getting to the schools and students who need them the most.

Like district schools, charter schools receive most of their funding from public sources and are subject to state regulation.

Most CMOs are organized much like a typical school district, at least on paper.

Although some charter school operators, such as Rocketship Education and KIPP Empower, as well as some school districts, like Riverside School District, have created stellar blended - learning models, the most advanced school districts in California in online and blended learning have seen their efforts frustrated and curtschool operators, such as Rocketship Education and KIPP Empower, as well as some school districts, like Riverside School District, have created stellar blended - learning models, the most advanced school districts in California in online and blended learning have seen their efforts frustrated and curtschool districts, like Riverside School District, have created stellar blended - learning models, the most advanced school districts in California in online and blended learning have seen their efforts frustrated and curtSchool District, have created stellar blended - learning models, the most advanced school districts in California in online and blended learning have seen their efforts frustrated and curtschool districts in California in online and blended learning have seen their efforts frustrated and curtailed.

The NAEP scores they focus on do not correspond in most of the cases to the relevant years in which the court orders were actually implemented; they ignore the fact that, as in Kentucky, initial increases in funding are sometimes followed by substantial decreases in later years; and their use of NAEP scores makes no sense in a state like New Jersey, where the court orders covered only a subset of the state's students (i.e., students in 31 poor urban school districts) and not the full statewide populations represented by NAEP scores.

For the most part, he says, «The school districts and the schools gobbled up those grants like lunch, and they were ready for the next one.»

Like most government agencies, school districts operate under conditions of «use it or lose it.»

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.

But as an organization matures, like most decades - old state agencies and school districts, the people working in the organization gradually come to assume that the processes and priorities they've repeatedly used in the past are the right way to do their work.

«Most studies of district turnarounds are places like New Orleans, where the district or the schools were in this really extreme state, but this is the first recent example of a turnaround just coming out of policy,» says Deming.

Most of the expense is covered by the partner school districts, but Bard does also receive some private funding from groups like the Carnegie Corporation.

On paper, it looks to most people like a good plan: $ 1.2 billion going straight to needy school districts to hire thousands of new teachers and reduce class sizes in the crucial early grades.

Like most urban school districts, about 20 % of our workforce leaves the classroom annually.

Yet most schools or districts have nothing like it.

Maybe most contentious has been the debate over the state's long - term takeovers of districts like Newark and its recent takeover of Camden schools.

In most places in California, students must attend a school in the district where they live, or a charter school anywhere if they find one they like.

Before the housing was approved, former West Tallahatchie Superintendent Reggie Barnes, an outspoken advocate for the state's most impoverished schools, told Mississippi Department of Education officials that districts like his struggled to help teachers find housing.

Survey results revealed that while New Jersey school districts have already made improvements to their overall school security post-Sandy Hook, most would like to make additional improvements.

Today, most districts use choice and incentives — like non-selective magnet schools — to promote diversity.

The fact that the AFT affiliate, like its counterparts in other districts, have the advantage of bodies on the ground — and in the case of race between Zimmer and Anderson, used it to their advantage — is another reminder that the school reform movement must do a better job of building grassroots support, especially among the 11.7 million single - parent families for whose children the failures of big - city districts such as L.A. Unified prove to weigh most - heavily.

What is annoying, to say the least, is that despite these difficult economic times, and while we're making a special effort to invest in our poorest, most challenged urban school districts, we've got school administrators like Paul Vallas and Steven Adamowski who begin by hiring consultants and laying off the very Connecticut residents who have been working so hard to make a difference.

Philadelphia, like most urban school districts, spends a significant amount of money on things most suburban districts do not, such as increased security measures, school police, metal detectors, non-teaching hallway patrols, health services, detention centers, discipline schools, teen parenting centers, daycare, nurseries, and non-English-speaking classes.

But under a district waiver like the one that's being proposed, schools and teachers in LAUSD would be operating under a different set of federal rules than those in most of the rest of the state.

Unlike many public schools, most charters don't have the resources of a central district office — like recruitment teams or existing pools of resumes — to find new leaders quickly.

Not only does APS now embrace DPE - inspired frauds, like STEM and SEL, it openly partners on the district web site with some of the most virulent promoters of privatizing America's schools.

Like most urban districts, teachers in the New Orleans Public Schools for decades worked under union - negotiated contracts.

That could change in November, when voters will weigh in on the Multilingual Education Act, a measure that would repeal most of Prop. 227 and make it easier for districts to open a school like Sherman.

In states like Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee and New Jersey, parental choice options like charter schools, opportunity scholarships, and stronger traditional district schools are no longer a dream, but a reality for families that need them most.

Like most public schools, they are open to any child living within a certain district, including children with special needs.

Like most large school districts in the United States, discipline policies in Broward reflected the idea that the best way to maintain an orderly classroom is to get rid of disruptive students, an approach known as zero tolerance.

We also failed to understand the political and district costs of tying such laws to federal incentives, particularly given a strong ethos of local control in many school districts, like most of those in Colorado.

«I fear that, because this is the most aggressive model for this program, the privatization of education... will spread like wildfire,» said Electra McGrath - Skrzydlewski, whose 12 - year - old daughter is a student in the Clark County School District.

If you're like most district and school leaders, you're consistently being asked to do more with less.

Our commitment to equity and equal opportunity runs like a ribbon through all of our initiatives at the U.S. Department of Education — from ensuring that low - income minority students aren't stuck in chronically under - performing schools, to working with districts to get great teachers in the schools and subjects where they are needed most, to targeting billions of dollars to students and schools in need of support.

In Chicago, we are now able to give parents, teachers, principals and district leaders laser - like insights on students» attainment of the milestones that research shows matter most for high school and college success.

States that motivate school districts to accomplish the most ambitious reforms combine pressure — through regulations, laws or sanctions — with supports like expert guidance or additional funding.

More specifically, the district and its teachers are not coming to an agreement about how they should be evaluated, rightfully because teachers understand better than most (even some VAM researchers) that these models are grossly imperfect, largely biased by the types of students non-randomly assigned to their classrooms and schools, highly unstable (i.e., grossly fluctuating from one year to the next when they should remain more or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher effectiveness), and the like.

The teachers in our study, like most educators in the United States, faced increasing demands from school and district administrators to engage in data - driven practices.

And Allison, to imply that the regular district hasn't siphoned off kids and dumped them in schools like Polly McCabe, Urban Youth, Wilbur Cross Annex, ACES, and most of all into Adult Ed.

Among the publications are resources that cover topics like resolving conflict at school, parent and student rights, participating in your child's education, making the most of parent - teacher conferences, bullying at school, and the inner - workings of a school district.