Sentences with phrase «little a school district»

There is little a school district can do about that, beyond screening and treatment referrals.

How much or how little a school district gets is often directly related to where in the state those schools are located.

«While there is language in both state and federal law that «mandates» that students take standardized examinations, at the end of the day there is little a school district can do to actually compel a child to sit for a standardized test,» Zach Schurin and Michael P. McKeon, lawyers with Pullman & Comley wrote in their school law blog.

Not exact matches

So if you're in love with a house in a «less good» neighborhood or within a «less good» school district, before you write it off as an option, do a little more digging.

Two months after a massacre in Parkland made security the top focus in Broward County schools, many parents and students say the school district is doing too little to ensure safety.

The school district has given teachers the tiny bats in response to school shootings, though the exact reason for the bats is a little unclear.

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.

In other schools in the district, staff were a little more nervous about the introduction of salad bars to their cafeterias.

Starting at 11:30 a.m. at Ernie Sheldon Park, Natoma Station Drive, Folsom, CA, the Folsom High School varsity baseball team will become special Baseball buddies for 30 players with intellectual and physical challenges from District 54 Little League.

A Tribune investigation has found that nearly 32,000 Chicago students in public elementary schools - or roughly 1 in 8 - missed four weeks or more of class during the 2010 - 11 year, as the cash - strapped district does little to stem a devastating problem.

Tell us a little about school breakfast in your school district.

Jessica Ortega, a senior at the Little Village school, said she thinks the district should incorporate organic foods, «and if that's not possible, our food should actually be cooked in the cafeterias rather than being brought in by trucks and having the lunch ladies just heat it up.»

In other schools in the district, staff were a little more nervous about the introduction of salad bars to their cafeterias.

And yes, no question that pink slime is gross no matter how depicted and I'm really glad he talked about it, but I also take Dana's point that pink slime has little to do with local school districts and a lot to do with the federal government.

«We made the effort, but there was so little interest, we did not continue,» Elk Grove Township School District 59 Supt. Robert Howard said.

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But most scientists and nutritionists, including those employed by local school districts, say that changing sweeteners makes little dietary difference if the total calorie content stays the same.

These eight districts joined our original five districts — Dallas ISD (Dallas, TX), Little Rock (AR), Memphis City Schools (TN), Orange County Public Schools (FL), and Prince George's County Public Schools (MD)-- in the work of increasing access to, and participation in, the federally - funded School Breakfast Program, with the goal of reducing childhood hunger, and improving health and educational outcome for students.

They are working with impossibly tight funding; they may face high turnover of labor; they may be at the bottom of the food chain within their school district, viewed as little more than an annoying adjunct department vaguely linked with mystery meat, ladies in hairnets, and the persistent complaint that «school food sucks.»

The only tiny little point I would correct is that Meals for Needy Pupils money is NOT available to San Francisco, or to about 2/3 of the other school districts in California.

I do try very hard to be objective on this blog and to always consider the monumental task facing my (or any) school district trying to feed huge numbers of kids on very little money.

I recently sat down and had a (phone) chat with Lilly Bouie, Director of the Child Nutrition Department in the Little Rock School District.

Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «kids and food, in school and out» but in the near future I plan to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the lunch program in my own school district (Houston ISD) and presumably elsewhere in the country.

What I do know is it took very little time for the Long Island Republicans to decide their school districts couldn't take the cuts.

State education groups previously expressed concerns about reporting by school — particularly for rural and suburban districts where there is very little variety between school buildings so costs can not always be assigned to a particular building.

«It was the only school in the district that was diverse and it was a remarkable little experiment,» he said.

While every little bit helps, what's really busting municipal and school district budgets are employee health care costs and pension obligations.

In a little over a month, voters in most school districts go to the polls to decide yes or know on that district's spending plan and five of them in Erie County have less state aid to work with in the recently approved state budget In Erie County, Sweet Home sees the biggest cut in overall state...

Leon County School Superintendent Rocky Hanna says that will leave the district with little flexibility to put money toward other priorities.

As you all know, Member Items and Capital Funds were the only way that a State Legislator used to be able to help those struggling groups such as little leagues, senior centers, schools, and not - for profit organizations in their districts.

She has been a volunteer with the East Greenbush school district, the East Greenbush Girls Softball League and Castleton Little League.

The move is mostly symbolic since the Council has little sway in the affairs of the Buffalo School District.

Legislation signed in December by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that made school tax exemptions for available to certain veterans took effect with little advance notice, making it difficult for school boards tasked with deciding whether their districts would participate in the program to make well - researched and educated decisions.

Rhoads said Curran has little chance of recouping all the fees as youth groups will seek to move to fields run by towns, villages and school districts.

At least you grasp the fact that the little people do not deserve to be attacked, only the pigs at the trough like the lawyers who make millions from their firms and get on a school district payroll so they can take down a pension too!

It is said that little drops of water makes a mighty ocean and it is in this light that ONE LOVE ONE GHANA FOUNDATION, an NGO which is now focusing on education is starting its «one love elimination of schools under trees» project at Akwamu Kotoku Basic School in the Fanteakwa District in the Eastern Region.

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An October 2014 rally in Manhattan focused on failing district schools as an indirect means to advocate for more charters, but the «Don't Steal Possible» slogan revealed little about the group's specific policy goals to improve struggling schools.

«We're a school district where our kids have been relatively successful on those exams, so they're a little bit anxious.

Some say that the borough's current crop of district, charter, and private schools are relatively strong, leaving little demand for Success to move in.

It took a little longer, but our hard work yielded results: The new state budget increases education aid by $ 1.1 billion, which includes $ 700 million in additional foundation aid for school districts.

Dr. Smith said the idea of principals leaving their building to observe teachers in other school districts makes little sense.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — The Common Core test results were released last month to little fanfare and no official statement by the City School District of New Rochelle.

Administration officials confirmed the school runs were being withheld because the governor's education reform agenda hasn't been met favorably by the state legislature, a move Kingston City School District Superintendent Paul Padalino called «a little childish.&school runs were being withheld because the governor's education reform agenda hasn't been met favorably by the state legislature, a move Kingston City School District Superintendent Paul Padalino called «a little childish.&School District Superintendent Paul Padalino called «a little childish.»

State Sen. Betty Little (R - Queensbury) said her top priority is ensuring education aid for public school districts.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

States can also distribute pre-K funds directly to local school districts, which establish their own decisionmaking processes and standards, often with little oversight.

School principals in Richmond County, Ga., can now sleep a little later each day, thanks to the district's automated telephone system for placing substitute teachers.

It's time for school districts to stop treating teachers as if they were ticky - tacky — little boxes, sitting in the classroom, all teaching just the same.

As the IEPs from the school district changed little from year to year, his parents became concerned that his functional and academic progress was stalling.