Sentences with phrase «many schools across the nation»

She has 3 children and is the founder of the Redefine Positive Project, an initiative that is working to reform HIV / AIDS education in public schools across the nation.

School Food Institute coursework also equips parents, administrators, and school nutrition advocates with practical knowledge about school food operations, history, regulations, policy, and funding that will enable them to be informed advocates for healthier food in schools across the nation.

More recently, the trend to «dress up» uniforms and create an innovative athletic test lab on campuses has moved to high schools across the nation.

Public Waldorf schools across the nation are at the forefront of defining themselves as exemplary educational models that value measurement of growth in meaningful, developmental, and authentic ways.

During the first minute of her speech at CPAC, she made a joke that many found to be distasteful and understandably wrong regarding the lunch program at schools across the nation.

Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools - An initiative to fund and grant 6000 salad bars to schools across the nation by 2013.

Schools across the nation have been upgrading to new, rigorous standards.

There are now nine gardens in schools in District 65, and schools across the nation are adopting school gardening programs.

More and more outbreaks of the antibiotic - resistant skin infection or «super bug» known as methicillin - resistant staphylococcus aureus («MRSA») are being reported in schools across the nation.

Chocolate milk has become a real point of contention in schools across the nation.

HUMAN Healthy Vending will be working with schools across the nation to comply with these guidelines in advance of their implementation.

HUMAN Healthy Vending is working with schools across the nation to ensure competitive foods sold are 100 % healthful.

With the holiday season in full swing and in light of the incredibly tragic events in Newtown, Connecticut, families across the nation hug their loved ones a little bit longer and schools across the nation find themselves refocusing on the best ways to keep our children safe.

HUMAN Healthy Vending (http://www.healthyvending.com), an award - winning franchisor of healthy vending machine businesses, will be working directly with schools across the nation to comply with the USDA's recent landmark proposal for improving competitive foods.

With the USDA's recent proposal to improve the nutritional quality of snack foods sold in school vending machines, a la carte and in student stores (a.k.a. «competitive foods»), schools across the nation will be turning to healthy vending to assist them with compliance and improved student performance.

Hear about the new Local School Wellness Policy (LWP) requirements and the recently proposed regulation, as well as best practices that schools across the nation have successfully implemented, monitored and evaluated wellness policies.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today provided local food service professionals the flexibility they need to serve wholesome, nutritious, and tasty meals in schools across the nation.

School Food Institute coursework also equips parents, administrators, and school nutrition advocates with practical knowledge about school food operations, history, regulations, policy, and funding that will enable them to be informed advocates for healthier food in schools across the nation.

TLT Kid - and - Food hero Janet Poppendieck cites in «Free for All» that as a result of this legislation, «Nearly 2,700 schools dropped out of the program, and as lunch prices jumped in schools across the nation, participation by full price students declined from 15.3 million in 1979 to 11.2 million in 1983.

We will continue to place our AmeriCorps service members in schools across the nation.

CSH programs have helped to establish policies and practices in states, districts, and schools across the nation, and will see continued success within the expanded Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model.

The message was made clear during a national Day of Action organized by unions, community groups and schools across the nation and New York yesterday.

Success spent about four times as much as KIPP, another influential charter network with schools across the nation.

Antibacterial cleaning products became available in homes and schools across the nation.

«Their stories convey critically important principles, processes, and practices that can help high schools across the nation raise achievement and close gaps,» said AGI Director and Faculty Co-chair Ronald Ferguson.

The accountability provisions of the law shine a bright light on the performance of schools across the nation, forcing many of them to attend to long - ignored problems.

At last week's Askwith Forum, «Transformative Change in American Schools,» Michele Cahill, — vice-president for national program and director of urban education at Carnegie Corporation of New York, — spoke to the importance of transformative change and systemic reform within K — 12 schools across the nation, focusing largely on Common Core Standards.

Teachers need to be aware that sexting is prevalent in middle and high schools across the Nation.

Although silent meditation is a fairly common practice in public schools across the nation, Julie Steiner, executive director of the Tennessee aclu, said that to the best of her knowledge, only Massachusetts...

Project learning is becoming increasingly de rigueur, from districtwide initiatives coordinated by organizations such as Project Lead the Way to schools across the nation, such as those started by the New Technology Foundation, where hands - on experiential learning is fully integrated into the curriculum.

From benchmark assessments to Common Core standards, data teams to school improvement plans, SATs to ACTs, high schools across the nation are preoccupied with college readiness.

Davis said she will not stop promoting the arts until they are fully incorporated into the daily curriculum of schools across the nation.

And it's now at the tipping point of becoming mainstream practice in schools across the nation.

As it compiles information on «effective» leader and teacher practices from its third cohort of low - income schools across the nation, the New York City - based New Leaders for New Schools principal - training program is pushing to make the resulting resources more user - friendly.

Not only are people inclined to like their local schools more than schools across the nation, but we see a clear upward trend in the percentage of the public awarding their schools either an A or a B. Over the course of the decade, the shift upward has been from 43 % to 55 %.

However, the debate among parents, schools, and policymakers as to whether the ruling calls for all - inclusive classrooms is still very much alive, Minow writes, with schools across the nation appearing more segregated than ever.

Dee Alpert says that New York City, like other big cities, provides test accommodations to a higher percentage of students than do schools across the nation.

Schools across the nation will be filled with excited children dressed in their best fancy dress in the ultimate homage to some of the world's greatest literary creations.

Schools across the nation have been taking part in a special activity to find out a little more about the wildlife on their doorstep.

Schools across the nation are being called to go dotty this spring to raise money for a valuable sight - loss charity.

Increase Parent Involvement With First Day of School Activities Read about how schools across the nation — in urban, rural, and suburban areas — are breaking down barriers with parents and their communities by making the first day of school an exciting holiday with special activities that include everyone!

Those prerequisites are still missing in schools across the nation, Weingarten stressed, and that makes it imperative for Americans «to put our foot on the accelerator of high - quality implementation and put the brakes on the stakes.»

Equipped with high - vis vests, posters, banners and the loud voices of thousands of children, schools across the nation took part in a 500m safe walk around the roads surrounding the school, creating an eye - catching giant human bus.

Creating a Mission and Vision of Your Own This page contains examples of mission and vision statements from schools across the nation.

More hours in the school day for teachers as well as students can lead to improved academic achievement, according to a new report that studies 17 schools across the nation that give teachers more time for collaboration and professional development.

At the University of Notre Dame, the Alliance for Catholic Education program trains recent college graduates to become teachers and principals in needy Catholic schools across the nation.

NACSA Members — including school districts, education agencies, independent boards, universities, and not - for - profits — work to increase the number of great charter schools across the nation, and some must make tough decisions to close poor - performing schools.

MDRC is evaluating the training of teachers and other school staff in this vision of MTSS - B in schools across the nation.

Another EPA study of 29 schools across the nation determined that one in five schools has a radon level above the recommended level.

Schools across the nation are confronting the challenge to place an effective teacher in every classroom.