Sentences with phrase «many small school districts»

She has dedicated her career to working in schools throughout Ohio and has spent the past seven years heading up the food program for Cloverleaf Local Schools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of Cleveland.

He received an Ed.M and was hired as Director of Alternative Education for a small school district on the central California coast.

She has dedicated her career to working in schools throughout Ohio and has spent the past seven years heading up the food program for Cloverleaf Local Schools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of Cleveland.

Our small school district in rural Nebraska does breakfast before school, and although my girls do not go, I would say that it is a nice blend of students (not just economically disadvantaged kids) and works fairly well.

No matter how large or small the school district, procurement will flow best by developing Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and, remember to keep your money local when the season or availability allows for it.

He said leading a smaller school district is good because it gives the candidate more hands - on experience with specific parts of district business, such as finance and human resources.

He added that in small school districts there is accountability, but not in NYC.

NYSUT, meanwhile, backed a study to determine whether any changes to the funding formula is necessary, which would also take into consideration the impact on a small school district when a resident receives a windfall through inheritance or winning the lottery — a factor that throw aid formulations out of whack in areas with few wealthy people.

Smaller school districts, for example, would be able to share superintendents.

Millions of dollars can be saved by merging smaller school districts in Erie County, and consolidating districts «demands serious consideration,» according to a report issued Monday by Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz.

Compliance with the law is especially difficult for small school districts, most of which do not have an athletic trainer, Olson explained.

Declining enrollments and the consolidation of small school districts have been major factors in the closings of 424 West Virginia schools since 1989, according to a report given to the state board of education earlier this month.

However, we are a small school district with limited financial resources and can not afford to spend the amount of economic funds to defend the Philosophy of Design class in the court system.»

Maintaining dozens of small school districts in a metropolitan area, each with its own highly paid administrators and transportation budgets, is also extremely costly.

Small school districts may think they don't qualify for the funds because of their size, or because their community is not impoverished.

Some find the policy unfair to smaller school districts, which lack the resources to create online courses.

The districts included Oceanside, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, two small San Francisco Bay - area school districts, and two small school districts near Los Angeles.

Just by cutting one to two hours out of my office day to spend a few minutes in each classroom and hallway of my small school district, I've learned more about the little (but often very important) things going on than I would have learned from email, phone calls or hearsay.

In smaller school districts and in private schools, parents have more say about curriculum and the evaluation of teachers.

Dumas is a small school district, with two elementary schools, a junior high and a high school.

A couple of smaller school districts could proportionally have to give a greater cut of their available funds to charter schools.

The study found that while school district consolidation among the very small school districts could result in cost savings, the consolidation of the large metropolitan area districts would likely increase costs, said Greg Branch, deputy director of the Texas Schools Project, which oversaw the research project.

«Temporary staffing services for substitute teachers,» Max Longhurst an education specialist at the Substitute Teaching Institute at Utah State University noted, «may not be necessary in all areas, particularly in smaller school districts, but they do provide another option for larger systems struggling to provide quality education in the absence of the regular classroom teacher.»

Choice policies are likely to elicit more extensive responses in large districts, where individual families have less influence over policies and programs than in small school districts.

How to recruit and retain teachers and other leaders in hard - to - staff rural and small school districts.

By embracing iPads while keeping the traditional model of one teacher working with 20 - some children, the small school district offers a vision of what the future of digital learning might be.

If state policymakers expand voucher programs, this could increase the tax burden of citizens, especially those living in rural communities and small school districts with fewer students.

Lowry said small school districts in rural areas, in particular, are having a tough time cutting costs because they start out with small budgets.

While the argument could be made that smaller school districts must spend more on non-teachers because certain positions are necessary regardless of a district's size, that does not translate with the data we have found.

One argument that is often made is that the size of the school district matters and that a smaller school district is forced to have more non-teachers because certain positions are necessary regardless of a district's size.

Last, we highlight a collaboration between a small school district, local builders, and the local high school.

Central Office Capacity in Small School Districts under NCLB.

The study, commissioned by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation, concludes that consolidating small school districts will have a positive impact on SAT test scores, Advanced Placement test rates, state assessment scores, and some end - of - course assessment pass rates.

Miller, C. L. Accountability policy implementation and the case of smaller schools district capacity: Three contrasting cases that examine the flow and use of NCLB accountability data.

Scafidi concluded the answer is, yes, for large and small school districts.

I have been working with a small school districts on vocabulary instruction and your presentation synthesizes the major premises of vocab instruction.

After Washington State's charter schools» funding source was ruled unconstitutional, six of the states» charter schools joined a small school district near Springdale, Wash. as ALE programs.

But can the same be said for a small school district?

The school board in Carroll County, a rural area on North Carolina's border near Mt. Airy, voted to end its affiliation with K12 in mid-April, in part because the oversight was burdensome for a small school district that only had five students in Carroll County enrolled in the program.

Medina replied she had «advised both the (Los Angeles Unified School District) board as well as smaller school districts in negotiating separation, so in some instances in a more aggressive posture.»

In my small school district, the Snoqualmie Valley School District, this local levy amount was set at

More recently, the Mary Walker School District, a small school district in Eastern Washington that is in deep financial trouble and has on multiple times in the past been cited by the State Auditor for violations, has been enticed into taking in several of the charter school operations under the «Alternative Learning Experiences» loophole.

Has continuously promoted facilities» legislation that favored small school district in both the 74

In Virginia, home to K12's headquarters, the small school district that hosted the statewide online school plans to drop its affiliation with K12, Inc., according to the Washington Post.

«We're a small school district in a depressed area, it's hard to keep good superintendents,» Takac says.

Proposed and succeeded in attaining small district assistance funding for many of our small school districts

PARSS began in 1983 as a group of public school superintendents who expressed concern that Pennsylvania students in rural and small school districts did not have access to the same quality of education afforded to students attending school in the more metropolitan areas of the state.

«Smaller school district teachers have to be trained in all areas they teach, so they meet highly - qualified status, or they have to hire more people to do the job,» Smith said.

Meanwhile, the admissions process for the small school district around the Lusher's Willow Street elementary campus will likely become more strict next year, as officials say more families are trying to move into the district solely for the purpose of gaining guaranteed entrance to the school.

PPIC also said that the state needs to develop new ways to protect small school districts from the extraordinary costs associated with an unexpected enrollment of one or two SWDs.