Sentences with phrase «mean for school districts»

Alyson Klein and Andrew Ujifusa, Assistant Editors, Education Week, authors of Politics K - 12 • Title of talk: Inside ESSA — the Nation's New K - 12 Law • EdWeek's expert team on federal policy will walk you through the main features of the new federal K - 12 law — the Every Student Succeeds Act — what's new, what's the same, and what a smaller federal role will mean for school districts and their leaders.

What does this mean for school districts and policymakers?

«Same - Sex Marriage: What the Obergefell decision means for school districts» is available for viewing or download.

So what exactly is KIDS and what does the statewide rollout mean for your school district?

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The problem is that the state - mandated pension plans for school - district employees are defined benefit plans, which means the amount of future benefits is guaranteed and has to be funded by the taxpayers and / or investment income.

Using the tasting to introduce and build support for «envelop - pushing» school lunches will hopefully mean winning over even the pickiest elementary and middle school kids, said Coletta Hines - Newell, the district's food service director who also creates the recipes.

[23] When combined with the 27 cent federal reimbursement for most paid lunches, this means these districts are collecting, on average, $ 2.07 for each paid lunch in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high schools.

The Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act recognized the need for USDA to establish education and training standards for all school nutrition personnel — including school nutrition assistants; managers; district supervisors and directors; and state agency directors as a means of helping to ensure that school nutrition programs meet the goal of healthy children ready to learn.

Here in Houston we've already implemented the same program district - wide, and for those unfamiliar with it, «in - class breakfast» means just that: children receive a free breakfast (regardless of economic need) and bring it into their classrooms to eat at their desks as the school day begins.

When students do so, it means more money in a district's coffers for the betterment of everyone's school food.

The CEP allows districts and schools to serve free meals without paperwork if at least 40 percent of their students are already automatically enrolled for free school meals due to their participation in other means - tested programs, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Earlier this spring, Arlington Heights gave the team its blessing to use the school district field for commercial purposes, meaning the team could charge admission to the 3,500 - seat stadium and use the field for something other than school - related activities.

But while studies suggest that salad bars can help boost children's consumption of fruits and vegetables, some school districts decline to install salad bars claiming they are unsanitary, especially for small elementary school students with active hands and faces that often come up short of the barriers that are meant to keep coughs and sneezes out of food.

Although the land purchase by a developer for homes means an increase in tax revenue for the park district and other government agencies, it also means an increase in enrollment in the already crowded Glenbard North High School and elementary schools in Community Consolidated School Distdistrict and other government agencies, it also means an increase in enrollment in the already crowded Glenbard North High School and elementary schools in Community Consolidated School DistrictDistrict 93.

The Southwark district of Central London recently instituted free school lunch for all children, regardless of income level, as a means of reducing stigma in the lunch room.

While families typically had to report their income every year to qualify, now whole school districts can decide to provide universal coverage — meaning free lunch for every student.

Mean adequacy ratio (MAR) was computed as the mean of percentage daily value provided in all the foods selected each day, averaged per month for 6 nutrients per 1000 kcal of energy.13 These nutrients were included in the MAR because they were contained in the NUTRIKIDS analyses provided by the school district, and they represent nutrients of importance for children and adolescents.

Just to explain what I meant by a «visionary,» I named three legendary school food directors in the post: «Ann Cooper of the Boulder Valley School District, Bertrand Weber of Minneapolis Public Schools and Betti Wiggins of Detroit Public Schools — all committed, caring school food professionals who've radically transformed their district's meals for the better.&school food directors in the post: «Ann Cooper of the Boulder Valley School District, Bertrand Weber of Minneapolis Public Schools and Betti Wiggins of Detroit Public Schools — all committed, caring school food professionals who've radically transformed their district's meals for the better.&School District, Bertrand Weber of Minneapolis Public Schools and Betti Wiggins of Detroit Public Schools — all committed, caring school food professionals who've radically transformed their district's meals for the betterDistrict, Bertrand Weber of Minneapolis Public Schools and Betti Wiggins of Detroit Public Schools — all committed, caring school food professionals who've radically transformed their district's meals for the better.&school food professionals who've radically transformed their district's meals for the betterdistrict's meals for the better.»

Through her efforts to help children everywhere — be it through her «Blessings in a Bag» backpack program for students in her district, or charity fundraisers for childhood cancer awareness — Sam Ingram exemplifies what it means to be a School Nutrition Hero.

The projected 10 percent increase in pension costs for the 2018 - 19 school year will mean tens of millions of dollars in extra expenses for districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties alone.

For districts that get most of their funding from the state, it will mean, he said, some school officials will have to cut programs or staff because they will be forced to plan conservatively in what they might get from Albany if a state budget goes unresolved until May 31.

De Blasio has said a return to decentralized control could mean that some districts keep signature initiatives like pre-K for all and after - school and others don't.

«I think what I mean is we have a problem in this state in terms of how schools are funded and how much onus there is on property taxpayers from districts,» she said in that Albany news conference that called for state school aid in the state budget.

But what will that mean for local students in the Kingston City School District?

Look for Skelos to back pedal on everything to which he committed if it means a dime less for LI schools in his member's districts.

But the fallout from the budget's education measures which Cuomo pushed for continues in Albany: Lawmakers are considering a variety of means to reduce standardized testing in schools and the Board of Regents is pushing back a deadline for school districts to adopt the new teacher performance criteria for those demonstrating hardships.

«For years the small business community, municipal officials, and taxpayers have travelled this state pushing «Let NY Work,» a common sense platform of mandate relief proposals that will reduce mandated costs on school districts and municipalities, allowing local governments to live within their means while providing the services citizens need.

«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.

«That means specifically for the Ossining School District over $ 2.2 million in increased aid.

Tim Kremer, with the New York State School Boards Association, says the original deadline would have meant districts would have to come up with their evaluation system over the summer, which is a difficult time for school offiSchool Boards Association, says the original deadline would have meant districts would have to come up with their evaluation system over the summer, which is a difficult time for school offischool officials.

«We intend to live within our means,» said Tim Laube, who is Eastport - South Manor's assistant superintendent for business and — like Brimstein, who started as schools chief in May — is new to the district.

«The bottom line, the state request that Rochester give 69 percent of its tax levy to its school district, that means that 31 percent is left for critical city services, and to be frank, it's just not fair.»

But now that I have children, that means I'm faced with an ugly dilemma, because we're in a terrible school district that for all its money likely won't improve.

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.

Robert Lowry, deputy director for the state Council of School Superintendents, said more districts might have applied if winning the grant didn't mean creating a new program while the school year was already undSchool Superintendents, said more districts might have applied if winning the grant didn't mean creating a new program while the school year was already undschool year was already underway.

News education reporter Tiffany Lankes speaks with Eileen Buckley about new Buffalo School Board leadership and what it could mean for the direction of the district.

But what this long - overdue budget correction will do is force school districts and the medical community and others to live within their means, without relying on excessive payments from the state for support.

People - it is one race in a heavily Republican district - this means nothing for the November elections - although, if the dems put up somebody who was accomplished more than a school teacher - they could have won this seat - and it is pretty pathetic that a former congressman only won by 5 % over a school teacher - so you republicans, I wouldn't be jumping for joy

It should be a budget imperative for a state as wealthy as ours, even if it means irritating high - resource school districts which won't do as well, and the Republicans who love them.

Unfortunately, said Savage, the restoration really only means approximately $ 41,000 for AVCS, which is minimal when trying to plan a budget for a school district of their size.

After the proposition passed, state union representatives immediately lobbied the state attorney general to issue a «clarification» explaining that performance pay actually meant an across - the - board bonus for every teacher in a school or district, regardless of performance, and that funding classrooms directly actually meant passing the funding through the district first so the district, rather than the school, can make the major funding decisions.

At Putnam Valley Central School District, in Putnam Valley, New York, a student's claim of «I lost my laptop» could have meant «I just sold my laptop to some guy on the street for $ 500,» says Michael Lee, network administrator and chief information officer.

And it means that the district provides teacher leaders like Golden to support them in that effort — teacher leaders who meet monthly with the district's academic services division for professional learning to equip them with the skills they need to help schools succeed.

This means that even where TCS policies might reduce state funding for some district schools, most schools are unlikely to notice a significant difference.

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.

In Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston, the coefficients of variation were nearly always more than 0.15, meaning that one - third of the schools in these districts had spending levels that deviated from their district's average by 15 percent (or $ 225,000 for a school of 500 when average spending is $ 3,000 per pupil).

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Federal courts have played a key role in the development of special education policy by interpreting what Congress wrote in IDEA three decades ago, and the Supreme Court is reviewing what the law means by a «free appropriate public education» as it considers Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, which deals with the standard of services districts are required to provide (see «Examining the Standards for Special Education» legal beat, Summer 2017).

For instance, ten cities boast a charter school «market share» of greater than twenty percent, places like Detroit, Kansas City, and Dayton, which means that their districts have lost loads of kids and cash and teachers.

What's more, the enhancement also obligated the school district to provide richer pensions for future cohorts of teachers — meaning an even bigger price tag.