Sentences with phrase «most kids in our district»

«Yes some kids needs more time, most kids in our district need more time... but all of our teachers need more time to be more thoughtful about the practice and to prepare better and to learn from each other,» Urbanski said.

Not exact matches

Kids with delinquent meal account balances are not the first thing most people think of when they consider charitable giving, but this Santa's gesture was thoughtful and kind and will make a huge difference for a lot of kids in his district this yKids with delinquent meal account balances are not the first thing most people think of when they consider charitable giving, but this Santa's gesture was thoughtful and kind and will make a huge difference for a lot of kids in his district this ykids in his district this year.

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:

Many parents today also choose alternative options, such as academic redshirting, or the practice of postponing for a year school entry for kids whose birthdays are close to cut - off date (often in or around September for most districts).

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

But I will say this: if a parent has a food allergic kid eating school lunch, they most likely are in touch with the district's nutrition services department to regularly receive ingredient lists and allergen warnings.

Yet because 80 % or more of HISD students qualify for free or reduced price meals, I've often wondered if stigma is really an issue in my district; in other words, if most kids qualify for federal assistance, maybe there's less shame in taking advantage of those benefits.

Most raise their prices for kids who can pay, according to research by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were available.

«Most kids who attend a charter school in New York come from low - income families of color who can't afford to move into a better school district.

P.S. 811 parents said most of the kids at the school live in Harlem school districts 3, 4, 5 and 6 and traveling downtown would be difficult for special needs kids, some of whom have travel restrictions due to their disability.

Our goal is to start the debate, in every state and district in the country, about what is most important for our kids to be learning.»

I loved being a librarian, and subbing in the libraries in the school district that I retired from, has kept me around some of the things I love most... kids and books.

«Born Into Brothels,» the story of children in the red - light district of Calcutta, is probably the favorite, because of the emotional subject matter, although the filmmakers were handicapped by the impossibility of filming most of the people in the area, and ended up with a film about bright kids taking photography classes.

Compared to the general Nevada funding formula or the formulas that govern most district and charter schools nationally, the Nevada ESA program looks positively progressive in giving more money to kids starting off with less.

«Society is not doing itself a favor by taking kids we see as the most troubled and removing them from the one institution we have established to deal with children,» said Ray Wallace, a lawyer for several expelled children in Massachusetts school districts.

Most enroll in other districts through the state's School of Choice program, which allows parents to send kids to other schools either within their district or outside their district if space is open.

I've come to view annual testing of kids in reading and math, and the disaggregating and public reporting of their performance at the school (and district) level, as the single best feature of NCLB and the one that most needs preserving.

The upshot is a rare glimpse into one of the most important, yet least studied questions that can be asked at the school or district level: What materials are you actually putting in front of the kids?

What the AFT fails to acknowledge is that charter schools are more likely than district schools to promote integration, since in most charter schools white and minority kids take the same courses, while in many district schools minority kids are placed into nonacademic tracks.

The AFT correctly reports that most kids in charter schools seem to do about as well as in district schools, controlling for demographic factors.

Todd Ziebarth said «the most compelling thing isn't us... it's legislators hearing the huge difference that these schools are making in the lives of kids in their district.»

But if Indianapolis is going to fully seize this moment and give dramatically more kids better educational opportunities, we need to invest more public resources in the most successful programs and schools, regardless of whether they are run by or part of a traditional school district.

The school districts in the country making the most progress with low - income students, places such as Tampa, Charlotte and Long Beach, have middle - class kids in the mix.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

Instead of going back to an accountability approach that was supposedly «demoralizing» teachers and school leaders charged with helping poor and minority kids succeed, Petrilli and others prefer the new approaches, which attempt to focus on the growth schools and districts make in helping our most - vulnerable.

The reality that choice remains illusory for four - fifths of all children in this country and especially for the kids who need strong, comprehensive college - preparatory curricula the most (and, as Dropout Nation has documented ad nauseam, are the least likely to get it in traditional districts) is more than enough reason to adopt Common Core (alongside expanding the array of choice options that can allow for a variety of curricula choices).

Just look at maybe one of the most important sections of the law: Section 1116 (b)(7)-- it provides for districts overseeing schools who don't make AYP two years straight to «replace the school staff who are relevant to the failure to make adequate yearly progress,» overhaul curriculum, or let parents send their kids to another school in the district.

Introduced today by Senators John Hoeven (R - ND) and Angus King (I - Maine), the Healthy School Meals Flexibility Act offers school districts relief in meeting some of the most onerous requirements of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 — specifically the whole grain products and sodium standards requirements — while ensuring that students receive healthy, nutritious school meals.

When you divide the value by the number of kids, we're poorer than most districts,» said Petersen, contrasting Weber with Park City School District, where property values bring in a lot of tax money to spend on fewer students.

«The outcome really is what matters most,» Lisa said, adding that school and district leaders must assess whether or not their professional development offerings are «affecting what's happening with kids in the classroom.»

The member district with the most challenging demographics (2 — SW) does not have the most kids in the bottom category schools — it is third from bottom.

The member district (5 — NW) with the worst schools — a region where there are five kids attending schools in the worst two categories for every one kid attending a school in the highest category — is the district where there is the most controversy over the upcoming election, and the only one featuring an incumbent.

Little Kids Rock partners with public school districts in some of the nation's most economically disadvantaged communities with the goal of ensuring that all students (K - 12) have access to music education and its many benefits.

«The outcome really is what matters most,» said Lisa, adding that school and district leaders must view success through the lens of whether or not professional development activities are «affecting what's happening with kids in the classroom.»

«MOST of the US's urban districts have see SHARP DECLINES IN ENROLLMENT even w kids returning from choice schools.

While most high schoolers were working part time jobs or soaking up the sun, some kids in the Rochester City School District were learning more about STEM careers.

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.

Located in the San Francisco district, Parque Omar has a number of playgrounds to suit different age groups and is one of the most popular playgrounds in Panama City for kids.

As for schools, most of us that live in the city... at least a lot of us, don't have kids so I could care less about school districts.

«In the suburbs, though, most buyers have already targeted specific school districts for their kids because of a school's reputation.»

for most of us its about family stability keeping the kids in the school district you want them in..