Sentences with phrase «number of school districts»

One area school district has joined a growing number of school districts nationwide and will shift their start times to later in the morning.

Responding to the need to look beyond test scores to measure school quality, an increasing number of school districts are striving to incorporate socio - emotional learning measures in their accountability policies.

There is a small number of school districts around the country that have development offices.

Last year the legislature created this pilot program that allows a limited number of school districts certain freedoms in how they operate.

A growing number of school districts are creating mobile meals programs to keep children well - fed over the summer.

An increasing number of school districts and charter networks are trying to break up concentrated poverty and balance their student populations by race and income.

A growing number of school districts in tornado or hurricane hot spots, many with grants from FEMA, have chosen this option.

As increasing numbers of school districts across the country qualify for state takeover for failing to meet the provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, it's easy to understand the allure of this Draconian strategy.

The total number of school districts in the U.S. dropped from more than 100,000 around the turn of the 20th century to less than 15,000 by the turn of the 21st century, even as the population of school - age children increased during that period.

A declining number of school districts are overriding the state's limit on local property tax increases, a report released Wednesday by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found.

While increasing numbers of school districts offer pay incentives to address math and science staff shortages, the authors conclude that «compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.»

INDIANAPOLIS - One area school district has joined a growing number of school districts nationwide and will shift their start times to later in the morning.

A growing number of school districts now provide college admissions testing to high school juniors at no charge in an effort to help more students access college.

In 2013, Moody's Investor Service, a bond credit rating agency, released a report which concluded that a small but growing number of school districts face severe financial stress as charter schools proliferate, specifically because these districts can't reduce their costs as quickly as they lose revenue.

States had been pressuring the Department of Education to do something, because, without congressional action, a huge number of school districts would have been labeled as failing under the law.

If increasing numbers of school districts pursue collaboration and begin to see the kinds of improved student outcomes experienced in places like Cincinnati, Springfield, and Hills - borough County, the tide may at last turn toward a more productive approach toward school reform — one that is ultimately better for students than the disappointing fads of the past.

But according to a new report from the Empire Center, it's not the large number of school districts in the state nor top - heavy administrative structures driving those costs — it's teacher salaries and benefits.

But the approach has been embraced by the Obama administration and an increasing number of school districts across the country as one way of bringing objectivity to otherwise subjective evaluations — usually based on brief and infrequent observations by administrators.

Kona Ice, which sells sugary shaved ice drinks; World's Finest Chocolate, a small number of school districts, and a company called TiFry that sells «a device that not only assists with reducing cooking oil consumption but will reduce calories in fried foods.»

Currently, there are 194 charter schools in LAUSD, the largest number of any school district in the U.S. LAUSD also serves the highest charter school population of any state.

The AIR data set is remarkably comprehensive inasmuch as the total number of school districts in the United States is estimated to be in the neighborhood of 14,000 districts.

Dare, Asheville and Buncombe are among a growing number of school districts across the country, but especially in L.A. and Silicon Valley, that are building teacher apartments because of high housing costs and relatively low teacher salaries.

Just think about how much the school nutrition personnel in your district would contribute to SNF annually if each person committed to a nickel a day — and then multiply that amount by the number of school districts participating in the school nutrition program.

Among the goals of the School Health Consultant Team are to improve the quality of school health programs and school nursing practice, including raising the number of school nurses in the state achieving national school nurse certification and the number of school districts in the state improving their school nurse to student ratio.

The organization Cook for America has partnered with a number of school districts across the state to redesign the operations and practices of school foodservice.

A number of school districts have been testing their water for lead.

Meanwhile, the number of school districts seeking to override the cap has doubled this year to 36 from last year's vote.

As school districts face zero inflation and virtually no room under the state's cap on property taxes, the number of school districts seeking overrides of the limit has doubled, according to the New York State School Boards Association.

The number of school districts planning to submit budgets that override the state's cap on property tax increases has grown to 36, according to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office on Thursday in a report.

That cap was welcomed by taxpayer groups but received with protests from a number of school districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

At 11 a.m., Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi and Assembly colleagues, officials of the state Association of Small City School Districts, and Local School District Administrators will unveil letters of support from a number of school districts to Cuomo and legislative leaders in support of A. 5463.

In the last year, the number of school districts seeking cap overrides was below that average — 18 in total, or 2.7 percent of all districts.

The number of school districts planning budgets that override the state's property - tax cap is growing, according to a report from the State Comptroller.

The number of school districts planning budgets that override the state's property - tax cap is growing,

Although a number of school districts in the North Country have reached the tax cap, none have plans to override it.

Comprehensive, innovative arts initiatives are taking root in a growing number of school districts.

You might say that we actually have over 14,000 systems, which is the number of school districts in the country.

Released May 27 by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, the study comes as a growing number of school districts and charter schools around the country are experimenting with such reward programs in the hope of...

I use Maryland as an example due to its small number of school districts.

State - level differences included the strength of charter laws, statewide demographics, existing school choice policies, number of school districts, and the presence of charter support or opposition groups that operate throughout the state.

A number of school districts have responded by delaying the start of their school day, and a 2005 congressional resolution introduced by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D - CA) recommended that secondary schools nationwide start at 9:00 or later.

A growing number of school districts have been released recently from court supervision as the result of court decisions handed down during the 1990s, raising the possibility of resegregation of public school districts where desegregation had taken place.

A plan to drastically reduce the number of school districts in Rhode Island appears doomed after a special commission issued preliminary recommendations saying that «regionalization» would not save as much money as originally hoped.

Gov. Bruce Sundlun last year proposed consolidating the number of school districts in the state from 37 to no more than 6.