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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.

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While the new CT State Law requires all districts provide a number for concussions diagnosed in their students, the Norwalk School Concussion Project is going a step further and shedding the light on the various types of sport and non-sport concussions across our K - 12 schools.

The measure also comes as school districts across the state on Tuesday reported high numbers of students choosing to opt out of the current round of English Language Arts standardized tests that will run for the next two weeks.

With another season of scholastic football in full swing at school districts across the country, a growing number of physicians and athletic trainers are re-evaluating how they diagnose and treat head injuries suffered during practices and games.

A number of districts across the country have moved to equalize across schools the share of poor students, as measured by eligibility for subsidized lunch.

[9] These weights mean two states with the same number of poor and non-poor students would get more Title I funds if those students are economically segregated across school districts.

While we partner with a number of reform - minded districts across the United States, only about 20 percent of EP alumni in education work for school districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School Distschool districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School DistSchool District and Tennessee's Achievement School DistSchool District).

A number of years ago, I studied 57 urban school districts across the U.S. and found that they had launched an average of 13 major reforms in a three - year period — or three to four every year.

Across the country, a small number of schools and districts are modifying or extending the academic year.

Unfortunately, this is a common headline across the country with «U.S.» interchangeable with any number of school, district, or state names.

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.

Since WUHSD became a PLC at Work district in 2003, it has seen solid and sustained growth in student performance across all five schools, even with more than $ 17 million cut from the budget and an increasing number of economically disadvantaged students enrolled.

As Innosight Institute has written in several reports, there are a growing number of schools and districts across the country that are implementing blended - learning models.

There had also been a significant number of new senior administrators in the district in the past two years: a new superintendent and three new directors at the district level, and three new administrators at the school level, across a total of seven schools.

37 Thanks in part to multiple court orders and strong federal enforcement, school districts began to implement racial integration policies.38 From the 1960s through the 1980s, there was a general growth in school district integration as an increasing number of states and districts heeded Brown's mandate and created bussing policies and magnet schools that joined black and white students across neighborhood boundaries.

The number of children from poor families is rising across the district, and there are more schools with high concentrations of poverty than there were 10 years ago.

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.

The goal was to get a handle on the number of schools in districts of varying size across the country and the locations of those districts.

Salas's story is common, especially in school districts with too few guidance counselors to keep track of the large numbers of poor, transient students who move from school to school and across districts.

In Moving Your Numbers, districts describe how intentional and aligned actions at the district, school, and teacher team levels resulted in greater coherence and quality of instructional practice across the district.

LAUSD Salvages Summer School, but Classes Will Be Limited Despite fears that Los Angeles Unified would have to cancel summer school this year, officials say they'll be able to hold a limited number of credit - recovery classes at 16 high school campuses across the sprawling disSchool, but Classes Will Be Limited Despite fears that Los Angeles Unified would have to cancel summer school this year, officials say they'll be able to hold a limited number of credit - recovery classes at 16 high school campuses across the sprawling disschool this year, officials say they'll be able to hold a limited number of credit - recovery classes at 16 high school campuses across the sprawling disschool campuses across the sprawling district.

Magnet Schools of America commissioned a study with the University of North Carolina — Charlotte's Urban Institute to compile a comprehensive and more current count of the number of magnet schools across the country, as many school districts have broadened what it means to be a magnet Schools of America commissioned a study with the University of North Carolina — Charlotte's Urban Institute to compile a comprehensive and more current count of the number of magnet schools across the country, as many school districts have broadened what it means to be a magnet schools across the country, as many school districts have broadened what it means to be a magnet school.

Wilson said that the school district's internal review also saw excessive passing rates for absent students across the city, specifically at Anacostia, Eastern, Woodson and Roosevelt High Schools where «we are in the process of trying to understand what's behind some of the numbers there.»

Blended learning is having a positive impact in schools and districts across the country, but there are a number of key strategies that can advance blended learning to its next generation of even greater effectiveness and improved achievement.

With a rapid increase in the number and diversity of students, the district was looking for a way to ensure effective instruction across its schools.

With experience across a number of schools and districts, she has served as a teacher, administrator, and school board member.

With the federal government yelping about the «high» number of parents across the nation who opted their children out of the destructive Common Core tests, the Malloy / Wyman Administration recently announced that they will punish school districts that «allowed» parents to fulfill their legal right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC testing.

Even if a number of students leave from different classrooms across a school district to attend a charter school, the cost of operating a community's entire school district is essentially unchanged.

Moments after the announcement, Noelle Ellerson of the American Association of School Administrators weighed in on Twitter with yet another critique, pointing out that participating districts are all urban and thus the experiment may not be relevant to the large number of rural school districts in California and across thSchool Administrators weighed in on Twitter with yet another critique, pointing out that participating districts are all urban and thus the experiment may not be relevant to the large number of rural school districts in California and across thschool districts in California and across the U.S.

When it comes to the Common Core SBAC testing mania, a number of parents from across the state — along with students and teachers — have identified a significant number of school districts that are engaged in immoral, unethical and quite likely illegal efforts to undermine parental rights and bully and abuse children who have been opted out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing scheme.

Now that the 2016 Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing season has begun for school districts across Connecticut, there has been a significant and disturbing increase in the number of reports that local school districts — driven by Governor Dannel Malloy's State Department of Education — are engaged in the unethical abuse of children whose parents have refused to allow their children to participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing program.

In addition, a number of districts across the U.S. have developed competency - based programs to facilitate personalized learning, including Dysart Unified School District, School District of South Milwaukee, and Seminole County Schools.

After all, Sacramento bureaucrats created a dashboard that's supposed to help parents understand how schools and districts are performing across a number of measures.

The number of children in Northwest Indiana from low - income families and eligible for free or reduced - price lunch has climbed in the region and across the state, as school districts face tighter budgets and reduced state funding.

With these leadership structures in place, educators and partners can increase the number and effectiveness of community schools across a school district.

A number of organizations across the state have been involved in the work to develop culturally competent educators, including the Oregon Department of Education, Oregon Leadership Network, Oregon University System, Teacher Standards and Practices Commission and Eugene School District through its Leadership for Educational Achievement in Districts Project.

Ronan also increased the number of «resource coordinators,» whose job it is to make sure the community groups complement the schools» efforts, from just nine to 34 across the district.

Today, the four - day plan has spread to a number of states across the country, and the idea continues to gain ground as school districts battle tight budgets.