Sentences with phrase «of last school year»

At the beginning of last school year I was asked to sit in some interviews with my principal and a few other teachers.

Just 13 percent of black third - graders are considered proficient in reading, for example, although that is up from 8 percent of last school year's third - graders.

Author's note: In the spring of last school year, I offered 2 posts from a 4 part series on using assessments to increase achievement.

According to the district analysis of last school year's test scores, 83 percent of students at charter schools are economically disadvantaged and 19 percent are English learners.

The school system wants to start the year off on a high note, by building on the successes of the last school year.

At the end of last school year, my wife was picking up one of our kids when she saw one of our daughter's teachers.

And while 5.6 percent of the students in the district were absent for 10 percent of the last school year, that number was also cut in half from the year before.

«I have really noticed a change in what is on a student's tray now compared to the start of last school year, «Collins said, «Some students choose milk, bread, and fill the rest of their tray with a scrumptious salad and all the fixings.»

We came together — teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators, and colleagues from across the district — multiple times over the course of last school year to answer this question.

My toddler's teacher at the end of last school year told me my little girl likes the challenge of opening things and to put things in containers that require figuring out how to open them.

In the middle of the last school year they hosted conversations with individuals and groups from the various sectors of the school: parents, teachers, founders, staff, board members, donors, and older students.

Utah schools used SAGE testing for the first time at the end of last school year as a new way to assess student proficiency.

Parents from half a dozen other schools across the city also spoke at the May board meeting — the last one of last school year — to praise improvements they had noticed in their schools.

GPS spokeswoman Irene Mahoney - Paige said 193 teachers left at the end of last school year for retirement or other reasons.

Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services Rydell Harrison said office discipline referrals for the district were down 24 percent, from 1,004 in the first semester of last school year to 759 for the first semester of this school year.

You see, I have Wednesdays off and negotiated that at the beginning of last school year.

Before the start of last school year, she met with school counselors to find out what service programs the school already had in place and which potential community - service topics would be of greatest interest to the school's grade 6 - 8 students.

As his replacement, Cortines brought in a new team to oversee MiSiS and was able to get the system functioning over the course of last school year.

He is replacing Jeff Eagan, who exited the post of business manager at the end of last school year.

Shirley Martinat is the Assistant Food Service Director of the Homedale School District in Idaho, and relatively new to her School Nutrition Association membership, having just joined at the end of the last school year.

Howard said that although Mrs. Chantry retired at the end of the last school year, she worked as a substitute nurse as recently as four weeks ago.

As some schools struggled to follow the new guidelines at the beginning of the last school year, USDA relaxed some of the original requirements.

By the end of the last school year, I could write a personal letter to all the parents highlighting just where their children were based on the promotion standards and what areas they would have to work on in the pivotal fifth grade.

«At the end of the last school year, we looked at every student who started reading below grade level.

Kostka had a chance at the end of last school year to look at examples of what the project had already created.

At the beginning of last school year, Richardson asked all the children to bring to school a 24 - exposure disposable camera.

At the end of the last school year, the firms that participated in the program invited the children to visit them for lunch.

By the end of the last school year, Liechty had plummeted from first to 61st — near the bottom among middle schools — in raising English scores and fallen out of the top 10 in boosting math scores.

About 800 teachers were in the ATR pool at the end of last school year.

Muskegon Heights Public Schools had nearly a $ 12 million deficit at the end of last school year.

Thinking back to the start of last school year, I witnessed new teachers, a few from New Orleans and many who relocated to our city, embark upon what they hoped would be the start of a promising teaching career.

That's data educators would have otherwise had by the end of last school year, not the beginning of this school year.

At the end of the last school year, 188 teachers either retired or resigned from their positions from a total of about 2,600 licensed staff.

«At the end of last school year, the MPS teachers» contract expired and that included some pretty favorable terms for people who had been in the district a long time.

When the current principal announced she was retiring at the end of the last school year, parents at Stearne banded together and secured over 500 signatures to retain Ramos as the school's new principal.

The Post reports that «about one - third of the pool is made up of teachers with legal or disciplinary issues» and Chalkbeat reports that «among 822 teachers in the reserve at the end of last school year, 12 percent had been rated «ineffective» or «unsatisfactory» in 2015 - 16, compared to just 1 percent of teachers citywide.»

among 822 teachers in the reserve at the end of last school year, 12 percent had been rated «ineffective» or «unsatisfactory» in 2015 - 16, compared to just 1 percent of teachers citywide

The district is sharing the results of the comprehensive school communications surveys that parents, faculty and staff, and community members took toward the end of last school year.

As a fourth - grader at the beginning of last school year, Myracle's reading level, expressed by a Lexile score was 385, meaning she was reading at a second - grade level.

Perry, who left Hartford's Capital Prep at the end of last school year and works as head of school for Capital Preparatory Schools Inc., said Combs approached him about starting a school several years ago.

According to the School Nutrition Association, over three - quarters of school districts had uncollected debt on their books at the end of the last school year.

NEGREET, La. — Shortly after the start of the last school year, Sharon Lane said it became a fight to get her son out of the house.

The School Nutrition Association found about 75 percent of districts had some unpaid student meal debt at the end of the last school year.

So, at the end of the last school year, I asked each principal to interview a student they regarded as a main reason as to why they came to work every day and entered the profession.

Cleveland, which for two years has had an SEL program from K - 5, did a survey of teachers at the end of last school year and 86 percent of them said that classroom behavior and overall environment improved as a result of the program.

At the end of the last school year, seventh and eighth grade students got to take home a paperback version of their choice for summer reading.