Sentences with phrase «of leading a school district»

The development of an Innovative School Network of leading school districts would help move us forward as a state.

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The program, called PROMISE (Preventing Recidivism Through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Supports & Education), began after Republican - proposed legislation directed school districts away from zero - tolerance policies that led to expulsions and law enforcement referrals for «petty acts of misconduct and misdemeanors.»

Travel further up I81 and just north of Scranton, PA, you'll be in the place from which the case Abington School District v. Schempp arose, leading to the SCOTUS decision in 1963 declaring mandated Bible reading in public schools to be unconstitutional.

Raymond Abbott's name appeared as lead plaintiff in a court case brought by Camden and several other poor school districts against the State of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schools.

In contrast, a leading creationist demanded that the State of California withhold funds from the San Diego School District because of use of an «illegal -LSB-!]

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In furtherance of that goal, graduates of the Lunch Teachers ® Culinary Boot Camps are recognized as culinary ambassadors who lead the school food reform in their own districts and embrace their essential role in teaching children about the pleasures and benefits of eating real food prepared in a healthful manner.

[1] In contrast, the predominant view of nutrition and medical researchers is that milk has nutrients essential for bone growth and development, [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] leading other school districts to take the position that any milk is better than no milk.

Royal City, May 2011 A group of farmers and school food service staff throughout central Washington visited Tonnemaker Farm, Cloudview EcoFarms, and got a hands - on cooking lesson in the kitchen of Wahluke School District led by the Nutrition Director and staff of Wenatchee School Disschool food service staff throughout central Washington visited Tonnemaker Farm, Cloudview EcoFarms, and got a hands - on cooking lesson in the kitchen of Wahluke School District led by the Nutrition Director and staff of Wenatchee School DisSchool District led by the Nutrition Director and staff of Wenatchee School DisSchool District.

I think Dana has done wonders for her district and is leading the nation into a new era of school food reform.

That's a great goal but Houston ISD, arguably one of the leading districts in the country when it comes to improving school food, has been struggling for years to source local produce and it has yet to meet its stated goal of sourcing 25 % of the produce from local farms.

That diversity of views and experiences created a particularly stimulating atmosphere and led to many productive discussions about how to improve school food while meeting the needs of school districts.

In making this decision, NYC schools follow the lead of Boston, Memphis and Miami - Dade, along with districts which never used LBT or which ceased using it long before our Change.org petition was launched — including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and my own district, Houston.

As the co-chair of the student nutrition and physical activity committee for the San Francisco Public School District, she has personally led the charge to improve school School District, she has personally led the charge to improve school school meals.

Swept up in a Michelle Obama - led tide of enthusiasm for healthy eating, the school district kicked off this year by banning nachos and chicken nuggets from the cafeterias, and feeding the kids healthy and often vegetarian food.

We follow the lead of the school districts, wanting to keep everyone safe and warm.

ROSELLE — The issue of a swimming pool for Lake Park High School was brought to the Roselle Park District board Wednesday night as local citizens, led by Barb Layer, sought to determine if there was any Park District interest in seeing that one be built.

As a board member of Indian Prairie School District 204, he led the campaign to get voters to open their pocketbooks for schools and additions.

All schools need do is follow the lead of Berkeley and other school districts that understand that tons of sugar can not be good for kids in the middle of an obesity epidemic.

In Muscogee County, home of Columbus, a school district spokesperson said the district doesn't test the drinking water for lead «because none of our schools are fed with lead pipes for water.»

The tour on July 19 began with a welcome from Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower, who led School Board Chair Kyla Cromer, Vice Chair Patsy Jordan and District 3 Board Member John Harmon, who represents the area; as well as senior staff and local and Atlanta media on the tour.

If you want to know what led a bunch of shivering teenagers to sort through the trash behind Prosser Career Academy one recent, icy day, try to get your head around this statistic: Every day, kids in the Chicago Public Schools district throw out nearly a quarter of a million lunch and breakfast trays made of polystyrene foam.

«Addressing Food Safety in School Produce Purchasing» will feature Julie Skolmowski (MPH, RD, SNS) Food Safety Specialist, Office of Food Safety, USDA Food & Nutrition Service; Loren LaCorte, USDA Farm to School Lead Team, Child Nutrition Division, USDA Food & Nutrition Service; Stewart Eidel, Section Chief, Professional Development & Technical Assistance, School & Community Nutrition Programs Branch, Maryland Dept. of Education; Sarah Trist (MS, RD), Program Specialist, Maryland State Dept. of Education; Dian Duncan - Goldsmith (MS, RD, LD), Director of Food Service, Iowa City Community School District.

The petition garnered over a quarter of a million signatures in just a few days and ultimately led the USDA to change its policy, allowing school districts for the first time to opt out of receiving beef containing LFTB.

He said leading a smaller school district is good because it gives the candidate more hands - on experience with specific parts of district business, such as finance and human resources.

One said the community is «beyond pissed» with the governor for calling for more oversight of the troubled East Ramapo School district, leading to the appointment by the state Education Department of a fiscal monitor.

Further proof of my assertion not long ago that education is developing into a serious sticking point between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver came in the form of a statement from the governor that blames «Assembly - led» legislation passed in 2010 for the current fight between the teachers unions and school districts over the creation of teacher evaluation systems.

The CEO of the National Petroleum Authority, NPA, Moses Asaga gave the hint when he led a delegation to commission a modern computer laboratory for the Kongo Senior High School in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region.

Hollingsworth claims that both the school district and the police department violated Ahmed's rights, which led to a chain of events that ultimately forced the family to move out of the country to Doha, Qatar.

The Hempstead school district accused a lawyer who was representing two board candidates of «fraudulent misconduct» and disruptions that led to the suspension of ballot counting in Tuesday night's budget and board vote.

A Buffalo Public Schools official says that the district wants to respond to the city's serious lead poisoning problem with a sense of urgency.

The Utica City School District's practice of sending older students who are new to America into separate programs led to a lawsuit and an investigation by the state's attorney general.

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

Local school districts and their unions may negotiate a second measure of student learning that would lead to other scoring outcomes.

«Further, they would have the effect of leading potential educators through an essentially fake certification process,» the suit continued, «one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools, or the public schools of other states.»

As the city school district grapples with failing schools, a powerful Buffalo stakeholder will lead a discussion on «The State of Public Education in Buffalo» Wednesday evening.

«My initial reaction is that we're pleased there's money for education,» said Julie Lutz, chief operating officer of the regional Eastern Suffolk BOCES district and a leading school - finance analyst.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

About 20 percent of the Long Island school districts that said they tested for lead in water at their schools reported finding the metal at levels that caused them to shut down fountains and replace fixtures, according to a Newsday / News 12 Long Island survey.

Elevated levels of lead caused officials in New Jersey's largest school district, Newark Public Schools, to shut off water fountains at 30 school buildings until more tests could be conducted.

A lawsuit from a coalition of school districts led the state Supreme Court to order the Legislature in 2014 to increase funding to poorer districts.

The school district released the results of testing water for lead at all 63 school buildings, which showed 308 outlets had levels above the EPA's action limit, including 18 fountains and 33 faucets typically used for consumption or food preparation.

Since we generally accept that African Americans are not intellectually inferior to whites, then we are led to conclude that black students do better in integrated school settings because the school district and faculty are better invested because of the presence of the white students.

It was generally expected heading into the final phase of the 2015 legislative session that much of the late - session political deal - making would involve renewing the state law that empowers Mayor Bill de Blasio to lead the nation's largest public school district.

While that may be true due to Buffalo's old housing stock, the school district did find high amounts of lead in drinking water at schools in October.

Every one of the state's 728 public school districts must run lead tests on the water coming from drinking fountains and most of the sinks in every school building.

When teaching candidates are equally matched in terms of qualifications, diversity is one factor that can lead to the hiring decision, said Persampieri, the director of recruitment and selection for Syracuse City School District.

School districts and local governments have voiced concerns that a 2 percent cap as proposed by Cuomo — and approved by the Republican - led Senate in January — would be too difficult to live within because of required spending for debt, health care administration and distribution and pensions.

School desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the SSchool desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the Sschool district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the South).

Schools will be required to test for lead in their drinking fountains and kitchens under a new law signed by the governor that had raised concerns from school districts in a battle that raged into the final hours of the legislative session back in June.