Sentences with phrase «of local district schools»

When respondents are given the state and national ranking of local district schools, charter support shifts upward to 56 percent and 58 percent, respectively (see Figure 3).

The bill would place lots of new restrictions on charters, including requiring that they maintain retention rates equal to the local district, and that their boards of trustees include a member of the local district school committee.

As for everyone else, we were at the mercy of our local district school.

Not exact matches

Mark lives in Salem, Oregon, where he serves on the school district budget committee as well as a number of church boards and committees at the local, state, and regional level.

In Oakland, one of the nation's most diverse cities, Jackson says he would like to see Uber hire local workers and businesses and invest in the community, including the Oakland Unified School District.

The Corporate Partner Panel is a unique opportunity for Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs) to learn firsthand about securing business with such local corporations and public entities as Ecolab, Minneapolis Public School District, University of Minnesota, and Xcel Energy.

The state's «education tax» supports schools (as do local school district taxes in most other states) and is the largest single source of property taxes in Vermont.

Besides inflation, the provincial government has fobbed off a whole array of additional downloaded costs to local school districts — costs the government largely controls, but doesn't provide sufficient funding to cover.

She has dedicated her career to working in schools throughout Ohio and has spent the past seven years heading up the food program for Cloverleaf Local Schools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of Cleschools throughout Ohio and has spent the past seven years heading up the food program for Cloverleaf Local Schools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of CleSchools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of Cleveland.

Number of kids enrolled at ANFSC: 1,600 Number of schools in district: 6 Percentage who are free and reduced: 40 % Number of local farms worked with in a given year: 10 Kids» favorite local produce: Berries, apples, carrots, peppers

It provides in - depth programming that helps grow local food procurement capacity; educates the public about the importance and impact of Good Food; engages local school districts; and illuminates local, statewide and national food policy.

In the tradition of the Humanitarian Bowl (the former name of the Famous Idaho ® Potato Bowl), many events during game week will raise funds and awareness for local charities, including the United Way, Optimist Youth Football, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Boise School District, Treasure Valley YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs, Girl Scouts, and Armed Forces personnel.

Chef Jesse Houston's nautical takeover (complete with a mural of an octopus) of a former elementary school has become a hangout for Fondren District locals, who sit at the long bar, slurping down $ 1 oysters on the half shell during happy hour and sipping one of the 30 beers on tap.

Code 37-13-137 (2010) requires the Office of Healthy Schools of the State Department of Education to provide comprehensive training for food service directors food service managers of local school districts on marketing healthy foods, creating a healthy cafeteria environment, effective and efficient food service operations, the standards and expectations of food service staff, and other topics as identified by the department.

Additional Accountability Requirements: The Statewide School Wellness Policy (2005) adopted by the State Board of Education requires school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school School Wellness Policy (2005) adopted by the State Board of Education requires school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school school level.

With the generous support of the Walmart Foundation, the newest phase of Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom shifts our focus from direct implementation in individual schools to a state - level expansion; this expansion will allow us to work in partnership with local organizations to provide district - and school - level technical assistance and support for start - up breakfast - in - the - classroom programs.

A local school wellness policy (also known as the Student Nutrition and Physical Activity policy) is a written document that guides a school district's development and implementation of policy promoting healthy school nutrition and physical activity.

Revised Statute 167.273 (1990) makes available additional state aid to local school districts for a program of parent education established in one or more high school that service pregnant teens and teen parents enrolled as pupils in the district.

Other: The Education Service Center Child Nutrition Program (ESC / CNP) Specialist in the Department of Agriculture reviewed all local wellness policies adopted by the school districts in their region and completed a Wellness Policy Checklist to verify all local wellness policies meet the minimum federal requirements.

In addition, each school district and charter school is required to establish a district School Health Advisory Council that shall meet at least 2 times annually to make recommendations to the local school board in the development or revision, implementation and evaluation of their wellness pschool district and charter school is required to establish a district School Health Advisory Council that shall meet at least 2 times annually to make recommendations to the local school board in the development or revision, implementation and evaluation of their wellness pschool is required to establish a district School Health Advisory Council that shall meet at least 2 times annually to make recommendations to the local school board in the development or revision, implementation and evaluation of their wellness pSchool Health Advisory Council that shall meet at least 2 times annually to make recommendations to the local school board in the development or revision, implementation and evaluation of their wellness pschool board in the development or revision, implementation and evaluation of their wellness policy.

Guidance Materials: The Board of Education has produced a Model Wellness Policy (2012) based on science, research, and existing practices from exemplary states and local school districts around the country.»

Local school districts must also provide schedules that address the individual needs of pregnant and parenting students.

Additional accountability requirements: N.J.S.A. 18A: 33 - 15 to 18 (2007) requires new school districts participating in any of the federally funded Child Nutrition Programs to submit their local policies to the state Department of Agriculture for a compliance check with the state's NJ School Nutrition / Wellness Policy (2005), which contains policy content requirements that go beyond Sectioschool districts participating in any of the federally funded Child Nutrition Programs to submit their local policies to the state Department of Agriculture for a compliance check with the state's NJ School Nutrition / Wellness Policy (2005), which contains policy content requirements that go beyond SectioSchool Nutrition / Wellness Policy (2005), which contains policy content requirements that go beyond Section 204.

Though it's ironic, Bri — I was visiting a local Catholic boys» high school a couple of years ago, long after our school district had banished soda and junk food.

If you are an Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics member interested in a new career that will provide you with an avenue for enhancing the lives of children or a parent (dietitian) looking for ways to work with your local school district, SNS DPG is an excellent resource and networking opportunity.

Thanks to support from the Walmart Foundation, Children's Hunger Alliance provided grants totaling $ 275,000 to 41 local school districts throughout Ohio to support the expansion of school breakfast in the 2015 - 2016 school year.

You would be hard - pressed to find a busier woman than Michelle Gifford, the Assistant Director of Nutrition Services in the Riverside Local School District in Painesville, Ohio.

One of my most vivid memories monitoring the dining habits in a local elementary school here in the District of Columbia was watching my very own daughter carefully dis - assemble a made - from - scratch lasagna so she could pick out and discard the spinach and eat just the pasta and cheese.

If schools want to offer competitive foods, the revenue from the sales of such food (and any non-federal revenues that state or local governments or school districts choose to provide) should cover the costs, without federal cross-subsidies.

Greeley - Evans School District 6 is also a National Farm to School Network super-star — nearly 25 percent of their food purchases are local, with the rate increasing each year.

Some of that extraordinary work includes Dougherty County School System training students to harvest, wash, and prep product from their teaching gardens for taste tests and to serve in the cafeteria, Elbert County School District featuring local strawberries on the lunch line from a farm 20 miles away, and Dade County Schools utilizing experiential nutrition and garden - based education to teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) standards.

She has dedicated her career to working in schools throughout Ohio and has spent the past seven years heading up the food program for Cloverleaf Local Schools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of Cleschools throughout Ohio and has spent the past seven years heading up the food program for Cloverleaf Local Schools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of CleSchools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of Cleveland.

The Golden Radish Award publicly recognizes school districts for all aspects of farm to school, from local food procurement to hosting taste tests to gardening with students, and is awarded at Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Honorary Levels.

Hired by a management company to serve as the nutrition director of a small local school district, Valenza brought his restaurant management skills to the school lunch arena and made it his mission to serve up fresh, healthy meals to New Jersey's kids.

The school district also allows frozen and canned local product into their «Harvest of the Month» program to show students that local food comes in many forms — and doesn't always have to be fresh!

Districts of all sizes are utilizing farm to school programs to teach academic standards in school gardens, support the local economy through local food purchases for school meals, and fight childhood obesity and other preventable, food - related diseases.

This project created Farm to School Programs in Auburn and Renton School Districts and expanded the existing successful Farm to School Program in Kent School Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sSchool Programs in Auburn and Renton School Districts and expanded the existing successful Farm to School Program in Kent School Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sSchool Districts and expanded the existing successful Farm to School Program in Kent School Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sSchool Program in Kent School Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sSchool Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sschool meals and snacks.

Yet I don't think that failure has been due to a lack of commitment on the part of my district; rather, as explained to those of us on the Nutrition Services Parent Advisory Committee, a district as large as ours (300 schools) faces unique challenges in relying on local sources to supply produce for its 200,000 meals served daily.

I think that this is the perfect time to bring attention to fundraising for SNF, as the USDA will be requiring — under the HHFKA — to establish standards for all levels of personnel (state agencies, local school districts and schools) for training and certification.

Held on Oct. 4, Taste Washington Day is an opportunity to encourage the collaboration of school districts and their local agricultural community to provide healthy school meals throughout the school year.

Examples of school districts in Washington with strong provisions for using fresh, healthy, and local foods in school meal:

Offering seasonal fresh produce from local farms on a salad bar - photo courtesy of Lake Stevens School District

There will also be a discussion of how state school board associations can engage with other local stakeholders — advocates, parents, and members of the school community — to bring BIC to more districts in your state.

Students get local carrots on Taste Washington Day in Bremerton School District - Photo courtesy of Kitsap Sun

HISD is partnering with the Texas Department of Agriculture and local farmers and growers in an effort to serve more homegrown fruits and vegetables in district schools.

When they turn 3, they're eligible for additional services at their local school district with the help of an individualized education program (IEP).

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.

And even if it does show up in the final rule, it would still take serious commitment on the part of local school districts to adopt and enforce such language in actual practice.

If we rely on local communities to raise funds to improve food, we'll soon have a patchwork of wealthier (or more committed) districts with good food, and poorer districts (where, I would note, more children are reliant on school food) with less healthful offerings.

Of the 90 similar programs in the state in the 1989 - 90 school year, 29 were run by school districts and 61 by outside agencies in space provided by local schools, according to Illinois Board of Education recordOf the 90 similar programs in the state in the 1989 - 90 school year, 29 were run by school districts and 61 by outside agencies in space provided by local schools, according to Illinois Board of Education recordof Education records.