Sentences with phrase «of school districts across the country»

Since its inception in Toledo, Ohio, more than 25 years ago, PAR has received national attention and has spread to dozens of school districts across the country.

The network has grown from one school to 41 in a decade, making it larger than 95 percent of school districts across the country.

Starting with La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1979, a handful of school districts across the country have rejected traditional school boundaries and instead have created boundaries that encourage diverse schools.104

Hartford is just the latest in a series of school districts across the country where school administrators have doctored test results to make it appear that their students are doing better on standardized tests such as the Connecticut Mastery Test.

USCS took advantage of a tool that the Morningside Center for Social Responsibility has helped hundreds of school districts across the country use, to open the lines of communication and bring disparate voices together.

But little has been written about the fact that the proposal misses the mark when it comes to the real challenges facing the vast majority of school districts across the country.

The book offers a step - by - step guide to Labor - Management - Community collaboration, an intervention that has successfully improved student outcomes in a wide variety of school districts across the country.

The local students were part of the National School Walkout, joining their peers from thousands of school districts across the country to demand common sense gun laws and better school safety.

Not exact matches

This year, there are more than 4,200 schools in almost 600 school districts across the country where kids will be introduced to the game of golf along with character education.

In addition, the use of menus, websites and newsletters would in all probability be unreliable and inconsistent across the 14,000 school districts and 100,000 schools throughout the country.

As school breakfast continues to expand in school districts across the country, so does the importance of dairy.

Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proSchool District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool lunch, is procured.

It has taken root everywhere from community - based book clubs and school district professional development sessions across the country to the U.S. Department of Education.

By: Sunny Young, thelunchbox.org bloggerIn addition to acting as one of the leaders in reforming school meals across the country, Chef Ann Cooper also serves as Nutrition Services director of the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) in Boulder, Colschool meals across the country, Chef Ann Cooper also serves as Nutrition Services director of the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) in Boulder, ColSchool District (BVSD) in Boulder, Colorado.

The project also gathered insights on the survey data from a panel of school nutrition leaders whose districts are recognized for their success in serving healthy meals and snacks.3 The research makes clear that multiple strategies, particularly those that engage children's creativity and invite their input, have helped instill healthy eating behaviors at schools across the country.

School districts faced several challenges implementing the new lunch requirements in school year 2012 - 2013, according to the eight districts GAO visited and food service and industry officials GAO interviewed from across the country; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) response to some of these challenges has been liSchool districts faced several challenges implementing the new lunch requirements in school year 2012 - 2013, according to the eight districts GAO visited and food service and industry officials GAO interviewed from across the country; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) response to some of these challenges has been lischool year 2012 - 2013, according to the eight districts GAO visited and food service and industry officials GAO interviewed from across the country; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) response to some of these challenges has been limited.

PrimeroEdge is trusted by thousands of districts across the country and we've helped millions of students by providing software that allows districts to better manage their school nutrition programs.

According to the study, when chocolate milk was eliminated from cafeterias at 58 schools in seven school districts across the country, milk consumption went down by an average of 35 %, and did not recover even after a year's time.

Kay Brown, who produced the GAO study of eight districts, says they visited a range of schools across the country with differing levels of participation in free and reduced lunch and with widely different characteristics.

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

«In these extremely difficult financial times facing every municipality and school district across the country, the county has to pursue any and every avenue of cost savings,» he said in an interview this week.

«Because of the amount of time kids spend in school, and given the fact that many first - time allergic reactions occur on school grounds, it is imperative for school districts across the country to provide access to emergency epinephrine to students who may not otherwise have access to the potentially life - saving medication,» Gupta said.

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.

That is, the consolidation of one - room schoolhouses into larger districts, the development of schools with separate grades, the September to June calendar, and the relatively common curriculum across the country all came into being because families wanted those measures.

These «findings» by the lower court about the purported benefits of neighborhood schools were based entirely on the claims of Oklahoma City School District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation oSchool District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation oschool districts seeking to be released from their desegregation orders.

The problem of how to attract and hang on to talented new teachers has dogged school districts across the country.

Lecturer David Rose, Ed.D.» 76, hopes and believes that he and his colleagues are part of a revolution — a revolution called Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which is increasingly taking hold in schools and school districts across the country and seeks to design curriculum from the outset that can accommodate all types of learners, rather than retrofitting existing curriculums on an ad hoc, as needed basis.

Despite the challenges, states and districts are attempting to make it happen in tens of thousands of schools across the country.

Addressing the Whole Child «Across the country, school districts are grappling with the question of how they can best fuse academic instruction and community services to address...

This special report examines the challenges CAOs are facing in school districts across the country and how they are working to improve academics in the age of common standards and digital teaching and learning.

Wide Variation Across the Country: Overall, 55 % of public school districts reported students enrolled in distance education courses.

In this edition of the EdCast, Factor discusses the future of blended learning and how it relates to improving schools and districts across the country.

The Department of Education is seeking proposals for 21 comprehensive centers spread across the country that will provide expertise to states and school districts working to meet the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act.

And it's nice to see the authors of this study using survey data from 900 school board members in 419 unique school districts all across the country to prove that my faith was not in vain.

Today, 45 of 50 states and the District of Columbia have a state virtual school or online initiative, full - time online school, or both, according to «Keeping Pace with K - 12 Online Learning,» (3M) a 2009 report sponsored by ten schools and organizations across the country.

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

We already have an impressive joint project with the Business School, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is an executive education program that unites the faculty resources of both schools to address the specific challenges faced by nine urban school districts from across the coSchool, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is an executive education program that unites the faculty resources of both schools to address the specific challenges faced by nine urban school districts from across the coschool districts from across the country.

We studied 16 charter elementary and secondary schools with a wide range of personalized learning models from across the country (we hoped to include district schools, but the data were not available).

States and school districts across the country are reevaluating the practice of educating young adolescents in stand - alone middle schools, which typically span grades 6 through 8 or 5 through 8, rather than keeping them in K — 8 schools.

Berkeley's policy, like others in a handful of districts across the country, require school officials to consider all alternatives before they...

Many of the reforms he championed, namely, more accountability, more focus on standards, and growth in charter schools, are already at various levels of implementation in states and districts across the country.

To find out how much those resources vary, and to help you determine how your school or district compares with others across the country, we asked members of the Education World Tech Team to tell us about their jobs and responsibilities; to describe the resources they provide and the resources provided to them.

We believe these «new designs for new schools» will produce a set of schools that show districts across the country that high schools can provide underprepared young people with the supports they need to graduate from high school, go to college, place out of remedial courses, and stay in college for at least two semesters at substantially higher rates than are commonly achieved today.

It opens the way, for the first time, to comparing student, school and district performance across the land on a credible, common metric — and gauging their achievement against that of youngsters in other countries on our shrinking and ever - more - competitive planet.

I used my experience to explain the impact particular legislation would have on schools and districts,» says Payzant, who began his teaching career at Belmont (Mass.) High School and went on to serve as superintendent of four districts across the country.

Barbara Duffield, policy director for the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, said that while many school districts across the country are collaborating with shelters to arrange housing and services for homeless students, Maplewood Richmond Heights has gone one step further and committed resources to provide housing.

Silva, who has served as a security consultant to school districts across the country, describes informal mediation as the kind of proactive work the staff does all day, every day.

Bierly and Shay surveyed and interviewed a large sample of principals, assistant principals, teachers, and teacher leaders from a cross section of school districts (varying in size and location) and chief marketing officers across the country.

Five student groups shared their presentations with ISTE's Leadership Symposium, which is made up of more than 150 educators from across the country who strive to develop and model the effective use of technology in education in their schools, school districts, and states.