Sentences with phrase «of school districts in the country»

Well, here in San Francisco, like a lot of school districts in this country, we don't.

Yes, a vast majority of school districts in the country are run by elected boards.

You might say that we actually have over 14,000 systems, which is the number of school districts in the country.

And only a small fraction of school districts in the country are approved for the supplemental services — tutoring swap under the pilot project.

• According to a 2015 Brookings Institution report, Newark made the most progress of any school district in the country in providing choice to parents, ranking as the 3rd district nationally in providing parents with school options (behind only NYC and New Orleans).

By a 7 - 0 vote, the board made it clear that it would do what it could to discourage the effort by the Broad - affiliated group, Great Public Schools Now, to grow what is already the largest charter school population of any school district in the country.

Already, LA Unified has 221 independent charter schools, which is the most of any school district in the country.

To review, Achievement First, the organization that Stefan Pryor helped create and served as a Director for until he quit last year to become Malloy's Commissioner of Education, is scheduled to grow from 20 school to 35 schools over the next few years at which point it claims that it will be larger than 95 % of all school districts in the country.

Not exact matches

His high school was in one of the country's worst school districts with a 40 % dropout rate, he says.

In addition, to consumer events, National Kale Day has touched 10 countries, retailers, restaurants and schools with some of the largest school districts in the country including New York Public Schools and Los Angeles Public Schools planning to serve up kalIn addition, to consumer events, National Kale Day has touched 10 countries, retailers, restaurants and schools with some of the largest school districts in the country including New York Public Schools and Los Angeles Public Schools planning to serve uschools with some of the largest school districts in the country including New York Public Schools and Los Angeles Public Schools planning to serve up kalin the country including New York Public Schools and Los Angeles Public Schools planning to serve uSchools and Los Angeles Public Schools planning to serve uSchools planning to serve up kale.

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.

Established in 1956, Clark County School District is the fifth largest school district in the country, educating almost 75 percent of all students in Nevada with more than 320,000 students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th School District is the fifth largest school district in the country, educating almost 75 percent of all students in Nevada with more than 320,000 students enrolled in kindergarten through 12tDistrict is the fifth largest school district in the country, educating almost 75 percent of all students in Nevada with more than 320,000 students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th school district in the country, educating almost 75 percent of all students in Nevada with more than 320,000 students enrolled in kindergarten through 12tdistrict in the country, educating almost 75 percent of all students in Nevada with more than 320,000 students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade.

The employees of this and every other school district in the country are paid from the Food & Nutrition Service Enterprise fund in each district which derives its funding from the operation of the program.

Localecopia Marketplace is now making inroads with farm - to - school for 5 school districts (3 of which are the top 11 in the country).

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 countrIn 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 countrin all probability be unreliable and inconsistent across the 14,000 school districts and 100,000 schools throughout the country.

Use the scorecard to track national and state trends in school breakfast service and participation, and take a closer look at how 73 of the country's largest school districts are managing breakfast programs.

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

The second is written from a cook - from - scratch school kitchen in the heart of Alice Waters country — the same school district in Berkeley, CA where Chef Ann first revolutionized school lunch.

Indeed, for a while Houston and other districts were having real trouble sourcing any fresh fruit at all, from any part of the country, due to the higher demand created by the new school food regulations, which resulted in USDA actually canceling confirmed orders for commodity fresh fruit.

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.

... Indeed, SNA was the leader in child nutrition, a position I do not believe we can claim today,» added Wynn, who used to oversee school meals in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for one of the largest school districts in the country.

According to those officials present, despite the fact that Houston is the seventh largest school district in the country and therefore a major consumer of milk, the profit margins for dairies supplying schools (as opposed to private entities) is extremely low and would be wiped out by the manufacturing costs associated with making such changes.

That beneficial use of market power is precisely what I've been wanting to see more of here in Houston, which is the country's seventh largest school district.

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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.

Here in HISD and in many districts around the country, it is not uncommon to see on high school campuses numerous, daily fundraisers conducted during the lunch hour, most of which offer foods of poor nutritional value.

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 gathering was a chance for some of the largest school districts in the country to get together to learn and share the work they're doing to procure more healthful, locally sourced, and sustainably produced food for school meals.

Thanks for your input... I may try to expand and look at menus from other school districts in America and France, could be interesting to see what is served in different parts of each country.

SNA's Keys to Excellence is a state of the art online self - assessment tool that allows you to compare your school nutrition program's performance with other districts in your area and around the country.

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.

School officials in the District of Columbia recently decided without fanfare to discontinue serving flavored milk and sugary cereals, a move that has reverberated around the country.

Six of the largest school districts in the country have banded together to revamp school lunches — and they're starting from the plate up.

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.

This is an image of the new school lunch plate that some of the largest school districts in the country are using instead of polystyrene trays.

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.

Parents freaked out after reports surfaced last week that school districts around the country were serving kids hamburgers containing up to 15 percent of the processed product known in the meat industry as «Lean Finely Textured Beef» or «Lean Beef Trimmings,» produced by Beef Products Inc..

Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «kids and food, in school and out» but in the near future I plan to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the lunch program in my own school district (Houston ISD) and presumably elsewhere in the country.

We are a collaborative of some of the largest districts in the country — those who serve 40,000 children or more — that leverages their knowledge and procurement power to make school meals nationwide more healthful, regionally sourced, and sustainably produced.

I'm back from summer vacation in time to share some nice news: Houston ISD, the seventh largest district in the country, has announced that it's taking advantage of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) to provide universal (free) school breakfast and lunch to every student at 166 of its schools, regardless of economic status, and without the need for meal applications or other paperwork.

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Mr. Appiah is reported to have challenged the irate NDC supporters in the district to ensure that a picture of the former President is attached to all secondary schools in the country if they want him to maintain the one on the Nchumuruman Senior High School.

«Well, I think that lawsuit is saying, hey, why don't the school districts have representation like every other municipality in New York state and like the rest of the country,» says Carlucci.

An «irate voter» kicked doors and a table before leaving the Eugene Auer Elementary School, the Middle Country Central School District in Centereach wrote Wednesday in a letter to the county Board of Elections.

In the speech, Bellone cited a new pilot program dealing with fourth - and fifth - graders in Wyandanch and South Country school districts aiming to divert youngsters who are showing signs of gang involvement like using gang clothing or terminologIn the speech, Bellone cited a new pilot program dealing with fourth - and fifth - graders in Wyandanch and South Country school districts aiming to divert youngsters who are showing signs of gang involvement like using gang clothing or terminologin Wyandanch and South Country school districts aiming to divert youngsters who are showing signs of gang involvement like using gang clothing or terminology.

«If Albany is serious about consolidation, then they should actually put teeth behind it and order school districts, fire districts and municipalities to do it — not just blame upstate for New York being in the top tier of highest taxed states in the country.»

«I think this referendum is very important because this country had a lot of problems with the current system,» 27 - year - old Ozcan Ayata told CNN in Ankara Sunday after voting at a local school in the Sogutozu district.

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.

«We have declined until we know more about the program,» Joseph Giani, superintendent of the South Country school district, wrote in an email.