Sentences with phrase «of tight school budgets»

Massachusetts students made impressive gains from 2001 to 2004 in spite of tight school budgets.

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The authors of The School Food Plan recognised that the workforce is charged with a complex challenge and responsibility: to serve the nation's children healthy meals that taste great and can compete with the high street, all on a tight budget and timescales each day.

Some parents are outraged by alternate meal policies, but it is important to remember that tight school foodservice budgets leave schools few options for covering the cost of unpaid meals.

«While budgets are tight right now, there are schools across the country that are showing that it doesn't take a whole lot of money or resources to give our kids the nutrition they deserve.

Instead, the problem of lunch shaming is just one more manifestation of the extremely tight budgets under which school food programs are expected to operate.

They discovered how difficult a task it was working in a school kitchen on such a tight budget, trying to cater to a wide variety of tastes.

They know they have the skills to serve more meals to kids, but the dollars and cents of expanding programs like school breakfast, afterschool meals and summer meals seem daunting and could hurt their already tight budget.

But I've often wondered if the skills acquired in a high - end restaurant kitchen have much to do with the problems faced by school food departments: extremely tight budgets (just a dollar per meal for food), reams of federal regulations, often seriously deficient infrastructure, and a notoriously fickle and hard - to - please clientele.

Local school districts are preparing for another tight budget season this year, with minimal state aid increases projected in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tentative spending plan and a cap of less than 2 percent on tax levy growth.

«At a time when our budget is so tight, this recovery aid is both needed and appreciated,» said Dr. Joel M. Klein, Superintendent of Schools, East Ramapo Central School District.

«While music programs are often the first to be cut when the school budget is tight, these results highlight music's place in the high school curriculum,» said Nina Kraus, senior study author and director of Northwestern's Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at the School of Communicschool budget is tight, these results highlight music's place in the high school curriculum,» said Nina Kraus, senior study author and director of Northwestern's Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at the School of Communicschool curriculum,» said Nina Kraus, senior study author and director of Northwestern's Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at the School of CommunicSchool of Communication.

With schools facing tight budgets, many of them just don't have the money for accurate up - to - date maps, said John McIndoe, a spokesman for the Skokie, Ill. - based publisher.

At the other end of the spectrum, teachers continue to report children coming to school hungry and families coping on the tightest food budgets say they put calories before nutrition just to get food on the table.»

Shrinking enrollments and tight budgets are forcing urban education leaders around the country to close schools and shift thousands of students to different campuses next school year.

The Education Funding Agency (EFA) has paid performance bonuses of # 510,000 to its staff, prompting school leaders to express concerns against tight budgets.

The first is the provision E of a building that inspires the schoolchildren and the local community; the second is the way in which this building inspires them; and the third is the use of prefabricated materials, where possible, and simple detailing to reduce the labour and waste in order to meet the school's tight budget.»

With tight budgets, public schools are mired in layers of decision making that makes it hard to change curriculum.

As public budgets have grown tighter over the past decade, states and school districts have sought ways to control the growth of spending.

Russell Hobby, NAHT general secretary, said: «While there's a better acknowledgement of the extent of mental illness among children and young people than ever before, the services that schools, families and children rely on are under pressure from rising demand, growing complexity and tight budgets.

School expansion projects are restricted not only by incredibly tight budget constraints, but also by the need to create additional classrooms and spaces without allowing construction to disrupt the day - to - day life of school staff, students, and paSchool expansion projects are restricted not only by incredibly tight budget constraints, but also by the need to create additional classrooms and spaces without allowing construction to disrupt the day - to - day life of school staff, students, and paschool staff, students, and parents.

Rural Students Produce High - Tech Projects In the rural Mendocino (California) Unified School District, a locally developed computer network eliminates one of the greatest challenges facing many small, rural, budget - tight districts.

At a time when budgets are tight, obesity epidemic, and fuel costs likely to rise, schools at the center of walkable communities are seen as both healthful and thrifty.

By strategically substituting technology (which is cheap) for labor (which is expensive), moreover, schools can be far more cost - effective than they are now — which is crucial in a future of tight budgets.

As a result, budgets may be tight again, creating a new round of management challenges for school districts.

Many schools are tight on space and budget, so it might surprise you to learn that over 90 % of my school clients ask me back to do further work, one mural it seems, isn't always enough!

Add to that the need to help schools meet some of the world's toughest nutritional standards for school meals and showing their worth for children's attainment and health; developing training opportunities; supporting schools with marketing menus on tight budgets; helping schools to protect kitchens and improve dining rooms, and to get better value for their services and supplies.

However, many school building experts we interviewed are concerned that while government is currently succeeding in delivering schools to incredibly tight budgets, its delivery scheme is also proving to be hugely restrictive in terms of the design and time frames allowed for the construction of new schools.

Despite tight budgets and timescales, the school was in occupation of the build by the deadline of the Easter holidays 2017, with planning permission granted in 5 weeks.

I can confidently say that Go Education is one of the very few major school suppliers that can boast a personal approach and that understand the requirement of schools and the tight, diminishing budgets.

However, as always, budgets are tight and maximising any spend is vitally important for schools and their contract caterers,» commented Michael Sinclair, design director of Catering Design Group.

Tight budgets limit the capacity of many Catholic schools to innovate.

In the 2013 - 2015 state budget, money for districts will be tight again, creating a new round of challenges, which D'Andrea says will probably include merit pay, a teacher effectiveness program, the expansion of school choice, and maybe the creation of a statewide charter authorizer.

At secondary level, 74 per cent of school leaders said their schools had been forced to cut teachers over the last year due to tight budgets, with a similar proportion saying the same about teaching assistants.

As the assistant superintendent for support services of the Loudoun County, Va., school district, Platenberg worked to find transportation and energy efficiencies to protect the district's instructional support during a time of tight state education budgets and a rapidly expanding student population.

There are plenty of you working in districts where a significant portion of the population is economically disadvantaged, and most school districts have tight budgets, so this can be a very real issue.

But Mr Shaw added: «In an era of universal academisation and tight local government budgets, it is far from clear that local authorities are best placed to monitor the quality of SEND provision in schools.»

In a timely op - ed in The Hechinger Report, NISL CEO Bob Hughes and the Missouri Commissioner of Education Dr. Chris Nicastro, argue that improving the effectiveness of school leaders is even more critical in the current climate of tight budgets, rigorous standards, and increased accountability.

Recognizing that budgets are tight, they provide a free download to all of their survey's for school use.

It's a model that Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Secretary of Education, has called for, claiming that virtual schools can offer «valuable options» in rural areas, where educators are eager to expand courses, as long as they don't have to push already tight budgets or direct student funding away from schools.

Providing a rigorous pre-college curriculum has long been a struggle in many of the more than 7,100 U.S. rural school districts, where a lack of teachers, dwindling enrollment numbers and tight budgets make it difficult to offer electives, foreign languages and even basic classes that are a given in many suburban and urban schools.

There are lots of districts where a significant portion of the population is economically disadvantaged, and most school districts have tight budgets, and this can be a real challenge.

Alison Sherratt, president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said budgets in schools were «tight».

In the recent era of tight public agency budgets, the community school approach has offered a strategic method for making tough budget decisions — making the most of existing resources.

Speaking of tight budget situation, it was revealed this week that Governor Jerry Brown will be putting an initiative in next year's ballot that will increase sales and income taxes to generate funds for schools.

Declining enrollment, falling public aid and tight budgets at some schools spark discontent — and rising no - confidence votes — among staff

As the president of Rider University, Gregory Dell» Omo wanted to cut the art, French and philosophy majors among others to help solve the New Jersey school's budget...

And communication itself is a long to - do list of school marketing, public relations, social media, keeping your school website updated, community outreach, internal communications... we could go on, but with staff time maxed and budgets running tight, we don't want to stress you out.

Russell Hobby, of school leaders» union NAHT, agreed: «Rising demand, growing complexity and tight budgets are getting in the way of helping the children who need it most.»

Because sports and extracurricular activities are such an integral part of a private school program, you rarely see cuts in these areas as we have seen in public schools when budgets get tight.

Tenure could guard against dismissal of more experienced, higher paid teachers during periods of tight budgets when school leaders may be more focused on reducing costs while meeting class size requirements than they are on student learning.

«We are currently in the tightest four year period for per - pupil spending in English schools since at least the early 1980s,» Belfield warned, adding that detail of what is going to happen to school budgets after 2019 - 20 is a «big omission considering only 60 per cent of schools will be on the main formula in 2019 — 20».