Sentences with phrase «of top school districts»

It was in a MUD and in one of the top school districts in the state.

Jack Britt is one of the top school districts in the state.

An apparent anomaly on a list of top school districts that is mostly white and largely affluent, including neighboring Madison County and Rankin County Public School districts, Clinton Public Schools managed to excel against the odds.

Not exact matches

On top of those countywide rates, are additional rates that vary depending on the school district and city in which your home is located.

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A collection of the Stanislaus District's top high school football players captured the Quick 6 Golden State 7 - on - 7 Championship at Valley Christian High in San Jose.

I have been through 6 Superintendents and countless top level bureaucrats in that time and made plenty of enemies myself — just so you know that I am no knee - jerk supporter of school districts or school bureaucracies.

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

Teachers in the district's three schools are paid about $ 12,000 more than the state average, and the schools offer an array of top - notch educational opportunities, including low class size, foreign language instruction, fine arts and orchestra programs, low - cost preschool and a full - day kindergarten, before - and after - school care, and several extracurricular sports teams.

A number of the top - performing school districts — Los Angeles Unified School District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income houseschool districts — Los Angeles Unified School District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income houseSchool District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income houseSchool District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income households.

Auburn School District hosted a tasting table at Rainier Middle School, and were joined by Farmer Amy Moreno - Sills from Four Elements Farm, where studnets enjoyed samples of fruits and vegetables, including Four Elements Farm carrots with tops.

Those characteristics include tree - lined streets, parks, historic structures, high levels of volunteerism and philanthropy, conservative government traditions, well - performing schools and top - flight park districts.

School districts are typically responsible for top - level decision - making when it comes to food: they oversee the food services group that determines breakfast and lunch menus; they set the district - wide wellness policy, which usually covers the food that may be sold or distributed during the school day; and they decide whether vending machines may or may not be placed in schools (although in some cases this is decided at the level of the state board of educaSchool districts are typically responsible for top - level decision - making when it comes to food: they oversee the food services group that determines breakfast and lunch menus; they set the district - wide wellness policy, which usually covers the food that may be sold or distributed during the school day; and they decide whether vending machines may or may not be placed in schools (although in some cases this is decided at the level of the state board of educaschool day; and they decide whether vending machines may or may not be placed in schools (although in some cases this is decided at the level of the state board of education).

There were several school board members and top district staff in the room, and everyone's ears pricked up at the sound of money.

His second day on the job as Minneapolis Public Schools» new top chef, Bertrand Weber stood before an audience made up of district brass who would probably sooner eat the contents of their sock drawers than anything produced in this cinderblock hell and sweetly informed them that they would soon be thinking of it as the Culinary Center.

He also referenced the fact that New York is now one of three states placed on a watch list for losing hundreds of millions of Race to the Top dollars by US Education Secretary Arne Duncan because it has «hit a roadblock» on significant policy provisions of qualifying for the aid, including establishment of the peformance evaluation system and creation of a database to track student records across school districts.

Lawmakers in both houses in recent weeks have introduced bills designed to ease aspects of the education policies in the budget, ranging from a codification of students opting out of state tests to exempting top - performing school districts from the new teacher evaluation criteria.

Jiachen Lee, Arooba Ahmed and Jillian Parker, a trio of young scientists from the Half Hollow Hills school district won the $ 100,000 top team award in the prestigious Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology for their research into cell division that could help find treatments to cancers, viruses and other diseases.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), who was the top vote getter in the Assembly on the Stop Common Core ballot line in 2014, today announced new legislation he is introducing, the «Common Core Parental Refusal Act» to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.

In the weeks after the budget was approved, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers introduced bills that would either exempt some top - performing school districts from aspects of the evaluations to pushing back deadlines for their adoption.

Earlier this year, and as part of Race to the Top requirements, the state did direct New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), lest the districts risk losing additional available state aid.

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.

Under the bill, introduced late last week, the top 20 percent of the state's highest performing school districts would be allowed to submit their current evaluation plans along with a request for a waiver to the Department of Education.

«Making our communities more affordable and preventing the insolvency of local governments and school districts needs to be our top priority.

To avert a situation where New York is forced to return hundreds of millions of sorely - needed federal dollars, we urge you to consider introducing «shot clock» style measures to ensure that all school districts will fully implement the state's new teacher evaluation framework in accordance with the Race to the Top timeline.

The federal government incentivized adoption of the Common Core at the state level through its Race to the Top grants program, which garnered New York State $ 700 million that was then distributed to school districts.

«The Chautauqua Lake Central School District has consistently ranked among the top school districts in the region and has one of the lowest pupil - teacher rSchool District has consistently ranked among the top school districts in the region and has one of the lowest pupil - teacher rschool districts in the region and has one of the lowest pupil - teacher ratios.

«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.»

Eight of the top 10 New York state school retirees with annual payouts of more than $ 205,000 are ex-superintendents from well - heeled school districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties, according to an analysis by the Empire Center for New York State Policy.

The safety and well - being of the children in our community is a top priority for the Hoosick Falls Central School District, and we have tested our water thoroughly to ensure it is safe for consumption.

Notably, in the 2010 - 11 school year, the district kept 88 percent of its top teachers but just 45 percent of its low performers.

Of the region's main three city school districts, Troy topped the list with a 74 percent graduation rate, while Schenectady had a 56 percent rate.

Forcina, a former Marine who worked at a software company prior to becoming an attorney, said his top campaign priorities are elder care, writing laws that will aid small businesses in northeast Queens, lowering taxes and supporting the creation of charter schools in his district.

School technology and community safety were among the items that topped the list of winning projects in this year's participatory budgeting process for City Council District 23.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — The teachers union and state lawmakers are pushing to overhaul admissions at the city's top public high schools, calling the lack of racial diversity at the schools «an embarrassment.»

He was thinking in particular of one school bordering his district, the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, that has earned the top ranking in media assessments of the nation's best scschool bordering his district, the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, that has earned the top ranking in media assessments of the nation's best scSchool for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, that has earned the top ranking in media assessments of the nation's best schools.

For example, in the Athens Area School District, student gains topped 87 percent, and of the eighty - nine Quakertown students who failed tenth - grade math, 72 percent are now getting A's, B's, or C's in their junior year.

My hopes are to encourage you to start a Teacher of Promise Award (TOP Award) program at your school or in your district just as I did.

The 58 - year - old administrator has said he will resign at the end of this school year from the top job in a district grappling with unyielding academic shortcomings, alleged test tampering, and missing candy money and equipment.

In 2015 - 16, more than 37 percent of DCPS's teaching force was rated «highly effective,» and the school district lost only 6 percent of that top talent.

As an example of a district imitating successful charter - school practices, Denver Public Schools is, as Education Week has reported, «aiming to re-create within its own buildings the innovation seen in top charter schools, and keep the state funding.Schools is, as Education Week has reported, «aiming to re-create within its own buildings the innovation seen in top charter schools, and keep the state funding.schools, and keep the state funding.»

In the 2018 state budget negotiations, a rewrite to fix an inequitable sharing of state funding for school districts reached the top of the agenda.

In 2008 - 09, the top 13 schools in the district saved 6.1 billion BTUs — an equivalent dollar value of nearly $ 110,000.

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Only 41 percent of school districts and 60 percent of eligible charter schools signed on for changes needed to participate in the Obama administration's Race to the Top contest in which states can win extra federal funding to ease the impact of steep budget cuts.

With districts and schools under tremendous pressure to make every dollar count, California teachers can now download top - rated content from the site at no charge, said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell.

For youth in the highest risk group (top 20 %), the gain in school quality indicators is «roughly equivalent to moving from one of the lowest - ranked schools to one around the district average.»

But rather than having district leaders make those cuts from the top, adjusting to current enrollment becomes the responsibility of each school and program manager.

In addition, as a result of its reputation within the educational consulting sector, the organization has also developed a relationship with the prestigious Broad Prize, which annually awards one million dollars to the top performing urban school districts in the United States.

Fifteen - year - olds in the Kettle Moraine School District on the western edge of the Milwaukee metropolitan area achieved reading scores in 2015 that ranked among those of the top seven countries that are part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).