Sentences with phrase «of various school district»

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The mild - mannered Onstott is one of about 20 students from various Chicago high schools who plan to protest the district's food at the board meeting and present members with other possible paths as they review the bids.

Because most school districts do not keep detailed records regarding the cost and revenue associated with various components of the school food program, it is often difficult to gain a clear picture of how they use federal reimbursements (except where USDA has conducted rigorous studies).

There are so many things I'd love to see tackled when it comes to school lunch, especially in my children's district, like the lack of kitchen space to prepare fresh foods, the lack of variety of fruits and vegetables, and the seemingly endless breaded chicken in various forms.

Additional objectives are to promote cooperation with various community organizations, school districts, and individuals relative to the area of cultural arts.

Lunch Lessons offers a variety of services to assist school districts and their community partners in realizing their vision for school food service, including: educational programming through speaking engagements; workshops that address a variety of needs from fiscal to culinary training; focused analysis of various aspects of existing programs; as well as full assessments which analyze all aspects of the food service department and provide recommendations to assist in strategic planning and goal setting.

Moreover, as USDA as anticipated — and as the School Nutrition Association has noted in its own comments on the proposal — it will place an unreasonable burden on school districts to determine the source of various nutrients in a given packaged product, absent standardized labels offering this informSchool Nutrition Association has noted in its own comments on the proposal — it will place an unreasonable burden on school districts to determine the source of various nutrients in a given packaged product, absent standardized labels offering this informschool districts to determine the source of various nutrients in a given packaged product, absent standardized labels offering this information.

This educational opportunity will provide various perspectives on the many advantages of CEP and offers innovative solutions to maximize the benefits for school districts.

Many school districts and community users rely on a combination of federal and local funding, as well as various partnerships, to offset costs associated with shared use of school kitchens.

In the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Post.

While the new CT State Law requires all districts provide a number for concussions diagnosed in their students, the Norwalk School Concussion Project is going a step further and shedding the light on the various types of sport and non-sport concussions across our K - 12 schools.

Officials from school districts in Pennsylvania were asked various questions to assess the extent of the health care provided to their student athletes via athletic training coverage.

3) Determined the optimum size of land needed to run the various Programmes and secured all land through the various District Assemblies needed for the new schools including land for the Dome Kwabenya project 4) Carried out Case Studies of existing Sschools including land for the Dome Kwabenya project 4) Carried out Case Studies of existing SchoolsSchools.

Silver said, «I'm disappointed, first of all, that the unions and various school districts couldn't come together on an agreement.

After the disappearance and death of Trevyan Rowe, the Rochester City School District offered a remorseful apology for various missteps, including not spotting Rowe walking away from School # 12 immediately after getting off his morning bus.

«From Nigeria, I have watched closely your achievements, ranging from your ingenious approach to creating jobs for the teeming youths through various initiatives, including the repositioning of agriculture for modern farming, «Farming for Jobs and Food», Senior High School (SHS) free education, One - District - One - Factory, and One - Village - One - Dam as well as the improvement being recorded in the Republic's macroeconomic indicators.

The administration of H.E John Dramani Mahama has really brought us hope with the many infrastructural projects dotted across the length and breadth of the kingdom such as the various Community Day Senior High School projects at various stages of completion such the Sapeliga SHS, Binduri SHS and Garu SHS, the Tamme Irrigation Dam, the Garu District Hospital, the Bawku Town Water system, the massive rural Electrification Expansion projects etc We are also glad that the Eastern Corridor Fiber Optic Cable which extends to the Bawku was successfully laid awaiting the next phase.

School taxes would go up significantly and force many districts to present budgets exceeding the so - called property tax cap if state lawmakers approve a minimum wage increase to $ 15 an hour, according to leaders of various Monroe County school distSchool taxes would go up significantly and force many districts to present budgets exceeding the so - called property tax cap if state lawmakers approve a minimum wage increase to $ 15 an hour, according to leaders of various Monroe County school distschool districts.

A set of recommendations was recently released by a committee made up of representatives from the Rochester City School District, the military community, and various stakeholders from churches, colleges, and community groups.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

«Most importantly, we note with grave concern the lack of teachers in the various schools within the district.»

The City School District of New Rochelle and various interested parties including the Mayor and the head of the teachers union have repeatedly claimed that there is no «inequality» issue in New Rochelle between North End and South End schools in the wake of an article in The Journal News last summer.

Given the claims by the District, it seems reasonable that someone would have studied the issue of performance of students from the various schools within New Rochelle.

Port Washington School District, Long Island, NY Topic: The joys of feeding our children wholesome foods using various cultures as references.

I often wonder how many of these same proud parents who post their kids» pictures on various sites are the same parents who complain to school districts about using students» pictures in printed or digital newsletters to identify their positive contributions.

Canby, a district of nine schools and about 5,000 students, now has about fifty classrooms using iPods of various types and the project has extended into high school, where students are listening to audiobooks and using video cameras to analyze their presentation skills.

In order to investigate the role of both the intentional and unintentional factors, we explore the extent to which various school characteristics explain variation in the allocation of resources within a school district.

Experts in the various disciplines would develop national standards for what students should know and be able to do at key points in their schooling; a federal council of distinguished citizens would review and certify the standards as worthy of emulation; states and school districts would voluntarily adopt them; teachers would teach to them; and students would achieve them.

The studies, «What Do Parents Think of Their Children's Schools: EdNext poll compares charter, district, and private schools nationwide,» by Samuel Barrows, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West and «How Satisfied are Parents from Various Backgrounds with Their Children's SSchools: EdNext poll compares charter, district, and private schools nationwide,» by Samuel Barrows, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West and «How Satisfied are Parents from Various Backgrounds with Their Children's Sschools nationwide,» by Samuel Barrows, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West and «How Satisfied are Parents from Various Backgrounds with Their Children's SchoolsSchools?

Experts in the various disciplines would develop national standards for what students should know and be able to do at key points in their schooling; a federal council of distinguished citizens would review and certify the standards as worthy of emulation; states and school districts would voluntarily adopZwcm; teachers would teach to them; and students would achieve them.

In this partnership, the ministry's OFIP team plays various support roles - coach, challenger, facilitator and mobilizer of ideas and knowledge - first to help districts and schools gauge as precisely as possible student needs, and later to put in place the plans to help meet them.

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.

As they have already done with Kindergarten, Gifted & Talented, and Universal pre-K applications, the New York City Department of Education has pushed back their deadline for parents wishing to run for a spot on various education councils, including Citywide Council on High - Schools, English Language Learners, Special Ed, and several District offices.

It required close work with schools, districts, labor organizations, the state board, and various internal offices and deep knowledge of state law and regulation and the growing national research base.

After all, there are traditional «public district schools» that have admissions criteria (e.g Bronx School of Science), charge for various services (e.g. music, AP tests), or are open only to families who inhabit certain neighborhoods (e.g. all of them).

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the Chicago school system in a dispute with a minority - owned company that held various contracts with the district between 1987 and 2003.

My job is literally to connect, share and teach an entire school district of strangers in various new locations.

The plan highlights various schools and districts where such learning already is taking place and notes that 25 percent of public K - 12 schools offer some form of e-learning or virtual schools right now.

Since mid-March, superintendents of four major school systems have spent two days each meeting with the school board and various local groups in the 54,000 - student district: Anthony S. Amato of Hartford, Conn.; Winston C. Brooks of Wichita, Kan.; Patricia Harvey of St. Paul, Minn.; and Eric J. Smith of the Charlotte - Mecklenburg County schools in North Carolina.

School districts and teachers» unions don't negotiate on what the retirement benefit should look like or what level of benefit it should offer to various groups of teachers.

We propose parsing the information in the report into a series of smaller, more easily navigable public documents that will be useful to stakeholders from various communities, including schools, districts, OST organizations, program developers, researchers, and policy - makers.

Recognized as a national expert, her contribution to the Greenhaven Prison Program at Vassar College, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Vera Institute of Justice, Kings County District Attorney»s Office, Interfaith Justice Project at The Riverside Church, Open Society Institute» «s After Prison Initiative, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, Boston University»s Prison Education Program, Department of Justice» «s Norval Morris Project, and Truth Commission on Conscience in War has facilitated work with numerous schools and prisons in various states for the last 25 years.

For his part, Justice Thomas faults my citation of various studies supporting the view that school districts can find compelling educational and civic interests in integrating their public schools.

EdLeader21 member districts and schools will also have the benefit of strategic counsel and deeper implementation support in various areas from Battelle for Kids to advance their efforts to become 21st century education systems.

The K — 12 sector has fewer expert reviewers or platforms for user reviews than does higher education because the vast majority of students attend their assigned district school and hence have little need to compare various options.

Some US schools and districts (mostly elementary schools that worry less about the impact on college admissions) are experimenting with ditching grades in favor of various other reports of academic mastery, sometimes coupled with separate assessments of behavior or character traits (grit, citizenship, empathy).

Chingos and Whitehurst recommend that states work to build out a data infrastructure to track textbook adoptions by schools and districts, which can be used to tease out the impacts of various materials on student outcomes, among other things.

The jobs of about 180 teachers in the 47,000 - student Buffalo, N.Y., school district will be spared, thanks to a rearrangement of various grant funds and a last - minute infusion of state aid.

All sorts of schools would join together for various purposes and purchase services (if they choose to) from regional centers that take the place of today's school districts.

«What Do Parents Think of Their Children's Schools: EdNext poll compares charter, district, and private schools nationwide,» by Samuel Barrows, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West and «How Satisfied are Parents from Various Backgrounds with Their Children's SSchools: EdNext poll compares charter, district, and private schools nationwide,» by Samuel Barrows, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West and «How Satisfied are Parents from Various Backgrounds with Their Children's Sschools nationwide,» by Samuel Barrows, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West and «How Satisfied are Parents from Various Backgrounds with Their Children's SchoolsSchools?

If Edison, which now works in various ways in nearly 1,000 schools and serves more than 300,000 students, were a public school district, I would be one of the longest - serving heads of a major school system in the United States (average tenure for the superintendent of a major system is less than four years).