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In this series of eight videos, the superintendents of these districts discuss details of their effort, lessons they have learned and advice they can offer to other districts.

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In addition to lenders, cities and other community groups sometimes offer no - or low - interest loans within redevelopment districts to encourage businesses to do such things as improve the façade of their storefront, improve the structural infrastructure of their place of business, or create jobs.

In December 2012, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, granted final approval of a $ 43 million settlement of individual actions against JPMorgan Chase and Bear Stearns, as well as numerous other providers and brokers, alleging antitrust violations in the market for financial instruments related to municipal bond offerings.»

District Church and so many others growing young offer integrated discipleship to teenagers and young adults that enables them to thrive and serve in our complex world.

He had sued The Mail on Sunday, and he might have taken heart when, early in August last year, Brian Davies, Auckland (N.Z.) district police commander, stated, «We have found that much of what was reported seems to have been founded on rumor and speculation which, upon investigation, has evaporated in a mishmash of contradictions and uncorroborated allegations... some witnesses had allegedly received offers of money and other inducements for their information.»

In addition to basketball, the new gymnasium could be used for volleyball, badminton, gymnastics and other programs that can not be offered in the Park District's 4,000 - square - foot activity room which has 8 - foot ceilings, she said.

If School District # 26 cancels due to snow, cold, or severe weather or any other reason, River Trails Park District will run a «School's Out» program offered at the Weiss Community Center from 7 am — 6 pm.

The school district uses a similar system as others to process electronic payments and offers automactic pay if your child's balance dips below a certain amount.

The Glen Ellyn Park District offers competitive soccer at a variety of age levels, along with opportunities to travel to compete against other area teams.

«Why can't the Park District offer pool memberships to its residents like the other districts do?»

lExpand an after - school supper program for the needy - now offered in the District, Maryland and 12 other states - to all states.

«We expect our fall registration to increase 10 percent «as new families move into the community and others hear about what the park district offers, Wolff says.

Church officials want to sell the property to finance expansion of other facilities and offered it to the Park District last fall for $ 1.55 million.

For example, CPS forbids the use of salt in the preparation of vegetables or other fresh food offered to students, although the district allows high levels of sodium in the processed foods it serves.

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchens.

Willow Pool closed last year, a move some area pool managers attribute to the growing competition from Lifetime Fitness centers, park district water parks and other health clubs that offer swimming.

Under CEP, schools or school districts where 40 percent of the student body directly qualifies for free meals (via food stamps or other nutrition assistance or welfare programs) may offer those meals free to all students.

BUFFALO GROVE — The Buffalo Grove Village Board this week balked at a plan to create a spa offering manicures, aromatherapy, acupuncture and other exotic treatments at the Buffalo Grove Park District Fitness Center.

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

We have compiled a list of some of our favorite school breakfast menus and resources — including our Beyond Breakfast Resource Center — here on the blog, so that you can see what other districts and organizations are offering to help school nutrition professionals create, build, and expand their school breakfast programs.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray joined Borough President James Oddo, Acting District Attorney Daniel Master Jr., Councilwoman Debi Rose and others to break ground on the center, at 126 Stuyvesant Pl., which will offer support for victim's of domestic violence and their families.

Organized through the Erie County Soil and Water Conservation District, this year's sale offers several varieties of conservation trees and shrubs, wildflower seed mixes and seedling packets, which have combinations of trees and shrubs chosen to attract, feed and shelter birds, butterflies and other wildlife.

Tenants and other constituents of Senator Espada's district are also angry by the disregard that their Senator has shown them by failing to open an office in his district where he can offer services to the constituents he claims to represent.

The District is offering many varieties of conservation trees and shrubs, wildflower seed mixes, and seedling packets which have combinations of trees and shrubs chosen to attract, feed and shelter birds, butterflies and other wildlife.

Located in the incredible Historic Bricktown Entertainment District, The Mantel offers a great setting for new couples to get to know each other.

Sweepstakes is offered only in the United States to legal residents of the 50 United States (and the District of Columbia) excluding Puerto Rico and other territories and possessions of the United States, who are at least 18 years old at time of entry.

Technology integration specialist Amanda Paquette offers a selection of web tools to help students share and collaborate with other classrooms in their building or district.

In addition to the responses described above, we find evidence of three other constructive competitive responses: expanding or improving district schools, programs or offerings (6 locations); improving district efficiency (5 locations); and supporting semiautonomous charter - like schools (5 locations).

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

In an effort to win some of them back, the district began offering à la carte services through satellite campuses at strip malls and other locations.

Having established that the form of parental school choice offered within school districts is a harmful way of ability tracking, Burris uses that example to tarnish parental school choice in its other forms of public charter schooling and private school vouchers as well.

Districts could address within - district inequities in lots of ways — they could offer higher salaries to teachers in poorer schools, they could have lower class sizes in poorer schools, or they could expand other services within poorer schools — but local teachers» union contracts often prohibit all of these policy options.

Instead of an impressionistic study of the sort offered by Mirel, the kinds of reports that would be helpful to education professionals, and ultimately to students, include evaluations of designs that track individual student performance year to year; the percentage of students reaching local and state standards; a more widely disseminated study of design implementation so others can benefit from lessons learned; and the establishment of a district - wide roadmap for bringing comprehensive school improvement to fruition.

97, ED.D.» 09, mentions recruitment trips to historically black colleges and universities, a «community - to - teacher» program that offers college graduates with a four - year degree a pathway to becoming teachers, getting successful high school students to consider careers in the classroom, and hiring teachers beginning in March instead of the summer like many other districts.

He offers lively, personalized examples of states and school districts (and employers) using test scores to decide whom to promote, whom to graduate, and whom to hire, while often ignoring other evidence of an individual's competence.

Zach Rahn, who runs Ashley Elementary, offers the example of a district initiative to create teacher leaders, who teach half time and coach other teachers half time.

These sites all offer users the ability to compare their school with others in the same school district or state (because standard tests in each state vary, it's difficult to make such comparisons across districts in different states), and a few rank schools based on test performance or other factors.

The San Francisco Unified School District teams up with the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco to offer high school juniors and seniors an opportunity to study architecture in combination with other academic subjects.

For other districts, the state continues to offer incentives to consolidate: For the first year after a consolidation...

If your school district doesn't offer eLearning courses, there are also several useful online communities where you can connect with parents to find other options.

Under a performance - based licensing regime, other providers, such as school districts, states, nonprofit organizations, and for - profit companies, could compete against universities for the opportunity to offer training that would help candidates earn their licenses.

San Antonio is one of a growing number of districts, in Texas and other states, that have decided in the past few years to offer complimentary cuisine to all students.

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She shares advice for other districts that want to offer their children an international education.

Minnesota's largest districts are pitted against school systems in other states that can afford to offer bigger salaries and better raises for top jobs.

During the 2012 - 2013 school year, Project RED will offer the Signature Districts customized guidance and collaboration opportunities to learn from each other.

Meanwhile, Fresno and other districts are providing their own training to bilingual teachers, or are working with universities and other organizations that offer specialized training.

The district also plans to offer time for AP teachers to collaborate with each other districtwide, he added.

In the absence of applications, districts that offer community eligibility in some or all schools and depend on income data to determine funding for other programs must identify alternative data sources, which are readily available.

In other words, teachers and parents who say their district is implementing the standards are the ones most likely to offer a critical assessment of their impact.