Sentences with phrase «often small school districts»

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But while studies suggest that salad bars can help boost children's consumption of fruits and vegetables, some school districts decline to install salad bars claiming they are unsanitary, especially for small elementary school students with active hands and faces that often come up short of the barriers that are meant to keep coughs and sneezes out of food.

Further, districts often compound these inequities by distributing a smaller share of unrestricted funds to the same schools that are shortchanged in salary dollars.What we don't yet know about school funding inequalities is whether and how these discrepancies have changed in recent years.

Lots of educators who decide to create small schools, often by negotiating special arrangements with the local school district, do so because they don't have any confidence that the system can be changed in any real way.

Such schools are generally perceived to be smaller, safer, friendlier, and, more often than not, a better place to learn than district schools.

But a small percentage of students are educated at private schools, most often because the district has deemed that facility to be the most appropriate and to provide the least restrictive environment, given the nature and severity of the child's disability.

Just by cutting one to two hours out of my office day to spend a few minutes in each classroom and hallway of my small school district, I've learned more about the little (but often very important) things going on than I would have learned from email, phone calls or hearsay.

That path is a limited replication of No Excuses schools that rely on a very unusual labor pool (young, often work 60 + hours per week, often from top universities); the creation of many more charters that, on average, aren't different in performance from district schools; districts adopting «lite» versions of No Excuses models while pruning small numbers of very low performing teachers; and some amount of shift to online learning.

spThanks to a multiyear initiative to use technology to help surmount the challenges often faced by the state's small, rural schools, Advanced Placement courses were offered for the first time this spring — via the Internet — in 26 districts

Federal School Improvement Grants are usually passed through the state and on to school districts, but small rural districts often don't have the capacity to administer the grants themsSchool Improvement Grants are usually passed through the state and on to school districts, but small rural districts often don't have the capacity to administer the grants themsschool districts, but small rural districts often don't have the capacity to administer the grants themselves.

One argument that is often made is that the size of the school district matters and that a smaller school district is forced to have more non-teachers because certain positions are necessary regardless of a district's size.

In my report with Kenny Feder, «Choice Watch,» over at CT Voices for Children, we reported that charter schools in CT tend to have smaller proportions of emerging bilingual children and children with disabilities when compared to local school districts, and are often more racially segregated than local school districts.

School librarians are often one of the few technology experts in small school districts, and essentially the library is often the heart of the sSchool librarians are often one of the few technology experts in small school districts, and essentially the library is often the heart of the sschool districts, and essentially the library is often the heart of the schoolschool.