Sentences with phrase «other big school districts»

Not exact matches

The two - school district has just received two brand new salad bars, one sized for k - 6 students, the other for grades 7 - 12, and today is their big debut.

Other hotels to consider: the Metropolitan at the Nine, a luxury hotel - condo - restaurant complex, which is new, and a big deal for Cleveland; the new Hilton; and the Drury Hotel, because it's in a converted school district administration building and is all marble.

As you can see, the schools that benefit the most from competitive equity divisions are the high - enrollment, big schools of larger districts like Sacramento Unified, Stockton Unified, East Side Union High School District of San Jose and others.

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

Building a better nugget and adding more «whole grain» to pizza may sound like an improvement but what Dallas and Houston and every other school district needs to do is step back and look at the big picture!

It's one of the biggest concerns among lawmakers and public employee unions as well as advocates for school districts, hospitals and other public services.

De Blasio said Wednesday that the city's test scores beat out increases seen in the state's other «Big 5» urban school districts and stressed that the city is closing its performance gap with schools across the state in general.

The fast - growing Clark County, Nev., school district has named a new superintendent, while leadership changes in several other big - city systems, including New York and Pittsburgh, continued to unfold last week.

Numerous other big - city districts are in the process of closing troubled schools, including Detroit, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C..

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.

The parents union, along with the parent empowerment efforts of StudentsFirst's New York affiliate (which is helping families in the Big Apple's traditional district fight for school libraries as well as lobby for teacher quality and other reforms), is actively helping families do more than just have a voice.

But the nation's fourth - largest district, with over 350,000 students and an annual budget of over $ 5 billion faced a number of big challenges, among them, a growing principal shortage, a rash of underperforming schools, and a wide achievement gap between Miami - Dade students and students in other Florida districts.

In 2012, Chicago teachers — already the highest paid teachers in the country while working the fewest hours of any other big - city school district — went on strike.

New Jersey schools are in the throes of some pretty big changes in the classroom, some forced on them by the federal government, others by the state, and some coming from the districts themselves.

Forty - one states, Washington D.C. and a group of eight districts in California have been let out of some of the No Child Left Behind law's biggest requirements — getting 100 percent of students to proficiency in math and reading by the end of this school year, paying for tutors for students at low - performing schools and allowing students to transfer to other schools.

Alliance of Big City School Districts Aims for More Healthful Meals L.A. Unified and five others are striving to make wholesome food a national standard.

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My biggest recommendation is to collaborate with others to create rubrics that are specific to your school, district, and learning targets.

The fact that the AFT affiliate, like its counterparts in other districts, have the advantage of bodies on the ground — and in the case of race between Zimmer and Anderson, used it to their advantage — is another reminder that the school reform movement must do a better job of building grassroots support, especially among the 11.7 million single - parent families for whose children the failures of big - city districts such as L.A. Unified prove to weigh most - heavily.

The Coalition for School Reform's District 6 (East San Fernando Valley) runoff election coffers have been replenished thanks to big donations received from Los Angeles philanthropist Eli Broad and StudentsFirst, Michelle Rhee's education advocacy group, among others.

With many of our students coming from other participating districts, perhaps the biggest contribution PAC provides to The Sound School is our daily email communications.

As the former principal of this school, which follows the Big Picture Learning philosophy of — one student at a time — and seeks to connect students to their interests and passions, I know the other variables at play, e.g. over 75 % are chronically truant (not a new practice they develop but one that's existed for some time), thought the school serves about 140 students, it's not unusual that nearly double that figure are served in a given year (it's the nature of serving students in foster care and others that are highly mobile), over 2/3 are transfer students who were «counseled out» by other LAUSD district and charter schools.

While I have been looking at the big picture here, to be sure there are some school districts that are short on teachers and other districts may lack teachers in certain subject areas.

Here's a look at the two central questions posed by «The Bee Keeper,» the new book about Michelle Rhee: Why do D.C. schools perform so much worse than many other big city school districts?

And because librarians work directly with all teachers and all students, they have a big picture view that can make them major assets on building and district leadership committees that assess curriculum, technology, and other programs that affect the entire school community.