Sentences with phrase «other school districts around the state»

(One answer: New York City would still prefer to avoid the belt - tightening that's already on the drawing board in other school districts around the state.)

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SNA's Keys to Excellence is a state of the art online self - assessment tool that allows you to compare your school nutrition program's performance with other districts in your area and around the country.

School districts and other state agencies around the country coordinate with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

I'm going to bring community leader, other elected officials at the local, state and federal level, have access to other financial and human resources to give the school board and the superintendent what's needed to turn the city around, which is to turn the school district around.

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

An estimated 150 teachers, school administrators, parents and others from around the state came to the conference at the University of Washington Tacoma to learn about charters, which are public schools that permit significant decisions to be made at a school level, rather than by a school district or state officials.

Charter schools, on the other hand, are typically free to operate outside the state parameters, but traditional districts also enjoy latitude around many issues bearing on teachers» absence behavior.

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«Gov. Larry Hogan has decided to take $ 68 million that lawmakers set aside for schools and use it to shore up the state's pension system instead — disappointing school officials in Baltimore and other large districts around the state.»

States and districts need to step up and have the political courage to close failing schools and let others try,» proclaimed U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (2009), announcing a $ 3.5 billion federal investment to turn around the 5,000 worst - performing schools in the country.

The district, with only one regular school bus and an annual budget of $ 1.5 million, still faces the same challenges as others around the state.