Sentences with phrase «other school districts like»

Johnson, who works with schools in the Charlotte and surrounding areas, says other school districts like Cumberland County are exploring the idea of creating a specific policy and examining how current state and federal law address the topic.

Clearly other school districts like Chicago don't believe compliance costs are a factor.»

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Create a mentoring program where Amazon engineers, economists, data scientists, accountants, and other professionals are partnered with hard science teachers in our school districts to help show kids what it's like to work in STEM;

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.

You've told us that Carpinteria is «an example of what other schools can do,» so how can I get my huge urban school district to serve food just like that?»

The group should meet regularly with each other and perhaps quarterly with the school district leader, explains lead author Elizabeth Budd, M.P.H. Tapping into existing committees and resources (like the Parent Teacher Association, physical education teachers, and parents and community members with pertinent knowledge or skills) for help also can be key.

But most of all, I wondered why no one seemed to be talking about taking the more moderate step — as some school districts already have — of getting dairies to lower the sugar content in the milk (and get rid of other objectionable ingredients like high fructose corn syrup and artificial flavors and colors) before we decide to ban flavored milk altogether.

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?

Like most other districts around the country, it features school food formulations of highly processed breakfast items like Pop Tarts, Cocoa Puffs Bars, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cerLike most other districts around the country, it features school food formulations of highly processed breakfast items like Pop Tarts, Cocoa Puffs Bars, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cerlike Pop Tarts, Cocoa Puffs Bars, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal:

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!

Under the settlement, the Park District will pay the school nearly $ 2 million and the school could apply for permits to use the field like any other group.

Some school districts, like SFUSD, allow their nutrition departments to run a deficit and cover it with money from the general fund, but other districts don't, and their nutrition directors have to find a way to make the school breakfast and lunch programs pay for themselves.

Several schools and hospitals in the Chicago area use sensory equipment to help people with disabilities regulate their emotions or stimulate their senses but the equipment is rarer in public recreational settings like a park district, said local occupational therapists and a representative from Flaghouse, the company that sold the sensory equipment to SEASPAR and other Chicago organizations.

Like many large, urban school districts, Houston ISD does almost all of its cooking at a huge central kitchen, with the food then trucked to our 300 individual schools for reheating and other final preparation.

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.

«Hopefully encouraging districts to invest in things like school resource officers and other security measures like door locks and cameras and so forth,» said Maziarz.

«I haven't seen anything like this,» said Hoffmann, who said he's conducted municipal audits for other Long Island towns and school districts.

«Well, I think that lawsuit is saying, hey, why don't the school districts have representation like every other municipality in New York state and like the rest of the country,» says Carlucci.

De Blasio has said a return to decentralized control could mean that some districts keep signature initiatives like pre-K for all and after - school and others don't.

Yes there are 5 major school districts in Cheektowaga: Cheektowaga Central, Maryvale, Cheektowaga - Sloan / JFK, Cleveland Hill and Depew, and that does not include the other districts that overlap into Cheektowaga, like West Seneca, Lancaster and Williamsville.

[I'd like him to succeed as well but his budget, like so many others, is largely based on screwing local governments and school districts.]

I'd like him to succeed as well but his budget, like so many others, is largely based on screwing local governments and school districts.

«Some of the other key pieces of legislation in this budget is continuing the monitor in the East Ramapo School District as well as a fund, a dedicated fund, of $ 3 million to keep full - day kindergarten, programs like music and art, as well as an increase in foundation aid of about $ 1 million for East Ramapo as well.

Tax cap supporters, meanwhile, say low inflation should be a signal for school districts to control their costs, just like other segments of the economy.

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

However, these upgrades could make it more economically feasible for the County to begin borrowing under its own authority once again like all other local governments and school districts including the City of Buffalo (which has a rating of A + one step below Erie County's new rating).

Silver wants to exclude from a cap some government costs — such as pension and health care costs — meaning town governments and school districts would only apply the tax limit to other parts of their budgets, like payroll or equipment, according to Brian Sampson, of Unshackle Upstate, a group that supports the tax cap.

He is the first child in our school district who has flower essences in the nurse's office for emergencies instead of meds like the other children.

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).

We asked half of our sample whether they would like to see funding for schools in their district increase, decrease, or remain the same, while we told the other half the current per - pupil spending in their district before we asked that question.

Congress should adopt a bankruptcy - like mechanism that permits school districts to petition for relief from vendor agreements, contractual obligations, and other impediments that constrain their efforts to improve schooling.

Innovations students take state exams, just like students at Salt Lake City's four other district high schools.

The education profession is not immune to larger economic forces, and, just like with all other employers, school districts don't hire as many teachers during recessions.

States like California and districts like Boston, Denver and Houston, among others, have been transitioning to a finance model that gives principals greater authority over their schools» budgets in exchange for being held accountable for student outcomes.

Perhaps some states would empower high - performing schools first, while others might put failing schools into governors» districts like the one currently proposed in New Jersey.

Like other schools in Aldine, Thompson Elementary also regularly administers its own tests to measure whether students are mastering the district's standards as well as the school's benchmarks.

Like a growing number of other school districts, Denver is coming to terms with the end of a court desegregation order that for years profoundly influenced, and often dictated, many of the decisions about education policy made there.

Berkeley's policy, like others in a handful of districts across the country, require school officials to consider all alternatives before they...

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.

The results put the district far behind other urban school districts, and behind even other midwestern industrial cities like Cleveland and Chicago (see Figure 2).

First, school districts are local governments and thus, like all other local governments, are subordinate to their states.

Some districts in the largely rural state have long - standing voucher - like programs, called «tuitioning,» in which they pay to enroll students at secular private schools or public schools in other districts when...

By the middle of year three, the district had pressured the school to begin using its core curriculum and, like other neighborhood high schools, administer biweekly benchmark tests based on it.

Under the rules of the program as approved by the legislature last year, the families of handicapped students would have been obligated — like other participating families — to pay any transportation costs for their children to attend school in a district other than the one in which they lived.

Joined by similar teams from seven other large districts, they camped out in dorm - like quarters while engaging in the kind of deep thinking about organizational change that, while common among captains of industry, is rare for most school administrators.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school syschools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sySchools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

The other 28 are irrelevant — even though they include populous giants like New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio — because they allow all publishers to come in and market programs directly to local school districts.

This could involve approaches to assessment and curriculum or organizational innovations like giving more site based freedom over budgets and personnel to other district schools, based on successful charter experiments.

School districts, much like other organizations, can be top - down with mandates and requirements.

Being a member of COSA was like being a member of a vast law firm with almost 3,000 partners committed not only to representing school boards and school districts across the country but also supporting other school attorneys.