Sentences with phrase «over a school district who»

And that is why you have people elected like Ed Day because people outside of Ramapo who have not seen the growth of the religious communities in their neighborhoods yet, they still understand what's happening in East Ramapo and they know that it's fundamentally wrong that people would take over a school district who don't send their children there and then deny minority students a fair education.

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Using the tasting to introduce and build support for «envelop - pushing» school lunches will hopefully mean winning over even the pickiest elementary and middle school kids, said Coletta Hines - Newell, the district's food service director who also creates the recipes.

For Illinois schools, the ban's biggest impact would be the elimination of fried foods, said Vanover, who believes it would be too expensive for most districts to switch over to natural oils such as peanut or olive oil.

And, just as you say, the good news is that some school districts are also following suit, so that kids who buy school lunch rather than bringing from home are more likely than ever to see whole fruit over canned, etc..

The transition has already begun for Lori Bein, who in the next six months will prepare to take over as Arlington Heights School District 25 superintendent.

Your school district will likely have a supervisor over the cafeteria staff who could obtain ingredient information.

The training began with a core group of 120 employees over the summer in an effort to ensure that 30 schools across the district started the school year with personnel who had participated in the training.

Carranza, who has been superintendent of the Houston Independent School District for the past 18 months, will take over as New York City schools chancellor on Monday, April 2.

Fariña was the one who publicly answered a slew of specific questions about individual schools in senators» districts over the last year.

The party executive committee, at a nominating convention at Wisdom Lane School in Levittown, backed Blakeman, a former presiding officer of the county legislature, over Frank Scaturro, a New Hyde Park attorney who is making his third run in Nassau's 4th District.

Waronker, who took over as schools chief on June 2, contended in that letter that his attempts to turn around the struggling district have been undermined by the board's three - member majority.

In math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districts.

In ELA this year, the percentage of all test takers in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased over last year in each of the Big 5 City School Districts.

Ivan Lafayette, the former legislator who served the Jackson Heights and Woodside area for more than three decades, has endorsed school teacher and activist Daniel Dromm over incumbent City Councilwoman Helen Sears (D - Jackson Heights) in the race for the 25th District seat.

But she resigned in protest because she didn't like the way the issue was handled by the school district, which had been facing mounting pressure over the past couple of weeks from parents who wanted to retain Kaleida's longtime pediatric nurses.

And while the ethnic background of those committing crimes involving gambling, loan sharking, drug dealing and prostitution has changed over the decades, a recent bust by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Westchester District Attorney Anthony Scarpino was old school, with the arrest of 10 people who all had ties to the Lucchese crime family.

The Utica City School District settled a lawsuit over its treatment of young refugees, who, the suit filed last year by NYCLU charged, were being excluded from the city's lone high school because of their age and because they did not speak EnSchool District settled a lawsuit over its treatment of young refugees, who, the suit filed last year by NYCLU charged, were being excluded from the city's lone high school because of their age and because they did not speak Enschool because of their age and because they did not speak English.

Sen. Marc Panepinto, who is no fan of the push for mayoral control over the troubled Buffalo public school district, suggested during a CapTon interview last night that there are forces bigger than a certain local assemblywoman behind the effort.

School district shuts down information after Stoneman Douglas shooting Facing significant legal and political exposure over the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the district has tried to keep information from the public and put out untrue and misleading statements, frustrating parents who say this is the time for maximum transparency.

Sources said the issue is personal to Silver, who was infuriated when city officials, over his objections, sought to put the Ross Global charter school in a public - school building in his Lower East Side district.

In the seventh change of superintendents in eight years, the board chooses Susan Johnson, a two - time former Hempstead schools chief who unsuccessfully sued the district over her firing in 2005.

The leader of the Buffalo teachers union is outraged over the Buffalo School District's Sit and Stare policy for students who opted out of state assessments this week.

Should Paladino win his appeal decision and return to the school board, it raised questions over who would truly represent the Park District.

Local school districts prefer to analyze their August graduation rates, which include students who were unable to graduate with most of their peers in June but made up the necessary credits over the summer.

The two candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for the First Congressional District seat in a primary argued over who has better job creation ideas during a debate held by the Southold Democratic Club Tuesday night at Southold High School.

So the 11th grader, who is gay, sued McKinley High School and the Buffalo school district over the right to start a Gay - Straight Alliance at the school on Elmwood ASchool and the Buffalo school district over the right to start a Gay - Straight Alliance at the school on Elmwood Aschool district over the right to start a Gay - Straight Alliance at the school on Elmwood Aschool on Elmwood Avenue.

Moskowitz has proved a polarizing figure not only within City Hall and the city's district schools, but also among some charter leaders who privately resent her total political dominance over the city's charter sector.

People - it is one race in a heavily Republican district - this means nothing for the November elections - although, if the dems put up somebody who was accomplished more than a school teacher - they could have won this seat - and it is pretty pathetic that a former congressman only won by 5 % over a school teacher - so you republicans, I wouldn't be jumping for joy

The petition, which was posted on the Power of Ten's website and has been signed by over 4,000 people, was submitted to Legislator Ellen Jaffee, who will deliver it to Education Commissioner John King at the capitol building, a move made to raise awareness for issues in the troubled school district.

This salary is of course being paid by the same taxpayers who a week ago voted to terminate numerous teachers in the Clarkstown School District and lay off over 50 Teaching Assistants.

The parents of a 13 - year - old girl who committed suicide in November after being bullied for two years are suing her school district over a wrongful death A young woman has died in hospital days after a fiery South Coast crash killed both of her parents and left her sister critically injured.

For example, in a forthcoming analysis in three school districts where it was possible to track teachers» student achievement growth over many years, Doug Staiger and I found that of those teachers who were in the bottom quartile of value - added in a single year, 55 to 65 percent were in the bottom quartile over their careers and 82 to 87 percent were in the bottom half.

The district also repurposed an old golf cart — adding coolers, heaters, and ice bags — to bring dinner to students at high poverty schools who participate in after - school activities that may be spread out over a large campus.

The fiery California atheist who last week lost his bid at the U.S. Supreme Court to get «under God» stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance vows to continue the fight with new plaintiffs, preferably in cases against school districts all over the country.

He glosses over national policy and rarely examines the functions of state boards of education, district officials, and school principals, who all play a significant role in what products and services are adopted and used in schools.

In one district, principals who transfer to struggling schools could earn up to an additional $ 60,000 over five years.

A suburban Cincinnati district's decision to close school for two Jewish holidays this month has angered a group of parents who say the accommodation gives preference to one religion over another.

The law mandates the awarding of legal fees to the parents of handicapped children who prevail over school districts in special - education «actions or proceedings.»

Kim Poore, who teaches K - 5 students with behavioral and emotional disorders in South Carolina's Lancaster County Public School District, tells us that her class has led the school in a morning warm - up routine broadcast to classrooms over closed - circuSchool District, tells us that her class has led the school in a morning warm - up routine broadcast to classrooms over closed - circuschool in a morning warm - up routine broadcast to classrooms over closed - circuit TV.

But even with new district leadership in St. Louis, it is unlikely that students will see much change in the quality of instruction as the public school cartel gears up for its next political battle over who gets what, when, and how.

Funding gifted education is thus left largely up to school districts, which are hard hit by falling property taxes and looking to cut budgets without reducing the number of kids who get over the minimum - proficiency bar.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

Three pivotal school board members, who were elected less than three months ago on a platform of keeping the Minneapolis - based company in Hartford, said last week that their support for the experiment had withered during more than two months of negotiations over how much money EAI should receive from the district.

That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.

It has entirely closed the graduation - rate gap between white and minority students, even as the percentage of nonwhite students in the district has doubled to 84 percent and the percentage of students who receive free and reduced - price school meals has climbed over 30 percentage points to 74 percent.

«I had this drive to know that there's millions of kids out there like me who are not served well by the existing system,» says Hay, who over his career worked in a range of environments from affluent communities to a struggling district turnaround school.

It's sadly familiar turf for district and school leaders, who faced the same concerns after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, stirring calls for beefed up school security and debates over gunschool leaders, who faced the same concerns after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, stirring calls for beefed up school security and debates over gunSchool in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, stirring calls for beefed up school security and debates over gunschool security and debates over gun laws.

Eighth graders who were 15 or over were placed in district transition schools.

It also includes heroes, of course — Mrs. Henry, Ruby's first grade teacher; the Foremans and Gabrielles, who endured threats and taunts for keeping their children in school; U.S. District Judge J. Skelly Wright, who continuously blocked the efforts of the segregationists; and the neighbors who stood guard over the Bridges» house at night.