Sentences with phrase «over kids in their district»

«It's leading states like Georgia in the reverse way: Its locales don't want to send the local portion of their student funding to a state authorizer who has authority over kids in their district,» he said.

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In a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm, that additional food waste and expense for my district is likely to be considerablIn a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm, that additional food waste and expense for my district is likely to be considerablin - class breakfast is the norm, that additional food waste and expense for my district is likely to be considerable.

While Houston ISD's breakfast menu is used as a springboard for discussion in the piece, it's certainly not alone in serving kids too much sugar; similar breakfast menus can be found in districts all over the country.

In a district in which over 80 % of our kids qualify for -LSB-..In a district in which over 80 % of our kids qualify for -LSB-..in which over 80 % of our kids qualify for -LSB-...]

I've been vocal in support of the program because in a district with over 80 % of kids on free / reduced lunch, there's clearly a need.

Would the administrative costs in a district like mine, where there are over 100,000 elementary kids, be too high?

And in a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm among our 300 schools, paying for that 1/2 cup increase is likely to be a big drain on our school food budget.

This hilarious video was made to prep teachers in Kentucky's Henderson County Schools before they embarked on their one - day «Home Visit Blitz» to try to connect with the families of every student in their K - 12 district — that's over 7,000 kids!

Riverside gives admissions preferences to in - district kids over out - of - district students, except at its STEM school, where both enter the same lottery.

«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.

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

In Montana, among kids in grade 8 in larger districts, the power of poverty over achievement was 2.5 times greater than in smaller districts overall and three times greater in elementary - only districtIn Montana, among kids in grade 8 in larger districts, the power of poverty over achievement was 2.5 times greater than in smaller districts overall and three times greater in elementary - only districtin grade 8 in larger districts, the power of poverty over achievement was 2.5 times greater than in smaller districts overall and three times greater in elementary - only districtin larger districts, the power of poverty over achievement was 2.5 times greater than in smaller districts overall and three times greater in elementary - only districtin smaller districts overall and three times greater in elementary - only districtin elementary - only districts.

For all of the talk of TUDA gains over the last decade, an honest assessment of our current status can lead to only one conclusion: The pace of improvement hasn't been nearly fast enough, because a miniscule fraction of disadvantaged kids in urban districts are succeeding.

What's at stake is the classroom experience and outcomes for over 40 million kids, as states and local school districts find themselves caught in the middle of this debate and continue to face troubles transitioning to a complex new system.

Schools choose adults over kids Too many local districts are making the wrong decisions in their war against charters.

Baker acknowledges the controversy over whether reducing class sizes actually improves student outcomes, but asserts that classes should not be allowed to increase beyond 30 kids in a class in high poverty districts.

Our district is a tiny school district (just over 200 in PreK - 12), and the principal and I sometimes feel overwhelmed with the task of providing high quality resources to our teachers and for our kids.

Parent Trigger changes the dialogue from one in which district bureaucracies, including school boards, administrators, teacher unions and others fight over turf and economic interests to one driven by the question: «What is best for our kids?

This was an administrator top - heavy district, where four or five of the top administrators were making over $ 100,000 in those years, an exorbitant amount for a district that had fewer than 2,000 kids.

As Dropout Nation has reported over the past year, the Obama waiver gambit is already allowing 37 states and the District of Columbia to ignore poor and minority kids, rendering them invisible altogether, through such subterfuges as lumping all of subgroups into a so - called super subgroup category that obscures data on the performance of districts and schools in helping each and all kids.

The member district (5 — NW) with the worst schools — a region where there are five kids attending schools in the worst two categories for every one kid attending a school in the highest category — is the district where there is the most controversy over the upcoming election, and the only one featuring an incumbent.

I think it's also possible that — having watched a lot of school districts over the years — not having a moment at which you have to make a tenure decision could allow districts to just keep fairly mediocre teachers along, without doing the due diligence of making a decision in the early years that would protect kids from teachers just kind of hanging on.

When I and others (friend and collaborator Alan Gottlieb) have raised these issues over the last decade, many district leaders and school board members told us that these issues were too intractable to tackle.Housing patterns are hard to overcome, transportation too expensive, or that there were too few white kids in Denver to make it work.

«I've spent time in hundreds of different school models, if not a thousand, just given the roles I've had in education over the years, and I think you can become kind of numb or just comfortable with the status quo of classrooms in which kids aren't engaged, and the teachers have lost their mojo or love for teaching because they're given a scripted curriculum from their district that they have to follow, and they have no ability to be entrepreneurial or creative.»

The new kid on the block was the Argentinian entrepreneur Alan Faena, who presided over the grand opening dinner of the new Faena Arts District like an art world P.T. Barnum, dressed in a white suit and top hat.

At that time, I was substitute teaching all over San Juan School District where the first of my five kids was going to school, and I noticed, this was 37 years ago, and I noticed a handful of kids in every class where I was substitute teaching.

Many people with kids buy over priced houses in good school districts.