Sentences with phrase «problems at district schools»

Meanwhile, parents» perceptions of the seriousness of problems at district schools and charter schools are equally varied.

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The piece doesn't offer much in the way of solutions, but I thought it did a great job of capturing the current, entrenched problems in school food, at least in large, urban districts like L.A. and Houston.

To remedy this problem, some districts, particularly those in large urban areas, have adopted universal, in - class breakfast programs whereby all students are able to obtain and eat a free breakfast in their classrooms at the start of the school day.

I've come to recognize that «school food» is a behemoth of an issue, with longstanding, complex problems that are rooted primarily at a federal — not district or school — level, and which are compounded by much larger societal issues relating to food production and consumption.

At the same time, the Chicago Board of Education and Park District Board are beginning high - level negotiations to resolve the problem and underlying conflict at Clemente and seven other city schools: two bureaucracies competing over the same space with no contract to guide theAt the same time, the Chicago Board of Education and Park District Board are beginning high - level negotiations to resolve the problem and underlying conflict at Clemente and seven other city schools: two bureaucracies competing over the same space with no contract to guide theat Clemente and seven other city schools: two bureaucracies competing over the same space with no contract to guide them.

Nina Hansen, vice president of operations for the Enosburg Falls - based Abbey Group, which runs the food service programs at 70 Vermont public and private schools, as well as schools in New York and New Hampshire, said these unpaid bills are a problem in many districts, but none of the schools her company serves would stop a student from eating because of it.

In light of reports in today's Albany Times Union that a 10th grade teacher at Albany High School asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany as part of a writing assignment, Councilman David G. Greenfield is calling on the school district to immediately terminate the teacher in queSchool asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany as part of a writing assignment, Councilman David G. Greenfield is calling on the school district to immediately terminate the teacher in queschool district to immediately terminate the teacher in question.

«I think this referendum is very important because this country had a lot of problems with the current system,» 27 - year - old Ozcan Ayata told CNN in Ankara Sunday after voting at a local school in the Sogutozu district.

At the same time, public schools in poorer districts are being asked to do more and more to help address the broader social and economic problems manifesting themselves among school populations.

Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School District.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School District.

A group of Brooklyn teachers, chapter leaders and UFT representatives met on June 7 at a local diner with City Councilman Vincent Gentile to make sure he understood the severe problems facing overcrowded District 20 schools and how much more severe those problems will become if the city lays off 4,200 teachers and cuts another 1,500 teaching positions.

At the press conference the Borough President will address Chancellor Klein's use of emergency powers, immediate steps the DOE must take with the P.S. 94 school community, and broader problems the Department must resolve that impact District 75 schools serving high - needs students citywide.

As the Syracuse City School District goes into its budget process, it's looking at a $ 24 million spending gap, a revenue problem stemming from years of stagnant state aid in the face of rising educational costs.

After adjusting for maternal IQ and education, characteristics of the home environment, school district, and number of siblings, the children who were exposed to greater than 5 parts arsenic per billion of household well water (WAs ≥ 5 μg / L) showed reductions in Full Scale, Working Memory, Perceptual Reasoning and Verbal Comprehension scores, losses of 5 - 6 points, considered a significant decline, that may translate to problems in school, according to Gail Wasserman, PhD, professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia, and the study's first author.

The Progressives» solution to the problem of scale that they had created was ability tracking at the school level and parental school choice through «exam schools» at the district level.

In sum, charter parents are more likely to identify serious problems with student behavior at their children's schools than are private - school parents, but less likely to do so than district - school parents.

District - school parents are generally more likely to say that various problems are either serious or very serious at their school than are private - school parents.

But the construction of the law presents a unique problem: it requires local school districts to inform parents of their options, yet doing so is at odds with districts» own interests.

School and district administrators can apply these suggestions to their own goals, including reminding parents and the community at large that the world is more technologically complex than it was when they studied math in high school and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving sSchool and district administrators can apply these suggestions to their own goals, including reminding parents and the community at large that the world is more technologically complex than it was when they studied math in high school and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving sschool and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving skills.

«We have no Y2K - related problems, all the schools are open, and everything's as it is supposed to be,» Joseph J. Kirkman, the director of educational technology services at the Broward County, Fla., schools, summed up in an assessment that was echoed in districts across the nation.

And lest you think this is a New York - only problem, Morgan Polikoff, assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California, recently filed over three thousand Freedom of Information Act requests simply to find out what textbooks are being used by school districts in four states: Illinois, Florida, New York, and Texas

In New York City, school officials have implemented a variety of special programs designed to attack the same problem — daily absenteeism runs at about 23 percent of the district's high - school students.

With the city of Philadelphia facing severe financial problems, a program that boosts salaries for some senior teachers in the city school district — at a cost totaling up to $ 16 million this school year — is raising some eyebrows.

The state, under Governor Davis, had fought the lawsuit, using an expensive private law firm to argue that the problems, if they existed at all, were the responsibility of local school districts.

That's a problem for the district and schools as they deal with finding and training replacements, let alone the parents and students at schools that are forced to deal with instability.

At first, it may seem as if immigrant youth are causing increased problems in the classroom, school, or district.

At its higher levels, the taxonomy «moves you more toward project - based learning that requires synthesis and problem - solving, as opposed to rote recitation, where you told me the answer, I memorized it and I recited it back to you,» said Santa Ana Unified School District Superintendent Rick Miller.

Three of these groups launched this year in board member Ref Rodriguez's District 5 to bring parents together to identify problems at their schools and form solutions.

«From the student town hall meetings came a review of the curriculum back at the district level and with the high schools and actual changes as to how [biology] is being implemented,» said Meloche, who noted that he may not have been able to understand the problem as well without talking to students.

A legislative audit has found problems with the way Kansas doles out more than $ 100 million annually to school districts for programs for at - risk youths because of inaccuracies in the counting of students who receive federally funded free lunches.

• District - school parents are more likely than are private - school parents to say that problems at their school are either serious or very serious; charter parents fall in the middle.

By the end of two years, the goal is for each state and district team to have well - trained leaders who have had extensive practice in effective problem - solving approaches and to apply them in ways that result in significant improvements in education leadership practices and student learning at the state, district, and school levels.

But once she began working as a middle school teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), she started to see the larger problems that existed in education at the system level, some of which affected her ability to be the best teschool teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), she started to see the larger problems that existed in education at the system level, some of which affected her ability to be the best teSchool District (LAUSD), she started to see the larger problems that existed in education at the system level, some of which affected her ability to be the best teacher.

What to watch: As indicated by state stakeholders, Illinois plans to develop a competitive grant program in which a district, school, or portion of faculty can propose a problem of practice important to teacher leadership at the school and / or district; develop a plan in which the problem of practice is investigated; and report findings.

http://www.rti4success.org/ Implementing Response - To - Intervention at the School, District, and State Levels: Functional Assessment, Data - based Problem Solving, and Evidence - based Academic and Behavioral Interventions Howard M. Knoff, PhD This groundbreaking new resource from national expert Howard M. Knoff, PhD, represents the most comprehensive, up - to - date single - authored volume on RtI and published as an e-book to minimize cost and improve access.

If charter, district, state, and civic leaders in Detroit can pivot quickly from their various postures over the Free Press series and start addressing the very real problems that parents face in district - run and charter schools alike, they will have a good chance at building a vibrant system of choice for their city.

«Failed oversight of school - level leadership by the former CEO led to the identified problems» at SciTech, the Recovery School District reportschool - level leadership by the former CEO led to the identified problems» at SciTech, the Recovery School District reportSchool District report says.

In many urban districts, more than half of teachers leave within five years, the research shows, and they abandon charter school posts at especially high rates, a significant problem given the growing presence of charters in many metropolitan areas.

Some states do better than others at helping disadvantaged districts get the money that they need, but many states still have school funding schemes that actually worsen the problem.

Many schools and districts are working on strategic plans that include at their heart a vision of graduating students who are lifelong learners, with indispensable «must - have» skills such as creativity, problem solving, and collaboration.

Across the nation, the leaders of major urban school districts recognize that lessons in creativity and imaginative problem solving must begin at an early age if our children are to thrive in school and in a global economy.

While the latest academic reports from the LA Unified school district were positive overall, school board President Steve Zimmer expressed frustration at some of the data presented at Tuesday's board meeting and said he foresees potential problems ahead.

Student research teams at all five of the city's high schools have studied the problems and are adding their voice to the district's redesign effort.

At Fenway High School in Boston, an in - district Pilot school with freedom over curriculum and assessment, the curriculum often embraces critical pedagogy, or examining problems within social contexts and power structures, taking constructive action, and refleSchool in Boston, an in - district Pilot school with freedom over curriculum and assessment, the curriculum often embraces critical pedagogy, or examining problems within social contexts and power structures, taking constructive action, and refleschool with freedom over curriculum and assessment, the curriculum often embraces critical pedagogy, or examining problems within social contexts and power structures, taking constructive action, and reflecting.

Here in Connecticut Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education has pontificated that there were very few technical problems with the Common Core SBAC test in Connecticut, although no independent analysis of the claim has been completed and even the claim that there were «few problems» is suspect considering that in at least two Connecticut School Districts students were given the wrong test and the community's entire results had to be thrown out.

Putting an end to traditional enrollment counts — and only providing districts with dollars based on whether the student is actually attending school — will force districts to look at the underlying reasons why chronic truancy is a problem in the first place, as well as address the issues by providing children with high - quality teaching and strong, college - preparatory curricula.

Responding to incidents of iPad misuse at district schools and widespread public criticism over problems with the rollout, the LA Unified board yesterday approved setting a special meeting later this month to «publicly grapple» with iPad issues.

Only now, in the aftermath of the race, are some of the most intriguing issues — controversial changes made at some district schools, budget problems, and campaign strategy — being unearthed.

The abuses alleged in the testing process appear to be more a problem related to constant practice and benchmark testing at the school district level than problems with the requirement of the state accountability system, which are benign by comparison.