Moreover,
the quality of district schools can vary significantly, and the schools to which students from low - income families are generally assigned tend to underperform significantly on average.
A visit to the district's web site for enrollment reveals numerous materials touting
the quality of district schools.
Not exact matches
Over half
of black children in public primary and secondary
schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city
school districts, where the
quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter
of total enrollment.
• increase public funding for after -
school programs • serve suppers instead
of (or in addition to) snacks • recruit more
school districts to provide after -
school suppers and snacks • support and expand year - round participation by integrating the Afterschool Supper Program with the Summer Food Service Program • streamline and simplify the Afterschool Supper Program • serve meals during weekends, holidays and unanticipated
school closures; and • improve meal
quality
Sarah Worden is the Director
of Quality Assurance & Training for Southwest Foodservice Excellence (SFE), supporting over 100 school districts nationwide to ensure quality and consistency in all facets of the operation including, regulatory compliance, culinary standards, program marketing, and menu pl
Quality Assurance & Training for Southwest Foodservice Excellence (SFE), supporting over 100
school districts nationwide to ensure
quality and consistency in all facets of the operation including, regulatory compliance, culinary standards, program marketing, and menu pl
quality and consistency in all facets
of the operation including, regulatory compliance, culinary standards, program marketing, and menu planning.
But instead
of trying to bridge that gap by fighting for funding and other support for struggling
school districts, the SNA, which claims in its mission statement to be «committed to advancing the
quality of school meal programs,» chose to take the easy way out.
Kitchen equipment upgrades are another hot topic in the news, and
districts from New York to Dallas and beyond are seeking the resources necessary to continue to improve the
quality of school meals.
Child Nutrition Services - Office
of Superintendent
of Public Instruction (OSPI) Child Nutrition Services (CNS) assists
school districts and other program sponsors in providing
quality nutrition programs that promote life - long healthful living while providing nutritious meals each day that prepare children for learning.
Comprehensive Health Policies: The
District of Columbia enacted a law establishing a Healthy
Schools Fund that includes directives to prohibit vehicles from idling near schools, implements the EPA's Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools programs, and requires a plan to operate school health centers b
Schools Fund that includes directives to prohibit vehicles from idling near
schools, implements the EPA's Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools programs, and requires a plan to operate school health centers b
schools, implements the EPA's Indoor Air
Quality Tools for
Schools programs, and requires a plan to operate school health centers b
Schools programs, and requires a plan to operate
school health centers by 2015.
The
school district's efforts to buy better
quality ingredients from local businesses fit in well with the city
of Austin's Good Food Purchasing program, an initiative to harness the buying power
of big institutions to benefit the local economy and support the city's sustainability goals.
Local
school districts have been improving the
quality of food they've been serving for years, but Tanner wanted to see the
district leverage its considerable buying power to serve higher
quality food to more students, more consistently.
The Park
District,
School Districts 21, 25 and 59 and the Village of Arlington Heights have worked together to provide quality before and after school
School Districts 21, 25 and 59 and the Village
of Arlington Heights have worked together to provide
quality before and after
schoolschool care.
«While there has been a slight decline in participation, it does not reflect the measurable and positive gains we have made as a
school district in making improvements to the nutritional
quality of our
school breakfast and lunch programs.»
Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee said the changes would «prevent overly burdensome and costly regulations and to provide greater flexibility for local
school districts to improve the nutritional
quality of meals.»
«Our goal as a department and a
district is to make sure the last kid has the same choices as the first in the variety and the quality,» says Craig Schneider, director of nutrition for the Poudre School D
district is to make sure the last kid has the same choices as the first in the variety and the
quality,» says Craig Schneider, director
of nutrition for the Poudre
School DistrictDistrict.
These include encouraging eligible afterschool programs to maximize service by providing suppers instead
of or in addition to snacks, recruiting more
school districts to provide afterschool suppers and snacks, simplifying the administration
of the Afterschool Supper Program, serving meals during weekends, holidays, and
school closures, and improving meal
quality.
Since the 2012 - 13
school year (SY),
districts nationwide have raised the nutritional
quality of their offerings across these venues to better support children's health, readiness to learn, and lifelong eating habits.1 Multiple studies show significant progress toward these goals: Kids are selecting more nutritious meals and eating more fruits and vegetables.2 (See Figure 1.)
Schools can serve healthy lunches, but whether kids will eat them is a question that has been asked often since the 2012 - 13
school year, when
districts across the United States raised the nutritional
quality of meals to meet updated national standards.
Jean Ronnei, director
of school nutrition for the St. Paul Public
Schools in Minnesota, said the
school district purchased high -
quality equipment in bulk to ensure that all designated equipment funds were used effectively when available.
Design, Setting, and Participants This descriptive, longitudinal study examined changes in the nutritional
quality of 1741630
school meals at 3 middle
schools and 3 high
schools in an urban
school district in Washington state.
This longitudinal study in 3 middle
schools and 3 high
schools in a large, urban US
school district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stan
school district in Washington state compared the nutritional
quality of student
school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stan
school lunch food selections before and after the implementation
of the new National
School Lunch Program meal stan
School Lunch Program meal standards.
This descriptive, longitudinal study examined changes in the nutritional
quality of 1741630
school meals at 3 middle
schools and 3 high
schools in an urban
school district in Washington state.
The six
districts formed the Urban
School Food Alliance in 2012 to combine their purchasing power
of $ 520 million to force lower prices on better
quality food, supplies and more environmentally friendly packaging and cutlery.
We saw a tremendous number
of high -
quality applicants who want to work for the Cherokee County
School District,» said Rick Beaulieu, Chief Human Resources Officer.
I don't envy the task
of a trying to ensure
quality control at 300 local
schools, and I'll write more about the issue
of on - site
quality control as I learn more from my
district.
Five years ago, when Chicago became the largest
school district in the nation to privatize its meal program, city officials said the initiative was designed to improve the
quality and wholesomeness
of student food.
Ruth Jonen, food services director for Palatine Township High
School District 211 in Chicago's northwest suburbs, defended the
quality and safety
of foods served in
schools, saying they «by and large use the same food distributors as the restaurant down the road.»
The best thing about Lansing «is the harmony and the
quality of education in the private and public
schools, «says Paul Burris, president
of the Lan - Oak Park
District.
None
of this is to say that a meal program which manages to serve better
quality, scratch cooked food to students could never be replicated elsewhere, or scaled up to a larger
school district.
«In our seven years at D.C. Public
Schools, we have significantly increased the
quality of food service while saving the
District millions
of dollars,» he said.
«Secretary Duncan's report saying New York is on the watch - list for failure is yet another warning that the inability
of school districts across the state and their unions to come together has jeopardized the
quality of our kids» education,» Cuomo said.
The pro-
school funding group Alliance for
Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo
of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions
of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund
schools in poorer
school districts.
Billy Easton
of the Alliance for
Quality Education said «the gap between rich and poor
school districts is growing under Gov. Cuomo.»
As part
of its initial consolidation
of pre-kindergarten programs, the Executive Budget would require
schools districts to «agree to adopt approved
quality indicators within two years.»
She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for
Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for
schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white
districts over poor areas with people
of color.
«The
quality of education for thousands
of students in a
district could be jeopardized over the mere misfiling
of paperwork,» said David Albert, a spokesman for the New York
School Boards Association.
Nixon has been very close with the Alliance for
Quality Education, an organization that has been pushing the state to fulfill the terms
of a lawsuit over equitable funding for
school districts.
The Alliance for
Quality Education has been touring
schools around the state to document what they say is the erosion
of districts in economically depressed areas.
The rally, organized by the Rise and Resist and the Alliance for
Quality Education (AQE) in recent weeks, is part
of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's
school districts to ensure all
schools can provide students with a «sound basic education.»
The Alliance for
Quality Education is firing back at Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who this morning accused
school districts of playing politics when they say his proposed funding cuts would force teachers to lose their jobs, hurting kids in the process.
State Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. says he is taking the unprecedented step
of forcing Buffalo to send students from two high
schools to take classes outside
of the
district because the city appears «incapable»
of running «
quality programs» there.
«While the constraints
of the levy cap have challenged
school district operations, most have managed without a significant impact on credit
quality.
About Mount Vernon City
School District: With more than 8,000 students in 16
schools, the Mount Vernon City
School District is committed to providing a
quality education to its children as well as developing programs that meet the diverse academic and social needs
of its students.
«
School districts worked hard under very trying circumstances to make sure the budgets they presented to voters balanced educational
quality with the very real concerns
of local taxpayers,» said NYSSBA Executive Director Timothy G. Kremer.
The Daboase Secondary Technical
School in the Wassa East
District of the Western Region, has had to compromise the
quality of academic work and learning conditions in order to provide makeshift boarding facilities for its students.
The pro
school funding group Alliance for
Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo
of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions
of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund
schools in poorer
school districts.
With more than 8,000 students in 16
schools, the Mount Vernon City
School District is committed to providing a
quality education to its children as well as developing programs that meet the diverse academic and social needs
of its students.
The Alliance for
Quality Education looked at the
school aid in the state budget allotted to 161
of the poorest
schools among the over 700
districts in New York.
Alex Trikalinos, executive director
of the state's Office
of Educator
Quality & Professional Development, said at the meeting that, under the repeal bill,
school districts could find themselves in a situation where «students would essentially be double tested.»
As superintendent
of the LaFayette Central
School District, she's focusing on school quality and
School District, she's focusing on
school quality and
school quality and crime.