Sentences with phrase «rather than a school district»

What if cities (rather than school districts) were to create corporations, authorize them to do financing, and assign them the task of managing the public - school facilities portfolio so that both district and charter schools could be housed?

The Education Equality Index focuses on cities rather than school districts for several reasons.

Another proposal would require teachers to list their home address, rather than their school district address, when they apply for a state teaching license.

For example, the current teacher contract doesn't provide for bonuses, so signing and year - end bonuses may come from private donations, rather than the school district, he said.

Not exact matches

«It's appalling that students in the Vancouver school district will be stuck with leaking roofs and damp classrooms because the premier is playing politics rather than looking after the needs of aging school buildings in B.C.,» said New Democrat education spokesperson Rob Fleming.

The coalition recently sent out a booklet to all 14,700 public school districts in the country attacking those who contend that teenagers can and should resist or redirect, rather than act upon, their homoerotic desires.

Teachers and other staff in public schools are often moved from school to school when allegations emerge, rather than the school attempting to remove the teacher from the district.»

Though Wilma works in a public school district rather than a private catering service, I think you'll see that she and Justin share many of the same challenges.

Jessica Ortega, a senior at the Little Village school, said she thinks the district should incorporate organic foods, «and if that's not possible, our food should actually be cooked in the cafeterias rather than being brought in by trucks and having the lunch ladies just heat it up.»

Schools chief Jean - Claude Brizard upped the ante later in the evening on WTTW's «Chicago Tonight,» saying he would be willing to give elementary school teachers a 2 percent raise this year if it means the district could implement a longer school day this year rather than waiting until next year.

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..

Rather than the mass exodus from the NSLP implied by these stories, Woldow tallies up the schools in the districts mentioned in the AP piece and finds that they add up to a mere ten schools — out of the 100,000 schools participating in the program.

The latest attempt at reaching a storm - water agreement failed after the school district opted this week to proceed with the September plan, rather than to consider a proposed agreement with the Park District that was crafted with the assistance of medistrict opted this week to proceed with the September plan, rather than to consider a proposed agreement with the Park District that was crafted with the assistance of meDistrict that was crafted with the assistance of mediators.

«This is an issue we're trying to resolve,» said Michael Cook, a spokesman for the Las Cruces, N.M., Public School District, which he said was trying to make certain that any student who can't afford the main meal on the menu «is served some kind of alternative» rather than go hungry.

Last month, District 54 school board members suggested that rather than help pay for the new playground, they could improve the blacktopped play area at the school.

The open letter asks the organization to «identify practical and long - term solutions that serve both the needs of school districts and the health of our schoolchildren,» rather than legislatively mandated waivers and rollbacks at the expense of our children's health.

Aging infrastructure and equipment, much of it designed to heat or handle pre-packaged rather than fresh foods, pose significant barriers to school districts» efforts to adapt to the preferences and dietary needs of today's...

Aging infrastructure and equipment, much of it designed to heat or handle pre-packaged rather than fresh foods, pose significant barriers to school districts» efforts to adapt to the preferences and dietary needs of today's... Read More

Rather than attacking taxpayers by undermining the property tax cap, NYSUT and its members should be working with school districts and families to ensure that our children receive a world class education that is affordable.»

Off topic questions included: the ISIS in Iraq and potential threats to New York, his hair color in a World Cup themed picture, the City's negotiations with CW Capital concerning Stuyvesant Town, whether he concerned that religion - affiliated CBO's pre-K programs will involve some religious instruction or indoctrination, the Rent Guidelines Board and a possible rent increase, rating his administration on it's FOIL responsiveness, whether subway dancers are a «sign of urban decay», whether he is contemplating a special district for failing schools and whether there is symbolism is seeking to bring the Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn rather than Manhattan and whether he has coordinated that effort with Hillary Clinton.

The repeal bill would make school districts» use of state assessments in evaluating teachers and principals optional rather than mandatory, and would allow districts to use alternative exams of their own choosing, provided such tests were approved by the commissioner.

Nicoletti said he would partner with the Syracuse City School District to provide career preparation programs for students who would rather seek jobs in the community than go to college.

It is pretty sad that rather than helping the children in the public schools in this district be able to read, write or do simple arithmetic at grade level, it is more important for our disgraced assemblyman to provide basketball nets, rather than educational safety nets.

Rather than appropriate specific amounts for each of these, the Legislature writes formulas into state law — sending each district so many dollars for each elementary - school pupil, each hospital so much for a day of care for each patient, and so on.

Republicans defended the increase in charter school funding as part of an agreement included in a separate education bill (HB 7055) that will let school districts keep their local property taxes for maintenance and construction rather than share it with charter schools.

So rather than give up on school he enrolled in the Buffalo school district's Career Collegiate Institute, where he will earn a high school equivalency degree while taking classes to prepare him for college.

After the proposition passed, state union representatives immediately lobbied the state attorney general to issue a «clarification» explaining that performance pay actually meant an across - the - board bonus for every teacher in a school or district, regardless of performance, and that funding classrooms directly actually meant passing the funding through the district first so the district, rather than the school, can make the major funding decisions.

Choices for families who don't want to have to take sides in the charter wars: Some school districts have tried to see charter school operators as potential partners rather than competitors.

He helped 17 school districts implement the state's new assessment system — one of the first in the nation to measure students against a standard rather than a national norm.

In addition, it wasn't particularly well aligned with the district's other main accountability program, school probation, which focused on second - quartile students rather than the lowest - performing students in a school.

I. N. Berlin, a professor of psychiatry and psychiatric consultant to school districts in San Francisco, San Joaquin County, and Stockton, California, argued that some mental pathologies that were causal factors in teacher maladjustment and ineffectiveness in the classroom were, unfortunately, exacerbated rather than alleviated by teacher education.

The system attaches funds to individual students, rather than to schools or school districts, and then allows students to choose any public school in the district, with neighborhood students» having preference at each school.

States and school districts may find it tricky to navigate what is required and how money can be spent, which can lead to funds being used in «safe» and «permissible» ways rather than the ways that educators deem most useful.

Not enough districts offer mentoring or formal induction programs, and most districts throw teachers into the fire on the first day of school and expect them to sink or swim, rather than giving them lower - stakes practice time first.

Lecturer David Rose, Ed.D.» 76, hopes and believes that he and his colleagues are part of a revolution — a revolution called Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which is increasingly taking hold in schools and school districts across the country and seeks to design curriculum from the outset that can accommodate all types of learners, rather than retrofitting existing curriculums on an ad hoc, as needed basis.

In order to remove the confounding influence of unobserved factors that have an impact on both school spending and student outcomes, we calculate how much spending in a given school district would have been predicted to change due solely to the passage of an SFR, and use that prediction, rather than the spending change the district actually experienced, as our key variable.

With their schools acting as clients rather than dependents, districts would be forced to compete for them, thereby becoming more innovative and cost - effective.

Appears many school districts are jumping into blended (and online) learning from a fiscal motive rather than a pedagogical one.

The decision noted that IDEA requires only that a school district demonstrate progress toward meeting the goals of an IEP, rather than assuring that progress can be generalized in the home and other environments, and thus the district was not responsible for the costs of a residential placement.

In the absence of a sizable, well - organized and mobilized block of voters, the path of least resistance for most mayors is to focus on things that are within their control (like a school district), rather than on things are not (like independent education entrepreneurs).

But rather than having district leaders make those cuts from the top, adjusting to current enrollment becomes the responsibility of each school and program manager.

Rather than take on the difficult and challenging work of winning loyalty and enrollment from low - income parents, school districts face much more powerful incentives to fight legislative, legal, and public - relations wars.

Parents have exercised choice in selecting a charter or private - sector school rather than a district school, making it impossible to say whether parental perceptions of the school are caused by actual school characteristics in each sector or some other factor.

In other words, as a result of political opposition, the vast majority of school districts, even in conservative Texas, turned down extra money from the state rather than adopt merit pay.

Rather than write a new curriculum from scratch, Charleston County bought one from the Houston Independent School District.

States and school districts across the country are reevaluating the practice of educating young adolescents in stand - alone middle schools, which typically span grades 6 through 8 or 5 through 8, rather than keeping them in K — 8 schools.

Urban school districts spend significantly less per pupil on their high - poverty schools than their low - poverty ones, a fact that is routinely masked by school budgets that use average - salary figures rather than actual ones, a new paper suggests.

Sara Mead, a member of the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board and a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, adds that charters find it easier to fend off critics by operating in the inner cities rather than in the suburbs.

In Parents Involved, Scalia joined the plurality opinion of Roberts, who took the categorical view that race can never be taken into account, even when districts are trying to integrate schools rather than segregate them.

Rather than seeing themselves as adversaries to either unions or school districts, teachers who get involved in these groups tend to think of themselves as problem solvers.