Sentences with phrase «relatively small school district»

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Forty years ago, The Nutrition Group began as a relatively small company that provided meals for summer camps, senior congregate dining programs and a few school districts in Pennsylvania.

Even for parents in relatively small suburban school districts, such as those in Evanston, the school food system can seem too big to change.

The district awards a single food service contract for its 600 schools, discouraging the kind of relatively small, nimble operation Boundas runs.

In this relatively new and small school there is a special education teacher, psychologist and therapists made available through collaboration with the public school district.

For all three studies, Mathematica's research team effectively recruited enough districts, schools, and teachers to participate, ensuring the analysis could detect even relatively small impacts on student outcomes.

These relatively small, fiscally independent school districts implicitly competed with one another to attract residents.

But if the spillover effects of urban charter schools on district schools are confined to relatively small neighborhoods, then findings from prior analyses may well be underestimates.

«The charter school industry has targeted our relatively small urban district with an over-saturation of charters that causes a financial drain, without concern for the impact on the majority of students who will continue to attend the public schools.»

Data coaches are available in a relatively small proportion of schools and districts, but among principals who have access to data coaches, 71 % say they have improved student learning.

The District is a relatively small city and allows its students to ride Metrobus or Metrorail at no cost through the Kids Ride Free program, but does not offer public school transportation.

On cross examination, plaintiffs» attorney Marcellus McRae tried to chip away at the heft of Fraisse's testimony by having the witness concede that the districts he led were relatively small with few schools and had student populations that were largely white, with much smaller percentages of blacks and African Americans.

Given the relatively small number of students moving back and forth between charter schools and district - managed schools, it is unlikely these students would have a large impact on the overall graduation rate.

While the gap among special education students was far smaller — 17 percent for charter schools and 21 percent for the district — Stutman contended that charter schools have relatively few students with serious disabilities.

A relatively small slice of overall financing for K - 12 schools — just about 10 percent — comes from Washington, D.C. Schools across the country depend much more on state and district dschools — just about 10 percent — comes from Washington, D.C. Schools across the country depend much more on state and district dSchools across the country depend much more on state and district dollars.

Second, the school district applies strict standards for teacher qualifications; and lastly, the PK programs have relatively small class sizes.

However, here in Connecticut, relatively small amounts of state money have been allocated to help the state's local school districts pay for the tremendous costs associated with ramping up and implementing the Common Core SBAC testing scheme.

In the round - two scramble for $ 3.4 billion in federal Race to the Top Fund grants, the need for school district and union buy - in — a relatively small, but important part of any winning formula — poses a policy puzzle for the competing states.

This was particularly so for a relatively small group of «affiliated charters,» which are unionized, district - run schools that operate with some degree of autonomy.

Tom did an excellent job of finding comparables for what must have been a relatively difficult property to appraise: a small, older home in a good school district, situated in a once semi-rural neighborhood that is now becoming attractively developed.