Sentences with phrase «running a school district»

A school board is charged with the responsibility of running a school district, and the hiring of school administrators is an important part of that function.

Similarly, the trend toward bringing in outsiders to run school districts is now at least a decade old.

Those opportunities involved Yamashiro consulting for not one but two, state - run school districts.

The move toward hiring leaders who have not come up through the education ranks is «recognition that [running a school district] requires a real team of people with very different skills, including management skills of a scope and scale that might be found in individuals from outside education,» Seltz commented.

The complicated structure of federal education policy has thus created an army of Lilliputians who lock in the multitude of grants even though the work of keeping those grants coming often makes it harder to actually run school districts.

The nation's second state - run school district, Tennessee's Achievement School District oversees 12 schools in the city and plans to run more than 50, most of them within Memphis, over the next five years.

«We believe the judge in this case did not take into consideration the overwhelming amount of evidence that show that these statutes work very well all over the state in well - run school districts,» said Frank Wells, a spokesman for the California Teachers Association.

And I am confident Sue Townsend will do a great job running the school district for the next four years.

«For North Carolina, the Achievement School District would be just another business vehicle to establish more charter schools via a state - run school district that forces schools to be converted,» said Hoyt.

We run the school district in Newark, not them.»

Like those working in the city's public schools, advocates of a state - run school district that consists primarily of charter schools undoubtedly believe this will improve schools and help kids.

But district managers complain that the «fixed costs» associated with running a school district are hard to adjust when revenues drop.

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«None of you CEOs run your companies by committee, so why should we run a school district by committee?»

We are a team of educators, designers, technologists, curriculum developers, product specialists, operations experts, and implementation partners who have run school districts, created award - winning instructional programs, led large - scale deployments across the country, and trained thousands of teachers.

Running a school district is not without challenges.

The bill also would prevent the state from using vouchers and charters as school turnaround interventions, bar the creation of a state - run school district, and require districts and the state to negotiate any school improvement plan with the local teachers union.

Not exact matches

Indiana runs an academy where a school official in each district gets formal training in school safety.

CitySoft CEO Nick Gleason was a community and labor organizer in Oakland, Calif., and ran his own urban - development consulting company, serving nonprofits, foundations, school districts, and governments.

The prom king issue was ultimately resolved; now the school district has policies in place stating that you may run for whichever is more aligned to your gender identity.

If I were running the government, I would see to it that school districts that serve the poor would have a larger share of the tax revenue than school districts that serve the affluent, for in the poor districts there is far more ground to be made up to provide the open equality of opportunity, and equality of opportunity must be a part of every just society.

San Diego has the second largest school district in California, behind Los Angeles, where Meat Free Monday has been running in schools since March.

Middlesex County district attorney Thomas Reilly, a graduate of Boston College Law School, said that two of the players had bet against their own team in the Eagles» 45 - 17 loss to Syracuse on Oct. 26; news reports identified those two as sophomore running back Jamall Anderson and junior defensive end Marcus Bembry.

However, House Field is run by the city and school district so I can see it being problematic for a USL team to work out there.

Texas's reigning Class 5A Division II champ, Cedar Hill (3 — 0), one of seven schools in its eight - team district using the spread, runs 70 % of the time and uses senior quarterback James Hamilton as its primary ballcarrier (532 rushing yards).

From 56 - student New Harmony High in the utopian settlement of the same name, to sprawling Ben Davis High in suburban Indianapolis, with its largest - in - the - state enrollment of 2,798; from schools with picturesque handles like Turkey Run (enrollment 164) and Rising Sun (252), to consolidated districts that go by neologisms like Tri-West Hendricks (301) and Jac - Cen - Del (228), the eyes of March are on the tournament.

MF: As we continued to support schools with resources and tools to try and help them move to scratch cooking, we kept running into districts that wanted more and more connection with Ann and feedback from Ann.

As I reported here a few weeks back, the British celebrity chef ran into stiff opposition from the L.A. Unified School District when he tried to film season two of his Emmy - winning «Food Revolution» series there.

Back in February we ran across HCPS's Student Nutrition Service Facebook page and fell in love with their photos; we reached out, and Heather was kind enough to agree to sit down and answer our questions about how school breakfast is served in her district.

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«Our supper meal program is a branch of our school nutrition program in which we try to recruit existing after - school programs such as football teams, cheerleading programs, running programs, band and other programs,» explains Josh Mathiasmeier, director of nutritional services for the district.

Shaw said, however, that he does not believe the school districts would have the authority to hire people to run the parks.

The written report generated upon conclusion of the site assessment can be used by the district to support funding proposals to foundations for the kitchen equipment and staff training necessary to run a self - operated, cooked - from - scratch school meal program.

Today, school districts can no longer afford to run in the red.

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago owns the Sheridan Shore Yacht Club at 20 Marine Drive in Wilmette, and leases the building to Sheridan Shore, which runs the yacht club and sailing school on the property.

If School District # 26 cancels due to snow, cold, or severe weather or any other reason, River Trails Park District will run a «School's Out» program offered at the Weiss Community Center from 7 am — 6 pm.

The ABC / 25 Foundation (Arlington Heights School District 25) invites runners and walkers of ALL ages and abilities to participate in this fundraising event of a 5K Run / Walk and a 1 Mile Run / Walk that combines fitness and fun for the entire family!

Sharon — Oh, what I wouldn't give to have Ann Cooper running food service for our local school district!

Ann Cooper, who runs food service for our local school district, says you can't expect everything to improve overnight.

Now the director of Litchfield Elementary School District # 79, Schwake got his start in school foodservice by running for school board after his suggestion to implement school breakfast was met with resisSchool District # 79, Schwake got his start in school foodservice by running for school board after his suggestion to implement school breakfast was met with resisschool foodservice by running for school board after his suggestion to implement school breakfast was met with resisschool board after his suggestion to implement school breakfast was met with resisschool breakfast was met with resistance.

You will hear from a panel of your peers who have implemented and are successfully running school breakfast programs in their districts.

What is happening in District 59 is echoing throughout the suburbs and Illinois, puzzling state and federal officials who run the school lunch program.

Two days ago, the Los Angeles Times ran an opinion piece by Robert Gottlieb, director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College, with an update on school food in the Los Angeles Unified School Disschool food in the Los Angeles Unified School DisSchool District.

Indian Prairie School District 204, with schools in Aurora and Naperville, has run a lunch program in its elementary schools for years and upgraded the food choices in fall 2003.

School District 13 officials won't decide whether to give the district's Kids Club day - care program to the Park District until park commissioners promise to keep the program District 13 officials won't decide whether to give the district's Kids Club day - care program to the Park District until park commissioners promise to keep the program district's Kids Club day - care program to the Park District until park commissioners promise to keep the program District until park commissioners promise to keep the program running.

Of the 90 similar programs in the state in the 1989 - 90 school year, 29 were run by school districts and 61 by outside agencies in space provided by local schools, according to Illinois Board of Education records.

Others worry that athletic fields run by the park district might not be available for school events.

The Park District runs 44 indoor pools and 55 outdoor pools by itself or with the Chicago Public Schools.

At each school, Park District staffers run an after - school club until 6 p.m., ensuring that kids have a secure place to be all day while their parents work.

Running on school days from 3:30 to 6 p.m., the program will bus pupils at the Brook Forest Elementary School, 60 Regent Drive, to the Oak Brook Park District Family Recreation Center, 1450 Forest Gaschool days from 3:30 to 6 p.m., the program will bus pupils at the Brook Forest Elementary School, 60 Regent Drive, to the Oak Brook Park District Family Recreation Center, 1450 Forest GaSchool, 60 Regent Drive, to the Oak Brook Park District Family Recreation Center, 1450 Forest Gate Rd.