Sentences with phrase «say over school districts»

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The Pennsylvania school district that faced a social media backlash over news that it armed students with rocks to fight off mass shooters now says it will be adding good guys with guns for protection.

VICTORIA — Local MLAs say students in Victoria and Saanich will benefit from safer, more efficient and comfortable schools thanks to over $ 7 million in provincial funding for school upgrades in the Greater Victoria and Saanich School Distschool upgrades in the Greater Victoria and Saanich School DistSchool Districts.

By providing a tasting to families before the start of the school year, the district hopes to build support for the «envelope - pushing» items and win over even the pickiest elementary and middle school students, said Coletta Hines - Newell, the district's food service director.

Using the tasting to introduce and build support for «envelop - pushing» school lunches will hopefully mean winning over even the pickiest elementary and middle school kids, said Coletta Hines - Newell, the district's food service director who also creates the recipes.

«The Arlington Heights Park District has experienced a «recreation renaissance» of sorts over the past few years especially since opening the doors to the new Pioneer Park Community Center in 2008 and since unveiling the cooperatively installed and managed synthetic turf field with District 214 at Hersey High School in 2011,» said Maryfran Leno, Park Board President.

For Illinois schools, the ban's biggest impact would be the elimination of fried foods, said Vanover, who believes it would be too expensive for most districts to switch over to natural oils such as peanut or olive oil.

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..

In a statement released Tuesday, school district officials said they had met with Park District officials over six weeks and believed they had reached a tentative agreement for water district officials said they had met with Park District officials over six weeks and believed they had reached a tentative agreement for water District officials over six weeks and believed they had reached a tentative agreement for water storage.

Scheltens said the park and school districts have worked well together over the years, and the facility is important to the park district.

A gym teacher is now suing the park district, Schneider said, because a parks supervisor allegedly had him unlawfully arrested after the two disagreed over use of a soda vending machine at a school dance last year.

A growing number of cities, school districts and non-profit groups are offering meals over school breaks, said Crystal FitzSimmons, director of school programs for the Food Research & Action Center, another national group that works to fight hunger.

She said that negotiations are continuing with Roosevelt «s landlord, High School District 214, over the university «s bid to buy its Robin campus at 2121 S. Goebbert Rd., part of the former Forest View High School.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of over three - quarters of a billion dollars, a rise of about 3 percent over last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.

He also suggested consolidation of school districts and services, and he says schools superintendents, 40 % of whom make over $ 200,000 a year, should take a salary cut.

But Nolan, a Queens Democrat, says more questions need to be raised over the bill's impact on cash - strapped school districts.

Lavine, a former LaFayette School District superintendent, said she would seek mayoral control over the Syracuse City School District.

Governor Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of over three - quarters of a billion dollars or around 3 % from last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.

He said growth in property taxes skyrocketed by over 73 percent for New York school districts between 2001 and 2011 and 53 percent in counties.

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.

Yehuda Weissmandl, President of the East Ramapo School Board, says in a statement he welcomes the designation of Szuberla and Sipple as monitors for the district and that over the last 18 months, state education department monitors have been invaluable in helping the district meet difficult challenges and make significant improvements.

«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.

Lawmakers said they were still working out exactly how school aid would be distributed; Heastie said there was yet not a deal over how much money would flow through the Foundation Aid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed to restoring cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardest.

However, on other issues, Quinn hewed closer to the mayor's policies, saying that community education councils should «in some cases» not have veto power over co-locations in their school districts and that the next schools chancellor need not «necessarily» be an educator.

Governor Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of over three - quarters of a billion dollars, or around three percent from last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.

Some school groups said the funding was not adequate, and expressed loud concerns over a new requirement for larger school districts — and eventually all school districts — to submit plans to state officials detailing how they would allocate money on a school level.

While waiting for district - by - district allotment information, sources said Buffalo Public Schools are in line for a 3.36 percent school aid hike from the current year, up $ 6.8 million over Cuomo's plan in January.

Assemblyman Dov Hikind and a Jewish group criticized a state report on the East Ramapo school district, saying that the report's recommendation to install monitor with veto power over the school board is «unjust» and «an insult to the community.»

She has referred to the battle over charter co-locations into district schools, which critics say siphon away needed resources from district students, as a «Middle East war.»

School district shuts down information after Stoneman Douglas shooting Facing significant legal and political exposure over the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the district has tried to keep information from the public and put out untrue and misleading statements, frustrating parents who say this is the time for maximum transparency.

Tim Kremer, with the New York State School Boards Association, says the original deadline would have meant districts would have to come up with their evaluation system over the summer, which is a difficult time for school offiSchool Boards Association, says the original deadline would have meant districts would have to come up with their evaluation system over the summer, which is a difficult time for school offischool officials.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of $ 769 million, a rise of about 3 percent over last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.

Sources said the issue is personal to Silver, who was infuriated when city officials, over his objections, sought to put the Ross Global charter school in a public - school building in his Lower East Side district.

The text of the budget bill relating to school aid, the groups say, suggests that «no district would receive an increase in aid over what it received in 2014 - 15» if Cuomo's education reform agenda isn't included.

School Superintendent Ray Sanchez said: «In the past 10 years the district has swelled to over 5 thousand students.

Syracuse school board President Derrick Dorsey said he was still in shock over Superintendent Sharon Contreras» departure from the district.

Its analysis of local authority data suggests about 1,000 of the 2,277 local school planning districts will be over capacity by 2015 - 16, the BBC said.

«We've noticed that many charter schools open in areas where there's a concern over performance of district schools,» Reilly said.

«The governor plans for major interventions for the City of Buffalo school district as well as the school districts that are failing all over the state,» said Hochul during a recent appearance in downtown Buffalo.

Valley Stream School District 30's proposed tax levy increase of 13.71 percent is the second highest on Long Island, but schools officials said it's a «readjustment year» from the fallout over the Green Acres Mall and its tax breaks.

«It's a bittersweet situation, I think we have a person that has poured themselves into the Syracuse City School District over the last five years and have helped us move forward in terms of improving graduation rates, decreasing drop - out rates and getting our schools off the receivership list,» Dorsey said.

Other challenges, it said, included special schools, such as schools for the blind and the deaf, which were either closing down or about to do so, subvention not being released to the psychiatric hospital in Accra, nearly all statutory funds being in arrears and a significant number of public sector workers, including nurses and district chief executives employed by the government over a year ago not being paid.

Henry Hogo, assistant deputy executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, said his agency offers guidelines for choosing school sites, but there are no regulations since it has no authority over land use planning.

You might say that we actually have over 14,000 systems, which is the number of school districts in the country.

Providing a non-arbitrary comparison of schools on even one criterion will be nearly impossible...» He says that the agency's subjective measures of equity grant almost complete control to federal regulators over a district's administration, something that is at odds with the very structure of the American educational system and will surely damage local control.

When we talk to school providers there, they say they can still get charters authorized but the politics of district finance, combined with the saturation effect of having so many charter operators fighting over the same buildings, kids, and talent, are forcing them to look to other communities.

One of the first districts in New Mexico to switch over, the 558 - student Cimarron Municipal School District, changed to four - day weeks in 1973, and the schedule remains «overwhelmingly» popular with parents, said James Gallegos, principal of the Cimarron elementary and middle schools.

A suburban Cincinnati district's decision to close school for two Jewish holidays this month has angered a group of parents who say the accommodation gives preference to one religion over another.

«We are thrilled that the Ed School has selected us for the work that we have done over many decades — work that has included the creation of curriculum for classroom use, national surveys to document the extent of the problem, development of teaching training materials, and, when necessary, serving as expert witnesses in federal lawsuits when school districts have been reluctant to grant civil rights to their students,» SteinSchool has selected us for the work that we have done over many decades — work that has included the creation of curriculum for classroom use, national surveys to document the extent of the problem, development of teaching training materials, and, when necessary, serving as expert witnesses in federal lawsuits when school districts have been reluctant to grant civil rights to their students,» Steinschool districts have been reluctant to grant civil rights to their students,» Stein says.

Three pivotal school board members, who were elected less than three months ago on a platform of keeping the Minneapolis - based company in Hartford, said last week that their support for the experiment had withered during more than two months of negotiations over how much money EAI should receive from the district.

«I had this drive to know that there's millions of kids out there like me who are not served well by the existing system,» says Hay, who over his career worked in a range of environments from affluent communities to a struggling district turnaround school.