Sentences with phrase «school district efforts»

«Not only does the legislation implement a toothless teacher evaluation system, the bill could jeopardize school district efforts to put great teachers in every classroom,» said Tim Melton, vice president of legislative affairs for StudentsFirst, a Sacramento - based national educational advocacy organization.

Since 2000, the foundation has invested $ 2 billion in innovative school models, improved systems for data and accountability, and school district efforts.

Bobby Jindal's Push for Choice: While Dropout Nation has devoted plenty of space to reform efforts in other states, it hasn't taken as much notice as it should about what is happening in Louisiana outside of the Recovery School District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school choice.

Not exact matches

The alarm is prompted, of course, by the efforts of school districts to teach students that evolution is a theory.

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The district is considering supporting a zone of schools to pilot this effort.

For the Chicago Public Schools, the empty seats undermine efforts to boost achievement and cost the district millions in attendance - based funding.

Guidance Materials: Guidance for the Development of California School Wellness Policies (2005), developed in a collaborative effort between the Department of Education and other organizations, provides districts with suggestions and concrete recommendations for meeting Section 204 requirements.

Soon after the Civil Eats piece came out, four Nutrition Services employees devoted what must have been considerable time and effort (not to mention the taxpayer dollars that directly pay their salaries) to write a scholarly article for the Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk entitled «Sugar In School Breakfasts: A School District» s Perspective.»

Chris has his own blog, as he describes below, and I asked him if he would be willing to share here his efforts to try to improve this situation in his Iowa City school district, where he is now the parent of three children and teaches legal writing and analysis at the University of Iowa College of Law (but the opinions he expresses here are entirely his own).

Tim's efforts extended beyond the school districts.

Schools and districts in Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah can apply NOW for breakfast - in - the - classroom grant money to cover the upfront costs often associated with the startup and implementation of breakfast in the classroom and «grab n» go» programs, such as purchasing equipment, outreach efforts to parents, program promotion, and other related expenses.

Win recognition for your school or district by demonstrating your collaborative efforts to create, enhance, or expand your School Breakfast Prschool or district by demonstrating your collaborative efforts to create, enhance, or expand your School Breakfast PrSchool Breakfast Program.

Children's Hunger Alliance consults with local school districts to improve access to breakfast and can also provide financial grants to support expansion efforts.

Due to her generous and heartfelt efforts across the district and in her community, the non-profit School Nutrition Foundation (SNF) has recognized April as one of five 2018 national School Nutrition Heroes.

This project created Farm to School Programs in Auburn and Renton School Districts and expanded the existing successful Farm to School Program in Kent School Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sSchool Programs in Auburn and Renton School Districts and expanded the existing successful Farm to School Program in Kent School Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sSchool Districts and expanded the existing successful Farm to School Program in Kent School Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sSchool Program in Kent School Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sSchool Distirct to increase education efforts and purchasing of local, fresh produce for school meals and sschool meals and snacks.

In an effort to attract more students to try school meals and welcome them in district cafeterias, food service professionals have been creating exciting food art.

School food efforts — governed at the district, state and federal level and implemented by each separate district — must intersect and connect with local food, public health, hunger and access, education and agriculture efforts for farm to school to suSchool food efforts — governed at the district, state and federal level and implemented by each separate district — must intersect and connect with local food, public health, hunger and access, education and agriculture efforts for farm to school to suschool to succeed.

With roughly 68,000 students, the Nutrition Services Department for Douglas County School District (CO) is quite busy, especially with their vast efforts to incorporate local ingredients on menus!

So, in an obvious effort to undo some of the reputational damage, LAUSD's school board eventually voted on and approved a district - wide ban on flavored milk.

In partnership with our good friends at the Walmart Foundation, the AASA is providing school districts the opportunity to apply for school breakfast «mini-grants,» in an effort to increase school breakfast participation using alternative breakfast strategies.

HISD is partnering with the Texas Department of Agriculture and local farmers and growers in an effort to serve more homegrown fruits and vegetables in district schools.

«We made the effort, but there was so little interest, we did not continue,» Elk Grove Township School District 59 Supt. Robert Howard said.

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Given conflicting data indicating that 90 % of districts are already meeting the standards successfully, many school food advocates have asked the obvious question: instead of weakening nutrition — a move that directly harms kids — why not put more effort into helping the small minority of districts that are struggling?

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.

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Last summer the American Heart Association conducted a workshop for the food managers of the 12 Chicago school districts under the AHA's Hearty School Lunch Program, a national effort to educate lunchroom staff in creating more healthful school districts under the AHA's Hearty School Lunch Program, a national effort to educate lunchroom staff in creating more healthful School Lunch Program, a national effort to educate lunchroom staff in creating more healthful meals.

Shauvon Simmons - Wright, the alliance's N.C. relationship manager, who helps support students» efforts, said she first made contact with school districts to find out which schools had a need for resources based on the socio - economic status of students.

White people have notoriously moved their children away from diverse neighborhoods for school, and have resisted efforts to mix their districts.

«The amazing thing is how the school smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bschool smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bSchool Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bschool district is more than six times bigger.

The spirit of cooperation was evident in the Safety Town, Counselor - In - The - Park and Ecology Corps programs, all cooperative efforts between the Park District and the Village, school districts, Illinois Department of Labor, and the Junior Women's Club.

Following several public meetings and many discussions with High School District 214, whose swim teams used the indoor pool for practices and meets, about a combined effort to renovate and expand the pool, a plan was approved by the Park Board in December 2002.

We've talked before on The Lunch Tray about efforts by school districts to source at least some of their produce from local or regional producers.

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Glen Ellyn's involvement was a community effort involving College of DuPage, school and park districts, library, chamber of commerce, village, and volunteers who showed their home gardens or helped plant public areas.

Empowering local school districts to produce and serve nutritious, scratch - cooked meals was at the heart of the School Food Initiative's efforts to improve the health and life outcomes for children in Santa Barbara Cschool districts to produce and serve nutritious, scratch - cooked meals was at the heart of the School Food Initiative's efforts to improve the health and life outcomes for children in Santa Barbara CSchool Food Initiative's efforts to improve the health and life outcomes for children in Santa Barbara County.

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...

Although USDA has acknowledged that menu planning in such schools can be challenging, USDA's current guidance does not provide these districts flexibility to assist their efforts to comply.

The training began with a core group of 120 employees over the summer in an effort to ensure that 30 schools across the district started the school year with personnel who had participated in the training.

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

In addition, attendees joined small group discussions about effective and successful policies and practices at the school, district, and state level pertaining to three groups of activities that catalyze efforts to meet and exceed Smart Snacks requirements:

Black's article tells the real story of Huntington's school food — including the fact that, thanks to McCoy's efforts, the district's school meals were actually ahead of the national curve well before Oliver showed up.

Lake Park High School District 108, which is spearheading the effort, is contributing $ 10,000.

After eight years of work to «fix school food», I am convinced that while on paper it may be possible to draw up a budget to operate a school meal program, including all of the expenses — food, labor, overhead, kitchen facilities, equipment, staff training, office expenses, everything it takes to run a meal program — with nutritious scratch cooked lunches for $ 2.72 apiece, no district of any size is, in fact, doing it, despite the best efforts of many capable people like Ann Cooper.

The PAI provides parents with tools and resources to lead grassroots advocacy efforts in their school districts.

Using their considerable market power, some districts have been able to force dairies to make lower sugar flavored milk, and I've been told that my own Houston school district (7th largest in the country) is embarking on a similar effort.

I had stumbled across a story about her on CNN which described her efforts to improve the meals in San Francisco USD, the district in which her three sons had gone to school.

Through her efforts to help children everywhere — be it through her «Blessings in a Bag» backpack program for students in her district, or charity fundraisers for childhood cancer awareness — Sam Ingram exemplifies what it means to be a School Nutrition Hero.

Now that USDA has left the choice to use LBT up to each school district, and because individual grocery chains have always had the ability to chose to sell meat with or without it, it's been interesting to see that local efforts are starting to spring up to influence these potential LBT purchasers.