Sentences with phrase «school district in the country»

As the second largest school district in the country, we have a moral obligation to develop high - quality, integrated educational centers.

That why we are trying to build the best urban school district in the country.

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

That, of course, does not make it the best school district in the country.

By virtually every measure, this program is a remarkable success for a city that features one of the worst school districts in the country.

And more than 40 percent of all small, rural school districts in the country have serious difficulties filling vacant teaching positions.

When the leaders of the largest school district in the country decide to put all of their proverbial eggs in one basket, that basket had better be strong.

The study ranks the largest school districts in the country based on the opportunities their students have to attend their preferred school.

, making it the second largest school district in the country.

Yes, a vast majority of school districts in the country are run by elected boards.

Situated within one of the best school districts in the country.

Our nation's capital, home to fifty thousand students, boasts one of the worst school districts in the country.

According to the Trans Youth Equality Foundation, Guilford County Schools is one of the few public school districts in the country with inclusive gender identity language in its non-discrimination policy.

According to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), New York City is one of the biggest school districts in the country that enrolls a large number of students into charter schools.

One of the first school districts in the country to start trying out food trucks for school lunches was Boulder Valley in 2014.

The employees of this and every other school district in the country are paid from the Food & Nutrition Service Enterprise fund in each district which derives its funding from the operation of the program.

Besides being the largest and one of the most diverse school districts in the country, New York City is a major employer of uncertified and AC teachers.

Turning around one of the lowest performing school districts in the country, in a city with generations of inequity, is not a five or ten year project.

In addition, to consumer events, National Kale Day has touched 10 countries, retailers, restaurants and schools with some of the largest school districts in the country including New York Public Schools and Los Angeles Public Schools planning to serve up kale.

In the New York City Department of Education, the largest school district in the country by number of students, cups are «generally available to all students,» but spokesperson Margie Feinberg can not say in which of its schools cups are available only upon request.

Obstructionists with a talent for caricature are determined to discredit important progress under way in some of the poorest school districts in the country.

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.

Its student population, at close to 85,000, dwarfs all but a few dozen school districts in the country.

Because «comparable educational opportunities» are difficult to define and expensive to implement, most school districts in this country opted to avoid the inherent hassles of maintaining single - sex schools.

This work culminated in St. Vrain being named one of the 100 Future Ready school districts in the country and Haddad being named superintendent of the year in 2013 by the National Association of School Superintendents.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, 1.6 million children attend public schools that have police officers but no counselors, and three of the five largest school districts in the country hire more security officers than counselors.

States across the country have looked to Douglas County as they create their own reforms, and an event at the American Enterprise Institute in September billed it as «the most interesting school district in the country.»

«Duval County is closer to being the best urban school district in the country now than ever before,» Vitti wrote.

She replaces former Commissioner, John King, Jr., and unlike her predecessor, she brings significant experience with public education, including a decade leading the 8th largest school district in the country where she was awarded 2015 Superintendent of the Year for Florida just a few weeks before a series of conflicts with the school boiled over in her early dismissal.

We are one of the largest suburban school districts in the country located approximately 35 miles east of Atlanta.

* A 2015 report from The Education Trust, for instance, found that the highest - poverty districts in the country received about $ 1,200 less per pupil than the lowest - poverty school districts in the country.

A storyteller, creative, and village - maker, he has several years experience recruiting, training, screening and matching over 1,500 mentors across 18 different New York City high schools with youth mentoring organization iMentor; crafting compelling marketing campaigns for the the largest school districts in the country at TNTP; and developing NYU Stern's first - ever ambassador program and think tank of over 30 business school students tasked with reshaping and reimagining school culture.

In 2007 the educator Michelle Rhee was charged with a mammoth task: turn around public education in the District of Columbia, which included some of the most troubled school districts in the country.

With the quiet release last week of a 96 - page budget document, Denver Public Schools may have become the most financially transparent school district in the country.

McGee and Winters look at the potential implications for the 10 largest school districts in the country if they were to adopt two reforms:

America's Most Financially Disadvantaged School Districts and How They Got that Way from the Center for American Progress examines some of the most financially disadvantaged school districts in the country.

Covering the third largest school district in the country showed me the brokenness and inequity of the traditional public school system.

Two school districts will share the most coveted annual award for urban school districts in the country, U.S. News and World Reports reported.

The North Carolina native was recently appointed as Houston ISD Interim Superintendent of the largest school district in Texas and the seventh largest school district in the country with more than 210,000 students and close to 300 schools.

«With 50,000 students — larger than 99 percent of school districts in the country — KIPP Schools is providing a quality education to low - income students and students of color on a scale that naysayers of public charter schools thought was impossible,» said Bruce Reed, president of The Broad Foundation, who announced the winner to an audience of more than 3,000 public charter school leaders attending the national conference in Las Vegas.

Originally, the idea was to concentrate on the second - biggest school district in the country, in Los Angeles.

DCPS was in the vanguard of these efforts, and was one of the first school districts in the country to link individual performance evaluations to high - stakes decisions about pay and retention when it launched IMPACT in the 2009 10 school year.

New York City spends more money on fringe benefits for teachers and other education personnel than any other school district in country, according to a new study.

Boston Public schools is quickly becoming one of the most diverse school districts in the country: Our 57,000 students reflect Boston's vibrant blend of cultures, representing 140 countries and speaking 80 languages.