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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.

Not exact matches

Indeed, for a while Houston and other districts were having real trouble sourcing any fresh fruit at all, from any part of the country, due to the higher demand created by the new school food regulations, which resulted in USDA actually canceling confirmed orders for commodity fresh fruit.

According to those officials present, despite the fact that Houston is the seventh largest school district in the country and therefore a major consumer of milk, the profit margins for dairies supplying schools (as opposed to private entities) is extremely low and would be wiped out by the manufacturing costs associated with making such changes.

In the piece, I address why America's school meals so often pale in comparison to those in other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challengIn the piece, I address why America's school meals so often pale in comparison to those in other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challengin comparison to those in other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challengin other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challenge.

Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proSchool District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool lunch, is procured.

By: Sunny Young, thelunchbox.org bloggerIn addition to acting as one of the leaders in reforming school meals across the country, Chef Ann Cooper also serves as Nutrition Services director of the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) in Boulder, Colschool meals across the country, Chef Ann Cooper also serves as Nutrition Services director of the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) in Boulder, ColSchool District (BVSD) in Boulder, Colorado.

Prime Consultant Group reported in the summary documents provided by Weber Shandwick that it examined children's milk drinking habits in 58 schools in seven school districts across the country over a three month period in 2009.

According to the study, when chocolate milk was eliminated from cafeterias at 58 schools in seven school districts across the country, milk consumption went down by an average of 35 %, and did not recover even after a year's time.

Parents freaked out after reports surfaced last week that school districts around the country were serving kids hamburgers containing up to 15 percent of the processed product known in the meat industry as «Lean Finely Textured Beef» or «Lean Beef Trimmings,» produced by Beef Products Inc..

Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «kids and food, in school and out» but in the near future I plan to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the lunch program in my own school district (Houston ISD) and presumably elsewhere in the country.

An investigation by Schneiderman found the Syracuse City School District suspends students at a higher rate than almost every other district in the District suspends students at a higher rate than almost every other district in the district in the country.

HARD TO MISREAD THIS MESSAGE — DeVos, in first visit to NYC schools, picks yeshivas, by POLITICO's Azi Paybarah, Eliza Shapiro and Caitlin Emma: U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos came to New York City, whose 1.1 million public school children represent the country's largest school district, and walked into an all - girls private yeshiva in Manhattan's tony Upper East Side.

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

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

Although officials from the 4,000 districts nationwide that receive federal impact - aid funds have been outspoken in their opposition to cuts in the program recommended by the Reagan Administration, the Fairfax school board was the first in the country to threaten military families with tuition charges to make up for the lost support.

Despite this, Holton is encouraged by innovation and the creativity that she sees in schools and districts across the country, as well as by the teachers who are sticking it out in difficult circumstances.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

A pilot project that would extend the school year in two districts to 200 days — making theirs the longest school year in the country — was approved this month by the North Carolina state legislature.

Advocating at school meetings several days per week at one of the largest urban school districts in the country, invariably I see tremendously frustrated teachers, mind - numbing paperwork and by definition dissatisfied parents.

Patrick currently works as an instrumental music teacher in the Pennsbury School District, which has been recognized since 2006 as one of the top 100 communities for music education in the country by the NAMM foundation.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

Released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, at Stanford University, the study comes as a growing number of school districts and charter schools around the country are experimenting with such reward programs in the hope of improving...

The participants, sorted by gender and country of origin, were recruited from seven school districts in the Boston and San Francisco greater metropolitan areas.

By then, she, too, had heard that the board did not plan to select her, and she was already interviewing in other school districts across the country.

Considering the district's sobering graduation - rate statistics — a 2006 study sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ranked the LAUSD in the bottom six of the country's fifty largest school districts — there's practically nothing to lose in embracing new technologies and strategies for reaching at - risk students.

The district went from arguably one of the worst urban districts in the country to one of the best by using what Kirp calls «old school» tactics.

At that time, the country did not realize it was about to enter a deep recession followed by a prolonged, uneven recovery, and 50 % of the public was ready to spend more on schools even after being told current levels of per - pupil expenditure in the local school district.

Computer science is frequently offered as an elective in schools and districts across the country, but the US has a projected one million computing jobs that will be unfilled by 2020.

Performance increases have not been achieved by ignoring equity; rather, New Orleans has become one of the most equitable urban school districts in the country.

Mathematica was selected by the U.S. Department of Education to evaluate one approach that uses selective teacher transfer incentives in school districts around the country.

E-reading is obviously the trend in education as more and more computers and tablets are purchased by school districts throughout the country.

Silas Kulkarni is Executive Director of Teaching Lab, leading powerful professional learning experiences in school districts around the country by applying lessons learned as a record - busting middle school teacher in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Our experience working across the country tells us that while attendance improvements can begin in a single classroom or school, the most effective and sustainable approaches are data - driven, supported by strong district, school and community leadership.

But they are supported by hundreds of thousands of educators across the country who are fed up with flawed evaluation systems being pushed by politicians and corporate education reformers in school districts across the country.

Some tests, such as the Stanford Achievement Test, are developed for general use by any school district in the country, while other tests are developed for a specific state, such as the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), and the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS).

Over the past seven years, the district has posted record enrollment increases (with a higher rate of enrollment growth than any other major urban school district in the country) and increased its four - year graduation rate by over 25 percentage points.

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 Superintenschool districts in the country and Haddad being named superintendent of the year in 2013 by the National Association of School SuperintenSchool Superintendents.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

According to a nationwide survey to be released soon by the National Education Association (nea), more than one in three of the 1,326 elementary - and secondary - school teachers chosen randomly from different - sized school districts across the country said they «certainly» or «probably» would not become teachers again if they were given the choice.

«When the Best is Mediocre: Developed countries far outperform our most affluent suburbs,» by Jay Greene and Josh McGee The first - ever comparison of math performance in virtually every school district in the United States finds that even the most elite suburban school districts produce results that are mediocre when compared to those of international peers.

What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the traditional teacher.

Founded in 1974 by Dr. Harvey F. Silver and the late Richard W. Strong, Silver Strong & Associates (SSA) is an educational consulting and publishing company that provides custom professional development and practical resources to schools and districts throughout the country.

The guidebook of the mass school closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizschool closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizSchool Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizschool leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatization.

«We should question the relevance of comparing so - called U.S. national student performance with average scores in other countries, when U.S. students attend schools in 51 separate education systems run by states and the District of Columbia, not the federal government,» said Carnoy.

It focuses on the relevance of comparing U.S. national student performance with average scores in other countries when U.S. students attend schools in 51 separate education systems run not by the federal government, but by states (plus the District of Columbia).

We accomplish our goals by working in hallways across the country — from Congress and the Department of Education to schools and district offices in your community — to improve school climate and champion LGBT issues in K - 12 education.

Any student 15 and 1/2 years or older who attends high school in Baraga, Houghton, or Keweenaw County may attend Career & Technical Education classes offered by the Copper Country Intermediate School Disschool in Baraga, Houghton, or Keweenaw County may attend Career & Technical Education classes offered by the Copper Country Intermediate School DisSchool District.

Efforts to disentangle success from economics are made somewhat harder by New York's decision not to adopt one of the national Common Core tests, which promised to allow more apples - to - apples comparisons among school districts across the country (though New York has a modified version of the Common Core standards in place, the state makes its own exams to test whether kids are meeting those expectations).

In addition to federal policy, school districts and charter networks across the country are doing their part to promote racial and socioeconomic integration by considering socioeconomic factors in student assignment policieIn addition to federal policy, school districts and charter networks across the country are doing their part to promote racial and socioeconomic integration by considering socioeconomic factors in student assignment policiein student assignment policies.

The Copper Country Intermediate School District participates in the School - Based Medicaid Program provided by the State of Michigan.