Mario Koran took on the quest, which went in a number of different directions, many of which
school district officials did not appreciate.
Socorro Independent
School District officials did not respond to requests from the El Paso Times for comment.
But he said
school district officials did everything in their power to keep it on track.
Not exact matches
A review of the policy and interviews with
district leaders make it clear that PROMISE had nothing to
do with Cruz's treatment by
school officials; in fact, according to Superintendent Robert Runcie, Cruz wasn't even in PROMISE.
When Nikolas Cruz turned 18, he refused to let the
school district continue providing him with crucial mental health and other services — and there was nothing
officials could
do about it, Broward
Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie said Monday.
School officials in Schaumburg elementary Community Consolidated
School District 54 said they don't have snack vending machines.
School officials said they are working with the park district on a formal, written agreement, but did not expect it would be ready before the June 10 school board me
School officials said they are working with the park
district on a formal, written agreement, but
did not expect it would be ready before the June 10
school board me
school board meeting.
School officials have said they don't want the 12 - year - old playground and have insisted it's the Park
District's responsibility to maintain it.
Officials with the Milk Processor Education Program, a trade group for the dairy industry, said they
did not know how many
school districts pulled flavored milk from their cafeterias.
Schools do not take an
official count until later this month, but Tribune interviews with two dozen
school districts suggest the demand for a free
school lunch continues to grow.
The bill, dubbed the «Every Student Succeeds Act,» would ban federal
officials from requiring states and
school districts to rate the job performance of teachers and principals, though states could continue
doing that on their own.
The result won't
do much to allay the fears of New York teachers» unions that Cuomo's real aim is to transform traditional public
schools into charter
schools, since charter groups were among those chosen by Massachusetts education
officials to implement turnaround plans in chronically underperforming
districts.
The Mineola
school district has agreed to improve the way it conducts purchases under $ 20,000 after a state comptroller's audit found
district officials didn't always get competitive price quotes.
State
officials also are requiring the
District to come up with a backup plan to phase out East High
School in case Education Commissioner John King doesn't approve the takeover plan by the University of Rochester.
Among the key findings of the state comptroller's office audit of the Willsboro Central
School District: The district overestimated appropriations in the adopted budgets by more than 10 percent over the past three years; the district has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and district officials did not develop a multi-year financi
District: The
district overestimated appropriations in the adopted budgets by more than 10 percent over the past three years; the district has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and district officials did not develop a multi-year financi
district overestimated appropriations in the adopted budgets by more than 10 percent over the past three years; the
district has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and district officials did not develop a multi-year financi
district has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and
district officials did not develop a multi-year financi
district officials did not develop a multi-year financial plan.
But today many city
schools in poor
districts are still lacking sorely needed funds and basic resources because state
officials say the state doesn't have enough money to comply with the court ruling that took 14 years to win.
While
schools often are required to ask students for proof that they live within a
district,
school officials essentially are barred from asking about immigration status and can not block a child's access to a public K - 12
school based on such status, under a landmark 1982 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plyler v.
Doe.
By serving an entire region or market's group of charter
schools, the real - estate trust would look familiar to state
officials and to lenders: a single entity that grasps the intricacies of real - estate finances and serves the individual needs of multiple
schools, as
school districts do.
State education
officials and local
school districts are working to use technology money from the federal economic - stimulus package to develop initiatives that
do everything from consolidate data systems to create high - quality digital content for
school laptops.
The problem, one city Education Department
official acknowledged, is that
districts did not want to lose the Title I money they would have to give to parents to obtain the after -
school tutoring — and so
did little to make parents aware of the opportunity.
School officials in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, and other
districts began to return apples to their lunch menus last week, after confirming that their fruit
did not contain a potentially harmful chemical used by some apple growers.
State
officials can subvert the law through interpretations that don't conform to its intent;
school districts can change their policies without making genuine changes in curriculum; or teachers can ignore the mandates, closing their classroom doors and
doing as they please.
Many
districts simply fail to define their theories of reform - in some cases because superintendents and
school - board members can not agree on what should be
done; in other cases because
officials don't wish to make specific promises about actions and results.
NCLB «is pushing
school districts to
do things out of their comfort zones,» says Robert Maranto, who last year surveyed state education
officials throughout the country about NCLB.
As the U.S. Department of Education prepares to throw $ 3 billion in one - time money on the table to improve perennially foundering
schools, a gulf is emerging between what federal
officials would like to see
done with the funds and what many
districts say is their capacity — and inclination — to deliver.
District officials opened elementary
schools with substitute teachers on Nov. 11, four days after the strike began, but about three - quarters of the pupils
did not attend.
• What state education
officials can
do now to work with
school districts to assure a smooth and open process in this touchy area.
As
schools across the country move toward implementing the Common Core State Standards,
district officials face a major challenge: How
do they make the new academic expectations understandable to parents?
A Cuomo administration
official told reporters early this month that the «independent» evaluators could be principals or «highly effective» teachers from other
schools and
districts; college professors or retired educators could also qualify to
do the evaluations.
In their own news releases,
school officials talk about how Operation Graduation, which includes a credit recovery component, boosts the
district's graduation rate and quotes one former student, Victor Lopez, as saying: «It was a shocker to learn what I could get
done in a day.»
Instead of deflecting potential concerns, it aggravated them, opening a festering sore about funding for
district schools, which local
officials say are straining to make
do under an outdated state financing formula that has not kept pace with spiraling costs.
The ruling by
District Court Judge David E. Winslow held that the cash - management program, which allows
school officials to issue tax - exempt bonds to cover anticipated budget shortfalls,
does not violate the state constitution.
Many also don't have information about discounts that other
school districts have received, and, when purchasing from a company like Apple, which has a reputation for being rigid with pricing, some
district officials don't even know they can ask for larger discounts.
Even if the
school officials do manage to win qualified immunity and escape personal liability, courts will almost certainly never sanction the kind of discrimination alleged in Plano, leaving
school districts solely liable for the conduct of their employees.
No
school can succeed for long without
doing so, but, especially for community
schools, success depends on the quality of the relationships that
school and
district staff maintain with various partners, including teachers, counselors, social workers, parents, clergy, elected
officials, business leaders, volunteer tutors, and others.
In a statement Wednesday,
district officials did not explain why they no longer will seek a partner to operate the 10
schools.
But unlike in Delaware and Tennessee, state
officials did not muster the broad - based support from Louisiana's
school districts,
school boards, and teachers» unions.
While
district officials complain that New Jersey «s interpretation of the No Child Left Behind Act makes little sense in the small
schools in their
district — unfairly penalizing
schools with a few students who are struggling — they have not
done much by way of response.
«Given the fiscal conditions and limited management controls available to
districts,
school officials are already
doing what those in Albany have repeatedly suggested.
Parents have tended to clamp down on their students» data usage when told free wifi was going away, according to feedback
district officials received from area
school districts who have
done similar pilots the last few years.
If an alliance
district will submit to getting rid of veteran teachers (and replacing them with scab labor from TFA); getting rid of staff people, not just in the
schools and central office, but in town offices as well; hand over their democratic rights to elect their
officials and let a Strong Man / Woman Mayor appoint people to the Board of Ed (even non residents); remove all checks and balances in local government; and, let any reformer
do whatever they want to children, who will be guinea pigs for reform, drill - and - kill, «no excuses» punishments of preschoolers and kindergarteners — THEN Malloy will release money for leaky roofs and essential remediation of toxins.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights spent nearly two years investigating Palatine - based Township High
School District 211 and found «a preponderance of evidence» that school officials did not comply with Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis o
School District 211 and found «a preponderance of evidence» that
school officials did not comply with Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis o
school officials did not comply with Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex.
WILL
officials suggested the base salary data, obtained from the Department of Public Instruction, didn't tell the whole story because it doesn't account for bonuses and merit pay increases that have surfaced in some
school districts since the law was enacted.
District officials do not expect teacher layoffs in the «immediate future» though, said Randy Pridgeon, LCS divisional director of secondary
schools, since many students may opt to take both electives.
«outright transfer from the City's general fund to San Francisco Unified
School District (is)(very uncommon),» but most elected city
officials are not in the business of transferring the wealth of one governmental entity to another unless they're constitutional obligated to
do so, as with PEEF.
Texas education
officials have warned the Houston
school district that it could be placed under the jurisdiction of state - appointed managers as early as next year if 13 of its
schools don't show improvement.
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school board want Rodriguez to take a
school board want Rodriguez to take a leave.
We don't have all the details yet about time and place as the public hearing notice has not yet been posted; however, the Commission will be taking testimony from
school leaders (including board members,
district administrators and
school business
officials) at this meeting.
When you [
school district officials] don't meet the standards, you may have that
school taken away from you by the state [and placed under control of the RSD] to see if there are other options that can improve the performance of that
school.
Their advice to
school boards and
district officials: prioritize the importance of increasing minority male educators and recognize that they offer a solution to many of the education problems facing adolescent boys; and don't automatically focus on these educators in a behavioral capacity instead of the educational capacity for which they were trained and hired and may prefer.