Sentences with phrase «school district officials often»

He said the safeguards provided by the law were vital since school district officials often drag out contract talks long after the workers» contracts have expired.

Not exact matches

Districts participating in the federal school meal program have been required since 2006 to formulate a wellness policy to promote student health, but such policies often consisted of boilerplate language stashed in the drawer of a district official.

Ivy Ken, a DCPS parent and longtime advocate for more healthful food in schools, said she is «thrilled» that the lawsuit is bringing to light concerns people have had about the food program that were often dismissed by District officials.

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.

From Seattle to Baltimore, officials in big - city districts this spring are wrestling with balancing their budgets by shuttering neighborhood schools, a delicate, often controversial, task.

But doctoral student David Sherer is more interested in «informal» leaders — the people in a school or district who may or may not have official leadership roles but are nonetheless prominent, and often formidable, in the organization's social network.

Official Ohio Department of Education policy bans districts» use of flagging to harass the charter schools, but some charter operators complain that the state often looks the other way and insists that charter schools resolve the problem with the local districts.

Reading the formal culture involves observing the official, planned events, and reading district and school policies and procedures to learn how the formal organization — often the bureaucracy — operates.

In «Partnership Is a Two - Way Street: What It Takes for Business to Help Drive School Reform» we argue, «Too often, business has put its good intentions to work in the service of ineffectual systems... If business leaders are serious about school improvement, they must play a more forceful role and drive harder bargains with state officials and school district educators.&School Reform» we argue, «Too often, business has put its good intentions to work in the service of ineffectual systems... If business leaders are serious about school improvement, they must play a more forceful role and drive harder bargains with state officials and school district educators.&school improvement, they must play a more forceful role and drive harder bargains with state officials and school district educators.&school district educators.»

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS officials often point to the district's increasing graduation rates, climbing ACT scores, growing college enrollment rates and the numbers of high school freshmen projected to be on track to graduate.

Instead, the lawsuit says, districts across the state suspend and expel special - education students at more than twice the rate of their peers — and further, school officials often send the children to «time - out» rooms or have their parents pick them up early, which results in their exclusion from an educational setting.

Although district officials have started to let the principals at traditional schools make their own hiring decisions, they are often far less flexible when it comes to curriculum, budgets and schedules.

Current and former officials cited decades of conflict between the northern suburbs and the countywide district, saying they've often been left with overcrowded schools and distrust of school board leaders.