Sentences with phrase «school districts across the country»

Cheese sandwiches and other «alternate meals» have been added to menus in school districts across the country as they try to deal with lunch debts.

This is a scene that has been repeated in many school districts across the country over the past month.

The network has grown from one school to 41 in a decade, making it larger than 95 percent of school districts across the country.

I have had the opportunity to work with school districts across the country for over 45 years.

As school districts across the country report various kinds of teacher shortages, how to retain teachers has emerged as a key area of interest for district leaders and policymakers.

Teacher diversity in K - 12 classrooms is a problem for school districts across the country.

Every year, urban school districts across the country release test scores showing dismal student proficiency in math and reading, especially for students in poverty.

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.

The past ten years have witnessed an explosion in the use of interim assessments by school districts across the country.

The video competition is judged by a field of experts in science and communication including current and former teachers, scientists, and representatives from school districts across the country.

This annual analysis looks at school breakfast participation and policies in 75 large school districts across the country to evaluate successful practices in reaching more low - income children with school breakfast.

As a result, many school districts across the country report principal vacancies and a serious lack of qualified applicants to replace them.

Together, the group drew from decades of education research and data from studies of diverse school districts across the country.

Also, many school districts across the country not only have successful induction programs in place, they also are more than willing to share their successes with others.

Data in the report show that in state - run school districts across the country in 2014 - 15, fully 97 % of the students were African American and Latino.

Outside of major projects like this, more school districts across the country are also stretching the school day, although in less ambitious ways.

Most school districts across the country support the idea that preparing students with really ready skills for college, work, and life is a good goal.

Funding for arts education has become a casualty of cash - strapped school districts across the country as they struggle to cover basics such as math and science.

Here are some considerations that have proved to be critical during 40 years of collaboration with school districts across the country.

But little has been written about the fact that the proposal misses the mark when it comes to the real challenges facing the vast majority of school districts across the country.

Other school districts across the country have made significant changes to their food programs.

For many school districts across the country, today is the first day of a new year.

The Performance Matters Growth Platform is used by more than 1 million educators and 11 million students in school districts across the country.

The department's letter comes as school districts across the country are going about the business of educating all their students, regardless of the political debate on immigration reform.

As many urban school districts across the country struggled to maintain or substantially increase graduation rates, the Wichita School District saw an unprecedented graduation rate increase of 19.3 %.

USCS took advantage of a tool that the Morningside Center for Social Responsibility has helped hundreds of school districts across the country use, to open the lines of communication and bring disparate voices together.

More than 3,400 salad bars have been donated to more than 1,000 school districts across the country since the initiative launched in 2010.

Hartford is just the latest in a series of school districts across the country where school administrators have doctored test results to make it appear that their students are doing better on standardized tests such as the Connecticut Mastery Test.

Preferred Meals, headquartered in Berkeley, Ill., provides school lunches to 300 school districts across the country including District 89's elementary schools.

Federal and state mandates are taking their tolls on school districts across the country.

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.

According to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, more than 100 school districts across the country now have at least 10 percent of students enrolled in charter schools.

However, the FCE Network is also able to make localized impacts on specific school districts across the country through its District Leaders Network.

In the fall of 2012, the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) received a grant from The Wallace Foundation to further investigate the ways principal supervisors are selected, supported, and evaluated in major school districts across the country, looking specifically at the roles and responsibilities of staff in these positions.

At a time when school districts across the country are experiencing fast - growing enrollments of English language learners (ELLs), many K - 12 educators are asking what they can do to meet those students» needs.

State accountability systems focus attention and resources on low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned, if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency scores on standardized tests.

This helps the HFCS district design its social - emotional programs and offers other school districts across the country information that can help them develop their own social - emotional interventions.

Friends, Parents, teachers, community members and anyone in the Linked Learning field have all seen the transformative effect that Linked Learning has on students, especially in some of the biggest, most challenging school districts across the country.

With school districts across the country experiencing troubling budget cuts, NATA has launched a new online resource page to help athletic trainers protect their jobs.

This annual FRAC analysis looks at school breakfast participation rates and policies to evaluate successful practices in selected school districts across the country.

The problem of how to attract and hang on to talented new teachers has dogged school districts across the country.

In a brand new article for Education Next, Nelson Smith looks at how school districts across the country are hogging facilities they don't even need and explains how charter schools could break their grip.

Several school districts across the country are trying to change their teacher - salary structures in ways that would not only reward performance, but also allow effective teachers to reach top salary levels earlier in their careers, making teacher - compensation plans more in line with those in other occupations.

Last fall, 16 budding change coaches from school districts across the country embarked on a two - year training program to learn how to implement CLG's strategies.

-- Budget Cuts Force Tough Choices School districts across the country are coping with the problems that arise when school funding provides less money than schools need.

As school districts across the country grapple with the benefits and risks of incorporating cellphones, media players, and tablet computing devices into school life, one research group is offering up a framework it hopes will serve as a vehicle to help address student use of those devices.