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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.

Not exact matches

While federal gun control laws are stalled, the group's school violence prevention training programs are expanding rapidly across the country, including to the Los Angeles public school district.

«Take a look, for example, at U.S. schools where 4,322 districts across the country now have farm - to - school programs — a more than four-fold increase since 2006.»

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.

This year, there are more than 4,200 schools in almost 600 school districts across the country where kids will be introduced to the game of golf along with character education.

March was National Nutrition Month and we were positively inspired by the beautiful photos and stories shared by schools and districts across the country.

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

In addition, the use of menus, websites and newsletters would in all probability be unreliable and inconsistent across the 14,000 school districts and 100,000 schools throughout the country.

As school breakfast continues to expand in school districts across the country, so does the importance of dairy.

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.

It has taken root everywhere from community - based book clubs and school district professional development sessions across the country to the U.S. Department of Education.

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.

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.

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.

The findings come as districts across the country implement the national Smart Snacks in School standards, which set basic limits on the fat, salt, and calories allowed in items sold through vending machines, school stores, and a la carte cafeteria School standards, which set basic limits on the fat, salt, and calories allowed in items sold through vending machines, school stores, and a la carte cafeteria school stores, and a la carte cafeteria menus.

Across the country, school districts are implementing the national Smart Snacks in School standards, which set basic limits on the fat, salt, and calories allowed in items sold through vending machines, school stores, and a la carte cafeteria school districts are implementing the national Smart Snacks in School standards, which set basic limits on the fat, salt, and calories allowed in items sold through vending machines, school stores, and a la carte cafeteria School standards, which set basic limits on the fat, salt, and calories allowed in items sold through vending machines, school stores, and a la carte cafeteria school stores, and a la carte cafeteria menus.

Thornton reported that school districts across the country have faced challenges in implementing the updated standards.

The project also gathered insights on the survey data from a panel of school nutrition leaders whose districts are recognized for their success in serving healthy meals and snacks.3 The research makes clear that multiple strategies, particularly those that engage children's creativity and invite their input, have helped instill healthy eating behaviors at schools across the country.

School districts faced several challenges implementing the new lunch requirements in school year 2012 - 2013, according to the eight districts GAO visited and food service and industry officials GAO interviewed from across the country; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) response to some of these challenges has been liSchool districts faced several challenges implementing the new lunch requirements in school year 2012 - 2013, according to the eight districts GAO visited and food service and industry officials GAO interviewed from across the country; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) response to some of these challenges has been lischool year 2012 - 2013, according to the eight districts GAO visited and food service and industry officials GAO interviewed from across the country; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) response to some of these challenges has been limited.

The requirements and laws about starting kindergarten vary across the country, but local school districts often post their own kindergarten readiness requirements on their websites.

PrimeroEdge is trusted by thousands of districts across the country and we've helped millions of students by providing software that allows districts to better manage their school nutrition programs.

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.

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.

Kay Brown, who produced the GAO study of eight districts, says they visited a range of schools across the country with differing levels of participation in free and reduced lunch and with widely different characteristics.

Too many kids in my school district and across the country only drink milk at school.

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.

School districts across the country have banned these milks from cafeterias.

Leading both the Arlington Heights school district and that national organization for school superintendents in 2007 through 2009, Jerome traveled across the country and internationally, according to her resume.

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

Poster presenters will share findings from recent research on school nutrition and best practices from districts across the country.

We aim to educate the public on why healthy school food is so important and highlight the school districts across the country that are working towards healthy change.

Similar troubles within the Buffalo Public School District are happening in other districts across the country.

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.

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.

He noted that large and growing charter networks across the city and country have a «direct analogy with a school district,» but noted that he believes New York's networks have proved their academic merit.

«In these extremely difficult financial times facing every municipality and school district across the country, the county has to pursue any and every avenue of cost savings,» he said in an interview this week.

PLATTSBURGH — School districts across the North Country are scrambling to find substitute teachers.

Several school districts across the North Country — Willsboro Central School, Cumberland Head Elementary School, Morrisonville Elementary School, Beekmantown Central School and Brushton / Moira Central School — received funding this year for art - based proschool districts across the North Country — Willsboro Central School, Cumberland Head Elementary School, Morrisonville Elementary School, Beekmantown Central School and Brushton / Moira Central School — received funding this year for art - based proSchool, Cumberland Head Elementary School, Morrisonville Elementary School, Beekmantown Central School and Brushton / Moira Central School — received funding this year for art - based proSchool, Morrisonville Elementary School, Beekmantown Central School and Brushton / Moira Central School — received funding this year for art - based proSchool, Beekmantown Central School and Brushton / Moira Central School — received funding this year for art - based proSchool and Brushton / Moira Central School — received funding this year for art - based proSchool — received funding this year for art - based projects.

«Because of the amount of time kids spend in school, and given the fact that many first - time allergic reactions occur on school grounds, it is imperative for school districts across the country to provide access to emergency epinephrine to students who may not otherwise have access to the potentially life - saving medication,» Gupta said.

Owens found that neighborhood racial segregation across the country appeared to be driven largely by white families with children who are choosing, consciously or not, to move to neighborhoods and school districts with fewer minorities.

With another season of scholastic football in full swing at school districts across the country, a growing number of physicians and athletic trainers are re-evaluating how they diagnose and treat head injuries suffered during practices and games.

A number of districts across the country have moved to equalize across schools the share of poor students, as measured by eligibility for subsidized lunch.

That is, the consolidation of one - room schoolhouses into larger districts, the development of schools with separate grades, the September to June calendar, and the relatively common curriculum across the country all came into being because families wanted those measures.

These «findings» by the lower court about the purported benefits of neighborhood schools were based entirely on the claims of Oklahoma City School District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation oSchool District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation oschool districts seeking to be released from their desegregation orders.

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.

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

Lecturer David Rose, Ed.D.» 76, hopes and believes that he and his colleagues are part of a revolution — a revolution called Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which is increasingly taking hold in schools and school districts across the country and seeks to design curriculum from the outset that can accommodate all types of learners, rather than retrofitting existing curriculums on an ad hoc, as needed basis.

Despite the challenges, states and districts are attempting to make it happen in tens of thousands of schools across the country.

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