Sentences with phrase «serving public school kids»

When charter public schools are funded, there is no overall loss of public school money because charter schools are public schools serving public school kids.

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Downey Elementary School is a public school that serves 525 kids from Kindergarten through 4th School is a public school that serves 525 kids from Kindergarten through 4th school that serves 525 kids from Kindergarten through 4th grade.

Many of the schools we serve are private schools, and the public districts we do serve have Free and Reduced rates below 10 % [i.e, fewer than 10 % of the kids qualify for free or reduced price lunch.]

I think city councils could do more good for kids by considering other food and kid scenarios like banning soda served to kids in public schools, or requiring food with nutritive value to always be served when refreshments are offered at a school, or requiring restaurants to offer kids real food choices on the kids menu.

(If you don't have a kid in US public school and don't know why lunches would be disgusting, read the blog http://fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com/ in which a public school teacher photographed and ate everything the kids were served since the beginning of the year.

Workers who serve meals in Chicago Public Schools say the majority of kids are not eating the healthful new foods on the cafeteria menu, according to a confidential survey released Tuesday.

The program subsidizes lunch and breakfast for nearly 32 million needy kids in most public schools and many private ones, and those schools must follow guidelines on what they serve.

Submitted and Written by Reana KovalcikNancy Easton and Chef Bill Telepan serve as the executive leadership for Wellness in the Schools, a New York City - based non-profit that inspires healthy eating, physical fitness, and environmental awareness as a way of life for kids in the public school system.

I only wish that more freshly made soups and stews were served in public schools, where the kids get a steady diet of processed convenience foods.

«When the charter industry begins serving students with special needs and English Language Learners at the same rate as traditional public schools, and cracks down on the fraud, mismanagement and abuse prevalent at so many charters, perhaps its leaders can then join our longstanding fight for the equitable funding that all kids need.»

As a kid whose life was saved by the incredible teachers I had in public schools in Brooklyn, I'm proud to have served my fellow New Yorkers.»

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley reports a new nation - wide study says there is a high rate of students arriving at school hungry, but the Buffalo Public School District is serving thousands of free meals to cityschool hungry, but the Buffalo Public School District is serving thousands of free meals to citySchool District is serving thousands of free meals to city kids.

There have now been 2,401,500 kids served from salad bars in public schools nationwide.

Only in D.C. can one test whether the Hyde model can be applied to a public school rather than to a private residential one and to a school that serves disadvantaged kids rather than financially privileged ones.

That idea was one of many useful takeaways from a panel discussion about marketing new flavors to kids, part of a daylong event at Harvard University called Healthy Food Fuels Hungry Minds: Serving Change in Public School Food.

I tell them that they're being paid with public funds to serve the public's kids, and therefore it's inevitable (and appropriate) that public officials will have a lot to say about how schools work and how they're held accountable.

The public schools don't pay rent, the charter schools, which are serving the same kids, shouldn't pay rent.»

«The current system not only discriminates against low - income kids, but it also stops these great public schools from serving more students.»

We demonstrate in a forthcoming Social Science Quarterly article that in advertisements for teaching positions, KIPP schools consistently emphasize public service incentives, serving kids, while nearby traditional public schools emphasize private incentives, namely salary and benefits.

Whittier is a free public school that works in partnership with the Camden School district to serve all the kids in ourschool that works in partnership with the Camden School district to serve all the kids in ourSchool district to serve all the kids in our zone.

KIPP helps its communities, the report says, «by transforming the lives of the kids we serve in our current network of schools; and [b] y inspiring others — as we continue to reach more students in more communities — to reconsider what is possible in public education.»

Charter schools are serving more minority students because that is their mission: to open in under - served neighborhoods to provide a better education for kids that are not being served well by traditional public schools.

If public schools simply had advisors that would make public schools and school leaders the priority, kids could be better served by their schools.

Public school leaders are constantly trying to find better, more innovative ways to serve kids.

Public school leaders deserve counsel and consultants that will work for their District and share the school's goal of serving kids first.

If we care about equity in our public schools, we need to stop looking at which bureaucracy is administering and instead look at who the school is serving and how well those kids are doing.

Public charter schools are part of CPS and serve neighborhood kids just like regular CPS schools.

The film's core thesis is that for too long our public school system was built to serve adults, not kids.

They never get around to explaining why, in California, 52 percent of students attending charters that serve a majority of high poverty kids are in the top quartile of all public schools statewide as opposed to just 26 percent of similar students attending traditional public schools.

Most public schools served only the students unable to escape the system, which, in New Orleans, means poor black kids.

The report calls on school operators, funders, policymakers and city - based organizations such as The Mind Trust to create conditions that promote innovative thinking and ideas that can keep charter schools on the cutting edge of public education and allow them to serve more kids.

As news of the NAACP's shifting stance on public charter schools circulated on progressive blogs, Twitter and other outlets, the disparate reactions revealed deep divisions among civil rights groups and education leaders over the role charter schools should play in serving kids of color.

Charters are public schools, serving our kids with our money.

«There are some who would argue that charter schools are leading to the hyper - segregation of education, but if you're going to communities that need options, and you're serving kids in the community, that's what you want schools to be doing,» said a representative from the National Alliance for Public Charter Sschools are leading to the hyper - segregation of education, but if you're going to communities that need options, and you're serving kids in the community, that's what you want schools to be doing,» said a representative from the National Alliance for Public Charter Sschools to be doing,» said a representative from the National Alliance for Public Charter SchoolsSchools.

Helsinki has no school buses because it is all done by public transportation, which is planned around the school locations to serve kids and the adult public.

Since 1992, when Minnesota became the first state to pass a charter - school law, the numbers of charter schools and the numbers of kids the schools serve have exploded, but they still make up a small fraction of overall public - school student enrollment.

As the leader in culturally - responsive, inclusive music education, the organization partners with public school districts to build music programs as diverse as the kids being served.

Since 2002, Little Kids Rock has served more than 650,000 public school children and currently brings weekly music lessons to 320,000 + students annually through the efforts of more than 2,000 teachers in 200 school districts nationwide.

More than 20 years after the charter school law was passed in Connecticut, we still have a long way to go towards a stronger public charter school law that really best serves our kids.

«You could make the case that for certain populations of kids, charters have an advantage over public schools, for kids who have not been well served,» he said.

We have built the ASD for lasting success, with 14 public school operators serving over 10,000 kids in nearly 30 schools this upcoming school year.

That's just slightly higher than the 22 percent Algebra 1 course - taking rate for middle - schoolers in nearby D.C. Public Schools and lower than the 43 percent rate for kids in Alexandria's district, both of which serve mostly poor and minority populations.

Given that at the time of the law's passage, most Americans not engaged in education though traditional public schools were generally serving their kids (and all children) well, there was no way that reformers could pass a law that would serve to fully overhaul the super-cluster.

He has said parents need to have options to leave public schools that aren't serving their kids.

«The original idea for EL was taking the ideas of a good progressive education, the best of it, and combining it into something that could be implemented and serve low - income kids,» said Meg Campbell, co-founder of Boston's Codman Academy Charter Public School, a member of the EL Education network.

We need independent stores with community ties and highly curated collections; big box stores for the selection they offer and their purchasing power; we need public libraries to serve their communities; school libraries to get kids reading; we need Amazon, too.