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If state policymakers expand voucher programs, this could increase the tax burden of citizens, especially those living in rural communities and small school districts with fewer students.

However, we are a small school district with limited financial resources and can not afford to spend the amount of economic funds to defend the Philosophy of Design class in the court system.»

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The company works mainly with wineries, but has also designed apparel for school districts, small and large companies, hospitals, fire departments, sports teams and municipalities.

SS: We're a small district with nine schools.

Kona Ice, which sells sugary shaved ice drinks; World's Finest Chocolate, a small number of school districts, and a company called TiFry that sells «a device that not only assists with reducing cooking oil consumption but will reduce calories in fried foods.»

But while studies suggest that salad bars can help boost children's consumption of fruits and vegetables, some school districts decline to install salad bars claiming they are unsanitary, especially for small elementary school students with active hands and faces that often come up short of the barriers that are meant to keep coughs and sneezes out of food.

BUSD management team, including the accountant, has extensive training covering school food service, private restaurant food service, culinary school (food service budget management, food safety and sanitation, catering, etc.) You can not compare cooking at home or in a small restaurant with cooking for a school district.

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He said leading a smaller school district is good because it gives the candidate more hands - on experience with specific parts of district business, such as finance and human resources.

Since I was sworn in, I've made over 660 stops across the district at small businesses, farms, schools and more speaking with the hardworking families I'm proud to represent.

Easton, with AQE, says he's also hopeful about a newer lawsuit, filed in 2014 by eight small city school districts in New York, now winding its way through the courts.

Buchwald chimed in with: «By identifying school districts that are getting too small a percentage of Foundation Aid we can go to our colleagues and advocate for raising the floor of Foundation Aid.

NYSUT, meanwhile, backed a study to determine whether any changes to the funding formula is necessary, which would also take into consideration the impact on a small school district when a resident receives a windfall through inheritance or winning the lottery — a factor that throw aid formulations out of whack in areas with few wealthy people.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about the University at Albany / CDTA bus incident and school funding for eight small city school districts including Kingston and Poughkeepsie.

Years after the Kingston City School District joined seven other small - city school districts in suing the state for what plaintiffs claimed were funding inequities, a judge ruled this week that the state had met its «constitutional obligation» in providing those districts with enough School District joined seven other small - city school districts in suing the state for what plaintiffs claimed were funding inequities, a judge ruled this week that the state had met its «constitutional obligation» in providing those districts with enough school districts in suing the state for what plaintiffs claimed were funding inequities, a judge ruled this week that the state had met its «constitutional obligation» in providing those districts with enough money.

«The court concludes that the plaintiffs have failed to establish their claim that the state has not met its constitutional obligation to provide the students in the eight small city school districts with the opportunity for a sound, basic education,» O'Connor wrote in her ruling.

Compliance with the law is especially difficult for small school districts, most of which do not have an athletic trainer, Olson explained.

In just the D.C. district ANet schools, the increases were smaller — 4 percent in English and 6.6 percent in math — but still better than the improvement of less than 2 percent posted by district schools that didn't partner with ANet.

A decade ago, the Cleveland Heights - University Heights City School District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a large urban high school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the buiSchool District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a large urban high school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the buischool with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the building.

Maintaining dozens of small school districts in a metropolitan area, each with its own highly paid administrators and transportation budgets, is also extremely costly.

As shown in Figure 1b, the share of students with autism is 0.2 percentage points smaller in charters than in district schools in Denver and 1 percentage point smaller in New York City.

Working with district staff, design teams research best practices, visit schools throughout the country, and ultimately create plans for small schools that are both academically sound and relevant to the diverse community of learners they hope to serve.

(Almost all the African - American students came from schools with average test scores below the district mean; the few that did not had almost identical average impacts, but the number of available observations was too small to recover precise estimates.)

These include: «protection» clauses against declining enrollment; hold - harmless provisions for districts competing with charter schools; subsidies to small districts; and minimum categorical allocations.

Lots of educators who decide to create small schools, often by negotiating special arrangements with the local school district, do so because they don't have any confidence that the system can be changed in any real way.

Districts could hire staff with expertise in supporting small - school development.

Balancing those funder desires, New Visions created a Request for Proposals to all community school districts and high school superintendents in the city, inviting any group of educators to propose a small high school — limited to some 100 students per grade — with a focus on the Bronx, which had the highest concentration of low - performing schools.

(Reliable information for the small number of students attending schools in districts with enrollment below 300 is unavailable for the years prior to 2000.)

Ben Merrill, principal of southwestern Idaho's small, rural Notus Junior / Senior High School and superintendent for the Notus School District, says, «Out here, when I have an opening for a teacher in advanced science or math, I may get two to three applicants, all right out of college — no one with a master's degree.

It has gained attention because of 1989 and 1994 state laws that allowed creation of a special public school district serving only the small community's children with disabilities.

For this portion of the study, we compare KIPP students with two groups of district school students: all those attending non-KIPP middle schools in the same district, and a smaller comparison group of students attending middle schools that accepted an above - average number of students from the feeder elementary schools.

The 12 administrative subdistricts within the Houston school district hired teacher trainers to provide continuing support, working with teachers individually (in their classrooms) and in small groups.

This modest increase created budget pressures for the school district that required some midyear cuts, but the district managed to end the fiscal year with a small surplus.

In this relatively new and small school there is a special education teacher, psychologist and therapists made available through collaboration with the public school district.

Research has shown that beyond very small schools and school districts, there are few opportunities for economies of scale in education because most of the costs increase with enrollments and are not fixed costs that decline with additional clients.

These are usually «freemium» models where teachers pay nothing for basic access and a small amount for additional features such as classroom dashboards and reports; school - or district - wide packages come with a licensing fee.

Among each of the ten largest districts in Florida, the observed range between the 10th and 90th percentile of the SES test score gap is larger than the observed difference between the school district with the largest SES gap and the school district with the smallest SES gap (among the ten largest school districts in Florida, that is).

The foundation encouraged urban school districts to close large, dysfunctional high schools and replace them with smaller ones, either in alternative spaces or by placing several schools within the building that once housed the large one.

The center also plans to work with school districts throughout the region to create as many as 20 new small schools over the next five years.

Part of the allure is financial — districts have long assumed that large complexes are more cost efficient to build and maintain — but recent studies have pointed to greater long - term cost savings with smaller schools.

A new Achievement School District (ASD), modeled after those in Louisiana and Tennessee, is charged with transforming these very low - performing schools by taking in a small number (no more than six per year) and pairing them with successful charter networks, with the hope that they will return to district supervision once they're District (ASD), modeled after those in Louisiana and Tennessee, is charged with transforming these very low - performing schools by taking in a small number (no more than six per year) and pairing them with successful charter networks, with the hope that they will return to district supervision once they're district supervision once they're humming.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

If, as has been the case in a number of places, the comparison group is all the teachers in a given grade in the school district — with, say, the top 15 percent of the 4th grade teachers receiving an award — what is the significance of a big or small school?

Cruz doesn't credit the district's service focus with all of that success; he maintains it's but one strategy in a larger program that includes keeping schools small, providing tutoring for students, and offering fun after - school classes.

During our work with district, charter, and private schools — large, small, urban, rural, as well as progressive and traditional — the master scheduling process tends to be more alike than different.

In 2007 and 2008, the research summarized in this article added to this body of work by determining expenditures associated with a variety of services in high schools in three districts: District 1 is a small western district with one comprehensive high school; District 2 is a midsize eastern district with 10 comprehensive high schools; and District 3 is a midsize western district with six high schools, each divided into small learning commDistrict 1 is a small western district with one comprehensive high school; District 2 is a midsize eastern district with 10 comprehensive high schools; and District 3 is a midsize western district with six high schools, each divided into small learning commdistrict with one comprehensive high school; District 2 is a midsize eastern district with 10 comprehensive high schools; and District 3 is a midsize western district with six high schools, each divided into small learning commDistrict 2 is a midsize eastern district with 10 comprehensive high schools; and District 3 is a midsize western district with six high schools, each divided into small learning commdistrict with 10 comprehensive high schools; and District 3 is a midsize western district with six high schools, each divided into small learning commDistrict 3 is a midsize western district with six high schools, each divided into small learning commdistrict with six high schools, each divided into small learning communities.

Dumas is a small school district, with two elementary schools, a junior high and a high school.

Drawing on interviews with female superintendents of urban, small - town, and rural school districts, the cofounder of the women's studies program at the University of Tulsa examines their contradictory experiences with power and subjection.

But instead of just handing over big checks to school districts on the basis of need, the federal government showers the states with dozens of small programs.

An increased share of disadvantaged students could affect overall district test scores, but with a gradual demographic shift, changes might be small or imperceptible from year to year and don't necessarily indicate changes in school quality, said Michael Hansen, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.