Sentences with phrase «spending elementary school district»

It's in California's fourth - highest - spending elementary school district and sits on a 13 - acre wooded site in picturesque Sausalito.

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I wasn't even paying attention to the food at my daughter's elementary school here in the District of Columbia until I had an opportunity to spend a week as an observer in the kitchen.

A 2006 national survey by the Center on Education Policy, an independent advocacy organization in Washington, DC, found that in the five years after enactment of NCLB, 44 percent of districts had increased instruction time in elementary school English language arts and math while decreasing time spent on other subjects.

The district requires all elementary schools to spend 90 minutes a day on reading instruction, and schools assess students early and often to identify problems and potential problems.

99, assesses early childhood and elementary teachers in the District of Columbia Public Schools as a master teacher, having spent 16 years in the classroom teaching kindergarteners through fifth - graders.

We compared how districts fund schools that are eligible to receive federal Title I dollars with other schools in their grade span — elementary, middle, or high school grades — and found vast disparities throughout the country in how districts spend state and local dollars on Title I schools.

The report finds that approximately 62 % of school districts increased the amount of time spent in elementary schools on English language arts and or math, while 44 % of districts cut time on science, social studies, art and music, physical education, lunch or recess.

For each elementary student enrolled, a District charter school receives $ 11,879 in tax dollars, including $ 8,770 to match per - pupil academic spending in the regular public schools and a $ 3,109 facility allotment to help pay for buildings.

«Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era» finds that since the enactment of NCLB, 62 percent of school districts increased the amount of time spent in elementary schools on subjects that are tested for accountability, while 44 percent of school districts cut time on science, social studies, art and music, physical education, lunch, or recess.

Students in elementary schools in the Syracuse City School district had the opportunity to spend some time learning about healthy eating, the importance of exercise and being a good teammate when members of the Syracuse Chiefs and representatives of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum came to visit classrooms.

He was then the principal of Wilson Elementary before spending seven years in the Canyons School District in Sandy as an elementary and middle school administSchool District in Sandy as an elementary and middle school administschool administrator.

Indeed, as the chart below makes clear, if Philly's benefits costs were just somewhere in the neighborhood of other school districts, it would be spending about $ 60 million less on elementary school teachers alone.

A 2008 survey found that, since the 2001 - 02 school year, 16 percent of a representative sample of 349 districts nationwide cut the average amount of time elementary students spend per week on art and music by 35 percent — from 154 minutes to 100.

(4) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, if a district qualifying under paragraph (3) is no longer in the lowest 10 per cent, the net school spending cap shall be 9 per cent; provided, however, that if the board of elementary and secondary education previously approved a higher level of enrollment for a charter school in the district while the district was in the lowest 10 per cent, the net school spending cap shall remain at the level necessary to support such enrollment.

An educator I'll call Cathy assumed the principalship of a large, chaotic, low - performing elementary school in the urban district where she'd spent her career.

The Atlanta public schools, like many districts across the country, have eliminated recess in elementary schools as a waste of time that would be better spent on -LSB-...]