Sentences with phrase «students live in districts»

The law gives preference to students living in the district, students moving because their parents are active - duty military personnel or students moving because of foster care placement or court - ordered custody arrangements.

The 2015 - 16 school year was the first year school districts experienced a loss in state aid to pay for students living in district boundaries who were attending private schools using a school voucher.

This means that nearly 73,000 NYC students living in these districts don't have a quality middle school option.

WASB lobbyist Dan Rossmiller said public school districts» revenue would be reduced by about $ 4,000 per student each year — resulting in multi-million dollar revenue losses for school districts with higher numbers of voucher students living in the district.

Not exact matches

The new contract spells the end of the district's short - lived foray into the National School Lunch Program, which provides federal reimbursements in exchange for offering healthy free or reduced - cost meals to low - income students.

She was a founding member of her school district's Food Allergy Task Force in 2007, which continues its mission today to assist students and families managing life threatening food allergies in Academy School Distdistrict's Food Allergy Task Force in 2007, which continues its mission today to assist students and families managing life threatening food allergies in Academy School DistrictDistrict 20.

I recently spent 90 minutes in a meeting discussing food allergies and how it impacts students at DU with the Vice Chancellor of Campus Life, Dr. Lili Rodriguez, Dining Services Resident District Manager, Ira Simon, and the DU Communications Director, Elise Chester (who has a two year old son with severe peanut allergies!)

We love the recent post over at the USDA blog by Dr. Robert Lewis of the El Monte School District, in which Dr. Lewis writes about his district's efforts to improve the lives of students using health - promoting messages in the clDistrict, in which Dr. Lewis writes about his district's efforts to improve the lives of students using health - promoting messages in the cldistrict's efforts to improve the lives of students using health - promoting messages in the classroom.

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

«And the students, who will walk in these doors and their lives will forever be changed — our greatest capital — are our young people,» Ellicott District Common Council Member Darius Pridgen remarked.

The community partners honored at the event — three individuals and one program — have had a major impact on the lives of students and teachers in the city school district.

Donaldson, minority leader of the legislature, contended that Quigley, 21, a college student in Connecticut until May 10, did not live at 60 Orchard St. in the legislative district but rather at his parents» home in the Town of Ulster at the time he circulated nominating petitions during June.

Roughly 9,000 students, the vast majority of them black or Latino, attend public schools in the district, while about 24,000 students who live there attend yeshivas.

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The tech fair, organized by Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, Community School District 6 and City College to help local students to learn more about careers in STEM, will also include companies like BMW, Con Edison, Major League Baseball, New York Life and Spectrum.

It punishes students, teachers, and schools in high - poverty districts simply because the students live in segregated poverty,» Hawkins continued.

The legislation, the Students LIVE Act, is part of Chairman Crowley's Better Deal for Queens and the Bronx, a comprehensive plan put forward by Crowley to improve the lives of working men and women in New York's 14th Congressional District.

«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.

They presented «A Day in the Life of a Scientist / Engineer» to middle - and high - school students throughout the city's school districts.

While schools often are required to ask students for proof that they live within a district, school officials essentially are barred from asking about immigration status and can not block a child's access to a public K - 12 school based on such status, under a landmark 1982 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plyler v. Doe.

A school district in Tempe, Ariz., has dropped its longstanding — but illegal — practice of asking students their citizenship status and requiring many foreign - born students who live in the district to obtain student visas before enrolling in school.

As more schools began to locate in district facilities, Boasberg requested that some of them prioritize enrollment for students living in the neighborhood.

Even Education Week «s raw dataset shows that the poorest districts (those with the most students living in poverty) spend, on average, 122 percent of the state's median.

I partnered with their Technology Facilitator Sam Walker and Melissa Edwards, a fellow District Instructional Technologist, to create an environment that embraced the use of social networking and social media, but also taught students how to live in that world.

The Spokane (Washington) Public Schools, along with many other school districts, has made a living embracing this simple concept: If we assess our students beforehand, create a common curriculum based upon what the students need to have, then teach that curriculum and fill in what the students don't have, and then assess the students again to be sure they got it, we'll probably be okay.

«An ideal situation in five years may be in a leadership role at a large urban school district, charter school network, or nonprofit organization that serves underrepresented students, especially those living in poverty,» she says.

District leaders must manage a myriad of priorities, and I often tell them that the best first step they can take to ensure our students» success in life, work, and citizenship is to develop and adopt a graduate profile.

Jim and Dawn sent fifty film crews, both pro and student, into the twenty - eight schools in Pasadena, California to paint an intimate, and very human, portrait of a day in the life of an American public school district.

Four current and former high school students have sued the Puyallup, Wash., school district, claiming they were harassed after their names were used in a story about their sex lives in their school's student newspaper.

It could find that the equal protection clause prohibits wide within - state disparities in educational opportunity that disadvantage some students because they live in a property - poor district, as Justice Thurgood Marshall argued in his Rodriguez dissent.

In a 2014 study, Stephen Billings and his colleagues used administrative data and variation in school assignments for students who lived on opposite sides of new catchment area boundaries in Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina, following the district's release from court supervision to identify the effects of changes in racial composition and school resourceIn a 2014 study, Stephen Billings and his colleagues used administrative data and variation in school assignments for students who lived on opposite sides of new catchment area boundaries in Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina, following the district's release from court supervision to identify the effects of changes in racial composition and school resourcein school assignments for students who lived on opposite sides of new catchment area boundaries in Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina, following the district's release from court supervision to identify the effects of changes in racial composition and school resourcein Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina, following the district's release from court supervision to identify the effects of changes in racial composition and school resourcein racial composition and school resources.

The District of Columbia, the nation's worst, are at the level achieved in Turkey and Bulgaria, while the one - eighth of our students living in California are similar to those in Slovakia and Spain.

The sniper shootings that occurred over a three - week period this month had an impact on the school lives of more than 1 million students and 65,000 teachers in about 30 school districts, some as far as 125 miles from Washington.

Under the rules of the program as approved by the legislature last year, the families of handicapped students would have been obligated — like other participating families — to pay any transportation costs for their children to attend school in a district other than the one in which they lived.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

When students finally reach high school, especially if they live in poor neighborhoods, they may find just a smattering of honors or AP classes, nothing like the ample course offerings of well - resourced suburban districts and elite private schools.

Preliminary Evidence from California's CORE Districts Brookings, 3/17/16 «A growing body of evidence confirms that student skills not directly captured by tests of academic achievement and ability predict a broad range of academic and life outcomes, even when taking into account differences in cognitive skills,» writes Associate Professor Martin West.

Utah is one of only 10 states that have negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more funding per pupil than students living in wealthy areas.

Coleman's work spawned a large body of research comparing the effectiveness of district, private, and (later) charter schools in preparing students for college and life.

Curricula, teaching methods, and schedules can all be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations of individual students; education can be freed from the geographic constraints of districts and brick - and - mortar buildings; coursework from the most remedial to the most advanced can be made available to everyone; students can have more interaction with teachers and one another; parents can readily be included in the education process; sophisticated data systems can measure and guide performance; and schools can be operated at lower cost with technology (which is relatively cheap) substituted for labor (which is relatively expensive).

This is the second year that students living in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District have been able to apply for a voucher to attend a private high school such as Saint Martin if they were attended a Cleveland public school in eighth grade.

But their work spawned a large body of research comparing the effectiveness of district, private, and (later) charter schools in preparing students for college and life.

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In your district, African American students are three times more likely to live in poverty than white students and more than twice as likely to get into fights at schooIn your district, African American students are three times more likely to live in poverty than white students and more than twice as likely to get into fights at schooin poverty than white students and more than twice as likely to get into fights at school.

A few years ago, I did a small, informal research project examining the mission and vision statements adopted by the nation's hundred largest school districts to see whether they still view the preparation of students for participation in democratic life as an essential focus of their work.

The second and much larger contingent of entrants, who arrived the following month, were students who lived in Taft's district and were transferring in from a previously segregated junior high elsewhere in the city.

The average scholarship amount, based on the public - school district in which students live, ranges from nearly $ 4,500 in kindergarten to $ 5,600 in high school.

But the case groaned back to life in 2006 when a group organized as the Greenville Parents Association filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights objecting to the district's use of race in student assignments.

These objectives are particularly important for schools and districts serving large concentrations of students living in poverty.

The information obtained by a mentor through interaction with the new teacher while engaged in the mentoring activities of the program shall not be used for evaluating or disciplining the new teacher, unless withholding such information poses a danger to the life, health, or safety if an individual, including but not limited to students and staff of the school; or unless such information indicates that the new teacher has been convicted of a crime, or has committed an act which raises a reasonable question as to the new teacher's moral character; or unless the school district or BOCES has entered into an agreement, negotiated pursuant to article 14 of the Civil Service Law whose terms are in effect, that provides that the information obtained by the mentor through intervention with the new teacher while engaged in the mentoring activities of the program may be used for evaluating or disciplining the new teacher.