Sentences with phrase «treated as school districts»

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The next president will have troops of civil rights attorneys poised to enlighten the ignorant masses and to punish states and school districts for treating boys as boys and girls as girls.

And as I sat through this district's presentation, school food professionals in the audience were eagerly asking for more details about all of it: the cost of the coffee cups, whether the lid and cardboard sleeve were included in the price, which extra-brightly-colored Trix were used in the treats shown above (apparently Trix Swirls is the more eye - catching choice).

The USDA's announcement on Thursday that school districts will be able to opt out of an ammonium - hydroxide treated ground beef filler known as both Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB) and «pink slime» is not exactly inspiring confidence.

It's time for school districts to stop treating teachers as if they were ticky - tacky — little boxes, sitting in the classroom, all teaching just the same.

The Constitution can not be colorblind in the real world, he said, and school districts can adopt race - conscious measures as long as they don't treat «each student in a different fashion solely on the basis of a systematic, individual typing by race.»

As one school board member, reflecting on LA Unified School District's attempts to recover from a disastrous iPad roll out last year, told the LA Times, «Why would we treat all our students — whether they are a first - grader or a high school freshman — as if they all had the same technology needAs one school board member, reflecting on LA Unified School District's attempts to recover from a disastrous iPad roll out last year, told the LA Times, «Why would we treat all our students — whether they are a first - grader or a high school freshman — as if they all had the same technology school board member, reflecting on LA Unified School District's attempts to recover from a disastrous iPad roll out last year, told the LA Times, «Why would we treat all our students — whether they are a first - grader or a high school freshman — as if they all had the same technology School District's attempts to recover from a disastrous iPad roll out last year, told the LA Times, «Why would we treat all our students — whether they are a first - grader or a high school freshman — as if they all had the same technology school freshman — as if they all had the same technology needas if they all had the same technology needs?

He had seen for too long how school districts treated students as their property and the state as an endless funding source, and he wanted that to change.

Instead, the Court argued, «the notion that school district lines may be casually ignored or treated as a mere administrative convenience is contrary to the history of public education in our country.»

Charter leaders say they supported the proposition on the assumption that school districts would treat their students equitably, as stated in the law.

Local school districts now constitute 90 percent of charter school authorizers and could have fostered the kind of cross-fertilization Shanker envisioned, but they've tended instead to treat charters as distant cousins.

Second, most school districts ignored these important differences in performance by treating all teachers as interchangeable parts, a phenomenon dubbed the «widget effect» in a timely 2009 report by TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project).

Historically, state and local policies have tended to treat all teachers as if they were equally effective in promoting student learning, 1 but a good deal of evidence amassed over the past decade documents enormous variation in teacher effectiveness.2 The effectiveness of a teacher is indeed the most important school - based factor determining students» levels of academic achievement, yet few state and district policies reflect this finding.

For example, a survey of district elementary - school teachers found a strong, negative correlation between teacher morale (as measured by their response to the statement, «I feel I am treated as a valued employee) and the market share of charter elementary schools.

States will not succeed if they don't get serious about improving their talent pipelines, and get more strategic about how to treat school districts as the front lines on quality assurance and how to treat schools as problem - solving organizations.

District employees were treated to the fruits of their labor as one of their own, fifth grade Alcott student Terynn Erby - Walker melted over 9,000 hearts seated in the Panther Arena with her powerful and skillfully delivered back - to - school speech.

But it is shameful that school districts and teachers unions in California have colluded to treat teachers as interchangeable widgets with no acknowledgment of teacher quality.

This imprecision, coupled with the differences in the grade levels served by the two groups, indicates that these trends in district versus charter schools should be treated as suggestive but not conclusive.

As our school district expends money fighting bullying, it should consider that gifted programs which increase approval of gifted students, boost their self - esteem, and aid with social skills help treat the root cause of bullying instead of addressing the symptoms.

When voters approved Proposition 39 in 2000, they intended for districts to provide charter schools with equitable access to space and facilities, and to be treated fairly as part of the public school system.»

Some states treat charter schools or networks of charters as separate districts.

So why does the formula treat our school district as though it has an equalized value per student of $ 361,721 when in reality it is $ 288,032?

In 11 of these, our schools have been treated exactly the same as the district schools: None of the T12 lights have been replaced (six buildings), or all have (one building), or some have (two buildings)-- or the building never had any T12 lights (two buildings).

School District shall treat any Teacher employed in connection with this Agreement whose teaching position is eliminated at least as favorably as other teachers...»

Unlike other players in the school reform movement, Parent Power activists are grassroots - oriented players, often coming from backgrounds outside of education and policymaking circles, and have actually have dealt day - to - day with traditional districts which have treated them as little more than nuisances and pests.

Peter McDermott, Julia Johnson Rothenberg, and Karyn Lacey have documented as being treated as afterthoughts and worse by traditional districts, the people who need school choice the most and the least likely to have it.

The U.S. Department of Education agreed with Crossey's assessment, issuing a federal order on November 19th saying that charter schools had to be treated as individual schools and that the move to evaluate them using the district method was «not aligned with the statute and regulations.»

For analytical purposes, New York City Public Schools, New York, is treated as a regular school district.

My parents were given a choice: because I had a disability, I could be treated as a gifted student, eligible for the «mini-schools» at two of the twenty or so schools in the district, or be treated as a disabled student, eligible for «special learning» in «the trailers» at my high school; I was the only student to that point who was thrown out of the special learning program for reading books at a far - too - advanced level; When I was dismissed, I was reading John Locke's Second Treatise on Government, a book about medieval castle battlement defenses, and (all at the same time) a book called «You can trust a communist — to be a communist».

The ethics board treats charter school CEOs as the head of a government entity, just like they do school district superintendents, Allen said.

Develop a systems - based approach that treats the district, not just the school, as the unit of change and that includes feedback loops for both the state and districts.

In just about every district in the state, public school teachers are part of an industrial style «step and column» salary regimen, which treats them as interchangeable widgets.

Districts in Solon, Ohio, and Belton, Texas, closed several schools after learning that students or staff members were either on the same flight or had flown on the same plane as one of two Dallas nurses who became sick with the virus this month after treating the United States» first Ebola patient.

«If we treated charter schools as a district, you would be one of the largest districts in the state.

«When voters approved Proposition 39 in 2000, they intended for districts to provide charter schools with reasonably equivalent facilities, and to be treated fairly as part of the public school system.

These changes were possible because of some additional staffing that was worked out with the other schools in the district, and have had good results so far, both in terms of strengthening our school community (improving the way students treat each other and giving us a forum to strengthen students» sense of belonging and safety), as well as strengthening academics.