Sentences with phrase «when other school districts»

Coachella Valley Unified School District announces layoffs at a time when other school districts are expanding.

Not exact matches

When Nikolas Cruz turned 18, he refused to let the school district continue providing him with crucial mental health and other services — and there was nothing officials could do about it, Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie said Monday.

Teachers and other staff in public schools are often moved from school to school when allegations emerge, rather than the school attempting to remove the teacher from the district.»

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

Joint physical custody or parenting time can be difficult on a child when parents live far apart from each other or even just in different school districts.

When her daughter was in kindergarten, Tatelli and other parents of children with food allergies worked with Highland Park School District 112, which spans pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, to develop a policy.

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitSchool districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitschool kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitschool kitchens.

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

When parents at other schools in the district asked for the same change without going through the debate stage, milk consumption fell so drastically that the food service provider insisted on restoring the chocolate.

No one wants to waste time and energy reinventing the wheel when it comes to fixing school food, so before getting started, it is a good idea to look at what changes have been made in other schools and other districts.

Despite the concerns from NYSUT and other school district officials when it comes to the tax cap, the provision is unlikely to change in New York.

Buffalo Public Schools, always strapped for cash, missed out on hundreds of thousands of dollars when it underbilled for providing special education services to students from other school districts, a new state audit found.

Rotterdam Assemblyman George Amedore is asking local leaders and school districts that he represents to give victims of flooding a 90 - day grace period when it comes to paying their property tax bills, and other local taxes and fees.

But he grew feisty when he spoke about his anger toward other school board members, the superintendent of the Buffalo school district, Dr. Kriner Cash and the President of the teachers union, Phil Rumore, and what he said was their «scheming» that led to a «rigged» teacher contract that he Paladino believed would drain the districts reserves and plunge it further into debt.

«In other school districts, we usually observe negative effects when high - performing teachers leave,» Dee said.

When the Mount Carmel Area School District in eastern Pennsylvania adopted a strict dress code for its elementary school in 2000, it did not sit well with Carmine and Maria Scicchitano and a handful of other district paSchool District in eastern Pennsylvania adopted a strict dress code for its elementary school in 2000, it did not sit well with Carmine and Maria Scicchitano and a handful of other district District in eastern Pennsylvania adopted a strict dress code for its elementary school in 2000, it did not sit well with Carmine and Maria Scicchitano and a handful of other district paschool in 2000, it did not sit well with Carmine and Maria Scicchitano and a handful of other district district parents.

When the Bossier Parish school board began considering new boundaries for its voting districts in 1992, George Price and others in the local NAACP saw a chance to carve out two majority - black districts.

While the schools in our district are not far apart in terms of distance, it is often difficult for them to make connections with each other even though we have the best intentions and we all realize the potential for increased engagement when we do facilitate these experiences.

We find that when a district increases per - pupil school spending by $ 100 due to reforms, spending on instruction increases by about $ 70, spending on support services increases by roughly $ 40, spending on capital increases by about $ 10, while there are reductions in other kinds of school spending, on average.

When we look to test - based evidence — and look no further — to decide whether choice «works,» we are making two rather extraordinary, unquestioned assumptions: that the sole purpose of schooling is to raise test scores, and that district schools have a place of privilege against which all other models must justify themselves.

In other words, even when an ERI program creates substantial savings for school districts by reducing teacher salary costs, it still can cost the state money through higher pension payments.

When Sparks and his team in Charlotte were revamping their curriculum to focus more deeply on socialemotional learning, abandoning lip - service measures such as the Character Trait Word of the Month and other window dressing in favor of devoting a full 45 minutes to Morning Meeting, they were questioned by some in the school district.

When it comes to the study of implementing education reforms, analysts tend to focus on the formal channels of implementation and the standard tools of public administration — for example, intergovernmental hand - offs (federal to state to district to school), alignment of curriculum, assessment and other components of the reform, professional development, getting incentives right, and accountability mechanisms.

When we examined noncategorical per - pupil funding in the state's four largest school districts — Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston — the levels of inequity were even higher and each district was remarkably different from the others.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

School districts also have the smallest staffs when compared to other authorizers (proving my point, I'd argue, that districts weren't designed and will never have the right mindset to authorize at the highest levels).

When we talk to school providers there, they say they can still get charters authorized but the politics of district finance, combined with the saturation effect of having so many charter operators fighting over the same buildings, kids, and talent, are forcing them to look to other communities.

This led to a patient explanation from other charter leaders as well as district leaders about how hard it is for communities to see a building shuttered or handed over to a charter school when generations of neighborhood kids, some of whom went on to be accomplished leaders, attended the school.

Some districts in the largely rural state have long - standing voucher - like programs, called «tuitioning,» in which they pay to enroll students at secular private schools or public schools in other districts when...

In addition, when sub-national units, such as states and school districts, try something new, the damage is isolated if a plan does not work; if it succeeds, others are free to replicate it and adapt it to their needs.

When hearings begin Feb. 14, the court will be asked to determine if the state has carried out Judge Recht's order for overhauling the West Virginia schools — a verdict that sent school districts in many other states to court hoping for similar outcomes.

The number of women named to head school districts in the state suggests that it is at least outpacing other states when it comes to the chief executive's job.

When they're not working with schools and districts around the country, Nancy Gutierrez and Liliana Polo - McKenna sit next to each other in the offices of the NYC Leadership Academy.

After a six - year span in which districts saw average annual insurance costs rise by more than 40 percent, school boards were able to shed expenses when potential insurers were forced to compete with each other.

79, president of the foundation, «when we developed the conviction that dramatic structural change was going to be necessary in Boston and other urban public school systems in order to generate broad improvement in the academic achievement of the mostly low - income, minority students who populate these districts today.»

In Tacoma and 16 other cities across the nation, school districts are boosting student attendance by sending home what they call «nudge» letters when students miss too many days of school.

The charge to the teachers and administrators from eight school districts seemed simple enough: Create an activity, called a performance assessment task, that would show, when solved, that students understand a unit covering Common Core standards that California and 45 other states and the District of Columbia have adopted.

When school district budgets are cut, parents in more affluent neighborhoods essentially tax themselves to provide librarians, after - school programs, field trips and other needs.

Federal employment data show that school districts began cutting teachers and other employees in mid-2008, when the first round of budget cuts began taking effect.

Recognized by the Dole Food Company for her efforts to improve student nutrition, both in her school, and in other state school districts, Mosso knew she had won a huge victory when one of her students showed up on his birthday with a fruit tray instead of cupcakes!

Many also don't have information about discounts that other school districts have received, and, when purchasing from a company like Apple, which has a reputation for being rigid with pricing, some district officials don't even know they can ask for larger discounts.

For instance, although most of the studies cited above do include statistical controls for peer effects (the mean characteristics of other student in a class or school), very few states or districts do so when generating value - added estimates.

She and other Olympic View parents began exploring the idea of starting a charter school when they learned the district was considering and would later shut the school down.

These include the development of a clear vision and plan of action when transitioning to a personalized learning model by district leaders, the need for rural leaders to collaborate with other Future Ready Schools, and provision of funds by state governments and departments of education to support the implementation.

When disputes arise within a school district over screening and identification, programming options, or other areas, the parties involved should know the steps to resolve an issue within that jurisdiction.

«We should question the relevance of comparing so - called U.S. national student performance with average scores in other countries, when U.S. students attend schools in 51 separate education systems run by states and the District of Columbia, not the federal government,» said Carnoy.

It focuses on the relevance of comparing U.S. national student performance with average scores in other countries when U.S. students attend schools in 51 separate education systems run not by the federal government, but by states (plus the District of Columbia).

When Nampa's school board approved TVLA and one other innovation school in mid-2016, then - superintendent David Peterson hailed the moment as important not only to the District but to the entire state of Idaho.

Local groups are providing childcare options May 16 when Wake County and other Triangle school districts are closed, a result of so many teachers planning to take the day off to protest in Raleigh.

Diana Lam, the school's new principal — who dealt with unions as superintendent in Chelsea, Providence, and other districts — said she was stunned when she received a letter from the state about the union's creation but took the development in stride.