A study by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) finds that over the course of three years, Texas charter school students on average gained the equivalent of 17 more days of reading instruction per
year than their district school peers.
«On average charter school students in Ohio have less learning in
a year than their district school peers.
Not exact matches
According to the company, the Chico Unified
School District in California will save more
than $ 3 million over 20
years.
The Broward County
school district has been holding annual lockdown drills at its
schools for more
than 10
years.
This
year, there are more
than 4,200
schools in almost 600
school districts across the country where kids will be introduced to the game of golf along with character education.
[21] Similarly, the
School Nutrition Association estimated that the cost of providing a school lunch was $ 2.92 for the 2008 - 2009 school year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high sch
School Nutrition Association estimated that the cost of providing a
school lunch was $ 2.92 for the 2008 - 2009 school year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high sch
school lunch was $ 2.92 for the 2008 - 2009
school year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high sch
school year, which is considerably higher
than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following
year in the 20 largest
districts ($ 2.07 in elementary
schools and $ 2.41 in high
schools).
Schools chief Jean - Claude Brizard upped the ante later in the evening on WTTW's «Chicago Tonight,» saying he would be willing to give elementary
school teachers a 2 percent raise this
year if it means the
district could implement a longer
school day this
year rather
than waiting until next
year.
In addition to making sure students have healthy
school meals to choose from, Lynne has dedicated more
than 33
years to creating an overall healthy environment for her
district's students.
The decision to tear down the
school built in 1962 was made this year after the New Lenox Elementary District 122 School Board learned repairs and drainage requirements for an addition would be less economical than a new s
school built in 1962 was made this
year after the New Lenox Elementary
District 122
School Board learned repairs and drainage requirements for an addition would be less economical than a new s
School Board learned repairs and drainage requirements for an addition would be less economical
than a new
schoolschool.
District Supt. Rosemarie Carroll said Aramark expects to make an additional 2.5 percent from the total contract
than it did during the last
school year because it projects higher sales of a la carte items.
«We worked collaboratively for more
than a
year to do this and Chicago Public
Schools and the Department of Public Health were the first
school district and park
district outside of California to see the power and potential of these guidelines,» he said.
According to the report, which contains data that
school districts are now required to submit to the Department of Public Instruction, more
than one in every five uses of corporal punishment in North Carolina was applied to a student with disabilities during the 2010 - 2011
school year.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — For more
than 25
years, the Arlington Heights Park
District has used Elementary
District 25
school property for its soccer and baseball programs.
But in a sign of how challenging this transition can be for
schools,
district figures show that lunch sales for September through December dropped by about 5 percentage points since the previous
year, or more
than 20,000 lunches a day.
By contrast, last
school year, the
district's food service staff fed more
than half of Milton high
school students, 70 percent of elementary and middle
school students and around 100 staff members regularly.
In the 2016 — 2017
school year, the third
year of its nationwide availability, community eligibility allowed 20,751
schools and 3,538
school districts to serve free breakfast and lunch to more
than 9.7 million children.
According to our partners at the Detroit Free Press, Julian and his parents are now, more
than two
years later, suing Hamady High
School football coach Gary Lee and the Westwood Heights
School District near Flint.
But in the intervening four
years, in which I educated myself about the National
School Lunch Program (NSLP), started this blog, continued to work closely with my district, and also met school food professionals around the country, I've come to believe that there are few jobs on this planet harder than managing a district's school food pr
School Lunch Program (NSLP), started this blog, continued to work closely with my
district, and also met
school food professionals around the country, I've come to believe that there are few jobs on this planet harder than managing a district's school food pr
school food professionals around the country, I've come to believe that there are few jobs on this planet harder
than managing a
district's
school food pr
school food program.
Kentucky
districts participating in the national
school meal programs served more
than 128 million breakfasts and lunches during the 2013 - 14
school year, resulting in more
than $ 265 million in federal reimbursements.
Alabama
districts participating in national
school meal programs served more
than 129 million breakfasts and lunches during the 2013 - 14
school year, resulting in more
than $ 272 million in federal reimbursements through the national
school breakfast and lunch programs.
This
year's class of 30
school nutrition professionals is the second to complete the training; in its first
year after the new scratch cooking program started the
district served 38,000 more breakfasts, 106,000 more lunches, and 9,000 more dinners
than it did the previous
year.
If your
school district is anything like my
school district, once those teacher assignments come out for the upcoming
school year, the feeding frenzy begins and people start interrogating everyone who has a kid older
than theirs about teachers.
Grace A. Chantry, 59, of Arlington Heights, who retired in June as a registered nurse for Elk Grove Township
School District 59 after more
than 20
years of service, died Wednesday in her home.
District officials were alarmed last
year when preliminary data collected by
school nurses showed that Chicago children, from preschool to 3rd grade, have higher levels of obesity
than the general U.S. population.
School spending on Long Island is projected to rise an average 2.35 percent for the 2017 - 18 school year, with school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of dist
School spending on Long Island is projected to rise an average 2.35 percent for the 2017 - 18
school year, with school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of dist
school year, with
school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of dist
school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more
than this
year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of
districts.
Five Long Island
school districts, all in Suffolk, are asking voters to approve an override of their state - imposed property tax caps — more
than twice as many as last
year, according to the state comptroller's office.
Sloan said the 5,451 - student Port Washington
school district has about 100 more children enrolled this
year than last
year, and some elementary class sizes have swelled to 28 students.
Local
school districts are preparing for another tight budget season this
year, with minimal state aid increases projected in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tentative spending plan and a cap of less
than 2 percent on tax levy growth.
Calls for altering the cap are back again this
year as
school districts face the prospect of setting budgets that allow for less
than a 1 percent increase in the levy, or the amount collected in taxes.
County leaders are feeling the squeeze this
year, as are other local government and
school district officials, given the allowable growth in the state's cap on property taxes is less
than 1 percentage point.
-RRB- would drop the supermajority requirement for
school districts to pierce the cap, instead calling for a simple majority — making overrides no more difficult
than passing a budget within the cap, and inviting a return to the days when
school taxes grew by more
than 7 percent per
year.
«The only reason I can think to do this is [is that] when real numbers come out in June and show less -
than - positive results, it will be Bill de Blasio's administration's fault and not on Bloomberg's twelve -
year legacy running the
schools,» charged Miriam Aristy - Farer, President of
District 6's Community Education Council (CEC).
Rochester City
School District teachers and staff went door - to - door Thursday, visiting roughly 200 students who missed more than 10 percent of school last
School District teachers and staff went door - to - door Thursday, visiting roughly 200 students who missed more
than 10 percent of
school last
school last
year.
A separate bill introduced by Assemblywoman Jaffee (A227) would drop the supermajority requirement for
school districts to pierce the cap, instead calling for a simple majority — making overrides no more difficult
than passing a budget within the cap, and inviting a return to the days when
school taxes grew by more
than 7 percent per
year.
Those cuts, in fact, come at a time when there are 15,000 fewer teachers and support staff in New York state public
schools than two
years ago, and as
districts statewide expect to lay off at least 10,000 more employees in 2011 - 12.
Newsday's calculations focus on operating funds, because those are widely considered a more meaningful measure of what a
district receives
than aid for
school construction and renovation, which may or may not go to a
district in a given
year, depending on whether the work is completed then.
During the 2009 - 2010
school year, the Food Bank's Back - Pack Program served 19
school districts across the Southern Tier, reaching more
than 1,220 children each week.
Susan Schnebel, superintendent of Islip
schools, said that next
year's downward fluctuation in the cap could leave her
district with $ 1.1 million less in operating funds
than it has this
year.
The City
School District of New Rochelle contacted local media (except Talk of the Sound, of course) to «celebrate» the raising of the roof on the South Tower at New Rochelle High
School — more
than a
year late.
Long Island's 126
school districts pay into the third state pension fund - the Teachers» Retirement System, which operates on a different fiscal
year than the other two systems.
Joseph Dragone, assistant superintendent for business in the Roslyn
school system, noted that his
district would lose more
than 2 percent in operating aid next
year based on the governor's plan.
With more
than two - thirds of Oneida City
School District students refusing to take the Common Core aligned exams this year, the district has one of the highest student opt out rates in New Yor
District students refusing to take the Common Core aligned exams this
year, the
district has one of the highest student opt out rates in New Yor
district has one of the highest student opt out rates in New York state.
Long Island public
school districts would gain an additional $ 75.3 million in combined operating assistance, or a hike of more
than 2.8 percent, under the state aid proposal for the 2017 - 18 academic
year released by Cuomo's office.
School districts and local governments alike are bracing for another
year of budgeting with a tax cap of less
than two percent.
More
than a
year has passed since the Lancaster
School District stopped being the Redskins.
State auditors contend the Schoharie Central
School District has been overestimating how much it expected to spend over the past five years, suggesting the district collected more taxes than ne
District has been overestimating how much it expected to spend over the past five
years, suggesting the
district collected more taxes than ne
district collected more taxes
than necessary.
All but four
school districts in Erie and Niagara counties received less state aid for programs this
school year than they did six
years ago.
Long Island
school districts lack a reliable funding stream for public pre-K and serve less
than one - third of an estimated 28,000 eligible 4 -
year - old children, even as support grows for a universal program available to all children.
The Hempstead Union Free
School District, under scrutiny for failing to enroll more than 30 immigrant children at the start of the school year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these stu
School District, under scrutiny for failing to enroll more
than 30 immigrant children at the start of the
school year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these stu
school year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these students.
The Rochester City
School District School Board has adopted a more than $ 950 million budget for next school
School District School Board has adopted a more than $ 950 million budget for next school
School Board has adopted a more
than $ 950 million budget for next
schoolschool year.