Sentences with phrase «big districts face»

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The move would be an about face by the village, which initially said it would not allow two big - box grocery stores in its downtown district.

McGrath's biggest political test so far is on Tuesday, when she'll face off against Lexington Mayor Jim Gray (and four other candidates) for the Democratic nomination in Kentucky's 6th District.

«[Katko] not only faces a math problem in this district but an even bigger trust deficit with voters.

One of the biggest issues facing state lawmakers in 2012 is the redrawing of new district lines.

On Thursday, he'll face a top primary opponent in the strongly Republican 4th District: State Sen. Jim Tracy, who has raised big bucks for the race.

Faso said the biggest problem facing his district is slow economic growth, which has resulted in population decline.

Both women say the economy and jobs are the biggest issues facing the district.

The candidates for district attorney in Jefferson County agree that heroin is the biggest issue facing law enforcement in the area today.

«The biggest difference,» said North District Board Member Hope Jay, «is that now we are able to focus on the issues facing the district, rather than focus on «What is Carl going to do or sDistrict Board Member Hope Jay, «is that now we are able to focus on the issues facing the district, rather than focus on «What is Carl going to do or sdistrict, rather than focus on «What is Carl going to do or say next?

The cap, which enjoys broad popular support, faces its biggest hurdle among those in the base of the Assembly Democrats, who say a cap would harm school districts who are already facing deep cuts due to a reduction in state aid.

Its large urban districts, referred to as the «Big Eight,» have faced sharply declining enrollment due to both shrinking populations and an influx of charter schools.

This special report, «The Chief Academic Officer's Evolving Role: Powering Big - Picture Learning Goals,» examines the challenges CAOs are facing in school districts across the country and how they are working to improve academics in the age of common standards and digital teaching and learning.

Simply put, the problems confronting urban school districts are bigger, costlier, more numerous, and tougher to overcome than those facing most rural and suburban systems.

«The biggest threat that urban Catholic schools face is nostalgia,» he says both of districts nationwide and of his own diocese of Paterson, N.J..

But the nation's fourth - largest district, with over 350,000 students and an annual budget of over $ 5 billion faced a number of big challenges, among them, a growing principal shortage, a rash of underperforming schools, and a wide achievement gap between Miami - Dade students and students in other Florida districts.

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Flanagan told a state panel last week it's not clear if the Muskegon Heights school district, or the for - profit charter company that ran it the last two years, will face any consequences for running up a deficit big enough to require an emergency loan worth $ 1.4 million and two cash advances to keep schools open through June.

Connecticut experts with decades of educational experience working with Connecticut educators were replaced by five out - of - state consultants with virtually no experience working with the biggest issues facing poorer school districts; poverty, language barriers and the large number of students who need special education services.

The Every Student Succeeds Act creates an innovation fund to test, validate, replicate and scale evidence - based solutions to solve the big challenges students and schools face, and it allows school districts to invest their federal dropout prevention and student safety and health funds in «pay for success» initiatives in which districts pay for student services only if and when specified results are achieved.

As I visit with districts across the nation, I always ask what is the biggest challenge that they face with their ELL student population.

Leadership pipelines and historical knowledge are critical to running a district, to establishing the relationships needed to make changes that last and to truly tackling the biggest and stickiest problems of inequity that districts face.

MarylandCAN chose to focus on Baltimore, a district that arguably faces the biggest hurdles in the state: high concentrations of low - income students and a history of poor academic performance.

«The big takeaway for me was just that, being a teacher from Danbury, I hadn't thought about other districts going through the same issues that we face,» Nott said.

«Tell Congress to Oppose Bill which Cuts Half a Billion Dollars in Special Education Funding Main Local School Districts Already Facing Big Cuts»

«Blended, or hybrid, learning offers exciting opportunities for schools and districts faced with shrinking resources to look for and find new ways to get a bigger bang for their educational buck.»

When school districts merge the main challenges usually involve finding ways to improve test scores and cut costs without sacrificing educational opportunities, but the new Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District faced an even bigger challenge: desegregation.

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