Sentences with phrase «most big districts»

Most big districts are portfolio districts but they vary in the extent to which they embrace or resist charter schools.

Not exact matches

Stay Tuned for more updates and a possible rainbow sighting, though most believers don't think this is the big one since it seem's to end in San Francisco's Casto district...

As you can see, the schools that benefit the most from competitive equity divisions are the high - enrollment, big schools of larger districts like Sacramento Unified, Stockton Unified, East Side Union High School District of San Jose and others.

The ban's biggest impact would be the elimination of fried foods, said Vanover, who believes it would be too expensive for most districts to switch over to natural oils like peanut or olive oil.

For Illinois schools, the ban's biggest impact would be the elimination of fried foods, said Vanover, who believes it would be too expensive for most districts to switch over to natural oils such as peanut or olive oil.

Unlike hotels, banquet halls or restaurants, most park districts will not require that you use a caterer so you save big by just doing your own casual cake and punch party.

In math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districts.

The race for Silver's former seat in the 65th Assembly District has drawn one of the biggest and most ethnically diverse fields of candidates this year — despite the fact that it is now just one of 150 Assembly seats and no longer controlled by one of the state's most powerful figures.

His experience pushing to reform Albany and deliver results for those who need it most will make a big difference for the people and neighborhoods of the 26th Senate District.

Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul felt Slaughter's influence more than most, saying the late Congresswoman was a big part of her winning a seat in the heavily Republican 26th district during the special election in 2011.

In a little over a month, voters in most school districts go to the polls to decide yes or know on that district's spending plan and five of them in Erie County have less state aid to work with in the recently approved state budget In Erie County, Sweet Home sees the biggest cut in overall state...

After eight years running one of the biggest and most active public corruption operations as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District, Preet Bharara knows how to read indictments and plea deals, and with the big news out of the Mueller investigation, it looks to him like much more is coming.

One of the biggest issues currently in my district is one that probably doesn't impact most of you directly.

Colorado's 4th district (R): By far the biggest oversight on our most recent Line was the exclusion of this Colorado seat held by Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R) since 2002.

The big picture: Most of the $ 675 million spending plan — $ 391 million — is accounted for by the school district budget, which was approved last month by the Board of Education.

Ulster is the most populous county, Kingston the biggest municipality among 160 in the district.

Under the current congressional districts, most of Astoria, Long Island City, parts of Sunnyside and Woodside, Roosevelt Island and a big section of Manhattan's East Side are currently in U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney's (D - Astoria) district.

But instead, it was worn for an afternoon / night of meandering through Shinjuku, which is Tokyo's biggest and most bustling commercial district (pictured below).

When it comes to dinning, like most big cities, there are districts that harbor distinct cultural peoples.

The red light district is not as big as what you see in Thailand, actually it's pretty small (visit Mango Square, it's always fun), and most ladyboys in Cebu are not entertainers.

A sentence congratulating the students of the week, teacher of the month, swimmer who broke a district record, class that brought the most cans for a food drive or baseball team for a big win is quick to write.

Lastly, in most big cities today, the state government — not the district — provides the lion's share of school funding.

For the most part, big - city school districts do not use relaxed hiring rules in order to hire retired rocket scientists to teach math or gifted authors to teach high - school composition.

In the K — 12 world, however, tenure remains the norm for public school teachers in the district sector, vouchsafed in most places by state law and big - time politics, as well as local contracts, even in so - called «right to work» states.

Most big - city districts try many reform initiatives, some mutually contradictory, all at once.

School administrators in Kansas watched nervously last week as gridlock in the legislature threatened a 35 - mill statewide property tax that provides most districts with a big part of their budgets.

Exact counts of multi-district schools are not available for every state, but most states have IU's — or districts big enough to create their own online schools.

For district leaders struggling with rapid charter growth, the second big step in survival is accepting a reality that most charter leaders have taken for granted.

It oversaw the largest district, the most students, and the biggest budget.

Obviously, few school districts have Big Apple resources, but Maxwell - Jolly suggests that most schools, as well as districts and states, can set aside more of their existing professional development funds to prepare teachers to work with ELL students.

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.

Ohio lawmakers agreed to introduce vouchers in the 74,000 - student Cleveland school district, the state's biggest and most troubled system.

If socioeconomic differences are a major force driving discipline disparities, than we would expect to see bigger discipline disparities in districts with bigger socioeconomic disparities — that is, in places where most of the white students are middle class or above and most of the African American students are poor.

Thanks to the unwillingness of most suburban district leaders to embrace the underlying tenets of the No Child Left Behind Act — and their efforts to perpetuate the myth that traditional districts in the «burbs are doing just fine — they have ignored the innovations (including in the area of revamping teacher compensation) embraced by more reform - minded districts in big cities.

One of the biggest responses — and perhaps the most controversial — has been the adoption of the Common Core State Standards in 45 states and the District of Columbia.

Charter school completion rates for college are substantially better than the overall numbers for big - city districts where most charter school students are located.

The most recent enrollment numbers for the nation's biggest school districts seem to reflect the country's ailing economy.

The fact that the AFT affiliate, like its counterparts in other districts, have the advantage of bodies on the ground — and in the case of race between Zimmer and Anderson, used it to their advantage — is another reminder that the school reform movement must do a better job of building grassroots support, especially among the 11.7 million single - parent families for whose children the failures of big - city districts such as L.A. Unified prove to weigh most - heavily.

Enrollment numbers stagnate or decline in most of the nation's largest school districts, while the largest colleges get bigger.

In the first year, district leaders were given access to a dashboard version of the big - picture data they cared most about.

However, most districts already require three years of math, suggesting that funding may not be a big constraint.

Friends, Parents, teachers, community members and anyone in the Linked Learning field have all seen the transformative effect that Linked Learning has on students, especially in some of the biggest, most challenging school districts across the country.

Wake County, which runs the biggest school district in the state, also has the most generous supplements.

An online council survey completed by 41 big - city districts in fall 2012 found that the tasks most commonly carried out by their principal supervisors were: visiting schools (93 percent of the districts); conversing with principals about school performance data (90 percent); and visiting classrooms with principals (82 percent).

School districts spend most of their money on people, and one of the proposal's biggest impacts would be on how teachers are distributed.

Our cities chew through school district leaders, with most big - city supes serving in a given job for only two or three years.

One of the biggest and most transformative changes my school district has made is partnering with a non-profit school network.

Jonathan Palumbo, a spokesman for the Executive Office of Education, said the administration has proved its commitment to increasing charter schools with the new legislation and noted that the paucity of new schools reflects how most districts, especially those in big cities, had already reached their budget limits.

But the state's biggest district managed to come up with a creative solution: Instead of doing away with busing for older students altogether, Columbus eliminated most neighborhood bus stops and used neighborhood schools as centralized stops for older students.

The fate of neighborhood schools in big - city school districts is perhaps the most sensitive education topic out there, given their historic role in disadvantaged communities, their struggle to educate children to high academic levels, and the process of gentrification and the disruption of the traditional education system via charter schools.