Sentences with phrase «most public districts»

Most public districts don't have access to such funds, but Kirkpatrick thinks they might not need extra money to create their own residency programs.

Given the small share of total education spending Gates could offer, most public districts refused to entertain the Gates strategy of smaller schools, others took the money but failed to implement it properly, and others reversef the reform once the Gates subsidies ended.

Not exact matches

Most users have come from public school districts; high - school coaches use the service to stay connected with student athletes, and teachers employ it to elicit participation from shy students.

And in a turn that is likely to be most significant for his campaign, in 2014 he was indicted for corruption, on charges stemming from his veto of a $ 7.5 million appropriation for a public integrity unit, seen as a bid to pressure a district attorney to step down.

But while neighborhood groups sometimes have helped raise money for such amenities as playgrounds and field houses, perhaps the district's most valuable alliance has been with the non-profit Trust for Public Land, a national group that helps local governments acquire land for parks and open space.

Most raise their prices for kids who can pay, according to research by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were available.

The report also shows that American Indian students, who account for less than 2 percent of the student population statewide, received more than one - third of all corporal punishment in North Carolina public schools, although most of that disparity was driven by one school district, Robeson County.

And the frenzy will play out again in eight weeks, on April 19, when registration begins for the Park District's summer camps, the most competitive of the public programs.

While most suburban programs have seen the benefits for years, a number of Public League teams have benefited from the Chicago Park District's continued commitment to improving soccer fields in Chicago.

You can get the latest analysis and public polling in dozens of the most competitive House districts in the Sept. 30 issue of The Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report.

Fink, who Mayor de Blasio counts as one of his most trusted advisors, was chief of staff to State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky; he served as director in Anthony Weiner's district office, handled the campaign of Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley for Congress and most recently was deputy chief of staff in the public Advocate's office and a senior adviser to Mr. de Blasio's mayoral campaign.

These changes, approved in two meetings over the course of the past month, will ensure that there are semiannual meetings of the County Committee, the membership body of most Brooklyn Democrats, and that Executive Committee meetings, comprised of District Leaders, are open to the public.

Running in a more conservative district, she's even tiptoed toward the right, confident that her large primary lead — the most recent public poll was a Time Warner - Siena College poll that put Teachout leading Yandik 53 - 23 — won't hurt her in the primary.

A Siena College poll this week shows that most New Yorkers don't know about the Moreland Commission, a panel of district attorneys and law enforcement officials investigating public corruption in Albany.

His most recent campaign for public office was in 2010, when he lost a bid for the 120th Assembly District post to incumbent Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli, D - Syracuse.

Bellone said Monday, «It is clear that the District Attorney lied to me, he lied to the Sheriff when he selectively refused to prosecute Ed Walsh and most importantly he has lied to the public to whom he swore an oath.»

Perhaps most tellingly, $ 50,000 was spent on canvassing in «select Senate districts,» according to the report — a sign that the group was heavily involved in gauging public opinion in districts represented by lawmakers who were considering voting yes.

Griffo noted that he has ample experience in the public sector, first as mayor of Rome, then as Oneida County executive and now (since he was elected in 2006) as a senator representing the 47th district, which encompasses all of Lewis County, most of Oneida County, and St. Lawrence County.

In one of Brooklyn's most rapidly changing districts, where brownstones sell for millions of dollars around the corner from deteriorating public housing complexes, Council Member Laurie Cumbo believes that arts and culture can be a unifying factor.

While there are always district - specific issues, some are prominent in most races, including education, affordable housing, public safety, employment, transit, and the somewhat opaque «quality of life,» which typically includes things like traffic, trash, parks, homelessness, and more.

Every one of the state's 728 public school districts must run lead tests on the water coming from drinking fountains and most of the sinks in every school building.

Samual Radford is president of District Parent Coordinating Council, which has emerged the past several years as the most organized and vocal advocate of reforming Buffalo public schools.

Upper West Success Academy will open in the fall of 2011, and will most likely share space with a public school in District 3.

In most State Senate and State Assembly districts, public transportation users outnumber drivers by as much as 30 to 1, said Tri-State Transportation Campaign Executive Director Nick Sifuentes.

Among Long Island districts, according to the analysis, prepared for the New York Public Interest Research Group, a watchdog that has been the plan's most vocal proponent, the cost would increase the Brentwood Union - Free district's bills by up to $ 139,254, the Sachem Central district's by $ 114,996, the Longwood Central School District's by up to $ 88,904 and the Smithtown Central district's bills by up to $ 87,904district's bills by up to $ 139,254, the Sachem Central district's by $ 114,996, the Longwood Central School District's by up to $ 88,904 and the Smithtown Central district's bills by up to $ 87,904district's by $ 114,996, the Longwood Central School District's by up to $ 88,904 and the Smithtown Central district's bills by up to $ 87,904District's by up to $ 88,904 and the Smithtown Central district's bills by up to $ 87,904district's bills by up to $ 87,904 a year.

To live within the cap without disrupting public services, local governments and school districts need greater flexibility to restrain automatic pay increases and to restructure the most costly aspects of their collective bargaining agreements.

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.

Most public speakers at the session protested proposed cuts to the district's music programs.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance also lauded Bratton for making the city a safer place, calling him «the world's most innovative leader in policing and public safety.»

Rep. Whit Betts, R - 78th District and the delegation's senior member, said he'd call for eliminating the state income tax on Social Security, and contended that doing away with public campaign financing would offset most or all of the lost revenue.

The other, with an attractive and comfortable district in Queens, containing my political base and longtime roots, most of which I have represented during my 34 years in public office.

Guy's most recent campaign for public office was in 2010, when he lost the 120th Assembly District race to incumbent Bill Magnarelli, D - Syracuse.

The commission had caught heat for making its most substantive changes to the district maps after holding two rounds of public hearings ending in October.

Roughly 8,500 students, most of them black and Latino, attend the public schools in East Ramapo, while another 23,000 students in the district attend private schools, mostly yeshivas.

The speaker, who claims her South Bronx and East Harlem - based district contains the most public housing of any in the city, instead blamed the problem on systemic issues within NYCHA.

«I've helped secure two new public schools for the district (an elementary school on 17th Street and most recently, a new middle school at 75 Morton St.), fought NYU's irresponsible campus expansion plan, established a legal defense fund for rent - stabilized tenants... and brokered a deal to renovate Washington Square Park,» he said.

Because it wasn't glorious enough to be the most coveted kitchen ceramics brand in the Bay Area, the overachievers at Sausalito - based Heath Ceramics recently added on The Boiler Room — an urban, Mission district space that's part gallery, part event venue, where the brand hosts social and cultural gatherings and exhibits for the public.

She is more determined than ever to work on behalf of the children that she feels are affected most by the failures of the current system: those educated in inner - city, lower - income, ethnic - minority majority public school districts.

The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

If one's purpose is to evaluate the effects of a specific public policy, such as the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), then the comparison of the average outcomes of the treatment and control groups, regardless of what proportion attended which types of school, is most appropriate.

[7] In terms of the proportion of students receiving free - or reduced - price lunch, both magnet and charter schools are less impoverished than traditional public schools in their same districts in most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets and charters and Florida and North Carolina for magnets only).

With urban and suburban districts facing the deepest budget cuts they've seen since the recession of the mid-1980s — and a milder recession in the early 2000s — the prospects for comprehensive arts education in most K - 12 public schools appear bleak, and even schools with minimal programs may lose what they considered to be bare bones to begin with.

Like district schools, charter schools receive most of their funding from public sources and are subject to state regulation.

The prize, which gives the winning district $ 500,000 for student scholarships for college, is being touted as urban public education's most prestigious award.

This association of choice with the disadvantaged is reinforced by the results for district context: it is the public parents in disadvantaged districts who are the most interested in going private.

Dana Goldstein points out that New York City has had this particular fight before, but in most districts the distribution of evaluation ratings isn't public information, so communities by and large haven't had this discussion yet.

In most fields, prospective students can only make an educated guess about the payoff to a post-graduate degree, but, for public school teachers, it appears in black and white on the salary schedule for their district.

California auditors released a scathing assessment of the Oakland public schools last week, blasting one of the state's most beleaguered districts for mismanagement and poor student achievement and warning that it is hovering on the brink of serious financial difficulty.

Its main purpose was to make it easier to pass bond issues for public school funding, and district advocates say that most voters were not aware of the provision («buried in a little Easter egg,» as Folsom put it) requiring public schools to offer charters their unused space.

Third, and most interesting, there is diversity in the suppliers of K — 12 public education: the Orleans Parish School board oversees a number of traditional public schools and charters; the state board of education authorizes several charters; and the Recovery School District (an entity created before Katrina to assume control of failing city schools) manages both charters and traditional public schools.