Sentences with phrase «texas rural districts»

Texas rural districts are challenged to attract and retain educators in communities that might be perceived as less desirable places to live for teachers newly entering the profession.

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He certainly doesn't have to worry about reelection in his district, which stretches from the Dallas suburbs into rural East Texas.

A small, rural school district in southwest Texas is introducing what may be the first wind turbine technician program for U.S. high school students,...

Perry had been elected a state representative as a Democrat from a rural West Texas district in 1985.

A 450 - student school district in rural East Texas last week canceled plans for its annual day on which girls dress as boys and vice versa, after a parent complained that the event smacked of promoting homosexuality.

Several rural school districts in northeast Texas have been besieged by both rumors and reporters following the announcement that 6 of 197 students in one area high school tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.

The Texas educators attending came from nearly 70 communities throughout the state representing a mix of rural, urban, and suburban districts as well as elementary, middle, and high school principals.

Noel Candelaria, president of the Texas State Teachers Association (TSTA), says lawmakers from rural districts understand the role schools play in their communities and the constant financial pressure they operate under on a daily basis.

During an education committee hearing on the bill, Mike Motheral, executive director of the Texas Small Rural School Finance Coalition, said 14 of the districts he represents could lose up as much as 53 percent of their state revenue with the end of the state aid program.

Per - student spending in Texas is already $ 2,555 less than the national average and rural districts have been hit hard by cuts in critical programs.

In Texas, the creation of the Grow Your Own initiative was prompted by recommendations made in a report from the Texas Rural Schools Task Force, which was created in 2016 to examine current challenges and best practices for the state's rural school distrRural Schools Task Force, which was created in 2016 to examine current challenges and best practices for the state's rural school distrrural school districts.

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(Texas) Through the state's new Grow Your Own program, 25 rural Texas districts have received grant money to promote teaching careers among high school students and help paraprofessionals already working in schools earn their credential.

The Professional Learning Community Model for Alternative Pathways in Teaching Science and Mathematics (PLC - MAP) is a partnership of North Harris Montgomery Community College, Texas A&M University, and 11 urban, suburban, and rural school districts in the Greater Houston area.

At the Texas Comprehensive Center, she supports the development of literature reviews for the state and districts on Grow Your Own Programs, rural teacher recruitment, and career and technical education.

Our membership comprises the small, mid-sized and rural school districts in Texas.

«Students are experiencing homelessness in over 75 percent of school districts across the U.S., and those are just the ones that have been identified; this is an issue that impacts all of us from rural Texas to the suburbs of LA to New York City,» said Liz Cohen, chief of staff, ICPH.

The poorest districts are rural communities scattered all over the country, from Ohio and Kentucky to Texas and Mississippi.

Olive trees, almonds and a rural cottage Our merry band of twenty, consisting of French speaking Canadians, Irish speaking Irish, a couple from Texas with their special brand of language and multilingual me set off in a people carrier, climbing up high into the mountains of the Axaraquia district, some 60 miles north of Malaga.

In recent years as many as much as 30 - 40 % of all patent infringement suits in the country were filed in the rural Eastern District of Texas.

A unanimous Court (8 - 0, Thomas writing, Gorsuch not participating) rejected the broad reading of a venue statute by which the Federal Circuit had empowered lawyers to forum - shop disputes from all over the country into a few decidedly pro-plaintiff venues, above all the largely rural Eastern District of Texas.

Federal law has allowed patent suits to be filed wherever a defendant is subject to personal jurisdiction, and as a result something like 40 percent of suits are filed in the rural Eastern District of Texas, known for its pro-plaintiff rulings and procedures.

As a result, in 2015 almost 45 % of all cases were filed in the Eastern District of Texas, a relatively rural part of the country that has no major technology industry.

One such court is the Eastern District of Texas, a rural area with almost no manufacturing, research, or technology facilities, where more than one - third of all patent cases in the country were filed last year.

For many people, it was their first introduction to the phenomenon that is the Eastern District of Texas, a largely rural federal court district that has somehow attracted a huge volume of high - tech patent litDistrict of Texas, a largely rural federal court district that has somehow attracted a huge volume of high - tech patent litdistrict that has somehow attracted a huge volume of high - tech patent litigation.

Rural and remote school districts in Amarillo, Texas, and Arab, Alabama, have partnered with NHA to help facilitate distance learning and certification programs for Medical Assistant (CCMA), EKG Technician (CET), and Patient Care Technician / Assistant (CPCT / A) credentials.