Sentences with phrase «as rural districts»

We base these distinctions on the 2013 — 2014 National Center for Education Statistics» locale codes; in that school year, 13 percent of all unified and high school districts qualified as rural districts.

In several of the higher - performing districts in our sample (including large urban / suburban as well as rural districts), for example, district leaders and school personnel described recent and ongoing district - wide efforts to support teacher implementation of differentiated instruction.

As a rural district with a slightly declining enrollment, funding is a constant concern.

Not exact matches

The modern city, where more and more of us want to live, enjoys its munificence at the expense of the rural areas as Arthur E. Holt has forcibly brought home in This Nation Under God.6 Those fortunate enough to live in suburbs or other desirable residential districts enjoy their space and light partly through the exploitation of the crowded and blighted areas.

«This well - deserved status is a formal recognition of the outstanding natural beauty of the Lake District, and will help to further promote our area as the UK's leading rural tourist destination.

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

So already Democratic district 2 would become more Democratic (and more compact, as it would replace a number of central rural counties with urban Linn towards the east).

In 1918 the Monmouth constituency was defined as consisting of the municipal boroughs of Abergavenny, and Monmouth, the urban districts of Caerleon, Chepstow, and Usk, the rural districts of Abergavenny, Chepstow, Magor, Monmouth, Cwmbran and Pontypool, and part of the rural district of St Mellons, [3] and the same boundaries were used for the general elections of 1922, 1923, 1924, 1929, 1931, 1935 and 1945.

She had high ratings from the NRA when she represented her rural House district but became a vocal supporter of gun control as a senator.

Her strategy of logging hundreds of miles in her Ford pickup through the largely rural district in upstate New York has also won over many who viewed her as an outsider during her first campaign — even some of her biggest detractors.

Slaughter's old district, as you'll recall, was often referred to as the «earmuff» district because it stretched from the city of Buffalo, through the city of Niagara Falls to the city of Rochester (basically an effort to capture every available urban Democrat while leaving the rural and suburban Republicans out).

In order to take advantage of a potential presidential wave, Democratic operatives are cutting emotional ties from some rural areas that made up their previous majority, such as downstate Illinois and parts of Ohio, to focus on more suburban districts, where they believe changing demographics are moving seats into the Democratic column.

The administration of H.E John Dramani Mahama has really brought us hope with the many infrastructural projects dotted across the length and breadth of the kingdom such as the various Community Day Senior High School projects at various stages of completion such the Sapeliga SHS, Binduri SHS and Garu SHS, the Tamme Irrigation Dam, the Garu District Hospital, the Bawku Town Water system, the massive rural Electrification Expansion projects etc We are also glad that the Eastern Corridor Fiber Optic Cable which extends to the Bawku was successfully laid awaiting the next phase.

GOP lawmakers have contended the GEA as its known disproportionately hurts rural and suburban districts — a drum beat during the last election cycle.

Chris Collins is well known in the most populated parts of the congressional district as former Erie County executive while David Bellavia is from the more rural parts of the district where he's best known as a combat soldier and writer.

The Pressure Station is located in a rural residential neighborhood and, in the event of a major explosion, as those that have occurred elsewhere in the US with similar facilities, the pipe line company proposes the use of the local Minisink School District Buildings, in Slate Hill to be designated as an evacuation center.

In 2012, presidential nominee Mitt Romney carried the conservative, rural district by 10 points as the Democratic lawmaker won his race by a 25 - point margin.

She worked to secure funding for rural hospitals in the 19th district, and went on to serve under the Obama administration as an Agricultural Economist in over a dozen countries in Africa and Central America on a USAID project.

Hochul debates with former Erie County Executive Chris Collins (R - Clarence) tonight in Buffalo as they battle for the 27th district seat that covers the rural areas between Rochester and Buffalo.

Republicans are seizing on some of the less flattering parts in the story, characterizing the wealthy Eldridge's efforts to reach out in the largely rural district as being more than a bit awkward.

«This debt was accrued for the provision of various services such as fumigation, compensation for GYEDA [Ghana Youth Employment Development Agency], sanitation garbs, the provision of landfill management services, as well as debts arising from contracts with the ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and Metropolitan Municipal, and District Assemblies.»

The district includes a pair of hard - hit Rust Belt cities - Utica and Binghamton - as well as large swaths of rural farmland and bite - size villages and towns.

While serving as a congresswoman from 2007 to 2009 in a rural GOP district, she received an «A» rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA).

The district, which includes the city of Peekskill, as well as rural areas and affluent suburban communities like Pound Ridge and Bedford, has traditionally voted Republican, though Democratic registration has been persistently climbing.

Properly funding high - needs districts, rural and urban, shouldn't be an afterthought or some game of «blame the victim,» as Cuomo is making it.

In her turn at the microphone Sunday, Gillibrand made no reference to Kennedy, trying instead to fend off criticism of her selection as a little - known congresswoman from a mostly rural district in upstate New York.

Rep. Bill Owens (D., N.Y.) announced his retirement from the seat in January, prompting Republicans to view the mostly rural and historically GOP - leaning district as a potential pickup in the midterm elections.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

During my 17 years as a high school principal I have worked in districts that were rural economically disadvantaged as well as affluent suburban.

U.S. Secretary of Education for an administration willing to dare attempts at substantive based initiatives for inner - city, lower - income school districts as well as for rural school districts

The study examines the unions» goals and leadership as well as the role they played in three small suburban and rural school districts in New York State from the early 1960's to the late 1970's.

In Arizona — a highly urbanized state with population primarily clustered in the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas — both charter and district schools are concentrated in urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areas.

As a side note, we have expanded the program into neighboring rural districts and have had great response from those communities and the local industries.

Better at When Than How As school districts around the country grapple with turnaround strategies and fiscal realities, school closure (and consolidation) has become a popular option in districts from Baltimore to Detroit, from Boston to Denver, even in rural places like Maine and North Dakota.

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.

I spent 11 years as a middle school science teacher and three years as a professional developer for small and rural districts in Florida, and have been a middle school assistant principal for the past three years.

A number of rural school districts adopted the four - day week as a fuel conservation measure during the energy crisis of the mid to late 1970s.

A similar system of principal rotation exists: «In 2013, the city deployed nine skilled principals from central districts to schools in the rural districts to serve as mentors and offer management advice for two years.»

In a decision designed to spark a transformation of New Jersey's school finance formula, the state board of education concluded last week that poor rural districts have been shortchanged in a state known nationally as a leader for providing billions of dollars in extra aid and programs to its poor urban districts.

Each district's foundation level is adjusted by such factors as the «teacher - training and - experience index,» by the number of special education students, and for small rural schools and districts.

Teacher recruitment and certification in rural communities is a struggle for school and district leaders, as well.

As part of his campaign plan for lifting children out of poverty, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley recently proposed spending more on child care and early - childhood education, guaranteeing health care for all children, and creating a new program to recruit teachers for urban and rural districts.

Because rural school communities vary widely, «generic» improvement plans designed for large urban districts usually do not work as well in rural settings, according to the authors of a new book on rural education programs.

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.

Four months after that conversation with our beloved family and our arrival in Peru, we are working as volunteers educators from the University of Seville, under the agreement with the Regional Government of Piura, in the project «Improvement of the conditions of basic health and educational quality of rural Peruvian - Ecuadorian border district of Lancones, Piura — Peru ``, funded by the Basque Government and Engineering Association for Cooperation (IC - LI).

The demand for charters in rural communities is limited, because rural Americans regard their district - operated schools as valuable institutions for reasons that go beyond their academic worth.

The conference was based on a set of papers that included reviews of NCLB implementation in California, Colorado, Michigan, and New Jersey, as well as in three rural Kentucky districts and 36 big - city districts nationwide.

The text is replete with interesting facts, such as the number of rural charters in the nation (785), the percentage of charter schools that belong to national networks (40 percent), and a comparison of annual teacher turnover (18.4 percent in charters, 15.7 percent in district schools).

When faced with soaring transportation costs and students on buses for as long as four hours each day, some rural school districts pared the fifth day of instruction into fourths and tacked this time onto the end of the remaining four weekdays, creating a four - day school week.

During our work with district, charter, and private schools — large, small, urban, rural, as well as progressive and traditional — the master scheduling process tends to be more alike than different.