Sentences with phrase «being a rural district»

She led some of them on visits to Opportunity Culture schools in Charlotte, which also has challenges retaining teachers in high - needs schools — but Edgecombe, she notes, has the added challenge of being a rural district.

Hardest hit by the cuts were rural districts that could not make up the lost funds through local property digests, and low - income children for whom lower class sizes and after - school programs mean the difference between passing and failing

Not exact matches

Still, many Democratic candidates challenging Republicans in rural and politically diverse districts are distancing themselves from Pelosi.

We don't know where those people are; Rural counties are incentivized to overreport population to receive more benefits from higher levels of government, while city districts report lower figures to hit population control targets.

Actual property tax rates in the county are based on assessed value (10 % of market value), with millage rates ranging from 28 in rural areas of district 1 up to 43 in the city of Fairhope.

Cardston - Siksika — Joseph Schow and Marc Slingerland are challenging MLA Dave Schneider for the UCP nomination in this newly redrawn southern rural district that largely covers the areas included in the current Cardston - Taber - Warner and Little Bow districts.

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,...

This wish was granted, and in 1971 he moved back to Africa, eventually becoming the ecclesiastical head of a rural district in the Atlas Mountains.

«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.

The creamery in rural Cumbria produces cheddar cheese under the Lake District brand and is Europe's first dairy processing site to feed bio-methane (up - graded biogas) generated entirely from cheese process residues, to the gas grid.

A barbecue is usually given by the inhabitants of some rural district desirous of giving candidates an opportunity to state, that, if elected, all their energies will be devoted to the interests of their constituents and the public weal, and that they pledge themselves, that, when their tenure of office shall expire, they will restore the high trust committed to their hands unsullied, etc..

Our small school district in rural Nebraska does breakfast before school, and although my girls do not go, I would say that it is a nice blend of students (not just economically disadvantaged kids) and works fairly well.

More than half of public school districts in the United States are in rural communities where millions of students struggle with poverty and hunger.

And in rural areas, more people are likely to be found in a Wal - Mart parking lot on a weekend than in the business district of a small town.

PALATINE — The Salt Creek Rural Park District Board of Commissioners Tuesday night approved a tax levy for 1999 of $ 1,298,400, which is about the same amount that was levied the previous year and should not result in increased taxes.

Now he flew into Washington, D.C., and with a Park District lawyer drove an hour or so into wealthy rural Virginia, past estate after estate, until the GPS told him he was at the right one.

PALATINE — The Salt Creek Rural Park District is expected to submit a proposal to rezone land it owns in Arlington Heights to the village's Zoning Board of Appeals later this month, the park board was told Tuesday night.

It was patterned after the Salt Creek Rural Park District «s Twin Lakes project in Palatine, which was completed in 1985.

Arlington officials say the project was modeled after the Salt Creek Rural Park District «s Twin Lakes project, near Illinois Highway 53 in Palatine, which was completed in 1987.

PALATINE — Spending will drop by about 10 percent in the Salt Creek Rural Park District's proposed 1999 - 2000 budget due to bonds being paid off and a quiet year for capital improvement projects.

PALATINE — The Salt Creek Rural Park District board Tuesday agreed to sell 2.5 acres to an Arlington Heights business provided the village agrees to rezone some adjacent land the park district owns so that a multi-purpose recreational facility can bDistrict board Tuesday agreed to sell 2.5 acres to an Arlington Heights business provided the village agrees to rezone some adjacent land the park district owns so that a multi-purpose recreational facility can bdistrict owns so that a multi-purpose recreational facility can be built.

According to Mother Jones, the director of a rural Vermont district where 43 percent of the students are on free or reduced lunch said he «had no problems whatsoever implementing the new changes.»

«While Nate McMurray was busy at his Grand Island Town Hall Campaign Headquarters currying favor with the Democrat establishment and figuring out how to sell the Cuomo / Pelosi agenda to NY - 27 voters, Chris Collins was spending his time delivering historic tax cuts for working families in his district, expanding access to broadband in rural communities, defending our Lake Ontario Shoreline and protecting our Second Amendment rights,» Piligra said.

He was the first Regional Secretary of NPP for Greater Accra in 1992, and also the first Chairman of the Party for the Ga District Rural Constituency, which later split into Ga West District and Ga East District.

Currently, almost every Republican is from a suburban or rural district.

They are the extension of electricity to rural communities in the Saboba District, the construction of a community senior high school at Wapuli in the district, the near completion of a Ghana Commercial Bank in Saboba and the construction of the Yendi - Saboba - CherepoDistrict, the construction of a community senior high school at Wapuli in the district, the near completion of a Ghana Commercial Bank in Saboba and the construction of the Yendi - Saboba - Cherepodistrict, the near completion of a Ghana Commercial Bank in Saboba and the construction of the Yendi - Saboba - Chereponi road.

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.

His knowledge of military protocol has been more than two decades in the making, but when it comes to agriculture, Gibson has hit the books hard since announcing his candidacy to represent the largely rural district.

The Democrat enjoys progressive support, but she may still be dogged by «carpetbagging» attacks in this rural Hudson Valley district.

«I want a candidate here, to tell me how they can excite the democrats in our district, which is very rural, to come out and vote and get rid of Chris Collins,» Iannone said.

That shift benefits downstate, largely Democratic districts, at the expense of upstate senate seats held by GOP members, where the inmates were used to bolster population numbers in the primarily rural districts.

New York's 24th District is predominantly rural.

Gun rights groups claim a slim majority for their position in the Senate, given the two or three Democratic Senators representing rural districts who often vote against gun control — although there are also Republican Senators from urban districts who tend to waver.

State education groups previously expressed concerns about reporting by school — particularly for rural and suburban districts where there is very little variety between school buildings so costs can not always be assigned to a particular building.

Gillibrand was a little - known second - term congresswoman from a rural Republican district when Gov. David Paterson tapped her last month to fill the Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But some New York Democrats are concerned that Teachout is too liberal for this largely rural district that she only recently moved to.

The 12th Senatorial District is one of the most rural in the state, but that doesn't mean Campbell, Fentress, Morgan, Rhea, Roane, Pickett or Scott Counties are any less important!

Then - Governor David Paterson spent eight weeks publicly vacillating between Caroline Kennedy and roughly half the members of New York's congressional delegation before tapping Gillibrand, who was then representing a heavily rural Hudson Valley district, to replace Clinton.

Part of the tricky situation is that Cuomo is not popular in some of these upstate and rural Senate districts Democrats won two years ago and are now defending.

Nevertheless, advocates have pushed him to spend more, arguing urban and rural school districts have been left short changed by the state's complicated formula for funding schools.

Upstate, rural school districts say they're being disproportionately cut in Cuomo's budget.

So, rest assured, 14th Council District absentee voters in the heart of the Congolese jungle or rural Nepal, your vote will be counted.

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).

Clinton County Republican Commissioner of Elections Greg Campbell says turn - out in the rural district was slight.

He has also found that the political climate, especially in the vastly rural District 22, is off this year.

In a congressional district that encompasses cash - strapped, potentially gas - rich Sullivan County, New York City's watershed, eco-sensitive communities like Woodstock and various rural areas on the east side of the Hudson River, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson and challenger Sean Eldridge are on the campaign trail seeking to define their own, and their opponent's, positions on climate change, energy policy and perhaps most critically fracking.

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.

About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.

«I'm fairly confident when they hear from the people of Erie County, they're going to change their tune because they're going to realize the majority of people in Erie Count, y including people that live in their districts, even Republican, rural districts, support the proposal that we'll be putting forth.»