Sentences with phrase «challenges districts more»

«Growth in state aid revenue has outpaced levy growth, which generally benefits districts that are more reliant on state revenues and challenges districts more dependent on property taxes,» Moody's found.

Not exact matches

The Virginia residents challenging their state districting plan said the lower court ignored a 2015 Supreme Court decision about Alabama in which Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four more liberal justices to order a review of state legislative districts.

As most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challenges.

«The Movants have had ample opportunity to intervene in the multiple cases challenging the so - called «Fiduciary Rule» in district courts around the country, in appeals in two other circuits courts, and in this appeal, which was decided by this Court more than a month ago,» the filing said.

We're also keeping an eye on the Democratic primary in Illinois's 3rd congressional district, where seven - term Representative Dan Lipinski, a conservative Democrat, is being challenged by the much more progressive political newbie Marie Newman.

Many districts remain challenged by lunch periods that give children too little time to eat, and nearly half have used some strategies to expedite service, such as offering «grab and go» options, increasing the number of cashiers and adding more serving lines.

Privatizing segments of the park district's landscape department and its harbors represents a more complicated challenge.

While it's helpful to identify the challenges, problems, and obstacles that your district's school food program faces, it's even more helpful to offer possible solutions.

But in a sign of how challenging this transition can be for schools, district figures show that lunch sales for September through December dropped by about 5 percentage points since the previous year, or more than 20,000 lunches a day.

This school year, the district is introducing a more challenging...

The competition showcases the hard work and creativity of Middle School teams across the district as they are challenged to plan a reimbursable lunch menu that includes the appropriate meal components (meat / meat alternate, grain, milk, fruit and vegetable), follows the USDA National School Lunch guidelines, and costs no more than $ 1.20 for the entire meal.

Brooklyn District 40 (Flatbush and Prospect Lefferts Gardens): After several years of mostly undistinguished service, incumbent Mathieu Eugene faces a serious challenge from Pia Raymond, who has actually raised and spent more than Eugene.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

Having challenged New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a 2014 gubernatorial primary, Teachout came into the Democratic contest in the 19th District with more money and name recognition than her primary opponent, Will Yandik.

Meanwhile, a U.S. District Court is expected to rule soon on whether the Republican challengers will be permitted to intervene in the federal lawsuit that argues the challenge / fee system violates the U.S. Read more»

With a little more than two months to go until the June 24 federal primary, Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney is challenging U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna to a series of debates throughout the 22nd Congressional District.

City Councilman Robert Jackson, a Democrat challenging state Sen. Adriano Espaillat in a primary next month, received the endorsements on Monday of more than a dozen district leaders in upper Manhattan.

And while he and Rumore agreed that the city's high poverty rate creates particular challenges for schools and that increased funding is necessary for a turnaround, Quinn said the district needs to «get its act together» before asking for any more money.

Republicans got their preferred candidate when Lockheed Martin executive Chris Myers beat back a more - serious - than - expected primary challenge earlier this month, but the swing nature of the district (Bush won with 51 percent in 2004, Al Gore carried it with 54 percent in 2000) combined with Adler's demonstrated strengths as a candidate will make this a very tough hold for the GOP.

I asked Skelos about rumors that he had cut some sort of deal with Sen. Jeff Klein before the Bronx Democrat bolted the minority conference, taking three others with him, to form the IDC, in which Klein's district would be eliminated in the next round of redistricting and Rep. Eliot Engel's district would be redrawn to make it more competitive for a Klein challenge.

Republicans had hoped to gain one more seat in the legislature but incumbent Democrat Tom Loughran was able to hold off a strong challenge in the 5th District.

The bill was also getting more and more unpopular as the «debate» went on and got uglier and it started becoming apparent that anyone who voted for the bill that wasn't in a totally safe district would face major challenges in reelection bids, especially for republicans, for supporting the bill, so passing fast there was hope that the public's short memory would forget the worst transgressions.

Both Vincent Morgan and Adam Clayton Powell IV, who challenged Rangel for the 15th Congressional District seat in 2010, say that Columbia should do more to make sure residents get all that the university promised when it agreed to a $ 150 million community benefits agreement as part of the $ 6.4 billion Manhattanville campus expansion.

«Expanding beyond the top competitive seats on the map, these latest ad reservations are challenging liberal spending in more districts and standing beside more strong conservative Members of Congress.»

Rosenthal was thought to be facing a tough challenge from Mel Wymore, and the election was fierce, but Rosenthal won more than 65 % of the vote in the high turnout district.

Lynch told POLITICO New York there is «a lot that needs to happen» in the «outer - outer boroughs,» like improved traffic and pedestrian safety in a district where a majority of constituents drive, improving public transportation options and infrastructure and bringing more attention to the challenges of being a homeowner.

ALBANY — After a full election cycle and more than two years of legal maneuvering, a panel of three federal judges dismissed challenges to the Republican - drawn map of State Senate districts, saying population deviation that tilted numbers upstate were permissible and any allegation of race - based gerrymandering was «purely speculative.»

More than a week ago, former Assistant U.S. Attorney John Katko won the Republican designation by an overwhelming margin to challenge Democratic Rep. Dan Maffei in the 24th Congressional District.

«I will continue this effort but will be able to put much more focus on my district, which will have more challenges than ever in the months ahead.»

So what ideas exist to help more students with similar stories and how does that happen in a district that maintains low academic standing and graduation rates along with many other challenges?

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Mayor Stephanie Miner has once again challenged Gov. Andrew Cuomo, this time by demanding more money for poor school districts like Syracuse.

It can be challenging for District Heights singles looking for a more meaningful relationships that last.

Before adding more charters or other new schools, the district should wait for the data to come in to justify doing so... We challenge Superintendent Tom Boasberg and our board to commit to a level playing field so neighborhood schools receive the same resources as charter and innovation schools.

Since 1990 the New York - based Teach for America (TFA) program has placed more than 7,000 teachers in some of the nation's most challenging school districts.

Rather than take on the difficult and challenging work of winning loyalty and enrollment from low - income parents, school districts face much more powerful incentives to fight legislative, legal, and public - relations wars.

Adopting more nimble expenditure structures, write Roza and Fullerton, will increase district leaders» ability «to seek out and adopt promising solutions to their cost challenges as scale changes.»

«I support the growing effort of states and school districts to create new incentives that encourage more of America's teachers to take the challenge to become National Board Certified.

In poorly performing schools, there are usually more challenges to contend with, such as demoralized staff (which often leads to high turnover), increasing pressures from district staff to meet adequate yearly progress targets on standardized tests, and physical environments that are poorly maintained and often unsafe.

Overall, it seems clear that states and districts could provide more support in helping teachers move away from certain content, which we know from previous research is a challenge for teachers.

Second, although districts can already enlarge their course catalogs by signing agreements with outside providers — be they online providers or nearby community colleges, for example — the advantage of Course Access for districts is that it can gain them instant access to a much wider and more diverse range of providers than they would likely be able to cobble together themselves given the challenge of negotiating and managing contracts with a large number of vendors.

Based on a year of self - examination by 44 of the largest urban districts, «Challenges to Urban Education: Results in the Making,» casts the future of inner - city public schools in terms far more optimistic than other recent assessments.

White knows that the challenges of running New Orleans's 70 Recovery District schools are great, despite Paul Vallas's amazing progress in rebuilding a system that most educators agreed was among the worst in the nation before Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 80 percent of its 127 schoolhouses (see «New Schools in New Orleans,» features, Spring 2011).

Any future challenge to the new funding system — which was hammered out by legislators in a special session last summer — will now have to be made in district court, a more time - consuming process than going directly to the supreme court, Mr. Goetz...

Some of the reasons that parents rejected charters as placements were that «parents of students with disabilities may be more risk - averse,» «parents of students with disabilities may be able to use IEP process to get services from the district,» «transportation poses a particular barrier for students with disabilities,» «lower charter special education rates may reflect use of effective strategies to prevent or remediate common learning challenges,» and «district special education rates may reflect over-identification of students with disabilities.»

To address this problem, some states and districts are starting to intervene sooner by offering transitional curricula for high school students who aspire to college but may not be ready for the more challenging coursework.

Budgeting in the Accountability Age Doing more with less has been the challenge for school districts in recent years, but now the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act, coupled with shrinking resources, are making budgeting even harder.

And when charters don't enroll high - cost special ed kids and suspend the kids that they don't want, district schools are left with a more challenging task because we do have to give them a public education, a free and appropriate education.

The need for a more robust safety net for these students is a key systemic challenge for many urban school districts.

Under her leadership the district has embraced the Board's challenge to transform schools to better and more efficiently meet the needs of all students.

«The challenge is that this is a very complex city — much more so than some larger school districts.