Sentences with phrase «controversy over the school district»

In Wake County, North Carolina, frequent student reassignments created controversy over the school district's long - standing socioeconomic integration plan.

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The controversy over the injunction issued in October 1997 by Alabama Federal District Judge Ira M. DeMent restricting religious activity in public schools, as well as the continuing controversy in the state concerning Judge Roy Moore's courtroom display of the Ten Commandments, can be....

Her proposal of mayoral control over the Syracuse City School District, though, has been met with controversy.

The state comptroller's office will audit the Hempstead Town Industrial Development Agency and Valley Stream School District 30 after a controversy over tax breaks granted to the Green Acres Mall.

Since then, two IDA boards, four school districts, hundreds of Valley Stream taxpayers, and about a dozen state and local lawmakers have become embroiled in a controversy over the mall's tax incentives that have been blamed for steep tax hikes for residents.

The district has been plagued in recent years with controversy over the makeup of the school board and many of its actions.

While there has been a great deal of controversy over the content of standardized tests and the frequency at which they are administered, we believe that there needs to be some way of comparing schools and districts across the country.

School districts are trying a variety of strategies aimed at creating safe and welcoming school environments, but there is controversy over the role and frequency of student surveys, and how to useSchool districts are trying a variety of strategies aimed at creating safe and welcoming school environments, but there is controversy over the role and frequency of student surveys, and how to useschool environments, but there is controversy over the role and frequency of student surveys, and how to use them.

And it is what fuels the controversy over state school funding generally — poor school districts under - resourced compared to districts that are rich in property valuation.

There's controversy over the site for a new elementary school in San Juan District.

When it comes to education reform, perhaps no city has inspired more controversy and acclaim over the last decade than Washington, D.C. Even today, uttering the name «Michelle Rhee» — the city's first schools chancellor appointed in 2007 after a major shakeup in the district — still evokes heated reactions from local residents.

The member district (5 — NW) with the worst schools — a region where there are five kids attending schools in the worst two categories for every one kid attending a school in the highest category — is the district where there is the most controversy over the upcoming election, and the only one featuring an incumbent.

The district was able to build a new, combined middle - high school about five years ago with state funding, but the district now faces controversy over whether the district should build a new elementary school to replace the one that's falling apart.

In that controversy, a state - ordered mandate for districts to trim class sizes in early grades stirred a still - brewing pushback over efforts to curtail local school board's flexibility to juggle staff and funding to meet their needs.

School districts are trying a variety of strategies aimed at creating safe and welcoming school environments, but there is controversy over the role and frequency of student surveys, and how to useSchool districts are trying a variety of strategies aimed at creating safe and welcoming school environments, but there is controversy over the role and frequency of student surveys, and how to useschool environments, but there is controversy over the role and frequency of student surveys, and how to use them.