Sentences with phrase «declining number of districts»

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The change in the nature of the workforce employed in mining, decline in the number of manufacturing workers in the iron triangle cities, as well the expansion of Grey's boundaries into more agricultural districts, has changed the political complexion of Grey.

Since the late Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced that he would decline to prosecute some cases involving marijuana charges in 2014, the number of weed - related convictions has dropped about 75 percent in Brooklyn, according to the DA's Office.

Some of the decline in the number of swing districts can be attributed to redistricting, according to the article:

For a U.S. House race, in the average district, the number of signatures would decline from 18,516 signatures to 14,016.

After adjusting for maternal IQ and education, characteristics of the home environment, school district, and number of siblings, the children who were exposed to greater than 5 parts arsenic per billion of household well water (WAs ≥ 5 μg / L) showed reductions in Full Scale, Working Memory, Perceptual Reasoning and Verbal Comprehension scores, losses of 5 - 6 points, considered a significant decline, that may translate to problems in school, according to Gail Wasserman, PhD, professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia, and the study's first author.

It might be argued, for example, that the decline in MPS enrollment was too small to affect certain indivisible costs, such as the number of teachers or buildings that comprise the lion's share of the district's budget.

With the decline in enrollment has come a drop in revenues: state aid is based on the number of students attending a district's schools.

There will be a growing substitution of technology for labor and thus a steep decline in the number of teachers (and union members) per student; a dispersion of the teaching labor force, which will no longer be so geographically concentrated in districts (because online teachers can be anywhere); and a proliferation of new online providers and choice options, attracting away students, money, and jobs.

In most cases, it is politically impossible for school districts to proportionally decrease their number of employees as their student enrollment declines.

Addressing the complaint that a district's fixed costs do not decline in direct proportion to the number of students who exit the system, Spence stated, «I recognize that [public schools] have certain fixed costs,» although she noted that «essentially the districts are making a profit on students they don't educate.»

Those changes have come as the number of black students in the district has increased and the number of whites has declined.

«In future years, these barriers will be further exacerbated by declining enrollment in rural districts and the overall decrease in the number of college students entering teacher education programs,» the request said.

Enrollment numbers stagnate or decline in most of the nation's largest school districts, while the largest colleges get bigger.

As those inside the district voice a repeated refrain that declining enrollment will likely plunge LA Unified into bankruptcy, new data show it still attracted nearly the same number of kindergarten students last year as it had nine years earlier when it had 133,000 more students overall.

From district budget reductions, to declining enrollment, to fewer than expected teacher retirements, to huge numbers of candidates going through teacher education programs.

District leaders say they are seeing a decline in the number of elementary students in Carmel.

In the past five years, the district has seen steady increases in both achievement and growth rates for students with disabilities and ELLs on state tests, and a steady decline in the number of «unsatisfactory» schools on state report cards.

If extremely low, declining performance on math and reading exams alone were enough to trigger state support, the number of California districts that could expect special state help would almost...

The largest declines in the number of teachers of all racial / ethnic groups in these districts happened from 2008 - 09 to 2009 - 10 and from 2009 - 10 to 2010 - 11.

The declining number of schoolchildren has financially stressed school districts, even though total state spending has increased.

In Chicago, the number of suspensions given in a school year declined after the district made changes to its student code of conduct in 2012, and began using less exclusionary discipline practices.

If extremely low, declining performance on math and reading exams alone were enough to trigger state support, the number of California districts that could expect it would almost double from 228 to more than 400, a CALmatters analysis shows.

The district declined to provide the number of surplus employees and temps currently on the system's payroll.

The district still receives the same dollar amount per pupil, yet while student enrollment has declined, the number of full - time staff at LAUSD has increased, according to a report commissioned by the district.

I asked Thomas if the district would consider reducing staff numbers in light of enrollment declines.

I just came across this Bureau of Justice Statistics report, «Federal Tort Trials and Verdicts, 2002 - 03», released in August, showing that the number of tort trials concluded in U.S. district courts declined by nearly 80 percent from 1985 to 2003 — from 3,600 trials in 1985 to fewer than 800 trials in 2003.

A majority of the American public might be surprised to learn that there is indisputable statistical evidence that the number of jury and non-jury trials in our country is, and has been, sharply declining, both in absolute and relative terms.1 For example, in 2010, only 2,154 jury trials were commenced in federal district courts, which means, on average, Article III judges tried fewer than four civil jury trials that year.

From 1990 to 2003, the number of non-asbestos product liability trials concluded in U.S. district courts has declined by about two - thirds from 279 to 87 trials.

The Rainy River court district also includes Fort Frances and Atikokan, Ont., all of which have seen declining numbers of court days with the decreasing availability of judicial resources in recent years, says Morgan.