Not exact matches
Canvassers plan to speak to New Yorkers in targeted state Senate and Assembly
districts in Saratoga, Troy, Syracuse, Buffalo, Niagara
Falls, Yonkers, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, New York City and Long Island (several of those areas — especially western New York and Dutchess County — are considered
by Democrats as ripe for picking up at least one or two seats
next year).
The pension costs for the state's nearly 700 school
districts will decline
by 11.6 percent
next year, the second year in a row contribution rates have
fallen.
But the
district, which President Barack Obama won
by 4 points in 2012, is near the top of the list of 19 seats Republicans are vying to take from Democrats
next fall.
KINGSTON >> The Democratic Party chairpeople in the 11 counties that make up New York's 19th Congressional
District are pressing Ulster County Executive Michael Hein to run
next fall for the House seat being vacated
by Rep. Chris Gibson.
The administration has also already announced a $ 51 million plan to expand Advanced Placement courses, with full implementation at high schools expected
by 2021 and a $ 15 million program called «Single Shepherd» to hire guidance counselors for each middle and high school student in low - performing school
Districts 7 and 23, which will be fully implemented
by next fall.
Faced with a $ 2 billion budget that
falls short
by at least $ 101 million, the
district must cut spending on each school
by 6 percent, leaving
district leaders to strip some or all art, music, physical education and library programs from three out of four schools
next fall.
Hurrah for Houston Congratulations to Education
Next for its trio of articles on the positive reforms in the Houston Independent School
District, carried out in large part by Secretary of Education Rod Paige while he was the district's superintendent (see «Houston Takes Off,» Feature, Fal
District, carried out in large part
by Secretary of Education Rod Paige while he was the
district's superintendent (see «Houston Takes Off,» Feature, Fal
district's superintendent (see «Houston Takes Off,» Feature,
Fall 2001).
A longer article
by Richard Whitmire about how
district - charter compacts work and how they benefit kids appeared in the
Fall 2014 issue of Education
Next.
Under the plan, which Superintendent Peter Gorman unveiled this month, the 132,000 student
district will be reorganized into seven zones, each with its own administration,
by next fall.
The policy — approved
by the two
districts for
next fall — allows teachers to defer part of their salary for several years to finance a planned leave of absence, with the guarantee of a job when they return.
With every New Jersey school
district tasked with having a new teacher evaluation system in place
by next fall, the experiences of the handful of
districts that have been testing the tools for the past two years are in high demand.
They said the
district faced a $ 100 million shortfall over the
next three years, largely due to
falling enrollments caused
by the rise of charter schools, and staff reductions need to be considered.
How that is done is where it can get complicated, however, and New Jersey is only starting to grapple with that issue as it demands every
district have an evaluation system in place
by next fall.
Johnson's six - year superintendency saw the test scores of our students
fall from
next to the top of major Texas
districts to
next to the bottom, aided
by gradually lowered pass rates on the state's TAKS exam.
There is no extra money to help
districts implement the new tenure law, for instance, which includes an evaluation and professional development system for teachers and principals that must be in place
by next fall.
Festivities like these are essential ingredients in the fair's social mucilage, and throughout the week there were dinners at Pierchic for Abraaj and Marian Goodman (ahead of her London gallery opening
next fall); lunches at the beachside home of collector Dana Farouki for the New Museum and the Delfina Foundation; and ritual outings to the older, more threadbare
districts of Dubai for Pakistani kebabs and dance parties at the Eritrean Social Club, notoriously creepy but loved
by all.