Sentences with phrase «district level government»

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A notice from the Hotan district government over the weekend accused Jelil Matniyaz, a village - level secretary for the ruling Communist party in the far - western region, of being afraid to smoke before religious figures.

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.

There is an obvious disparity between the funds made available by the federal government to support free meals for low - income students and the revenue collected by school districts (from federal «paid» meal reimbursements and student payments) to support the very same meals when served to children at higher income levels.

The guide clarifies today's rules about how to apply a geographic preference in school food purchases and help school districts increase their use of Washington - grown food in accordance with rules and regulations at all levels of government.

Those characteristics include tree - lined streets, parks, historic structures, high levels of volunteerism and philanthropy, conservative government traditions, well - performing schools and top - flight park districts.

Virtually every legislative district at every level of government — federal, state and municipal — is gerrymandered.

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.»

There are more than three levels, as there are three levels of local government: county; municipal; school district.

Manhattan District U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said of the arrests, «Today's charges demonstrate, once again, that a show - me - the - money culture seems to pervade every level of New York government.

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I submit that our current crop of office holders on every level of government, in all 50 states, from fire and water districts to school districts, town, counties, cities, states and federal legislatures are so bad that the term limit should be about 30 days.

The cap does not necessarily have its fans on the local government and school district level, however, and some there have pushed for changes to the cap, which is linked to rent control regulations for New York City and the surrounding area, due to expire next month.

With 1,044 taxing districts already in existence in Erie County, we do not need another layer of government, or another level of bureaucracy levying property taxes on you.

The federal government incentivized adoption of the Common Core at the state level through its Race to the Top grants program, which garnered New York State $ 700 million that was then distributed to school districts.

The so - called «Consensus» study by an independent commission was designed to be a data - rich analysis of government at every level, including towns, villages and school districts, he said.

This special taxing district would create another level of government that would hurt Erie County taxpayers.

A litany of allegations leveled against Charolotte Osei including spending GHc3.9 million to partition an office, receipt of a bullet - proof Toyota Land Cruiser from the previous government, spending about $ 14 million for district offices when the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) had authorized her to use only $ 7.5 million as well as attending Cabinet meetings under President John Mahama's administration, among others.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo just unveiled Step One in what will be a multi-pronged reform proposal in the wake of last week's back - to - back corruption cases: Empowering local district attorneys to better ferret out and prosecute wrongdoing by dirty elected officials at all levels of government in New York.

On hand at the Upstate New York Power Producers, Inc. power plant in Somerset to oppose the Canada - New York City power deal were local representatives from every level of government as well as the local Barker Central School District, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Niagara USA Chamber of Commerce.

At the local government level, he would consolidate the operations of most school districts at the county level, with a single appointed superintendent, and also consolidate other local town and village operations at that level.

The New York comptroller's office recently finished scoring nearly 2,300 governments and school districts and tabulated their fiscal stress levels.

He also challenged government to expedite action on the national climate change policy to ensure its implementation at the regional and district level, to address issues of climate change in the region, since the region is most at risk of climate change.

It's not the ideal scenario, said DiNapoli, and will likely be manifested at the local level in cutbacks in aid to local governments and school districts.

Party committees exist at the level of provinces; autonomous regions; municipalities directly under the central government; cities divided into districts; autonomous prefectures; counties (including banners); autonomous counties; cities not divided into districts; and municipal districts.

The Finnish system focuses on a core curriculum developed by the government, which is then interpreted and implemented by the districts and schools at a local level.

The research represents each level of government — federal, state, and district — and focuses on state - federal relationships and the effects of school choice and supplemental education services on school districts.

Four, if old and outdated district - level policies are driving inequities, the federal government should offer more competitive funding for districts seeking to update them.

In key areas, Congress took the side of LEAs when it should have simply allowed state governments to decide which authorities should remain at the state level and which should be delegated to other entities, including but not limited to districts.

Indeed, other changes have involved shifts in power at the local level or even decentralization below the school district level, rather than greater control by the state (or the federal government).

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

Over the past decade, school districts across the country have invested billions in creating wired classrooms and schools, with significant financial and moral support from government at all levels.

Their tremendous financial resources allow them to influence campaigns at all levels of government, and their huge memberships - more than 3 million total, spread across virtually every electoral district in the country - enable them to turn out armies of activists in support of union - endorsed candidates.

Much has been written and studied regarding choice in education — on charter schools, vouchers, choice among district schools, and much more — but the idea, so powerful in our economy and in other enterprises, including higher education, has rarely been examined in the context of federalism and the appropriate roles of Washington and lower levels of government.

While most of the action on data is at the state and district levels, the federal government is playing a role, too.

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Because the federal government can't simply mandate a focus on knowledge, change will need to occur piecemeal, at the state, school district or individual school level.

Commenting on the small differences in satisfaction levels among parents with children in the charter and chosen district sectors, Paul E. Peterson, professor of government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, notes that «chosen district schools serve a smaller percentage of students of color than charters do, and they are more likely to use examinations as entry requirements, while most charter schools must accept all applicants or use a lottery to select among them.»

This is about using the tremendous leverage of the federal government to force some really blunt conversations at the state and district level, the kinds of conversations that make people uncomfortable and often lead to political paralysis.

The Agency recommends that the constituent school district Superintendent consult prior to the meeting with school board members, administrators at the central and building levels, district employees, union representatives, parents and community leaders and to the extent necessary also other units of government.

Their education is not receiving the proper attention from all levels of government because the states have been fighting the federal government, and local schools districts have soured on federal programs.

«[O] ur constitutions, past and present, have limited governmental authority over the public education of Georgia's children to that level of government closest and most responsive to the taxpayers and parents,» Chief Justice Carol W. Hunstein wrote in the decision in Gwinnett County School District v. Cox.

«For the federal government to require districts to open up their boundaries would be a level of federal intrusion into the affairs of states and local districts far beyond anything» in current law, Mr. Carey said.

Secondly, there is the funding that the federal government provides at the state, district, and school levels.

Zimmer identified three factors pushing the district toward the financial abyss: the federal government's reneging on promises of more money for special education students, creating a $ 200 million shortfall for the district; the state's «extremely low» per - pupil funding level and the district's steady decline in enrollment.

I was captivated by their coordinated network of some 100,000 teacher leaders who are employed by the central government but assigned at the city / district level to support teaching practice.

Before he worked in Detroit, Moore held a variety of executive - level school positions in large school districts in Colorado and also served as chairman of the Board of Trustees for a $ 4 billion local government investment pool.

The federal government must be clearer about our national expectations for student outcomes, insist on realistic but aggressive state plans to meet them, allocate resources to level the playing field across states and districts, and require that states implement those plans well.

The Federal government and the State of Georgia, which provides over half the operating revenue for Muscogee School District, also require accountability on the local level.

What began at the turn of the 20th century as a movement from highly variable one - room schoolhouses to a district - level «one best system» had by century's end become a national effort to use the power of the federal government to create uniformity across the nation's public schools.