Sentences with phrase «districts in a dozen years»

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Allison spent a few years in the early 2000s homeless, but now rents in San Francisco's rapidly changing SoMa district, which is known as the home of dozens of tech companies including Yelp, Zynga and Airbnb.

Has served for the past dozen years on the board of the KIPP Academy charter school in the South Bronx, which is part of a national network of 200 college prep public charter schools in low - income communities in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

Before Miller's dad, John, retired from Blackhawk High in 2005 after 36 years, 657 wins and eight 3A titles at two high schools, he and McConnell's dad, Tim, who has 471 victories in 21 years as the coach at 3A Chartiers Valley in Bridgeville, clashed half a dozen times in regular - season games and district playoffs.

«It's understandable to be concerned about setting a precedent, but there already are probably a dozen examples around the county where this sort of thing or something similar has happened,» said Didzerekis, who was on the Wheaton Park District board for eight years before joining the County Board in 1998.

The district is among the half - dozen races Cuomo is targeting in order to flip control of the House of Representatives next year.

LYONS, N.Y. — Assemblyman Bob Oaks, 66, says after 26 years representing Wayne County, nearly a dozen towns in Cayuga and several towns in Oswego, he says he has decided to not seek re-election in the 130th Assembly District.

Public school districts across Long Island and the state are bracing for what many educators and parents expect to be a fifth consecutive year of Common Core test boycotts in grades three through eight, even as eight districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties and dozens elsewhere introduce computerized versions of the exams.

JOHNSBURG Half a dozen years into the program, a free shuttle service between Gore Mountain and Main Street in North Creek keeps busing visitors between the ski resort and the downtown business district.

A half - dozen polls this year show the rematch remains close, one reason outside interests are expected to flood the 24th District with TV, radio and direct mail ads in the final three weeks of the campaign.

For the first time in 16 years, the election for Suffolk County district attorney won't involve Thomas Spota — and in his absence, more than a dozen potential candidates are jockeying for prized major and minor party endorsements.

Mr. Titone took a swipe at the previous representative of the district, Michael Grimm, telling the crowd of several dozen Democrats that his Assembly district hasn't had actual representation in Congress in four years — the length of Mr. Grimm's tenure.

And so last July, Cuomo convened a news conference with the two dozen members of his newborn Moreland Commission on Public Corruption, a group made up disproportionately of district attorneys, plus a handful of reform advocates who had put in years of work on ways to boost official integrity.

But the virus has been found in more than 60 bird species and about a dozen mammals; in a little more than a year, it has spread to 11 states along the East Coast and the District of Columbia.

Back in 2004, Spencer Hsu told the story of how the first federal voucher program was launched, when George W. Bush signed legislation providing grants worth as much as $ 7,500 each to children from dozens of public schools in the District of Columbia for their use at private or religious schools in a five - year experiment.

The report from the Learning First Alliance, a permanent partnership of a dozen education groups, says the districts were selected in part because they showed three or more years of improvement in student test scores that crossed subjects, grade levels, and racial and ethnic groups.

And in the case of a district that has had a half dozen superintendents in a dozen years, and dismal academic outcomes all the way along, and on top of that has a new Superintendent in his first six months of superintendency, the board must intervene.

Since its inception in Toledo, Ohio, more than 25 years ago, PAR has received national attention and has spread to dozens of school districts across the country.

In my city, New York, elite private schools such as Dalton, Horace Mann, Spence, Brearley, Riverdale Country School, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York suburban school districts spend per studenIn my city, New York, elite private schools such as Dalton, Horace Mann, Spence, Brearley, Riverdale Country School, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York suburban school districts spend per studenin the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York suburban school districts spend per student.

Over the span of three years, dozens of education experts and researchers, 3,000 teacher volunteers in six urban districts, 20,000 videotaped lessons, student surveys, and student performance on state and supplemental higher - order thinking skills tests, have given us a much better understanding of what great teaching looks like.

In recent years, dozens of the district's vacant teaching positions have been filled by first - year teachers from Teach For America, who tend to leave after two years.

By the time the new school year launched at the end of August in Maryland's Montgomery County school district, all but a dozen of the 600 to 700 new teacher slots were filled.

Regardless, LaMotte often complained in board meetings that schools in her district were hemorrhaging students and resources to local charter schools popping up by the dozens every year.

But that example also shows some of the limitations of his analysis, including the fact that it can't account for students who leave or enter a district and how that affects overall scores, which could be significant in a district that's closed or consolidated dozens of schools in recent years.

A dozen Louisiana Recovery School District charter schools in New Orleans have opted to stay in the state system for another year, instead of transferring back to Orleans Parish control.

Having spent the last year teaching in an urban Indianapolis area school district I estimate the racial epithet reaches my ear a dozen times... Continue reading →

In the 2013 — 2014 school year, I was invited to work with a half - dozen teachers in two districts to share a video of a lesson and help them reflect on their instructioIn the 2013 — 2014 school year, I was invited to work with a half - dozen teachers in two districts to share a video of a lesson and help them reflect on their instructioin two districts to share a video of a lesson and help them reflect on their instruction.

Beginning in 2012, 10 low - performing district schools and three charter schools were closed or consolidated with other schools, while more than a dozen schools were renewed in the early years of reform.

The teachers were drawn from more than two dozen districts — from Alexandria Township in exurban Hunterdon County to urban Elizabeth that took part in the two - year pilot from 2011 - 13, leading up to the statewide adoption of the system this school year to meet the requirements of the state's new teacher - tenure law, TEACHNJ.

Sixteen - year - old Katniss poaches food for her widowed mother and little sister from the forest outside the legal perimeter of District 12, the poorest of the dozen districts constituting Panem, the North American dystopic state that has replaced the U.S. in the not - too - distant future.

In the last few years, he has opened more than half a dozen restaurants, including the casual Tex - Mex spot Superica (a recent addition to the new Krog Street Market) and Marcel, an expense account - worthy old - fashioned steakhouse that launched this month in the Westside Provisions DistricIn the last few years, he has opened more than half a dozen restaurants, including the casual Tex - Mex spot Superica (a recent addition to the new Krog Street Market) and Marcel, an expense account - worthy old - fashioned steakhouse that launched this month in the Westside Provisions Districin the Westside Provisions District.

Of roughly two dozen galleries now in the district and its environs, half have opened in the last year, drawn in part by a glut of cheap space.

Each year, PJM holds an auction to make sure enough electricity generation will be available three years in the future to meet projected peak needs plus a margin of safety for the electric grid in Ohio and all or part of a dozen other states, plus the District of Columbia.

New York lawmakers have introduced bills to open up the process at least a dozen times in the last 25 years, but the measures have faced powerful opposition from the state's district attorneys.

Janet Dhillon from J.C. Penney (which has the terrible misfortune of being located in the patent - troll - friendly Eastern District of Texas) explained that in the last four years her company has been hit with over two dozen patent lawsuits — all from patent trolls.