Sentences with phrase «even number of districts»

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Sopko wrote that historically, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the government has been falling since his office began reporting on it, while the number controlled or influenced by the insurgents has been rising — «a fact that should cause even more concern about its disappearance from public disclosure and discussion.»

In 2016, the Far East Federal District's trade with China amounted to $ 6 billion, accounting for 25 percent of its foreign trade volumes.47 In a meeting with the vice premier of China's State Council, Putin stated that Chinese investment in the Russian Far East has exceeded $ 3 billion since 2015.48 According to Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Galushka, as of November 2017, the number of projects in the PDAs and the Free Port of Vladivostok involving Chinese capital tripled in the past year to twenty - eight projects worth $ 4 billion that account for 85 percent of foreign investment attracted to the Russian Far East since 2015.49 At the Third Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017 — an annual conference to attract foreign investment to the Russian Far East — Putin even used these investment figures in jest to encourage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to increase Japanese investments in the Russian Far East.50

For instance, even if the chefs cook and donate free gourmet meals, they could end up losing money for the district by decreasing the number of kids who took the «official» school lunch, thus lowering the government meal reimbursement that goes to the district and to the caterer.

The number of students eating free and reduced - price school lunches edged higher in many local districts last year, and appear on pace to climb even more this fall.

It's important to know these numbers, because a school or district with a substantial number of students on «paid» status may be generating a significant portion of their revenue from the paid price for meals, especially if they are charging a paid price around $ 4 or even higher.

Although still required to provide a free lunch to their low income students, public school districts like the one in the article (which in 2009 - 10 had only 1.1 % low income children) can easily afford to feed such tiny numbers of students for free even without the government reimbursement.

With an even number of justices, while majorities may be more «statistically significant», the 3rd possibility of a tie means the Lower Court prevails but each District can continue doing their own thing.

In the case of Vanessa Gibson, the number of players in any given district is limited, and it makes sense that she would be acquainted or even friends with the same people whose groups she funds.

In 2012, when the 16 even - numbered districts were up for election, a total of two districts were competitive or mildly competitive.

Cuomo specifically pointed to the districts of Reps. Chris Collins and Tom Reed, saying that if even a small number of their constituents deduct more than $ 10,000 in property taxes, there would be broader ramifications.

The first, from yesterday, involved whether a Texas District Attorney should really be tweeting out the names, case numbers, and other identifying details of people involved in DUI and domestic abuse cases, even if those details are part of the public record.

«In the fall of even - numbered years a bunch of money would go out and it would be for facilities in marginal members» districts,» one former health official said.

But suppose the people with the authority to draw district lines prefer party A. Even if they are obligated to make every district have the same number of voters, they could, at the most extreme, draw 1 district that has 20,000 B's and 9 districts each with 8,889 B's and 11,111 A's.

«This is the first real test of New Yorkers» support for candidates in the six - way contest for attorney general, and it's clear that a great number of them see District Attorney Rice as the best person for the job,» Jeffrey Stein, Rice's campaign manager, said in a statement Wednesday evening.

But at the moment, it looks like former Assemblyman Frank Seddio has amassed sufficient support to take control of the party organization, even as a number of minority members are pushing for Assemblyman Karim Camara, whose candidacy is complicated by the fact that he's neither a district leader nor an executive committee member.

The Hispanic community in the new district contains a sizable immigrant population, which means that a number of the Hispanic residents — even those who are part of the voting - age population — aren't citizens, and therefore aren't eligible to vote.

Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik had an open forum today in the southern part of her district taking questions from a number of angry constituents and her answers drew a number of boos and even laughter.

If you discount parts of districts that include the University at Albany, where students are not around in great numbers during the June - July petitioning period, that percentage could be even higher.

The total number of school districts in the U.S. dropped from more than 100,000 around the turn of the 20th century to less than 15,000 by the turn of the 21st century, even as the population of school - age children increased during that period.

In order to maximize the number of responses to questions concerning charter and private schools, respondents were classified as charter - school parents if they currently had a child in a charter school, even if they had other children who attended other school types; as private - school parents if they currently had a child in a private school but not in a charter school; or as district - school parents if they had a child in a district school but not in either the charter or private sector.

There are remarkable differences in the number of charter schools and enrollment between states, and even between school districts within the same state.

There are also large numbers of classrooms in the [Boston school] district â $» maybe a third â $» where there's very little learning going on because teachers are spending so much time on behavior management, even when it's just a few kids.

But even after lumping in lots of institutions into these broad, overall categories, Illinois school districts are still drawing from enormous numbers of providers.

Even more striking, the number of states requiring districts to consider teacher evaluations in tenure decisions grew from 0 to 23 over that same period.

Thus even in situations where the number of competing districts is great, the districts» ability to behave like suppliers in a competitive market is hobbled by the additional regulations that inevitably arrive with the new subsidies.

For a number of reasons, the unions have had considerable success in passing teacher - friendly legislation in spite of frequent opposition from school districts in a state or even the department of education.

While there has been a gradual increase in the number of school - based health clinics, which provide preventive and remedial care and even crisis interventions, clinics serve only a small minority of students, and few states and districts have policies in place to help them scale up and become sustainable.

Since WUHSD became a PLC at Work district in 2003, it has seen solid and sustained growth in student performance across all five schools, even with more than $ 17 million cut from the budget and an increasing number of economically disadvantaged students enrolled.

Add in the growing number of cities pursuing school portfolio management (which focuses on both charters and traditional district - run schools), and the urgent need to train administrators with the skills to thoughtfully manage what Edfuel calls «the autonomous and accountable public schools sector» is even more apparent.

The authors found that even in districts that were identified by NCPI as having merit pay plans, «most were so weak that they represented no meaningful change from traditional compensation systems,» which typically are based on the number of years on the job and academic credentials.

The results offer hope that regular school districts can improve, even those with large numbers of students from low - income families or with low achievement.

In fact, a growing number of Federal agencies (U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - 12 schools.

The states differed in their ways of calculating this number, and even within states local school districts could count differently.

And even before California recently revamped its statewide K - 12 funding formula to concentrate more funds in schools with high numbers of ELLs and other vulnerable students, the district was targeting extra money to schools with the greatest number of poor students and English - language learners, he said.

Consequently, schools, especially in Connecticut's neediest districts, can not afford basic educational tools such as a sufficient number of teachers, reasonable class size, adequate school facilities, services for at - risk children, electives, AP classes, even books, computers and paper.

By shifting money from district schools to charters you are giving the charter school students even more resources at the expense of the far larger number of students who are left in the district schools.

Yet Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, wants to INCREASE the number of standardized tests and require that school districts rely even more on the results.

He found «no dispute that there are a significant number of grossly ineffective teachers currently active in California classrooms» and that the legal system protects them by making it all but impossible for districts to fire even the worst teachers.

If anything, Kent County's district became even more punitive: It arrested and referred 60 children in 2013 - 2014, a sixty-fold increase in the number of students sent onto the most - direct path to the school - to - prison pipeline two years earlier (which was none).

A decreased Title I allocation is challenging for a district because it can result in fewer district schools receiving funds under Title I. Under Title I school allocation rules, many schools with high numbers of low - income children do not receive support from Title I because they are surrounded by other schools that are even poorer, so the Title I money «runs out» before those schools have the opportunity to receive funds.

For example, while district schools conduct «and even exceed» the number of required fire, lock - down and medical emergency drills, the events are «basic and held at times convenient for those involved.»

Even so, a number of school districts report still having to make programmatic cuts in spite of the increased money.

A small district may still need the same number of teachers and facilities, even though its state aid falls by tens of thousands of dollars, based on lower enrollment spread across several grades.

There are a number of online methods for video - conferencing - your district may even have web conferencing tools.

For years, several educators have been assigned to pushing these numbers even higher, says Fred Schrumpf, the district's director of community engagement for graduation improvement.

Providing a rigorous pre-college curriculum has long been a struggle in many of the more than 7,100 U.S. rural school districts, where a lack of teachers, dwindling enrollment numbers and tight budgets make it difficult to offer electives, foreign languages and even basic classes that are a given in many suburban and urban schools.

In the Oakland Unified School District, just over a third of students (34.7 %) were found to be meeting or exceeding standards in English and Literacy, and an even smaller number (27.6 %) were meeting or exceeding standards in Math, representing a slight increase from last year's results.

So over time, he is committed to moving the [per - pupil] base funding (which averages roughly $ 8,500 — 30 percent below the national average) up for all districts, even those with lower numbers of needy students.

Chronic early absence affects substantial numbers of children nationwide and is even more problematic in some districts and schools.

Blended learning is having a positive impact in schools and districts across the country, but there are a number of key strategies that can advance blended learning to its next generation of even greater effectiveness and improved achievement.