Sentences with phrase «facts about the district»

Buttressing the belief that Reading was skating on fiscal thin ice that had very little to do with the temperature of NCLB was a very odd fact about the district: it happened to own a world - class art museum.

Users can find selected facts about a district or school, as well as tables and graphics of reported data, here.

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«The fact is that Trump has had the opportunity to bring jobs to Americans, and he's chosen to outsource them,» said Larry Brown, legislative and political director for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751, which represents about 32,000 workers in the state, mostly at Boeing.

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.»

A spokeswoman declined to answer a series of direct questions from CNBC about his case, instead providing a statement from Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division: «Bradley Birkenfeld was afforded due process of law and sentenced by a federal district court after full consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, including his admission that he advised wealthy UBS clients on how to conceal their assets from the U.S. government,» she said.

Dodd of the park district declined to comment because of ongoing litigation, adding only that the principal is wrong about the facts of the case.

Do they realize that many schools nationwide (in fact, most) no longer have the facilities to scratch cook, and that chirping gaily about their wonderful Chefs Move to Schools initiative rings a bit hollow in a school district where there is no place for a chef to cook?

In fact, only about 50 of the more than 700 school districts in the state have even submitted applications for the money, officials said.

There has been considerable speculation about where Crowley might land, but the safe money at this point is on Heastie — especially when you consider the fact that a sizable chunk of Crowley's own district is in the Bronx.

Despite the endorsement, rumors are still floating about Liu gunning for Congresswoman Nydia Velazaquez's seat, a fact he doesn't deny, so it still seems a run for Congress (where you only have to be a resident of the state to run in a district) is still an option for Liu.

I have made up my own mind about the 19th Congressional District race based on actual facts and evidence.

If he wins the primary in the heavily Democratic district, he would likely become the first Dominican - American Congressman — a fact he hasn't been shy about repeating.

It seems to me that this was a planted story that's become self - fulfilling; starting from so - called poll results that were funded by Turner's own campaign not a reputable, independent source of data about support in the district, and treated as though fact by a slew of subsequent articles about this race...

«In fact we are a bit taken aback by the hypocrisy of your letter considering the multipronged attacks your campaign has engaged in throughout its duration, causing many people to define your campaign by its propensity to attack District Attorney Rice rather than talk about you and your record.»

These GOP sources are more candid about the fact that it will likely make more sense for the Republican Party to spend its money on other competitive House races and not waste it in Grimm's high - priced New York City district.

«The fact that Chris McGrath, who is not a politician and was virtually unknown five weeks ago, is already in a dead heat for the 9th Senate district tells you everything you need to know about the state of this race,» said Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif.

More typical is the fact that these two battles are about a lot more than simply one district that snakes, gerrymander - style, through the Bronx and captures a bit of Westchester County, too, and another that hugs the northeast corner of Queens.

One little fact about Hengshan Road is that it used to be the French Concession of China which served as the center of the premier residential district in Shanghai during the 20th century.

Detailed information about Rajasthan - districts, facts, history, economy, infrastructure, society, culture and how to reach Rajasthan by air, road and

I've read similar comments elsewhere about the fact that District 9 is not strictly a mockumentary and it is a fair point.

A Guide to American Flags This page on the University of Oklahoma Web site has a section on laws pertaining to the U.S. flag and is also a good source of basic facts about, and illustrations of, past U.S flags, state flags, and the flags of U.S. districts, territories, and possessions.

«In fact,» Hess concludes, «educational competition can not be divorced from discussions about testing, teacher certification, school district governance, educational administration, or other frustrating conversations that many school choice proponents have long wished to avoid.

When asked to estimate per - pupil expenditure in their district, Americans guess that expenditures are about $ 6,500 annually, when in fact they are around $ 12,500.

Information Fuels Support for School Reform Facts about local district performance alter public thinking By Michael B. Henderson, William G. Howell and Paul E. Peterson

The Common Core standards being adopted in the District, Maryland and most other states grew in part from the work of E.D. Hirsch Jr., a University of Virginia scholar who persuaded many advocates like Petrilli that children often don't learn to read very well because they have not been taught enough facts about their world to understand what they are reading.

In fact, my CRPE colleagues and I spend a lot of time studying and talking about what it takes to design and implement policies like these, especially in cities where the schools are made up of a mix of district and charter schools and multiple oversight agencies existing side by side.

In fact, since traditional public schools ought to be subject to the same constraints, a commonsense reformer is really agnostic about whether traditional publics serve 90 % or 40 % of students in a district.

«I think about the fact that someone opened the door into the largest district in this country,» says Gutierrez, who had been a principal in her native San Jose, California, before the coming to the program and completing her residency in New York City.

The lack of information about how to evaluate teacher leadership is compounded by the fact that teacher - leader roles and job responsibilities differ considerably across districts and states and are continuing to evolve at a rapid pace.

I would even argue that pretty much everything is already internally transparent (ie to teachers and district admins) but that fact does not bring about any change, and there is no incentive for that ever to happen.

The publication presents straightforward facts about the standards» implementation costs, the assessments being developed, student privacy concerns, and the role of local schools and districts.

And in fact, here in Buffalo almost every charter school opened their doors to Superintendent Kriner Cash to talk about their successes and how districts could emulate them.

District budgets are opaque by design, and they often mask important facts about resource allocation within a district, as well as about total sDistrict budgets are opaque by design, and they often mask important facts about resource allocation within a district, as well as about total sdistrict, as well as about total spending.

The fact is that wealthier school districts spend more than $ 10,000 per year on each child being educated, while poorer districts spend about $ 5,000 per student.

In fact, it is that very scrutiny that has led so many suburban districts to join alongside National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates (as well as other traditionalists) to complain about No Child in the first place; they didn't want to be held accountable for serving up mediocrity to the kids they have subjected to educational malpractice for far too long.

But little has been written about the fact that the proposal misses the mark when it comes to the real challenges facing the vast majority of school districts across the country.

In fact, there is even confusion over whether a district can require a charter applicant to provide any information about its parent organization, according to Alice Miller of the California Charter School Association, which is helping MPS protest the closures.

The contemporary debates about equity and sharing of property tax revenue often overlook the fact that wealthy districts in most cases did not create their own wealth.

And while I may disagree with some very smart people (and yes this makes me nervous) about how they should be used (I lean towards principals using them on a micro level, districts and beyond using them at the macro, ie not to evaluate individual teachers, but schools, districts, etc) I don't think anyone can disagree on this hard fact: not every K - 12 classroom will be tested every year in a way that is rigorous or consistent enough for value - added analysis.

In fact, according to an analysis by Urban Institute, students in Colorado's poorest districts receive only an additional $ 401 per student relative to more affluent districts, a ratio that has remained relatively unchanged for the past 20 years even as we get smarter about the impacts of income inequality and stratification across society.

In fact, according to Ms. Potter, what separated TURN from other meetings these leaders attended was that «it focused on providing detailed information on a very specific topic» — in this case PAR — and «provided an opportunity for participants to hear directly from other districts around the country about their experiences implementing their own PAR programs.»

In fact, leaders in APA's interviews indicated that, «attending TURN together and learning about examples of PAR in other districts gave both the district and the union a common focus.

Los Angeles Unified School District facts about immigration policies and freedom from discrimination.

The attitude many of us have about charter schools is not based on union concerns but on the fact that charter schools have proven that they can not or will not provide educational services to every single child who walks through the door, which is something that district schools must do.

In a fact sheet about the proposal, the department encouraged districts to avoid forced staff transfers and consider «instead investing in providing the resources that students need to learn and that will attract staff to choose to work in Title I schools.»

Not only was this school not a success (and the district's numbers as a whole less successful then she claims) but the fact it was her featured school at least raises some suspicion about her possible involvement in the cheating.

Indeed, 855 districts» budgets are in limbo and many districts are in jeopardy because Governor Rauner refuses to acknowledge that his politically motivated claims about a CPS bailout are categorically false, as proven time and again by independent fact checkers.

In fact, The New York Times» own columnist Michael Winerip wrote about that evaluation system last year in this story, which noted that then - Superintendent Jerry Weast had rejected $ 12 million in Race to the Top money because it required districts to use test scores to evaluate teachers.

This fact sheet provides an overview of survey results, including information about shortage areas and district responses to the teacher shortage.

Yesterday, fellow pro-public education blogger, Jersey Jazzman, wrote a great piece about the fact that a number of school districts in New Jersey — all populated by black and Hispanic citizens — have been under state control for years.