Sentences with phrase «for sparsity»

A similar problem persists today and to compensate for the sparsity of weather stations in many inland regions, often with totally empty grid cells between them, the ACORN database applies a weighted average which proportionally multiplies their occurrence, at the same time dividing the occurrence of temperatures among more densely located stations in populated regions mostly on the coastal fringe.

I get the idea that there is some need for sparsity, but it makes the game feel very empty.

This new law also permanently raises the current 725 pupil cap on school district membership for sparsity aid eligibility to 745 pupils, beginning in the 2016 - 17 school year.

These 144 school districts (comprising roughly 34 percent of Wisconsin's 422 school districts) qualified for sparsity aid based on having a membership of 745 or fewer students and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile of the district's geographic area.

The State Board of Education shall adopt rules for speech - language services to school districts that qualify for the sparsity supplement as described in s. 1011.62 (7).

Under the bill, the appropriation for sparsity aid would be increased by $ 6.5 million in 2019.

Small schools in rural areas won't be hit as hard, though, as they will be eligible for sparsity funding

Not exact matches

These data reflected both the sparsity and uncertainty of the evidence available for the Last Glacial Maximum.

Gov. Michael Rounds has signed a $ 3.2 billion budget bill for fiscal 2007 that includes a so - called «sparsity formula,» which distributes $ 1.5 million to lightly populated school districts that are too far from neighboring communities to consolidate operations.

Schools in areas identified as rural (by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) will gain on average 1.3 per cent more — mostly through proposals for a lump sum and sparsity funds.

There will be extra funding for «sparsity», such as rural areas and small schools, places with a high level of mobility in its school population and funding where there are sharp increases in pupil numbers.

Delete $ 100 increase per pupil in sparsity aid, and instead provide $ 100 per pupil for districts with between 745 - 1,000 students.

Governor Walker said the proposed $ 200 increase in per pupil aid matches what Dr. Tony Evers, the newly re-elected state superintendent, asked for and does not include sparsity aid that will be given to rural school districts.

Since the 2008 - 09 school year, the state has provided additional funding for small, rural districts outside of their revenue limits through sparsity aid, as a way to lessen certain challenges experienced by rural districts with both a small pupil membership and a sparsely populated area.

Three Lakes Board member Terry McCloskey thanked lawmakers for the funding increases they provided in the recently completed legislative session and urged the Commission to distinguish between «programmatic» sparsity and «geographic» sparsity.

Governor Scott Walker is visiting schools in Wausaukee, Cadott, and Belmont today to announce his support for new legislation to increase Sparsity Aid for rural schools, an idea he championed earlier this year.

I am disappointed that neither revenue limit relief for low - spending districts nor an increase / expansion of sparsity aid were included in the final budget.

A record 144 small, rural Wisconsin school districts have received a total of $ 18.5 million in sparsity aid payments for the 2017 - 18 school year.

Currently, the Sparsity Aid Program aims to offset the challenges faced by the smallest, most rural school districts in the state through providing $ 300 in per - pupil funding for districts with enrollments of 745 or less and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile.

Legislature Recesses Until January; Hopes Dim for Action on Sparsity Aid, Relief for Low - Revenue Districts

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The task force put forward a number of prudent ideas, including increasing sparsity aid to rural districts and creating a student loan forgiveness program for new teachers who choose to teach in rural Wisconsin.

In addition to the squeeze on basic funding, in a shameless attack on small rural schools, the DfE has reduced the sparsity factor by nearly 50 % below the minimum; all to fund the increases for disadvantaged pupils.

Despite these stylistic differences, all are notable for their compositional sparsity, precise edges, and flat areas of color.

Note also that the issue with the bristlecone pines which was first brought up by Mann et al 1999 only affects the reconstruction between 1400 and 1490 because of the sparsity of data for that period.