Sentences with phrase «from rural districts»

For five of the CCSESA regions, we received at least one response from a large district and a rural district; for four regions, we received responses from large districts only; and for two regions, we received responses from rural districts only.

Prior to passage it had to be amended to appease senators from rural districts.

Still, the schools have been draining funds from rural districts, and have been quickly endorsed by DeVos as the option for rural students who may not have access to private institutions or brick - and - mortar charter schools.

Noel Candelaria, president of the Texas State Teachers Association (TSTA), says lawmakers from rural districts understand the role schools play in their communities and the constant financial pressure they operate under on a daily basis.

«Those are the kinds of things that would be taken away from rural districts that are trying to challenge the status quo and get better.»

With funding from WHO, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and colleagues from Makerere University in Uganda have conducted a study that includes around 1,000 women from rural districts of Uganda.

As artistic director and general secretary of the Werkleitz Gesellschaft from 2003 to 2006 she reinforced the local significance of the Werkleitz Gesellschaft as an institution of contemporary art in the course of the society's relocation from the rural district of Tornitz / Werkleitz to the city of Halle, as well as through extensive collaborations with regional institutions and artists.

Not exact matches

Still, many Democratic candidates challenging Republicans in rural and politically diverse districts are distancing themselves from Pelosi.

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.

Actual property tax rates in the county are based on assessed value (10 % of market value), with millage rates ranging from 28 in rural areas of district 1 up to 43 in the city of Fairhope.

He certainly doesn't have to worry about reelection in his district, which stretches from the Dallas suburbs into rural East Texas.

Perry had been elected a state representative as a Democrat from a rural West Texas district in 1985.

In France urban populations, some of the rural districts, and laborers in mines and factories tended to drift away from the Church.

The creamery in rural Cumbria produces cheddar cheese under the Lake District brand and is Europe's first dairy processing site to feed bio-methane (up - graded biogas) generated entirely from cheese process residues, to the gas grid.

PALATINE — The Salt Creek Rural Park District board has tentatively approved a 1998 tax levy for $ 1.27 million, down 9.2 percent from last year's levy.

Throughout Vermont an increasing number of schools benefit from universal free meals, including small schools in the rural counties of the Northeast Kingdom, some schools in Burlington, the entire Winooski school district and the entire Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union.

Currently, almost every Republican is from a suburban or rural district.

She had high ratings from the NRA when she represented her rural House district but became a vocal supporter of gun control as a senator.

Democratic incumbents from poor, rural districts simply didn't have the resources to defend themselves against the onslaught of outside spending — and national Democrats didn't call in the cavalry.

Gun rights groups claim a slim majority for their position in the Senate, given the two or three Democratic Senators representing rural districts who often vote against gun control — although there are also Republican Senators from urban districts who tend to waver.

Gillibrand was a little - known second - term congresswoman from a rural Republican district when Gov. David Paterson tapped her last month to fill the Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Slaughter's old district, as you'll recall, was often referred to as the «earmuff» district because it stretched from the city of Buffalo, through the city of Niagara Falls to the city of Rochester (basically an effort to capture every available urban Democrat while leaving the rural and suburban Republicans out).

In order to take advantage of a potential presidential wave, Democratic operatives are cutting emotional ties from some rural areas that made up their previous majority, such as downstate Illinois and parts of Ohio, to focus on more suburban districts, where they believe changing demographics are moving seats into the Democratic column.

New York State has a Democratic majority in the Assembly which means a Democratic representative from District 101 will have better opportunities to make an impact in Albany for the issues that matter to people in rural areas.

«I'm fairly confident when they hear from the people of Erie County, they're going to change their tune because they're going to realize the majority of people in Erie Count, y including people that live in their districts, even Republican, rural districts, support the proposal that we'll be putting forth.»

Lawmakers began funding dozens of different programs with money from HCRA, paying for worker retraining (which pleased health care unions) and rural health grant programs that were good for residents — and lawmakers — in rural districts.

Chris Collins is well known in the most populated parts of the congressional district as former Erie County executive while David Bellavia is from the more rural parts of the district where he's best known as a combat soldier and writer.

Republicans gained an on - record vote from several marginal Democrats — including Poughkeepsie senator Terry Gipson and senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, who represents a rural district in the Catskills — for the coming campaigns.

Flanagan had publicly said that the Senate would not approve a budget unless the budget totally eliminated something called the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which took millions of dollars in school aid away from suburban and rural school districts.

One reason was that he played such an instrumental role in anointing Ms. Clinton's successor, an unknown congresswoman from a rural upstate district named Kirsten Gillibrand.

You deserve multiple viewpoints, especially from our rural communities and from members that live in the 27th District.

«This debt was accrued for the provision of various services such as fumigation, compensation for GYEDA [Ghana Youth Employment Development Agency], sanitation garbs, the provision of landfill management services, as well as debts arising from contracts with the ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and Metropolitan Municipal, and District Assemblies.»

In the 21st District, in the state's rural Northern Tier, Representative Elise M. Stefanik, the incumbent Republican, has stuck to her support for Mr. Trump, despite fierce criticism from Mike Derrick, a Democrat.

While serving as a congresswoman from 2007 to 2009 in a rural GOP district, she received an «A» rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA).

The Senate and Assembly also want to wipe out this year the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which primarily reduced funding to suburban and rural school districts - especially districts on Long Island, where Flanagan is from.

In her turn at the microphone Sunday, Gillibrand made no reference to Kennedy, trying instead to fend off criticism of her selection as a little - known congresswoman from a mostly rural district in upstate New York.

Donald Trump won the rural 21st district 54 — 40 in 2016, a swing from Barack Obama's 52 — 46 win in 2012.

Rep. Bill Owens (D., N.Y.) announced his retirement from the seat in January, prompting Republicans to view the mostly rural and historically GOP - leaning district as a potential pickup in the midterm elections.

Among the Constitution Party legislative nominees in the nation who had both a Democratic and a Republican opponent, the highest percentage was earned by Janine Hansen, who polled 19.54 % against both a Democrat and a Republican in Nevada's 19th State Senate district, which covers the eastern half of rural Nevada and runs all the way from Idaho to California.

And it would prompt a trading war for Upstate improvements - not necessarily a bad thing for lawmakers from more rural regions who want to bring some of that kitty to their districts» roads and bridges.

are struggling with them in wealthy and in middle - and low - income schools; in rural, suburban, and urban districts; in magnet, regular, district, charter, parochial, and independent schools; along the coasts, in the American heartland, from south to north, and everywhere in between.»

The study examines the unions» goals and leadership as well as the role they played in three small suburban and rural school districts in New York State from the early 1960's to the late 1970's.

As a side note, we have expanded the program into neighboring rural districts and have had great response from those communities and the local industries.

And most of the 13 traditional districts remaining are in rural communities rather than in a large suburban «refuge» from urban education ills.

Better at When Than How As school districts around the country grapple with turnaround strategies and fiscal realities, school closure (and consolidation) has become a popular option in districts from Baltimore to Detroit, from Boston to Denver, even in rural places like Maine and North Dakota.

But since most suburban and rural districts hire from nearby colleges, this market mechanism won't mean a thing in much of the country.

By organizing the community, rural districts can «go from protest to policy, and from powerlessness to powerfulness.»

A similar system of principal rotation exists: «In 2013, the city deployed nine skilled principals from central districts to schools in the rural districts to serve as mentors and offer management advice for two years.»

«When I was in Akron in the early 1990s, many new teachers came to the urban district from rural Ohio.

When workers from rural villages across southern China set out for cities in search of better jobs and a better life, that journey often takes them to neighborhoods like this one, a teeming section of Guangzhou's Hai zhu district.