Sentences with phrase «hamper district efforts»

Third, charters are particularly well - suited to tackle these questions because they don't have to wrestle with all the parental griping and constituency politics that hamper district efforts to establish strong codes of conduct, to encourage political participation, or to promote character development.

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Polikoff said that Kelly «s unwillingness to discuss with Netsch and Madison the details of concession contracts, or any other park district matters, has hampered the new officials «efforts to carry out park business, but he said an agreement with representatives of the Bears was «imminent.

The Democrats» efforts in the 37th SD could be hampered by the GOP's efforts to make the district more Republican by adding Eastchester back to it).

In the governor's mid-town office, William Fitzpatrick, a district attorney from Syracuse, raised concerns he felt were hampering the commission's effort, the New York Times reported today.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

In the upcoming school year, districts expect budget problems to continue to hamper their efforts to improve.

The bill also would have allowed evidence that is more than four years old to be used in certain cases, a restriction that has hampered some districts» efforts to dismiss teachers after learning of past allegations.