Sentences with phrase «handful of districts»

Simon was one of a small handful of district leaders who took him on, fighting for reforms within the party.

Huge, but regionally small, places like Seattle would cause a flood of electors from a small handful of districts, dwarfing the other districts.

It is one of a handful of districts citywide where Jewish voters are not a major electoral force.

Cuomo has endorsed Democrats in the state Senate, including races in a handful of districts last year and contributed money to the candidates.

It is one of a handful of districts that became more favorable to Democrats after the Senate map was redrawn ahead of the 2016 elections.

New York City schools and a handful of districts statewide have used the standardized tests under Common Core for grades 3 through 8 as a factor in promoting students to the next grade.

The Hudson Valley Senate race is one of a handful of districts Democrats are pushing to make competitive in order to gain control of the chamber this year.

Some Democrats don't wind up facing general election opposition, though there are a handful of districts across the city that are either held by Republicans or could reasonably be swung to the GOP.

This year the 19th District is a so - called «battleground» district, meaning one of just a handful of districts across the country where a Democratic candidate could flip the switch, turning a traditionally red district blue.

But a handful of districts have the luxury of not only hosting a competitive House race, but also being swing areas of presidential battleground states.

The YouGov local election poll in the Sun today is based on just repondents in those areas that actually have local elections in May — that is, excluding London, Scotland, Wales and the 13 or so councils who do not have elections this year (primarily Cornwall, Durham, the Isle of Wight, Northumberland, Shropshire and Wiltshire, with a handful of district councils with unusual electoral cycles).

New York City was among a handful of districts that did not submit a plan by the deadline.

SD 8 covers all of Alachua and Putnam counties as well as the northern half of Marion County and is one of a handful of districts that became more favorable to Democrats after districts were redrawn ahead of the 2016 elections.

SD 8 covers all of Alachua and Putnam counties as well as the northern half of Marion County and is one of a handful of districts that became more favorable to Democrats after the Senate map was redrawn ahead of the 2016 elections.

A handful of districts, some with the approval of their local teachers» unions, are experimenting with alternatives to the fundamental components that govern teachers» base - pay raises.

In reality, sustained attempts to instill new unionism have occurred in just a handful of districts, and the results have been fairly disappointing.

A handful of districts, including Cincinnati and Rochester, N.Y., have tried such programs, but California...

To date, only a handful of districts have implemented WSF, and certainly not in the strict sense described here.

Berkeley's policy, like others in a handful of districts across the country, require school officials to consider all alternatives before they...

A handful of districts and two states are doing away with the forced placement of teachers in schools in favor of a system requiring both the teacher and principal to agree to a transfer.

Union advocates are frustrated that they don't get credit for such developments, while critics say, «Sure, a handful of districts are inching forward, but those are outliers.»

Although most of the nation's teachers and students have settled into their fall routines, a handful of districts have shut down because of teachers» strikes.

As CAP researchers said one Florida reporter told them, «Only a handful of districts feel like they're prepared to do [new teacher evaluations].

A handful of districts chose to share these funds with charters voluntarily, but the vast majority did not.

Finally, the authors identified a handful of districts that have implemented socioeconomic integration policies and have relatively low levels of economic segregation.

With every New Jersey school district tasked with having a new teacher evaluation system in place by next fall, the experiences of the handful of districts that have been testing the tools for the past two years are in high demand.

In 1997 the New York State Performance Consortium was founded to give a handful of district schools an alternative method in which to evaluate its students free from most Regents exams though students are still required to pass the English Regents in order to graduate.

Further, only a handful of the districts that had accepted the funds were following through with required restructuring.

Ultimately, much of the state's education policy is geared toward a handful of districts where the troubles are the greatest, usually in New Jersey's poorest cities and towns.

Layoffs in a handful of districts don't reflect statewide trends.

This trend of large numbers of chronically absent students affecting a handful of districts also holds true for states.

Alyson Klein reports in Education Week that Louisiana, New Hampshire, and Puerto Rico have officially submitted applications for the ESSA's Innovative Assessment Pilot, which «allows states to try out new forms of testing in a handful of districts, with the goal of eventually taking them...

A handful of districts, including Oakland Unified and Los Angeles Unified, have outlawed willful defiance / disruption suspensions for all grades.

For example, he wrote that while Newark was among a handful of districts across the state that served as pilot programs to test the new evaluation system, there were some stark differences between the how to pilot program operated compared to the way it worked when the law actually went into effect, including differences in the number of classroom observations required for each teacher's evaluation.

But it has remained a tough sell, with only a handful of districts providing much incentive beyond that.

A handful of districts showed there is a more responsible way to handle the situation, by requiring the union to pay for every penny of its officers» salary while they are relieved of classroom duties to serve the union.

On the other hand, a handful of districts have formally voted to maintain the April votes to continue to give local voters a say over spending, even if within the caps.

Because library media specialists are required by law and all but a handful of districts already provide Family Resource / Youth Service Centers based on the percentage of their students in poverty, the board agreed to remove these two options from the opportunity and access indicator, yet recognized the importance of schools providing both of these whole child supports.

Some education analysts argue that mixing the student bodies of these two schools may be a vital factor in improving education, and a handful of districts and private schools have begun enacting so - called «economic integration» policies that seek to create income - diverse schools, complete with rich kids, poor kids and everyone in between.

Lauren noted that SC has a number of schools and a handful of districts starting to use a personalized approach for instruction.

A handful of districts nationwide plan to use value - added data as a determining factor in a teacher's employment.

Hayward is among just a handful of districts recognized as winners of the prestigious 2012 - 13 Model School Attendance Review Boards.

Other critics have argued that the concentration of patent litigation in a handful of districts gave the limited number of federal judges in those districts a disproportionate influence over the interpretation and development of patent law.

«While a handful of district courts, following Booker, have taken it upon themselves to lower guideline ranges for crack offenses based on a perceived unfairness in comparison with sentencing for powder cocaine crimes, this is plainly beyond judicial authority, and the appellate courts to address the matter have unanimously rejected this result.

However, we also place a huge importance on social and emotional learning (SEL), and have joined a handful of districts across the country in aggressively focusing on these skills (see Initiative # 2 in the EPISD 2020 Strategic Plan).