Sentences with phrase «in a given district»

In other words, they figure out how much it costs to educate each student in a given district and they give each district that amount of money.

That burden gets heavier in proportion to the poverty rate in a given district.

The project creates virtual «idea exchanges» and invites teachers in a given district or state to contribute video or written commentaries.

The best systems then use a «weighted» funding formula that takes into account regional cost variations, the need for specialized teachers for students who have disabilities and Limited English Proficient students, and other factors that may increase or decrease the cost of education in a given district.

These are just some of the reasons anti-hunger advocates want New York City to join this expanding federal program that allows all kids in a given district to eat for free.

Another important finding from their research, however, which has attracted less media attention, is that having a history of female candidates in a given district has a substantial effect on the party's probability to nominate a female candidate in the future.

In the case of Vanessa Gibson, the number of players in any given district is limited, and it makes sense that she would be acquainted or even friends with the same people whose groups she funds.

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

New York's delegate rules stipulate that any candidate who wins a majority in a congressional district wins all three delegates in the given district.

Congressional district delegates were allocated proportionally based on the primary or caucus results in a given district.

He said Council members know that the person who was elected in a given district is the one who «will have to face reelection there and knows the issues.»

The Republican primary will hand out three delegates per district (plus 14 more for the statewide winner), but the math is more complicated: A candidate who pulls in more than 50 percent of the vote in a given district will take all three; if the winner gets less than a majority, one delegate will go to the column of the second - place finisher, as long as that candidate receives at least 20 percent of that district's vote.

That is, we ignore what actually occurred in a given district and instead calculate what would have been expected to occur based on the experiences of all other districts with similar characteristics experiencing the same kind of reform.

Commissioned by Jorge m. Pérez, Linnenbrink's drip style painting succeeds in giving the district a burst of color.

Of course, the political dynamics in any given district may be an exception to this pattern, but it is important to note that the pattern is similar at both the national and swing - state scales.

However I can not find a clear definition of constituent - is it all people who live in a given district or is it all the people who are allowed to vote?

A median is a midpoint, with half of the teachers in a given district being paid more than the median, and half being paid less.

State law specifies the number of Commonwealth charter schools that are allowed statewide and, via spending limits, the number of students who can be enrolled in charter schools in any given district.

The more representatives you have in any given district, the smaller the rounding error, and hence, the less room there is for gerrymandering.

However, figuring out who the library supervisor is in a given district can be a real challenge because of the multiplicity of titles under which the position exists.