Sentences with phrase «including rural districts»

The 16 winning applications represent 55 different school districts, including rural districts, charter schools, large consortia of districts, and traditional districts.

NSEA worked on amending the language to also include the rural districts in the second year to research and / or start the program.

Not exact matches

Cardston - Siksika — Joseph Schow and Marc Slingerland are challenging MLA Dave Schneider for the UCP nomination in this newly redrawn southern rural district that largely covers the areas included in the current Cardston - Taber - Warner and Little Bow districts.

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.

«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.»

The 19th Congressional District covers several exurbs and rural towns outside Albany, and stretches down to include the city of Kingston in Ulster County.

This is something people in rural areas are hoping for, including those in the 111th Assembly district.

These include two rural electricity projects located at Tapo, Heipang district of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area and Duei, in Du district of Jos South Local Government Area.

Republicans control the redistricting process after their big rout in 2010 — which included stealing the state's two rural northern districts — but the limitations of the map make it hard for the GOP to expand on its current five - to - three majority in a swing state like Wisconsin.

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.

De Blasio said there's a «tremendous feeling for public education» in the United States, including in rural districts and red states, and opposition to any ideas or proposals that might undercut resources for public schools.

The group's Michael Borges says there are many barriers, including fears of community loss of identity, and very long bus rides for children in rural districts that want to consolidate.

Child Health and Safety Team Member agencies include the OCFS Buffalo Regional Office, Southern Tier Health Care System, the New York State Police, Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office, the Allegany County and Cattaraugus County Departments of Social Services, Departments of Health, County Attorney's Offices, District Attorney's Offices and Coroner's Offices, Olean General Hospital, Jones Memorial Hospital, Cuba Memorial Hospital, Olean Police Department, Salamanca Police Department, Wellsville Police Department, Dr. Pamela Salzmann, Allegany / Western Steuben Rural Health Network and the NYS Sudden Infant and Child Death Resource Center.

The district includes a pair of hard - hit Rust Belt cities - Utica and Binghamton - as well as large swaths of rural farmland and bite - size villages and towns.

Gibson, 48, is a lifelong New Yorker and a talented campaigner with an appealing personal story, especially for a district that includes newly gentrified river towns like Hudson * but also covers a wide swath of depressed rural territory: He's a former Army colonel who served four tours in Iraq and was awarded a Purple Heart.

The district, which includes the city of Peekskill, as well as rural areas and affluent suburban communities like Pound Ridge and Bedford, has traditionally voted Republican, though Democratic registration has been persistently climbing.

The race to succeed Mr. Boehner in Ohio's eighth district, which includes suburban Cincinnati and rural communities, has more than a dozen candidates who will be on the primary ballot on March 15.

Cuomo in January proposed a tweak that would boost the total amount by 1 percent, or $ 428 million, but critics have said that his plan funnels money to more wealthy districts, thus depriving rural, poor districts — including those in the Adirondack Park — both their rightful share and relief for taxpayers.

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.

To identify more precisely the independent effects of the multiple factors affecting teachers» choices, we use regression analysis to estimate the separate effects of salary differences and school characteristics on the probability that a teacher will leave a school district in a given year, holding constant a variety of other factors, including class size and the type of community (urban, suburban, or rural) in which the district is located.

The district consists of high - poverty to middle - class schools, rural, suburban, and demographically diverse urban schools — including one where over 60 languages are spoken.

The President's budget contains support for urban and rural school districts undertaking tough reforms including ending social promotion and fixing failing schools.

The conference was based on a set of papers that included reviews of NCLB implementation in California, Colorado, Michigan, and New Jersey, as well as in three rural Kentucky districts and 36 big - city districts nationwide.

Today, 28 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.) operate 54 private - school - choice programs, which include not only government - issued vouchers but also tax - credit scholarships, education savings accounts (ESAs), and town - tuitioning programs for rural families.

Strengthening school districts — Launched in 2009, the Irvine - funded California Linked Learning District Initiative was implemented over seven years within nine California school districts that, together, served 14 percent of the state's public high school students (including a high percentage of low - income youth of color, within rural and urban geographies).

Maine's plan also includes partnering with the Maine Education Policy Research Institute to identify successful longevity pay approaches in other rural states, approaching the state legislature to fund a pilot, and encouraging districts to partner with local business leaders and community organizations to fund this additional pay.

Digital Learning Strategies for Rural America offers profiles of policies and programs at work in 15 states across the country, including examples of state virtual schools, course access opportunities, blended learning models, district - led online learning initiatives, and regional partnerships.

These include the development of a clear vision and plan of action when transitioning to a personalized learning model by district leaders, the need for rural leaders to collaborate with other Future Ready Schools, and provision of funds by state governments and departments of education to support the implementation.

Elimination of the regulations raises several concerns for school districts, including potential pass - through costs associated with data - heavy digital learning initiatives; a less innovative education technology environment based on potential discriminatory pricing for new market entrants; and heightened pricing and other vulnerabilities for rural and high cost districts that may only have access to a single broadband carrier.

In several of the higher - performing districts in our sample (including large urban / suburban as well as rural districts), for example, district leaders and school personnel described recent and ongoing district - wide efforts to support teacher implementation of differentiated instruction.

Learn how school districts, including large urban and small rural schools, have paired on - demand video - based training with on - site coaching to increase the knowledge, skills, and effectiveness of paraprofessionals supporting children with ASD and other developmental disabilities.

Schools in the study ranged from 28 - 92 % poverty, and included four rural, four small town, and one suburban school, as well as five inner - city schools from three large metropolitan districts.

Federal law in postsecondary education must also be a robust source of support for local innovation, research, and implementation of strategies designed to improve teacher and principal effectiveness and include: Evidence - based preparation and professional development; Evidence - based evaluation systems that include, in part, student performance; Alternative certification programs that meet workforce needs; State and school district flexibility regarding credentials for small and / or rural schools, special education programs, English learners and specialized programs such as science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics; and Locally - determined compensation and teacher and principal assignment policies.

Those districts collectively serve a quarter of the state's students and include urban, suburban, and rural areas.

Many are small, rural districts struggling to keep enrollments stable, but several are urban districts, including one of the state's largest, 50,000 - student Riverside Unified.

Network Eight: Students in Small and Rural School Districts, which provides that activities that may support learning opportunities and improvements across the state may include projects such as professional community to mentor and support teachers and mitigate professional isolation

You can read a letter that a coalition including the ACLU of Northern California, California Rural Legal Assistance, and others sent Stockton Unified School District Superintendent Lowder around their concerns with the district's draft LCADistrict Superintendent Lowder around their concerns with the district's draft LCAdistrict's draft LCAP, here.

For a range of reasons, include their remoteness, their generally small size and a lack of media coverage, teacher shortages in rural districts have received far less attention than those in inner - city schools.

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.

Representatives from local Kern County school districts, including Arvin and Vineland, joined the Dolores Huerta Foundation and California Rural Legal Assistance in a media briefing and roundtable.

Holtz's path began in an elementary school classroom in rural Minnesota, included a stint on a police force in Whitewater and traveled to five elementary principal and school district superintendent positions across Wisconsin.

But many districts are quietly feeling the same squeeze, including in poor rural and suburban communities.

And in California's rural Central Valley, Jerry Waymire, the assistant superintendent for information technology for the Kings County Office of Education, has spearheaded construction of a broadband network in several districts, including Corcoran Joint Unified.

Stakeholder feedback identified several components to consider when researching this option, including: finding opportunities in rural and / or low income school districts, finding opportunities in school districts experiencing difficulty in attracting and retaining staff for identified positions, opportunities to practice co-teaching, and possible participation in or exposure to professional learning communities (in - district, or regional).»

Other districts, including Tooele, also support rural schools.

The Learning Policy Institute surveyed 25 California school districts, including the largest suburban and urban districts in the state and a sampling of rural districts, representing every region in California.We surveyed 31 districts in total, choosing districts based on size and geographic representation.

School districts and their local partners in inner cities and rural communities are overcoming poverty and family breakdown to create high - performing schools, including charters and traditional public schools.

Most rural schools, including districts participating in the Idaho Leads initiative, the Idaho P - TECH network, Khan Academy in Idaho and other efforts, are already forging ahead with integrating technology into their work.

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.

The fact that governments (including school districts) are major employers, especially in rural areas, along with the struggle reformers often have in explaining the nuances of teacher pay (and moving away from over-simplification that lead to Matt Damon moments) should also help the NEA's and AFT's cause.