Sentences with phrase «influence over districts»

Then there's also state laws forcing districts to bargain with NEA and AFT locals; the collective bargaining laws, along with the campaign dollars the two unions deploy, essentially give union bosses a level of influence over districts that supersedes that of the voting public.

Silver held onto his Lower Manhattan seat for four decades and wielded enormous influence over his district.

Not exact matches

Not only are we up against a school district food system that is set in it's ways, we're battling a larger food culture that values high calorie, highly processed convenience food AND huge food lobbies that have great influence over Congress and the legislation that is passed.

The DC school district's position directly pits Chartwell's business interests against the rights of DC parents to know if (a) their school district is being unlawfully denied funds to which it is entitled and (b) if huge food manufacturers are wielding undue influence over the FSMC, resulting in that much more processed, sugary foods on school lunch trays.

At issue is how much influence the Park District will have over a yet - to - be-built community center.

The Central Regional Director of the NCCE, Nicolas Ofori Boateng who made the observation, said the situation had influenced voter turnout at district level elections over the past years, as the electorates had lost confidence or felt betrayed by the assembly members.

Having said that, strange developments from Osun West Senatorial District are sufficient enough to compel objective observers to inquire when cheap blackmail took over as a spice of influence on which political actors would always want to ride to power.

The governors» landscape is all the more important when you consider that the winners in 2010 will exert considerable influence over the decennial redistricting process that will reshape the lines of congressional and legislative districts across the country.

Rather than money, «you can influence me with facts,» Tkaczyk explained over a December 2016 lunch at a sandwich shop in her former Senate district.

The influence of the 85 - year - old Democrat has loomed large over the race to succeed him as representative of the 13th Congressional District.

Bharara's investigation reportedly focuses on whether Skelos, whose district is in Nassau County, improperly exercised influence in the awarding of the county storm - cleanup contract to AbTech over two other companies that bid lower for the same job.

When long - term congressman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) commits a major public gaffe before an upcoming election, a pair of ultra-wealthy CEOs plot to put up a rival candidate and gain influence over their North Carolina district.

Directed by Jay Roach («Meet the Parents,» «Game Change «-RRB-, the film follows long - term congressman Cam Brady (Ferrell) who commits a major public gaffe before an upcoming election, causing a pair of ultra-wealthy CEOs plot to put up a rival candidate and gain influence over their North Carolina district.

When long - term Congressman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) commits a major public gaffe before an upcoming election, a pair of unscrupulous power brokers plots to put up a rival candidate and gain influence over their North Carolina district.

The Worcester district also uses its control over the flow of information to limit the influence of NCLB's supplemental services provision.

Unveiled this month, the plan would potentially give the federal government far more influence over classroom practices that traditionally have been left to states, school districts, and individual teachers.

In the case of mayoral and state takeovers, the district can remain the dominant actor — meaning that when control is returned to a locally elected board, that board exerts influence over the entire system again.

The chief executive officers of our nation's state departments of education and city school districts have enormous influence over the future of learning in America.

The superintendents do not want «supplement, not supplant» reform to be an opportunity for the Dept. of Education to «exert unprecedented influence over the more than 90 percent of K - 12 funding generated by state and local districts.»

Choice policies are likely to elicit more extensive responses in large districts, where individual families have less influence over policies and programs than in small school districts.

A Value - Added Model (VAM) is a multivariate (multiple variable) student growth model that attempts to account or statistically control for all potential student, teacher, school, district, and external influences on outcome measures (i.e., growth in student achievement over time).

We believe that districts can get the biggest benefit by intentionally focusing on high - leverage indicators — those that are highly predictive of outcomes that matter to us and that relate to aspects of students» lives over which schools have some influence.

SEDL's policy research focused on the following school reform strategies as they played out in selected states and local districts: resource allocation in local districts, teacher mentoring, policymaker participation in community dialogues on education reform, and the charter school as a policy instrument affecting school - site influence over education reform.

Because ESSA reins in the federal government's influence over local decisions about academic standards and accountability, states and districts will have more power to decide how best to gauge student progress toward becoming well - rounded.

Meander St Augustine's historic district on foot and discover the mixture of cultural influences over the centuries.

Annihilation will also be the launch exhibition for Over The Influence Los Angeles, an impressive 7,000 square foot gallery in the city's Arts District.

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.

In my experience working with numerous policy and practice issues with school districts over the years, if a small group of parents exert their influence and assert that something is essential to the education and well - being of students that are not currently being addressed, schools and school districts have no choice but to take notice and respond.

In my experience working with numerous policy and practice issues with school districts over the years, if a small group of parents exert their influence and assert that something is essential to the education and well - being of students that is not currently being addressed, schools and school districts have no choice but to take notice and respond.