Sentences with phrase «largely up to district»

In New York it is largely up to district administrators to hire and assign principals.

Not exact matches

The Chicago Park District hopes to address complaints against its harbor - management company by forming an advisory committee made up largely of boaters and sending in «secret shoppers» to evaluate the company's customer service practices.

Largely banking mainly on the state government's support, Uba Sani's reach is basically said to be limited to confined areas of just one out of the seven local government areas that make up the Kaduna Central Senatorial District

Ratigan is the highest profile name yet to join the race in the district, which has largely not popped up on the radar of races that are considered top - tier battlegrounds like the 19th district in the Hudson Valley or the 22nd district in the Mohawk Valley, represented by freshman Reps. John Faso and Claudia Tenney respectively.

While Democratic senators have hired Democratic party officials, and Republicans have hired local Republican officials, the Independence Party — which touts a reform - minded agenda — is a ballot line up for grabs, though its endorsements in recent years have largely gone to Republicans in battleground districts.

That film was largely rising action, building up to all - out war between the rebel District 13 and the dictatorial Capitol.

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

«There was already a provision in the contract under which the district was to set up a system of peer coaches that would largely be controlled by the union....

Funding gifted education is thus left largely up to school districts, which are hard hit by falling property taxes and looking to cut budgets without reducing the number of kids who get over the minimum - proficiency bar.

There's lots of talk these days about «bottom - up» efforts to fix struggling schools and districts, largely tied to what happened in Newark over the past five years.

A largely African - American district of roughly 2,800, close to the Louisiana border, McComb is now hurrying to catch up.

Though students generally went to slightly better performing campuses, the schools they wound up at were still largely low - performing relative to the district.

For example, largely in response to pressure from Washington, states required districts to step up their teacher evaluation systems.

Under the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states must still identify their lowest - performing schools, but how to turn them around will largely be left up to state and district leaders.