Sentences with phrase «left the district because»

A key element of the reform is that it has real consequences: Some teachers have been recognized as exemplary while others have left the district because of poor performance.

Not exact matches

The Park Board voted unanimously Monday to turn down the school district's proposal because it would leave too much park land unusable, said Park Board President Ken Nolan.

District residents were left without an outdoor swimming facility this fall when the 29 - year - old Community Pool was demolished because repairs were becoming too expensive.

Still, the sale has been delayed because the site has been home to automobile repair shops and a farm supply business that left the area polluted, Park District officials said.

Now that USDA has left the choice to use LBT up to each school district, and because individual grocery chains have always had the ability to chose to sell meat with or without it, it's been interesting to see that local efforts are starting to spring up to influence these potential LBT purchasers.

I posed this question because in my own observation of my kids» elementary lunch room I've seen children do just that — take fruits and vegetables even though they're not required to (our district uses «offer vs. serve»)-- yet then leave those foods untouched.

He insisted his proposal leaves open the question of where to put the new facilities because of the Council's long - established practice of giving its members veto authority over zoning changes in their district.

Slaughter's old district, as you'll recall, was often referred to as the «earmuff» district because it stretched from the city of Buffalo, through the city of Niagara Falls to the city of Rochester (basically an effort to capture every available urban Democrat while leaving the rural and suburban Republicans out).

No Child Left Behind was not great for us either, but certainly Race to the Top» ratcheted everything up, because it became clear that for districts in need to get money that they would have to make all these kinds of measure and punish ideas that they'd put across, like the teacher evaluation piece and all of that.

He said the district can't look at cutting positions because there is no where left to cut.

Unfortunately, it was never allowed to become what it was supposed to be, because the agenda was always driven by the so - called progressives running the staff,» said Mike McGuire, the director of the Mason Tenders District Council PAC and a founding WFP member who left the party.

City Council, District 4: The race to represent Midtown East, Murray Hill, Stuyvesant Town and The Upper East Side in the seat that Eva Moskowitz is leaving because she is running for Manhattan Borough President (although she could serve until 2009) has several candidates, two of whom appeared before 504 seeking an endorsement.

Families moving into the town because of the award winning school district, district wide Universal Pre-Kindergarten, organic diversity, a mix of urban and suburban life, coupled with a big inventory of affordable homes has flooded the schools and left the district scrambling to make ends meet with less money.

«Because of NAFTA, the jobs — GM, Chrysler, all of the manufacturing jobs that have left this region for a long time — has had a huge impact on the working families of this district,» Deacon said.

Of the 4,444 signatures gathered, 3,160 were ruled invalid, most because they were gathered from outisde the 46th Senate District, leaving Tkaczyk with only 1,284 signatures, well short of the 3,000 needed to secure the line, Amedore said in a press release.

Carlucci said he returned to the district to take care of some business, leaving early because no one — not even Sampson himself — bothered to inform him that the leadership vote was taking place.

Hartunian, a 1986 Albany Law School graduate who later worked as a prosecutor for Albany County District Attorney Sol Greenberg, left his post as U.S. attorney because of politics; a Democrat, he was not expected to remain under the Republican administration of President Donald Trump.

And because the district does not always enforce its academic eligibility rules, some talented athletes leave high school lacking the skills they need to ge...

Linda Ervin, floor leader and representative for the 17th district in the Onondaga County Legislature, said people are afraid of the idea of the consolidation because they don't know what is taking place and think it will happen overnight, with them being left out.

Some property owners want to be left out of the historic district because it would cost them too much money.

Brooklyn Federal Judge Roslynn Mauskopf recused herself Monday from presiding over the suit because she is a close personal friend of the former federal judge, Barbara Jones, who served on the bench in the Southern District of New York for 16 years before leaving to become a partner at a white shoe law firm.

The more years working in a particular district, the more costly it becomes to leave, simply because pay, responsibilities, and job opportunities are often tied directly to experience within the same school district.

While she complained, according to Education Week, that the school district should have granted her a leave of absence, a letter writer to the newspaper reminded the teacher of her history: «While civil disobedience and legal protest have long been used as ways of attracting attention to a cause, civil disobedience is unique because it has always carried with it the obvious risk of arrest and possible imprisonment.»

Sadly, many parents and teachers have left the Portland School District, and many more are fantasizing about it because they feel the full - inclusion model isn't working there how they pictured it would.

That being said, if I do my job well, my hope is that I can leave DCPS as a district where students are achieving at high levels no matter their backgrounds, families are choosing DCPS schools because of the world - class education we provide, and parents and community members feel like they've contributed to DCPS» amazing successes.

The opposite is true: Special education vouchers discourage school districts from over-identifying disabled students, because any student identified as disabled might leave the district for a private school, reducing district revenue received from the state.

Last summer, for example, the Camden, New Jersey, school board outsourced its substitute hiring to a private vendor because the job was so onerous: between teachers calling in sick or on leave, the district needed to find subs for up to 40 percent of its teachers each day, it told the local newspaper.

The risk of failing to learn from past lessons is significant, Darling - Hammond adds, because poorly thought - out programs can cause teachers to become demoralized and even leave their districts, just what the programs are meant to prevent.

Because a tenure decision involves thousands of future students as well as future colleagues and supervisors at other schools in a district where a teacher might work, it makes no sense to leave the decision in the hands of their current supervisor alone.

Because of this converging scientific consensus, the No Child Left Behind Act requires school districts to demonstrate that they are using reading programs that have been tested for their efficacy through scientific studies in order to qualify for federal reading funds.

This is because those who left early and late entrants at district schools resemble each other — both groups of students tend to be relatively low - achieving.

They discourage school districts from over-identifying disabled students, because any student identified as disabled becomes a potential choice student who might leave the district for a private school, reducing district revenue received from the state.

Third, as explained by Checker Finn, financial considerations make some closures unavoidable — and the likeliest targets are the district's lowest performers, both because they're not serving kids well and because they've typically seen their enrollments reduced by, among other things, students leaving in search of better educational options.

Because union contracts often allow district teachers to take more than ten days of sick or personal leave — on top of school holidays, summer vacation, and professional - development days.

Acting upon the superintendent's recommendation, the SRC decided that the six schools should come under direct district control once again because they had not made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), as required by No Child Left Behind.

And when charters don't enroll high - cost special ed kids and suspend the kids that they don't want, district schools are left with a more challenging task because we do have to give them a public education, a free and appropriate education.

Lastly, the National Education Association points out that moving students from public to private schools harms school districts because they can not reduce their fixed facilities and transportation costs in proportion to the number of students who leave.

the graduation rate cohort for each public school district shall consist of those students who first enrolled in grade 9 anywhere three school years previously or, if an ungraded student with a disability, first attained the age of 17 three school years previously, and who have spent at least five consecutive months, not including July and August, in the district since first entering grade 9 and whose last enrollment in the district did not end because of transfer to another district, death, court - ordered transfer, or leaving the United States.

Also, because of the anticipated approval of a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law, schools and districts won't be judged as failing to meet adequate yearly progress this year, Johnson said.

«He thought differently from other people, because his background was different,» said Rick Miller, a former deputy state superintendent who worked closely with Raymond as executive director of the eight CORE (California Office to Reform Education) districts on the No Child Left Behind waiver.

Because HB 1044 limited crossing districts to students in «D» and «F» rated districts, Hinds County students — and countless others in districts not rated «D» or «F» — will be left out.

The governor's press release appears to say those should be criteria for NEW charters but what about the existing charters and note that it is a long list that begins with students in poor communications so can they keep doing what they are doing and say they meet the new criteria because they are poor — just not as poor as the kids they leave behind in the district schools.

A number of Baltimore schools were forced to eliminate staff this week following midyear budget cuts.Nearly 130 staff members were left looking for job placements after the city school district imposed budget cuts because student enrollments turned out to...

Last year, Washington became the first state to lose its waiver from some of the strictest requirements of that law, known as the No Child Left Behind Act, because lawmakers here refused to require school districts to use student test scores as part of evaluating teacher effectiveness.

Any district school board employee shall be entitled to illness - in - line - of - duty leave when he or she has to be absent from his or her duties because of a personal injury received in the discharge of duty or because of illness from any contagious or infectious disease contracted in school work.

Not only does this raise achievement levels schoolwide, it also attracts students from surrounding districts and recaptures advanced learners who left the school because their needs weren't being met.

A myth exists that substitutes often leave school districts because of low wages.

All year state, city and district leaders have mentioned the tough decisions they're making because of funding, but I am left wondering if they are impacted as deeply as my students and I are each day.

The Louisville Courier - Journal reports that the state's largest district, Jefferson County Schools, closed because of significant teacher absences that left it unable to «safely cover a large number of classes with substitute teachers,» according to a statement.

Because Carranza left in less than two years, the new search will not cost the district