Sentences with phrase «left up to districts»

California has identified English learners based on how well they do on the language development test but has left it up to districts and students» teachers to also weigh a mix of factors, including teacher judgment, scores on other standardized academic tests and parent consultations.

Local control is a hot issue with budgets and common core so leave it up to the districts to decide the issue.

«We've seen this in Columbia County where the DA chose not to press charges, so I leave it up to the district attorneys to do their jobs,» McLaughlin said.

The bill leaves it up to each district to decide whether a candidate's work experience is sufficient.

Not exact matches

Just 16 states and the District of Columbia have set up their own health insurance marketplaces, which left millions of residents in the 34 states that rely on exchanges run by the federal government vulnerable to the Supreme Court's ruling.

Leave it up to the individual school districts.

The Park District had entered into a 99 - year lease agreement with the city, which owns the 60.8 acres used for the Garden Plots and the adjacent Sportsman's Park, that leaves minor renovations or alterations to the site up to the Park District.

Which parks would get the money was left up to the Park District.

The Park District has a 99 - year lease with the city, which owns the 60.8 acres used for the Garden Plots and the adjacent Sportsman's Park, that leaves minor improvements or alterations to the site up to the Park District's discretion.

The 99 - year lease with the city leaves minor renovations or alterations to the site up to the Park District.

Why not leave it up to local districts, and in ten years see which ones have the healthiest graduates?

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.

But a financial crunch left the Park Board unable to pay up this year, so the Village Board agreed to take on the Park District's share and drew up a repayment agreement.

It also helped bring me to the District of Columbia and my beloved neighborhood of Adams Morgan, while leaving behind a domain name that has turned out to be eminently recyclable (thanks for thinking that one up, Mom).

To many, the protests and hard questions they've faced back home in their districts MUST be being ginned - up by the Professional Left.

Richmond County District Attorney Michael McMahon is not on board with the push from Manhattan and Brooklyn to stop prosecuting marijuana smokers, sounding a note of caution and saying the issue should be left up to the state Legislature.

Swing Left is targeting 64 House seats and has activated local, self - organized teams across the country to begin canvassing their respective swing districts — including knocking on doors to survey constituents» concerns, registering new voters at farmers markets and recruiting locals to build up volunteer capacity inside the targeted districts.

Queens Councilman David Greenfield, who will leave the Council at the end of the year to head the nonprofit Met Council, is allocating $ 1.6 million to reach what the Parks Department dubs «maximum tree capacity» in Midwood — an idea he had after finishing up projects to upgrade his district's parks.

The over-representation of London is partly due to the city having all - out elections while most of the smaller district councils in Leave leaning areas have just one - third of their council seats up for election.

Even outside the district he served, his name's been on the ballot enough to rack up some name ID — he left his Assembly seat to run for State Comptroller in 2002, losing a close race to now - disgraced Alan Hevesi and then in 2006 won the GOP nomination for governor, where he lost in a W - fatigue landslide to now - disgraced Eliot Spitzer.

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.

Robert Clifford, a spokesman for Spota, who announced Thursday he is leaving office after his indictment on federal charges involving a cover - up of a former police official's assault of a suspect, said the district attorney's office «has not received federal subpoenas related to the payments you cite.»

Progressives have long accused Cuomo of disingenuously propping up the Senate Republican majority so he can use it as a convenient excuse — a buffer against having both legislative houses controlled by left - of - center Democrats — pointing to maneuvers like his 2012 deal with Skelos on a redistricting plan that gerrymandered districts in favor of the GOP.

The campaign is also sending out mailers to try and drum up support in the Brooklyn senate district that was left vacant when Carl Kruger plead guilty to corruption charges.

Staten Island Rep. Mike McMahon picked up the Independence Party today, a boost in his bid to win a second term in the NY - 13 district he captured in 2008 when Republican Vito Fossella left the stage amid personal scandal.

«We would have preferred to have tied everything up with a nice neat bow and returned to our districts with nothing at all left on our plate,» said Mr. Flanagan, in a statement.

Klein, whose district spans portions of the Bronx and Westchester, uses the ad to play up his work on gun control, paid family leave, minimum wage increases, and rent freezes for senior citizens.

If we had an 85 percent graduation rate and we were inching up toward 90 percent, if we didn't have the worst SAT scores among 50 upstate school districts, if we didn't have a Syracuse Teachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that category.

«We would have preferred to have everything tied up with a nice neat bow and returned to our districts with nothing at all left on our plate, but that just wasn't possible under the circumstances.»

The second clip arrived during Liam Hemsworth's appearance on «The Tonight Show with Jay Leno» and shows Katniss trying to convince Gale that their time is up and if they don't leave District 12 now, President Snow (Donald Sutherland) will kill them.

Districts that are overpaid have no incentive to attract new students, as their state aid would not go up, and, in fact, would be better off on a per - pupil basis if some of their current students left.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leavTo be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leavto place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leavto be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

During the summer of 2002, the district mailed a follow - up notice telling parents that the law provided transportation money for any students who wanted to leave those schools.

State and local officials describe the system as one in which the state will provide descriptions of the major functions of teachers and principals and will leave most of the evaluation process and use of its results up to local districts.

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.

«States thought they only had one tool in their toolbox, which was to mandate curriculum or leave it entirely up to local districts,» Minnich notes.

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.

The partnership, founded a little over a year ago, is made up of 100 education and arts organizations, foundations, businesses, and government agencies that want to make sure the arts are not left out when districts and states craft reform plans under the federal Goals 2000 program.

The «how» of implementing culminating project requirements is left up to local districts.

As members of Congress returned to their home districts last week after wrapping up work on a new federal budget, they left behind an unfinished agenda for reauthorizing the nation's main K - 12 law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

The authors stated that they were unable to come up with particular ways in which school districts could spend money to improve the average verbal ability of their teachers (though other researchers such as Ferguson and Manski have suggested that higher teacher salaries might do so), so they left out possible ways that money might be spent to raise verbal ability.

Nebraska's open - enrollment law appears to have left some residents with a choice not foreseen by lawmakers — opting to sign up with a school district that charges relatively low taxes, and then sending their children to a district with better — and presumably more expensive — schools.

With little stimulus money expected to be left for construction after states make up for recession - driven budget cuts, districts are scrambling for some $ 24 billion or more in zero - or low - interest bonds under the $ 787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The U.S. Department of Education's plan to grant states broad flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act will free up as much as $ 800 million in money school districts now must set aside for tutoring students, but may mark a significant financial blow to an education industry that has grown up around serving low - performing schools.

First, graduation decisions are mostly left up to the schools and districts that are supposedly accountable for them.

Like many school districts across the country, D.C. Public Schools leaves the decision on whether to include cursive as part of the curriculum up to individual principals and teachers.

Get ready for an intensive day of learning and practice, from which you will leave prepared to return to your district or office with new ideas to power up success for students and teachers.

The letter lauds the bill for leaving teacher evaluations up to states and local districts, maintaining collective bargaining rights, improving assessments for English language learners and rolling back No Child Left Behind's punitive accountability system that scores schools and states based on student proficiency.

The graduation rate is included in calculations by the federal government to determine if a high school, district or the state clears the performance hurdle set under the No Child Left Behind law, the sweeping education reform that imposes increasingly severe penalties for coming up short.

The letter lauds the bill for leaving teacher evaluations up to states and local districts, maintaining collective bargaining rights, improving assessments for English language learners and rolling back NCLB's punitive accountability system that scores schools and states based on student proficiency.