Sentences with phrase «less number of district»

Absence of awareness about insurance, low levels of financial literacy and less number of district level private insurers is what IRDA accounts the low numbers of non-life insurance penetration to.

Not exact matches

The second method, called «Nutrient Standard Menu Planning» allows a school district pay less attention to the foods served, so long as the requisite number of nutrients are offered over the course of an entire week.

The 51 % least populated districts in a state make up at most 51 % of the population (probably less, since legislative districts have approximately the same number of people, but not exactly).

Based on the percentages Barack Obama and John McCain scored in the 2008 presidential race, a number of swing districts have gotten either more or less competitive.

«The only reason I can think to do this is [is that] when real numbers come out in June and show less - than - positive results, it will be Bill de Blasio's administration's fault and not on Bloomberg's twelve - year legacy running the schools,» charged Miriam Aristy - Farer, President of District 6's Community Education Council (CEC).

The County Committee shall be constituted by the election biennially in each Election District in the County of New York, at the Primary Election held in each odd - numbered year, of two members of the County Committee plus an additional member if 300 or more votes and less than 451 votes were cast in such Election District for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election, and an additional member if 451 or more votes were cast in such Election District at said time.

If the number of registered voters in the district in which the candidate seeks nomination is less than 2,000, a candidate may submit a petition containing four signatures for each dollar of the filing fee, or 20 percent of the total number of registered voters in the district in which he or she seeks nomination, whichever is less.

Generally speaking, a candidate must collect signatures equaling at least 5 percent of the number of active enrolled voters in the political unit (e.g., the state for statewide offices, such as governor; the legislative district for state senate or assembly districts; etc.), or a fixed total established by statute, whichever is less.

The Democratic wave this year had much less impact than the Republican one in 2010 primarily because despite the large Republican majority in Congress, very few Republicans actually represented Democratic - leaning districts — in sharp contrast to the number of Democrats representing Republican districts in 2010.

«The number of districts attempting overrides is less than one - half the number that tried in fiscal 2013,» the report found.

Though hit hard by the recent federal sequestration numbers, officials in the Kingston City School District are still anticipating crafting an operating budget for the 2013 - 14 school year with a tax levy increase of 2 percent or less.

In other districts, meanwhile, the number of commuters affected would be less than ten percent.

We all know that in our representative democracy, it's important that legislative districts contain more or less the same number of people; we all want equal representation.

Freshman Queens City Councilman Ruben Wills has had a surprising number of dealings this year with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance «s office, including a well - publicized larceny charge and a less well - known elections investigation.

Not a traditional soundtrack — only three of the 14 songs on the record actually appear in the film — but rather an «inspired by» type of situation, the album joins other number - one charting companion albums of film - adjacent music such as, um, somewhat less - inspired collections like Men In Black: The Album and The Hunger Games: Songs From District 12 And Beyond.

It is in the less desirable and more troubled systems, the nation's urban and rural school districts, that administrators currently have tremendous difficulty finding sufficient numbers of certified teachers.

The total number of school districts in the U.S. dropped from more than 100,000 around the turn of the 20th century to less than 15,000 by the turn of the 21st century, even as the population of school - age children increased during that period.

But a survey of the 50 states and the District of Columbia by Education Week found less movement on other fronts, such as the number of states now testing in the required grades.

The authors find that if the RIF - notified teachers made the average salary in their district, it would only be necessary to lay off 1,349 teachers in order to attain the same budgetary savings, or roughly 20 percent less than the actual number of teachers who received layoff notices.

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

These «cyber» charters must now document their instructional minutes, and their per - pupil funding may be reduced if they offer less than the minimum number of student course minutes per year — a district - style regulation of the process of education without regard for outcomes.

Simply put, when the focus is placed on the real effects of state and district efforts, a goodly number of states have a lot less to crow about.

Few jurisdictions have passed significant voucher and tax - credit legislation, and most have hedged charter laws with one or another of a multiplicity of provisos — that charters are limited in number, can only be authorized by school districts (their natural enemies), can not enroll more than a fixed number of students, get less money per pupil than district - run schools, and so on.

And when we see less than half the kids are graduating without a waiver (and) the district is almost doubled the number of waivers issued in the last few years, less than half the kids are proficient on the state standardized exams... we need to do much better than we are doing.

The links provided by CSDE are billed as «nonscientific» and include SBAC - developed surveys: the Administrative Survey is really a Smarter Balanced Proctor Survey Report completed by an unreported number of district administrators; the Smarter Balanced Field Test Student Survey was provided by the testing company and had 1800 respondents (less than one - percent of students who took the test in CT); and the Superintendent's Survey was specific to the Smarter Balanced Testing Calendar and from the 79 respondents listed (out of a possible 169 school districts) it is easy to understand why this information provided by the CSDE should be viewed with caution.

«If you simply cut spending with your existing spending choices, you will end with less for less,» said Schleicher, citing school districts in Oklahoma that cut the number of school days to four from five each week.

Location: Escondido, CA Setting: Urban School Type: District Targeted Grades: 9 - 12 Number of Participating Students: 501 - 1,000 Number of Participating Teachers: Less than 10 Curriculum Areas: Literacy, Science

Miller explained that the single, overall number is less important than the ten metrics, which include information on a wide array of districts» academic and nonacademic successes and challenges.

But the bigger problem with the district's statement may be this line, which said the 900 students who we know moved to charter schools was too small a number to impact the graduation rate: «Taken together, that is less than 1 percent of all the students in San Diego city schools.»

«Policies and practices put in place by city leaders a number of years ago have yielded greater equity over time, although charter students continue to receive less public funding than their peers in district schools,» he said.

As you might expect, the number of school library media specialists in schools in the Former Abbott Districts is considerably worse than the state average, with less than one in two schools having a SLMS.

In Chicago, the number of suspensions given in a school year declined after the district made changes to its student code of conduct in 2012, and began using less exclusionary discipline practices.

This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to require that the signatures on a petition to directly initiate legislation be of voters from each of the State's 2 congressional districts and that the number of signatures from each congressional district be not less than 10 % of the total vote for Governor cast in that congressional district in the previous gubernatorial election.

Districts find themselves with the same, or less, funding year to year with a constantly increasing number of students.

The building is situated in a busy retail district of the city and is less than a half mile from the Legends Outlets outdoor shopping center and a number of big - box retailers, including Sam's Club, Target and Walmart.