Sentences with phrase «majority of school districts last»

Despite the calls for changes, the vast majority of school districts last month approved budgets within the cap, with only 18 districts statewide overriding the limit on levy increases.

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After the last round of elections, teachers union - backed candidates form the majority on the school boards of the three biggest districts in Erie County.

The vast majority of school district budgets were approved by voters in New York on Tuesday, but it's actually a decline from last year.

This is the same legislator who resigned his position last month as majority leader to more fully devote himself to the troubled East Ramapo school district where he will travel to the corrupt government in Albany and oppose the appointment of a veto - proof monitor.

Schools in the Los Angeles School District have moved a vast majority of their students out of their special education centers within the last three years and into neighborhood schools where they are fully integrated into elective classes like physical education, gardening and cSchools in the Los Angeles School District have moved a vast majority of their students out of their special education centers within the last three years and into neighborhood schools where they are fully integrated into elective classes like physical education, gardening and cschools where they are fully integrated into elective classes like physical education, gardening and cooking.

The Oregon legislature drafted the new tax proposal in a special session last month, stipulating that a majority of the state's cities, counties, and school districts must signal their backing for a statewide vote before it can be held, in March or May of next...

Last time around, the school board — with the same 5 - 2 pro-union majority it has now — approved a 10 percent raise for teachers, which was more than the union was asking for and in spite of the district's projected deficits.

Still, a majority of urban school district officials think the program has the potential to deliver lasting change to long - foundering schools, according to a survey by the Council of the Great City Schools, an organization in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation's urban school disschools, according to a survey by the Council of the Great City Schools, an organization in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation's urban school disSchools, an organization in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation's urban school districts.

The California Senate Legislative Counsel issued last week a sweeping opinion, concluding a controversy as to whether a school district — Los Angeles Unified, in this case — can proclaim itself exempt from California's historic Parent Trigger law, which enables parents of kids in chronically underperforming schools to transform it if a majority of parents -LSB-...]

Yet the majority of teachers say they've faced major changes - related to what and how they teach, as well as how they're evaluated - over the last couple of years in their schools and districts, according to a recent survey by the Education Week Research Center.

The Madison School District was among a majority of the state's 424 school districts that saw accountability scores improve from lastSchool District was among a majority of the state's 424 school districts that saw accountability scores improve from lastschool districts that saw accountability scores improve from last year.

A new report by an association of school district officials calculates that annual pension contributions increased by 25 percent or more in the majority of education systems last year and that more than three - quarters of districts are anticipating a similar increase this year.