Sentences with phrase «many challenges a district»

The #GoldenRadish committee keeps adding new categories — Outstanding District award in 2015 and a planned 2017 Platinum award — challenging districts to grow better and better farm to school programs.

This report presents findings about the challenges districts face in implementing the updated meal standards, specifically as they relate to equipment and infrastructure needs.

«Growth in state aid revenue has outpaced levy growth, which generally benefits districts that are more reliant on state revenues and challenges districts more dependent on property taxes,» Moody's found.

The chief also challenged District 2 Legislature candidate Angie Minew, whom the chief said he was told claims «she and I are in constant and daily communication between one another.»

Senate Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman Mike Gianaris, a senator from Queens, said Democrats are speaking with prospective candidates in what is a challenging district, though it's one where they hope «newfound activism among Democrats might help us level the playing field.»

Then, nearly a decade ago, he became commissioner in Massachusetts, where he embraced the Common Core, revamped teacher evaluation, and championed turnaround strategies for some of the state's most - challenged districts.

One particular gender - specific challenge the district notes is helping older autistic girls — even as early as fourth grade — discuss their changing bodies and navigate interactions with the opposite sex.

Bur in all three, chartering magnified the capacity of a challenged district delivery system to do things better, while furthering structural innovation within public education.

In this webinar, district leaders will share how they leveraged federal funding for this project, how they decided on a device, how they organized and managed professional development, and how they managed the logistics to allow this challenged district to take a significant step forward in preparing their students for college and career.

In this webinar, NTC and district partners will outline: • The challenges districts face sifting through what works and investing in programs that increase student learning and achievement • The evidence - based programs and research that have proven to increase student learning • How such programs have been successfully implemented in districts and schools across the country.

Most importantly, then, test results provide parents and teachers with vital information about student learning, and accountability policies challenge districts and schools to meet individual student needs with effective teachers, strong curricula, choices for families and students, and break - the - mold interventions for failing schools.

She said Maryland's application represents 70 percent of the state's poor children and particularly focuses on how the state would help the most challenged districts — Baltimore and Prince George's County — raise achievement.

The lesson from the Ellis / Creighton / WestEd experience is that some extra funding committed over a substantial time can help challenged districts to improve.

If you are looking for solutions to the challenges districts like yours face, contact A + Educators to arrange a visit to Roy B. Kelley to see Project PROPEL in action.

«These recommendations are grounded in teachers» experience in the classroom while also taking into account the financial challenges our district faces,» said Acasia Wilson - Feinberg, E4E - Chicago Executive Director.

It has left the community sharply divided between supporters of charter schools as a better option for students and charter opponents, who see the plan as a major threat for its potential to drain students and resources from an already financially - challenged district of more than 600,000 students.

Knudsen will spend the next six months addressing the current shortfall, along with challenging the district's long - term woes.

The California Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Los Angeles Unified School District in a lawsuit brought by the UTLA challenging the District's 2007 approval of Green Dot Public School's Locke High School conversion.

One of the greatest challenges districts are facing in successfully transitioning to blended environments is how to effectively achieve buy - in from educators and help teachers build new instructional skills required for today's classrooms.

West Bend social studies teacher Tanya Lohr, who was placed on paid administrative leave after challenging the district's new testing system, was placed back in her classroom Monday night after her union, her colleagues, parents and community supporters came to her defense.

We challenge districts» thinking on a subject they know all too well: Attendance.

Tamar Ragir has a special insight into the challenges districts face in implementing the Common Core.

In short, these problems need a solution now,» wrote Aguirre, who has a history challenging the district's construction bidding process.

Recommendations such as these challenge districts to move beyond the largely superficial data they receive from test reports and to generate a set of deeper questions that go to the heart of their core beliefs about student learning.

The report examined three challenges districts are faced with financial transparency and how to successfully combat those issues:

There are two cities in N.J. where charter school growth is indeed challenging district budgets: Newark and Camden, where the demand by parents for alternative public schools is extremely high and as many as a third of students attend charters.

At the same time, they create fundamental systemic change and build the teaching profession, especially in the most challenging districts.

He also noted the fiscal challenges the district will have as it prepares to deal with the state's mandate to reduce K - 3 class sizes.

Each year, Martinez presents a State of the District address, which is hosted by the San Antonio and Hispanic Chambers of Commerce, to communicate the progress and challenges the District is seeing as it implements the Blueprint for Excellence.

We need to challenge those districts that have high rates of suspension and inequitable treatment of their students to find similar solutions, and provide them with the resources and training they need to implement them.

The Co-op offers a solution, based on sound actuarial principles, to the challenges districts and communities across Connecticut face every day by aggregating special education costs together at the state level to ensure predictable, stable funding for special education services — even during financially uncertain times — while keeping decisions and delivery of those services local.

«I don't think we've gotten a single complaint in the past year and a half dealing with the PowerUp program,» said P. Gayle Fallon, the president of the 6,000 - member Houston Federation of Teachers, which is currently involved in a lawsuit challenging the district's use of controversial statistical methods to gauge teacher performance.

Here we identify challenges districts face in bringing about change, strategies that seem useful in improving student learning and evidence about the impact of the district on improving student achievement.

Fine recently shared his thoughts with EdSource's John Fensterwald on the potential challenges districts may be facing with declining revenues, rising expenses and full funding of the Local Control Funding Formula.

The complaint challenged the district's failure to provide several Evergreen students with the special education services the District was obligated to provide.

Milwaukee Public Schools saw 3,060 students earn their high school diploma in 2015, with a graduation rate of 58.2 percent — making it the most challenged district in the state.

Municipal law: Catalyst Paper Corp. challenged the District of North Cowichan's property tax rates, claiming the rates were unreasonable because they have no relationship to the municipal service it uses or consumes.

This appeal challenges the district court's rulings rejecting claims challenging property - inspection fees under RICO, fraud, and unjust - enrichment theories, and denying plaintiffs» motion for attorneys» fees.

Not exact matches

Still, many Democratic candidates challenging Republicans in rural and politically diverse districts are distancing themselves from Pelosi.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton on Friday was on the last of seven challenges to the 2010 law.

This is especially problematic because the district's biggest marketing challenges lie outside Richmond, as a map of the state hanging in the office makes clear.

The Virginia residents challenging their state districting plan said the lower court ignored a 2015 Supreme Court decision about Alabama in which Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four more liberal justices to order a review of state legislative districts.

A group of 15 states and the District of Columbia have filed papers with the appeals court in support of Washington state's challenge to Trump's Jan. 27 order, saying it harms their educational institutions and economies.

In Virginia, a court upheld 12 state legislative districts and rejected a constitutional challenge, even though lawmakers made sure that at least 55 percent of the eligible voting - age population in each district was African - American.

As most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challenges.

This summer, he took on an even bigger challenge as chef de cuisine at the Chase, a new fish - and - oyster house in the heart of the financial district.

In the past, though, it used to be about lawmakers in swing districts who might face election challenges.

The U.S. Federal Reserve says it will appeal an earlier decision from the U.S. District Court that challenged the swipe - fee regulations set by the central bank.

On Thursday, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted a request for a preliminary injunction to the states of California and New Mexico, which are challenging Interior's suspension.

«I am honored to have the opportunity to lead the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and to represent the diverse needs and economic challenges of all people living and working in the Federal Reserve's Second District and as a member of the Federal Open Market Committee,» Williams said in a statement.