Sentences with phrase «more moderate districts»

The first few were in areas friendly to the mayor, but the last meeting in Bay Ridge and tonight's in Bayside put Mr. de Blasio in more moderate districts where he is less popular.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, a liberal Democrat, is not overwhelmingly popular in the more moderate district — and opponents are expected to use Ms. Lynch's ties to the mayor against her.

Not exact matches

But most of all, I wondered why no one seemed to be talking about taking the more moderate step — as some school districts already have — of getting dairies to lower the sugar content in the milk (and get rid of other objectionable ingredients like high fructose corn syrup and artificial flavors and colors) before we decide to ban flavored milk altogether.

District 4 would give up its only Democratic county (Story), so it would be Republican still (perhaps less Republican as it would have to give some of its counties to 3 and pick up more moderate counties from 1).

Outside of Turner, who is running for US Senate, all 5 of them are running for re-election in moderate districts — though some are definitely more moderate than others.

And assuming Republicans lose seats next year — with swing - district moderates the first to fall — the conservatives will have even more leverage over GOP leadership in the coming Congress.

A commander in the Naval Reserves, he has built a reputation as a moderate Republican in Sacramento and his state legislative district overlaps with the Ventura County chunk of the seat, making him more familiar to a portion of the electorate.

Brooklyn District 38 (Red Hook and Sunset Park): Progressive Carlos Menchaca won a strong re-election victory over area Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, seen as a more moderate, establishment choice.

The leafy, suburban district is more moderate in its political bent.

Grimm's vote reflects his evolution from a Tea Party candidate in 2010 to a more moderate profile that's suited to his Staten Island swing district.

As a moderate Democrat in the House representing an upstate district, Gillibrand was more centrist on gun control and at one point had an «A» rating from the NRA.

In my currency, a moderate Republican is worth more, and can accomplish more for his district than an unknown Democrat or other species.

«I think those that strike a more moderate tone will be appealing to people in this district.»

But New Yorkers voting in districts with less contentious races can still have an impact by adding to or subtracting from the winner's margin of victory: a politician with a greater mandate can pursue his or her agenda, while a politician with a smaller one will promote more moderate policies to secure re-election.

How would you communicate to the more — to the moderates in this district, and to Democrats as well, that you are willing to work in a bipartisan way, and that you don't share the partisan ideology of those politicians who you're associated with in the past?

Queens Councilman Mark Weprin, often characterized in the media as one of the more «moderate» contenders, repeatedly noted that his mother is Cuban, his district is teeming with minorities and that he supports non-citizen immigrants voting in municipal elections as well as reforms to stop - and - frisk.

Delaware's plan calls for districts to have external reviewers assess the needs of low - graduation schools and schools then will implement «additional evidence - based interventions in the school that... are more rigorous and based on strong or moderate levels of evidence» (page 79).

On the other hand, in district Z, roughly 28 percent of third graders had been the subject of a maltreatment investigation despite the more moderate 40 percent poverty rate in the district.

The moderating effects of organizational characteristics are to be expected, since district size and school size almost always «make a difference,» no matter what the focus of the research is.180 Elementary schools are typically more sensitive than secondary schools to leadership influence, although previous leader - efficacy research has reported mostly non-significant effects.181 And the rapid turnover of principals has been widely decried as anathema to school improvement efforts.182 Now we have some evidence that the positive effects of leader efficacy are also moderated by school and district size (the larger the organization, the less sense of efficacy among principals).

In November, a quietly released study from Stanford University revealed that Chicago public school students, on average, learn more from third grade through eighth grade than in any other large or moderate - sized district in the country.

However, the release does not mention that the district still has a much larger number of special education students with moderate or severe disabilities, who are more costly to educate.

«The rank and file is not crazy about the district, but they're definitely more moderate than the activists,» said one consultant who has worked with UTLA in the past.

It has always been a project of an uneasy, left - right political alliance: moderate Democrats who feel traditional urban districts are failing poor, minority kids, and conservatives who emphasize the idea that free markets can be counted on more than government and unions to produce results.

But there is a key difference in that the district still has a larger number of students with moderate to severe disabilities, who are more costly to educate.

That would produce fairer districts with more moderates.