Sentences with phrase «number of districts»

For the growing number of districts using restorative justice, the programs have helped strengthen campus communities, prevent bullying, and reduce student conflicts.

A range of such orders has been developed over the past few years by a small number of district judges or former district judges.

First, an increasing number of districts are applying for and receiving the grants.

The sheer number of districts that applied to be part of this network shows the importance educators are placing on SEL.

But more importantly, it means parties have to be organized enough to compete in a decent number of districts in order to have a shot.

To address the shortcomings of fully centralized and fully decentralized options a growing number of districts have developed a hybrid approach called managed performance / empowerment or tiered support / earned autonomy.

We work most intensively with a small number of districts across the country that serve as learning labs — places where teams from other districts can go to see the work in action.

The state was obligated to reduce its total number of districts from 29 to 27 and draw up a new map as a result of the 2010 U.S. Census.

The OPSB continued to operate a small number of district schools and was expanding its own charter - school portfolio.

A large number of districts in 2011 also requested relief from enhanced qualification standards on educational interpreters for the deaf.

Bellevue [Washington] is among a growing number of districts around the country putting that research to work, which is already helping keep many children out of the principal's office.

The Cambridge, Mass., school system has joined a small but growing number of districts seeking to integrate schools on the basis of income rather than race — helping to expand what some experts see as a coming trend in American education.

Outside of the smaller number of districts where secession is taking place, trends in segregation are more complicated, since the student population has become more diverse over time, Steve Rivkin writes in an article for Education Next.

That's why an increasing number of districts nationwide are looking for ways to help change not so much the tests but the way students respond to them, and to do so in a way that helps improve students» achievement and well - being.

Against the contracting number of district court cases and the unfamiliarity of PTAB, the only thing that's certain is the need to remain informed.

Only a small number of districts attempted to get the 60 percent supermajority they need to override the tax cap and increase their spending.

With a staff of over 100 education experts, Pivot has worked with more than 250 districts, charters since 2011, including an increasing number of districts outside California.

During the current academic year, a limited number of districts in five states — Alaska, Delaware, Indiana, North Carolina, and Virginia — have been permitted to offer students a choice of supplemental educational services a year before having to provide the option of transferring to a higher - performing school.

to divide (a territorial unit) into election districts to give one political party an electoral majority in a large number of districts while concentrating the voting strength of the opposition in as few districts as possible

Gill stumbled upon the growing number of districts using this governance model in Houston, Philadelphia, Denver, Atlanta, and other districts, which led to the studyreleased last October.

And while that new district would likely be drawn in a GOP - friendly area, the Senate has an even number of districts, making a deadlock chamber a very real possibility (which actually did occur during the coup).

The statewide number of districts designated as financially strained is down substantially, from 59 listed last year — «welcome news,» the comptroller said.

A growing number of districts looking to right racial imbalances by dedicating staff members to work on equity, diversity, and inclusion.

And it would appear that their ranks continue to swell despite the declining number of districts operating under court - ordered desegregation plans.

While an undetermined number of districts across the country...

The NJDOE reissued this NGO in an attempt to fund the maximum number of districts possible to help shape the future of educator evaluation in New Jersey.

For each FastBridge assessment added to the existing assessments, try to take an older one away so that the total number of district assessments remains as small as possible.

The State Department of Education's staff explained during the meeting that the current number of districts — 119 — in the red category based on math scores would have risen to 231.

The Sept. 19 JPS School Board meeting was eerily empty, save a large number of district officials.

As for the Senate budget, except for a small number of districts benefiting from a «20j like» categorical that guarantees at least a $ 75 increase in the foundation, the vast majority of districts will do better with «Classrooms and Kids».

The agreement would award one of the four campuses to Bullis for 10 years as long as it continues to serve a minimum number of district students.

Gov. Beshear told the Kentucky Board of Education at its meeting last week that getting the requisite number of districts to trigger a statewide policy truly was a «blitz» — playing off the «Blitz to 96» initiative Gov. Beshear, First Lady Jane Beshear and Education Commissioner Terry Holliday launched to encourage school districts to amend their attendance policies sooner rather than later.

This substantial increase in local district technology capability for spring 2014 testing raises the immediate question whether a substantial number of districts / schools in Calfornia will have the technology capacity to execute the new plan.

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.

A limited number of districts around the state have been piloting the System for Educator Evaluation and Development (SEED) this year and some have faced difficulties.

A growing number of districts nationwide are using value - added analysis, which employs a student's performance on standardized tests to estimate what effect teachers have on their education — whether they added to or subtracted from the student's growth.

Carlos Perez - Albuerne and Matthew Barrett wrote «Invalidating Patents on the Pleadings Post-Bilski» in IP Law360, where they discuss the recent trend that an increasing number of district courts have invalidated patents before claim construction or summary judgment following the US Supreme Court's decision in Bilski v. Kappos, and they examine what this may mean for defendants going forward.

And while our priority during this time period is not rapid growth, we will look to partner with a limited number of district and school partners who share in this vision and are committed to the ideals of personalization.

Although the sample is not well suited for estimating national trends, the sheer number of districts in the sample identified as segregated suggests that many districts experience intense economic segregation and isolation.

That hearing was followed up by Trump announcing his seventh wave of judicial nominees, an additional 15 names that are about to be submitted to the Senate, bringing the total number of district and circuit court judges he's nominated to roughly 50 — blowing far past the number of judicial nominations made at this stage of a presidency by any recent predecessors.

Now West Chester may be joining a growing number of districts around the country in eliminating class rank in its high schools — a high - stakes strategy that educators hold could help some of their students get into the nation's elite colleges, since those schools often overlook candidates who aren't in the rarefied percentiles.

While a small number of districts in the survey (4.3 %) indicated they would expect to end 2012 - 13 with a negative fund balance, many other districts are using alarming amounts of their reserves that will be completely exhausted within five years.

He did not reveal the number of districts held by each side.

«Aside from that, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.