Sentences with phrase «number of districts around»

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.

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.

A number of districts around the country, including in California, have not only maintained summer programs, they have improved them both in scope and quality.

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.

Not exact matches

The day before, on April 2, I had gone to a Goodwill store in the city of Orange and purchased a disguise, clothes that would have suited any bum wandering around nearby MacArthur Park or the broken - bottle district of downtown L.A.: a $ 5 pair of baggy brown pants, marked down to $ 2.50, whose cuffs scraped the floor; a large gold shirt for $ 3; a white tie, with a bright yellow stain, for 15 cents; a pair of brown shoes, which I wore without socks or laces, for $ 5; and the ugliest sports coat in the store, a black number with red and white flecks, for $ 2.50.

Residents of the district already pay a tax rate of 74 cents per $ 100 of equalized assessed valuation, one of the highest around, and there are questions of what will happen when the number of taxpayers decreases.

It's important to know these numbers, because a school or district with a substantial number of students on «paid» status may be generating a significant portion of their revenue from the paid price for meals, especially if they are charging a paid price around $ 4 or even higher.

Reports suggest that Romney, Ryan, and key people around them remained confident of victory to the very end, seeing that they were «hitting their numbers» in many districts — only to realize as Election Night unfolded that turnout would exceed their expectations in most swing states, raising the bar for victory and leaving them in the unenviable position of having achieved their tactical goals but lost the strategic battle nonetheless.

And there's little correlation between the number of governments — Cuomo usually inflates the figure from around 4,000 to 10,500 by counting special districts — and cost.

Secondly, municipal elections of Mayor, Common Council, Board of Education and other positions are also held in odd numbered years at thirteen polling places within five voting districts around the city.

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

But as she has moved around the district — and as the primary battle has taken on an increasingly negative tone, with the assemblywoman slamming the congressman, accusing him of being insufficiently conservative — her standing with NY - 22 voters (according to these numbers) has dropped.

BoogieDowner has a few Espada / 33rd - Senate - District - race - related tidbits, including staffers from Espada's office who are going around saying they are from the Board of Elections and asking for residents» phone numbers... a quick conversation with Espada who said he felt «very, very good» about tomorrow's primary, but seemed «sheepish / distant / aloof.»

Around the time Bob Turner's campaign released an internal poll showing they were within striking distance of the Democratic candidate in New York's Ninth Congressional District, there was another set of numbers that were closely guarded.

If you take these little in - town districts off the table, the actual number of local governments falls to around 4,200, according to the office of the state comptroller.

If you discount parts of districts that include the University at Albany, where students are not around in great numbers during the June - July petitioning period, that percentage could be even higher.

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.

A small but growing number of lawsuits around the country are seeking to hold school districts responsible for the sexual harassment of students by their classmates.

At a March 17, 2005, meeting, for instance, board member Bill Barnett exclaimed, «I think that it's high time for this district and the Board to have an in - depth discussion around the implications and the associated cost of increasing the number of instruction days.»

Released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, at Stanford University, the study comes as a growing number of school districts and charter schools around the country are experimenting with such reward programs in the hope of improving...

The MET project will enroll 3,700 teachers from a number of school districts around the country and will gather a variety of data, including videotaped teacher observations, student surveys, teacher surveys, and supplemental student assessments.

Enrollment in educator preparation programs has dropped by more than 70 percent over the last decade, and has fallen below the number of estimated hires by school districts around the state.

In New York, Commissioner of Education David M. Steiner and the state board of regents this month put forward a broad package of changes that would include revamping the state's standards - and - assessment system, raising the cap on the number of charter schools, allowing additional institutions to train teachers and principals, and setting new demands for districts to turn around low - performing schools.

New evaluation systems, new standards, online assessments, personalized staff development, data driven decision - making and many more — in the last few years, districts around the country have had to adopt and integrate an increasing number of initiatives.

This time around, the state lined up a smaller number of districts — including mammoth Los Angeles Unified and universally - respected Long Beach — to push for bolder plans in those locales.

There is a small number of school districts around the country that have development offices.

Two academic researchers from the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania looked at these value - added measures in six districts around the nation and found that there was weak to zero relationship between these new numbers and the content or quality of the teacher's instruction.

According to the report, the National Center for Education Statistics said 88 percent of school districts around the country offered some form of credit recovery courses to their students in school year 2009 - 10, and, «as online and blended learning have grown significantly in the last five years, it is likely those numbers are significantly higher now.»

Alternatively, no - excuses charter schools have sprung up in a number of urban, heavily minority districts around the country, targeting their efforts at the populations of disadvantaged students in those locations.

«These numbers show that the work of the department, districts, teachers, parents, and students around the state is paying off by keeping more students in school and learning,» said Torlakson.

For example, the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) is an innovative partnership between ESE, Springfield Public Schools (the state's second largest urban school district), and a number of key school turnaround partners and organizations, all focused on turning around nine struggling middle schools.

«We have seen the way in which having federal guidance around transgender students, for example, has really helped to empower a number of students to make sure they are getting access to the education they need in state and district climates that vary wildly on those issues,» Potter said.

As the first day of school fast approaches, districts around the nation are noticing an increase in the number of Central American children registering for class.

It is recognized as a valuable resource for principal development — a number of school districts around the country have worked with the Leadership Academy as they have designed their own programs.

They advised the district to gather data around the number and academic profiles of students taking and not taking high - level math classes in high school and to hold focus groups to explore why students do and don't take such classes.

Every year around Mid-January through to March, a large flock of Scarlet Macaws (sometimes numbering 200 pairs) fly out of the Chiquibul Forest Reserve in the Cayo District and gather near the village to feed on the sweet, ripe fruits of the «annato» and «pole wood» trees.

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Because few voters turn out for primaries, a tiny number of voters supporting a radical candidate in a «safe» district can end - run around general voters» preferences.

But even when you plug in those more modest representations of the Florida school districts, the national numbers are still staggering: More than 414,000 students around the country now attend school in districts where shootings took place.

Tech industries like cybersecurity provide a massive number of jobs around the District.