Sentences with phrase «number of districts where»

As near as I can tell, this law essentially requires cities to draw council districts in such a way that the number of districts where the minority citizens - of - voting - age population (CVAP) forms a majority of the total district CVAP is roughly proportional to the total minority population as a proportion of the total population of the city.

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.

Not exact matches

Mark lives in Salem, Oregon, where he serves on the school district budget committee as well as a number of church boards and committees at the local, state, and regional level.

Financial struggles at home don't stop at the schoolhouse door, said Keith Pain, superintendent of Frankfort's Summit Hill School District 161, where the number of students eating free and discounted lunches climbed from 162 in August 2008 to 215 in April.

On Wednesday, Rodriguez said the rezoning was a «long and delicate process where we endeavor to achieve the best possible outcome for the entire district, including developing the highest number of affordable housing and commercial space we can get.»

That shift benefits downstate, largely Democratic districts, at the expense of upstate senate seats held by GOP members, where the inmates were used to bolster population numbers in the primarily rural districts.

But it is the 2019 local elections that will tell us more about the long - term viability of the party, since those will concern a larger number of English districts where the Lib Dems will be seeking to reclaim ground lost to the Conservatives since 2010.

In a news conference last week, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick showed a number of social media posts in Syracuse where youth under 18 are brandishing firearms.

MHANY will receive $ 750,000 for the renovation of its existing units and for new construction in East New York, where many residents list housing as the district's number one priority.

Now is the daily part of the roundup where we point out that Espada still doesn't have a district office or a local phone number.

Elia delivered her speech to a number of area college presidents and members of higher education where she encouraged them to seek partnerships and work with districts, like Buffalo, to help make needed changes.

The expert micro-targeter spent time in heavily Russian Brighton Beach, where conservatives live in an otherwise Democratic congressional district, and the Bronx, home to a minuscule number of Republicans who may just allow Mr. Cruz to pick off more delegates than you'd expect.

A post yesterday on the election playing field in Ohio next year elicited a number of questions and comments about why Ohio's 4th district, where Rep. Mike Oxley (R) is retiring, was not mentioned as a possible Democratic takeover.

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.

A growing number of parents are withdrawing their children from the annual state tests; the epicenter of the «opt - out» movement may be New York State, where as many as 90 percent of students in some districts reportedly refused to take the year - end examination last spring.

It is in these districts and subjects, where critics have fretted about the numbers of long - term substitutes and «burned out» veterans, where the wave of new teachers will most likely be recruited and welcomed.

Using data on contributions from NASRA and pension fund annual reports where necessary, and using weights based on the number of teachers employed in each state or district as reported in the NCES Common Core of Data, it is possible to compute average employer contribution rates for teachers.

That language is a bit confusing, because Title I is a formula grant program where districts receive fixed allocations based on the number of poor students they serve, as well as the overall funding levels in the state.

There are also large numbers of classrooms in the [Boston school] district â $» maybe a third â $» where there's very little learning going on because teachers are spending so much time on behavior management, even when it's just a few kids.

Arizona school districts where a significant number of children left for charter schools responded with leadership changes and other attempts to draw students back to the district.

One state where the number of districts with four - day weeks continues to grow is New Mexico.

Moreover, given the number of deals where the provider sells directly to the district, not to the end student / family, it becomes almost impossible to assess performance because there is little sense of who is contributing what to performance (it's not transparent who is providing the service).

The latter is more likely to occur in school districts such as Fort Wayne, Indiana, that have enough whites left to actually integrate a number of magnet schools and where there has been no strong circuit court decision rejecting the use of race.

Thus even in situations where the number of competing districts is great, the districts» ability to behave like suppliers in a competitive market is hobbled by the additional regulations that inevitably arrive with the new subsidies.

These stats, while modest, are staggering for a school of our size, especially if you count the number of kids in the school districts where we've had superintendents.

Where data was only available at the school level, district rates were calculated using a weighted average, using the number of students taking the test in each school as the weights.

That appraisal resonates in Georgia, where black voters turned out in large numbers several years ago to help pass a constitutional amendment confirming state authority to grant charters, but played a crucial role in the November defeat of the constitutional amendment for an Opportunity School District.

Leveraging donations from businesses and foundations, along with district funding, it manages a number of L.A. schools where test results were poorest, dropout rates highest, suspensions rampant and parents dissatisfied.

Also during his leadership of CPS, the district was recognized for its efforts to bring top teaching talent into the city's classrooms, where the number of teachers applying for positions almost tripled.

We reassigned such schools to the district where they are located geographically, to better capture the number of total and alternative students in each district.

Findings from Illinois, Kentucky, and Michigan, where school districts first implemented the option in the 2011 - 2012 school year, show ongoing growth in the number of schools choosing community eligibility and a striking increase in the number of students eating school breakfast and lunch.

In Vallas's view, district intervention was necessary in schools where principals and teachers by themselves failed to improve student performance over a number of years.

Hoxby also finds that urban areas with a large number of school districts, and therefore many options for families choosing where to reside, tend to have higher test scores than cities like Miami, where one school district covers anyone living close enough to work in the city.

Contemporary accountability policies have created the added expectation that districts will differentiate support to schools on the basis of achievement results from state testing programs and other accountability measures, with particular attention to be given to schools where large numbers of students are not meeting standards of proficiency.

In Mississippi, where charter schools are still in their infancy, the number of students in a district school is probably in the upper 80s with the remainder in private school or homeschool, and a sliver in charters.

Our enrollment of EL's is not yet where we want it to be, but many of us have put great effort into changing that and, I believe that once we take a deeper look at the EL numbers we'll see that individual schools in our coalition are quite close to their districts.

Rather than seek sweeping buy - in from its school districts, which number more than 1,000, the state tightened its focus on a group of seven districts — including Los Angeles and Long Beach — where superintendents were willing to embrace more - aggressive plans than were proposed in round one.

NPR talked to someone at the Association of American Publishers, who said, «There's been no time in American history where this number of school districts wanted to swap out all their reading and math materials at all grades for new things.»

She began as a teacher at the ground level of one of the country's most economically and demographically challenging inner city populations, the North Side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she faced what so many teachers face: high class numbers, and needing to support learning, emotional and physical needs of a multilingual population of students in poverty while achieving state and district test score goals.

Upon successful completion of the probationary period by the employee, the employee's status shall continue from year to year unless the district school superintendent terminates the employee for reasons stated in the collective bargaining agreement, or in district school board rule in cases where a collective bargaining agreement does not exist, or reduces the number of employees on a districtwide basis for financial reasons.

The centerpiece of Brown's plan is the Local Control Funding Formula, which rolls virtually all of the state's current maze of spending on schools into a more simplified block grant system where districts with higher numbers of English learners and students receiving subsidized meals would be provided additional dollars.

Providing a rigorous pre-college curriculum has long been a struggle in many of the more than 7,100 U.S. rural school districts, where a lack of teachers, dwindling enrollment numbers and tight budgets make it difficult to offer electives, foreign languages and even basic classes that are a given in many suburban and urban schools.

Jefferson has undertaken «a very intentional plan» for increasing the number of teachers certified in gifted and talented education and «strategically placing them in schools where we have those at - risk populations who are traditionally underserved,» says Carmen Coleman, chief academic officer for the district.

However, the vast number of schools and districts where the majority of students of color and low - income students aren't meeting standards tell us we've got a lot of work to do.

When you divide the value by the number of kids, we're poorer than most districts,» said Petersen, contrasting Weber with Park City School District, where property values bring in a lot of tax money to spend on fewer students.

We've had a growing number of instances where we're finding problems with districts misspending their cafeteria funds, similar to what we found with L.A.,» said Phyllis Bramson, director of nutrition services at CDE

Wilson said that the school district's internal review also saw excessive passing rates for absent students across the city, specifically at Anacostia, Eastern, Woodson and Roosevelt High Schools where «we are in the process of trying to understand what's behind some of the numbers there.»

Where SVUSDFS stands apart from other districts in the state is the number and quality of their school garden programs.

«We're taking a risk with a number of things, and that's where we want to be careful not to just create a cookie cutter design for this,» Weber said to a crowd of nearly 100 teachers from districts all over the city and other parts of Texas.

In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court made school integration more difficult when it prohibited the Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, school districts from making racial balance a factor in assigning students to schools in cases where applicant numbers exceeded available seats.1 The plurality opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts called student categorization by race unconstitutional unless it was designed to reverse the effects of explicit rules that segregated students by race.