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Between 2008 and 2010, the number of visitors to Lower Manhattan grew to nine million from seven million, according to the Downtown Alliance, the local business improvement district, while the residential population has more than doubled since 2000, to 56,000 from 22,904.

Sopko wrote that historically, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the government has been falling since his office began reporting on it, while the number controlled or influenced by the insurgents has been rising — «a fact that should cause even more concern about its disappearance from public disclosure and discussion.»

In a housing report published in February, the Center City District concluded that while the record number of new rental units completed last year may slightly outpace demand, «The fundamentals of the homeownership market likely will remain very strong.»

While Site C holds the prospect of creating a substantial number of jobs, the vast majority would be camp jobs in one small district of the province.

While generally not included in travel brochures along with the Anne Frank House and the VanGogh Museum, the Red Light District still attracts a great number of tourists.

While Burdette Court residents and their neighbors are only a fraction of the 1,250 families in the park district, a larger, undetermined number of taxpayers might be allowed to bail out of the park district if a bill were drafted and passed.

While the details are far from being decided, the district's foray into privatization could transform the way it does business in a number of key areas.

Appearing at the park board meeting Tuesday night in the Blackhawk Community Center on Higgins Road, Charles Dyson, commissioner of girls soccer, said that while the number of Park District baseball fields has increased to 32 from 15 since 1982, the number of soccer fields has dropped to 3 from 6.

While most suburban programs have seen the benefits for years, a number of Public League teams have benefited from the Chicago Park District's continued commitment to improving soccer fields in Chicago.

While the new CT State Law requires all districts provide a number for concussions diagnosed in their students, the Norwalk School Concussion Project is going a step further and shedding the light on the various types of sport and non-sport concussions across our K - 12 schools.

These ensure better local representation, while reducing the number of wasted votes that results from single - member districts.

Those who represent Assembly districts with high numbers are out of luck... they are going in order, which means it will be a while before they are free to go mingle.

The net effect of this restructuring was to cut approximately 20,000 white non-Hispanics out of the district while capturing about the same number of Hispanics on the other side.

Two candidates have filed paperwork with the FEC in the past month, while a number of others are considering runs in this expansive Hudson Valley district.

With an even number of justices, while majorities may be more «statistically significant», the 3rd possibility of a tie means the Lower Court prevails but each District can continue doing their own thing.

While it's relative to the number of voters in each race and district, it's an interesting point.

The report, Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's Immigrant Students — released by The Education Trust — New York, Advocates for Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition and The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. — finds that while the New York State Education Department (SED) and the Attorney General's Office, as well as several individual school districts, have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do.

While the numbers are not in Deacon's favor, she is running in one of the few remaining swing districts in the country, said Christopher Faricy, a Syracuse University political science professor.

Under the original proposal, the town's current Marine District zoning would have been amended to require ferry terminals «to have at least 10 acres of buildable land dedicated to each ferry service provided,» while also offering a certain number of parking spaces for passengers.

Current District Leader, Dr. Herbert L. Kee, filed a petition with 1887 signatures while his opponent did not disclose the number of signatures on his petition.

While the 19th and 20th Council Districts are held by two Republicans, Dan Halloran and Peter Koo, the local political clubs are small in number and are often a heaven's waiting room of senior citizens jockeying for a free cup of coffee and stale Entenmann's crumb cake.

The country's most powerful elected Republicans descended on the district to stump for her — including House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Congressman Paul Ryan, one of Stefanik's political mentors, stumped for her in May)-- while the candidate appeared in an increasing number of slots on cable news and in national media profiles, including the Weekly Standard, the New York Times, CBS News and the Business Insider.

While most of the roundtable meeting was private, officials met with media and during the briefing revealed that four of the districts had significant numbers of students who opted out of standardized testing.

The group, appearing live on Al Sharpton's radio show while standing in his office on 145th Street on Saturday, said the congressional lines drawn by a judge increased the number of Latino residents in Rangel's district, which they said unfairly pit the two ethnic groups against one another.

While BPS staff has expended significant time and political capital in order to make this limited space available to charters, the district's primary concern is a growing number of young students entering Pre-K programs and elementary schools.

While increasing numbers of school districts offer pay incentives to address math and science staff shortages, the authors conclude that «compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.»

While we partner with a number of reform - minded districts across the United States, only about 20 percent of EP alumni in education work for school districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School District).

While the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act have some districts fighting to raise the achievement of students who aren't performing at grade level, the 185,000 - student Philadelphia district plans to expand greatly the number of enrichment programs for its students.

A number of states instituted flat reductions in district aid, while others made across - the - board cuts to programs.

A small number of CMOs will have grown to serve at least 20,000 students, placing them among the largest 2 percent of school districts nationally in terms of size, while delivering a level of performance that will change the current paradigm of delivering performance at scale.

That path is a limited replication of No Excuses schools that rely on a very unusual labor pool (young, often work 60 + hours per week, often from top universities); the creation of many more charters that, on average, aren't different in performance from district schools; districts adopting «lite» versions of No Excuses models while pruning small numbers of very low performing teachers; and some amount of shift to online learning.

Because some districts were affected while others were not, he was also able to provide unusually convincing evidence on the effect of changes in the number of instructional days.

While there are no exact estimates on the number of districts that offer free meals to every student, child - nutrition experts count about 37...

While the number of observations is too small to yield statistically significant evidence that charters are helping the district schools, they offer no help for the claim that they are having a negative impact.

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.

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

While a growing number of districts are using financial incentives to encourage students to go to college, experts caution that money alone won't do the trick.

While there has been a gradual increase in the number of school - based health clinics, which provide preventive and remedial care and even crisis interventions, clinics serve only a small minority of students, and few states and districts have policies in place to help them scale up and become sustainable.

While technology can indeed play an important role, the changes occurring on the ground in a number of schools and districts experimenting with these approaches are more basic — yet potentially more transformative.

In «B» rated districts, 49 percent of staff is teachers while that number drops to 47 percent of «C» rated districts.

While a good number of schools / districts have already addressed this issue through a shift in policies and practices, the knowing - doing gap is still alive and well.

While a CPS Vendor Number is helpful to doing any type of business in the district that requires payment, it is also possible to be paid directly by a school through their discretionary funds.

While the State Education Department (SED), the Attorney General's Office, and the NYC Department of Education have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do; recommendations include that SED reiterate that questions about national origin should not be asked during the student registration process; encourage school districts to adopt — and in some cases, strengthen — their protocols for how to respond to any request for access by ICE; and reinforce the importance of providing social - emotional support.

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.

For example, while district schools conduct «and even exceed» the number of required fire, lock - down and medical emergency drills, the events are «basic and held at times convenient for those involved.»

While we saw some good examples of districts and CMOs putting a stake in the ground over a smaller number of high - impact instructional leadership practices, we were surprised that many districts self - assessed that they were busy working to evaluate and support principals without a clear and shared vision of what they meant by instructional leadership.

State education commissioner Robert Hammond, facing board frustrations Thursday after this year's results were presented, argued progress would come if the state stays the course while reducing the number of initiatives it expects school districts to follow.

While a growing number of districts are creating teacher leader roles, unfortunately few are providing any kind of specialized training.

The report shows that as a country we have greatly increased education spending and the number of non-teachers on payrolls at district school, while test scores and teacher salaries have remained stagnant at best.

When the staff of each school district is reviewed, «A» rated districts, on average, employ more teachers as a percentage of their staff than all other districts, while «D» rated districts (the lowest ranking any district is currently rated) employed the smallest number of teachers as a percentage of their staff, according to most recent data available.