Sentences with phrase «on rural districts»

Speaking at a business breakfast meeting in Accra on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 he said «I always say that since you are not going to create jobs in the short term in your cities, you've got to focus on rural districts.

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Actual property tax rates in the county are based on assessed value (10 % of market value), with millage rates ranging from 28 in rural areas of district 1 up to 43 in the city of Fairhope.

And in rural areas, more people are likely to be found in a Wal - Mart parking lot on a weekend than in the business district of a small town.

The committee expects to do more selling of the district for the April election, especially to seniors and the voters in the rural precincts who defeated it on Nov. 5, O'Leary said.

Candidates for seats on the Palatine, Inverness and Salt Creek Rural Park Districts boards outlined their positions and fielded questions Wednesday at a forum conducted by the Palatine Area League of Women Voters in Palatine.

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According to Mother Jones, the director of a rural Vermont district where 43 percent of the students are on free or reduced lunch said he «had no problems whatsoever implementing the new changes.»

A rural Upstate New York school district that installed Wi - Fi on its school buses has seen improvement in students» behavior.

In a congressional district that encompasses cash - strapped, potentially gas - rich Sullivan County, New York City's watershed, eco-sensitive communities like Woodstock and various rural areas on the east side of the Hudson River, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson and challenger Sean Eldridge are on the campaign trail seeking to define their own, and their opponent's, positions on climate change, energy policy and perhaps most critically fracking.

In order to take advantage of a potential presidential wave, Democratic operatives are cutting emotional ties from some rural areas that made up their previous majority, such as downstate Illinois and parts of Ohio, to focus on more suburban districts, where they believe changing demographics are moving seats into the Democratic column.

About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.

He finished 139 votes behind Cecilia Tkaczyk, a former Senate aide who serves on a rural school board and had a de minimus public profile in the five - county district before two Super PACs spent $ 500,000 pushing her candidacy.

Whilst showering praise on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for scrapping the «nuisance levy» imposed by the previous government on head porters (kayayei) and for its determination to stem the tide of rural - urban migration through the one - district - one - factory and one - village - one - dam policies, the organisation also called for a probe into the running of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA).

If Flanagan is so intent on keeping this seat he had better start realizing that our upstate rural school districts need a fair distribution of school aid.

Republicans control the redistricting process after their big rout in 2010 — which included stealing the state's two rural northern districts — but the limitations of the map make it hard for the GOP to expand on its current five - to - three majority in a swing state like Wisconsin.

They say they've already cut back and laid off and that a cap would erode arts, sports and special programs, and hurt poorer and rural districts, which are more dependent on state aid than rich ones with greater property wealth.

Republicans gained an on - record vote from several marginal Democrats — including Poughkeepsie senator Terry Gipson and senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, who represents a rural district in the Catskills — for the coming campaigns.

This is a big benefit to suburban and rural school districts - especially those on Long Island.

On February 26, Bruno and the Senate Republicans lost a special election up in the North Country district, a rural swath of farmland along Lake Ontario that has been dominated by the GOP for 120 years.

On a crisp apple cider Sunday morning, near the banks of the Hudson River that bisects this sprawling mostly rural 11 - county district, I asked Faso what it would take for him to vote for Trump, a candidate whose personal conduct he has condemned.

She worked to secure funding for rural hospitals in the 19th district, and went on to serve under the Obama administration as an Agricultural Economist in over a dozen countries in Africa and Central America on a USAID project.

Republicans are seizing on some of the less flattering parts in the story, characterizing the wealthy Eldridge's efforts to reach out in the largely rural district as being more than a bit awkward.

The Senate and Assembly also want to wipe out this year the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which primarily reduced funding to suburban and rural school districts - especially districts on Long Island, where Flanagan is from.

The 19th Congressional District hugs New York's Capital District on the east, west and south, covering a number of small exurbs and rural towns.

In a diner in a rural part of the district on Tuesday, a woman approaches Collins» table and asks if he has any yard signs she can take.

The race to succeed Mr. Boehner in Ohio's eighth district, which includes suburban Cincinnati and rural communities, has more than a dozen candidates who will be on the primary ballot on March 15.

In Rep. Chris Collins» district, which covers more rural areas in Western New York, women on average earn 77 percent of what men make.

Yes, South Cambridgeshire voted heavily remain, but on the doorstep big issues of the county and district failures in terms of potholes, housing, rural services, deeply flawed infrastructure planning and bitterly opposed busways were writ large.

Democratic victories in Alabama, Virginia and New Jersey hinged in large measure on suburban and minority voters, which are be less of a factor in the mostly rural 19th and 21st congressional districts.

In this rural county, where school buses still sometimes travel on dirt roads, the Flat Stanley Project allowed students «to see things they would never see,» says Pat Hendrickson, a district technology coach.

According to a G.A.O. report, which was done at the request of Representative William H. Natcher of Kentucky, chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education, two - thirds of rural districts that receive federal drug - free school grants say the money covers more than half of their total drug - education program.

To identify more precisely the independent effects of the multiple factors affecting teachers» choices, we use regression analysis to estimate the separate effects of salary differences and school characteristics on the probability that a teacher will leave a school district in a given year, holding constant a variety of other factors, including class size and the type of community (urban, suburban, or rural) in which the district is located.

A 450 - student school district in rural East Texas last week canceled plans for its annual day on which girls dress as boys and vice versa, after a parent complained that the event smacked of promoting homosexuality.

The survey's findings were based on the responses of 1,337 school districts chosen from rural, suburban, and urban districts nationwide.

As part of his campaign plan for lifting children out of poverty, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley recently proposed spending more on child care and early - childhood education, guaranteeing health care for all children, and creating a new program to recruit teachers for urban and rural districts.

Because rural school communities vary widely, «generic» improvement plans designed for large urban districts usually do not work as well in rural settings, according to the authors of a new book on rural education programs.

She contended that, coupled with a lack of funding for rural districts, the requirements amount to an encroachment on the state's local - control...

The conference was based on a set of papers that included reviews of NCLB implementation in California, Colorado, Michigan, and New Jersey, as well as in three rural Kentucky districts and 36 big - city districts nationwide.

When faced with soaring transportation costs and students on buses for as long as four hours each day, some rural school districts pared the fifth day of instruction into fourths and tacked this time onto the end of the remaining four weekdays, creating a four - day school week.

Drawing on interviews with female superintendents of urban, small - town, and rural school districts, the cofounder of the women's studies program at the University of Tulsa examines their contradictory experiences with power and subjection.

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

Prior to taking on his current role, he was an Elementary Principal in two rural school districts, a school counselor, and taught at the elementary level.

The analysis, which is updated in this more recent report, shows that remote rural districts have lower productivity on average than other geographies.

Report is based on surveys of nine rural districts about support for implementation of Common Core standards in math and English language arts.

To help rural districts overcome these challenges, FRS developed a research - based framework and five - step planning process to guide schools and districts as they transition to a personalized learning model centered on individual student learning and facilitated by innovative instruction accelerated by the smart integration of technology.

In one rural Midwestern district the superintendent championed a three - year teacher - development initiative focused on differentiated instruction.

A report on rural schools looking at data from the 2013 - 14 school year found that more than 20 percent of all public school students in the United States are enrolled in rural school districts, which is over 9.7 million students.

She led some of them on visits to Opportunity Culture schools in Charlotte, which also has challenges retaining teachers in high - needs schools — but Edgecombe, she notes, has the added challenge of being a rural district.

Elimination of the regulations raises several concerns for school districts, including potential pass - through costs associated with data - heavy digital learning initiatives; a less innovative education technology environment based on potential discriminatory pricing for new market entrants; and heightened pricing and other vulnerabilities for rural and high cost districts that may only have access to a single broadband carrier.

«This means recognizing the unique challenges facing rural districts and confronting them head on with actions aligned with the research.»