Sentences with phrase «over the district»

The state took over the district in 1995, to little effect.

As part of its plan to expand access to innovative learning technologies in schools all over the district, help desk professionals on our classroom support services team will help realize that goal.

The state still has authority over the district's finances and its academic policies.

She suggested allowing plaintiffs to manufacture a final judgment to trigger an automatic appeal could have negative repercussions, like permitting parties to skip over the district court on a legal question.

That's just what we need - a group of fictional characters debating over district lines.

After a six - year court battle over the district's voucher program, the stage seemed set for a major victory.

High school students will start school later in a move designed to prioritize student health over district logistics.

They were tasked with going over the district's spending plan - and making their own recommendations.

That means an overall 14 % approval across the whole nation won't get you any seats when it is evenly distributed over all districts.

The portfolio strategy calls for being committed to results and recognizing that the challenges in our cities are too great to be fighting over district or charter.

In most states, the petition will be filed with the superior or circuit court that resides over your district.

And most importantly, he and the governor recently decided to exercise their authority to take over the district and appoint a new leader.

Students from all over the district are eager to attend the campus that once struggled to attract students.

But the state party has no control over districts that are wholly contained in a single county — only in those that cross county lines.

Which is a shame because when it comes to the Holy Trinity of education reform — common standards, standardized testing tied to punitive consequences, and preference for charter schools over district schools, Governor Malloy is the complete package.

The recent furor over District of Columbia high schools issuing dubious diplomas has prompted pundits to declare a decade's worth of school reform in the nation's capital a failure, a refrain repeated in the wake of a new revelation that Washington's chancellor exploited his position to get his daughter into a highly sought - after school.

Disagreement over the governance of Newark schools goes back more than two decades; the state took over the district in 1995 after documenting years of academic failure, unsafe buildings, corruption, and lavish spending by elected school board members.

MC2 STEM High School receives students from all over the district by lottery; it is not a school for the elite.

Singas took over the district attorney's office on an acting basis at the start of 2015 after Democrat Kathleen Rice was elected to Congress.

The Assembly bill, which was defended during floor debate by its lead sponsors, Rockland County Democrats Ellen Jaffee and Kenneth Zebrowski, would require state education officials to appoint a monitor who would have broad authority over district leaders» decisions for five years.

Repairs for Broward high school football fields could be delayed after School Board members voiced concerns over the district's spending on sod and grass.

Lisle Park District Director Roy Cripe resigned Tuesday, nearly three years after taking over the district while it was in the midst of scandal.

The first round of bids ranged between $ 249,000 and $ 438,000 — well over the district's project budget of $ 201,600.

After the district sued the village over the matter, the village filed a counterclaim over the district «s failure to get a village permit for the baseball field lights it built at Springfield Park.

Then there's also state laws forcing districts to bargain with NEA and AFT locals; the collective bargaining laws, along with the campaign dollars the two unions deploy, essentially give union bosses a level of influence over districts that supersedes that of the voting public.

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Snow orders the couple's demise during The Quarter Quell, an event which only occurs every 25 years in the Capitol, in celebration of the Capitol's victory over the districts.

The recent furor over District of Columbia high schools issuing dubious diplomas has prompted pundits to declare a decade's worth of school reform in the nation's capital a failure.

A reader might wonder why the superiority of the non-district approach over the district approach wasn't the author's primary thesis.

Overall, schools run by them have produced greater gains in student learning on state assessments, in both math and reading, than their district - school counterparts, while the mom - and - pops have fared less well, achieving just a small edge over district schools in reading and virtually none in math (see Figure 3).

So this session, Rep. Diaz, who earns his living working for the unaccredited Doral College, which is owned by mega charter school developer Academica, felt it was important to put a rush job on turning over district schools to for - profit charter operators.

Freedom from state oversight is a key element of his plan that includes giving local leaders more control over their districts as well as giving high - performing schools near autonomy from Sacramento.

Natalie, a 6» 1» junior guard at Plano West Senior High, had 30 points and nine rebounds to lead the Wolves in a 64 — 49 win over District 6 - 6A rivals Plano High.

The repression in Midnapore was particularly severe, and included «house - burnings, seizures of property, insults, rapes, beatings, torture and illegal detention, all heaped on the rebels by ordinary police, by Intelligence Branch police forces and by army units stationed in camps all over the district after September 1942.»

Indeed, a report from a team of reviewers who spent a week in May going over the district with a fine - tooth comb came away with this telling comment from school board members:

Cancel, a longtime Silver ally who had won the special election for the 65th District seat in April, only secured 12 percent of the vote on Tuesday, perhaps signaling that Silver's hold over the district is waning.

The Buffalo Teachers Federation is crying foul over a district decision to reduce the number of teachers at City Honors.

And you'll fret that the regulatory «playing field» is tipped to favor charter over district schools.

Projected increases in funding under Proposition 98, which sets a minimum funding level for schools, plus more money to the district under the state's Local Control Funding Formula, should ease some of the tensions over the district's special treatment for Priority Schools.

In 2012, an independent arbitrator sided with the union over the district in his recommendations, lending impetus to the teachers» strike.

The whole area was called the «burned over district» because of the relentlessness of the revival preaching that went on there.

Blue Island Mayor Donald Peloquin said he is speaking with Park District officials over the district's controversial bid to annex a residential area.

He also said he is willing to meet at union headquarters to bring the CTU to the table and begin discussions over the district's longer school day initiative.

Making the authority over the district permanent would «build predictability into the system, which is important for bringing about the deep, long - range reforms that are needed.»

We're on Sarah Palin's targeted list, but the thing is the way that she has it depicted has the cross hairs of a gun sight over our district.