Sentences with phrase «pass around their districts»

The latest display of greed is especially galling: The council's just - passed budget boosts member - item spending — the cash pols get to pass around their districts like Christmas turkeys — a full 9 percent over last year, to $ 396 million.

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moving abusive teachers around from school district to school district is so common in the profession that it is called «passing the trash».

-LSB-...] richer districts can rely on community support to purchase better food — either overtly by passing around the hat as Chef Ann does, or implicitly through a higher lunch price that the population can -LSB-...]

AG Eric Schneiderman announced the parent company of Chartwells catering, which provides cafeteria services around the state, including 39 school districts, will pay $ 18 million to settle a suit that it didn't properly pass along discounts on the food it bought.

The amount of funding provided by esea was small at first — around 2 or 3 percent of a district's budget, according to education historian and former Ed School dean Patricia Albjerg Graham — but too large for states to pass up.

Throughout this process, the district has maintained its scores on Indiana's standardized tests; Lawrence Township's passing scores generally hover around 70 percent and fall within a few percentage points of the state average.

Many state agencies modernized, reorganizing around the work of helping districts and students succeed rather than around the work of passing funds down and compliance reports up.

In 2009, the Los Angeles Unified School District board passed Public School Choice (PSC), an unprecedented initiative to reform the operation of new schools and turn around the lowest performing schools, known as focus schools, in the dDistrict board passed Public School Choice (PSC), an unprecedented initiative to reform the operation of new schools and turn around the lowest performing schools, known as focus schools, in the districtdistrict.

Tennessee, where lawmakers passed legislation that mandates using student achievement as half of a teacher's annual evaluation in every district, stood out for its mature «value - added» data system that has been around for nearly two decades.

They built their plans around changes to state laws, ensuring that all districts would faithfully implement the policies that were passed.

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) board passed this historic initiative in 2009 to reform the operation of new schools and turn around the lowest performing schools in the dDistrict (LAUSD) board passed this historic initiative in 2009 to reform the operation of new schools and turn around the lowest performing schools in the districtdistrict.

To build unity and support around Alaska's Education Challenge, AASB is encouraging school districts to pass a resolution supporting the following three Commitments: Increase Student -LSB-...]

But last month, the General Assembly passed a bill banning education - reform - focused solutions for turning around low - performing schools, including charter school conversions, vouchers, and a «recovery» school district.

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