Sentences with phrase «population than the district»

Peer effect is a critical missing measure in studies that purport to show charter effectiveness (CREDO NJ for example)-- because it's really hard to separate «school effect» from «peer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it through.

Not exact matches

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.

By 1790 two districts boasted populations larger than Rhode Island and Delaware, two of the original colonies.

The District limits the number of events scheduled at this location to no more than two per month in consideration of the general population using this site for recreational purposes.

Aurora was the only Illinois city with a population of more than 40,000 that had not established a park district.

The Fox Valley Park District is a dynamic and growing park district that serves a diverse population of more than 236,000District is a dynamic and growing park district that serves a diverse population of more than 236,000district that serves a diverse population of more than 236,000 people.

More than half the student population in Joliet School District 86 is at the poverty level and the majority are either Hispanic (47 percent) or African - American (31 percent).

The report also shows that American Indian students, who account for less than 2 percent of the student population statewide, received more than one - third of all corporal punishment in North Carolina public schools, although most of that disparity was driven by one school district, Robeson County.

Districts with high numbers of students from traditionally lactose - intolerant population (like Asians) can offer soy milk as an alternative, but the cost of individual cartons of soy milk is more than twice the cost of dairy milk, and eats up about half of the approx.

So all I'm asking is that everyone be candid about what's going on here — this district will make more money selling a la carte junk food than it will selling healthy meals and due to its low free / reduced population, that's what it's choosing to do.

District officials were alarmed last year when preliminary data collected by school nurses showed that Chicago children, from preschool to 3rd grade, have higher levels of obesity than the general U.S. population.

Kennedy: «I'm disappointed with the addition of the 63rd Senate seat, besides adding to the cost of government, it was put in a place that has no impact on western New York and quite frankly has no impact on the population shift in New York state and if there was going to be an additional seat added that despite the fact that I disagree with you that the Constitution was in fact violated and you say that it was not violated — the fact that this additional seat adding to the cost and size of government was added to a place in the Capital Region rather than a place where distinctly the population grew down in New York City I believe was based upon the fact that had an additional district been added in the city where the population shift had come from it would have included that seat being an additional minority seat and that is why it was put up in the Capital Region and rather than in the New York City area.

This can lead to some districts having more population than others.

The 2010 Census found 30,000 fewer black residents in the district than a decade prior; blacks now make up only 26.5 percent of the area's population.

These maps were drawn before the Court's 2013 decision tossing out much of the Voting Rights Act, and they contain small deviations in population (less than 10 percent at their peak) across districts.

The district had no training space that could accommodate groups larger than 50 people, limiting its ability to efficiently train larger groups of teachers, offer curricula to a larger population of students, or...

In recent weeks, as Nixon began her upstart campaign, Cuomo has been talking about a budget proposal that would require school districts within cities with a population of more than 125,000 people — New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and Rochester — to submit an annual plan detailing the allocation of local, state and federal funds by school building.

According to the 2010 U.S. Census, District 10 has only 137,203 people, about 23,500 less than the required mean population required for each dDistrict 10 has only 137,203 people, about 23,500 less than the required mean population required for each districtdistrict.

In 2016, the Supreme Court asserted that legislative districts should be drawn to include all people living within them, regardless of citizenship status, rather than based solely on the eligible voter population.

A congressional district has more than 700,000 people, almost four times Ulster County's population and more than twice that of a state Senate district.

This district is much older than the national average and is bleeding population at a good pace.

According to All About Redistricting, «Any district with more or fewer people than the average (also known as the «ideal» population), must be specifically justified by a consistent state policy.

The area, with a large Jewish and Russian population, has reliably leaned Republican, so candidates are smart in assuming that they might get more milage out of their meet - and - greets out there — Assembly District 45, encompassing Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay, was, along with Borough Park's Assembly District 48, one of the few parts of the city where Mitt Romney won more votes than Barack Obama in 2012.

Calling the GOP lawsuit «highly speculative,» and saying it failed to make a rational case against the law, a state judge ruled that for purposes of district lines and population counts, LATFOR must count incarcerated people as residing in the neighborhoods they call home rather than the prisons in which they are located.

«The constituents came with sacks of documents which they said were «the signatures» of more than half of the voting population of Kogi West Senatorial District, which Melaye represents.

• To the extent practicable, the most and least populous senate and assembly districts shall not exceed the mean population of districts for each house by more than one percent; • Districts shall unite communities of interest; • To the extent practicable, counties and county subdivisions shall not be divided in the formation of districts; and • To the extent practicable, villages shall not be divided in the formation of ddistricts shall not exceed the mean population of districts for each house by more than one percent; • Districts shall unite communities of interest; • To the extent practicable, counties and county subdivisions shall not be divided in the formation of districts; and • To the extent practicable, villages shall not be divided in the formation of ddistricts for each house by more than one percent; • Districts shall unite communities of interest; • To the extent practicable, counties and county subdivisions shall not be divided in the formation of districts; and • To the extent practicable, villages shall not be divided in the formation of dDistricts shall unite communities of interest; • To the extent practicable, counties and county subdivisions shall not be divided in the formation of districts; and • To the extent practicable, villages shall not be divided in the formation of ddistricts; and • To the extent practicable, villages shall not be divided in the formation of districtsdistricts.

In a statement to be issued Tuesday, the caucus questioned why districts downstate were drawn with higher populations than upstate ones, effectively diluting the representation of areas where racial minorities are concentrated.

She says it would also reinstitute the practice of using upstate prison populations to boost Senate districts, by counting the inmates where they are imprisoned rather than where they live.

Texas currently counts everyone in the state, including illegal immigrants, before carving up districts of proportional population size, but the challenge argues that only eligible voters should be counted because the current system creates some districts with much larger numbers of eligible voters than others.

He has more money and establishment support and has deep ties in Schenectady, which is more important to winning the district than Klueg's hometown of Northampton (population 2,670).

The charter requires the six districts to have no less than 13 percent of the city's population and no more than 18 percent.

Saugerties, with more than 15 percent of the 102nd Assembly District's population, is the most populous town in the sprawling north - by - northwest dDistrict's population, is the most populous town in the sprawling north - by - northwest districtdistrict.

The budget requires districts located in cities with populations of more than one million to submit a detailed, school - by - school accounting of how they spent state educational funds.

That's up from 46 percent after the last census, and makes the Hispanic population more than double the district's black population, which has declined to just 27 percent.

The state senator's triumph marks the ascent of the Latino population in the district — which now makes up more than half its population — and the declining influence of the once dominant black community.

ALBANY — After a full election cycle and more than two years of legal maneuvering, a panel of three federal judges dismissed challenges to the Republican - drawn map of State Senate districts, saying population deviation that tilted numbers upstate were permissible and any allegation of race - based gerrymandering was «purely speculative.»

The third plan would be subject to amendments that must comply with specific criteria, including the protection of minority voting rights, and could not affect more than two percent of the population of any district.

-- To the extent practicable, the most and least populous senate and assembly districts shall not exceed the mean population of districts for each house by more than one percent.

An accompanying statute will further restrict the legislature to making changes that affect not more than two percent of the population of any district.

The new State Senate districts vary from the ideal population count by no more than 1.65 percent, or less than a 550 - resident deviation from the target for the least accurate district.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

At least 2 percent of the resident population of the district according to the most recent decennial federal census, but no more than 300 signatures may be required

For this reason, this type of rainwater harvesting system is particularly recommendable in districts with high population densities, such as (in Barcelona) Sants, Verdun, Sagrada Família, Sant Antoni or el Guinardó, whose consumption of resources per m3 is up to 40 % lower than that of districts like Pedralbes, Sarrià, la Clota, el Bon Pastor, Vall d'Hebron or Vallvidrera.

With her beloved family at stake, not to mention Gale's, Katniss doesn't bat an eye when agreeing, but there's something about her innate defiance that unsettles the President, and hence, the next games the 75th annual ones, won't find their tributes from the general populations of each district as is the custom, but rather from the pool of victors, making the battle all the more deadly, and Katniss more worried about Peeta than herself.

The total number of school districts in the U.S. dropped from more than 100,000 around the turn of the 20th century to less than 15,000 by the turn of the 21st century, even as the population of school - age children increased during that period.

In Arizona — a highly urbanized state with population primarily clustered in the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas — both charter and district schools are concentrated in urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areas.

The district is heavily minority and very low income; the minority population is more heavily Hispanic than African American.

While district - operated schools still serve more than 80 percent of the U.S. school - age population, and private schools serve close to 10 percent, charters serve only about 6 percent (a share that is just slightly larger than that of the home - schooling sector).

July 14, 2016 — Under former superintendent Cami Anderson, Newark Public Schools spent more per - pupil than any other district in the nation — a whopping $ 25,000 — but failed to improve achievement for its predominately minority student population.

These disadvantaged populations have high rates of educational mobility, but rates of exit from KIPP schools are typically no higher than rates at nearby district schools.