Sentences with phrase «results in a given district»

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«I look forward to working with Governor - Elect Cuomo and my colleagues in the Legislature to meeting these challenges and giving the people of my district and all New Yorkers a government that works tirelessly for them and delivers results.»

Let me give you an example of how merging school districts in one Erie County town could result in millions of dollars in savings without the closing of one school or the layoff of a single teacher, teacher's aide, janitor or other direct educator to children.

The redistricting order, which came after the State Assembly and Senate gave up trying to draw new Congressional lines, reduced the number of districts in New York to 27 from 29, as was required as a result of the 2010 census.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone says «unauthorized bonus payments» to long - time District Attorney Thomas Spota's prosecutors were given without approval for the past five years, with the three most recent payments resulting in a nearly $ 900,000 hole in the county's budget.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone says «unauthorized bonus payment» to longtime District Attorney Thomas Spota's prosecutors were given without approval for the past five years, with the three most recent payments resulting in a nearly $ 900,000 hole in the county's budget.

While it is hard to prove a causal relationship between low school funding and academic performance, parents are of course interested in giving their children the best possible environment to grow up in, which results in some trying everything they can to get their children into a better funded school district.

«The results of that effort can clearly be seen in the 24th Congressional District as voters have shifted dramatically and now support Katko — who had been trailing by eight points — giving him a 10 - point lead against the incumbent,» Greenberg said.

«It is clear that given the results two years ago, given the poll a month ago, given all that is going on in this district and the makeup of this district that this is going to be a close race,» says Greenberg.

And given the fact that our districts touch each other, it makes sense that we share a lot in common and that we would work together because at the end of the day, once the elections are done, we need to produce, we've got to bring results.»

The settlement does give the district attorney the power to monitor compliance and seek penalties in the case of a breach, and safety experts and others — including members of Sangji's union, University Professional and Technical Employees — will probably be watching the results closely.

Bunny needs the work, having lost, in succession, the full pension due a retired police major, his golden parachute running security for Johns Hopkins (both casualties of his experiment, «Hamsterdam,» to legalize drugs in his district, which yielded both a 14 % drop in violent crime and a massive political shitstorm), and his security job at a downtown hotel (the result of his failing to give special treatment to a «friend of the hotel» who beats up a hooker).

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

A fortuitous meeting between a California Congressman and the chairman of Apple Computer has resulted in a bill that could, if enacted, provide school districts with millions of dollars» worth of free computer hardware and other technical equipment, while also giving the manufacturers of the equipment a substantial tax break.

Giving the teachers the go - ahead — even when it results in more paperwork, going to battle for reprieve from a district mandate, or finding a few more funds or additional evenings — is always the right thing to do when it's in the best interest of students and innovation in the classroom.

District performance - based assessments in reading, writing, spelling, and math are given, on average, three times each year, and numerous staff development hours are spent reviewing results and discussing ways in which the findings can be used to inform and change classroom instruction to meet the needs of individual students.

In general, charter schools are held accountable for results, and in return they are given greater autonomy than district schoolIn general, charter schools are held accountable for results, and in return they are given greater autonomy than district schoolin return they are given greater autonomy than district schools.

But if the two subjects are given equal weight in evaluating a school, our results provide no support for the decisions made by the school district with respect to renewing for - profit and nonprofit management contracts.

Such probes typically result in agreements that give the districts a few months to review the policies and practices in schools and identify inequality in upper - level courses and, subsequently, less than a year to come up with a plan to rectify the shortcomings.

Two, they put existing districts on notice that the revered notion of «local control» must give way if it fails to deliver results for students stuck in lousy schools.

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

The results, largely based on standardized test performance with graduation rates and advanced course enrollment factored in, are praiseworthy given the district's challenges, high poverty (70 percent of its 345,000 students qualify for free or reduced - priced lunch), and large population of English language learners.The Education Village «includes all of the elements that make sense,» Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in the Miami Herald.

Peggy Brookins, NBCT, President and CEO of National Board, reflects on results of a new report from the Center on Education Policy's Listen to Us: Teacher Views and Voices and how ESSA presents opportunities for states and districts to give teachers a voice in education.

Here in Connecticut Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education has pontificated that there were very few technical problems with the Common Core SBAC test in Connecticut, although no independent analysis of the claim has been completed and even the claim that there were «few problems» is suspect considering that in at least two Connecticut School Districts students were given the wrong test and the community's entire results had to be thrown out.

For example, multiple exams are sometimes given in the same subjects and grades to the same students because not all results yield data by item, grade, subject, student, or school — thereby prompting districts to give another exam in order to get data at the desired level of granularity.

Districts have known since 2010 that the common core was coming - but the state has been unable as a result of the fiscal crisis from giving schools the millions needed to buy updated instructional materials and train teachers in the new content standards.

A three - year assessment comparison for the school, district, and state for science is displayed in a table that includes both STAR results (2011 — 12 and 2012 — 13) and CAASPP results (2013 — 14) given it is currently appropriate to make comparisons across the assessment systems for science.

But beyond the technical difficulties involved in giving an eight hour test to all of the district 3rd the 8th grade students, as well as, all 11th graders, Zimmer warns that the results of the Smarter Balanced test should be viewed as «one part of a multi-faceted picture of school performance.»

The report gives schools and districts the ability to compare their graduates» results to national trends, for enrollment and progress in 2 - year, 4 - year, public, private, and out - of - state colleges and universities.

The study results could influence the the final decision on how much weight to give test scores in LAUSD teacher assessments, which has not yet been determined in the tentative evaluations agreement between the district and teachers union.

The federal National Assessment of Educational Progress — called «the nation's report card» because it is the only standardized test given in districts across the country — sometimes produces results that vary widely from state test scores.

Too often, Jacobs says, the result was nearly every teacher in a district would be given the same satisfactory rating — and that means educators didn't receive any real feedback on how to do their jobs more effectively.

This increases segregation and results in these more expensive and challenging - to - educate students being concentrated in the district schools, making it much more difficult to give them a high - quality education.

Public charter schools in Michigan are closing the performance gap with conventional district schools in some subjects, according to recently released results from a national assessment test that was given last year.

This becomes an issue in a given state or district when the wishes of wealthy taxpayers (those who owe enough state taxes to make STO donations and get the resulting tax credit) are not aligned with the wishes of parents.

These changes were possible because of some additional staffing that was worked out with the other schools in the district, and have had good results so far, both in terms of strengthening our school community (improving the way students treat each other and giving us a forum to strengthen students» sense of belonging and safety), as well as strengthening academics.

At page 78 he refers to the Law Society submission and states «The report does not however give, in our view, adequate attention to the way in which the market is manipulated by BTE insurers so that clients are not free to choose the solicitor of their own choice... The Association of District Judges has made known to the Law Society, during 2008, its concerns that this system frequently operates as a denial of justice to claimants who lose, undersettle or not pursue cases as a result of the nature of representation provided.».

The Government argues that in doing so the District Court «discarded the Guidelines in favor of the District Court's personal view of the seriousness of the offense,» resulting in «fail [ure] to give proper weight to the sentencing factors.»