Sentences with phrase «rural area district»

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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.

Metro Vancouver Regional District's area of operation encompasses 3,249.1 square kilometres of urban, rural, coastal and wilderness regions in British Columbia.

Cardston - Siksika — Joseph Schow and Marc Slingerland are challenging MLA Dave Schneider for the UCP nomination in this newly redrawn southern rural district that largely covers the areas included in the current Cardston - Taber - Warner and Little Bow districts.

The modern city, where more and more of us want to live, enjoys its munificence at the expense of the rural areas as Arthur E. Holt has forcibly brought home in This Nation Under God.6 Those fortunate enough to live in suburbs or other desirable residential districts enjoy their space and light partly through the exploitation of the crowded and blighted areas.

«This well - deserved status is a formal recognition of the outstanding natural beauty of the Lake District, and will help to further promote our area as the UK's leading rural tourist destination.

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.

Addison Park District, $ 150,000 to develop an 11.7 - acre neighborhood park; Glen Ellyn Park District, $ 98,000 for the rehabilitation and development of a 10 - acre neighborhood park; Salt Creek Rural Park District, $ 200,000 for the initial development of a community park; City of Chicago, $ 100,000 for a 2.6 - acre park in the Rogers Park area; Chicago Park District, $ 600,000 for a swimming pool at Williams Park, a beach and playground at Park No. 459 and a swimming pool at Seward Park; Cook County Forest Preserve District, $ 200,000 for a 3 - mile segment of bicycle trails; Schaumburg Park District, $ 195,000 for the 92 - acre Gray Farm - Prairie Park site.

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.

High School: Rural Valley, PA William Penn Charter School: Philadelphia, PA Wilmington Area High School: New Wilmington, PA Wilson School District: West Lawn, PA

For example, city centers, suburbs, and rural areas often have very different interests, so I would argue that, to meet the purpose of districting in the first place, it makes more sense to put the city center, suburbs, and rural areas in their own districts to the maximum extent reasonably possible.

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.

New York State has a Democratic majority in the Assembly which means a Democratic representative from District 101 will have better opportunities to make an impact in Albany for the issues that matter to people in rural areas.

This is something people in rural areas are hoping for, including those in the 111th Assembly district.

With fewer state lawmakers representing rural districts, issues important to rural areas may go unheard.

The districts most in need of state aid tend to be in low income and rural areas like St. Lawrence County.

These include two rural electricity projects located at Tapo, Heipang district of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area and Duei, in Du district of Jos South Local Government Area.

A recent poll shows a dead heat in the race for the newly - redrawn 27th Congressional District, which links the suburbs and rural areas between Buffalo and Rochester.

Further ordered that the findings contained therein be utilized in carrying out departmental missions, especially within the areas of capital programming, sewer district extensions, agricultural district activity, review of municipal development actions under General Municipal Law § 239 (L) & (M), water and sewer system approvals, SEQR reviews, and all other activities that influence where and how development occurs within Erie County's rural areas.

Hochul debates with former Erie County Executive Chris Collins (R - Clarence) tonight in Buffalo as they battle for the 27th district seat that covers the rural areas between Rochester and Buffalo.

Of the nation's 435 Congressional districts, this rural area ranks 14th in outside spending - the second most in New York.

The district, which includes the city of Peekskill, as well as rural areas and affluent suburban communities like Pound Ridge and Bedford, has traditionally voted Republican, though Democratic registration has been persistently climbing.

Reacting to the motion, Senator Isah Misau «(Bauchi Central) Senatorial District explained that the inadequate presence of the Nigeria Police in rural areas was an issue to be addressed if insecurity was to be tackled.

The bill would help pay for buses to drive kids in rural areas to the summer meal programs, increase access to farm - to - table foods, and also lower the threshold for school districts to qualify for free summer meal programs.

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

South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Thomas W. Cooper Jr. ruled Dec. 29 in favor of eight small, rural districts, saying the state fails to provide the youngest children in those areas «the opportunity to obtain a minimally adequate education.»

In addition, noted LaBerge, many of the rural districts are forced to use teachers endorsed in one area to teach classes in other areas.

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.

A transit bus turned art studio visits rural districts, low - income housing areas, and parks in and around Eugene to give kids access to art.

Problems exist in large urban districts and in low - income rural areas, elites often concede, but they have convinced themselves that at least their own children are receiving an excellent education in their affluent suburban districts.

Part of the reason for the schedule's popularity is that New Mexico has numerous small districts and an abundance of rural areas, said Kaplan.

In a demographically diverse district of urban, suburban, and rural areas, the percentages of black students scoring below state standards were two to four times greater than for white students.

Several rural school districts in northeast Texas have been besieged by both rumors and reporters following the announcement that 6 of 197 students in one area high school tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.

The problem — especially acute in urban and rural districts and in the hard - to - fill areas of special education, mathematics, and science — is so severe that

In addition, while the Florida study shows that although the «negative effects of entering a middle school are somewhat smaller outside of urban districts,... they remain substantial even in rural areas.»

Grow - your - own programs could be delivered in rural areas using distance - learning options provided by higher education institutions and district - provided coaching and mentoring — giving prospective teachers greater access to high - quality training while remaining in their local community.

School districts from coast to coast are launching ambitious initiatives to attract and retain teachers, especially teachers who belong to minority groups and teachers certified in critical - need areas or those willing to teach in urban or rural schools.

Putting aside the fact that NCLB requires assessments to be given to all students and even dings schools in its accountability requirements if they have low participation rates (after all, the law could change), sampling would make it more difficult to produce usable achievement data for individual districts and schools, especially in small schools or rural areas.

The results suggest that the negative effects of entering a middle school are most pronounced in cities, but they remain sizable even in rural areas, confirming that the negative effects of configurations that separate the middle - school grades are by no means limited to urban school districts.

Proponents claim ed tech can enhance learning, bring educational material to resource - poor districts and solve the educational difficulties faced by students in rural areas.

And for many low - income students, traveling outside their county or district to attend school every day — especially in rural areas — is not feasible.

«Tennessee's rural areas and poorer districts are especially dependent upon these funds, as their local budgets are unable to provide additional support for professional learning,» McQueen wrote.

What can a district do — particularly one located in a remote, rural area — when there simply aren't enough teacher candidates to fill open positions?

A: Some school districts — especially in rural areas — have trouble hiring and keeping teachers in hard - to - fill fields like technology education.

Across the country, states and school districts experience a critical shortage of teachers, especially in hard - to - staff subjects, such as science, technology, and math, and in hard - to - staff schools, such as those in high - poverty and rural areas.

Hoxby says, citing one of Massachusetts» best - performing and wealthiest suburban school districts to point out a flaw in any attempt to compare charter schools, which are very often located either in inner cities or rural areas, with American public schools in general.

In addition, a disproportionate share of these districts are located in rural areas.

Two of the typical schools were in large urban districts and one was in a rural area.

used a merit - based system to look for candidates to fill civil service positions at the local level in rural districts, as well as higher positions in metropolitan areas.

The imperial examinations used a merit - based system to look for candidates to fill civil service positions at the local level in rural districts, as well as higher positions in metropolitan areas.