Sentences with phrase «rural district by»

In 2012, presidential nominee Mitt Romney carried the conservative, rural district by 10 points as the Democratic lawmaker won his race by a 25 - point margin.

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Nara, in association with Swades Foundation will commemorate the beginning of the Thai New Year, Songkran, by providing drinking water and water facilities to rural households in Raigad district of Maharashtra.

A barbecue is usually given by the inhabitants of some rural district desirous of giving candidates an opportunity to state, that, if elected, all their energies will be devoted to the interests of their constituents and the public weal, and that they pledge themselves, that, when their tenure of office shall expire, they will restore the high trust committed to their hands unsullied, etc..

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.

PALATINE — Spending will drop by about 10 percent in the Salt Creek Rural Park District's proposed 1999 - 2000 budget due to bonds being paid off and a quiet year for capital improvement projects.

The Democrat enjoys progressive support, but she may still be dogged by «carpetbagging» attacks in this rural Hudson Valley district.

That shift benefits downstate, largely Democratic districts, at the expense of upstate senate seats held by GOP members, where the inmates were used to bolster population numbers in the primarily rural districts.

State education groups previously expressed concerns about reporting by school — particularly for rural and suburban districts where there is very little variety between school buildings so costs can not always be assigned to a particular building.

Gillibrand was a little - known second - term congresswoman from a rural Republican district when Gov. David Paterson tapped her last month to fill the Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Nevertheless, advocates have pushed him to spend more, arguing urban and rural school districts have been left short changed by the state's complicated formula for funding schools.

While thousands of students have left rural public districts, poverty rates in these schools have increased, according to the analysis by the New York State Association of School Business Officials.

Whilst showering praise on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for scrapping the «nuisance levy» imposed by the previous government on head porters (kayayei) and for its determination to stem the tide of rural - urban migration through the one - district - one - factory and one - village - one - dam policies, the organisation also called for a probe into the running of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA).

State lawmakers — particularly in the Senate GOP — have argued rural districts upstate would be disproportionately impacted by the governor's proposed funding cuts and are seeking to restore some of that funding.

On February 26, Bruno and the Senate Republicans lost a special election up in the North Country district, a rural swath of farmland along Lake Ontario that has been dominated by the GOP for 120 years.

While the rural, largely working - class congressional district has been trending purple in recent years, Stefanik carved out a decisive victory in her re-election last November, thrashing Mike Derrick, a Democrat, by 33 percentage points — the highest spread in the state.

The election of Metropolitan, Municipal and Districts Chief Executives was also another major campaign promise by the President but the Minister for Local Gvernment and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, recently admitted that the promise can only be delivered in 2020 due to some legislations.

He decried the loss of innocent lives and the destruction of cash crops and farmlands by the herdsmen in several rural communities across the Edo South senatorial district.

After redistricting, Kenosha became a safe Democratic district, and Mr. Steinbrink was exiled to an adjoining district populated by rural conservatives.

Eventually Cuomo gave up his pledge to veto any district lines that were gerrymandered and agreed to new lines that drastically favored Senate Republicans, even creating a 63rd district upstate that suspiciously carved its way around major population centers and incorporated rural towns populated by more voters who were more likely Republican.

Although state lawmakers restored some of the school funding last year, especially to urban schools like the Syracuse City School District, rural and surburban districts still get hammered by the GEA.

The Cayuga County Sheriff's Office was assisted by Cayuga County 911, Cayuga County District Attorney's Office, Cayuga County Emergency Management, Cayuga County Critical Incident Stress Management Team, Cayuga County Coroner, Union Springs Fire Department, Union Springs Ambulance, Cayuga Fire Department, Aurelius Fire Department, Rural Metro Ambulance and TLC Ambulance.

Cuomo in January proposed a tweak that would boost the total amount by 1 percent, or $ 428 million, but critics have said that his plan funnels money to more wealthy districts, thus depriving rural, poor districts — including those in the Adirondack Park — both their rightful share and relief for taxpayers.

Among the Constitution Party legislative nominees in the nation who had both a Democratic and a Republican opponent, the highest percentage was earned by Janine Hansen, who polled 19.54 % against both a Democrat and a Republican in Nevada's 19th State Senate district, which covers the eastern half of rural Nevada and runs all the way from Idaho to California.

Most of the pigs in Kamuli district are reared by small scale farmers in the rural community (over 90 %).

School districts that already had higher fractions of students enrolled in private schools, even accounting for the urban or rural location of the district, had a greater likelihood of having a charter school open in their district by 2003 — 04 and a greater share of their students enrolled in charters.

By organizing the community, rural districts can «go from protest to policy, and from powerlessness to powerfulness.»

Iowa districts, especially rural ones, have been hard hit in recent years by declining enrollment, Mr. Rasmussen explained.

Each district's foundation level is adjusted by such factors as the «teacher - training and - experience index,» by the number of special education students, and for small rural schools and districts.

Once again the proposal was named the Betty L. Thompson Scholarship Program, but this time they eliminated the rural districts in hopes of getting the additional nine votes, the strategy used by the successful charter school coalition, according to Rep. Hoskins.

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.

By state law, only Orleans Parish and one small rural district met this criterion.

Four months after that conversation with our beloved family and our arrival in Peru, we are working as volunteers educators from the University of Seville, under the agreement with the Regional Government of Piura, in the project «Improvement of the conditions of basic health and educational quality of rural Peruvian - Ecuadorian border district of Lancones, Piura — Peru ``, funded by the Basque Government and Engineering Association for Cooperation (IC - LI).

spThanks to a multiyear initiative to use technology to help surmount the challenges often faced by the state's small, rural schools, Advanced Placement courses were offered for the first time this spring — via the Internet — in 26 districts

But the challenge is steep: The typical rural district pays almost two - and - a-half times as much for bandwidth as its urban and suburban counterparts, according to a new analysis by the nonprofit EducationSuperHighway.

Innovation Amid Financial Scarcity: The Opportunity in Rural Schools In this paper, published by the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, Marguerite Roza explores spending and outcomes data of rural schools and highlights policy implications for states seeking improved outcomes for all their districts in the context of limited resouRural Schools In this paper, published by the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, Marguerite Roza explores spending and outcomes data of rural schools and highlights policy implications for states seeking improved outcomes for all their districts in the context of limited resouRural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, Marguerite Roza explores spending and outcomes data of rural schools and highlights policy implications for states seeking improved outcomes for all their districts in the context of limited resourural schools and highlights policy implications for states seeking improved outcomes for all their districts in the context of limited resources.

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.

To help rural districts overcome these challenges, FRS developed a research - based framework and five - step planning process to guide schools and districts as they transition to a personalized learning model centered on individual student learning and facilitated by innovative instruction accelerated by the smart integration of technology.

The following chart breaks down usage of different, popular adaptive learning products by type of urban, suburban, and rural districts:

The five - judge court ruled unanimously Oct. 8 that the state's contributions for teacher pay produce such wide disparities in salaries that poor, rural districts can not compete for and retain well - qualified teachers, and thus can not provide the equal educational opportunities required by the state constitution.

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.

Several members of an American Indian tribe in rural South Dakota are suing the local school district in federal court, claiming its method for electing board members discriminates against Native Americans by weakening their voting power.

Money raised for K - 12 schools and community colleges would be pooled, so that low - property - wealth rural districts would get an equitable share, as required by previous court rulings in the Serrano cases.

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.

The journal featured the partnership in two blog posts, one by REL Northwest researchers Havala Hanson and Jennifer Esswein, who describe the urgent conditions that led to the research - practice partnership's formation, and another by Homedale School District Superintendent Rob Sauer, who writes about the challenges facing Idaho's rural districts and how data and evidence are needed to create a common language for collaborators as they look for solutions.

These include the development of a clear vision and plan of action when transitioning to a personalized learning model by district leaders, the need for rural leaders to collaborate with other Future Ready Schools, and provision of funds by state governments and departments of education to support the implementation.

Bonnie was joined by Bob Cabeza, Executive Director for the YMCA of greater long beach and 26 year youth development professional, as well as Trisha Beverly, veteran classroom teacher and current after school site program coordinator providing enrichment to youth participants and youth tutors in a rural Mendocino County District.

Educational barriers and challenges often vary by region, yet at districts where odds seem disproportionately stacked against student success — such as Jefferson County Schools (JCS) in rural West Virginia — school leaders know that delivering excellence in education requires vision, strategy and, sometimes, complete process overhaul.

Students in another state participated in a study by Bramlett (1994), which examined CIRC among 392 third - grade students in eight school districts in rural southern Ohio.

Rural school districts and states with large, rural populations are poised to lose a disproportionate amount of funding and opportunities to innovate under a bill proposed by House Republicans, accordiRural school districts and states with large, rural populations are poised to lose a disproportionate amount of funding and opportunities to innovate under a bill proposed by House Republicans, accordirural populations are poised to lose a disproportionate amount of funding and opportunities to innovate under a bill proposed by House Republicans, according...

Their explosive growth has been driven by corporations courting small, rural elementary districts with promises of additional revenue with little to no impact to the school district.