Sentences with phrase «rural districts like»

But he questioned whether small, rural districts like his could sustain the significant financial blow of diverting enrollment dollars to universities.

For low - wealth, rural districts like Rockingham County Schools, those kinds of budget cutbacks are especially tough.

With 3,900 students, the American Preparatory Academy network is comparable in size to rural districts like Carbon School District and Sevier School District.

Not exact matches

In the Salt Creek Rural Park District, candidate Robert Bruns said he would like to address parking issues.

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.

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

Republicans control the redistricting process after their big rout in 2010 — which included stealing the state's two rural northern districts — but the limitations of the map make it hard for the GOP to expand on its current five - to - three majority in a swing state like Wisconsin.

Gibson, 48, is a lifelong New Yorker and a talented campaigner with an appealing personal story, especially for a district that includes newly gentrified river towns like Hudson * but also covers a wide swath of depressed rural territory: He's a former Army colonel who served four tours in Iraq and was awarded a Purple Heart.

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 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.

Katnis's District 12 doesn't look like an ennobled patch of poverty in the majesty of the wilderness this time, it's a rural slum caked in coal dust, and the districts are essentially open slave pens for people who will be worked to death without any hope of escape.

This mind - set has prompted advocacy groups like the Rural School and Community Trust to seek both small - district subsidies and protection against loss of enrollment to charters.

Better at When Than How As school districts around the country grapple with turnaround strategies and fiscal realities, school closure (and consolidation) has become a popular option in districts from Baltimore to Detroit, from Boston to Denver, even in rural places like Maine and North Dakota.

When workers from rural villages across southern China set out for cities in search of better jobs and a better life, that journey often takes them to neighborhoods like this one, a teeming section of Guangzhou's Hai zhu district.

Some districts in the largely rural state have long - standing voucher - like programs, called «tuitioning,» in which they pay to enroll students at secular private schools or public schools in other districts when...

While expanding charters like Grimmway and Walton holds promise, districts remain the central providers of education in rural America.

Confronted with challenges like changing economic needs, local historical perceptions, and teacher retention and financial resource issues, innovative district leaders in rural communities are taking an opportunity to plan for success.

And particular regions, like rural districts, where it's difficult to find qualified teachers, are also especially strained.

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

Rural principals can also take advantage of recent innovations such as virtual networks that give teachers access to educators in like grades or subjects in other districts, rural regions, or stRural principals can also take advantage of recent innovations such as virtual networks that give teachers access to educators in like grades or subjects in other districts, rural regions, or strural regions, or states.

To obtain a Wyoming teacher license means to work in mostly rural school districts, although some areas, like Cheyenne, will have larger schools.

Sen. Bob Hall, R - Edgewood, noted that while a program like the one introduced in Richardson may work for larger, urban school districts, it would put small, rural districts at even more of a disadvantage in staffing classrooms with high quality teachers.

In states like Montana, where enrollment in rural districts is expected to increase and districts have limited resources to support students in remote areas, online credit recovery programs are an attractive option for keeping students on track for graduation, according to the study.

The law encourages local districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or rural / high poverty schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.

DPI says this kind of change would protect rural districts, as well as districts with declining enrollment — like Milwaukee.

This portion of the symposium examines a case example of a school improvement network that connects «like with like» rural and remote schools and districts within the Northwest region of the United States striving to build professional capital and enhance student engagement and achievement by undertaking joint action learning projects.

Large rural / suburban districts like Philipsburg Osceola (PO) are in danger of «being the child left behind» unless they embrace the digital changes that can transform a district and give it a chance to compete.

It also didn't woo Republicans like Seliger, who fear for rural district funding and worry about sending public money to private schools that aren't held to the same accountability standards.

The message of «enough is enough» resounded across the state, from urban to rural districts, and even in well - to - do suburban communities like Ridgewood, where residents are particularly proud of their schools.

When she falls for Leo Calvani she thinks he's a kindred spirit — apparently he lives a simple life in rural Italy and, like her, he's illegitimate... But she arrives at his home only to discover it's the largest house in the district, that he owns two villages and his uncle is a count!

This means special districts like Carbondale and Rural Fire Protection District and Colorado Mountain College, who rely on property tax, keep losing money.

Federal law has allowed patent suits to be filed wherever a defendant is subject to personal jurisdiction, and as a result something like 40 percent of suits are filed in the rural Eastern District of Texas, known for its pro-plaintiff rulings and procedures.

DC simply doesn't have the kind of open areas and rural spaces that you'll find in whole states, which makes comparisons District of Columbia insurance rates seem inflated, especially when compared to costs in low - population density states like Wyoming or Montana.