Sentences with phrase «rural districts who»

«Often we have kids coming to kindergarten who don't know their letters and numbers,» said Cole, explaining that children in rural districts who don't have access to pre-K are often cared for by family members and don't always get the educational supports that are provided by pre-K programs.

Gun rights groups claim a slim majority for their position in the Senate, given the two or three Democratic Senators representing rural districts who often vote against gun control — although there are also Republican Senators from urban districts who tend to waver.

Not exact matches

The committee expects to do more selling of the district for the April election, especially to seniors and the voters in the rural precincts who defeated it on Nov. 5, O'Leary said.

Her strategy of logging hundreds of miles in her Ford pickup through the largely rural district in upstate New York has also won over many who viewed her as an outsider during her first campaign — even some of her biggest detractors.

Then - Governor David Paterson spent eight weeks publicly vacillating between Caroline Kennedy and roughly half the members of New York's congressional delegation before tapping Gillibrand, who was then representing a heavily rural Hudson Valley district, to replace Clinton.

He finished 139 votes behind Cecilia Tkaczyk, a former Senate aide who serves on a rural school board and had a de minimus public profile in the five - county district before two Super PACs spent $ 500,000 pushing her candidacy.

Republicans gained an on - record vote from several marginal Democrats — including Poughkeepsie senator Terry Gipson and senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, who represents a rural district in the Catskills — for the coming campaigns.

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.

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.

«We also want to regionalize the problem to find more beds, because there aren't enough rehab beds for the people who need it, especially our districts that tend to be more rural,» said Giglio.

The race to succeed Mr. Boehner in Ohio's eighth district, which includes suburban Cincinnati and rural communities, has more than a dozen candidates who will be on the primary ballot on March 15.

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.

And it would prompt a trading war for Upstate improvements - not necessarily a bad thing for lawmakers from more rural regions who want to bring some of that kitty to their districts» roads and bridges.

Republicans, who enjoy a large advantage in registered voters in the mixed urban and rural district, will also hold a runoff.

With funding from WHO, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and colleagues from Makerere University in Uganda have conducted a study that includes around 1,000 women from rural districts of Uganda.

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.

In both urban and rural communities, 64 percent of parents say they are «very satisfied» with their child's charter school, compared to 54 percent of urban parents and 56 percent of rural parents who say they are «very satisfied» with their child's assigned - district school.

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

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.

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.

The Mississippi Department of Education is planning to launch a program that will create a «sustainable pipeline of educators who are members of the community in which they teach, particularly in urban and isolated rural districts.»

The Rural Educator Support and Training Act (REST Act S. 457), and the Native Education Support and Training Act (NEST Act S. 458), provide financial and instructional support via a scholarship - for - service program component for teachers in training who will serve in rural and Indian country districts; a loan repayment component for teachers currently serving in rural and Indian country districts; and a professional development / advanced credentialing compoRural Educator Support and Training Act (REST Act S. 457), and the Native Education Support and Training Act (NEST Act S. 458), provide financial and instructional support via a scholarship - for - service program component for teachers in training who will serve in rural and Indian country districts; a loan repayment component for teachers currently serving in rural and Indian country districts; and a professional development / advanced credentialing comporural and Indian country districts; a loan repayment component for teachers currently serving in rural and Indian country districts; and a professional development / advanced credentialing comporural and Indian country districts; and a professional development / advanced credentialing component.

We support the integrity of rural school districts and honor the educators who represent the best our state has to offer.

Highly Qualified Teachers Enrolled in Programs Providing Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification or Licensure (2015) summarizes state - and district - level data on the numbers of full - time equivalent (FTE) highly qualified teachers who were enrolled in alternative route programs for three groups of teachers --(1) all teachers, (2) special education teachers, and (3) teachers in language instruction educational programs for English learners (ELs) under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)-- as well as for teachers in high - poverty and rural school districts.

Evers» current budget request asks for $ 5.5 million to provide rural school districts with grant money to pay teachers to retain and recruit them; increase transportation funding for rural school districts and millions more in funding for bilingual - bicultural programs and programs aimed at students who are learning English as a second language.

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.

The county education agency, who already provides services for school districts, will interview and select substitute teachers for Prescott USD, Chino Valley USD, Mayer USD, Bagdad USD, Camp Verde USD, Ash Fork JUSD, Seligman USD and several other rural districts, as well as schools within the Verde Valley.

Still, the schools have been draining funds from rural districts, and have been quickly endorsed by DeVos as the option for rural students who may not have access to private institutions or brick - and - mortar charter schools.

The state's chief of schools is proposing to «level the playing field» among school districts by giving extra money to schools in rural areas who have trouble matching salaries offered by wealthier districts.

asked the former principal, Craig Hockenberry, who has just taken a job as a schools superintendent in a rural Ohio district.

«It's going to devastate rural school districts who have a very difficult time recruiting teachers to begin with,» said Jewell.

The Utah State Office of Education, in partnership with UEN, is offering online courses to better meet the needs of those Utah educators who are pursuing their science endorsement, especially those in rural districts.

• Hire a «rural education coordinator,» who would play matchmaker between college students interested in teaching and rural school districts looking to hire educators.

Seventy percent of districts in Colorado and small and rural, and those districts serve a high percentage of students who are English - language learners.

The task force put forward a number of prudent ideas, including increasing sparsity aid to rural districts and creating a student loan forgiveness program for new teachers who choose to teach in rural Wisconsin.

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.

One school secretary in a rural district kept apprised of the day - to - day social progress of a profoundly gifted boy who was adjusting to a grade skip.

PARSS began in 1983 as a group of public school superintendents who expressed concern that Pennsylvania students in rural and small school districts did not have access to the same quality of education afforded to students attending school in the more metropolitan areas of the state.

The purpose of the Educator of the Year Award is to recognize an employee from a PARSS member district who makes a positive and continuous impact on public education in their rural school and community.

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

Most Republican members of Congress are now under great pressure from the big polluters who are their big money campaign donors to actively oppose clean energy industries that have been an agent of economic growth in the nation generally and in rural Republican districts specifically.