Sentences with phrase «separate school district»

Effingham and Teutopolis, located 4 miles apart in separate school districts, have different school calendars, daily schedules, and in - service days and sometimes even conflicting snow days.

While some are creating separate school districts for the lowest - achieving schools, others are using charter management organizations and providing parents with greater choice, and still others are appointing state receivers to take over struggling districts.

Responding to the decision, state lawmakers proposed a constitutional amendment that would bar the state's executive and judicial branches from forcing the «regionalization» of separate school districts.

There are too many separate school districts — about 700 ranging from New York City, with 1,100 teachers, to others that have fewer than 200 students.

About 130,000 separate school districts existed around 1925, but many were tiny common school districts of the open country, and some did not have the ability to set their own tax rates.

The Okolona Separate School District, about 20 miles south of Tupelo, was under state control from 2010 - 12 after years of low test scores and numerous accreditation violations.

Relatively affluent whites funded separate school districts, while poorer urbanites were left to fund the impoverished schools left behind.

[63] In MacCabe v. Westlock Roman Catholic Separate School District No. 110, 2001 ABCA 257, 96 Alta.

In a Poughkeepsie divorce, parents who lived together with the children are now often living apart and living apart in separate school districts.

Onondaga County, she said, has 15 different police department, 57 fire departments, 26 separate school districts, 19 towns and 15 villages.

Today there are 12 separate school districts.

Any city in the state with 5,000 residents is allowed to form a separate school district with just a vote of the residents.

Instead of overlapping administrative layers operating through 32 separate school districts, there would now be one clear chain of command extending vertically from the mayor's office to the chancellor, then down through ten regional superintendents, and finally to the principal of every school in the system.

To background themselves on the city and its schools, they read old newspaper stories and talked to community leaders, who told them about my involvement in the effort to create a separate school district.

For instance, Fairfield County, Connecticut, encompasses 24 separate school districts, including Westport, Easton, and Bridgeport.

The information presented here draws on a 2013 survey of 3,324 English Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies teachers in 21 states (response rate of 54 %) and recent interview data from three case studies sites — two in separate school districts and an ESA (education service agency) with four districts providing interview data.

Many of our 602 separate school districts can no longer provide cost - effective and efficient management of our schools.

Fulton County Schools, which sandwiches the separate school district for the city of Atlanta, includes the cities of Alpharetta, Roswell, and Sandy Springs on Atlanta's north side, and Chattahoochee Hills, College Park, and Union City to the south.