Sentences with phrase «several challenges the district»

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School districts faced several challenges implementing the new lunch requirements in school year 2012 - 2013, according to the eight districts GAO visited and food service and industry officials GAO interviewed from across the country; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) response to some of these challenges has been limited.

Businessman, GOP district leader and ’08 Assembly contender Tony Nunziato is poised to announce a challenge to Democratic Sen. Joe Addabbo, and he has gained the support of several key local leaders who have been at odds in the past, several Queens sources confirm.

U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley (D - Jackson Heights) is not happy his cousin, City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D - Middle Village), challenged state Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D - Flushing) in the Democratic Party primary for the 6th Congressional District, according to several sources familiar with the Queens political scene.

Brooklyn District 40 (Flatbush and Prospect Lefferts Gardens): After several years of mostly undistinguished service, incumbent Mathieu Eugene faces a serious challenge from Pia Raymond, who has actually raised and spent more than Eugene.

Kirk has held the 10th district, which went for President Barack Obama with 61 percent in 2008, since 2000 and has beaten back several serious challenges during that time.

Several Democrats are gearing up to challenge Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin in New York's 1st Congressional District.

Republicans have repeatedly mounted serious challenges in the district in recent years, and while they've always fallen short, they've done so by fairly slim margins on several occasions.

In Vestal and Clinton Wednesday afternoon, Tenney, who currently serves as a state assemblywoman, says she has challenged Hanna to several debates in recent weeks throughout the district, which stretches from the Mohawk Valley to Pulaski and from Binghamton to Utica.

«The Ghana government has introduced the appropriate legislation and we are optimistic that we will soon see several Mauritian businesses counted among those taking up the challenge of the One District, One Factory Programme.

Several lawsuits challenging the law are pending, including the one before Sumi filed by Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne.

The proposal is an effort to develop a long term solution to the challenges that have plagued the district over the past several years.

Reeder, who has created project assessment rubrics for several districts, knows firsthand the difficulty of creating projects and assessments of those projects that challenge students and measure important skills.

But even in that circuit, several school districts and one state (Connecticut) have continued to avoid the use of racial quotas in magnet admissions because they believe using them invites a legal challenge.

Although schools and districts face many challenges related to pre-K and kindergarten attendance, several promising strategies to tackle chronic absenteeism have emerged.

Each city in the consortium is unique: Oakland is BAM's largest city, is the only city located west of the Mississippi River, and has faced several external challenges during early phases of the initiative, including a transition in school district leadership and a public school budget crisis.

The suit — filed by more than 40 plaintiffs on May 12 in Pensacola, Fla. — challenges several actions taken over the past year by the local school board and the district's superintendent, Leonard Hall.

In partnership with Learning Forward, the Tennessee Department of Education is working with several school districts (including Knox, Loudon, and Shelby counties) that are «identifying their local professional learning challenges and then creating scalable solutions» (Learning Forward, 2016).

The case supported by Students Matter, Davids v. New York, challenges several job protections embedded into state statute, including «last in, first out,» which generally requires districts to lay off teachers in reverse seniority order.

We have seen our state's lawmakers expedite legislation in the face of several recent challenges and implore them to work in a timely manner to properly and equally fund all school districts throughout South Carolina.

An evaluation study of the district's equity fund highlighted several implementation challenges.65 Some PTAs simply did not comply with the district's policy to give back some dollars, and the district had difficulty figuring out how to exempt some PTA expenses fairly from redistribution.66 The evaluators did not examine how this policy affected PTA revenues, but there was significant pushback from members of the community, with some parents threatening to reduce donations during initial policy negotiations.67 A group of parents voiced that the approach was punitive, and that instead, parents should be encouraged to donate to a separate equity fund or to other, less affluent schools.68 Other districts that have considered establishing an equity fund have feared similar pushback, worrying that rich parents will threaten to leave the district, disinvest in their schools, or decrease their overall contributions.69

His experiences as a former classroom teacher, leader for state and non-profit organizations, and thought partner for districts, states, several countries, and the United States Department of Education and Queen Rania Teacher Academy (QRTA) provide him with unique expertise in solving the challenges of underperforming schools.

Daniel L. Duke is a professor at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the author of several books on education, including The Challenges of School District Leadership.

The report also notes that the district has faced several implementation challenges, which if addressed, could make SBB more impactful.

The education department has already taken several steps to address local challenges, adding some flexibility as to when and how districts need to have the systems in place.

It's unclear whether the Houston school district will now negotiate a settlement with the teachers union or end up back in court, but either way, the decision comes at a significant time for the test - based accountability movement, which has faced a number of legal and political challenges over the past several years.

Word of the 100 Book Challenge spread, and Ms. Hileman was invited to bring the program into Philadelphia city schools, where her ideas for reading improvement were put to use in several of the district's poorest and poorest - performing schools.

Rebecca Friedrichs, a third - grade teacher in the Savanna School District, which serves portions of northwest Orange County, is the lead plaintiff in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a lawsuit brought by several teachers that challenged the hegemonic power of their union to collect fees from non-union members.

The complaint challenged the district's failure to provide several Evergreen students with the special education services the District was obligated to district's failure to provide several Evergreen students with the special education services the District was obligated to District was obligated to provide.

When Time, Money and Patience are not Enough Helpful advice from a professional property manager can save you money and frustration in challenging markets like the District of Columbia, especially if you're juggling requests and responsibilities between several properties.

While vacancy rates were on the decline over the past year (from 5.60 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2007 to 4.50 per cent in 2008) and rents continued to escalate ($ 21.36 to $ 22.90 per sq. ft. for the same period), softening demand due to weak economic conditions and the expected supply of several million square feet of new office space will pose challenges for some of the prestigious towers in Toronto's financial district during 2009 and 2010.