Sentences with phrase «small number of districts»

While a small number of districts in the survey (4.3 %) indicated they would expect to end 2012 - 13 with a negative fund balance, many other districts are using alarming amounts of their reserves that will be completely exhausted within five years.

In 1992, the California legislature passed a law that allowed a small number of districts to bypass the whole application process, and in 2009, it extended that law to any district in the state.

A relatively small number of districts, a total of 83, were able to negotiate the new evaluation system and have it approved by the state, according to the Education Department.

Only a small number of districts attempted to get the 60 percent supermajority they need to override the tax cap and increase their spending.

Only a very small number of districts, mostly urban districts packed with African - American voters, vote Democrat in the south.

Because minority groups tend to vote Democratic, critics argue that majority - minority districts ultimately present an unfair advantage to Republicans by consolidating Democratic votes into a smaller number of districts.

Outside of the smaller number of districts where secession is taking place, trends in segregation are more complicated, since the student population has become more diverse over time, Steve Rivkin writes in an article for Education Next.

Third, the ESA supports the incubation of new edfirms and enforces the small number of district policies and regulations (adopted by the district school board) for all edfirms.

This time around, the state lined up a smaller number of districts — including mammoth Los Angeles Unified and universally - respected Long Beach — to push for bolder plans in those locales.

In Algebra 2 and geometry, the percentage of Jennings» students who meet proficient levels was higher than the state average, but only a small number of the district's students took those tests.

A range of such orders has been developed over the past few years by a small number of district judges or former district judges.

Not exact matches

While Site C holds the prospect of creating a substantial number of jobs, the vast majority would be camp jobs in one small district of the province.

Kona Ice, which sells sugary shaved ice drinks; World's Finest Chocolate, a small number of school districts, and a company called TiFry that sells «a device that not only assists with reducing cooking oil consumption but will reduce calories in fried foods.»

She argues that only a small number of Naperville residents are using this large, beautifully wooded chunk of park - district - owned land and that it should be used for something with a wider appeal.

Throughout Vermont an increasing number of schools benefit from universal free meals, including small schools in the rural counties of the Northeast Kingdom, some schools in Burlington, the entire Winooski school district and the entire Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union.

And since we're talking about relatively small numbers of voters on both sides (via back - of - the - envelope calculation, a VA state legislative district should hold about 60,000 people), a few dozen ballots here and there might matter.

The upshot of that thread is a small number officials (mostly the President, legislators, judges and district attorneys) have absolutely immunity from civil or criminal liability for certain kinds of discretionary official acts.

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said his office would work with the police and the mayor's office to pinpoint the «the very small number» of marijuana - possession cases that should be prosecuted because of public safety concerns.

New York's 3rd Congressional District's Republican primary had the second smallest margin of victory of any race in the 2014 primary season and the least number of votes separating the primary winner from the loser.

Public Matching Funds in NYC Amplify Voices of Small Donors New York City's public financing program provides matching funds for candidates who can raise a certain number of small - dollar contributions from constituents in their distSmall Donors New York City's public financing program provides matching funds for candidates who can raise a certain number of small - dollar contributions from constituents in their distsmall - dollar contributions from constituents in their district.

Faso said Dodd - Frank financial regulations created the unintended consequence of reducing the number of community or small and medium - sized banks, which are the predominant drivers of economic development in his district.

Perez Williams said the DCCC supplied a small number of paid canvassers to help her gather signatures from Democratic voters in the 24th Congressional District that are required to make it onto the primary ballot.

His victory was due in no small part to the fact that the district had been redrawn to eliminate a number of Democratic strongholds — including Buffalo.

Cuomo specifically pointed to the districts of Reps. Chris Collins and Tom Reed, saying that if even a small number of their constituents deduct more than $ 10,000 in property taxes, there would be broader ramifications.

He said the number is part of the total of 320 small dams and dug - outs planned to be constructed in 64 districts in northern Ghana as part of the government's One - District - One - Dam project.

So why is it as the population of Cheektowaga gets substantially smaller, meaning the tax base and number of children attending school gets smaller, we still have 5 major school districts?

The plaintiffs claimed that the commission placed a disproportionately large number of non-minority voters in districts dominated by Republicans; meanwhile, the commission allegedly placed many minority voters in smaller districts that tended to vote Democratic.

Lehrer noted that the plan calls for a detention center in each borough except Staten Island, which de Blasio chalked up to the small number of inmates originating there — and to resistance from Councilwoman Debi Rose, whose district covers the courts.

The number of competitive House districts is fairly small — about 50 seats out of 435 — so Walden's goal is ambitious, but top leaders backed it at the Tuesday meeting, and warned it wouldn't happen unless members stepped up and opened their wallets.

«I ran for NYC Council in 1997 after a career as a teacher, city planner, small business owner, district manager of a community board, and having held a number of civic leadership roles.»

A small number of paid canvassers from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in Washington, the campaign arm for House Democrats, and volunteers helped Perez Willams collect 3,200 signatures by going door - to - door across the four - county district in just nine days.

The campaign did not respond to an email seeking a breakdown of the number of individual donors, how many of from are from within the district and the amount of small dollar donations under $ 200.

The 19th Congressional District hugs New York's Capital District on the east, west and south, covering a number of small exurbs and rural towns.

While the 19th and 20th Council Districts are held by two Republicans, Dan Halloran and Peter Koo, the local political clubs are small in number and are often a heaven's waiting room of senior citizens jockeying for a free cup of coffee and stale Entenmann's crumb cake.

When the state's prison population was fairly small, the practice did not have much of an effect on legislative districts, but as the number of incarcerated people grew, so did the impact.

In Scotland, Wales, and the London Assembly, the fixed numbers of additional members, elected in relatively small regions, are not always sufficient to fully compensate for the disproportionality caused by the single - member district (first - past - the - post voting) tier.

Most of the new cases are in the capital Freetown, but worryingly, small numbers of cases also continue to occur in many districts throughout the country, meaning that the virus is still spread over a wide area and that many control interventions are needed.

Lexington has a number of small, walkable business districts.

A small but growing number of lawsuits around the country are seeking to hold school districts responsible for the sexual harassment of students by their classmates.

This special report, «Joining Forces,» examines the attempts by a small but growing number of districts and unions to work together to enhance the knowledge and skills of teachers and, in turn, improve the achievement of schoolchildren.

(Almost all the African - American students came from schools with average test scores below the district mean; the few that did not had almost identical average impacts, but the number of available observations was too small to recover precise estimates.)

As these new, smaller districts formed, the number of white students in the larger Jefferson County district decreased.

Although the number of districts seeking to move to a world of personalized learning is growing, it is still quite small.

(Reliable information for the small number of students attending schools in districts with enrollment below 300 is unavailable for the years prior to 2000.)

It might be argued, for example, that the decline in MPS enrollment was too small to affect certain indivisible costs, such as the number of teachers or buildings that comprise the lion's share of the district's budget.

We are a small district in a small town, but her concern raises a number of questions that go to the heart of public school governance: How involved should the school board be in hiring and firing decisions?

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.

For this portion of the study, we compare KIPP students with two groups of district school students: all those attending non-KIPP middle schools in the same district, and a smaller comparison group of students attending middle schools that accepted an above - average number of students from the feeder elementary schools.

We also include the total number of students in the district, to allow for the possibility that large districts operate differently from small districts.

A small number of CMOs will have grown to serve at least 20,000 students, placing them among the largest 2 percent of school districts nationally in terms of size, while delivering a level of performance that will change the current paradigm of delivering performance at scale.