Sentences with phrase «statewide number of districts»

The statewide number of districts designated as financially strained is down substantially, from 59 listed last year — «welcome news,» the comptroller said.

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Generally speaking, a candidate must collect signatures equaling at least 5 percent of the number of active enrolled voters in the political unit (e.g., the state for statewide offices, such as governor; the legislative district for state senate or assembly districts; etc.), or a fixed total established by statute, whichever is less.

If a petition is circulated after redistricting and before the next gubernatorial election, the number of qualified electors in each district is equal to the total number of votes cast for governor statewide divided by the total number of districts.

But if that same party wants to have a legislative candidate on the ballot in November, the number of voters within that legislative district to choose that party's primary ballot can be as high as 130 voters, i.e., over twenty times as high as the test for statewide candidates.

Existing law says statewide petitions need signatures of 1 % of the number of registered voters, and district and county petitions need 5 % of the number of registered voters.

State - level differences included the strength of charter laws, statewide demographics, existing school choice policies, number of school districts, and the presence of charter support or opposition groups that operate throughout the state.

Detroit parents still have very few high - quality options, despite a number of different reform interventions, including putting a state - appointed emergency manager in charge of the district, pulling the lowest - performing schools into a statewide turnaround district, and allowing a significant number of charter schools to operate.

Indeed, as the dissenters noted, between 1964 and 1972 Michigan had winnowed the number of school districts statewide from 1,438 to 608.

By capping the number of charter schools statewide, limiting the annual growth in the number of schools per district, and providing for input from the local district before approval of charter applications, North Carolina has exercised more control over the establishment of charter schools than some states.

He cites Kentucky's statewide training and Colorado's pilot districts as examples of successful large - scale implementation in districts and classrooms and highlights a number of cross-state and national organizations that are gaining traction as evidence of Common Core's ability to unify states and create commonalities.

And even before California recently revamped its statewide K - 12 funding formula to concentrate more funds in schools with high numbers of ELLs and other vulnerable students, the district was targeting extra money to schools with the greatest number of poor students and English - language learners, he said.

Over the next ten years, she worked on a number of programs for KDE, culminating with the Kentucky Instructional Discipline and Support (K.I.D.S) project, a statewide initiative to help schools and districts develop positive, proactive, and instructional discipline policies.

In the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angles County, Walnut Valley Unified alone accounts for nearly one - third of the statewide number of students in the District of Choice program.

RENO, Nev. — The Nevada Department of Education is postponing the release of its new school rating system after districts statewide complained the preliminary numbers don't seem to make sense.

Since Louisiana first established a statewide turnaround district in 2003, though, a small but increasing number of states have created «EADs,» providing lessons others can follow in planning their own turnaround approach.

While funding for the district tightens, the number of charters has nearly doubled from 8, when she took office, to 15, including two new online charters that operate statewide.

In fact, charter schools serve a comparable number of special education students as district - run schools: 13 % in charters and 14 % in district - run schools statewide in 2014.

a. 1) A state share of the Basic Operation Cost, which cost per pupil in March 31 ADM is established individually for each local school division based on the number of instructional personnel required by the Standards of Quality and the statewide prevailing salary levels (adjusted in Planning District Eight for the cost of competing) as well as recognized support costs calculated on a prevailing basis for an estimated March 31 ADM.

Advocates for public schools are looking for help from the Legislature to blunt the impact of a ruling earlier this month jeopardizing a number of parcel tax measures supporting districts statewide.

AB 2193 does the following: 1) establishes a statewide uniform definition of Long Term English Learners (LTELs) and a student at risk of becoming a LTEL and 2) requires the California Department of Education to report the numbers of each cohort of LTEL students to each school and school district.

If the South Hunterdon initiative is successful, we will reduce the number of statewide school districts by three.

Teachers» salaries in a number of Bay Area school districts are among the highest statewide; however, attracting and retaining teachers in the Bay remains a challenge primarily because of housing costs.