Sentences with phrase «still leave districts»

Idaho can still leave districts flexibility in determining layoff policies, but it should do so within a framework that ensures that classroom performance is considered.

Alabama can still leave districts flexibility in determining layoff policies, but it should do so within a framework that ensures that classroom performance is considered.

While still leaving districts with the flexibility to determine their own pay scales, Virginia should encourage districts to incorporate mechanisms such as starting these teachers at a higher salary than other new teachers.

While still leaving districts the flexibility to establish their own pay scale, Oregon should articulate policies that definitively discourage districts from tying compensation to advanced degrees, in light of the extensive research showing that such degrees generally do not have an impact on teacher effectiveness.

While still leaving districts the flexibility to establish their own pay scale, Maryland should articulate policies that definitively discourage districts from tying compensation to advanced degrees, in light of the extensive research showing that such degrees do not have an impact on teacher effectiveness.

While still leaving district flexibility, Iowa should articulate minimum guidelines for a high - quality induction experience.

While still leaving districts the flexibility to establish their own pay scale, Michigan should articulate policies that definitively discourage districts from tying compensation to advanced degrees, in light of the extensive research showing that such degrees do not have an impact on teacher effectiveness.

While still leaving districts the flexibility to establish their own pay scale, New Jersey should articulate policies that definitively discourage districts from tying compensation to advanced degrees, in light of the extensive research showing that such degrees do not have an impact on teacher effectiveness.

While still leaving districts flexibility, Maryland should articulate minimum guidelines for a high - quality induction experience.

While still leaving districts the flexibility to establish their own pay scale, Wyoming should articulate policies that definitively discourage districts from tying compensation to advanced degrees, in light of the extensive research showing that such degrees do not have an impact on teacher effectiveness.

Rhee called the one - year hiatus a «reasonable decision» and the «result of significant thought» that would still leave the District far ahead of the federal deadline for implementing test - based teacher evaluations.

Not exact matches

Still, the sale has been delayed because the site has been home to automobile repair shops and a farm supply business that left the area polluted, Park District officials said.

Still, the district is heavily Republican, and Clinton, even 12 years after leaving office, remains a unifying force for Democrats, but a possibly divisive one for independent and Republican voters.

«Right now, this district the only place left in Manhattan where you still have a huge immigrant and working class population.

Still mostly white, largely suburban in layout and feel, the 19th is one of the few political swing districts in the city, where Republicans can run competitive campaigns and win, and where independent - left Democrats such as Tony Avella maintain tremendous electoral popularity.

When Shays ran for Congress, seeking to fill the 4th District seat left vacant by Stewart McKinney's death, a still - grieving John McKinney immediately signed on to help.

While there's still much left to be sifted through, the shift puts Altschuler in contention for the district, in a state where national Republicans already captured five seats in Tuesday «selection.

That left Jennifer L. Mecozzi as the only candidate on the ballot in the West District, although Sampson still is weighing a write - in effort.

Colorado 6th District: House Democrats wouldn't have been sad to see GOP Rep. Mike Coffman leave this seat to run for the Senate, but they're still confident they can win this competitive district, even though the congressman is seeking re-eDistrict: House Democrats wouldn't have been sad to see GOP Rep. Mike Coffman leave this seat to run for the Senate, but they're still confident they can win this competitive district, even though the congressman is seeking re-edistrict, even though the congressman is seeking re-election.

«Now Democrats are left with an anti-Second Amendment, pro-Pelosi, pro-Cuomo liberal who still can't figure out where the district begins and ends.

Despite revisions to the court - drawn plan, Brown argued that the map still inappropriately divided counties and, due to staggered Senate elections, would leave at least one district without representation until 2014.

Still, Cuomo remains proud of the property tax relief enacted under his administration, including the property tax cap that, while good for taxpayers, has left some local governments and school districts scrambling to constrain spending despite rising health care and pension costs.

Closing Elmwood will save the district $ 3 million but that still leaves a $ 24 million budget gap.

Still others leave PD policies to local districts.

As the Sept. 30 deadline passed for states and districts to spend the majority of their education stimulus funds, more than $ 2 billion was still left, at least on paper, according to the latest U.S. Department of Education spending report updated through the end of last month.

What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the traditional teacher.

Relying on data that showed L.A.'s progress would still leave about 40 percent of students performing below grade level by 2014, Villaraigosa pushed at first for complete control over the district.

[I] t's possible to set national goals and standards — even establish a national assessment program — and still leave a tremendous amount of flexibility for states and local school districts.»

The No Child Left Behind Act prescribed sanctions for schools and districts failing to make «Adequate Yearly Progress,» and even under the waivers that most states have now obtained from NCLB's accountability provisions they must still show how they will take action on their lowest - performing schools.

Indeed, there are a few things we still don't know about the candidates» education positions, including where they stand on the controversial No Child Left Behind «waiver» that LAUSD is trying to get from Washington, whether they support SB 441, the teacher dismissal bill going through the state legislature, and — perhaps most important — which candidate they support for the District 6 School Board runoff.

(Calif.) The powerful if not also tenuous alliance of school employees and district management have called on lawmakers to improve on Gov. Jerry Brown's education budget that would still leave per - student... Read More

We provide guidance for these teachers to help them find the best school districts to work in, or help them leave Walker's Wisconsin for other states (like Minnesota) where teachers are still respected and compensated as professionals, (and where they will not be berated 24/7 as moochers, takers, parasites, lazy, stupid, etc...)

When a district student attends a charter, there are stranded costs — money the district must still spend when a student leaves.

Will the new evaluations prompt schools of education and districts to better train teachers, or will the newly - identified struggling teachers still be left to flounder?

«The plan that's been presented to us at face value still leaves us with more questions than answers,» says district superintendent Darienne Driver, who sits on the MPS board.

The district has since expanded its college advising program but the report still points to critical needs when it comes to ensuring that all students have equal access to opportunity and the tools for success once they leave high school.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has now replaced No Child Left Behind as the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), our flagship federal education legislation, opening the door for states and districts to do better, but we still have a long way to go.

For the study, the authors wanted to examine urban and nonurban districts that still have costs they must pay for when students leave for charter schools.

As related to Arizona's teacher accountability system in particular, so far, the state department of education has at least tried to maintain some sanity in terms of its teacher accountability and related VAM - based policies, leaving much of this to be determined by and in the hands of districts and schools who still very much honor and appreciate their local control.

«Fifteen years after No Child Left Behind was signed into law, race and family income still predict standardized test scores with remarkable accuracy in most school districts,» says the Report.

While still leaving local school districts the flexibility to establish their own pay scale, the District of Columbia should articulate policies that definitively discourage them from tying compensation to advanced degrees, in light of the extensive research showing that such degrees do not have an impact on teacher effectiveness.

While still leaving local school districts with the flexibility to determine their own pay scales, the District of Columbia should encourage them to incorporate mechanisms such as starting these teachers at a higher salary than other new teachers.

Under the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states must still identify their lowest - performing schools, but how to turn them around will largely be left up to state and district leaders.

The day Vallas leaves is the last day most Bridgeport residents will ever think about him, because the city will still have the same underfunded school district and social problems it had before he got here.

At the same time, districts for the most part did not overhaul salary schedules — which still are subject to collective bargaining — cut the amount of sick leave or rewrite codes of conduct, Lewis said.

With nearly 50 teaching positions still left to fill by the Aug. 17 beginning of the school year, the San Francisco Unified School District is touting at least one strategy it has deemed successful in recruiting educators: its teacher residency program.

-- NYTimes The Larry Gagosian Effect — Wall Street Journal World's Biggest Museum Opens in China — Studio 360 Top Exhibitions of 2010 — The Art Newspaper Recent Art News - Texas Week of 03/27/11 Ed Ruscha at the Modern Museum of Fort Worth — CBS New: Sunday Morning (Video) Simpsons Takes Shots at Dallas Football, Arts District — FrontRow A work in progress: The Dallas Arts District gathers trophy buildings, but still searches for urban vitality — Chicago Tribune James Turrell mound at Rice University - Glasstire Richard Serra, Pushing the Boundaries of Drawing — ARTnews Recent Art News - National - International Week of 03/27/11 Ed Ruscha Street Photography — LATimes Stephen Colbert Exposes Himself to Art (the Appropriate Way)-- NYTimes (Video) Jerry Saltz on Andy Warhol's Portraits of Liz Taylor — NYMag Eduardo Souto de Moura, Architect from Portugal, Wins Pritzker — NYTimes Recent Art News - Texas Week of 03/20/11 Neiman Marcus to feature artwork in Windows — FrontRow MAC director resigns — Glasstire Recent Art News - National - International Week of 03/20/11 Jerry Saltz: How a Joyride in Gavin Brown's Volvo Became Art — NYMag Walker Art Center to Acquire Merce Cunningham's collection — Art in America Cultural Complex in Santiago di Campostela is expensive mistake - The Art Newspaper Toshiko Takaezu, Ceramic Artist, Dies at 88 — NYTimes Recent Art News - Texas Week of 03/13/11 Artpace San Antonio — YouTube Crow Collection To Expand, Add Asian Sculpture Garden — FrontRow Donor's Son Sues Dallas Museum Over Art Collection, 25 Years Later — NYTimes Recent Art News - National - International Week of 03/13/11 Abramovic wins two - year copyright battle — The Art Newspaper Scents and Sensibility, Artists use scent to create new experience in museums — ARTnews Spark: How Creativity Works, by Julie Burstein, Kurt Andersen — Amazon.com (Book) Michelangelo's David «could collapse due to high - speed train building» — Telegraph Recent Art News - National - International Week of 03/06/11 Norman Foster to Design Huge Hong Kong Cultural District — NYTimes Recent Art News - Texas Week of 02/27/11 AMOA leaving downtown, focusing on Laguna Gloria — Austin 360 Recent Art News - Texas Week of 02/13/11 Amon Carter's Director of Education Named National Educator of the Year — Amon Carter Museum Blanton curator heads to National Gallery of Art — Austin 360 Director Dana Friis - Hansen departs from the Austin Museum of Art — The Austin Chronicle Dallas Architecture Forum wins AIA National Collaborative Achievment Award — Dallas Archicture Forum Recent Art News - National - International Week of 02/13/11 Egyptian Archeological Sites Were Looted, Says Antiquities Minister — NYTimes Tracey Emin, the visionary, emerges as Margate's answer to William Blake — Guardian What's The Matter With Kansas... This Time?

The amendment complaint, which seeks more than $ 50 million in damages, added retaliation and defamation claims to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia action, but drops a Family and Medical Leave Act charge, «as we are focusing on Bertram's core allegations of gender discrimination and retaliation, which still includes discrimination based on her caregiver responsibilities,» Andrew Melzer, one of her lawyers, told the ABA Journal.

I remember a time many years ago when the Eastern District of Louisiana did not allow any cell phones, even if turned off, and if my Palm Treo was still in my pocket, I had to walk back to my office, a few blocks away, and leave it there.