Sentences with phrase «still working in the district»

Even now, you can find the descendants still working in the district.

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The circumstances in Ms. Cooper's article don't apply directly to the district I work for, so I apologize for drifting off the exact point of the article, but I do think it is still related.

I take your point about the letter from Ray Cortines but I do still wonder whether the «new menu» (for which Jamie seems to take more than a bit of credit in the season finale) was already in the works before he came to L.A. My guess is still yes, just because there's likely to be considerable lag time in planning and procuring a new menu for a district of 700,000 kids.

«I'm still under a contract and I'm still the assistant executive director,» said Bettin, who has worked in the field for 20 years, the last eight with the Plainfield Park District.

Recently Jenna gave us a good look at what's going on with school lunches here in the U.S., and shared the awesome work she's doing in her district — she is only one person and is still making a huge impact.

That's the main reason why I still have some concerns about the food in my own district which, though it's working hard to cook more meal components from scratch, still relies on processed food manufacturers for many of the items served.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in work still needs to be done to convert the barn into a nature education center, a goal of the Park District.

Hospital officials told the park board they would still be interested in working with the district to offer cooperative educational programs once the recreation complex is completed.

Plus, more - traditional mass outreach may still work in online social settings, since extensive advertising on MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn is still relatively untested, and campaigns with the resources to buy ads targeted at their particular electoral districts may find them an effective way to tap a politically active audience.

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

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., co-founder of Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, said, «While New York has long been a leader on gun control, there is still urgent work to be done to prevent gun violence in our homes and in our communities.

«I wanted to come out to Forest Hills / Kew Gardens and say thank you and show my support to the community and let everyone know that there's still a lot of work to be done to win in November and after that a lot more work to do on behalf of the district,» Meng, who won 50.8 percent of the vote in Tuesday's primary, said at the 71st / Continental Avenue subway station.

«Mike worked on a whole host of legislative initiatives, many of them to do with corrections because he had and still has in his district a huge presence of correction officers and corrections department employees and that was something he did right from day one as he walked into office,» he said.

The way this works is that about half of the member of parliaments are elected in a district using a first - past - the - post system but the overall share of seats allocated to each party still has to be roughly proportional to the share of the vote.

Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, a Democrat from Yonkers whose first priority in recent weeks has been to secure a bailout for the district, said the details of the bill are still being worked out.

There are still some details to be worked out, including the specific amounts of school aid to each district in the state from a $ 1.5 billion increase, but Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says the deal is mostly complete.

But in a sign that the GOP still faces obstacles to gain a significant number of seats in 2010, Sessions also acknowledged the party has its «work cut out... when it comes to winning in Democratic - held districts.»

The state education department still is in the process of advising districts how the moratorium will work in their evaluation systems, but generally the locally negotiated, state - approved assessments will be used instead of the state test scores in teacher and principal evaluations.

«I'm still committed, as I said, to education, committed to working on making sure we have jobs in this district.

Miller still works in the area's school district, teaching honors biology to ninth graders and anatomy and physiology to 10th through 12th graders at Dover Area Senior High School.

Blade and his human sidekick Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) are still working late - night clean - up jobs in the vampire district when Danica Talos (Parker Posey), the leader of the ragtag band of misfits, frames the notorious vampire hunter for killing a human and helps the FBI lock him away for questioning.

«There's still plenty of work ahead and some pretty radical changes taking place,» explained Mike Martin, director of curriculum and technology at Montpelier Public Schools in Vermont, whose district starting transitioning to a competency - based model in 2013.

It's still a work in progress at the school and within the district at large.

There were some bus glitches, in part because the district changed bus companies, and some paraprofessional assignments still needed to be worked out.

Even when in a position to be impolitic, policy wonks, scholars, consultants, and would - be reformers still work with districts, researchers, and colleagues who want foundation dollars.

«In 95 percent of cases, the school district still owns the building, bids out the work, and the counties provide the money,» he said.

A few years ago, I did a small, informal research project examining the mission and vision statements adopted by the nation's hundred largest school districts to see whether they still view the preparation of students for participation in democratic life as an essential focus of their work.

«They said the mix is right now, but the mix can not be right, because there are still thousands of kids who are in schools that are not working,» said Andy Smarick, a charter advocate and partner at Bellwether Education Partners in the District.

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After two years, the federal program providing billions of dollars to help states and districts close or remake some of their worst - performing schools remains an ambitious work in progress, with roughly 1,200 turnaround efforts under way but still no verdict on its effectiveness.

Mr. Pastorek said the state must still work with school districts to figure out what other factors on which teacher evaluations should be based, but the goal would be for all districts participating in the Race to the Top initiatives to use a uniform system.

Capitol insiders indicate that a move to eliminate Act 32, which allows school districts to move forward on energy efficiency projects outside of revenue limits, may still be in the works.

It is worth noting, however, the more work remains for everyone, as more advantaged students in traditional district settings still have the greatest gains of all.

But even with this momentous law in place, the district still has much work to do in making its vision a reality.

But cleaning up the records actually helped lower the district's official dropout rate, as hundreds of students were found to be still working on their education elsewhere or participating in alternative programs.

In Winston Salem - Forsyth schools, where administrators are still working to fill 81 teacher vacancies, 47 of those openings are in the district's elementary classroomIn Winston Salem - Forsyth schools, where administrators are still working to fill 81 teacher vacancies, 47 of those openings are in the district's elementary classroomin the district's elementary classrooms.

Though still a work in progress, the plan envisions providing tuition reimbursement for teachers to get master's degrees and further certifications and may even offer the courses at the district's offices to make it easier for teachers to attain those designations, Olson said.

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...)

Still, many work below grade level at the academy, as well as in the Woodburn district, which itself is 70 percent Hispanic.

Some of the strategies are already in place and Nerad said there are signs that they are working, such as improvements in minority ACT scores last year and the district being recognized for expanding access to Advanced Placement courses while still maintaining high scores.

Though it is still early in PACE's longitudinal study of the CORE districts» continuous improvement work, Hough said that her researchers are already seeing signs of good news.

While California's plan is still only in draft form, early signs suggest that the statewide accountability system will be slightly less sophisticated than the work the CORE districts have been doing for years now.

At the local level, implementation remains a work in progress, with a significant proportion of districts still in the early stages.

I'm still hopeful that if I can get out of Hartford, there are still functional districts I can work in.

But it doesn't work in practice because the underlying formulas allow for schools and districts to hide how poorly they are educating black, Latino and Native kids; a school can hide its wide achievement gaps and still get an A grade if it meets the other categories in the formula.

Some work in more affluent school districts and have greater autonomy to create individual programs, yet still are accountable for students» learning and their performance on high - stakes achievement tests.

Rep. Manny Diaz, R - Hialeah Gardens, says Somerset's budget is still a «work in progress,» and says legislators are trying to get an accurate assessment of the district's assets.

Today, teachers» unions still tend to support these schedules, typically printed in a grid format that show how much a teacher earns, with increases for each year the teacher has worked in the district and for higher levels of education.

BTR graduates are more racially diverse than other new teachers in Boston Public Schools; they are also more likely to teach in science, technology, engineering, and math fields and to remain teaching in the district through their fifth year — when data show teachers tend to be at or close to their peak effectiveness.72 Eighty - seven percent of all BTR graduates are still teaching, and 90 percent are still working in the field of education.73

We still have more work to do to ensure every child in our district receives the supports he or she needs to be successful and college - and career - ready.»