Sentences with phrase «surrounding districts»
The district has a 97 percent attendance rate, and fewer than 1 percent of high school students drop out, a much lower rate than in surrounding districts with similar demographics.
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Many surrounding districts join together to hold this forum and it is well - attended by local school leaders and their area lawmakers.
They earn about 10 percent more than their counterparts in surrounding districts and can earn additional 10 percent bonuses if their students meet academic goals.
There is some evidence, for instance, that academic performance in NHA schools slightly exceeds that of surrounding district schools and that NHA schools are relatively diverse with respect to their public school counterparts.
Residents of surrounding districts have visited the island for recreation since the 1870s, but the first commercial tours and accommodation did not start until the 1930s.
The schools at the top of the list (with the largest enrollments have been poaching the best students from surrounding districts for more than 20 years under the District of Choice program.
Charter schools, by legislation, are required to produce innovations and share them with surrounding district schools.
As Ulster County Democrats begin looking ahead to a post-Hinchey era, the biggest question remains whether the 22nd Congressional District will survive as an intact entity, or its constituents divided among surrounding districts.
Bedford County schools had no MRSA cases as of late September, but officials know they remain vulnerable — several surrounding districts reported students infected with MRSA.
Before making the change, district officials surveyed surrounding districts and assured board members the increase brings the district's lunch price into line with those of its...
The court - drawn plan merged his district into surrounding districts, leaving him three choices: Run in nearby NY - 6, which was represented by retiring Rep. Gary Ackerman; end his very short — but high - profile — political career; or seek another office to run for.
More likely they were influenced by all those folks with pitchforks and torches surrounding district headquarters on Crown Street.
«We're here to ask the speaker to intervene and send a message to the commission that the issues surrounding District 8 must be resolved before the final maps are voted on.»
Weimer notified organizers that he felt it would have been inappropriate for him to make a public appearance at this time, given the controversy surrounding the district.
And he has upstaged his Republican rival for the nomination, Carl Paladino, who is pledging to use eminent domain to stop the mosque and make the entire surrounding district a war memorial.
Extend the date with a stroll around the culture - rich and ultra-cool surrounding district — you might just discover somewhere you've never been together before!
Culver City, Santa Monica - Malibu and Las Virgenes are three of the districts that will be hardest hit by LAUSD's decision this week to rein in its liberal inter-district permit policy, which this school year released more than 12,200 city students to surrounding districts at a loss of $ 51 million in state funding.
For example, the Civil Rights Project reports that, in the metropolitan area surrounding the District of Columbia, 91.2 percent of charter students are in segregated schools, compared with just 20.9 percent of students in traditional public schools.
New investigations into the alleged mishandling of facilities funds by San Francisco school administrators may help clear the fog surrounding the district's troubled spending history, officials there say.
According to the organizations's latest numbers, 70 percent of incoming teachers in the metro LA area, which includes LA Unified and other surrounding districts, identify as non-white; nearly half received federal Pell Grants, which are given to low income students; half are the first in their families to graduate from college, and 10 of the new teachers are recent immigrants who earned federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, which means they are eligible for employment.
Several elementary through high school educators from surrounding districts attended, as extensive learning of the Holocaust is a requirement for students in Florida.
While Bay of Plenty Lodges can be used as a base to explore the historic surrounding districts, its relaxed atmosphere and tranquil beachfront location surrounded by national park lead most guests to enjoy the simple pleasures of swimming, bushwalking, boating, reading and in the evening meeting fellow guests at the central barbeque facilities.
«The region's mass transit options, historic community, and new development projects are driving investors and residents alike to Brooklyn, a market that is currently outpacing surrounding districts in rent growth.
For instance, a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found wide gaps between the percentages of students enrolled in special education in charter schools and in surrounding district schools.
This map of Aurora Public Schools and surrounding district schools, displays the 2015 Colorado School Grades rating for each school.
Phoenix's charter academies have a very positive relationship with surrounding districts.
We also find that the crisis was certainly not due to excessive spending relative to that of surrounding districts (see sidebar titled Philadelphia Support for Education for details on city support, charter school enrollments, district spending, and teacher salaries).
The newspaper went on to report that the Rochester City School District results were also outliers among surrounding districts, where proficiency rates were as high as 73 percent and averaged seven or eight times that of Rochester.
The map imposed by the court eliminated the mid-Hudson Valley district represented by Maurice D. Hinchey, a Democrat not seeking re-election, and split its territory among several surrounding districts.
Economically the town depended much on the marketing of woad, the famous dye grown in the surrounding district, used for dyeing textiles and marketed to merchants who travelled through Erfurt to pick it up.
Democrats say Hinchey's southern New York seat could now be eliminated, with voters in the Democratic - friendly seat spread around to the surrounding districts currently occupied by GOP Reps. Nan Hayworth and Chris Gibson.
New York is slated to lose two Congressional seats this year, and should Mr. Turner's district survive, there's a decent chance his district will absorb additional Jewish communities from surrounding districts.
East Aurora is considered a wealthier district by the state, he said, and that means its state aid reimbursements are often less than surrounding districts.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who represents the surrounding district, was one of the most outspoken opponents of the homeless shelter and was disappointed by the ruling.»
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who represents the surrounding district, was one of the most outspoken opponents of the homeless shelter, and said she was disappointed by the ruling.
Suzanne Collins» «The Hunger Games» series, for example, alludes to vomitoriums when the lavish inhabitants of the Capitol — all with Latin names like Flavia and Octavia — imbibe a drink to make them vomit at parties so they can gorge themselves on more calories than citizens in the surrounding districts would see in months.
Demre is a town and its surrounding district in the Antalya Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, named after the river Demre.
The unearthing of an ancient mass grave filled with Roman skeletons has left archeologists in modern Turkey grappling for answers after they uncovered the Demre is a town and its surrounding district in the Antalya Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, named after the river Demre.
The Hunger Games is set in a future North America where the nation of Panem is divided between the elites in the capital and those living at subsistence levels in the twelve surrounding districts.
To plug the hole, our board opted for a lose - lose proposition: Cut roughly 10 percent of the staff (i.e. twenty - two teachers) and increase the local tax levy by roughly 10 percent (more than double the increase on the ballot in surrounding districts and nearly three times what our state school - board association says is the average proposed increase across the state's 658 districts).
Charter schools are often criticized for not enrolling similar proportions of students with disabilities as are enrolled in schools operated by the surrounding district.
WASHINGTON — The General Accounting Office suggested in a report released last week that three San Antonio school districts located on military bases should consider merging with surrounding districts.
I would have communicated with the state commissioner of education, and I would probably have consulted with the surrounding districts, since any decision I made was going to have an impact on the surrounding counties.
What's not so good — and if there is a «burning issue» in my district, this is it — is the proposed 9.8 % local tax levy increase, more than double the increase on the ballot in surrounding districts and nearly three times what our state school board association says is the average proposed increase by the state's 658 districts.
As the Fordham report points out, an April 2007 exposé from the Rocky Mountain News revealed, «one - quarter of DPS students were attending non-DPS schools, including private schools and charter schools in surrounding districts.
04, Ed.D.» 11, and current doctoral student Ben Castleman focused much of their research in Dallas, Austin, and surrounding districts.
Highline Public Schools operates the school; enrollment is open to students in surrounding districts.
Hartford is a laughing stock of the surrounding districts.