Sentences with phrase «system up to district»

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Follow - up posts described historical experiences and compared the relative stability of the US and Canadian 19th century branching systems: Canadian banks demonstrated a much higher level of financial resilience thanks to their ability to open branches nationwide, compared to the great instability and recurrent crises experienced by large US state banks — whose ability to open branches in other states or districts was severely constrained by law — and later «unit» banks, which were not allowed to open branches altogether.

Explaining, «I do n`t want to screw things up, «Jesse Madison, park district executive vice president, said the task of dismantling a decades - old management system was more difficult and time - consuming than critics recognized.

Park District staff say the systems, whose sensors can monitor conditions up to 15 miles away, are superior to the courses» current setup, in which golf course staff visually identify lightning risks and canvass the courses with hand - held sirens.

Hannon said a multiuse path associated with the dog park also presents «a golden opportunity to connect up» village and park district trail systems.

Park District staff say the systems, whose sensors can monitor conditions up to 15 miles away, are superior to the courses» current setup, in which...

«With all our concerns, you probably are wondering what we want,» Graves told officials of the park district, Central DuPage Health Systems and the Wheaton Sport Center, which would team up to build the $ 10 million to $ 12 million facility at the southeast corner of Roosevelt Road and Illinois Highway 53.

The School District's Class of 2016 earned an average total score of 1577, up from 1560 last school year, which is the 3rd - highest score out of 180 school systems in the State of Georgia, according to data released today by the College Board.

Demand for the improved facilities will be evaluated each year to be sure the Park District doesn't end up with an ultramodern harbor system that's only half full.

High schools within the South Bend (Ind.) Community School Corporation (SBCSC), with approximately 1,000 football - playing student - athletes reported concussions from football to decline by 40 percent from 2014 to 2015, the first year the school system implemented Heads Up Football district - wide.

The Queens District Attorney's Office has resisted any calls for substantive criminal justice system reform, because no elected official dares to stand up to District Attorney Brown or the powerful Democratic Party county committee that supports him.

«But ultimately it'll be up to the voters of the school district because the school board, if this bill is passed, will allow for them to decide to go to a referendum to then have a ward system,» Carlucci says.

«I'm running for Congress to stand up for the working families in our district who have been shut out of our political system — nurses, state workers, teachers, parents, family farmers, and small businesses alike.

Other Westchester Municipalities having School Board And 2018 - 2019 Votes include The Peekskill City School District (2 seats up), Greenburgh Central School District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons Street.)

One day after charging one of New York's leading lawmakers with exploiting his office to obtain millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York delivered a stinging condemnation of the culture of corruption in Albany and said the system was set up to breed misdeeds.

Sen. Liz Krueger, whose Upper East Side Senate district is one of the wealthiest in New York, has teamed up with Democratic donor / New Roosevelt Initiative founder Bill Samuels to propose using cash generated by the proposed casino expansion to pay for a publicly - funded campaign system.

Teachout said she's running to «stand up for ordinary people who have been shut out of the political system,» while promising to travel all over the large district — comprising parts of 11 upstate and Hudson Valley counties — to get her message out.

Presumably, a single - district («majority») system like in the US, France or the UK was perceived as less democratic so if you still want to allow some form of personal election, you necessarily end up with a complex system.

District Attorney Dan Donovan made the request to modernize his office's system — which records footage during grand jury proceedings, trials and line - ups — because the current system installed in 2005 was nearly obsolete.

«Technology has come a long way in a few short years and it's imperative that the District Attorney's office utilize an up - to - date system,» Oddo said.

This law would set up a more flexible and functional system to allow the state to move in and appoint a caretaker school board if the NYS Schools Chancellor determines that the current one is not acting in the district's best interest, and a caretaker fiscal director to correct budgetary issues.

Tim Kremer, with the New York State School Boards Association, says the original deadline would have meant districts would have to come up with their evaluation system over the summer, which is a difficult time for school officials.

Counties, cities, towns, villages and special districts that sustained direct physical flood - related damage are eligible to receive up to $ 1,000,000 for repairs to and restoration of municipal infrastructure and systems and up to $ 500,000 for flood mitigation, construction of resiliency measures, or flood control projects.

The intent was to bring Eastwood in for up to a year, and in about three to four months, publish a report of how the systems within the district function, and what could be changed to improve student performance.

The Regents created a waiver, allowing districts the ability to push off the implementation of the new system up to September 2016.

In his first budget address to the legislature, Murphy said he would use the extra revenue to ramp up state aid for school districts, increase funding for the beleaguered NJ Transit and a make a larger payment into the cash - strapped public worker pension system.

The controversy over Common Core in the state traces back to 2010, when lawmakers in Albany required districts to come up with a teacher evaluation system or else they'd withhold state aid.

Cuomo formed the panel in October and directed it to come up with strategies for tackling traffic congestion problems in the district and to identify revenue sources to help fix the city's struggling subway system.

Recent passage of a new teacher evaluation system is a first step in the right direction, but we need district and local leaders to step up and agree on final details for the new system.

«One, is the gerrymandering that occurs allowing lawmakers to draw their own district lines... [two is] a disgraceful campaign finance system that allows them to hit up special interests for ridiculous amounts of money,» said Blair Horner, executive director at the New York Public Interest Research Group, referring to a lack of «pay - to - play» restrictions on campaign donors with government business.

In an interview, Ms. Teachout said she was running to «stand up for ordinary people who have been shut out of the political system,» while promising to travel all over the large district — comprising parts of 11 upstate and Hudson Valley counties — to get her message out.

For this reason, this type of rainwater harvesting system is particularly recommendable in districts with high population densities, such as (in Barcelona) Sants, Verdun, Sagrada Família, Sant Antoni or el Guinardó, whose consumption of resources per m3 is up to 40 % lower than that of districts like Pedralbes, Sarrià, la Clota, el Bon Pastor, Vall d'Hebron or Vallvidrera.

Where I get hung up, though, is with the idea that great leaders can make schools — and especially school districts — work well, given the dysfunction of the larger system within which they must work, and the Gordian knot that's been tied by decades of contradictory, often compromising, laws and regulations, not to mention the impossible politics often created by unruly elected school boards.

The beginning of an academic year is not only a chance to connect with a new class of students but also a chance for you — the educator, the backbone of our public education system — to grow in the job, show leadership, and speak up about your school's and district's direction.

«There was already a provision in the contract under which the district was to set up a system of peer coaches that would largely be controlled by the union....

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for instance, spent some $ 700 million on teacher - quality initiatives alone, much of it on attempts to set up improved teacher - evaluation systems in a handful of school districts.

While the court's 7 - to - 2 decision to invalidate the system was widely expected across Texas in recent weeks, the justices surprised observers by voting 5 to 4 to allow the legislature to wait until next year's regular session to come up with another solution to the problem of funding disparities between rich and poor school districts.

There is a provision within ESSA known as the weighted student funding pilot that allows up to 50 districts to apply for permission to adopt weighted student funding systems or student - based budgeting where dollars do follow the child to whatever school they attend.

Commercial content management systems can run up to $ 10 per student; the cost of a district - supported content management system is much less.

The «man with credentials,» Shael Polakow - Suransky, turns out to be a South African native raised in Michigan, who taught mathematics in New York City public schools before moving up the career ladder, to assistant principal, principal, and, in the Klein regime, to an executive position overseeing the district's pioneering system to track student performance.

If chartering is to live up to its promise as an alternative to the district - based system of public education delivery, authorizing must get more attention.

State and local officials describe the system as one in which the state will provide descriptions of the major functions of teachers and principals and will leave most of the evaluation process and use of its results up to local districts.

The Equity Center, a group of low - wealth districts in the state, last month released a plan to revamp the state's school - finance system at a cost up to $ 10.5 billion over five years.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

Tom Payzant, the veteran superintendent who heads up Boston Public Schools, says large school districts get funding from a variety of philanthropic organizations, but he has had to work hard to persuade these funders to align their efforts to support a system - wide vision of how to improve education and avoid contributing to what he calls «project-itis,» which is just a series of ad hoc donations that make givers feel good but have little impact on students.

States no longer give tests; instead, they test them: They certify that local assessment systems are up to standards, and that schools and school districts regularly monitor their progress toward their goals.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

The report also found that since teacher salaries and benefits make up the bulk of school budgets, a fair funding system was needed to provide an equitable distribution of high - quality teachers in all districts.

Currently, Goble is survey director for an evaluation of Youth CareerConnect, which encourages school districts, institutions of higher education, the workforce investment system, and their partners to scale up evidence - based high school models, overseeing all data collection as well as design and administration of parent and student surveys.

Robert Cane, executive director of FOCUS, a charter advocacy group in the District, said the city could come up with more creative solutions to manage a charter - dominant system.

Its sole aim was to make sure that every school would by 2014 bring every student up to proficiency, and a level - based system is needed to direct reformers» attention to those schools and districts with the farthest distance to go.