They are enhancing their oversight of school programs, providing more support directly to districts and school staff, and
increasingly targeting districts in distress for assistance.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched a new program aimed at cultivating strong candidates
in targeted districts for the 2014 elections.
Also at 5 p.m., the pro-abortion rights group Choice Matters hosts a canvassing event in state Sen. David Carlucci's district, the first of these events
targeting the districts of Independent Democratic Conference members, First Village Coffee, 123 Main St., Ossining.
It is promoting «Teaching as a Profession» courses and, pending adequate levels of funding, investing $ 100,000 in innovation grants
for targeted districts to develop plans to recruit diversity in the teaching force.
The goal is to
target districts with high rates of childhood homelessness or few safe after - school options to help ensure children have a safe and productive place to go when school lets out.
In what some see as a sign that Cuomo is hedging his bets, the governor has so far not
targeted districts where there are incumbent Senate Republicans.
«This digital ad campaign will educate voters in
targeted districts about this morally bankrupt repeal and will hold Representatives Faso and Tenney for this cruel plan.»
Republicans and Democrats consider Katko's 24th Congressional District among the most competitive in the nation and have
targeted the district as a key to their success in 2016.
In tandem with its recent Equality and Justice Day lobbying in Albany, ESPA launched a $ 250,000 media drive that included print, radio, and Internet ads focused on legislators in Albany as well as
key target districts around the state.
The Democrats may actually have a champaigne problem: with so many competitive races their funds are being spread out instead of concentrated
on targeted districts.
«We as a party, and certainly our officers, have been very focused and worked with the Senate Campaign Committee to
identify target districts and talk about the kinds of resources we need to get to those districts.»
Although teachers are not formally required to implement these lessons, they do have to adhere to a lesson - design format that requires them to
target district curriculum objectives, to integrate computer - based learning activities into every lesson, and to engage students in small group and independent learning activities.
Yet 75 %, 3 times the rate, of RAISEup Texas demonstration schools in those
same target districts received the Closing the Performance Gaps distinction!
25 % of middle schools across the entire region received this distinction in 2014, and 25 % of middle schools in our RAISEup
Texas target districts achieved the distinction.
Central Texas School District Mathematics
Forum targets district issues in mathematics instruction April 25, 2016
Other sources of funding for preparation and in - service programs include federal, state, or foundation grants;
targeted district funds; and reallocations of existing district resources.
The road trip took twelve days and covered six states,
targeting the districts of midwestern congressmembers and the states of senators with leadership roles on relevant committees, and the activists spent much of their time at state and county fairs, talking directly with constituents of the targeted lawmakers and even getting people to make phone calls to legislative offices on the spot.
«This digital ad campaign will educate voters in
targeted districts about this morally bankrupt Congressional Carveout.»
«This digital ad campaign will educate voters
in targeted districts about this morally bankrupt Congressional Carveout,» DCCC Spokesman Tyler Law said in a statement.
Swing Left is targeting 64 House seats and has activated local, self - organized teams across the country to begin canvassing their respective swing districts — including knocking on doors to survey constituents» concerns, registering new voters at farmers markets and recruiting locals to build up volunteer capacity inside
the targeted districts.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman, chaired by Rep. Steve Israel, has launched a new program to help candidates in
targeted districts.
The following table details recent election history for
each targeted district.
But New York's 11th was noticeably absent from the organization's list of
targeted districts this election cycle.
Republicans have
targeted the district, which was carved out by the G.O.P. during the last round of redistricting to favor Amedore, who represented part of the district while serving as a state assemblyman.
Pataki is right now holding a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington where he's formally announcing the lunch of this ad in «
targeted districts» along with other campaign activities and «an aggressive effort calling on every congressional incumbent and every candidate to «pledge to repeal and replace ObamaCare.»
Meanwhile, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee began live - calling and robocalling residents in 10
targeted districts, knocking mostly Republican incumbents for wanting to repeal the health care law.
Since Democrat Erin Cole terminated her campaign, announced earlier this year, Collins doesn't officially have a challenger for the 2018 mid-term election, but the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has
targeted his district and a handful of candidates are exploring a potential run.
In New York, the robocall is
targeting the districts of Reps. Chris Collins, Claudia Tenney and John Katko.
Democrats have released internals in a few top -
targeted districts, including those held by Reps. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.)
For pols on the prowl, that's
a target district.
Mr. Smith warned the crowd that the accusations are part of a plot to eliminate a powerful black outer borough politician and
target his district for real estate development and racial displacement.
School choice advocates, however, had
targeted the district in school board elections.
It targets districts where there are gender gaps to enrol girls who have either dropped out of school, or never been to school before.
The 75
targeted districts: The agreement specifically calls for needs assessments and corrective plans for the 75 districts with the lowest rates of inclusion, both in K - 12 programs and preschool.
The need to
target districts has raised issues of how to set priorities and how to combine professional development services with assistance in curricular alignment for district leaders.
In examining this trend, we identified four themes emerging across the states: (1) Utilizing regional organizations and building central office capacity; (2) Building capacity with limited resources; (3) Blending mandates and capacity building; and (4) Changing technical assistance roles of SEAs:
Targeting districts in distress.
Should SEAs
target those districts with schools that are struggling and barely succeeding, or should they target districts with the largest number of schools in need of corrective action?
Changing technical assistance roles of SEAs:
Targeting districts in distress.
Priorities there have shifted from providing assistance to schools with weak performance (primarily using retired professionals and teachers on loan) to
targeting districts in distress.