Sentences with phrase «than their home districts»

In Massachusetts, the test scores of charter schools on the Spring 2002 state test showed, according to the Boston Herald, «a greater number of improved scores... with more and more of the [charters] scoring higher than their home districts.»

As with Pomona and Walnut Valley, nearly all District of Choice students transfer to districts with smaller shares of low - income students than their home districts.

Not exact matches

Today, the patented system is used in more than 5,000 schools districts, therapy centers, hospitals and homes in the United States and Canada.

Home prices in the District are notoriously high, but there's more to the story than that.

Offering over 1.5 million square feet of state - of - the - art lab and office space in the heart of Toronto's Discovery District, the MaRS Centre is now home to more than 140 research labs and companies spanning the entire innovation ecosystem, including:

Among the properties that are being advertised this spring is the 8560 - hectares Warren - district sheep holding Raby Station — home to the famous Raby Merino Stud — being sold by the Qatar Investment Authority's Hassad Food which could fetch more than $ 20 million as part of an $ 80 million sell - down of properties in its Australian portfolio.

Calling Denver home since its start in 1995, fans can now enjoy Qdoba at more than 600 restaurants in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Canada.

The Lisle Village Board has agreed to consider a land swap with the Park District that would free up a site for a park on the western border of the town, where more than 200 homes are planned.

And, just as you say, the good news is that some school districts are also following suit, so that kids who buy school lunch rather than bringing from home are more likely than ever to see whole fruit over canned, etc..

Cooper said that a Berkeley school district study released this month showed that «kids who go through our whole program eat three times more vegetables than kids who bring their lunch from home.»

CARY — If Cary officials approve the Sterling Ridge subdivision plan for 150 condominiums and single - family homes, the Cary Park District is in line to receive more than $ 500,000 in park improvements.

Responding to more than a year of lobbying by South Loop residents, the Chicago Park District is homing in on a final site for a fenced dog run in Grant Park.

Among his arguments against the open - space use, Randall said there are more than 145 acres, mostly Park District - owned, of open space within a mile of the Lerch home.

Long Grove's business district, home to more than 80 specialty shops and restaurants, is just north of the intersection of Illinois Highways 53 and 83.

Grace A. Chantry, 59, of Arlington Heights, who retired in June as a registered nurse for Elk Grove Township School District 59 after more than 20 years of service, died Wednesday in her home.

They are the US Representatives who spend more time on CNN than in their home district.

The new sewer district would cover more than 5,300 homes and a business corridor along Montauk Highway.

Furthermore, our legislators play favorites to some groups by using «member items,» which are nothing more than legalized bribes, to grant money to for specific voter groups in their home districts.

But even still, she dismisses Mangan's chances to beat her or win a general election in a relatively conservative district that once sent Steve Levy to Albany and is home to 8,615 more Republicans than Democrats.

The left - leaning party will support Mr. Sikora for the soon - to - be empty 52nd Assembly District seat, covering Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights, and Park Slope — home to more than 7,000 voters who pulled the lever for Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the WFP ballot line in 2010.

Rachel believes that now more than ever it is important to fight to preserve and improve quality of life for residents of the fourth Council district in a manner worthy of the great city that she calls home.

«The court affirmed the legality of counting incarcerated individuals in their home communities for the purposes of redrawing district lines, rather than the districts where they are in prison.»

Calling the GOP lawsuit «highly speculative,» and saying it failed to make a rational case against the law, a state judge ruled that for purposes of district lines and population counts, LATFOR must count incarcerated people as residing in the neighborhoods they call home rather than the prisons in which they are located.

Flanagan did not return calls for this story, but Scott Reif, a spokesman for the Senate Republican majority, argued that both Long Island and rural Upstate districts would be shortchanged under Cuomo's budget, with New York City taking home a larger share than usual.

In a lopsided victory, the incumbent Sampson — who is accused of with stealing more than $ 400,000 in home foreclosure sales and tampering with an FBI investigation, among other charges — garnered 3,000 votes more than his closest challenger to take 54.2 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary for the 19th Senate district.

The expert micro-targeter spent time in heavily Russian Brighton Beach, where conservatives live in an otherwise Democratic congressional district, and the Bronx, home to a minuscule number of Republicans who may just allow Mr. Cruz to pick off more delegates than you'd expect.

Council members in 35 of the city's 51 districts make more than twice what their constituents bring home, and three make more than five times as much.

Sampson was indicted in 2013 after prosecutors said he stole more than $ 400,000 in home foreclosure sales to help finance an unsuccessful bid for Brooklyn district attorney and tried to cover up the alleged crime.

The district is home to many more Republicans than most New York City districts, though they are still outnumbered by registered Democrats in the district.

The city recently released the massive list of discretionary funds allocated by the City Council to individual members and one southeast Queens councilman brought home far more cash for his district than his colleagues.

By 2008 there were about 200,000 more homes in the valley than there were in 2000, and every new development served by the Las Vegas Valley Water District received a water commitment letter agreeing to hook up water.

After adjusting for maternal IQ and education, characteristics of the home environment, school district, and number of siblings, the children who were exposed to greater than 5 parts arsenic per billion of household well water (WAs ≥ 5 μg / L) showed reductions in Full Scale, Working Memory, Perceptual Reasoning and Verbal Comprehension scores, losses of 5 - 6 points, considered a significant decline, that may translate to problems in school, according to Gail Wasserman, PhD, professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia, and the study's first author.

The third largest school district in New Jersey, Jersey City Public Schools is home to more than 31 K - 8 schools.

Moges Bizuneh helps lead an agricultural office in Basona District, home to more than 10,000 female - headed households, and is working to support innovation by women.

Some districts are receiving just 12 hours of water each week as drought hits the Kenyan capital — home to more than 3 million people

Bexar County Appraisal District records indicate Jones is a resident of the Terrell Hills area, with his home valued at more than $ 3 million.

The decision noted that IDEA requires only that a school district demonstrate progress toward meeting the goals of an IEP, rather than assuring that progress can be generalized in the home and other environments, and thus the district was not responsible for the costs of a residential placement.

Clickable surveys offered through school or district Web pages are easier to prepare and tabulate, and appear to get higher rates of response, than traditional paper surveys that are sent home in backpacks or mailed, say school administrators who have joined the trend.

While district - operated schools still serve more than 80 percent of the U.S. school - age population, and private schools serve close to 10 percent, charters serve only about 6 percent (a share that is just slightly larger than that of the home - schooling sector).

One solution would be for the state to fund online courses outside the home district at something other than the full amount — perhaps at the 50 or 60 percent level.

Rather than writing directly to parents, she says, many districts apparently sent the notice home in children's backpacks — an excellent way to ensure that few parents ever see it.

We estimate that private school choice and intradistrict choice (allowing families to choose any traditional public school in their district) have the largest potential to expand the sets of schools to which families have access, with more than 80 percent of families having at least one of these «choice» schools within five miles of home.

The Fifth District was home to more than 20 charter schools serving thousands of families in Minneapolis and the surrounding suburbs.

A high - poverty urban district with 28 percent English language learners and more than 50 home languages spoken throughout the district, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) in California was looking for new ways to reach these diverse fdistrict with 28 percent English language learners and more than 50 home languages spoken throughout the district, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) in California was looking for new ways to reach these diverse fdistrict, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) in California was looking for new ways to reach these diverse fDistrict (OUSD) in California was looking for new ways to reach these diverse families.

Though he himself had once created a cyber school to attract home schoolers back to the district, Vander Ark was more a business strategist and education reformer than a tech enthusiast.

If the United States is going to take advantage of the linguistic skills of millions of children in this country who speak languages other than English at home, policy has to change at the district, state, and national levels, experts in the field say.

This is especially for a community (part of the zip code of 11436) in which 69 percent of residents own their homes (higher than the national average of 66 percent) and (along with apartment tenants, through their rents) pay hefty Big Apple property taxes to finance district operations.

The data is very clear, AF students are less poor than students in the district schools, they have less English as a second language needs, they go home to schools where English is usually the primary language and they have less special education needs.

LA Unified is already home to more independent charter schools than any school district in the country.

Comparatively, the same 10 percent reduction in funding would only save home school districts, on average, less than 0.2 percent of their budget.»