Sentences with phrase «time talking to district»

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Talks to transfer the project to PIF began in 2016, around the same time the government said it would rescue the district as part of its Vision 2030 efforts to diversify its oil - reliant economy.

«That could mean doing a ton of research or talking to outside groups, like the USDA or the poultry industry, that a district wouldn't have the time or manpower to do on its own,» explained Modzelewski.

Talk about bad timing — it seems that while the Elk Grove Village Park District Board was in the throes of fending off neighbors» complaints about a proposal to build a skateboard park at Audubon Park, lo and behold, the Youth Commission came out with the results...

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo calling for a special election to fill former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos district seat and a the future of a seal that was captured in the Hudson and released near Long Island.

Joel Abelove, candidate for Rensselaer County District Attorney, talks to members of the Times Union editorial board on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, in Colonie, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

He spent most of the time not talking about the area's elected Republicans — City Councilman Eric Ulrich, who represents District 32 which covers from Woodhaven to the Rockaways — but against Queens Democrats, who he called the city's most corrupt politicians.

Indeed, he spent a lot of time in his campaign talking about participatory budgeting, an innovation introduced by Council newcomers from recent election cycles who invite constituents to help plan the allocation of member item dollars each district receives.

But we found out, by like 90/10, that if there were a federal contest, with seven hundred million dollars at stake, at a time when we're talking about laying off teachers in districts all over the place, New York State should be doing everything they can to win it.

Amidst the summer lull, I've spent a bunch of time over the last month or two talking about «cage - busting» to school and system leaders in a bunch of districts, state gatherings, and university programs.

Looking back on those 2015 sessions, Radden says she can easily remember specific talks and experiences that helped her assess her leadership style, made her more confident in expressing her opinions, and taught her how to transfer the experience to the classroom — skills that can be difficult to hone when you don't have time (or district support) to step away from the day - to - day of teaching.

Four administrators who talked with Education World about their winter weather decision - making processes said that besides always considering safety first, having a system for deciding when to close — and communicating that system to everyone in the district — can mean making the right call most of the time.

«Some are mislabeling students or finding ways of moving them off the books,» and in some places, such as in Detroit and Camden, N.J., districts are making it easier to get a diploma at the very same time officials talk about making school more rigorous.

In fact, my CRPE colleagues and I spend a lot of time studying and talking about what it takes to design and implement policies like these, especially in cities where the schools are made up of a mix of district and charter schools and multiple oversight agencies existing side by side.

We extend heartfelt thanks to the superintendents, principals, district administrators, teachers, school board and community members, and state leaders in education who welcomed us into their busy work lives, providing time to talk with us, to observe in classrooms, and to complete surveys, all of which gave us the most complete national data set ever assembled to better understand issues in educational leadership.

But from where he sits, Rep. Horn says the best way to resolve all of the issues that are coming as a result of a reduced class size law that leaves too little time and resources for proper implementation is for everyone — House and Senate members as well as representatives from school district offices — to sit down together and talk about finding a mutually acceptable path forward.

NPR talked to someone at the Association of American Publishers, who said, «There's been no time in American history where this number of school districts wanted to swap out all their reading and math materials at all grades for new things.»

We then talked to district and school officials about three schools that increased learning time through federal School Improvement Grants (SIGs).

If you have time, another thing you can do to engage students more deeply in this topic of employee benefits, is invite your district's HR specialist into the classroom to talk to your students about employee benefits.

«Whenever we've talked with school districts to find out how are they're funding full - day pre-K, what we have found is that, a lot of times they have to draw resources from somewhere else in the budget, from another space, in order to make the math work.»

«In Cornwall - Lebanon School District (PA), there was a time when students who suffered from severe disabilities and were unable to speak had to use a DynaVox speech communication solution to talk to teachers and collaborate with classmates.

This group has gone out and talked to their administrators and found other teachers in buildings and within the district that seem to be willing to take risks, wanted to learn... And so this thing is growing and mushrooming, and it's an exciting time.

Plant manager Dave Tatman took time out to talk to a crowd of 300 people Tuesday at the Barren River Area Development District's annual luncheon at the National Corvette Museum just across from the assembly plant.