Sentences with phrase «vast majority of districts»

Now let's turn to your blithe dismissal of my concern that children on free / reduced lunch — the vast majority of our district — might be denied healthier lunch options available only to paying students.

Thus, as Marshall Ganz has warned since the early 1990s, in the vast majority of districts where elections are not effectively contested, the new political targeting may in fact narrow the electorate by helping campaigns focus on an ever more clearly defined plurality of highly motivated and highly partisan supporters who turn out on a regular basis to return the incumbent to office.

The vast majority of the district's voters are located on Staten Island, where they are inclined to elect one of their own — an attitude Mr. Grimm effectively capitalized by painting Mr. Recchia as outsider.

Our research shows that the vast majority of district schools don't even meet the current quotas.

For some reason, the vast majority of districts elected to offer the SBAC field tests.

The New Jersey Education Association, which represents the vast majority of districts in the state, was quick to argue that merit pay undermines collegiality and fails to boost achievement.

State superintendent Tony Evers outlined a few new priorities for 2017 - 19, chief among them is fixing Wisconsin's school funding formula to provide more money to a vast majority of districts.

«One issue came through quite clearly — the idea of starting with the needs assessment, what is our actual student need, didn't happen in the vast majority of districts,» Sapp said.

In the vast majority of districts, local associations have won cost of living increases so that salaries keep up with inflation.

School funding for non-Abbott districts is a perennially critical issue, too, as a vast majority of those districts are still catching up from the loss of state aid four years ago.

«The vast majority of districts that were approached about this opportunity signed up,» he added.

As for the Senate budget, except for a small number of districts benefiting from a «20j like» categorical that guarantees at least a $ 75 increase in the foundation, the vast majority of districts will do better with «Classrooms and Kids».

That the vast majority of districts have no teachers deserving of an unsatisfactory rating does not seem to correlate with our knowledge of most professions that routinely have individuals in them who are not well suited to the job.

Annual surveys are quite practical, given that the vast majority of districts have already been administering the state - subsidized California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) for more than a decade, and close to 200 districts do so annually.

That said, the vast majority of the district's oldest schools are located south of Interstate 8 — a line that's often used as shorthand for the division between affluent and poor San Diego neighborhoods.

This is noteworthy, given that many leadership programs focus solely on aspiring or novice principals — leaving the vast majority of districts» school leaders with «sit - and - go» trainings that fail to improve their practice.

While choice policies have significantly grown in recent years, the vast majority of districts continue to assign students to a public school based on where they live.

Most districts with fewer students have avoided overspending, but the vast majority of the districts in debt have experienced declining enrollment.

(It's worth noting that the most aggressive of these steps were rarely taken under NCLB in the vast majority of districts and states.)

Although the school's data is allegedly similar to that prepared by the group of parents, Roberts said most of the head injuries reported were minor and the vast majority of District 97 students have not suffered a head injury while at school.

Orin, given that the vast majority of district court judges were once prominent prosecutors, defense attorneys, or civil litigators (and / or state judges), I think service as a district judge likely includes some of the other types of experience you mention.