Sentences with phrase «way up to the district»

Teachers at SMCPS can better focus their teaching strategies and content, making every instructional moment count now that the district can disaggregate data from the student level all the way up to the district - wide level, The data pulled from Unify also enables the district to customize professional development and resources on opportunities that will have the greatest impact on teaching.

Not exact matches

He keeps up a steady stream of banter and jocular conversation on the way to the factory site in Brisbane, Calif., a pleasant 15 - minute ride south of American Giant headquarters in San Francisco's Mission district.

He filed a lawsuit against the District of Columbia after the elections board refused a ballot initiative on same - sex marriage, and when denied, followed it all the way up to the US Supreme Court (which also denied it).

Born in 1926, Grosics grew up in the Tatabanya district of Hungary and by the time he was thirteen, he was well on his way to becoming a professional goalkeeper.

So, kids — instead of just complaining, how about rolling up your sleeves and trying to figure out a way to improve the food in your school district?

The Arlington Heights Park District Board, which envisions the park as a way to break up the monotony of high rise buildings and retail businesses clustered downtown, got its first look at the design Saturday.

-- The Dundee Township Park District Board of Commissioners in the coming weeks is expected to decide whether to give up land that would help clear the way for a proposed 5 - mile highway, in exchange for a land and cash donation.

Cooking the best food in town won't make much difference if the district can't cook up a way for students to get it.

Mayor Richard Daley wants people to drink more along the lakefront as a way to gin up money for the Chicago Park District and avoid raising taxes.

«Ultimately the Web site is going to be one of the main ways for the community to get real - time, up - to - date information about the Park District,» Brissa said.

Districts are a way to divvy up the population, and should be done based upon local populations centers.

And since the Texas Legislature ain't allowin'that to happen, they carve the city up and distribute its residents among districts that stretch all the way down to San Antonio and waaaaaay on out past the Hill Country.

Suffolk County Conservative Chairman Ed Walsh announced today that he's endorsing businessman Randy Altschuler to challenge Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop in NY - 1, setting up a potential three - way fight in the Long Island district.

Congressional District, with John Faso offering up comprehensive ways to improve the Upstate economy and streamline government.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY... October 5, 2016 — Tuesday's Poughkeepsie Journal Editorial Board meeting showed a clear contrast between the two candidates for the 19th Congressional District, with John Faso offering up comprehensive ways to improve the Upstate economy and streamline government.

This team, made up of representatives of the Legislature, local government, education and private industry, will conduct a rigorous and comprehensive review of mandates imposed on school districts and other local taxing districts to identify mandates that are ineffective, unnecessary, outdated and duplicative in order to develop the best and most cost - effective ways to deliver mandated programs and services.

So I am finding situations in my district where not - for - profit organizations and their landlords, the way they structured their leases was that the landlords would pass off the property taxes to the not - for - profit organizations, and as taxes are going up... many of these not - for - profit organizations are finding that they can't keep pace, and some are seeing increases of ten, fifteen, twenty thousand dollars a year.

Mr. Farrell revealed the news district lines at a town hall meeting on 147th Street last night where he said the rest of New York's federal legislative lines have been held up as the State Assembly tried to figure out a way to create a district that would set up Mr. Rangel to win a 22nd term in the House of Representatives.

NYC Carpenters District Council President Steve McInnis said, «While much of our country struggles to keep up with modern infrastructure demands, Governor Cuomo is leading the way forward.

«Between my family and meetings I have to catch up on in the district an throughout the area, it's time better spent that way,» said Katko.

President Clinton taught him that the best way to wrangle a bigger HUD budget from Congress was not to go up to Capitol Hill but to visit Congressional districts and persuade people to pressure their representatives.

«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.

Somehow I'm going to have to find a way to get total primary results for all 435 Congressional Districts, and the 35 Senate districts up for election, to compare partisan turnouts to general electiDistricts, and the 35 Senate districts up for election, to compare partisan turnouts to general electidistricts up for election, to compare partisan turnouts to general election votes.

If Republicans are forced to redraw the boundaries, Mr. Madonna said, they might «sacrifice» Mr. Meehan's district to shore up other Republican districts in a way that could pass muster with the court.

United Way of the Southern Tier and Corning Incorporated teamed up to provide school supplies to new kindergarten registrants in the Elmira City School District.

This playground, in combination with the district's Health and Wellness initiative will help to develop the whole child as they Conceive, Believe and Achieve their goals in their journey to go «all the way up,» added Principal Kim Hewlett.

«You take the mayor and the county executive and the judges and the district attorney and the police chief — and that bickering and fighting between the DA and the police, I don't care whose fault it is, it's ridiculous, it's hurting us, it has to stop — you put them all in a room and you don't let them out until they come up with a plan, they agree on something, (a way) to do something about crime.»

Multiple attendees at the hearing also made derisive comments about the Piano District in response to a billboard that recently went up by the Third Avenue Bridge proclaiming that luxury waterfront living is on its way to the South Bronx.

«A task force has been set up between my administration and Superintendent Cash where we have staffs that are looking at ways that the city and school district can work together to find deficiencies to further improve educational outcomes in our schools,» the mayor said.

Eventually Cuomo gave up his pledge to veto any district lines that were gerrymandered and agreed to new lines that drastically favored Senate Republicans, even creating a 63rd district upstate that suspiciously carved its way around major population centers and incorporated rural towns populated by more voters who were more likely Republican.

That blew the roof off of the race and paved the way for Doheny, who narrowly lost twice to Owens in 2010 and 2012, to enter the fray, a development that disrupted Stefanik's methodological campaign that saw her quietly racking up endorsements from GOP powerbrokers across the expansive district before Owens announced he wouldn't seek re-election for personal reasons.

In Maryland, a formerly Republican district based in the rural and western parts of the state was chopped up, its pieces redistributed in a way that reduced the GOP to only one seat in the state's eight - member House delegation.

Tedra Cobb started at the southern end of the district and had worked her way up to Jefferson County by the end of the week.

And so last July, Cuomo convened a news conference with the two dozen members of his newborn Moreland Commission on Public Corruption, a group made up disproportionately of district attorneys, plus a handful of reform advocates who had put in years of work on ways to boost official integrity.

The letter is one of two messages «Pretty Little Lies» star Witherspoon has sent Cuomo's way recently — she tweeted at him on Monday on behalf of the Time's Up movement, calling on him to open an investigation into the Manhattan District Attorney's handling of the Harvey Weinstein investigation.

The phaseout of the MSP program would be a blow to university researchers, who use NSF funding to link up with educators from local school districts to train teachers, improve curriculum, and devise better ways to measure student progress in math and science.

It's a tale of wonder set in 1869 Texas as the railroad is making its way across the continent, and on board one of those trains is the future Lone Ranger, John Reid (Hammer), newly minted lawyer traveling back to his dusty hometown of Clayton, TX to take up his post as District Attorney.

They've proven themselves able to secure the requisite start - up capital — by becoming enterprising fundraisers, by «partnering» with others who have deeper pockets, by finding creative ways to keep start - up costs down, or by going without amenities that are standard - issue in the typical district school.

He ordered the district and the local teachers union to come up with a reasonable way of doing just that.

In 2003 schools chancellor Joel Klein appointed her and the project, through a no - bid three - year $ 5.4 million contract, to the task of revamping the way literacy skills are taught in more than 100 district schools, including most of those in Brooklyn and Queens, the project's mission is to retrain — through onsite workshops, leadership seminars, curricular materials, and an intensive summer institute — primary and upper - grade teachers, administrators from principals up through district superintendents, and central department policymakers.

The most popular way of soaking up excess revenues is to increase salaries and to hire additional school personnel, especially in districts that have difficulty attracting and retaining qualified teachers.

Could this study be another one of those reports school districts often ginger up in such a way as to get the results they want?

In order to achieve the district's goals, good managers will attempt to find ways to use categorical and restricted monies that are not in line with the district's aims to free up other funds that can then be used to pursue its priorities.

Maranto reports that state officials see NCLB as a way of saying «shape up» to the districts getting state aid.

The typical district spends more than 80 percent of its revenues on salaries and benefits, and salaries tend to ratchet only one way — up.

School districts have come up with some very creative ways to woo teachers to their schools.

The authors stated that they were unable to come up with particular ways in which school districts could spend money to improve the average verbal ability of their teachers (though other researchers such as Ferguson and Manski have suggested that higher teacher salaries might do so), so they left out possible ways that money might be spent to raise verbal ability.

Nonetheless, the overwhelming majority of superintendents, school district officials, and school principals rise through the ranks the traditional way - first as teachers, then as assistant principals, principals, and then up to the district office.

One possible way forward is through partnerships with local school districts, such as Powderhouse Studios in Somerville, Massachusetts, 1 of 10 recent winners of the XQ: The Super School Project, the $ 10 million high - school redesign competition founded by Laurene Powell Jobs (see «Will the XQ «Super Schools» Live Up to Their Name?»

Administrators, district managers, and just about everyone found a way to rationalize away their responsibility to speak up.