Sentences with phrase «whether district»

There's also a split over whether the district court can dismiss an action pending arbitration, rather than staying it.

When asked whether the district plans to expand them into high schools — many charter schools add a new grade every year — he said it had yet to be determined.

How can we determine whether a district's financial and educational decisions are aligned to what is best for students?

With a new charter - backed majority on the board, there's lots of speculation about whether the district will accelerate the growth of charters in the years to come.

This case decides whether a district court violated a mandate from the court of appeals.

Parents and civic leaders should demand to know whether their district uses funny - money accounting to benefit senior teachers at the expense of poor children.

They were charged with exploring whether a district was financially feasible, whether it would work for both library patrons and library staff, and whether there were any other issues.

That said, districts typically implement new curriculum by training every teacher district - wide and it remains unclear whether districts would reach for a different option.

Now, attorneys first check whether a district has an innovation plan and what the plan encompasses before discussing a teacher's legal rights and options.

The question in redistricting is not whether the people we have elected are doing their best, but whether the district lines allow the needs of the county to be properly represented.

Although I had one staff member supporting the initiative for the pilot group, I had to consider whether the district was prepared to provide support and scale to meet support demands.

It's impossible to say whether the district's success is because of the laptop program, and school leaders are up front about that.

Whether your district employs technology or is just beginning to plan, it's never too late to start integrating lessons on digital citizenship.

The state's charter law does not say explicitly whether district - operated charters can exist, he explained.

They don't control whether districts and states are making a real attempt to eliminate the record levels of child poverty.

The policy must state whether the district offers weighted grades.

It is no longer about whether the district has these systems in place; it is about the efficacy of these systems and how equitable they are.

We explore whether districts that offer different types of financial incentives to teachers tend to have greater diversity among teachers within their schools.

Yesterday's oral argument in D.C. v. Heller, addressing the issue of whether the District of Columbia's expansive handgun ban violates the Second Amendment, provided plenty of ammunition for law bloggers to discuss.

The donation depends on whether the district gives up land near its current recreation center for a Wood Dale Road improvement project.

A former Rensselaer County assistant district attorney testified Friday before a special grand jury that's investigating whether District Attorney Joel E. Abelove violated any laws in his controversial handling of an April 2016 fatal police shooting in Troy.

After the Garner decision and Michael Brown case in Feguson Mo., in which a white police officer was not indicted for shooting to death a black teenager, some elected officials and legal scholars have questioned whether district attorneys who work so closely with local police departments can effectively hold accountable those same departments when they commit questionable acts.

As noted in this post, today Sixth Circuit panels in two cases split over whether district judges had sentenced reasonably in two drug cases.

The petitions urge the park district to ask taxpayers in a March 19 referendum question whether the district should kick in about $ 3 million from a 20 - year bond issue to help buy the land.

Whether district judges follow one path or the other will, as you say, determine the significance (though, of course, Gall could give them a push).

As for whether a district could become a «hope operator» under the bill, Bileca said: «We're looking at possible pathways for that.»

In this study we investigate whether district officials in a position to influence policy and practice have begun to respond to competitive pressure from school choice in new ways.

Time will tell whether the district follows through on these plans.

Gurnee Park District actions this year made Eileen Fiddyment and others angry enough to circulate petitions to get a referendum question on the November ballot that will ask voters whether the district should be dissolved.

(I wonder whether the district fears that if a stand - alone vegetable doesn't appear on menus, parents will be upset?

Cuomo's announcement that he's reviewing Vance's handling of the complaint comes a day after the anti-harassment Time's Up campaign demanded a probe into whether the District Attorney's ties to Weinstein's legal team led his office to undermine the victim.

Because Rita does not require much explanation, appellate courts will be unable to tell whether the district court rubber - stamped the PSR or whether it thought independently about whether the sentence was reasonable.

But the lawyer representing one of the defendants said he would file suit within the next few months to test whether district boundaries can be used to deny parents from the inner city the opportunity to provide a high - quality education for their children.

As a former superintendent, Vander Ark knew that the big - school habit was deeply ingrained; he was not sure whether districts would support or disrupt attempts to create small schools.

Specifically, we probe whether district officials in urban settings across the country believe they need to compete for students.

One problem was that it's difficult to analyse mathematically whether a district meets a rather vague written criterion of being «compact».

Standardized tests are used to measure whether districts are meeting federal benchmarks under the No Child Left Behind law, and schools can receive or lose thousands of dollars a year in aid depending on test scores.

Factors such as whether the district had appointed a district - level science teacher on «special assignment» to assist other instructors, developed professional learning communities around science, and completed most aspects of Common Core implementation were considered in the selection process.

The only question remaining in the dispute is whether the district needs a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the activity, officials said.

Some Ward 5 residents today found a message in their mailbox from council candidate Delano Hunter: «Thousands of dollars from homosexual activists outside Ward 5 are attacking Delano Hunter because he supports our right to vote on whether the District legalizes «gay marriage,»» reads the mailer, which illustrates a river of cash flowing from «New York City» and «San Francisco» into the ward.

The dispute between Buffalo Public Schools and the Buffalo Teachers Federation centers around whether the district can cut 5 1/2 teaching positions and hire aides to perform non-supervisory roles.

It is not certain whether students in the district sector are more likely to become in need of special education or whether district procedures are designed to identify more readily that a student is in need of these services.

We measured expansion of charters across districts: first, by whether the district had at least one operating charter school in the 2003 — 04 school year and, second, by the fraction of public school students enrolled in charter schools during the 2003 — 04 school year.

Meanwhile, federally mandated accountability systems focus exclusively on improving test scores without providing financial data that would allow citizens to determine whether districts accomplish those goals in a cost - effective manner.