Sentences with phrase «whether district procedures»

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It is hard to know whether one can generalize from results from the nation's largest city (and school district), however, especially when it employs a complex procedure for assigning students to middle schools.

(d) Each school district shall establish procedures to determine whether a student is mentally gifted.

Because school districts often use subjective selection procedures to assess vague selection attributes, it is highly questionable whether or not the most - qualified candidates are being selected.

To probe these questions, The Wallace Foundation in 2011 launched a five - year, $ 75 million initiative to help six large districts build stronger principal pipelines by (1) creating clear job requirements detailing what principals and assistant principals must know and do, (2) ensuring high - quality training for aspiring leaders, (3) developing more selective hiring procedures, and (4) using well - crafted evaluations to identify the needs of principals and ongoing support to address them.79 Over the life of the initiative, it is expected that participating districts will have filled at least two - thirds of their principal slots with graduates of high - quality training programs - enough to enable independent researchers to gather meaningful evidence on whether and how better leadership can transform the academic fortunes of children.

AB 165 would have extended uniform complaint procedures to include complaints regarding student fees; required school districts and charter schools to publicly announce each year whether unlawful fees were being charged and to reimburse any improper fees, and added student fees to the annual audit process for each school district, with districts that charged improper fees potentially facing deferred funding from their county office of education.

Again, an experienced bankruptcy lawyer familiar with the local bankruptcy district rules and procedures would be the best place to seek out whether a child's income should or should not be included in the means test.

Rhode Island's procedure for having a dog declared «vicious» is as follows: 1) the complainant calls the local animal control officer; 2) the officer investigates the complaint and holds a hearing to examine the circumstances; 3) he then declares whether the animal in question is «vicious» or not; 4) if the owner of the dog disagrees with his verdict, he may appeal to District Court.

Addressing an important and essentially new issue of sentencing procedure, the Ninth Circuit today in Kenna v. US District Court for the Central District of California, No. 05 - 73467 (available here), addresses «whether the Crime Victims» Rights Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3771, gives victims the right to allocute at sentencing.»

Second, the sentence ultimately imposed, whether inside or outside of the guideline range, should be entitled to substantial deference on appeal as long as the district court follows correct procedures and articulates substantial reasons for the sentence.

In National Association of Home Builders v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which NAR has joined as a plaintiff, the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., will decide whether the corps violated administrative procedures when it changed the rules in December 1996 for wetlands development.