In a few school districts one finds a link between school and job.

Hoxby, who has researched the systemic effects of school choice, determined that areas with greater residential school choice have consistently higher test scores at a lower per-pupil cost than areas with very few school districts ( see Hoxby, 1998 ).

One remnant of this era is that the name Dresden is still used in the Dresden School District, an interstate school district serving both Hanover and Norwich, Vermont — the first and one of the few inter-state school districts in the nation.

Before consolidation of many of these rural school districts in the last half of the twentieth century, Indiana high schools had fewer students than those of most other states ; basketball was a natural game for these schools since it only required five starters and a few reserves.

( In a few states, a separate Executive Council, composed of members elected from large districts, performs the confirmation function.

Before the 15th century textiles were only in a few towns but during, they shifted into districts like East Anglia, and the Cotswolds.

Metropolitan counties, and a few non-metropolitan counties, no longer have elected councils or administrative functions, and their former functions are performed by districts.

Despite these assurances, residents have been very vocal in their concerns that the neighborhood will lose its unique eclectic appeal and have panned what they call the destruction of one of the few locally owned business districts in the valley.

Many Southern states and school districts interpreted " Brown II " as legal justification for resisting, delaying, and avoiding significant integration for years — and in some cases for a decade or more — using such tactics as closing down school systems, using state money to finance segregated " private " schools, and " token " integration where a few carefully selected black children were admitted to former white-only schools but the vast majority remained in underfunded, unequal black schools.

As a result, efforts to impose court-ordered desegregation often led to school districts in which there were too few white students for effective desegregation, as white students increasingly left for majority white suburban districts or for private schools.

Prefecture most commonly refers to a self-governing body or area since the tetrarchy when Emperor Diocletian divided the Roman Empire into four districts ( each divided into dioceses, grouped under a Vicarius ( a number of Roman provinces, listed under that article ), although he maintained two pretorian prefectures as an administrative level above the also surviving dioceses ( a few of which were split ).

* The more restrictive AOC calvados Pays d ' Auge area is limited to the east end of the of Calvados and a few adjoining districts.

The county is divided into supervisor districts ; a few are: Blackwater, Blue Ridge, Boones Mill, Gills Creek, Rocky Mount, Snow Creek, Union Hall, Ferrum, Glade Hill, Penhook, and Callaway

Each year, Witnesses from several congregations, which form a " circuit ", gather for one-day and two-day assemblies ; several circuits meet once a year for a three-day " district convention ", and several districts gather every few years for a four-day " international convention ".

** Serves the entire city of Corbin, making it one of the few districts in Kentucky whose boundaries cross county lines.

This is one of the few California school districts with its own parent sponsored educational foundations.

Portola Valley is one of the few ( perhaps only ) school districts that has a school named after a race horse ( Ormonde ).

Milledgeville is composed of two main districts: a heavily commercialized area extending from a few blocks north of Georgia College & State University to four miles ( 6 km ) north of Milledgeville properly known to locals simply as " 441 ", and the " Downtown " area, encompassing the college, buildings housing city government agencies, various bars and restaurants.

The school shares busing with both districts, and dropped the sixth grade a few years after adding Kindergarten.

Seven main school districts are fully or partly within the borders of Pulaski County, not counting two small districts which are mostly within other counties and only have only a few dozen residents within Pulaski County.

Seven main school districts are fully or partly within the borders of Pulaski County, not counting two small districts which are mostly within other counties and only have only a few dozen residents within Pulaski County.

Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.

Consitutional government, popular vote, trial by jury, public education, labor unions, cooperatives, communes, socialized ownership, world courts, and the veto power in world councils are but a few examples.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.

are few in number, briefly worded, all different in sound ; ;

Thoroughly modern in treatment, they are at the same time, full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by no means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen Corner ', ' judgement Day, ' Gabriel's Horn, and a frustrated devil -- with a few random hallelujahs thrown in for good measure.

Yet as an evocation of time past, there are few such successful portraits in English historical literature.

There are millions who accept this doctrine, but few indeed are those who accept it so truly that the fate of humanity lies as a weight on their souls night and day.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

There are few things of which I am prouder than of that unblemished record.

It is an ugly business and there are few, if any, wreaths for them.

So successful has been this program, worked out by white and Negro civic leaders, that further extensions are expected in the next few months.

Among the most frequently quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes and yet so few persons, other than scholars, really understand the true meaning of these eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount.

Is this what our children are to come face to face with when they are ready for college in a few years??

Nonetheless, although few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital principle embodied in their faith.

Many belly dancers are married, but Serene is one of the few who will admit it.

Even then, a few of the `` less interesting '' questions are edited out and glibly summarized by a commentator.

`` It's because we are in France '', he said, `` and know so few people.

There are, he thought, so few true means of forgetfulness in this life that why should he shun the medicine even when the medicine seemed, as it did, a little crude??