The district's new teacher evaluation system uses results from the MAP and state achievement exams to assign teacher ratings.

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The court said political map-makers cannot use race as the principal consideration in drawing congressional district boundary lines, but also agreed that using race as one factor could be constitutional.

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The Seattle district requires teachers to give the math and reading Measures of Academic Progress exam, or MAP, to students in first through ninth grade two or three times a year.

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City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer said he lobbied for the inclusion of his Queens district in the initial rollout of Citi Bike, only to see it dropped from the map when the start date was postponed.

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There is also Hanover School District (PA), University of Connecticut and Kingston University in London, and the schools shown on this map.

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Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia impose their own estate or inheritance taxes on money left to anyone other than a spouse (see map).

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