Doubters know that the state-by-state, district-by-district system by which we elect the House distributes the vote to protect incumbents.
Israel would have to consider its electoral laws and weigh the prospect of moving from a proportional representation system to a direct, district system.
From 2001 to 2006, bills proposing adoption of the district system were introduced in many states, but failed to pass, according to the NCSL website.
Sweden creates energy for around 250, 000 homes and powers one-fifth of the district heating system, Swedish Waste Managements says.
His latest passion is for establishing a business-improvement district and a system of self-imposed taxation for street cleaning and security.
The next stage is to link this exchanger to a district-heating system so that it can be pumped into central heating.
It could be a big boost to the Pirate Party elsewhere, particularly in countries with proportional representation rather than a single-member, district-based system which favors larger parties.
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Even though the images were not monitored by District employees, the system continued to operate, resulting in thousands of additional images.
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Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire are all upper-level authorities in a two-tier system with district councils like Cheltenham, Tamworth, Wyre Forest and Stratford-on-Avon underneath them.
For years, the District of Columbia public school system has been crippled by a growing and non-responsive bureaucracy.
It is the smallest geographical district in the Federal Reserve system, covering southern New Jersey, Philadelphia and eastern Pennsylvania.
In our case, the support of the mayor has been critical, and as one of the only large urban districts to adopt this change in governance of our schools, I believe that the District of Columbia public school system will be a model for urban school reform.
The cuts mean postponing the police department's plan to install a new surveillance system in the financial district.
The district's new teacher evaluation system uses results from the MAP and state achievement exams to assign teacher ratings.
He said that student-achievement data is only one component of the district's teacher-evaluation system, which relies heavily on principal observations.
Rockville Centre district Superintendent Bill Johnson said he felt the new evaluation system should be "tweaked on an annual basis" for improvements.
Israel today is governed by a proportional electoral system that treats the entire country as a unitary voting district.
She is a notorious figure in the Russian judicial system, who has been accused of putting pressure on district judges.
Mr Moe says that, under a unicameral system, Minnesotans would have only one representative in their district to call for help.
On a recent school district visit I had an assistant superintendent tell me that her school system better figure out how to meet the needs of these digital learners because they have access to so many free resources and experts and she fears that their institution might soon be obsolete.
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You can go through the channels that exist, but if your case is dismissed, you'll find yourself pretty much shut out and forced, either to go to a lawyer and file a suit of some kind, against the district, or basically forced to take your children out of the system.
This week parliament also began work on a bill to overhaul the school system, decentralising much of the responsibility to the provincial and district level.
Some states and districts are looking to adopt a system like the one in Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida, where the district created exams for every subject at every grade five years ago in an effort to award merit pay to teachers.
Under the present system, getting the most out of the federal government for the federal tax your district puts in is a crucial part of a legislator's job.
For the Swedish school system operates with directly funded schools, the municipality running them just as a school district would in the US. But such schools are not experimental in the manner of Egalia.
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Recovery School District spokeswoman Siona LaFrance says most job applicants taught New Orleans kids before in the old locally controlled system, but some of them don't even qualify for interviews now.
Following the incident, Laura Sandys, Conservative MP for South Thanet, said the sewerage system was not "fit for purpose" and she would be meeting Southern Water and Thanet District Council.
The waters have risen too quickly to install the system this time, so volunteers are using gravel, plastic overlay and sandbags to protect the business district, and they're layering sandbags around threatened homes, the American Legion hall and the Catholic church.
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