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Community Consolidated School District 15 - 2003 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Recipient (1537 words) |
 | The district equaled or outperformed its comparison district at all levels and in all subjects from 1998-99 through 2001-02 (comparative data for 2002-03 are not yet available). |
 | The district has increased the number of its teachers who have achieved National Board Certification from two in 1994-95 to 48 in 2002-03, the second-highest number in the state. |
 | Turnover rate in the district for certified staff was 11.7 percent for 2002-03, compared to a national average of 20 percent, and attrition for first-year teachers decreased significantly, from 19.5 percent in 1996-97 to 6.3 percent in 2002-03, well below the 20 percent level of the comparative local school district. |
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District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2007 words) |
 | In Alberta, the district (known as municipal districts) acts like a county or a city but not like the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and British Columbia, all districts and counties are part of census subdivisions of their respective census divisions. |
 | Districts tend to be less urbanised, tend to cover more than one population centre and a larger amount of rural area, and tend to have a smaller population than cities. |
 | A district ("amphoe") is a subdivision of a Province ("changwat") in Thailand. |