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And we made sure that we were still attached to our school district for funding, for support.
But with that, we were going to gain freedom: freedom to hire the teachers that we knew were going to be effective; freedom to control the curriculum so that we're not doing lesson 1.2 on page five, no; and freedom to control a budget, to spend money where it matters, not how a district or a state says you have to do it.
And it takes a school board member who is going to lobby for you and say, "Know, the district is trying to impose this, but you have the freedom to do otherwise."
You take an area, a school, a district, you change the conditions, give people a different sense of possibility, a different set of expectations, a broader range of opportunities, you cherish and value the relationships between teachers and learners, you offer people the discretion to be creative and to innovate in what they do, and schools that were once bereft spring to life.
The range of positions is wide, from running health care in a village to foreign investment in a city district to manager in a company.
By that point, a typical assignment will be to manage a district with a population in the millions or a company with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
This is the data from a single vaccination coverage survey in a single district in the country of Zambia from a few years ago, that I participated in.
The only thing anyone was trying to find out is what percentage of Zambian children are vaccinated, and this is the data, collected on paper over weeks, from a single district, which is something like a county in the United States.
Nearly 7,000 people were killed, and the city like this Nagata district, all the city was burned in a fire after the earthquake.
And then we would put all of this into place in one neighborhood in what was the worst police district in the United States at the time.
Before that, I'd been a criminal prosecutor, first in the Manhattan district attorney's office, and then at the United States Department of Justice.
Our first date was to death row at the Florence state prison in Arizona, which was just outside Gabby's state senate district.
For this, the Stasi owned 17 remand prisons, one in every district.
In a year, to a year and a half, Native American students in a school on a reservation went from the bottom of their district to the top, and that district included affluent sections of Seattle.
So, with emotions running high, and absolutely no experience in butchery, some friends and I opened a meat store in the heart of the East Village fashion district.
For instance, there is a lot of competition at the village or district level over who can be chief of village or chief of territory according to traditional law, and who can control the distribution of land and the exploitation of local mining sites.
And it went from a bowl to a singular house to a block to a neighborhood to a cultural district to thinking about the city, and at every point, there were things that I didn't know that I had to learn.
It was November 1, 2002, my first day as a principal, but hardly my first day in the school district of Philadelphia.
That same program was replicated to reach 200,000 children, covering the entire district.
It is the only old building in the government district that was not destroyed during the Second World War, and it sits right next to the Federal Chancellery.
Although Germany is an advanced democracy, citizens are limited in their constitutional rights in its government district.
Over the last couple of years, we learned that from the roofs of the US and the British Embassy, the secret services have been listening to the entire district, including the mobile phone of Angela Merkel.
Although the government district is governed by a strict police order, there are no specific laws relating to digital communication.
When I first arrived in Beijing in 2002, the city planners showed us this image: a forest of several hundred skyscrapers to emerge in the central business district, except at that time, only a handful of them existed.
This branch is comprised of all the courts in the land, from the federal district courts to the U.S. Supreme Court.
So in the district court the government submitted a brief on Myriad's side.
But now in direct opposition to its own patent office, the US government files a brief that states that is has reconsidered this issue in light of the district court's opinion, and has concluded that isolated DNA is not patent eligible.
The sitting congresswoman had been in my district since 1992.
Along the way, with the help and guidance of my district attorney, my supervisor and judges, I learned the power of the prosecutor to change lives instead of ruining them.
The next time there's a local district attorney's election in your jurisdiction, ask candidates these questions.
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