Sentences with phrase «aid board in»

Legal aid and advice is available from the Legal Aid Board in family law cases to people who satisfy a means test and whose case is considered to have merit.
Funding Funding for the Legal Aid Board in the period 2008 - 2011 has been as follows:
So far in 2014, he has spoken at a conference organised by the Scottish Legal Aid Board in Edinburgh to discuss digital delivery and, in particular, the Dutch Rechtrwijzer.nl programme.
We have worked with the Dutch Legal Aid Board in The Netherlands on a big family mediation program.
(b) To appoint and to supervise committees to aid the Board in the discharge of its responsibilities, and to terminate such committees as appropriate.
Joining forces among legal aid boards in this way, developing international quality standards, and thus improving access to justice, is the dream of Peter van den Biggelaar, director of the Dutch legal aid board.

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Despite Trump's complaints during the presidential race that the Fed was aiding Democrats in keeping rates ultra-low under President Barack Obama, his choices for a chairman and for other slots on the Fed's board have been moderates rather than hard - core conservatives who would favor a faster tightening of credit.
Among other things, we brought a consultant on board to aid in our sharpening our mission statement, revamping fund raising, and to guide us in raising the resources for a $ 1.4 million program enhancement and building project scheduled for completion in 2002.
«Today are the first faith - based organization to be a participant in the global fund,» Bickerton said,» and so we want to use that as a challenge to all other faith - based organizations to come on board because we're not going to solve AIDS tuberculosis and malaria all by ourselves.»
I remember the end of the little curtained balcony where our class was held, sunlight coming into our room rejoicing through a dusty window, the buzzing of insects in the July fields outside, a flannel board with figures stuck on it, and best of all, the anticipation of a story, followed by Kool - Aid and cookies.
Mike Riley, head of the Professional Game Match Officials Board, called for video technology to aid referees and Shearer thinks that using former players as officials would also be a step in the right direction.
There are many other examples of the clubs lack of ambition and ineptitude over the last ten years and I don't have either the patience or the time to go through the whole catalogue, its clear to anyone who is clear headed and able to for a reasonably intelligent opinion that our beloved club is being run by a bunch of silver spooned business men who car nothing for the clubs status within the areana that it operates only for the share prices and profit and loss margins and they are aided by a stubborn and deluded manager who has failed to deliver the EPL to his clubs fans for over ten years and who has failed to move with the times simply because he can retain his role in the club and deliver the minimum of results but maximum profit to the shareholders and board.
I believe with that type of boardroom over here we could have been successful with Arsene, this board aided in Arsene's downfall.
The Cincinnati Waldorf School's Board of Trustees» responsibilities include providing support and aid to the faculty in implementing a Waldorf educational program, to authorize major business and financial decisions, to appoint chairs and members of standing committees and to adopt the budget for the Cincinnati Waldorf School.
He is a member of the advisory boards of Alive and Well AIDS Information Network in Los Angeles, the National Vaccine Information Center in Virginia and the Foundation for Health Choice in Washington, DC.
She indicated that «this year, 500 students have been posted to the school and we are appealing to the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service to come to our aid in providing boarding accommodation, expand the Assembly Hall, the Dining Hall and provide furniture to create a conducive teaching environment for the newly S.H.S 1 students.»
The board also approved a $ 14 million two - year contract for the Legal Aid Society, which represents the indigent in court.
The State Aid subcommittee's recommendations, which are expected to be approved by the full Board of Regents later Tuesday, would phase in, over three years, an annual increase of 7 percent on school funding, for a total of $ 2.1 billion more a year by the 2019 - 20 school year.
The New York State Educational Conference Board's recommendations include a $ 1.5 billion increase in state aid to maintain current services and an additional $ 500 million in targeted funding, according to a report provided to POLITICO.
As a member of the Legal Aid Society's junior board of directors and recent recipient of their Outstanding Advocacy in Defense of the Accused award, Zellnor cares deeply for the reform of our criminal justice system.
We are, however, concerned with the recommended increase of $ 769 million in State Aid funding, which is less than half of that proposed by the Board of Regents.
«We are basically going to keep the staff in all of the staff leadership with their existing responsibilities,» said Regent Jim Tallon, former Assembly majority leader who chairs the board's state aid committee.
The Board of Regents has asked the governor for a $ 2 billion in additional school aid, a request Cuomo dismisses as more «political correctness.»
«If we rewind back to the first year of implementation, districts had to put these plans in place under threat of losing a state aid increase,» said David Albert, spokesman for the New York State School Boards Association.
The State Board of Regents says school aid needs to be increased by more than twice the amount the governor has proposed, to $ 2.1 billion, in order to begin to fulfill the court order.
Dfid has announced that foreign aid as a whole is to be maintained at 0.7 % of the UK's Gross National Income, taking on board anticipated inflation, that figure is expected to be # 10.5 bn in 2014 - 2015.
WNY teachers, School Board members and administrators plan to ramp up their voices during the next month to air their displeasure with a decision by Cuomo to tie increases in school aid to his controversial education agenda.
The New York State Educational Conference Board, a coalition of state education organizations, is calling for a $ 2 billion increase in school aid in the 2018 - 19 state budget, despite a looming deficit and uncertainty over federal spending.
During a meeting of the Schroon Town Board on Monday, Feb. 13, Councilman Roger Friedman discussed the importance of creating more promotional material such as maps of the region, to aid tourists in their quest to visit local hot spots.
Dan Quart is a member of Community Board 8, an attorney, formerly with Legal Aid Society, and then in private practice — who is receptive to 504 Democratic Club's agenda, but may need some more experience before finding elective office.
From the first time he came to mainstream media's attention in 1994 proclaiming that the Gay Games in New York that year would spread AIDS in the city, to his resignation from the Civilian Complaint Review Board because of the constant protest from the LGBT community, to his attacks on the Harvey Milk School and his bussing in evangelical Christians from the tri-state area to stage a protest against gay marriage on the steps of the Bronx County Courthouse, he has crusaded against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Carr was referring to the July 2015 decision by Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice Alice Schlesinger, who ruled in favor of the Legal Aid Society, which had sought a summary of the accusations that were lodged against Officer Daniel Pantaleo prior to Garner's death in 2014 and substantiated by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
The State School Boards Association is happy with the increases in aid and the fact that there are no new costs shifted to districts.
The department and State Board of Regents recommended a $ 2.1 billion increase in school aid for 2017 - 18 and a three - year phase in of the formula.
Using a gift given to the shelther as seed money, she helped start and served on the Board of Friends House in Rosehill, a residence for fifty formerly homeless people with AIDS.
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Stony Point — The Stony Point Town Board convened on April 9 to discuss recent developments in Sandy aid to affected areas of the town, explaining application procedures for federal assistance and progress with local communities.
The Southold Town Board approved a resolution Tuesday to endorse Oysterponds Historical Society's application for a grant that would aid in its goal of purchasing the Orient United Methodist Church property on Village Lane.
Buffalo, N.Y. - The Erie County Industrial Development Agency Board today aided to major industrial projects which will see $ 27.5 million in investment and create 20 new jobs.
In a letter sent Monday to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, the New York State Educational Conference Board — a group of seven organizations including the New York State School Boards Association and New York State United Teachers — asked state officials to clarify what aid estimates schools should use when they are developing their own budgets for the upcoming fiscal year.
«The DOE has been helpful in finding Band - Aids for our problems,» said Community Board 1 education chairwoman and P.S. 234 parent Tricia Joyce.
To get state legislators on board with his agenda, Cuomo tied the proposals to a large increase in state school aid.
Fox used a speech at the Institute of Economic Affairs this morning to argue for cuts across the board in order to reduce the deficit, but his calls for cuts to international aid have not been well received.
The executive director of the New York State School Boards Association, Tim Kremer, says the $ 859 million increase in state aid to schools included in the new budget is less than what is needed to maintain current programs.
Now that the state budget is passed, school boards across New York have a better idea of what to expect in school aid as they work on budget plans that will go before the voters next month.
In addition to scrapping the Common Core, Hawkins would improve schools by restoring aid cut during the state's economic downturn, encouraging desegregation through voluntary interdistrict transfers and returning curriculum decisions to local school boards.
Perhaps to that end, in addition to criminal justice reform types — members of the Board of Correction, the Legal Aid Society, the Vera Institute for Justice — the commission includes MaryAnne Gilmartin, president of real estate development firm Forest City Ratner, and Partnership for New York City President Katherine Wylde.
The establishment of an HIV / AIDS shelter in the vicinity of an area shopping mall has got residents of Community Board 12 fired up for a meeting on Jan. 7th.
They sent a letter requesting that $ 2.2 billion in additional aid be awarded to schools, including the recommendation from the Board of Regents to provide $ 250 million for prekindergarten education.
The package, including $ 55 million in reductions to Medicaid services and $ 260 million in across - the - board cuts in state aid to local governments, was intended to cover shortfalls in tax revenue during this fiscal year that have emerged since the budget was passed.
Executive Director of the New York State School Boards Association Tim Kremer says that's a far cry from the $ 2 billion in additional state aid his group requested.
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