Sentences with phrase «district feds»

Southern District feds goin» north could include Boyd Johnson from the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan.

Not exact matches

The District of Columbia does not have capital punishment; the feds do.

But in this economy with the states and feds cutting back in education, not expanding, where to districts get the money needed for the costs involved?

The feds are putting down their markers, slowly but clearly, leaving little doubt that their deepening investigation of Suffolk County law enforcement is headed right at District Attorney Thomas Spota.

If that isn't hot enough for you the Justice Department is said to be considering having federal agents and prosecutors from the Southern District of New York join the jamboree originally launched by feds in the Northern District.

In March 2008, feds in the Southern District of New York (their beat is downstate) indicted personnel from Emperors Club and QAT.

Sigfredo Gonzalez, 40, a Throgsneck medical supply salesman who ran unsuccessfully three times for the 79th Assembly District, ended up wearing a wire for the feds and acting as a go - between for bribes from his shady bosses to Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, according to a federal complaint.

But the feds say they don't believe that anyone from the Manhattan District Attorney «s Office was involved in the bribery scheme, and it appears that Meng was poised simply to cheat his unsuspecting friend out of the money — without delivering on his promises to get the tax case dropped.

The governor said federal laws provide prosecutors with more tools to handle corruption cases than do state laws, and district attorneys often turn their cases over to the feds.

Rep. Nydia Velazquez is calling on the feds to monitor next week's congressional primary in her Brooklyn district because she doesn't trust the problem - plagued NYC Board of Elections to do the job.

Ameri, head of the NYPD Highway District, didn't sign an agreement with the feds and was under no obligation to testify, a law enforcement source told The Post.

Most of the investigations — overlapping probes from the feds, the Manhattan district attorney and the city's Department of Investigation — center on an examination into the mayor's fund - raising.

But although states and school districts are expected to use the money to support basic education services, the feds have made it clear they also want to see reform.

He wants the feds to provide funds for adolescent literacy programs and state data systems; to ensure that every school is staffed by «skilled» teachers and principals; for district efforts to «personalize the educational experience»; and much more; and he calls on Congress to establish «meaningful high school accountability» (though the details are vague).

The feds are a «7 percent investor» after all, and the states and districts are at 93 percent.

As district official Joan Fitton explains, «The feds told us we had to offer a choice, not the parents» choice, but a choice.»

And neither the feds nor the states are forcing districts to head down this promising but politically painful road.

With regard to federal data... I would love to see data standards used so that data could flow from the district, to the state and ultimately the feds and be something that is consistant.

A consistency of comprehensive content is a key to learning and there's no reason that we (you, Gates, Ravitch, states, feds, whomever) can't develop some good K - 12 curricula that schools, districts, states, whomever, can't adopt.

Not because federal law wasn't prescriptive enough, but because NCLB's architects never had a realistic theory of action for how the feds were going to compel recalcitrant states and districts to implement these sweeping reforms.

Not all of these districts will necessarily apply for the grants, but have simply informed the feds of their intent to apply so U.S. Department of Education officials can plan their review process.

Few of the nearly 900 districts nationwide who said they'll apply will actually receive a share of the $ 400 million — the feds are only giving awards to between 15 and 25 districts.

But the larger vision promoted by the foundations and the feds — the holy grail of finding the best ways to evaluate teachers and improve their performance through scientific research, and then having those findings adopted by states and districts through limited financial incentives — is likely to go at least partially unfulfilled.

Since then, roughly a gazillion people have made pilgrimages to Rocketship and Carpe Diem, the feds plunked down $ 400 million for personalized learning in districts and charter networks,...

Compounding the problem were understaffed and underfunded state education departments, designated by the feds as responsible for ensuring that the local districts and schools were meeting the law's requirements.

So, what are districts to do when they are to follow the letter of the law, and the accountability policies being financially incentivized by the feds, and then the states (e.g., via Race to the Top and the NCLB waivers)?