Sentences with phrase «local public entities»

Local public entities possess the unambiguous power to adopt their own claim presentation requirements - even as to claims that are statutorily exempt from those requirements.

Established in 2010, MTSNAC is comprised of leaders from commercial transportation firms, ship construction, repair and recycling, trade associations, state and local public entities, labor organizations, academics, and environmental groups that advise the Secretary and the Maritime Administration on policies to ensure that the U.S. Marine Transportation System is capable of responding to projected trade increases.

A start - up charter school is a school started by private individuals, private organizations, or state and local public entities that operate the school according to the terms of a charter contract between the charter petitioner, local board of education, and the State Board of Education.

The Charter Schools Act of 1998 provides that existing local schools, private individuals, private organizations, and state and local public entities may organize a charter public school subject to a performance - based contract approved by both the state and local boards of education.

Property taxes constitute the primary funding source, and Section 9 - 107 of Tort Immunity Act authorizes local public entities to levy a property tax to fund expenses for tort judgment and settlement, liability, security, Workers» Compensation, unemployment insurance and risk management.

Existing local schools, private individuals, private organizations, and state and local public entities may organize a charter public school subject to a performance - based contract approved by both the state and local boards of education or by the state board of education alone.

If the lawsuit is against a local public entity, such as the Chicago Police Department, the plaintiff usually has one year to file his or her complaint.

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The Corporate Partner Panel is a unique opportunity for Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs) to learn firsthand about securing business with such local corporations and public entities as Ecolab, Minneapolis Public School District, University of Minnesota, and Xcel Epublic entities as Ecolab, Minneapolis Public School District, University of Minnesota, and Xcel EPublic School District, University of Minnesota, and Xcel Energy.

Includes Federal, State, local or Tribal government entities; public child or family service agencies; or Tribal colleges or universities

Global bond funds invest in a wide variety of bonds issued by various public and private entities around the world, including sovereign governments, international agencies, state and local authorities, and private corporations.

The measure mirrors Gov. Cuomo's plan to create an investigative unit solely for sexual harassment complaints within the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and creates one policy for all state and local government entities, including the legislature.

Cuomo also backs a ban on confidentiality agreements for sexual assault or harassment in all public entities and branches of government at the state and local level unless the victim expresses a different preference.

Land banks are local entities authorized to take control and redevelop vacant or abandoned properties to where they can better serve the public interest.

The new proposal is far longer and offers precise definitions for a public official as including state and local elected officials, judges, political appointees of the governor as well board members who sit on entities such as public benefit corporations or authorities.

His statement Tuesday also included plans to outlaw sexual assault or harassment confidentiality agreements in public entities, establish a whistleblower process in state and local governments and prevent taxpayer money from being used to pay for sexual assault or harassment settlements, among other things.

The ABO, which oversees the entities like authorities, public corporations and local development corporations, found that of the organizations that are yet to file, 90 are not - for - profit corporations while 28 are local public authorities.

He says if the public thinks the local entities are too numerous, then they can under the present law, take steps to dissolve those government.

It does so through regulations spelled out in the Clean Water Act, which include providing tax incentives for selling or giving wetlands to land trusts or other conservation groups, via cooperative efforts with state and local entities, and by acquiring wetlands outright to add acreage to public lands systems.

Its School Construction Authority is the rare local entity that has soup - to - nuts responsibility for financing, building, and overseeing public schools, largely because it is now controlled directly by the mayor.

«Local and state financial problems are accelerating, in large part because public entities promised pensions they couldn't afford.

After graduating law school, Ms. Smeltzer worked in private practice representing local school districts and other public entities.

But they claim that using statewide data allows them to consider the fact that the states, not local school boards, are the ultimate political entities responsible for public education within their boundaries.

In 2015, for instance, the Skills for Success grant program supported local educational agencies and their partners in developing programs and practices that promoted positive learning mindsets among middle - grade students.37 The winning entities included Chicago Public Schools, KIPP, Long Beach Unified School District, and Los Angeles Unified School District.38

Visitors included staff from the US Departments of Education and Labor, the District of Columbia public school system, youth programs that focus on issues such as juvenile justice, employment, and education, and representatives from intermediaries that work with cities and other local entities.

The California Teachers Association local set up an entity called «Teachers for Local Control,» obviously a union - front group, whose goal is to dump the reformers based on the premise that they are «intent on destroying local control, devastating public education and usurping and overturning the wisdom of locally elected trustees.&rlocal set up an entity called «Teachers for Local Control,» obviously a union - front group, whose goal is to dump the reformers based on the premise that they are «intent on destroying local control, devastating public education and usurping and overturning the wisdom of locally elected trustees.&rLocal Control,» obviously a union - front group, whose goal is to dump the reformers based on the premise that they are «intent on destroying local control, devastating public education and usurping and overturning the wisdom of locally elected trustees.&rlocal control, devastating public education and usurping and overturning the wisdom of locally elected trustees.»

Georgia must pass a constitutional amendment so that the state can authorize charter schools and protect the longstanding practice that public education is a shared effort by state and local entities.

DeArmond, Jochim, and Lake (2014) looked at how the issue of governance affects both charters and traditional public schools in high - choice cities and found nearly eight agencies — including school districts, charter authorizers, and other state and local entities — responsible for oversight in the typical municipality, «making patchwork governance the norm, rather than the exception» (p. 15).

• School Expansion, Growth & Strategic Planning • State and Federal Employment Law • School Board and Nonprofit Governance • Administrative Law & Appeals of State and Federal Agency Decisions and Actions • Special Investigations & Legal / Compliance Audits • Policy Guidance and Development • Constitutional Challenges and Claims • School Employee and School Board Training • Litigation in Federal and State Courts • Administrative Hearings and Appeals Before State and Federal Agencies • Public Entity Purchasing and Procurement; Business Transactions; & Contract Negotiation, Review and Drafting • Construction Law, AIA Construction Contracts, Review and Drafting • Real Estate Transactions and Condemnation • Special Education under IDEA and Section 504 • Student Rights & Discipline Issues and Hearings • State and Federal Claims of Discrimination • State and Federal Civil Rights • Administrative Grievances and Hearings • False Claims Act / Qui Tam Defense for Local Government Entities

With regard to the school board term limit proposal in Amendment 8, Speaker Corcoran neglects to mention that this is one of the «bundled» amendments that will also establish a state governed charter school authorization board that can circumvent the power of our own locally elected officials in addition to establishing a parallel «public» school system that will not answer to local school boards, which is only another ploy to redirect precious, scant taxpayer dollars to entities that have little oversight or accountability.

The constitution thus forbids the state, through its subordinate entities such as a local school district, from providing public education that falls fundamentally below prevailing statewide standards.

In other words, private non-profit «entities» receive public funds to operate public charter schools with permission to operate outside of various state and local laws, such as limited or no requirements for teacher certification and collective bargaining; but only if they met State educational goals.

The U.S. Department of Labor will award 25 — 40 grants ranging from $ 2 to 7 million each to local education agencies, public or nonprofit local workforce entities, and nonprofits with education reform experience.

Restorative Discipline calls for collaboration with community - based restorative justice programs, local businesses, and agencies that serve youth, including community and faith - based programs, law enforcement, and public health and mental health entities, local Community Resource Coordinating Groups, justice system representatives and other stakeholders.

The Oklahoma Public School Resource Center, the local entity managing the grant's distribution, is funded by the Walton Family Foundation as well as other edu - philanthropists.

Charter schools are tuition - free, open enrollment, public schools of choice.1 Unlike traditional public schools, which are governed by local boards of education, charter schools are governed by independent, nonprofit boards and are accountable to an authorizing entity, which may close them if they fail to meet the goals delineated in their charter contract.

The stated intent of the legislature (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) is to ensure that local public schools, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities adhere to a uniform policy regarding the use of seclusion and physical restraint.

The Secretary shall carry out the intelligent transportation system program in cooperation with State and local governments and other public entities, the private sector firms of the United States, the Federal laboratories, and institutions of higher education, including historically Black colleges and universities and other minority institutions of higher education.

The Secretary shall encourage each metropolitan planning organization to cooperate with Federal, tribal, State, and local officers and entities responsible for other types of planning activities that are affected by transportation in the relevant area (including planned growth, economic development, infrastructure services, housing, other public services, nonmotorized users, environmental protection, airport operations, high - speed and intercity passenger rail, freight rail, port access, and freight movements), to the maximum extent practicable, to ensure that the metropolitan transportation planning process, metropolitan transportation plans, and transportation improvement programs are developed in cooperation with other related planning activities in the area.

The Secretary shall accept, for the purpose of making a finding with regard to adequate collateral for a public entity, the net present value on a future stream of State or local subsidy income or a dedicated revenue as collateral offered to secure a loan.

Authorizes DOT, upon request, to allow a state to use its apportionment of national highway performance program funds to pay subsidy and administrative costs of Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program secured loans, loan guarantees, or credit for surface transportation projects for a state, local government, public authority, public - private partnership, or any other legal entity.

Subject to this section, the Secretary of Transportation shall make and administer a compliance, safety, and accountability grant program to assist States, local governments, and other entities and persons with motor carrier safety and enforcement on highways and other public roads, new entrant safety audits, border enforcement, hazardous materials safety and security, consumer protection and household goods enforcement, and other programs and activities required to improve the safety of motor carriers as determined by the Secretary.

Qualifying employment in a public service job is defined as any employment with a federal, state, or local government agency, entity, or organization or a not - for - profit organization that has been designated as tax - exempt by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC).

Bonds issued by cities, states, and other local government entities to build schools, highways, and many other projects for the public good.

Government organizations including federal, state, local or tribal organization, agency or entity; a public child or family service agency; or a tribal college or university.

[ix] Eligible employment includes any position at a federal, state, or local government entity, or non-profit organization with a 501 (c)(3) designation, or another non-profit organization that does not have 501 (c)(3) status but provides emergency management, public safety, or law enforcement services; health services; education or library services; school - based services; public interest law services; early childhood education; or public services for individuals with disabilities and the elderly.

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You will not, and will not allow or authorize others to, use the Services or the Sites to take any actions that: (i) infringe on any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including those regarding export control); (iii) are defamatory, trade libelous, threatening, harassing, invasive of privacy, stalking, harassment, abusive, tortuous, hateful, discriminatory based on race, ethnicity, gender, sex or disability, pornographic or obscene; (iv) interfere with or disrupt any services or equipment with the intent of causing an excessive or disproportionate load on the Animal League or its licensors or suppliers» infrastructure; (v) involve knowingly distributing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines; (vi) involve the preparation and / or distribution of «junk mail», «spam», «chain letters», «pyramid schemes» or other deceptive online marketing practices or any unsolicited bulk email or unsolicited commercial email or otherwise in a manner that violate the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN - SPAM Act of 2003); (vii) would encourage conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, federal or international laws, rules or regulations; (viii) involve the unauthorized entry to any machine accessible via the Services or interfere with the Sites or any servers or networks connected to the Sites or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Sites, or attempt to breach the security of or disrupt Internet communications on the Sites (including without limitation accessing data to which you are not the intended recipient or logging into a server or account for which you are not expressly authorized); (ix) impersonate any person or entity, including, without limitation, one of the Animal League's or other's officers or employees, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (x) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the Sites; (xi) collect or store personal data about other Animal League members, Site users or attempt to gain access to other Animal League members information, or otherwise mine information about Animal League members, Site users, or the Sites; (xii) execute any form of network monitoring or run a network analyzer or packet sniffer or other technology to intercept, decode, mine or display any packets used to communicate between the Sites» servers or any data not intended for you; (xiii) attempt to circumvent authentication or security of any content, host, network or account («cracking») on or from the Sites; or (xiv) are contrary to the Animal League's public image, goodwill, reputation or mission or otherwise not in furtherance of the Animal Leagues stated purposes.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and New York Power Authority (NYPA) today announced the availability of $ 3.8 million for the launch of a statewide Geothermal Clean Energy Challenge, an initiative designed to help stimulate financing and installation of large - scale geothermal systems at state and local governmental entities, public and private schools and healthcare facilities.

Eligible organizations that can apply for a geothermal assessment include state and local governmental entities (state agencies, fire departments, and water and sewer districts), and public or private K - 12 schools, colleges, universities, hospitals and nursing homes.

LET IT THEREFORE BE RESOLVED, that the Village Board of Trustees will work in cooperation with Pace University Environmental Policy Clinic to develop the Energy Resiliency Strategy 2014 to determine the feasaiblity of creating decentralized, local, clean power sources utlizing microgrids that serve the Village and collaborating public and private entities.