Sentences with phrase «took over district with»

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With the Alberta flag firmly draped over her shoulders and not a bottle of BC wine to be found, Notley should take the political fight out of Edmonton's government district.

Mad Dog & Beans Mexican Cantina Grand Opening The Financial District's favorite Mexican restaurant is taking over Midtown Celebrate with tequila -LSB-...]

The Financial District's favorite Mexican restaurant is taking over Midtown Celebrate with tequila samplings and huge giveaways!

Sheridan Shore's lease with the reclamation district expires in March 2016 and the Wilmette park district board recently voted to approach the district in coming weeks to explore the possibility of taking over the lease in 2016, said park district executive director Steve Wilson.

When they originally contracted with the Park District to bring Lollapalooza to Grant Park in 2005, Jones and his partners were taking over a broken concert franchise that had faded from popularity in the 21st century after playing a crucial role in the early»90s emergence of alternative rock.

Some aldermen have suggested that because the building does not conform to the standards for the Americans With Disabilities Act, the park district might not want to take over the building.

Dana has intimate familiarity with what it takes to make significant changes in a large, urban district like my own, and she is less - than - starry - eyed about the ability of any other district to follow suit without outside funding — over and above the current USDA reimbursement rate, OR that amount plus six cents.

Were I in McDonald's district, I would be extremely offended that the Gay Lobby was trying to take over my district and my seat with single - issue funders.

Since taking over New York's 27thCongressional District in January, the Clarence Republican hasn't exactly been impressed with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Cuomo, saying there is a «crisis of confidence» in the criminal justice system, signed an executive order to have the state's attorney general take over from local district attorneys, anytime a unarmed civilian is killed in an encounter with police, and there are questions about what happened.

Whereas, Mr. Paladino acknowledged that he made these statements; And, Mr. Paladino is an elected official charged with the responsibility to represent children and families in a district comprised of over 70 % Black, Brown, Asian, Immigrant and other minority students and families; And, Mr. Paladino took an oath to ensure that students are afforded an environment which is free from fear and respects diversity within the school district and the community and is subject to all district policies; And,

Not shy about bringing a little elbow into the game, Rivera is taking on the incumbent Democratic senator in the adjoining district, Jeff Klein, over his defection from the rest of the conference and leadership of a five - member rump faction that caucused and shared power with the Republicans in the past two years.

Of the two district attorney races, the Brooklyn competition is fierce, with half a dozen Democrats competing, including Acting DA Eric Gonzalez, who took over for the late Ken Thompson.

Carter will be no stranger to local defense attorneys or Albany County prosecutors; the legal wrangling between Carter and District Attorney David Soares» office over the minor arrests of four Occupy Albany protestors took on a life of its own before the Court of Appeals ultimately sided with Soares.

With all 586 election districts reporting across 11 counties, Reed took 55 percent of the vote over his Democratic opponent John Plumb's 40 percent.

Heastie did not offer details on his negotiations with Cuomo over the controversial education proposals, including a plan to overhaul teacher evaluations and one to provide the state with the power to take over failing schools and districts.

Marisol Alcantara, who was handpicked by Espaillat to take over his State Senate District 31 seat, won with 32.43 percent of the vote, besting Micah Lasher who earned 30.19 percent and Jackson who earned 29.72 percent, according to the Board of Elections.

with the Lenox Hill Democratic Club & Lex Club General Club Meeting Monday, May 15, 2017, 6:30 — 8:00 pm (Lex General Club Meeting 8:00 — 8:30 pm) The Sanctuary, All Souls Church, 1157 Lexington Ave. @ E. 80th St. Meet and Hear from all the Democratic Candidates running for City Council in the Fourth District to take over from longtime Councilmember Dan Garodnick.

The local Democratic Party, rife with Mr. Silver's old allies (including his ex-chief of staff Judy Rapfogel, wife of confessed embezzler William Rapfogel), picked longtime district leader Alice Cancel to take over the vanquished speaker's seat.

Cuomo, saying there is a «crisis of confidence» in the criminal justice system, signed an executive order to have the state's Attorney General take over from the local District Attorney, anytime a unarmed civilian is killed in an encounter with police, and there are questions about what happened.

His first election in partisan politics wound up as a tie against an 18 - year incumbent...»... who was the majority leader of the county legislature and the committeemen - even though it takes place in a very public forum it's actually a party election, and so the committeemen broke the tie, gave it to the incumbent, and I wound up being elected in a write - in election with over 3,000 votes cast, just on a county legislative district, so, you can beat city hall.»

Nine council members originally committed to PB in FY2014, with eight of them seeing the process through, and Carlos Menchaca taking over for Sara Gonzalez in council district 38 after he defeated the incumbent in the Democratic primary and went on to take the seat.

Assemblyman Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria) took over outgoing Sen. George Onorato's (D - Astoria) seat, winning 82 percent of the vote over his Republican opponent, businessman Jerome Patrick Tina Jr., with 72 percent of districts reporting.

Mayor Michael R. White, along with an appointed nine - member school board and a superintendent of his choosing, will take over the Cleveland schools, returning the district to local control for the first time in nearly 25 years.

The school already has over a decade's experience opening its campus to public school enrichment camps and initiatives like Growing Girls and Gardens, where they are taking best practices from their venerable independent school for girls, working with the school district, and applying the learning to benefit some of the city's neediest students — walking the walk to offer outstanding education and opportunity for promising girls.

To meet high student demand, in spring 2014, Louisiana legislators provided a line - item appropriation for the Supplemental Course Academy (SCA), with the caveat that districts have more control over what courses students take.

A unitary accountability system enables the state to fairly and transparently monitor program compliance and inform the public about performance; make difficult decisions about withholding funds, intervening with local boards, and taking over schools and districts; and uniformly and thoroughly administer federal programs.

State agencies didn't know what to do with the schools and districts they took over.

As of 2002, a total of 24 states had adopted laws authorizing a state education agency to displace a school board and take over the operation of a school district in cases of protracted problems with academic performance, fiscal mismanagement, or corruption.

Despite union and district efforts to overturn the vote, the Green Dot supporters succeeded, and after a year of transition, in which there was a good deal of disorder, Green Dot took over the school, with a new principal and new teachers.

In Montomery County, Md., a suburban school district outside of Washington, D.C. with over 150,000 students and an annual budget of $ 2.4 billion, most people probably couldn't answer these questions because much of the work of the school board seems to take place behind closed doors.

Board member Phyllis Landrieu, who is white (and the aunt of U.S. senator Mary Landrieu and Louisiana lieutenant governor Mitch Landrieu, who would lose a close race for mayor in the spring of 2006), proposed replacing acting district superintendent Ora Watson, who took over from Amato and is black, with Bill Roberti, who is the head of Alvarez & Marsal in New Orleans and white.

Evaluating ELLs for Special Needs a Challenge Education Week, August 29, 2012 «Faced with a class action five years ago over the poor quality of its special education services, the San Diego school district hired Thomas Hehir, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were faring.»

Faced with shortages due to new limits on class size, the district offered provisional certification to candidates who promised to take five education courses over three years and participate in a beginning teacher program.

But last year voters overwhelmingly rejected a constitutional amendment that would have allowed the state to take over schools and put them in an Opportunity School District, with the option of converting them to charters.

Diane Ravitch makes many points in her article «The Myth of Charter Schools» [NYR, November 11, 2010]-- some we agree with, some we disagree with, namely ill - informed conclusions about what we can learn from Locke High School, a high school of more than three thousand students in Los Angeles that Green Dot took over from the school district in 2008.

The biggest oversight of CER's reform comes in its failure to rank states on how they have passed and implemented Parent Trigger laws that allow families to take over failing schools as well as gives them the ability to negotiate with districts on how those schools will be overhauled.

For many of these families, this starts with taking over the traditional district school within their own neighborhoods — and that means being able to utilize Parent Trigger laws that allow them to do so.

Instead of a system with limited choice for families, predicated on a lottery system, all families in the District should have control over their child's share of education funding, and should be able to take those funds to any school or education option of choice.

Those six words, if taken seriously and implemented with care, hold the potential to create and provide resources to sustain a new model for decision - making within state education agencies and school districts — a model that benefits students and taxpayers and, over time, enhances our knowledge of what works in education.

While some are creating separate school districts for the lowest - achieving schools, others are using charter management organizations and providing parents with greater choice, and still others are appointing state receivers to take over struggling districts.

The approval, along with the ouster last November of two of the Adelanto Unified School District board members who fought unsuccessfully to stop the families from taking over the school, completes the effort of the families to become the first in the nation to use a Parent Trigger law to take control of a school — and show other families how they can become lead decision - makers in education as they should be.

On Monday, Stockton Unified trustee Lange Luntao shared a document with data taken from the district and state Dept. of Education featuring several areas of growth over the past school year:

Add in the tens of million spent by local school districts on computers and internet expansion so that students can take the on - line tests, along with the substitute teachers who were brought in so that full - time teachers could be pulled out to «learn about the Common Core,» and well over $ 150 — $ 200 million dollars (or more) in public funds have been diverted from instruction to the Common Core and Common Core testing disaster.

While the state - run district can technically take over any school in the bottom 5 percent, Mr. Barbic said the ASD hosted community meetings and worked with the regular school district to determine which schools should be taken over.

Ector County Independent School District is getting closer securing a partnership with a non-profit organization that could take over operations for Ector Middle School next year.

District Superintendent Tom Crowe says according to TEA regulations, when approaching the 6th year, «you have choices to make — either the state can come in and take over the school, or you can close the school and reopen it in a different format, or you can work with a partner like a charter school to take over the school.»

At Fenway High School in Boston, an in - district Pilot school with freedom over curriculum and assessment, the curriculum often embraces critical pedagogy, or examining problems within social contexts and power structures, taking constructive action, and reflecting.

Five years ago, parents were so fed up with the school that they initiated a «parent trigger» to try to take over the school from the district.

The document indicated Holtz would receive a guaranteed three - year, $ 150,000 job with a personal driver at the Department of Public Instruction should Humphries win and would have authority to take over large districts with persistent gaps in academic achievement among groups of students.