Not exact matches
In terms of in - store innovations, the company made a big splash last
year by launching and then heavily hyping two stores — a massive 140,000 - square - foot Canadian Tire in south Edmonton and a Sport Chek in midtown Toronto — that came fully loaded with all manner of screens, simulators and other forms of digital eye candy, including interactive video walls, window shopping using glass screens that display products, and community
boards that give customers access to
local sports clinics, league registrations and fitness classes.
The NSA document — which the Justice Department says was stolen and leaked to The Intercept
by a 25 -
year - old government contractor from Georgia — concluded that «Russian intelligence obtained and maintained access to elements of multiple US state or
local electoral
boards» in the days leading up to the election.
The numbers come one day after the
local real estate
board in Calgary, which was expected to be a hot spot in the country for housing sales this
year, said sales fell
by more than 2 per cent compared to last March.
She said that she had never engaged in this kind of activity before, but she was outraged when, seven
years ago, her first complaints were brushed aside
by the
local board of health.
Some of those involved in the trend among denominations to send more and more full - time missionaries to foreign countries — in addition to short - term volunteers being sent out directly
by local churches — seem to be ignoring the enlightened approach to missionary presence that the historic mission
boards developed after many
years of experience.
Of the 90 similar programs in the state in the 1989 - 90 school
year, 29 were run
by school districts and 61
by outside agencies in space provided
by local schools, according to Illinois
Board of Education records.
The New
Year's Eve event will be hosted
by the Association for a Better New York, Blasters, Drillrunners and Miners
Local 29, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, Central Park Conservancy, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Municipal Art Society of New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York Historical Society, the New York Mets, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Transit Museum, Partnership for New York City, Real Estate
Board of New York, Regional Plan Association, NYC Sandhogs
Local 147, Transport Workers Union
Local 100 and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
«We have all seen the disturbing increase in spending
by outside groups in federal, state and even
local elections in recent
years,» said Rose Gill Hearn, a CFB
board member.
As a political fundraiser, Genova led the Massapequa South Republican Club, which Newsday reported in 2015 had donated $ 151,740 to
local political candidates in the previous nine
years, but had failed to file disclosures with the state
board of elections, as required
by law.
The
Board of Assessment Review -LCB- BAR -RCB- The BAR is a three member board comprised of local citizens, each member is appointed by the Town Board and serves a 5 year term of of
Board of Assessment Review -LCB- BAR -RCB- The BAR is a three member
board comprised of local citizens, each member is appointed by the Town Board and serves a 5 year term of of
board comprised of
local citizens, each member is appointed
by the Town
Board and serves a 5 year term of of
Board and serves a 5
year term of office.
Southold Town
board members are looking to breathe some life into the
local economy
by offering expanding businesses tax exemptions for up to 10
years.
So far the project has been allocated $ 30,000 in funding
by local Councilman Carlos Menchaca for next financial
year and they are working with Friends of Community
Board 6 as a fiscal sponsor, Baker said.
As part of the agreement, the Yankees also created a Community Benefits Fund, controlled
by a volunteer
board, that would give out $ 800,000 a
year in grants to
local community groups, $ 100,000 a
year in equipment and merchandise, and 15,000 free game tickets.While some of these grants, merchandise and tickets have been distributed, activists at the rally said much of it remains unaccounted for.
«An organization that brings over 25,000 people to our neighborhoods should show us respect
by sharing its routes with community
boards and
local elected officials and working together with us well in advance to determine how we can mitigate the negative impacts of this bar crawl on our
local communities and small retail businesses, whose annual sales depend heavily on this time of
year,» Hoylman added.
Cuomo's Five -
Year Financial Plan keeps revenue sharing with
local governments flat at a time when scores of
local governments and school districts are headed for insolvency and a takeover
by state Control
Boards.
Council Reduces Proposed Increase from 9.2 % to 6.2 %
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR The Orangetown Town
Board voted unanimously Tuesday to override the state - imposed limitation of a 2 percent increase in
local real property taxes next
year.
All Community
Board appointees are required to re-apply at the conclusion of each two -
year term and are subject to review and reconsideration
by local elected officials.
His campaign cast Mr. Behan's endorsement as a
local issue, focusing on his involvement with the town's Republican committee and his falling - out with its leaders since last
year's town election when the town
board candidates Mr. Behan proposed — his wife, Marilyn Behan, and Bill Mott — were rejected
by them.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Santa Clara County Democratic Party Central Committee is committed to doubling the number of Democratic women in
local elected and appointed office in Santa Clara County
by the
year 2020, the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, through the creation of a Director position on the Executive
Board dedicated to working with clubs, Directors and any other interested parties to implement this commitment and to be appointed
by the Party Chair, and that this appointment will be made in collaboration with DAWN; and
Baynes notesthat rather than declaring bankruptcy or submitting to a state takeover
by a financial control
board, cities would like to see state government restore funding to
local governments that has been cut in recent
years.
The latest outcry involves a lawsuit
by the
local district attorney charging that the school
board violated Louisiana's open - meetings law late last
year when it approved a $ 210,000 settlement with Mr. Holmes.
A Little Rock, Arkansas, performance - pay program lasted only three
years and was not renewed
by the
local school
board, despite evidence of positive effects on student achievement in math, reading, and language.
A group of parents who send their children to a Portland, Ore., high school that is scheduled to close at the end of this school
year say they were angered and shocked
by the city school
board's decision last summer to «take away» their
local school.
A battle under way in the Maine legislature could undermine the hard - won victory last
year — led
by Democratic Gov. John E. Baldacci — to consolidate the state's hundreds of school districts and
local school
boards.
For the second straight
year, lawmakers killed a bill that would have required all of the state's
local school superintendents to be appointed
by their school
boards by 2000.
In every school district and supervisory district, the trustee, trustees,
board of education or
board of cooperative educational services, shall submit a written semiannual report to the Commissioner of Education,
by January 15th and July 15th of each
year, commencing July 1, 1985, setting forth the substance of each complaint about the use of corporal punishment received
by the
local school authorities during the reporting period, the results of each investigation, and the action, if any, taken
by the school authorities in each case.
The suit — filed
by more than 40 plaintiffs on May 12 in Pensacola, Fla. — challenges several actions taken over the past
year by the
local school
board and the district's superintendent, Leonard Hall.
About 100 protesters and angry parents led
by local officials of the NAACP stormed the Minneapolis school
board's final meeting of the
year last week, prompting
board members to leave the meeting with their business unfinished.
A model one - way desegregation program begun 15
years ago in Hartford, Conn., is being phased out
by order of the
local school
board, which argued that the district can no longer afford to send city students to suburban schools.
The LCFF requires incorporating parents» views in a three -
year Local Control and Accountability Plan, which school
boards must adopt
by July 1.
For example, magnet schools and integration are valued locally in Montclair and
boards of education there made specific
local decisions,
years ago to support those values whereas neighborhood schools are preferred in other towns and are supported
by their
boards.
And during the academic
year 2013 - 14, superintendents shall review the performance and evaluations of all teachers, selecting 25 percent of those who have shown effectiveness as demonstrated
by proficiency on the teacher evaluation instrument and recommending them for 4 -
year contracts to the
local school
board.
A coalition of education - advocacy groups behind the effort is seeking a maximum of 40 public charter schools over five
years, operated
by qualified nonprofits and overseen
by a
local school
board or a special state commission.
A signature program of the Obama administration, the SIG funds are available to any
local educational agency or charter that receives Title I money and meets a needs criteria established
by the California State
Board of Education three
years ago.
Selected teachers must have been employed for at least three consecutive
years by the
local school
board.
Thomas J. Gentzel, executive director, National School
Boards Association: «Our nation's 90,000 school
board members stand together with educators, principals, superintendents, chief state school officers, parents and school business officials to call upon lawmakers to end
years of uncertainty and send a final education bill that restores
local governance and community ownership to the president's desk
by the end of this
year.
The move was spurred
by last
year's Louisiana Supreme Court decision on voucher schools and
by anger among
local school
board members over state - approved charters in their parishes.
This ingenious incentive, managed
by the district's human resources office and celebrated publicly at a
year - end
board meeting, costs the school system little, but provides a priceless boost for the program's accountability and
local brand.
Regardless, LaMotte often complained in
board meetings that schools in her district were hemorrhaging students and resources to
local charter schools popping up
by the dozens every
year.
The campus next
year will be run
by InspireNOLA, which runs two highly rated charter schools under the Orleans Parish School
Board, and Wilson will transfer back to
local control.
Several schools overseen
by the
local school
board became charters in the 2005 - 06 school
year so they could repair their buildings themselves and reopen faster.
In New York, their five -
year charters are granted
by the
Board of Regents, the SUNY Board of Trustees, or the local school b
Board of Regents, the SUNY
Board of Trustees, or the local school b
Board of Trustees, or the
local school
boardboard.
Though state lawmakers this
year passed a measure to return RSD schools to
local boards by July 2018, critics say it won't make any difference because the law still maintains charter schools» operational autonomy.
The
board, the California Department of Education and consultant WestEd are more than two
years into developing a set of rubrics to be used
by county offices of education and a state oversight body to evaluate how well school districts are meeting goals set within their
Local Control Accountability Plans.
Given the compressed timeframe in which the dissolution of the SRC must take place in order for the District to regain
local control
by the beginning of the 2018 - 2019 school
year and the difficulty the District would likely face getting legislative approval from Harrisburg to change its charter to allow an elected school
board in the next few weeks, Education Voters of PA supports mayoral control of the school
board at this time.
A change made
by the Governmental Accounting Standards
Board in 2004, and phased in over following
years, required state and
local governments to recognize the liability for Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB), that is, benefits other than pensions.
By early next
year, Kirst said, the
board will draw up a «template» for the «
local education plans» that school districts are required to draw up under the new school funding laws, based on public hearings and parental and community input.
Cindy's advocacy work for children is evident
by her involvement with K - 12 public school
boards on the local and state level for over seventeen years, serving on the Flushing Community Schools and Genesee Intermediate School District School B
boards on the
local and state level for over seventeen
years, serving on the Flushing Community Schools and Genesee Intermediate School District School
BoardsBoards.
He could also campaign for Amendment 8, which would allow an alternative process for approving public schools, including charter schools, rather than
by local school
boards, and Amendment 12, which would impose a six -
year lobbying ban on former state elected officials, state agencies heads and
local elected officials.
Last
year, Edwards put her organization's federal tax - exempt status at risk
by partnering with Stand for Children, which has become a radical reform group, in failed efforts to upend
local school
board elections.