Sentences with phrase «against school districts where»

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Jim Finnegan, a Christian activist, filed a complaint against the Arlington Heights Park District to get the depiction of the birth of Jesus at North School Park, where the village's annual toy - themed holiday lights festival is held.

In other districts informal civic groups will organize a slate of «reform» candidates for school board, and in at least one exurban Colorado school district, a bunch of people who were also leaders in the county Republican party where the school district was located put together a slate of unofficially Republican school board candidates to square off against a teacher's union slate of candidates.

Their dispute has made it all the way to the State Supreme Court, where a judge issued a temporary restraining order against the district and school board, to keep them from replacing those teachers.

Last August, the American Civil Liberties Union won the latest in a series of lawsuits against single - sex public schools in a district where, it argued, children were given no other choice.

Educational barriers and challenges often vary by region, yet at districts where odds seem disproportionately stacked against student success — such as Jefferson County Schools (JCS) in rural West Virginia — school leaders know that delivering excellence in education requires vision, strategy and, sometimes, complete process overhaul.

The fallout from that situation particularly affected New York City, where the district and the United Federation of Teachersquarreled against the backdrop of the complex rules governing two federal programs, Race to the Top and the School Improvement Grants, that require changes to evaluation criteria.

The latest front in the war against charter schools is in Los Angeles, where a study funded by the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) tallied up the financial impact of the district's 221 charter schools.

Yet we exist in an educational environment of some paranoia about the real and perceived dangers of the web, where school districts filter Internet content, have rules against using social software, and where instruction about the Internet often focuses on the negative rather than harnessing the positive.

Lubbock Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Behrl Robertson, Jr., spoke to EverythingLubbock.com from Austin, where he fought against SB 3.

Mr. Christie exhorted New Jerseyans to use the budget votes to take a stand against school spending, particularly in districts where unions refused to freeze wages.

That's in stark contrast to what's allowed at traditional public schools, where state law has strict prohibitions against someone who works in a district serving on its school board.

For example, an analysis of this concept in the context of random drug testing of students engaged in extracurricular activities where the school's common law authority is balanced against constitutional concerns about privacy under the 4th Amendment is found in the U.S. Supreme Court case Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton, 515 U.S. 646 (school's common law authority is balanced against constitutional concerns about privacy under the 4th Amendment is found in the U.S. Supreme Court case Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton, 515 U.S. 646 (School District 47J v. Acton, 515 U.S. 646 (1995).

Prior to joining the firm, Saja was an Associate Attorney at Wyner Law Group, P.C. where she represented children with special needs and their families against school districts.