Sentences with phrase «all over the district»

She suggested allowing plaintiffs to manufacture a final judgment to trigger an automatic appeal could have negative repercussions, like permitting parties to skip over the district court on a legal question.

The whole area was called the «burned over district» because of the relentlessness of the revival preaching that went on there.

After the district sued the village over the matter, the village filed a counterclaim over the district «s failure to get a village permit for the baseball field lights it built at Springfield Park.

Lisle Park District Director Roy Cripe resigned Tuesday, nearly three years after taking over the district while it was in the midst of scandal.

Park District officials were considering scaling back plans for Lions Park, to be located at Parkview and Virginia Avenues, because the lowest bid they received for construction work, $ 186,995 from Plainfield - based Green - Up Landscapers, was over the district's budgeted amount.

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.

Making the authority over the district permanent would «build predictability into the system, which is important for bringing about the deep, long - range reforms that are needed.»

That means an overall 14 % approval across the whole nation won't get you any seats when it is evenly distributed over all districts.

«Once you've got a certain percentage of numbers, with dispersion over the district, they don't deviate much from that.

The repression in Midnapore was particularly severe, and included «house - burnings, seizures of property, insults, rapes, beatings, torture and illegal detention, all heaped on the rebels by ordinary police, by Intelligence Branch police forces and by army units stationed in camps all over the district after September 1942.»

That's just what we need - a group of fictional characters debating over district lines.

The oral arguments were the final step before the state Supreme Court rules in a years - long litigious battle over the district lines.

No, instead, Mr. Rangel deserves some sympathy because after four decades in the House of Representatives, building a political machine that has seen scores of friends and protégés win high office, serving a district that has been represented by only two people since World War II, he is now presiding over that district's dissolution.

But the state party has no control over districts that are wholly contained in a single county — only in those that cross county lines.

Flanagan has been less receptive for state oversight when it came to installing a monitor in East Ramapo schools, where tensions have flared over the district's leadership from the Orthodox Jewish community.

The Buffalo Teachers Federation is crying foul over a district decision to reduce the number of teachers at City Honors.

«Four to five days a week airplanes fly over our districts once a minute from 6 a.m. to midnight.

The partisan crowd responded with applause to his one - liner — no doubt a staple all over the district — that replacing Maurice Hinchey with Chris Gibson had been «a travesty.»

Singas took over the district attorney's office on an acting basis at the start of 2015 after Democrat Kathleen Rice was elected to Congress.

The Assembly bill, which was defended during floor debate by its lead sponsors, Rockland County Democrats Ellen Jaffee and Kenneth Zebrowski, would require state education officials to appoint a monitor who would have broad authority over district leaders» decisions for five years.

«All this distraction about leadership down in Washington, no one's talking about it... I've been all over this district, not one person has raised this.

«The cloud that hangs over District Attorney Vance and his office is creating a crisis of confidence in the criminal justice system in perhaps the busiest and most high profile district attorney's office in the nation,» Malliotakis wrote.

He is the candidate of the Democratic Party.After being successful in the 2012 Primary against the incumbent he has received much acclaim from all over his district: WEST AND EAST for his community events and initiatives.

Silver held onto his Lower Manhattan seat for four decades and wielded enormous influence over his district.

Campaigns in Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest have already formed a joint campaign against cuts being made to Barts Health, the PFI - stricken mega-Trust which has taken over District General Hospitals in the three boroughs

DS: You've been really all over the district, campaigning for about a year or more, over a year.

-- Bronx Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj, who shelled out more money than any Council candidate on record in his quest to take over the Throggs Neck and Pelham Bay seat being vacated by Jimmy Vacca, won narrowly over district leader Marjorie Velazquez, who got Vacca's backing.

I've traveled all over this district, far and wide, and I understand what the needs and what the challenges and what the people face on the ground.

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Synopsis: The Hunger Games saga continues in this sequel that finds a revolution brewing as Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) take a «Victor's Tour» of the districts, and President Snow (Donald Sutherland) plots their downfall during preparations for The Quarter Quell, which only occurs every 25 years in celebration of the Capitol's victory over the districts.

The state took over the district in 1995, to little effect.

The unions recognize that they have less control over private contractors than over the districts, and that the success of private contractors could well promote the flow of jobs, money, and control from public to private schools.

After a six - year court battle over the district's voucher program, the stage seemed set for a major victory.

Providing a non-arbitrary comparison of schools on even one criterion will be nearly impossible...» He says that the agency's subjective measures of equity grant almost complete control to federal regulators over a district's administration, something that is at odds with the very structure of the American educational system and will surely damage local control.

A region of upstate New York came to be known as the «burned - over district» because so many movements, cults, evangelists, and enthusiasts had worked the area or emerged from it.

Because of Kansas City Public Schools» (KCPS) persistent underperformance, the state is contemplating taking over the district.

Kentucky, New Mexico, South Carolina, and Texas have also adopted measures that enable state officials to assume control over districts that are perceived as failing for academic and political as well as financial reasons, according to the National Governors» Association.

Disagreement over the governance of Newark schools goes back more than two decades; the state took over the district in 1995 after documenting years of academic failure, unsafe buildings, corruption, and lavish spending by elected school board members.

The association contends that under the federal 1995 District of Columbia School Reform Act (SRA), which was passed under Congress's constitutional authority over the district, charter schools are entitled to equal per - pupil spending.

A reader might wonder why the superiority of the non-district approach over the district approach wasn't the author's primary thesis.

To keep the district solvent, the state of California provided a $ 100 million line of credit and took over the district's operations, stripping the school board of all but advisory powers and appointing an administrator to replace Chaconas.

The recent furor over District of Columbia high schools issuing dubious diplomas has prompted pundits to declare a decade's worth of school reform in the nation's capital a failure.

Indeed, if we compute the turnout gap between teachers and average citizens in each district, the median gap over all districts and elections (both school - board and bond) was 36.5 percent, which is a huge number given the very low turnout overall.

The bureaucrats in a white - majority state were cast as having usurped administrative power over a district in which 9 out of 10 students were African American, as were many teachers, politicians, and contractors.

Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that NYC charter students gained an additional one month of learning per year in reading over their district - school peers; in math the advantage was five months of additional learning each year.

In 1997, after years of mismanagement and low student achievement, the state took over the district and appointed an independent Board of Commissioners, who would hire the CEO.

MC2 STEM High School receives students from all over the district by lottery; it is not a school for the elite.

And most importantly, he and the governor recently decided to exercise their authority to take over the district and appoint a new leader.

A decade later, when the state sought to tighten fiscal oversight over the district, the OPSB balked, despite having lost track of millions of federal dollars and facing bankruptcy.