Sentences with phrase «area district courts»

As such, it serves the greater Boston community by providing volunteer mediators in six area district courts.

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Among the many notable decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in the area of religion was the 1963 case Abington Township School District v. Schempp, which held that tax - supported schools were only allowed to teach about religion.

But now the Forest Service proposes to build a logging road through the area, a step that, as the district court noted, «would virtually destroy the Indians» ability to practice, their religion.»

My home is not thirty minutes away from Dover Area High School and even closer to the Federal District Court in Harrisburg where the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial took place in the fall of 2005.

4) Professor Behe was found to be a charlatan and his theory of Irreducible Complexity was publically and officially debunked in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District court trial.

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The grant would be used to help pay for basketball courts, sand lot volleyball areas, and a water slide, for which the Park District has raised $ 26,000.

Warrenville Park District received $ 68,100 to develop a 1 - acre neighborhood park, including a basketball court, play areas, pathways and shelters, Park District Director Matt Ellman said.

Now, next to the Lake Barrington Village Hall, the district offers two tennis courts, a toddler play area and a field for baseball and soccer games.

Park District Executive Director Ray McGury, a former police chief, said he didn't feel any issues that may exist in the area should preclude installing a basketball court at the south - side park.

The Northfield Park District asked a Cook County Circuit Court judge Tuesday to allow it to sue the Glenview Park District over Techny - area land the Northfield parks gave up 13 years ago.

The detailed floor plan for the Naperville Park District's long - sought Activity Center features basketball courts, child care and play areas, multipurpose rooms and exercise space.

Recreational facilities include five outdoor swimming pools, five community centers (each with gymnasium and meeting rooms), a cultural arts center, historical museum, senior center, Forest View Racquet and Fitness Club, Heritage Tennis Club, Arlington Lakes Golf Club, Olympic Indoor Swim Center, Nickol Knoll Golf Club, Melas Park Softball Complex, Lake Arlington's 1.8 mile walk / bike path and 50 acre boating lake, Sunset Meadows driving range, athletic fields and.88 mile walking path, 45 ball diamonds (41 Park District, 4 School District), 3 football fields and 7 soccer fields (5 Park District, 2 School District), 42 playgrounds, 52 outdoor tennis courts, 16 outdoor ice skating rinks, 7 sand volleyball courts, 30 basketball courts and 17 picnic areas.

On eight sites totaling 95 acres, the park district has four lighted tennis courts, a lighted sledding and toboggan hill, three picnic areas, a fishing pond, seven ball diamonds (two of which are lighted and a third with lights being installed), two football fields and four playgrounds - one with a storybook motif.

These referendums enabled the Park District to acquire needed land and to build many facilities including the fieldhouse at Hasbrook Park, the bathhouse at Recreation Park, an addition to the maintenance garage at Pioneer Park, the swimming pools and fieldhouses at Frontier and Camelot Parks, the swimming pool and bathhouse at Heritage Park, and the indoor swimming pool at Olympic Park along with ball diamonds, tennis courts, multipurpose areas, athletic fields, playgrounds, and to install walkway and park lighting.

NORTHFIELD — The Northfield Park District, as expected, filed a petition in Cook County Circuit Court on Wednesday seeking a judge «s permission to sue the Northbrook Park District over land in the Techny area.

When the city Landmarks Commission in 2006 recommended designation for the Arlington - Deming District in Lincoln Park and the East Village District near Wicker Park, the plaintiffs in the suit, Albert Hanna and Carol Mrowka, both owned property in those areas, the Appellate Court ruling states.

Also maintained by the Tinley Park Park District, Vogt Woods, 6527 W. 171st St., has a shelter for picnics as well as a baseball diamond, football field, horseshoe pits, a wooded nature area, playground equipment and volleyball courts.

Park District officials want the facility to include ball fields, a basketball and hockey court, fitness paths, a fishing area and creek restoration.

In a series of meetings with the Glen Ellyn Park District board, area residents have complained about the basketball courts in the park, east of the North - South Tollway.

The Inverness Park District will receive $ 137,200 to add a soccer field, volleyball court, playground, basketball court, tennis courts, open play area, walking and jogging path, picnic grove, landscaping and parking to Maggie Rogers Park on Ela Road.

The park's existing soccer fields, baseball field, tennis courts and other recreational areas would not be touched, said Ken Kutska, superintendent of parks and planning for the Park District.

By summer, the park on Lockwood Avenue will have an improved playground, a half - court basketball area and a butterfly garden, said officials with the Winnetka Park District, which oversees the site.

The Northfield Park District, as expected, filed a petition in Cook County Circuit Court on Wednesday seeking a judge's permission to sue the Northbrook Park District over land in the Techny area.

More than 100 volunteers have served on nine committees to gather information on proposed improvements to district parks and their facilities, including building natural and local history exhibits at Peck Farm; building athletic fields and environmental study areas; constructing a new swimming pool; repairing the retaining wall around Island Park on the Fox River; renovating old playgrounds and building new ones; restoring tennis courts and building new ones; and expanding the community center.

According to a source familiar with the results of these polls, Hanna's numbers improved in the Binghamton and Utica portions of the district — two areas on which his TV ad buys have specifically focused, in part because the district lines changed significantly in the court - drawn congressional map used for the fist time in the 2012 elections.

[District Court Judge Reena] Raggi and Judge Gerard Lynch noted the Mann proposal already contained two congressional districts in the area that were majority - Hispanic.

It's the only such court in the Fourth Judicial District, an area that emcompasses 26 percent of the state, Meyer noted — and one that allows combat vets to assimilate back into society and preserve their relationships with friends and family.

The book drop is located in this area, which is to be called Crawford Court for Mark Crawford, the former West Seneca Central School District superintendent.

At least nine of the three dozen people from the New York City area questioned for jury service by U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni raised concerns about corporate donations to politicians.

The police prosecutor, Olusegun Elisha, earlier told the court that the accused committed the offence on November 17 at about 8 am around Ifetedo area, Mofoworade village within Osogbo magisterial district.

In 2009 the states of Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin filed suit in federal court against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Chicago's Metropolitan Water Reclamation District seeking measures to prevent Asian carp from moving through the Chicago Area Waterway System into Lake Michigan.

South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Thomas W. Cooper Jr. ruled Dec. 29 in favor of eight small, rural districts, saying the state fails to provide the youngest children in those areas «the opportunity to obtain a minimally adequate education.»

In a 2014 study, Stephen Billings and his colleagues used administrative data and variation in school assignments for students who lived on opposite sides of new catchment area boundaries in Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina, following the district's release from court supervision to identify the effects of changes in racial composition and school resources.

Eleven school districts in suburbs of Kansas City, Mo., have asked a federal appeals court to halt the St. Louis area's voluntary cross-district desegregation plan, contending that it could imperil their own desegregation case.

I would, therefore, ask Hanushek and Lindseth to stop tilting at windmills and to join with me in instituting a dialogue in major areas in which we do agree, like the fact that courts can and should hold states and school districts accountable for better performance, and that «school funding policies must recognize the underlying heterogeneity of students and their educational challenges and ensure that all schools have the means to succeed» (Hanushek and Lindseth, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, page 218).

Before the 21st century, he notes, the federal government did not tell states and local school districts how to run their schools, with the exception of areas like desegregation and special education where there had been court rulings.

In Milliken, a 5 - 4 majority of the United States Supreme Court virtually prohibited bussing across school district lines to desegregate metropolitan areas, which in many ways marked the Court's — and the country's — turn away from efforts to integrate schools.

After the 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, called for the desegregation of schools in the United States, districts worked to begin integration, but many areas, like Little Rock, Arkansas, remained resistant.

A major class - action settlement that gives LAUSD teachers layoff protection at several dozen schools in high - poverty areas has been invalidated by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal.

According to court documents, Graystone Academy Charter School petitioned the court's decision last year to revoke the charter and faced Coatesville Area School District's quash of appealing the decision to Pennsylvania Charter School Appeal Board in 2012.

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And, «Mayor Baraka somehow complains about this extraordinary level of aid (about $ 718 million from the state this past year, according to the D.O.E. database)[but] «he should consult his fellow Mayors in the suburbs and rural areas whose property taxes are artificially high due to this court - ordered disproportionate aid to the Newark school district.»

The First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco ruled this week that when the state board of education considers authorizing a statewide benefit charter to open a site in a new area, they must first take into account whether the proposed educational program can be approved at the local level.

Courts have generally determined that location in a relatively wealthy or poor area should not dictate school funding, and remedies have included reducing dependence on local revenues for school funding, introducing formula structures to equalize revenues for lower - wealth districts through compensatory funding, and creating systems to redistribute disparate local revenues to equalize funding access.

Downtown: DOWNTOWN BOSTON 101 Arch Street, Suite 160 Boston, MA 02110 617-261-0066 ABOUT THE AREA The Downtown Boston Business Improvement District (BID) encompasses a 34 - block area between Tremont and Congress Streets and Court and Boylston Streets that includes Downtown Crossing, the Ladder District and parts of the Financial District and Theater DistriAREA The Downtown Boston Business Improvement District (BID) encompasses a 34 - block area between Tremont and Congress Streets and Court and Boylston Streets that includes Downtown Crossing, the Ladder District and parts of the Financial District and Theater Distriarea between Tremont and Congress Streets and Court and Boylston Streets that includes Downtown Crossing, the Ladder District and parts of the Financial District and Theater Districts.

DTSM, Inc. manages the Property - based Business Assessment District (PBAD) that encompasses the area bounded by Ocean Avenue (W), Wilshire Boulevard (N), 7th Court (E) and the Santa Monica Freeway (S).

The hotel's pleasant ambience, wide range of guest facilities, warm hospitality and close proximity to key areas like the central business district, the High Court, Hazaratganj - the iconic Shopping Centre and other top establishments make Fortune Park BBD an ideal destination for the discerning business and leisure traveler

In a victory for wild lands and our climate, U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson last week rejected Arch Coal's plans to bulldoze six miles of roads through 1,700 acres of Colorado's wild and natural Sunset Roadless Area in order to expand its underground West Elk coal mine.

He doesn't think the U.S. District Court tutorial will substitute for a full public debate, but it could help air some key areas of dispute, he said.