Sentences with phrase «as districts fail»

The dismal figures signal an educational crisis, say authors of a report being released Wednesday, as districts fail the largest - growing demographic group.

Not exact matches

In a blow to independent contractors for transportation companies seeking to be classified as employees of the firms they work with, a federal district judge in Massachusetts ruled the state's independent - contractor law failed to override a 1994 federal statute pre-empting state regulation of a motor carrier's rates, routes and services.

«[Wheaton College] has failed to show that delaying a judgment in its favor to the conclusion of proceedings in the district court would do the college any harm... The college has also failed to match the relief it seeks to the illegalities it alleges... the government isn't using the college's health plans, as we have explained at perhaps excessive length.»

Though Tranter often praises today's park district in comparison to Kelly's, park officials tend to view Tranter and her group as relentless critics who fail to appreciate the progress parks have made during the last two decades.

As for the Park District, officials there have hoped for more room ever since a $ 5.8 million park proposal failed in November 1993.

The historic cactus, which is more than 75 years old, disappointed plant lovers last year when it inexplicably failed to flower after being heavily promoted as part of the Park District's 75th anniversary celebration.

Gia Biagi, chief of staff at the Park District, said a number of factors have slowed long - term plans for the land, especially tight finances and Chicago's failed bid to host the 2016 Olympics, which offered Northerly as a site for beach volleyball, kayaking and sailing.

And as the district marks its anniversary, officials point to high satisfaction ratings in a survey of patrons and a balanced, $ 16 million budget as signs that the district is successful — despite a tax referendum that failed in April.

He needed to try to win as many districts as possible, but failed.

In any case, Dr. Bawumia should be telling Ghanaians why they failed in eight years to fulfill their promise of establishing a Polytechnic in EVERY District as contained on Page 29 of the NPP's 2000 Manifesto.

But in a move he believes is invalid, the park district recently told Mr. Deegan that he can not serve as commissioner because he failed to take the oath of office at the start of his second term.

«I don't think this affected his ability to make decisions at all,» said Perini, a former Suffolk prosecutor who failed in a 2013 bid to unseat Spota as district attorney.

Despite their importance as alternative options for parents and students in failing districts, many parochial schools in New York State are experiencing financial hardship, and parents can face steep costs to enroll their children in such schools.

Mayoral control is commonly proposed as a solution for failing school districts like Syracuse's, which faces low graduation rates and test scores.

MANHATTAN — A failed candidate for Brooklyn District Attorney has tossed his hat into the ring as a write - in candidate against Manhattan DA Cy Vance, who has come under withering fire this week for declining to prosecute disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein.

As the Buffalo Public School District works to improve its failing schools debate is growing over the strength of charter schools.

The tiny Tuckahoe school district failed Tuesday in its second attempt to override its tax cap and will be forced to freeze taxes as a result — the first Long Island district to experience such consequences under New York State's strict cap law.

It also allows the groups to push for charters as an alternative to district schools by justifying the existence of charters by the existence of failing non-charter schools.

As the city school district grapples with failing schools, a powerful Buffalo stakeholder will lead a discussion on «The State of Public Education in Buffalo» Wednesday evening.

Chin was not widely viewed as one of the city's most vulnerable incumbents, but ended up in a primary that was too close to call for a week after Election Day after a strong showing by Marte, who accused her of failing to rein in overdevelopment in the lower Manhattan district.

The tiny Tuckahoe school district failed in its second attempt to override its tax cap and will be forced to freeze taxes as a result — the first Long Island district to experience such consequences under New York State's strict cap law.

Calling the GOP lawsuit «highly speculative,» and saying it failed to make a rational case against the law, a state judge ruled that for purposes of district lines and population counts, LATFOR must count incarcerated people as residing in the neighborhoods they call home rather than the prisons in which they are located.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After failing to make it on the ballot as the Independence Party candidate, entrepreneur Martin Babinec has decided to launch a new political party in his bid for the 22nd Congressional District seat..

District finance officers in trouble Fourteen district finance officers of 14 assemblies — Asante Akim Municipal, Bekwai Municipal, Ejisu Juabeng Municipal, Offinso Municipal, Adansi South District, Afigya Kwabre, Asante Akim South, Atwima Mponua District, Bosome Freho District, Offinso North District, Sekyere Afram Plains District, Sekyere East District and Sekyere Kumawu District were reported to have violated Part IX, Sections 13 and 14 of the Financial Memoranda for Assemblies as they failed to substantiate payments totalling GH cents 1,899,826.19 with the requisite expenditure documents such as invoices, receipts of payees and statements ofDistrict finance officers in trouble Fourteen district finance officers of 14 assemblies — Asante Akim Municipal, Bekwai Municipal, Ejisu Juabeng Municipal, Offinso Municipal, Adansi South District, Afigya Kwabre, Asante Akim South, Atwima Mponua District, Bosome Freho District, Offinso North District, Sekyere Afram Plains District, Sekyere East District and Sekyere Kumawu District were reported to have violated Part IX, Sections 13 and 14 of the Financial Memoranda for Assemblies as they failed to substantiate payments totalling GH cents 1,899,826.19 with the requisite expenditure documents such as invoices, receipts of payees and statements ofdistrict finance officers of 14 assemblies — Asante Akim Municipal, Bekwai Municipal, Ejisu Juabeng Municipal, Offinso Municipal, Adansi South District, Afigya Kwabre, Asante Akim South, Atwima Mponua District, Bosome Freho District, Offinso North District, Sekyere Afram Plains District, Sekyere East District and Sekyere Kumawu District were reported to have violated Part IX, Sections 13 and 14 of the Financial Memoranda for Assemblies as they failed to substantiate payments totalling GH cents 1,899,826.19 with the requisite expenditure documents such as invoices, receipts of payees and statements ofDistrict, Afigya Kwabre, Asante Akim South, Atwima Mponua District, Bosome Freho District, Offinso North District, Sekyere Afram Plains District, Sekyere East District and Sekyere Kumawu District were reported to have violated Part IX, Sections 13 and 14 of the Financial Memoranda for Assemblies as they failed to substantiate payments totalling GH cents 1,899,826.19 with the requisite expenditure documents such as invoices, receipts of payees and statements ofDistrict, Bosome Freho District, Offinso North District, Sekyere Afram Plains District, Sekyere East District and Sekyere Kumawu District were reported to have violated Part IX, Sections 13 and 14 of the Financial Memoranda for Assemblies as they failed to substantiate payments totalling GH cents 1,899,826.19 with the requisite expenditure documents such as invoices, receipts of payees and statements ofDistrict, Offinso North District, Sekyere Afram Plains District, Sekyere East District and Sekyere Kumawu District were reported to have violated Part IX, Sections 13 and 14 of the Financial Memoranda for Assemblies as they failed to substantiate payments totalling GH cents 1,899,826.19 with the requisite expenditure documents such as invoices, receipts of payees and statements ofDistrict, Sekyere Afram Plains District, Sekyere East District and Sekyere Kumawu District were reported to have violated Part IX, Sections 13 and 14 of the Financial Memoranda for Assemblies as they failed to substantiate payments totalling GH cents 1,899,826.19 with the requisite expenditure documents such as invoices, receipts of payees and statements ofDistrict, Sekyere East District and Sekyere Kumawu District were reported to have violated Part IX, Sections 13 and 14 of the Financial Memoranda for Assemblies as they failed to substantiate payments totalling GH cents 1,899,826.19 with the requisite expenditure documents such as invoices, receipts of payees and statements ofDistrict and Sekyere Kumawu District were reported to have violated Part IX, Sections 13 and 14 of the Financial Memoranda for Assemblies as they failed to substantiate payments totalling GH cents 1,899,826.19 with the requisite expenditure documents such as invoices, receipts of payees and statements ofDistrict were reported to have violated Part IX, Sections 13 and 14 of the Financial Memoranda for Assemblies as they failed to substantiate payments totalling GH cents 1,899,826.19 with the requisite expenditure documents such as invoices, receipts of payees and statements of claims.

The bid to recall Sen. Dino Melaye, lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, has failed as the verification exercise did not meet the constitutional requirements.

Democrats have failed to win the sprawling district, which was redistricted as the 19th starting in 2013, in nearly a decade.

An October 2014 rally in Manhattan focused on failing district schools as an indirect means to advocate for more charters, but the «Don't Steal Possible» slogan revealed little about the group's specific policy goals to improve struggling schools.

«Today we have unsealed a nine - count indictment that outlines a pattern of self - dealing and corruption that spans decades and covers several events, including the defendant's failed bid to become the Brooklyn District Attorney,» U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch said during a press conference announcing the charges, where she described Mr. Sampson's alleged conduct as «one of the most extreme examples of political hubris that we have yet seen.»

«The governor plans for major interventions for the City of Buffalo school district as well as the school districts that are failing all over the state,» said Hochul during a recent appearance in downtown Buffalo.

«This is the real scandal in Albany, the alarming fact that state government has stood by and done nothing as generation after generation of students have passed through failing schools,» Cuomo said in a series of press releases he issued Thursday naming each failing school and the legislators whose districts they are located in.

Mr. Cabrera, who also serves as senior pastor of New Life Outreach International, accused Mr. Rivera of failing to secure enough resources for the district, which includes some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Stefanik, a Harvard graduate who grew up in Albany County and moved to Willsboro last June, positioned herself as the vanguard of a new generation and Doheny as a three - time loser who had chance to «take back» what had historically been a Republican district since the Civil War, but failed to do so.

Of those 18 Syracuse City School District schools, 10 have qualified as failing repeatedly for a decade, according to Cuomo's report.

«Cuomo's test - punish - privatize - and - segregate policy is using high - stakes testing to label students, teachers, and schools in high - poverty districts as failing.

The Chairwoman specifically failed my legislative district and, in my view, handed the election to Republican Christopher Carey; there was no discussion regarding running Thomas Ninan as Carey's opponent.

Mr. Sampson, who will have to give up his seat in Albany, was initially accused in 2013 of skimming money from foreclosed properties he oversaw as an attorney and using some of the embezzled cash to fund his failed 2005 bid to become Brooklyn district attorney.

The Oysterponds school district in Orient, one of the smallest schools in the state, is the only district on Long Island that failed to have its teacher evaluation plan approved by Thursday's deadline and is expected to lose some state aid as a result of not having an approved - plan in place.

The District Director said tax compliance was a constitutional demand and those who failed to honour their tax duties would be punished as stipulated by the law.

The story takes place in the republic of Panem, where the United States has broken into 12 districts and, as a penalty for a failed uprising against the totalitarian government decades earlier, each district must offer one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in The Hunger Games, where the «tributes» must participate in a nationally televised battle to the death.

Still, what he fails to recognize is that while Panem's citizenry tolerates — and the regime welcomes — the yearly slaughter, there is an innate desire in all people (as evidenced by the rebellion in the outer districts near the end of the film) to break their chains of bondage and fight for their own freedom.

From Another Earth to District 9 to Monsters, sci - fi buffs have been able to savour some truly fantastic pieces of storytelling, even if the mass - market stuff such as John Carter seems to have failed to capture the public's imagination.

A team of conservative legal scholars last week filed a complaint charging that two Southern California school districts fail to offer students school choice as required under federal law and asked the U.S. Department of Education to withhold the districts» federal funds.

One disappointing element of the task force's report vis - á - vis accountability is its weak endorsement of the No Child Left Behind Act - such as its dissatisfaction over the act's «relatively slow timelines,» Washington's «scant leverage over states and districts,» and the «few real consequences on educators whose schools fail.»

A charter approved as part of the district's small - schools reform plan, Carver took over a failing high school in a poor neighborhood on the edge of the city.

But as a strategy to change schools or districts, it seems likely to fail.

Some organizations direct their activities only to district and / or charter school issues, such as improving teacher quality and effectiveness, developing new public charter schools, or closing and transforming failing district schools to create new high - quality schools of choice.

Elisabeth Woody, the California researcher, says that the single - sex classrooms she observed often failed to give equal educations to boys and girls and, at least as worryingly, gave broad license to districts and teachers to decide what, exactly, a boy's or girl's education should look like.

If the superintendents of failing school districts were as adept at fixing schools as they are at making excuses for their poor performance, America would have the best education system in the world.

These obstacles are compounded by the fact that few districts are making it easy for parents to exercise their right to choose or to avail themselves of the related option that offers «supplemental services,» such as after - school tutoring, to students who remain in schools that have failed to improve student performance.

In separate lawsuits, Green Dot Public Schools and Partnerships to Uplift Communities, or PUC Schools, allege that district officials have failed to provide «reasonable offers of facilities,» as required by Proposition 39.