Sentences with phrase «back against a department»

YORKVILLE — Local parents and politicians are fighting back against a Department of Education proposal that would use an «unprecedented» hybrid admissions process for a new middle school.

Their role, in part, is to push back against the Department of Justice and the intelligence agencies.

Not exact matches

Clyne should get his first England cap against either San Marino or Estonia, and with England also lacking in the right - back department at the moment he has a fantastic chance to make that position his own.

Liverpool have their own injury troubles given they're without the likes of Sadio Mane, Philippe Coutinho and Adam Lallana, but they've got plenty of quality in that department to step up as shown with Daniel Sturridge and Roberto Firmino finding the back of the net against Huddersfield.

The Empire State Development Corp. on Tuesday pushed back against an audit released last week by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development that was critical of the way $ 22 million in tourism funding was spent for areas impacted by storms.

The city teachers union pushed back against comments Mayor Bill de Blasio made that seemed to undercut the validity of some sexual - harassment complaints made by Department of Education employees.

Amidst a rash of recent overdoses in the village of Mamaroneck, the mayor, Police Department, schools and concerned residents have begun to galvanize in an attempt to fight back against a sweeping opiate epidemic.

Gayle Meyers, with Statewide Senior Action Council, says her group often gets calls from people who have filed complaints to the health department against nursing homes, and never hear anything back.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton offered an aggressive defense of his police department this morning — ripping the city comptroller for calling city crime statistics «politicized,» pushing back against City Council reform efforts and knocking «headlines that misinform» during a morning address to the Association for a Better New York.

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

Sean Ryan [email protected] The Wisconsin Department of Transportation had better fix its public hearing process and justify its decisions or it will end up back in court, according to grass - roots organizers who won a federal case against the state.

She also criticized him for refusing to clarify whether he would push back against the Trump administration's reported desire to scrap appropriations for offices within the Energy Department tied to renewables and energy efficiency that have bipartisan support.

We consulted closely with him prior to our 2013 expedition, and when he gave us the green light that it was safe to return to the country — thanks largely to his logistical arrangements with a local oil company — we felt safe about going back, despite State Department warnings against travel to Libya.»

«This is too logical a transition for anyone to have an ideological argument against clean energy, because it stands against economic growth and good business sense,» says Daniel Kammen, professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley, and science envoy for the U.S. State Department, who is attending the talks, «That's what people are saying here — they're incredulous that anyone would want to back off on this.»

The suit against the state education department was filed late last month by the parents of two pupils in Roman Catholic schools, with the backing of the Catholic Conference of Kentucky.

So to Senator Alexander and Representative Kline I say: By all means, push back against an overzealous Department of Education.

DeVos pushed back against the notion that the Education Department would be abdicating its authority.

Just look at New York City, where the Department of Education is forcing hundreds of ineffective teachers back into classrooms against the will of school principals.

An academy trust set to have its funding axed by the government has hit back — blasting department officials for «waging a campaign» against the school, and has...

Every administration has a different philosophy that governs the work of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).28 Education Secretary DeVos» actions show a clear deprioritization of the office: Under her leadership, the Education Department announced that the OCR will not actively investigate patterns of discriminatory practices, 29 rolled back guidance to prevent discrimination against transgender students, 30 and refused to commit to continue the Civil Rights Data Collection.31

Yet local boards of education, parents and superintendents in the county are fighting back against the proposed charters with rallies, petitions and letters to the New Jersey Department of Education (DOE) to keep all charters out of their towns.

Indianapolis Public School leaders have been pushing back against the state Department of Education announced 2 weeks ago its intentions to take over of six of the district's schools under Indiana school accountability laws.

Her department has also taken action against various civil rights initiatives from the Obama administration such as guidance on the rights of transgender students, and her department announced it was scaling back civil rights investigations and would avoid looking into systemic issues.

The most - important wake - up call came last month when news leaked out that the Department of Education was scaling back investigations of civil rights violations — including overuse by districts of harsh school discipline against Black and other minority children — as part of the administration's overall refusal to enforce civil rights laws.

Simon & Schuster was one of the first publishers to settle with the Department of Justice back in 2012, but Judge Cote's injunction against Apple puts Simon & Schuster — and the four other settling publishers — at a disadvantage by significantly extending the amount of time that the publishers are required to allow Apple to discount their ebooks.

In 2015, the Department of Education also levied a $ 30 million fine against Corinthian for inflating job placement numbers, while the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau won a lawsuit that ordered the schools to pay back $ 500 million in restitution for students.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is pushing back against industry groups calling for the Federal Housing Administration to reduce or rebalance its mortgage insurance premiums.

Here's a «Your Dot» contribution pushing back against apocalyptic depictions of the collision between humans and the climate system — written by Peter B. Kelemen, the Arthur D. Storke Professor and vice chair in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University.

This student is fighting back against the new Department of Education policy making it harder to get forgiveness of debt for loans used to get degrees from for - profit schools that lost accreditat...

So again, just to kind of catch everyone up to speed, I think it was back on the 20th of December, the ABA decided to file suit against the Department of Education based on retroactive denial of people who had already been in the program, is that correct?

(correct test for Barrister appeals; whether outside the ex improviso rule, prosecutor may call evidence after prosecution and defence case closed; use of debarring orders against prosecutor; whether tribunal may «enter the arena» and strongly request the attendance of a prosecution witness; whether BSB has power to summons witnesses; whether prosecutor may communicate with disciplinary judge behind the back of the defence; whether such communication redolent of actual bias of judge where judge wishes prosecutor good luck on appeal; whether apparent bias doctrine can be engaged by post-trial conduct of judge; legal effect of serving BSB prosecutions department officer being 1 of 4 appointing members of the COIC «Tribunals Appointments Body» (TAB); whether TAB ultra vires the Bar's Constitutions; whether open - ended power of removal of member of COIC pool without cause, unlawful given position of BSB Chair and senior staff on COIC; whether ECHR Article 6 guarantees against pressure on disciplinary judges to conform with a prosecutorial mentality; whether disciplinary judges Art. 6 «independent» within Findlay v United Kingdom given key role of BSB prosecutions department in appointing disciplinary judges; serious non-disclosure by BSB of notes of secret meeting between BSB and disciplinary judge until day before appeal and despite requests and application for disclosure by defence)

The original implementation date for the restriction was Jan. 16, but the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has pushed that date back 90 days in response to lawsuits against the federal government filed by builders and the National Association of Home Builders, claiming the change is arbitrary and capricious.