Sentences with phrase «backed by district officials»

As we learned both from Adelanto and from the first - ever Trigger attempt in Compton, rescission drives are often backed by district officials (who have a financial stake in each of their campuses) and teachers unions (whose members stand to lose their jobs if new management finds they don't meet higher educational standards).

Not exact matches

Seriously, officials in the City by the Bay are so fed up with unlawful public urinators that they've painted 10 walls in the SOMA and Mission districts with a special liquid - repellent paint that splashes offenders back upon impact, yep, with their own waste stream.

Most recently, Park District officials backed off from plans for a proposed skate park in Kendall Park just north of the Burlington Northern Railroad after being bombarded by resident complaints.

After being bombarded by residents» complaints Thursday night, Naperville Park District officials backed off a proposal to build a skate park in a neighborhood park.

This summer Park District officials backed off from plans for a proposed skate park in Kendall Park, just north of the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks, after being bombarded by resident complaints.

Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer became the Democratic nominee for a pivotal state Senate in Westchester County after she was unanimously backed by suburban committee officials for the district.

Tedisco has been endorsed by Senator Hugh T. Farley to succeed him in the Senate seat and has won the backing of scores of local officials representing all the counties of the 49th Senate District.

Another candidate in the race, Assemblywoman Grace Meng, has been endorsed by the Queens Democratic establishment and almost every elected official in the district, and obviously has her own key turnout operation in her back pocket.

* In Washington's 3rd district race for the seat of retiring Rep. Brian Baird (D), state Rep. Jaime Herrera (R) is the choice of the GOP establishment, but former Bush administration official David Castillo (R), who's been backed by popular Attorney General Rob McKenna (R), and activist David Hedrick (R) are also in the running.

New York City's own bid — which included four possible business districts — was backed by about 70 elected officials, but not Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, or Council members Corey Johnson and Donovan Richards, both contenders to become the next Council speaker.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo just unveiled Step One in what will be a multi-pronged reform proposal in the wake of last week's back - to - back corruption cases: Empowering local district attorneys to better ferret out and prosecute wrongdoing by dirty elected officials at all levels of government in New York.

The schools, all but a few in New York City, had fought a high - profile battle backed by officials of the New York City district to avoid the English exam.

The late filings by districts can be traced back to budget cuts to the California Department of Education last fall that prompted department officials to discontinue the practice of generating data files needed by districts to fill out the accountability reports.