Sentences with phrase «battle over the district»

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

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

Not exact matches

Not only are we up against a school district food system that is set in it's ways, we're battling a larger food culture that values high calorie, highly processed convenience food AND huge food lobbies that have great influence over Congress and the legislation that is passed.

Cary Park District officials met Wednesday with Lake in the Hills officials for the second time in a McHenry County courtroom in an attempt to settle the legal battle over the Hoffman Farm property.

District 181 officials are reluctant to discuss the issue, but a Tribune analysis of district documents shows the overruns can be attributed, in part, to poor planning, personality clashes and a rush to complete the project even while battles raged over land ownership and storm - water and zoningDistrict 181 officials are reluctant to discuss the issue, but a Tribune analysis of district documents shows the overruns can be attributed, in part, to poor planning, personality clashes and a rush to complete the project even while battles raged over land ownership and storm - water and zoningdistrict documents shows the overruns can be attributed, in part, to poor planning, personality clashes and a rush to complete the project even while battles raged over land ownership and storm - water and zoning issues.

The battle over the plans of the Chicago Children's Museum to move to Grant Park flared up at a Chicago Park District meeting Wednesday, with opponents booing park commissioners who supported the project and cheering those who didn't.

The often rancorous battle between the Butterfield Park District and residents living near a proposed $ 2.5 million, 18,000 - square - foot fieldhouse boiled over again last week as homeowners accused one Park District Board member of «slander.»

The Chicago Tribune is profiling the battle over milk that has ignited in several of the Windy City's school districts.

With Cary's newly enhanced position, the bruising battle over the destiny of the Hoffman farm may continue for years in court: Lake in the Hills and the Cary Park District have both forcibly annexed the farm, and negotiations with the owner failed; they both filed eminent domain papers to condemn and seize the land.

More than 150 supporters and opponents of the Park District's plan to develop the historic farm turned out to witness the latest battle between the district and the village over the recreationDistrict's plan to develop the historic farm turned out to witness the latest battle between the district and the village over the recreationdistrict and the village over the recreation center.

LAKE IN THE HILLS — Cary Park District officials met Wednesday with Lake in the Hills officials for the second time in a McHenry County courtroom in an attempt to settle the legal battle over the Hoffman Farm property.

A simmering feud between leaders of Darien's city government and its Park District boiled over this week in a battle over the Park District's continued existence.

Though the Village Board's decision will allow the park district to move ahead with its nature sanctuary plans, some residents from the Lake Arlington neighborhood have suggested that the battle is far from over.

If a friendly acquisition can't be reached, the Forest Preserve District still can condemn the land, a move that often leads to court battles over the price.

The Downers Grove Park District Board is gearing up for a legal battle with Good Samaritan Hospital over the hospital's proposed fitness center even as lawyers for both interests are negotiating.

Ground - breaking for the proposed wellness center near Lyman Woods Forest Preserve has been postponed at least until Sept. 11 as a battle between the Downers Grove Park District and Good Samaritan over the $ 14 million facility moves closer to a trial.

Ball, who had battled back and forth with Leibell over the years in the rough - and - tumble microcosm that is Putnam County politics, said the request showed his predecessor in the 40th Senate District had broken with reality.

A paper work problem turned into an all - out verbal battle over creating a Broadway - Fillmore Historic District.

With teacher contract negotiations seemingly at a standstill, and a battle over the state's new receivership headed to court, tensions between Buffalo union and school district leaders are on the rise.

The legal battle between City Court Judge William Carter and District Attorney David Soares over the 2012 arrests of four Occupy Albany protesters sounds like a hissing match to Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.

New York will now have 27 seats in the House, down from the current 29, the U.S. Census Bureau announced, prompting what is sure to be a long and heated battle over where the new district lines are drawn.

Roughly 15 percent of the newly drawn 31st Senate District, over which Espaillat and Linares are now battling, is located in the district Duane has represented for the pastDistrict, over which Espaillat and Linares are now battling, is located in the district Duane has represented for the pastdistrict Duane has represented for the past decade.

Thompson, the first black district attorney of Brooklyn, died this month after a battle with cancer and was memorialized over the weekend.

That makes things complicated for the Senate Republicans, who are gearing up for a big fight over control of the chamber next year — a battle that will be waged with all legislators representing newly - drawn districts.

Republican Doug Hoffman may be running for Congress in the North Country district of NY - 23, but he's got his sights set more than 2,400 miles to the west — in Arizona, to be exact — where a battle over immigration has been raging for months now.

Brooklyn Councilman Steve Levin is blasting the settlement of a racially - charged legal battle over development in his district.

Although his triumph in the November general election is virtually assured in the heavily Democratic 13th Congressional District in Upper Manhattan and parts of the Bronx, Mr. Espaillat's battles are not over.

She has referred to the battle over charter co-locations into district schools, which critics say siphon away needed resources from district students, as a «Middle East war.»

In the battle for two open downstate House seats, 1199 (unsurprisingly) is supporting Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries over NYC Councilman Charles Barron in NY - 8, where incumbent Rep. Ed Towns recently announced his retirement, and Assemblyman Rory Lancman in NY - 6, the district currently represented by retiring Rep. Gary Ackerman.

Jose, who seems to have discovered Facebook as a wholesale outlet for all those videos he's filmed over the years, will be battling attorney Sergio Villaverde in his Fordham / Kingsbridge Heights territory for both his assembly and district leader's jobs.

Alice Cancel, a longtime Lower East Side district leader, triumphed in a backroom battle for the Democratic nomination to take over the Assembly seat of disgraced former Speaker Sheldon Silver.

(CNN)- Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman told CNN on Monday that battle over the congressional seat in New York's 23rd district that led to the withdrawal of the Republican candidate isn't evidence of a split within the GOP.

Nevada District 3 — Democrats and Republicans have battled for several cycles over this Henderson - and south Las Vegas - based seat.

Mr. Espaillat came just over a 1,000 votes of beating Mr. Rangel two years ago in a vicious primary battle that oftentimes seemed to devolve into a war between the black and Hispanic alliances in the quickly - changing 13th Congressional District, which spans from Harlem though Washington Heights to the Bronx.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — When other elected officials around the city were giving their state of the district speeches back in the summer, City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez decided to postpone his — citing a flurry of staff changes, zoning battles over the controversial Sherman Plaza project and plans to increase bike lanes in the area.

Plattsburgh City School District Superintendent Jay LeBrun attributes the overall decrease to the link between student scores and teacher evaluations — a major sticking point last year as educators battled with the state Department of Education and the governor over reforms that would have wedded the two.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — A battle over new classroom space at 26 Broadway is pitting a high - performing lower Manhattan high school against a school from the Upper East Side.

But unions and the State Education Department have battled over how districts should handle teacher evaluations in the absence of test scores, with the union saying scores should be thrown out entirely and the state saying a backup measure should be used.

She won election to the Hudson Valley 19th Congressional District in 2006 in a hard - fought battle against incumbent Republican John Sweeney, who had been tainted by a report that police were called to his home over spousal abuse.

Of course, Mr. Halloran, a colorful Republican who occupies a swing district in northeastern Queens, faced a perilous re-lection battle with a corruption trial hanging over his head.

Amid continuing legal and political battles over the eight charter schools without walls now operating in the Keystone State, the legislature shifted the power to grant charters for such Internet - based schools from local school districts to the education department.

The RSD, in practice, is close to that, but the ongoing battle over local recapture of taken - over schools will continue until the district is permanently decommissioned.

School - district officials across the country are bracing for possible battles in their respective statehouses over legislation that could leave districts paying out hundreds of thousands — perhaps millions of dollars annually in unemployment benefits.

But even with new district leadership in St. Louis, it is unlikely that students will see much change in the quality of instruction as the public school cartel gears up for its next political battle over who gets what, when, and how.

Yesterday marked the latest skirmish in the battle over how to implement Title I of the Every Student Succeeds Act, which sends $ 15 billion from the federal government to school districts to help schools serving low - income students.

The district this month unveiled school spending plans that bank on a half - billion dollars in help from Springfield, where lawmakers are currently gridlocked over their own political battles.

Over the past decade, though, drug - resistant infections have become a reality in the general population, and one of them has forced several school districts into the forefront of a battle against a major public health threat.

A battle is raging in Dallas over which social studies textbooks should be used in the district's classrooms next year.

The battle between traditional schools and charters has been particularly sharp in the Houston ISD, the state's largest district, which is threatened with a state takeover unless it turns over 10 underperforming schools to a charter operator.

As the recent battles over school re-segregation in various North Carolina school districts make clear, the use of race and poverty in school assignment remains a controversial issue.