Sentences with phrase «case for school construction»

Included: On - line resources to help educators make a case for school construction or renovation.

Not exact matches

LINCOLN PARK — A lawyer for a residents» group fighting construction of a soccer field in Lincoln Park said Latin School and the Chicago Park District had approached them about settling the case before it goes to court.

The result was that school officials were able to pare down the opening bids for new school construction from $ 433 to $ 300 per square foot, an important development as the city tried to make the case to state legislators that it deserved billions of dollars more each year as part of a school funding adequacy lawsuit (see Hanushek, «Pseudo-Science»).

Here are a few examples: the for - profit company will install their own handpicked boards that in turn hire the company for «management,» and these fees routinely cost up to 15 % of the school's FTE; the for - profit company will demand that parents purchase supplies directly from the school itself, which is often another LLC that charges exorbitant rates for the basics; in many cases, the biggest part of the scam is one LLC (e.g. Red Apple Development, the construction arm of Charter Schools USA) will purchase land to build the school on and then turn around and charge the school (read: taxpayers) rent that is substantially higher than the going rate / property value, sometimes as high as a million dollars a year.

See our case studies of William J. Dean Technical High School, High Point Academy, and Bronx Design and Construction Academy to learn more about the result of our work with schools committed to harnessing the power of engagement to create better results for their students.

Other states use a variety — and in some cases a combination — of different methods, from general fund revenues to sales, property or other special taxes or lottery proceeds to pay for school construction.

But that wasn't the case for most K - 12 parcel taxes and school construction bonds on the ballot Tuesday.

I think that the real issue here is whether there have been some corruption cases where some officials and construction builders had some back - door deals that compromised the safety standards for those collapsed school buildings and residential apartment buildings.

In one case, Baron & Budd negotiated a settlement for surviving family totaling $ 3.5 million in a case in which a 60 - year - old custodian passed away from mesothelioma complications after spending nearly his entire career working among asbestos - containing compounds in school construction.

Breakstone, a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, has been practicing law in Boston for over 25 years and specializes in personal injury cases involving wrongful death, medical malpractice, gas explosions, construction accidents and transportation accidents.

Notable cases that have upheld the constitutional protection of religiously - based practices include: the right of Jehovah's Witness» parents to deny a blood transfusion that was medically advised for their daughter; the right of condominium owners to build dwellings on their balconies for the Jewish festival of «Succot» in the face of by - laws prohibiting construction on balconies; and the right of a Sikh boy to wear a «kirpan» (a dagger with a metal blade) to school despite a school - board prohibition of weapons.