Sentences with phrase «city grants over»

Sanders allegedly suggested partnering with another community group, the Rockaway Development and Revitalization Corp., which Sanders had funded with almost $ 300,000 in city grants over four years.

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Speaking at OZY Media's annual arts and innovation festival in New York City's Central Park over the weekend, Wharton professor Adam Grant and author and motivational speaker Simon Sinek, discussed a future shift to an employee - minded business model that emphasizes workplace culture.
The Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation (FOCA) has granted Matternet a certification allowing their delivery drones to fly autonomously over cities at any time of day or night.
This transition was particularly clear in Book Ten where Constantine grants authority over cities and regions to church leaders, giving them many buildings and constructing numerous churches.
It's easy to take it for granted but the comfortable victory over City was special.
A brace from Grant Holt helped Norwich City stage a dramatic second - half comeback to snatch a 3 - 2 Premier League over Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium.
Earlier this month, Brown asked the Federal Aviation Administration to step into the dispute over the fate of Meigs Field, contending that federal grant money received by the city to make airport improvements require the tiny airfield to remain open through the year 2009.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, told Fred Dicker in a radio interview this morning that he hoped Gov. Andrew Cuomo would intercede in the ongoing dispute between the New York City education department and United Federation of Teachers over school improvement grant funding.
The Legislature and governor ended the extraordinary session by granting a two - year extension of mayoral control over New York City's schools, ending months of uncertainty over Mayor Bill de Blasio's leadership of the nation's largest school system and its 1.1 million students a day before it was to expire.
NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito broke with Mayor Bill de Blasio over his call not to grant violent felons and those convicted of other egregious crimes access to a proposed $ 16.4 million city fund to provide free legal services to undocumented immigrants fighting deportation under Trump.
King recently expressed extreme frustration with the teachers union and school administrators in several large cities downstate and upstate, over what he said was a failure to come up with a teacher evaluation plan by a December 31 deadline, to meet requirements for the federal Race to the Top grant awards.
But with the law granting mayoral control over city schools set to expire at midnight June 30 — and Albany's legislative session ending Wednesday — Hizzoner faced the prospect of a crushing defeat that he has said would return «chaos» and «corruption» to education in the city.
With the Democratic primary for Buffalo mayor only four weeks away, incumbent Byron Brown has a substantial lead over competitors City Comptroller Mark Schroeder and Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant.
Just over 100 children have been granted permanent legal status or asylum in New York City two years after the City Council launched a private - public partnership to prevent unaccompanied minors from being deported from the cCity two years after the City Council launched a private - public partnership to prevent unaccompanied minors from being deported from the cCity Council launched a private - public partnership to prevent unaccompanied minors from being deported from the citycity.
Attorneys for Chicago asked a federal judge for a nationwide halt to Trump administration requirements that cities enforce tough immigration laws in order to receive some federal grants, staking out a leadership role for the nation's third largest city in the fight over so - called sanctuary cities.
California plans to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice over federal restrictions on some law enforcement grants to so - called sanctuary cities, a spokesperson for the state's attorney general office said.
At the end of June this year the law that grants New York's mayor control over city schools will expire.
Candi was on board the rented jet when Rechnitz, Deputy Inspector James Grant and Rechnitz's pal and business ally Jeremy Reichberg took off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on Feb. 2, 2013, for a Sin City jaunt over Super Bowl XLVII weekend, according to sources and a federal criminal complaint.
Over the next year, the city of Syracuse will be sharing its research department to help find grants for the town of Cicero.
Senate Republicans granted at least one of the de Blasio administration's wishes: it joined with Assembly Democrats in rejecting a Cuomo proposal to subject bonds for housing to approval by the state's Public Authorities Control Board, a maneuver that would have given Albany veto power over a significant slice of the city's housing program.
Those fights have largely been with members of the Democratic - led Assembly, starting with Speaker Carl Heastie soon after the session ended over New York City policy, but soon spilled over to economic development matters and the contention lawmakers haven't «made the case» to a commission to grant a pay hike.
As de Blasio and Cuomo battled over the MTA funding shares between the city and state, Flanagan archly told The Daily News in the last week that Albany shouldn't grant more say to the mayor's office over how to fund the capital fund, a stipulation de Blasio had sought.
Michael Mulgrew called the Senate GOP plan to tie the renewal of a law granting de Blasio control over the city school system to an expansion of charter schools «crap.»
ALBANY — The head of the city teachers union dismissed as «a load of crap» state Senate GOP efforts to tie the renewal of a law granting Mayor de Blasio control over the city school system to an expansion of charter schools.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday said an era of «corruption and chaos» awaits the city's public school system if state lawmakers do not renew a law by Wednesday that grants his office control over city schoCity Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday said an era of «corruption and chaos» awaits the city's public school system if state lawmakers do not renew a law by Wednesday that grants his office control over city schocity's public school system if state lawmakers do not renew a law by Wednesday that grants his office control over city schocity schools.
The Success Academy charter school network has refused to sign mandatory contracts granting the city Department of Education oversight over its pre-kindergarten program, deputy mayor Richard Buery said Thursday, signaling the latest showdown between the charter network and Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration.
This plan continues Cuomo's approach of focusing the state's economic development grants outside of New York City, which is home to over half of its population but also has led in job growth over the past several years.
Pearson will receive at least $ 13.5 million in city - granted energy - cost savings and state tax credits over 10 years for moving to 330 Hudson St. by summer 2014.
The agreement will qualify the city to receive up to $ 65 million in federal School Improvement Grants over the next two years.
The city has alleged that Moskowitz has refused to sign a contract granting the Department of Education oversight over pre-K programs in Success» charter schools — meaning the city can not fund the programs.
MANHATTAN — Three separate groups are preparing to sue if Cathie Black is granted a waiver to become the city's next schools chancellor, threatening to delay an already contentious battle over Mayor Michael Bloomberg's pick.
The city DOE and United Federation of Teachers had spent weeks in closed door meetings trying to hammer out the details of a «meaningful teacher evaluation system» in order to qualify for up to $ 65 million in federal funding in School Improvement Grants over the next two years, which is distributed by the state.
Syracuse's grant will bring in $ 1.35 million over three years, which will cover all the employee salaries except 15 percent of Maxwell's pay, for which the city will have to find a matching grant or provide the money.
A Brooklyn real - estate firm that landed a $ 3.5 million city grant flooded Mayor de Blasio's re-election campaign with nearly $ 55,000 in donations over five days through family and affiliates, records...
State education department commissioner MaryEllen Elia ruled in February that Success needed to sign the contract granting the city oversight over its pre-K program in order to receive public dollars.
It is important for you to know that after becoming the Mayor of New York City, the Honorable Bill de Blasio implemented the IDNYC Program, granting government - issued identification cards to all City residents over 14 years old, no matter what their immigration status is — anyone can apply for it.
ALBANY — In a potential reprieve for Mayor Bill de Blasio, the New York State Legislature seemed poised to grant two years of mayoral control over New York City's schools, ending a looming uncertainty over the nation's largest school system and its 1.1 million students.
And Mr. de Blasio's control of city schools was unmistakably questioned, more than a decade after the state granted his predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg, authority over education.
Among other critiques, Grant accused the mayor of funding the Tesla Solar City project — to the tune of nearly $ 1 billion — when, she said, that building has been vacant for over two years.
That headline - grabbing clash was widely seen as the final straw that led state lawmakers to grant Mr. Crew's demands for greater control over the city's 32 subdistrict boards.
Each city will receive up to $ 15 million over five years, with an initial grant of about $ 2 million this year.
The California legislature, with the enthusiastic support of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, passed a bill last summer that seemed to grant the dynamic mayor significant new powers over the sprawling Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation's second - largest, with 873 schools spread across 700 square miles and 27 cities.
January 31, 2013 There will be a lot more city students reading books over school vacations this year thanks to a generous grant of $ 25,000 from the William Levine and Mildred Levine Foundation to REF.
In this most recent round of grants, in 2010, the four Williamsburg elementary schools and one middle school, all in District 14, received a total of $ 10.2 million over three years; schools in Long Island City, Queens, and on the West Side in Manhattan also won grants, for a total of $ 33 million.
Tell that to the school choice activists who have successfully passed voucher measures in more than 13 states, the children who attend the 1,091 new charter schools opened between 2010 and 2013, and families in cities such as Adelanto, Calif., who have taken over failing schools using Parent Trigger laws passed as a result of the competitive grant competition.
And Mr. de Blasio's control of city schools was unmistakably questioned, more than a decade after the state granted his predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg, authority over education.
Prior to becoming a professor, she taught in New York City public schools for over 10 years, also serving as a grant coordinator and data specialist working with children, parents, and teachers.
Funded through the Recovery Act by Commerce Department grant, NYC Connected Learning aims to place 20,000 desktop computers with broadband access in the homes of low income 6th graders throughout the city over the next two years.
Mr. de Blasio's departure from the Bloomberg philosophy of school reform has skeptics in Albany, particularly among Republicans in the Senate, who granted the mayor, a Democrat, just a one - year extension of his control over city schools, requiring him to make his case for another extension next year.
In December 2001, sponsoring organizations in four cities were awarded implementation grants of $ 1.5 million over four years to participate in PACK.
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