Sentences with phrase «create special districts»

There is, finally, a provision that would allow the MTA to create special districts in New York City and then claim the real estate tax receipts from those districts to pay for MTA projects, like a further extension of the Second Avenue Subway, the vastly over-budget project bringing the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal, and a proposal to bring Metro - North to Penn Station, by way of the Bronx.

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For this year's event on September 8, they created a special box of goodies for buyers who spend $ 150 in Scoop's NYC Meatpacking District and Dallas shops.

Officials there this month began a discussion on creating a second special taxing zone, or a TIF district, to funnel money toward development of portions of Roosevelt Road.

Among accomplishments cited in the resolution were his presiding over the acquisition of the Orchard Hills Golf Course, helping to create several new special events and not letting his interest in golf interfere with his duties to the Park District.

The proposal would allow the Empire State Development Corp. to create a development district or special Penn Station zone — from 34th Street to 32nd Street between Sixth and Eighth Avenues as well to 30th Street west of Seventh Avenue.

The court - appointed special master, US Magistrate Judge Roanne Mann, drew Hochul into the district of her neighboring fellow Democrat, Rep. Brian Higgins, while creating a new, +7 GOP district called NY - 27.

The Senate Republicans may have drawn their own special election candidate David Storobin out of the district he's running in, but Mr. Storobin says he'll simply move into the newly created Orthodox Jewish district if the maps hold.

Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.

«Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced that a special non-partisan election will be held in the 28th Council District on November 2nd, the date of the regularly scheduled general election, to fill the vacancy created by the passing of Council Member Thomas White, Jr..

Since taking office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has had the opportunity to stop localities from creating new authorities, special districts and other entities, yet his record on that is mixed.

The proposal would shift the Chelsea Market block into the Special West Chelsea District, a zoning area created to accommodate the construction of the High Line.

In another matter, at the Oct. 23 Community Enrichment Committee meeting, legislators questioned the Library Director about decisions made to spend more than $ 422,000 on an Albany lobbyist and law firm in hopes of creating a special taxing district.

When it was time to vote on creating a new Special Assessment District for the businesses on the eastern end of the Connective Corridor, Councilor Lance Denno tabled the resolution, essentially blocking a vote at today's meeting.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Transportation Improvement Districts: The Executive Budget proposes to create special transportation improvement districts to raise revenue for transit imprDistricts: The Executive Budget proposes to create special transportation improvement districts to raise revenue for transit imprdistricts to raise revenue for transit improvements.

That means that voters could wind up voting in the special election for someone who lives outside the newly created district and would not be eligible to seek the same seat in November 2012.

But nearly 3,000 of the city's 42,000 parcels are located within special lighting districts, each of which was created by the Common Council after at least 75 percent of the property owners signed a petition asking for ornamental lights and agreeing to pay for them.

No, he would not support a proposal to create special tax districts around new subway developments.

In addition to the two Senate races, there was also a special election in the House of Representatives to fill a vacancy in the 115th District created when Democrat Steve Dargan of West Haven stepped down to take an appointment on the Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Of the proposal to create special tax districts on developments near transit expansions, an idea known as value capture, Mr. de Blasio said such a move would «blow a hole in the city's budget» and allow the state to raid the city's property tax revenue, forcing him to cut back on vital services such as education or public safety.

Jamestown's plan to expand Chelsea Market would require a change to the city's zoning of the block to include it in the Special West Chelsea District, which was created to allow the construction and renovation of the High Line.

The Bloomberg administration paid for the 7 train extension to Hudson Yards via tax - increment financing, but the special tax district it created required City Council legislation.

This special taxing district would create another level of government that would hurt Erie County taxpayers.

As you are aware, this past September, with the support of a super majority of contracting library Boards, the System Board of Trustees voted to move forward to create a Special Legislative District Public Library System.

Elsewhere, the seat now held by Republican Bob Turner, who won the special election to replace disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, appears to have been eliminated, and a new mostly Asian seat has been created in the 6th district.

The special districts - which could only be created through an act of the state Legislature — would be authorized to collect from every property owner, including nonprofit institutions, Miner said.

Assemblyman Joseph Borelli — whose district completely overlaps with the vacant Staten Island Congressional seat once held by Michael Grimm — today proposed a pair of measures that would create hard time frames in which Gov. Andrew Cuomo would have to call special elections.

But he argued that both parties have an interest in creating a window for special elections, pointing out that many of the state seats Mr. Cuomo allowed to remain unfilled last year were in heavily Democratic districts.

The budget also creates the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship, which will give approximately 13,000 special needs children scholarships that can be used to pay for private school tuition, to defer the costs of attending an out - of - district public school, or for other seSpecial Needs Scholarship, which will give approximately 13,000 special needs children scholarships that can be used to pay for private school tuition, to defer the costs of attending an out - of - district public school, or for other sespecial needs children scholarships that can be used to pay for private school tuition, to defer the costs of attending an out - of - district public school, or for other services.

Lots of educators who decide to create small schools, often by negotiating special arrangements with the local school district, do so because they don't have any confidence that the system can be changed in any real way.

Sick Schools Create Dilemma for School Districts In the fifth and final part of the special report Sick Schools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne examines the dilemma sick schools create for school offiCreate Dilemma for School Districts In the fifth and final part of the special report Sick Schools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne examines the dilemma sick schools create for school officreate for school officials.

The individualized - education - plan teams at each school in the 95,000 - student district are supposed to create programs that ensure rigorous instruction in the least restrictive environment for special education students.

As with magnet programs and special programs, districts can create enrollment criteria and exercise enrollment discretion.

The Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S. Department of Education created and funds a PBIS technical center to disseminate information about effective school - wide disciplinary practices and provide support to schools and districts to implement them.

The National Institute for Urban School Improvement, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school disSpecial Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school disspecial education in the nation's urban school districts.

For this upcoming school year, a Teacher on Special Assignment (TOSA) position has been created to provide teachers across the district with coaching and support to implement making in their classrooms.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

Although means - tested, Indiana's private choice programs create empty seats in suburban districts more than is the case in the Ohio programs, which reach only suburban special education students.

Can our private special education schools collaborate with the state and local districts to create data - driven analyses of best practices?

Just as important, city and district leaders should create funding structures and partnerships to make sure that charter school autonomies and entrepreneurialism lead to innovations and improvements in special education.

Senator Ed Jones offered a proposal to create an experimental scholarship program in three school districts - and presented the state senate appropriations committee with a $ 78,300 check from a special - interest group to fund the plan.

Earlier this year, the district negotiated a historic, five - year contract with the Seattle Education Association that creates for the first time a framework for providing special support for staff members who work at schools with high student turnover.

But that first year white parents responded to bussing by pulling their children from public schools en masse, prompting the district to create special magnet programs to entice them back.

District - Wide Unification Watson - Hunt and her colleagues took teacher training seriously, communicating with the Great Expectations Board to create special training opportunities for newly hired OKC teachers — separate from the training opportunities from teachers already in the OKC system.

The state board also recommended that the district change the way it creates legally mandated education programs for special education students, and identify students who may have had their services delayed or denied because of the district policy overhaul so parents have an opportunity to pursue needed changes.

As states like Kansas and Illinois create SEL standards that parallel academic standards for their teachers and school districts, what role will these new guidelines play in determining how special educators structure their classroom time?

Zimmer identified three factors pushing the district toward the financial abyss: the federal government's reneging on promises of more money for special education students, creating a $ 200 million shortfall for the district; the state's «extremely low» per - pupil funding level and the district's steady decline in enrollment.

District Management Group (DMGroup) is a controversial consulting firm that has been criticized for gutting staffing and services for special education students under the guise of inclusion, and creating «cookie cutter» solutions not tailored to individual districts.

The figure has prompted public concern from Superintendent Adams and Rick Sullivan, the president of the special administrative board created by the state in 2007 to manage the district.

Amelia Harper reports on a new District Administration brief, noting that school leaders «need to be aware of how the experiences of military families create special challenges in the way students connect to the world, the social and emotional challenges they face, and the educational...

Specifically, IDEA has been woefully underfunded for years and as a result, school districts have been forced to raise taxes and dip into general education budgets to make up the shortfalls created by rising special education expenditures in local communities.»