Sentences with phrase «dispute over school»

Clients usually come to me, either Local Authority or Parents regarding a dispute over the school named for their child to attend.

After scoring a number of clean political wins over the de Blasio administration early in the mayor's term, Moskowitz and her pro-charter allies at Families for Excellent Schools have more recently absorbed a series of setbacks, from an attempt to re-negotiate a pre-Kindergarten contract to an ongoing but little - noticed dispute over school space for Success middle schoolers.

Mark Desetti, legislative director of the KNEA, said the anti-retention campaign is connected to the ongoing legal dispute over school funding.

Taking a new tack toward resolving Michigan's long - running dispute over school - finance equity, Gov. John M. Engler has announced a plan to help close the gap between rich and poor districts by making better - off systems bear more of the burden of school - employee retirement costs.

While there's still a last - minute dispute over school curricula, top lawmakers expect the budget will be passed before the state fiscal year ends on Saturday.

The dispute over the school site began when residents of the Cherry Hill subdivision complained that the school district's building plan reduced the open space traditionally used as a neighborhood park.

Questions about the legal status of charter schools — which receive taxpayer money but are privately run, usually by nonprofit corporations — are broad, existential ones in Texas, where disputes over school funding are among the Legislature's most contentious.

Despite the reticence of most school leaders, outlets such as This American Life and The New York Times are giving national coverage to disputes over school - zone boundaries.

With education reform dominating the nation's headlines, Al Lindseth has built a national reputation representing state and local school authorities in disputes over school finance and educational adequacy obligations outlined in both state and federal constitutions.

Not exact matches

As everyone knows, there is a tremendous cultural struggle going on in national politics, manifested in disputes over abortion, capital punishment, gun control, crime, welfare, affirmative action, gay rights, school prayer, and other kindred things, many of which have a subtle racial dimension.

CHICAGO (Reuters)- Public school teachers in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three - year contract, ending a bitter dispute with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over school reforms that prompted the first strike of city teachers in 25 years.

The Clarendon Hills Park District appears to have decided on litigation to resolve its long - standing dispute with Hinsdale School District 181 over how storm water will be handled in Prospect Park, where a middle school is being School District 181 over how storm water will be handled in Prospect Park, where a middle school is being school is being built.

An alternate plan to build in Clarendon Hills» Prospect Park won citizen approval at the polls, but construction has been beset by disputes between the School District and the Park District over whether District 181 abided by its agreement in site development, especially measures to avert possible flooding in the area.

A dispute over who should lead an elementary school that serves almost exclusively Native American children of the Onondaga Nation has been resolved, just in time for the start of classes next week.

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 Buffalo Teachers Federation and city school district are in a dispute over start times at three schools.

A critical deadline passed in a dispute between the charter school network and the de Blasio administration over the network's prekindergarten program, leaving its fate in doubt.

De Blasio, who is locked in a dispute with the governor over funding for CUNY, spoke at an Albany luncheon hosted by the school and praised it as a vital part of the city's landscape.

School officials blamed disputes over property title and such.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo meanwhile blamed three key issues: A dispute over post-release supervision as part of raising the age of criminal responsibility, funding for charter schools and a real - estate tax abatement.

Thousands of schools across England will close today, as teachers go on strike in a dispute over pay and conditions.

Eva Moskowitz, the charter school chief and frequent critic of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, threatened to shut her new prekindergarten program if her dispute with his administration over payment isn't resolved by mid-February.

There was his burning passion, the quality that pushed Cuomo from his first - generation Italian immigrants parents» grocery store in Queens to law school to mediating an ugly dispute over low - income housing.

A Valley Stream school district must hand over $ 1.4 million in taxes it withheld from another district over a dispute that stems from tax incentives granted to the Green Acres Mall, a judge ruled.

The Buffalo Teachers Federation has asked the Buffalo Public School District to clarify its proposal for a second time to end the dispute over City Honors.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Union leaders with the Buffalo Teachers Federation recently announced they've agreed on an arbitrator in its dispute over City Honors with the Buffalo Public School District.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Representatives from the Buffalo Teachers Federation and Buffalo Public Schools met with an arbitrator Thursday, the latest step in the months - long dispute over teaching positions at City Honors.

The Buffalo school board kept busy Wednesday night, fighting through rancor and angry disputes to pass a budget while continuing the battle over how to find a new superintendent.

The genesis of the tension, as we know, could be traced to the confusion at Modern City hotel in Tamale, where Bugri Naabu stormed and disrupted a meeting organised by Madam Otiko for some women, after an alleged dispute over the appointment of a Northern Regional Coordinator for the School Feeding Programme.

Lawmakers had hoped to adjourn on Thursday but the dispute over extending mayoral control of schools in New York City sent the session into overtime.

The Buffalo Public School District may get $ 36 million being held by Albany in a dispute over how much parent participation is going on in the school sSchool District may get $ 36 million being held by Albany in a dispute over how much parent participation is going on in the school sschool system.

The audit report appears likely to fuel an ongoing local dispute over the transfer of sixth - graders to the Berner School.

The City Council is in the preliminary stages of drafting legislation to create the program, in negotiations with Mayor Bill de Blasio, which the city is hoping will help resolve a long - standing dispute over who drives the school buses, which was at the root of the 2013 strike.

A dispute over job protections and pay for school bus drivers led to a month - long school bus strike in 2013.

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The Chicago school board has agreed to hire hundreds of additional teachers and other employees in order to end a four - year dispute with the U.S. Education Department over the quality of the school system's services for handicapped pupils.

A second source of disputes over the effectiveness of choice are the limits of each individual empirical study of school choice.

Despite the school's ongoing legal battle with the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and a bitter dispute over funding with the state education department, the president of Einstein's board of trustees vowed last week to fight the revocschool's ongoing legal battle with the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and a bitter dispute over funding with the state education department, the president of Einstein's board of trustees vowed last week to fight the revocSchool Boards Association and a bitter dispute over funding with the state education department, the president of Einstein's board of trustees vowed last week to fight the revocation.

Legislature spent much of session in dispute with Governor over its education budget, which was $ 5 million less than the Governor's proposal and did not include any funding for a school - reform committee and the pilot projects it supports.

The nation's most extensive experiment in private management of public schools sputtered to an end last week as the Hartford, Conn., school board said it would end its partnership with Education Alternatives Inc. in a dispute over finances.

Much of that time, however, Mr. Cohen had been embroiled in a dispute with school officials over his special - education program.

Meanwhile, an internal union dispute over bilingual education has added a further complication to the volatile and increasingly bitter labor situation in the nation's second - largest school system.

After all, Mr. Maldonado was at the center of a protracted power struggle with Schools Chancellor Rudy F. Crew in 1996 after Mr. Crew tried to oust the board in a dispute over its choice of a superintendent.

Schwarzenegger also stepped into a dispute over the future of the state's largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, siding with Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa against the district's board and the teachers union (see «Power Struggle in Los Angeles,» forum, Summer 2007).

Based on mixed results to date, disputes over the extent to which educational officials can discipline students for misbehavior involving the internet that does not originate in school or on school computers and servers, is one that is likely to receive increased judicial attention.

Keeping up - to - date is essential because even though the legal system is often placed in the unenviable position of reacting to emerging developments rather than adopting proactive stances to head off controversies, if leaders can implement sound AUPs, they may be able to avoid costly litigation when disputes arise over the use of technology in schools.

This week: audio from student protests across the state during the National School Walkout; the politics behind gun control regulations and how they affect CA; the ongoing dispute between the fed government & CA over its state ESSA plan.

The latest suit also marks the second time in a year that Jindal has locked horns with the federal government over education: He and the Justice Department claimed partial victories in a dispute over a private school voucher program that the feds said affected desegregation efforts in Louisiana public schools.

Gov. Mark Dayton and GOP leaders to meet again Friday on dispute over tax changes and school funding.

The dispute over Wolf's methods and the resulting data, which can grow quite heated, reflect the ideological divides — teacher unions versus school choice advocates — that shape many of today's education debates.