Sentences with phrase «district challenged our decisions»

Having huge budget deficits in our district challenged our decisions of trying to give our students the best opportunities with less money.

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The Virginia residents challenging their state districting plan said the lower court ignored a 2015 Supreme Court decision about Alabama in which Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four more liberal justices to order a review of state legislative districts.

The U.S. Federal Reserve says it will appeal an earlier decision from the U.S. District Court that challenged the swipe - fee regulations set by the central bank.

The 17 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision in April to declare U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules through 2025 «not appropriate.»

The decision by U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman makes permanent a ban he put in place in May after a legal challenge by Dawn Sherman, a student at Buffalo Grove High School, and her atheist activist father, Rob Sherman.

While New Trier and the park district have yet to make a final decision of whether or not to place the referendum requests on the November ballot, officials from both organizations said they are talking to each other and understand the potential challenges of asking voters to support two measures in one election.

John will continue this tradition — he knows our communities and the challenges we need to overcome, and will put our district first in every decision he makes.

AsCapital NY's Azi Paybarah notes, Crowley's decision to stick with Rangel is particularly interesting because of the growing Latino presence in Crowley's district — something about which the Queens congressman has always been particularly sensitive, worried about a potential primary challenge of his own.

As Allen looks forward to his day in court, the delay in getting to a verdict is apparently hampering his decision on whether to challenge George Amedore for his 46th district State Senate seat.

Nevertheless, Democrats expect to mount a competitive challenge in the district, which comes as Republicans hope to win a clear majority in the chamber following the Independent Democratic Conference's decision to end the coalition alliance that has been in place since 2012.

Outside of Manhattan's Federal District Court, site of the three - week trial, Silver's lawyers said they would file motions to challenge the jury's decision.

Despite any concerns about Cuomo's decision to push Vance off the new investigation of Schneiderman's alleged misconduct, it's unlikely the district attorneys association will challenge the move in court.

For Pia Raymond, the decision to challenge incumbent Mathieu Eugene in Brooklyn's District 40 Democratic primary created an uphill battle from the start.

Ms. Miner's decision came as a disappointment for Democrats who were hoping she would challenge Rep. John Katko, a Republican who represents the district that includes Syracuse, where she was mayor for eight years until term limits forced her to step down on Dec. 31.

In this chat, math instructional leaders from the district will discuss the reasoning behind that decision, the challenges they have faced with the transition, and the benefits they have seen so far.

Yet the court reasoned that it is the administrative decisions of district leaders — rather than the challenged statutes — which bear the ultimate responsibility for how teachers are distributed across the state.

The budget challenges Mr. Duncan foresaw are now reality: States and districts face tough decisions about education spending as revenue declines and federal stimulus spending dries up.

I happened to be one of those proponents based first on my close understanding of the challenges she faced when she entered the job, the tough decisions she has made over the last two years, and the leadership direction of the district which is now rooted in the theory that in order to improve student learning we need most to improve the quality of teaching and leadership.

The preliminary decision addresses a ground - breaking court challenge to layoffs that devastated the staffs of three middle schools during job cuts over the last few years in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

About a dozen of these districts are using cooperation, also commonly referred to as district - charter collaboration, to drive decisions and address systemic challenges, including tracking school performance, student enrollment, and school closure.

In addition, the guide addresses some of the challenges school districts will face in jurisdictions that may question the decision's applicability to them.

«NSBA can serve as a bridge between the entrepreneurial community and the nation's decision - makers by highlighting innovative solutions designed to inspire and ignite district discussions that challenge how they think about their traditional way of doing things.»

Challenging the Assumption of Rationality in Performance - Based Accountability Systems: A Comparative Case Study of School and District Decision - Making Approaches

It's unclear whether the Houston school district will now negotiate a settlement with the teachers union or end up back in court, but either way, the decision comes at a significant time for the test - based accountability movement, which has faced a number of legal and political challenges over the past several years.

Likewise in Minnesota, the district judge said that the plaintiffs failed to establish that they had been harmed in any way by the statutes, but even if they had, «because Plaintiffs» alleged harms are not fairly traceable to the teacher tenure and the continuing contract provisions they challenge, a decision by the Court to strike those laws would not redress the harms.»

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the San Diego Unified School District supports a ESEA reauthorization bill that provides school districts the flexibility and resources needed to respond to the educational challenges in local communities, and provides greater local flexibility in the use of ESEA funding for Titles I, II and III as states and school districts are in the best position to make spending decisions to facilitate local innovation and student achievement, without placing undue burdens on districts that would adversely impact effective governance; and

Lawyers from both sides of a legal challenge against the contract to write and administer the PARCC test have one month to send their proposed decisions to a Santa Fe District Court judge.

The Co-op offers a solution, based on sound actuarial principles, to the challenges districts and communities across Connecticut face every day by aggregating special education costs together at the state level to ensure predictable, stable funding for special education services — even during financially uncertain times — while keeping decisions and delivery of those services local.

The state of Illinois has not yet decided whether to challenge an appellate decision handed down last week that could result in three Lake County school districts seeing required payments to their local charter schools decrease, a state spokeswoman said...

Although Connecticut law requires that School Governance Councils be utilized in school districts that are facing the greatest challenges, in Bridgeport, Paul Vallas appears either unwilling or unable to meet his obligation to include the community, parents, and teachers in the educational decision - making process.

The district's decision was challenged in the courts by the parents who asserted that the child's progress in his current setting was sufficient.

The latest retirement industry litigation decision comes out of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, pertaining to an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) challenge filed against the company CNA Financial, its subsidiaries and the fiduciaries of its 401 (k) plan.

The first was a decision in New Mexico's Second Judicial District Court, where Judge Alan Malott dismissed a legal challenge to Albuquerque's Community Cats Project, a public - private partnership involving the Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department, Best Friends and PetSmart Charities ®.

As the PFMC hammered out its decisions, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco was set to hear the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) and Klamath Basin irrigators» challenge to a 2017 injunction.

The groups, represented by Western Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit in federal district court challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's decision to approve 287 oil and gas leases totaling almost 150,000 acres in south central, north central, and southeastern Montana.

On September 30, 2013, Georgia Aquarium filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia challenging the agency's decision under the federal Administrative Procedure Act as contrary to the MMPA and its implementing regulations and as arbitrary and capricious.

On Tuesday, 17 states and the District of Columbia sued the agency, challenging Administrator Scott Pruitt's decision.

If law enforcement denies an application request, the justifications for their decision can be challenged in district court and overturned by a judge.

As reported in our prior Update, in a decision issued on January 22, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense, 138 S. Ct. 617, that challenges to the Obama administration's 2015 Clean Water Rule must be brought in federal district courts, rather than directly in the federal courts of appeals.

A recent decision issued by a federal district court in North Carolina challenges the familiar principle that in a borrower's bankruptcy, the lender, if it is oversecured as of the bankruptcy filing date, is entitled to receive post-petition interest, attorneys» fees and other charges arising post-petition to the extent of the value of its collateral.

A court of appeals hears challenges to district court decisions from courts located within its circuit, as well as appeals from decisions of federal administrative agencies.

These cases include the recent constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act and the decisions invalidating Sarbanes - Oxley's accounting board, preventing the Justice Department from obtaining monetary relief against the tobacco industry under RICO, overturning the federal government's plan to statistically adjust the census, limiting the Justice Department's ability to create «majority - minority» districts, and upholding Proposition 209's ban on racial preferences in California

When judges in the Eastern District do issue rulings on challenges raising Alice, their decisions are very different from jurists in other parts of the country.