Sentences with phrase «district hired a consultant»

Using a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the district hired a consultant, William McKersie, to work with a group of administrators and teachers who were tasked with researching the best situations for the smaller learning communities.

States and school districts hire consultants, the testing companies have a broad array of previous test questions.

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A consultant hired to assess the Oak Lawn Park District's aquatic facilities and programs is recommending construction of a $ 10 million water park and indoor leisure pool at the Pavilion at 94th Street and Oak Park Avenue along with updates to the Central Park pool.

The district wants to build four new baseball fields and recently hired consultant Laura Ross to help write a proposal for a $ 200,000 grant from the state Department of Natural Resources.

The district hired Steve Larson, president of Associated Municipal Consultants in Naperville, to research bids with the lowest interest rates.

The Park District's hiring of a consultant to look at uses for the farmland was «a great first step» toward closing the gap between village and park, Trustee Joe Siwinski said.

Hiring a consultant would be the first step in developing the land, which was until recently the subject of a lawsuit between the Park District and Lake In The Hills.

CARY — Members of the Cary Park District Board will consider a recommendation Thursday to hire a consultant for the development of the 260 - acre Hoffman property.

The proposed harbor, near Loyola University, was one of five sites suggested by a marina consultant hired by the Park District to find new harbor locations to meet growing demands for boat slips.

A park district consultant hired to analyze the radiation problem at the site - a former city garbage dump where dirt laced with thorium and radium was left a generation ago - has reported that the contamination is more than 12 times greater in volume than had been suspected.

A traffic consultant hired by the Park District estimated that traffic on Belmont Road increased by 15 to 20 percent between 1998 and 2000.

ROSELLE — The Park District Board has hired Laura Ross, a consultant with Charles H. Schrader & Associates, to seek out grants for park improvements.

The district has hired Leisure Concepts, a Mt. Prospect - based recreation consultant, to do a...

Hennessy said the Park District hired two consultants to help the committee: Architectural Resource Corp. of Orland Park helped with the final plans for the park and the final presentation, and ARRIS Architects and Planners of Plainfield prepared a historical and architectural assessment of the Yunker farm.

A traffic consultant hired by the Park District estimated that traffic on Belmont Road increased 15 to 20 percent between 1998 and 2000.

Has your district looked into the possibility of hiring a professional chef on a consultant basis just to get your kitchen staff up to speed with fast, healthy meals?

The village and Park District are planning to hire an engineering consultant to study the feasibility of the trail, estimated to cost $ 550,000 and which would be funded by state and federal dollars.

Both groups cite former District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's acknowledgement that a consultant hired by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, who owned the building, warned the agency that the building was an accident waiting to happen.

He said that Foley hired Rowland as a nursing home consultant to keep his political skills away from other candidates in the crowded 5th District race.

Curran also is hiring Isaac Goldberg, a public relations consultant who helped relatively unknown Democrat Madeline Singas defeat Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray, a popular Republican, for Nassau County district attorney two years ago.

A civil rights consultant hired by the Buffalo School District to review admissions policies at criteria - based schools, is accusing Board Member Carl Paladino of making «a clear effort to control my work and intimidate me.»

During a hearing on Friday, July 8, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote ordered the county to hire a consultant by Aug. 7 in order to complete a settlement - required analysis of impediment, AI, report, which highlights a municipality's assessment of laws, regulations and procedures that affect a location's availability and accessibility to fair and affordable housing units.

Under the supervision of the governor's staff, the groups intend to raise more than $ 1 million for a media blitz, hire a powerful political consultant close to the Cuomo administration and deploy field organizers to the districts of more than a dozen key lawmakers to drum up support, according to interviews with those involved in the effort.

Delaware lawmakers have approved a bailout, teachers have gotten pink slips, and turnaround consultants have been hired — all for a budget crisis that former leaders of the state's largest school district say doesn't exist.

«Consultants are hired by the district for technical needs at the district level, but not at the school level.

In accordance with IDEA, the school district was also required to pay the plaintiffs» fees and the costs of the lawsuit, which, for the Murphys, included a bill for $ 29,350 from Marilyn Arons, an education consultant they had hired as an expert witness.

It's time we emphasize the value of an arts - based approach to literacy & writing, as well as cross-pollinate science and history, but sadly, most school districts don't want to spend the time / money to hire a consultant or provide adequate professional development, strategies or materials needed.

It can be a daunting task, especially in districts without the resources to hire facilities planners and consultants, but help is available.

When your school district hires NASB to conduct a search, your district has tapped into one of the most experienced, qualified networks of search consultants in the United States, called the National Affiliation of Superintendent Searchers (NASS).

State Superintendent candidate John Humphries has been hired as a consultant by the same district he resigned from in December.

MAISD is proud to provide high quality special education services in collaboration with our local districts that include the hiring and employment of occupational and physical therapists, school psychologists, and teacher consultants for the entire county as part of our ISD special education plan.

What is annoying, to say the least, is that despite these difficult economic times, and while we're making a special effort to invest in our poorest, most challenged urban school districts, we've got school administrators like Paul Vallas and Steven Adamowski who begin by hiring consultants and laying off the very Connecticut residents who have been working so hard to make a difference.

The application process, for example, is slow, burdensome, and keeps many eligible school districts and libraries from applying — or forces them to hire outside consultants to help guide them through the process.

KAPPAN: But whether districts work with you, hire another consultant, or develop their own capacity, isn't it expensive to redesign the central office?

But despite the State Department of Education's record of failure, or perhaps because of their record of mismanagement, Commissioner Wentzell is now blaming the Alliance Districts themselves for problems that have developed with the program, rather than the inexperienced, but highly paid consultants that she and her predecessor hired and coddled.

The state hired a financial consultant whose been working in the district for months, and participates in these discussions.

Gary's state - hired financial consultant Jack Martin said the district is nearly $ 100 million in debt.

The school district hired education consultants and ramped up its technology so that teachers could better track which students understood a specific skill and which students needed additional instruction.

There are consultants who know data, consultants who say they can revitalize struggling schools and consultants who write grants that lead winning states and school districts to hire other consultants.