Sentences with phrase «from big districts»

«We are getting calls from superintendents from big districts saying their community is demanding answers to how the school is prepared, and the superintendents are looking to us.»

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An early trailblazer of Brooklyn's Dumbo district, Big Spaceship has watched from the front row as the neighborhood has blossomed into a destination for creative, tech and media startups.

The Puerto Rico born Senator Diaz helped to bring busloads of marchers from the Big Apple to the District, another place where the people have been denied a direct vote.

As you can see, the schools that benefit the most from competitive equity divisions are the high - enrollment, big schools of larger districts like Sacramento Unified, Stockton Unified, East Side Union High School District of San Jose and others.

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

We had some mini eggs from the dollar store, some medium eggs from the grocery store, slightly larger ones from a park district egg hunt, and some super big ones that were filled with candy (they were received as gifts last Easter and we kept the cool huge eggs).

From big bluestem, blackeyed susan, Indian grass, switch grass, and much more the Arlington Heights Park District continues to restore natural habitats.

Families — A parent and child basketball camp for children in Grades 3 to 8 will be offered by the Hanover Park Park District, 1919 Walnut Ave. Guard camp will meet from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, and «big man» camp for forwards and centers will be from 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 16.

The water is swimmable during an advisory, but people should refrain from taking big gulps of water, said Brendan Daley, director of green initiatives for the Park District.

With recycling books from their school library tucked under their arms, David Erlandson and Dan Clark stood up before the school board members of District 75 last week and presented them with a petition and a long list of big, careful signatures written on school notebook paper.

The school district's efforts to buy better quality ingredients from local businesses fit in well with the city of Austin's Good Food Purchasing program, an initiative to harness the buying power of big institutions to benefit the local economy and support the city's sustainability goals.

The Chicago Park District has a big surprise for those who like to stroll, jog or ride their bikes along the mile of lakefront from Fullerton Parkway to the North Avenue Beach: Starting Monday you wo n`t be able to do it.

A big thanks from the Arlington Heights Park District to the USTA for awarding this project with the grant.

LeFevour pointed out that the money the Park District made from U2 and other big events helps fund Park District programs, including the Junior Bears.

Have you thought about partnering with a colleague from a neighboring district to team up and run a much bigger school nutrition program nearby?

Sal Valenza of the West New York School District in New Jersey, which also serves primarily Latino students who overwhelmingly receive free and reduced lunch, has also had positive feedback from the students and administrators, and says changes to nutritional standards nationwide could have a big impact.

Finally, the big savings from P2 are really only realized if your entire district is very low income; implementing it in just a few very low income schools within a district which is less than 85 % low income may not save much.

Say, it is possible to get elected from two districts at the same time or perhaps certain districts have a bigger vote share for their representatives.

He put up a big early fundraising number, netted several key union endorsements and this week received his first nod from a Democratic county committee (Putnam) in the district.

First up on the target list were Sens. Dave Valesky, John DeFrancisco and Steve Saland, all of whom rely on big dollar donations, many of which come from outside their respective districts, to feather their campaign nests.

[Updated below] A big change in the world of campaign advertising: over the past six months: the practice of targeting online ads directly at voters in a particular district has gone from being exotic to being a standard part of the political toolkit, with serious implications both for the...

With Brian Benjamin's big win Saturday, he is all but assured to be voted in May 23rd as the next Democratic Senator from Harlem's 30th District.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Supporters, including many business leaders, consider that a big improvement from a previous law that, until 2010, barred districts from considering test scores as part of evaluations.

He has over one million dollars in his campaign war chest, much of it from other congresspersons in «safe» districts (like Pelosi and Hoyer) and big labor unions.

Mr. Koch's year - old campaign to rid partisanship from the redistricting process received its biggest boost two weeks ago when Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo introduced legislation that would create an independent commission to redraw district boundaries.

Jim Tedisco has got the big «mo as grassroots momentum continues to build with support from people who want to see the Assemblyman become the next New York State Senator for the 49th Senate District.

With primary elections one week from Tuesday, big endorsements have been announced in the race for Brooklyn's 52nd Assembly District, where

Suozzi will have big shoes to fill, as Israel's retirement means the 3rd district will go from having as a member a close confidant of Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California to having a freshman, back - bencher representative.

President Clinton taught him that the best way to wrangle a bigger HUD budget from Congress was not to go up to Capitol Hill but to visit Congressional districts and persuade people to pressure their representatives.

Following his own statement and statements from several supporters, Espaillat answered questions from the press, including whether he believes that Charles Rangel has willfully neglected small business owners, how does he reconcile his criticisms with the reality that many local residents decried the lack of shopping and services before this «big - box» mall existed, whether his «40/40/20» housing formula, in place of the common «80/20», is a state or federal issue and his view of Congressman Rangel's argument that Rangel's experience allows him to more productively represent the district.

Gibson's Connecticut - sized 19th New York Congressional District encompasses 11 counties from the Hudson River north and west into the Adirondacks, across the river for a big chunk of Dutchess, all of Columbia and south to Orange and Sullivan.

Bipartisanship has been a big focus in this race, with Maloney touting the support he has received from a number of local GOP elected officials — especially state Sen. Bill Larkin — in the closely - divded district.

Aggressive costumed characters who pose for pictures to drum up dollars in the Theater District are driving away customers from one of the city's biggest draws, industry leaders said.

Ken Lovett: Preet Bharara won the big cases as U.S. attorney, but his record as the top prosecutor in the Southern District was far from perfect.

From Streetsblog: Queens City Council District 25 «Helen Sears is a lackluster incumbent who seems to believe that renegade cyclists are the big problem on the traffic - choked, auto - oriented streets of Jackson Heights.

Before the creation of the Sagnerigu District Constituency from the Tamale North Constituency, the Tamale South Constituency was bigger than the then Tamale North Constituency that is, Tamale North and Sagnerigu combined.

In Washington, D.C., where I was chancellor, IMPACT teacher evaluations are among the strongest in the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievement.

«It's a big district, take an hour and a half to drive from end to end, but I've had a great time of it,» said Nojay.

Flanked by Assemblymember Millman and Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, Simon stressed her deep roots in the district and decade of experience as district leader, her progressive credentials and her work on community issues both big and small — from public transportation to traffic calming in Downtown Brooklyn, access to affordable housing and education, and saving Long Island College Hospital, to name a few.

Mr. Faso, a thirty - plus - year - resident of Kinderhook, NY — Prof. Teachout moved to the district from New York City in January to run for the NY19 seat — strongly opposed the Obama Iran Nuclear Deal, saying that it gave billions of dollars to one one of the world's biggest sponsors of terrorism, virtually guarantees that Iran will get nuclear weapons, and poses an existential threat to the State of Israel.

How big a deal remains to be seen, but the fact that the move came at the request of the Justice Department's Southern District of New York — after a referral from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office — could be an indication that Donald Trump's affairs are now relevant to a second criminal probe.

An additional 18 people were arrested that evening, as thousands marched from Foley Square to the Financial District in the biggest demonstration since the Occupy Wall Street protests began.

Cuomo only asking the people to support the cap without any mention of mandate relief is the hamburger bun without the burger and simply fuels the opposition's (they say mandate relief before tax cap) claim that tax cap alone is a big - government scheme to take power away from and defund local towns and school districts and increase the power of the larger state government which created the property tax problem in the first place by passing the mandates which are the biggest property tax drivers and now refuses to change those mandates.

As he makes his fourteenth appearance on the program, the legislator from the Bronx» 87th district will talk about how his district fared in the big snowfall, the anti-Muslim attack in his district, his proposed legislation to give voters a chance to recall their representatives, Bronx development issues, the state budget, and more.

On Monday, 14th District Councilman Fernando Cabrera, his daughter and about a dozen other people from the Bronx chapter of the Latin and African - American Chaplain's Association (LACA) boarded a JetBlue flight to the Dominican Republic, carrying big bags and suitcases full of emergency supplies: antibiotics, bandages, baby food and more.

«We want to make sure our families come to Queens, move here, stay here, are able to raise their families in the borough of Queens, and housing of course is a big part of that,» Borough President Melinda Katz said at Monday's meeting, before hearing concerns from the district managers of the Queens community boards.

The North District race was a hotly contested one filled with big campaign contributions and contrasting educational ideologies from the two candidates on everything from charter schools to extending the school day to the use of standardized tests.

During her time as a parent advocate and member of School District 28's Community Education Council, Huntley heard frequent complaints from the community about PS / IS 48 and pushed for a bigger space.