Sentences with phrase «from leaving the district»

No less important are the main factors that generate the gap: students entering charters may differ from those entering district schools (with respect to their special education needs), and students leaving charters may differ from those leaving district schools.

It's also about keeping higher - performing students from leaving the district.

Nerad announced a year ago the creation of a committee to explore alternatives to traditional public schools, partly as a way to keep middle class families from leaving the district.

Not exact matches

A survey of New York City employers after implementation of the city's paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result of the law.26 In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.28

«Our position is that the city government isn't doing enough to stop people from being pushed out of the District and forcing people to leave what's been a lifetime home for them.»

Several parents accused the district of failing to learn any lessons from the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado that left 13 people dead.

In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.

Ride a bike down to Red Hook or take the the Ikea water taxi, which leaves from Pier 11 in the financial district and drops you off two blocks from the restaurant.

That would leave the fire protection district with pockets of unincorporated Cook County plus about two - thirds of the village of Inverness to serve and collect taxes from.

Elizabeth Wickland, 41, of 10 S. Harrison St., was charged with criminal trespass after refusing several requests from Park District representatives and police to leave.

They marched, they prayed and they made emotional pleas, but tenants from a low - income complex in Glen Ellyn could not get assurances from village staff that their apartment buildings will be left out of a proposed taxing district for Roosevelt Road.

Riverwalk Commissioner Bob Ross, left, and Naperville Park District Commissioner Ron Ory discuss a proposal to extend the Riverwalk from Hillside Road to Martin Avenue.

From left to right: Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black, Georgia Organics Executive Director Alice Rolls, Cherokee County School District School Nutrition Director Tina Farmer, Georgia Department of Health Commissioner Dr. J. Patrick O'Neal, UGA Associate Dean for Extension Dr. Laura Perry Johnson, and Georgia State Superintendent of Schools Richard Woods.

The funds were left from the district's 1992 capital projects bond originally used to build the Jack A. Claes Pavilion and new athletic fields.

But he also said he won't back away from his refusal to accept gerrymandered districts, which doesn't leave all that much room for compromise.

Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove recused his office from the investigation of a police shooting that left a Troy man with head and shoulder wounds.

Teachout, meanwhile, who had drawn support from the left wing of the Democratic Party, was criticized as a «socialist» who has shallow roots in the district.

Facing a Democratic primary challenge on his left from Cynthia Nixon, Cuomo appeared at a rally for Mayer in the district and push GOTV efforts from the state Democratic Committee.

Richmond County District Attorney Michael McMahon is not on board with the push from Manhattan and Brooklyn to stop prosecuting marijuana smokers, sounding a note of caution and saying the issue should be left up to the state Legislature.

Ramos currently has $ 5,061 in her campaign account, «Friends of Jessica Ramos,» which is left over from when she served as District Leader in her Jackson Heights neighborhood from 2010 — 2014.

«From providing early education to increasing access to affordable housing and expanding labor and paid leave protections, Mayor de Blasio's progressive policies are having a real, positive impact right here in the 30th District.

Shimon Waronker, the embattled superintendent of the Hempstead school district, was placed on administrative leave by the district's school board majority — an action, which if it holds up, will ban the former New York City educator from intervening in the operations of Long Island's most troubled school system.

After reports from District Leaders Keen Berger and Arthur Schwartz (who announced that he was leaving the Village Reform Democratic Club), County Committeeman and County Committee Secretary, Ben Yee reported on the status of several rules changes that had been introduced at the County Committee meeting in September.

Our last subject in the race for the 36th Council District seat is the Rev. Conrad Tillard, formerly known as Conrad Muhammad, formerly known as Conrad X. Reverend Tillard first came to public attention as the chief youth minister of the Nation of Islam, and then the minister of Harlem's famed Mosque No. 7, the former seat of Malcolm X. Reverend Tillard made some conventionally controversial remarks against white devils and Jewish slave masters, etc. from that esteemed perch, was later stripped of his ministry under a cloud of suspicion, and then underwent a second Damascene moment when he left the NOI and returned to the faith of his fathers, receiving baptism by the Reverend Calvin Butts.

52nd Assembly District contenders (from left) Jo Anne Simon, Doug Biviano and Pete Sikora at Wednesday's debate.

(From left) Paige Bellenbaum, running for female district leader, Councilmember Brad Lander, candidate Pete Sikora, Sen. Daniel Squadron, and Councilmember Stephen Levin.

Slaughter's old district, as you'll recall, was often referred to as the «earmuff» district because it stretched from the city of Buffalo, through the city of Niagara Falls to the city of Rochester (basically an effort to capture every available urban Democrat while leaving the rural and suburban Republicans out).

New Park District School Board Member Catherine Flanagan - Priore (second from left) takes her seat at the table.

Saland's concession leaves only one state Senate race undecided — the one in the 46th District, which stretches from Ulster County to Montgomery County.

With students at a low - key party watching from the porch across the street, Buffalo Police E District Chief Carmen Menza, second left, and Capt. Scott Testa, middle, speak with Mickey Vertino, president of the University Heights Collaborative, left; Ben and Molly Poremski; and Mike Kicey in front of the Poremski home on Winspear Avenue.

«But the locus of decision making is rightly shifting back to states and districts away from the one - size - fits - all mandates of No Child Left Behind.»

The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., stepped into the void left by the Legislature when he agreed to pay for Governor Cuomo's prison education plan with more than $ 7 million in criminal forfeiture money secured from banks.

Blake said the right opportunity presented itself when Assemblyman Eric Stevenson (D - Morrisania) left behind an open seat last month after he was convicted of accepting $ 22,000 in bribes from businessmen building an adult day care center in his district.

According to Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, Boykins was suspended from school that day and told to leave campus.

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

Kenneth Thompson (second from left) at his inaugural ceremony in 2014 as District Attorney with (from left to right) the Hon. Sterling Johnson, Jr., his son Kenny Thompson, his wife Lu - Shawn M. Benbow - Thompson, his daughter Kennedy Thompson and his mother Mrs. Thompson.

BY ANDY HUMM City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, the Council's LGBT Caucus, and two other Bronx councilmembers are calling on Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark to secure an order of protection for Abel Cedeno — the gay student charged in the September 27 classroom fight that left Matthew McCree dead — from McCree's brother, -LSB-...]

hoto from left to right: Children of the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club; Santa Claus; Senator Klein; Ken Kearns, District Manager of Community Board 10; John Marano, Vice Chair of Community Board 10; Monique Johnson, Throggs Neck Houses Council President; Sinclair Hollingsworth, Director of the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club.

When I ran for a city council seat in the 32nd councilmanic district in 2003, I was required to take a mandatory leave of absence from my employ.

Pictured left to right from the winning team, which argued in favor of eliminating cash bail, were City Council member Daniel Dromm (District 25) and Fortune debater Felix Guzman, joined by Khalil Cumberbatch, Associate Vice President of Policy, David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy at The Fortune Society.

In 2014, Cuomo faced a stronger - than - expected primary challenge on the left from Zephyr Teachout, now a Democratic candidate for Congress in the 19th district.

Cuomo was not in Philadelphia for the first day of the convention and has grappled with the left - leaning politics first hand after he faced a stronger - than - expeted primary challenge in 2014 from Zephyr Teachout, who is now a candidate for Congress in the 19th congressional district.

The Syracuse City School District's transition away from heavy reliance on out - of - school suspensions for discipline has been tough on many teachers, but a recent workshop with a former school dropout left attendees feeling hopeful.

Maggiuli's withdrawal from the race to succeed Judge Stephen Herrick leaves City Court Judge William Carter, a former state trooper, prosecutor and defense lawyer who has the party's backing, and former Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Cheryl Fowler to face off for the Democratic line.

(From left to right) Assembly Member Keith Wright; Davon Lomax, Political Director for DC 9, IUPAT; BP Ruben Diaz; Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark; and Gregory A. Delts, Bronx Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi.

From left: An NYC construction site, President of the Building and Construction Trades Council Gary LaBarbera and President of the New York City District Council of Carpenters.Steve McInnis

Two state Senators from the Hudson Valley had called for the hearing following winter storms in early March that left large portions of their districts in the dark.

Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez (second from left), her coordinator Dan Wiley, District Leader Jo Anne Simon (third from left), and other LICH advocates committed civil disobedience by creating a human chain across Atlantic Avenue, blocking traffic.

Ms. Lofstad, a Hampton Bays resident who was elected to fill the empty seat left by Councilman Brad Bender's resignation almost two years ago, received 31 percent of the vote once the results from all 42 districts came in.

The state's highest court on Tuesday disqualified Democratic state Senate candidate Steven Glickman from the race for the 55th district, leaving Republican incumbent Rich Funke unopposed.