Sentences with phrase «include district efforts»

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, including the sinister notice that one Adoniram «was in charge of the forced labor» (v. 6) We also read of the division of the kingdom into twelve districts (shrewdly violating tribal divisions in a well - calculated effort to break down tribal loyalties) each with its overseer charged with the responsibility of providing sustenance for the royal establishment — a simple daily diet (v. 22 f.) conservatively estimated as sufficient to feed between four and five thousand persons!

Functions of the Executive Director's Office include coordinating efforts of the Board of Commissioners, 103 full - time staff, approximately 160 permanent part - time and 840 seasonal employees, and hundreds of volunteers for the leisure time benefit of the Arlington Heights Park District residents.

The project could include the efforts of the Burr Ridge Park District, commission members said.

The showpiece of the Park District's efforts — a $ 500,000 project that includes metal rails and a concrete bowl — was opened in October 2000 at 31st Street and Lake Shore Drive.

Shedd acknowledges and appreciates all volunteer citizen scientists and extends its gratitude to organizations facilitating the research efforts, including the Park District of Highland Park, Urban Ecology Center, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Ridges Sanctuary, Door County Land Trust, Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission, and the Huron Mountain Club.

Allowing students to customize their meal choice is a trend in 87 % of responding districts, efforts include:

Black's article tells the real story of Huntington's school food — including the fact that, thanks to McCoy's efforts, the district's school meals were actually ahead of the national curve well before Oliver showed up.

After eight years of work to «fix school food», I am convinced that while on paper it may be possible to draw up a budget to operate a school meal program, including all of the expenses — food, labor, overhead, kitchen facilities, equipment, staff training, office expenses, everything it takes to run a meal program — with nutritious scratch cooked lunches for $ 2.72 apiece, no district of any size is, in fact, doing it, despite the best efforts of many capable people like Ann Cooper.

In response, the park district will make some immediate changes to make its most popular park safer, including by launching an effort to more clearly identify the path's routes.

But the House seat has not been on the radar of national efforts to flip the seat to the Democratic column like those to the south, including the districts represented by Republican freshman Claudia Tenney and John Faso.

The investigation stemmed into de Blasio's efforts to help elect Democrats to the state Senate in 2014 using county Democratic committees to aid candidates running in key swing districts outside of New York City including the Hudson Valley and in Monroe County.

Other question topics included how Cuomo's love of cars and motorcycles affects his actions on mass transit, the ongoing investigations of Mayor de Blasio's fundraising efforts in the 2014 senate elections and whether Cuomo has been questioned in those investigations, current legislative efforts at retroactively extending the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases, the developing troubles of Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota and whether Cuomo will act to remove Spota, the likelihood of «ethics reform» passing in this legislative session, the timing of an inspector general's report on the 2015 Dannemora prison escape and Cuomo's planned trip to Italy.

The group is running field operations in competitive House races this cycle, and efforts in New York so far include the 24th and 22nd congressional districts.

Labor's grassroots effort includes mailings to its members in the district, worksite flyers and phone bank operations.

Kaminsky, 37, said his efforts for his Assembly district included securing aid for victims of superstorm Sandy and successfully urging Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to veto a controversial plan to build a liquefied natural gas terminal 19 miles off Jones Beach.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

The independent expenditure effort is also spending $ 35,600 polling key races for Senate Republicans including the districts being defended by Sens. George Amedore, Kemp Hannon, Terrence Murphy and Bill Larkin in addition to the races that included candidates Chris Jacobs and Phillips.

The Council Finance Committee chairman cited Superstorm Sandy as a factor in his decision, noting parts of his district (which includes Bensonhurst, Brighton Beach, Coney Island, Gravesend, and Sea Gate) were impacted and require «renewed focus and energy towards the recovery and rebuilding efforts.»

He has played a major role in collaborative efforts with other law enforcement agencies, including the office of District Attorney John Flynn, and he has worked closely with the Police Athletic League, Peacemakers and the Concerned Clergy Coalition, who are all here today.»

The restoration of power was a cooperative effort that included the town, the county, the school district, Turner said.

Off topic questions included: the ISIS in Iraq and potential threats to New York, his hair color in a World Cup themed picture, the City's negotiations with CW Capital concerning Stuyvesant Town, whether he concerned that religion - affiliated CBO's pre-K programs will involve some religious instruction or indoctrination, the Rent Guidelines Board and a possible rent increase, rating his administration on it's FOIL responsiveness, whether subway dancers are a «sign of urban decay», whether he is contemplating a special district for failing schools and whether there is symbolism is seeking to bring the Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn rather than Manhattan and whether he has coordinated that effort with Hillary Clinton.

Republicans have been unsuccessful in their efforts to win the District 37 seat for some time, including several well - financed and highly organized runs against previous incumbent, Latimer.

Bridgeton — Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assemblyman John Burzichelli joined with local officials, educators and others in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Bridgeton School District as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

In a nod to the 2014 spot that saw her driving around the district in a Ford pickup, one peppy spot featured the lawmaker ticking off a list of promises she said she has kept since taking office, including the refusal of special subsidies, transparency and efforts to «preserve and protect Medicare and Social Security.»

Rep. Tom Reed, a Corning Republican whose district includes Wellsville, has also been working with company officials and stressing that the effort to save the plant ought to be bipartisan.

Such efforts will likely turn into proposals for bills, said Cohoes Democratic Assemblyman John McDonald, whose district includes much of Albany's largely African - American Arbor Hill and South End neighborhoods.

She was set Tuesday to file a legal declaration with the U.S. District Court, hoping to block Bloomberg's effort to put on hold a judge's recommended reforms to stop - and - frisk, including a federal monitor.

Among those leading the effort is Rep. Elise Stefanik, R - Willsboro, whose district includes Jefferson County and Fort Drum, the sprawling Army post that houses the 10th Mountain Division about 80 miles north of Syracuse.

They include former Erie County Assistant District Attorney Sean Bunny (who is actively raising funds for his effort), businessman Nicholas Stankevich and engineer Thomas P. Casey.

«I would like to thank Borough President Katz and all of the Jamaica Together cleaning effort's co-sponsors for including the Guy R Brewer Boulevard corridor from Tuskegee Airmen Way to 109th Avenue as part of the continuing revitalization of Jamaica,» said YVONNE REDDICK, District Manager, Community Board 12.

Oneida County Legislator Frederick Sadallah, whose district includes New Hartford, said, «I have been a proponent of this consolidation effort, and have worked with the both the County and the Town of New Hartford to ensure this would not present any additional costs to New Hartford taxpayers, while maintaining the same quality of service that the residents are accustomed to.»

Oneida County Legislator Brian Miller, whose district also includes parts of New Hartford, agreed that this coordinated consolidation effort is an important step.

Democrats contended that the race in New York's 26th Congressional District — which the GOP had held since the 1960s — became competitive through their efforts tying Corwin to the House Republican budget plan that included a provision to turn Medicare into a voucher program.

Legislator James Maisano, whose district includes parts of New Rochelle and Pelham, said «This was a terrific county / city effort, and when the work is completed, New Rochelle's kids will have one of the finest athletic facilities in the county.

This meeting will include new research about what diversity efforts districts are undertaking and what is known about the effectiveness of these models.

In recent years, Cleveland has undergone revival efforts that include initiatives to clean up the Cuyahoga and revitalize both the Flats and the Warehouse District.

In a generally well - meaning effort to impose «accountability,» some policymakers have attempted to regulate school choice programs as they regulate district schools, including by mandating state tests.

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

The statement includes a list of these developments: the US Supreme Court ruled scholarships constitutional; numerous studies showed these programs benefit needy kids; families empowered with this choice express great satisfaction; urban districts continue to struggle despite great effort; chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats; and smart accountability systems can ensure only high - quality private schools participate in these programs.

As part of district reform efforts, Alonso engaged all parties, including the teachers union and nonprofit groups.

In the final year of the project, we will use data from the experiments to scale - up the most cost - effective version of the READS program.The project has three phases: Phase 1 Validation, which includes testing READS in several districts including DPS and an effort to increase the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the program; Phase 2 Validation, which involves expansion into more districts and many more schools and testing the cumulative impact of READS across summers; and Phase 3 Scale - Up, which involves expansion into 20 more districts.

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

CCSSO's effort aims to «significantly increase» the percentage of school districts in targeted states in which curriculum and materials adoptions are of high quality and aligned to state standards; and to increase the percentage of professional - development and teacher - prep programs that include training on those curricula.

To systematize accessibility in a school or district takes a coordinated effort that includes examining purchasing policies, staff capacity on the issue, how accessibility legislation applies to new and emerging technologies, and much, much more.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

Elmore's efforts to change this began during his work in a New York City school district, where professional development for principals included spending time every day inside classrooms to re-familiarize themselves with the teaching environment.

A series of violent incidents in the city's schools — including contentious encounters involving police — have eroded trust and divided some students, teachers, and administrators, making the district's efforts to revamp school security challenging.

In a generally well - meaning effort to impose «accountability,» some policymakers have attempted to regulate school - choice programs as they regulate district schools, including by mandating state tests.

We conclude with lessons learned about the CORE Districts» innovative system that can inform other next - generation assessment and continuous improvement efforts, including those catalyzed by ESSA.

From 2005 to 2014 Wallace supported Dallas's Thriving Minds effort, which has successfully knit together the work of groups including school districts, city agencies and cultural organizations to bring more arts opportunities to the city's young people.