Sentences with phrase «leaves some districts serving»

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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.

Aiken, who has served as superintendent of recreation for eight years, will be leaving March 18 to head the Glencoe Park District.

When Lake Forest School District 67 could not stock low - fat strawberry milk for a short span this fall — leaving students with a choice of plain, chocolate or organic milk — several parents voiced concerns that kids might miss the daily serving of calcium, a district spokeswomDistrict 67 could not stock low - fat strawberry milk for a short span this fall — leaving students with a choice of plain, chocolate or organic milk — several parents voiced concerns that kids might miss the daily serving of calcium, a district spokeswomdistrict spokeswoman said.

For example, one food services official, whose district includes schools serving 7th through 12th graders, developed menus with calorie counts between the grades 6 - 8 maximum and the grades 9 - 12 minimum, leaving the lunches out of compliance with both sets of restrictions.

I posed this question because in my own observation of my kids» elementary lunch room I've seen children do just that — take fruits and vegetables even though they're not required to (our district uses «offer vs. serve»)-- yet then leave those foods untouched.

Hoyt, who has been serving without pay since April 1st, will instruct staff to close down the District and Albany offices beginning Friday, May 14th, and record the day as an unpaid leave day on their time sheets.

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.

Even outside the district he served, his name's been on the ballot enough to rack up some name ID — he left his Assembly seat to run for State Comptroller in 2002, losing a close race to now - disgraced Alan Hevesi and then in 2006 won the GOP nomination for governor, where he lost in a W - fatigue landslide to now - disgraced Eliot Spitzer.

«(A) lifelong academic professional, serving Southampton College for 29 years and leaving the position of provost in 2002 to make his first - ever run for office, when he was elected to represent New York's 1st Congressional District in one of the closest elections in the nation.»

And the inability to serve all parents looking to send their children to a Success Academy school — there are currently 19,000 applicants for 2,688 open seats this fall, which translates to seven applicants for every open seat — she dubbed a «tragedy» that leaves thousands of families disappointed, left to seek out supplementary schooling options in their zoned district.

Pheffer, whose district includes the Rockaways and Howard Beach, left the Assembly to serve as Queens County clerk.

If he leaves Rice's deputy, Madeline Singas, in charge until the next election, she'll be the longest - serving temporary district attorney in Nassau since 1949.

City Council, District 4: The race to represent Midtown East, Murray Hill, Stuyvesant Town and The Upper East Side in the seat that Eva Moskowitz is leaving because she is running for Manhattan Borough President (although she could serve until 2009) has several candidates, two of whom appeared before 504 seeking an endorsement.

In December, Lavine submitted her resignation to the LaFayette school board effective June 30, leaving the district after serving three years on a four - year contract.

Rivera 74, had his 70 - year sentence commuted by outgoing President Barack Obama in January after serving nearly 36 years in prison following his conviction of conspiracy and sedition charges for his ties to the Puerto Rican nationalist group, FALN, which was responsible for more than 100 bombings in the 1970s and 80s — including the 1982 blast at NYPD headquarters that left an officer maimed and a 1975 attacked that killed four at Fraunces Tavern in the Financial District.

Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson, who served the Senatorial District 36 which includes parts of the Northeast Bronx and Mount Vernon will be leaving office in July and join the Cuomo Administration.

Titone, whose father served as a judge on the New York State Court of Appeals, told the Advance that he'll miss his time in the state Legislature and that he consulted family and friends before deciding to leave his seat in the Assembly's 61st district.

Jordan, a former school superintendent who served as the interim head of the Onteora District for a spell, faced off against fellow Republican Frank Stapleton, nominated by former GOP Club head Gerry Setchko and seconded by Gutmann, and Democrat Tim Malloy, who left the board last year and was seeking cross-endorsement, nominated by Gutmann and Rice.

Ulster was in the Democratic - leaning 22nd Congressional District until a 2011 redistricting scheme left Gibson the incumbent in a county where he had never campaigned or served.

She had served as Rice's chief deputy since 2011, and became acting district attorney in January, when Rice, a Democrat, left to take a seat in Congress.

Hamilton, who served as the district leader in the nearby 43rd Assembly District for nearly a decade, picked up support from the service employees union Local 32BJ and Adams himself, who left the Senate seat at the beginning of tdistrict leader in the nearby 43rd Assembly District for nearly a decade, picked up support from the service employees union Local 32BJ and Adams himself, who left the Senate seat at the beginning of tDistrict for nearly a decade, picked up support from the service employees union Local 32BJ and Adams himself, who left the Senate seat at the beginning of the year.

Brooklyn Federal Judge Roslynn Mauskopf recused herself Monday from presiding over the suit because she is a close personal friend of the former federal judge, Barbara Jones, who served on the bench in the Southern District of New York for 16 years before leaving to become a partner at a white shoe law firm.

Not only has the district received a great deal of positive press about this partnership (for example, one blogger recently wrote that he «left ABC rejoicing in what they have been able to accomplish» in this arena), it also served as the basis for research by Rutgers University's Saul Rubinstein and John McCarthy on how working together improves student achievement.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

Third, as explained by Checker Finn, financial considerations make some closures unavoidable — and the likeliest targets are the district's lowest performers, both because they're not serving kids well and because they've typically seen their enrollments reduced by, among other things, students leaving in search of better educational options.

As sitting superintendents leave their posts to serve in more - desirable districts, hard - pressed school boards are turning more and more to retired superintendents to fill the vacancies.

But there is a fundamental flaw in fiscal federalism theory as it applies to education: the ability of taxpaying parents of school - age children to vote with their feet (leave school districts with which they are dissatisfied) is severely constrained for the low - income populations that are most likely to find themselves served by low - performing schools.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, families and teachers in school districts that serve low - income students and students of color struggle to understand how to address the highly punitive, push - out climate of overtesting brought on by the No Child Left Behind Act, the ESEA's last reauthorization.

The U.S. Department of Education's plan to grant states broad flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act will free up as much as $ 800 million in money school districts now must set aside for tutoring students, but may mark a significant financial blow to an education industry that has grown up around serving low - performing schools.

In addition, many charters serve the at - risk students who district schools are more than happy to see leave.

The Roosevelt district, an inner - city district in Phoenix that was hit hard by charters, sent letters to local charter parents asking why they had left district schools and explaining how the district would serve them better.

In a push to provide more children with free tutoring under the No Child Left Behind Act, the Department of Education is expanding two pilot programs that allow school districts to offer the extra assistance a year earlier than usual, and to serve as tutoring providers even if they themselves have been deemed poor performers.

By the time he left in 2011, Weast, who remains in the county and works nationally as an education consultant, had served four times the three - year national average for a superintendent in a large school district.

With 20 % of experienced teachers leaving the profession before retirement, districts are well - served to seek and act on staff feedback to make schools great places to work.

By leaving the Third Circuit's decision intact, the Court failed to alleviate the risk of increased school district liability for private school tuition and prolonged litigation that drains schools» limited financial and educational resources away from serving all children.

Ultimately, the board discussed various options and concluded to leave the wording that the board would «stand opposed to internal and external initiatives that seek to reduce public education in Los Angeles to an educational marketplace and our children to market shares, while not investing in district - wide programs and strategies that benefit every student whom we are sworn to serve.»

«We are moving to be a more competitive school district and transforming from being monolingual to a multi-lingual district and show the strengths of that shift at the school sites,» said Vivian Ekchian, who is serving as acting superintendent while Michelle King is on medical leave until the end of the month.

Many school districts, already squeezed by shrinking state education budgets, say that to fill the hole they anticipate would be left by the Republican push to restructure Medicaid, they would either have to cut those services or downsize general education programs that serve all students.

He has published numerous articles, chapters, and books on these topics, for example serving as lead author of Transforming Teaching in Math and Science: How Schools and Districts Can Support Change (Teachers College Press, 2003) and as editor of Standards - Based Reform and the Poverty Gap: Lessons for No Child Left Behind (Brookings Institution Press, 2007).

In reality, public schools and districts are left with more funding per child to educate the students they serve.

«Only 3 percent of the $ 14 billion dollars allocated to school districts to serve low - income children under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act [No Child Left Behind] goes to preschool.

In a «competitive marketplace» of schooling within a geographic space, under this incentive structure, the goal is to be that school which most effectively cream skims — without regard for who you are leaving behind for district schools or other charters to serve — while best concealing the cream - skimming — and while ensuring lack of financial transparency for making legitimate resource comparisons.»

The instructions of the LCAP template could prompt districts to address these separately reported data in describing their plans for serving each group, so that none are left behind.

The largest federal formula grant is allocated under Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and flows to districts based primarily on the population of low - income students served.

Oakland Unified School District Superintendent Antwan Wilson will be leaving at the end of this month after having served only 2 1/2 years in his position.

Because of the circumstances we have described already, the ability for families to leave school districts with which they are dissatisfied is largely constrained for low - income populations that are, ironically and unfortunately, most likely served by low - performing schools.

Dr. Mobley has served as Scoutmaster, receiving the Scouter's Training Award, Scoutmaster's Award of Merit, Scoutmaster's Key, Wood Badge, the District Award of Merit, Cherokee District «Leaving a Legacy Award» and the Silver Beaver award.

Specifically, the district argued that the law required the plaintiff to serve the «chief executive officer or clerk thereof,» and the receptionist with whom the process - server left the service documents was not the clerk of the chief executive officer.

Several of its attorneys have gone on to positions in government, including Madeline Haikala, who now serves as a U.S. district judge; Jim Hughey who is now a Jefferson County circuit judge; and Gray Borden who left the firm to take a position as an assistant U.S. attorney and went on to serve as a U.S. magistrate judge.