Sentences with phrase «number of district officials»

The Sept. 19 JPS School Board meeting was eerily empty, save a large number of district officials.

Not exact matches

During a public hearing on the issue, district officials explained the staff cut was based in part on the current number of students registered for school next year.

For instance, even if the chefs cook and donate free gourmet meals, they could end up losing money for the district by decreasing the number of kids who took the «official» school lunch, thus lowering the government meal reimbursement that goes to the district and to the caterer.

But park district officials responded that, so far, the increased risk has n`t translated into a large number of serious head injuries such as those suffered by an 8 - year - old Northwest Side boy when he fell from a spiral slide in a Chicago park in 1978.

From Schaumburg to Elmhurst to Chicago Ridge, a growing number of suburban school districts are joining forces with local park officials to create day - care programs for children of working parents.

Before that the district had closed four beaches for one day each this summer, after a near record number of swim bans last year, according to park officials.

Barring unforeseen problems with needed approvals, construction could begin next spring on two city harbors that would expand the number of mooring spaces for recreational boaters by about 20 percent and bring in more tourism dollars, Chicago Park District officials say.

Despite its future as parkland, district officials say a number of hazards — such as barbed wire, brush and low branches — remain on the land.

When Park District of Highland Park officials noticed that fewer girls were participating in sports programs, they devised a way to boost the numbers, but it's not exactly a slam dunk, they say.

City officials have proposed a number of controversial steps to relieve school overcrowding in Rogers Park, including building a new school on Park District land, according to records and interviews.

Other officials said the park district has tripled the number of trash containers in Lincoln Park this year.

McCray said Park District officials and Jakl visited a number of area pools to garner ideas for the type of pool the district wouDistrict officials and Jakl visited a number of area pools to garner ideas for the type of pool the district woudistrict would want.

Historically, this logic first became obvious in the case of the Weimar Republic in Germany, although many subsequent examples have shown that the total number of parties with elected officials and their ideological breadth is tightly related to the number of officials elected per district.

The upshot of that thread is a small number officials (mostly the President, legislators, judges and district attorneys) have absolutely immunity from civil or criminal liability for certain kinds of discretionary official acts.

A threat posted on Facebook last night prompted a number of Scotia - Glenville parents to pull their children out of school today — the day of a planned walkout to protest gun violence, district officials said.

Also on hand will be a number of Republican elected officials who represent pieces of Fossella's old district, NY - 13, including Rep. Peter King, Sen. Andrew Lanza, Assemblyman Louis Tobacco, and NYC Council Minority Leader James Oddo.

«In the fall of even - numbered years a bunch of money would go out and it would be for facilities in marginal members» districts,» one former health official said.

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.

The guilty verdict is another conviction for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York who has led a number of high - profile corruption cases of state lawmakers and public officials.

@Andy: not only that, but you can also stay and see that no - one sets fire to any ballot until the final count is announced (and compare that with the newspaper report of the official numbers for your electoral district).

Though hit hard by the recent federal sequestration numbers, officials in the Kingston City School District are still anticipating crafting an operating budget for the 2013 - 14 school year with a tax levy increase of 2 percent or less.

In opposing the bill, a number of law enforcement officials, including Ulster County District Attorney Holley Carnright have said that the state already has enough protections for young people in the adult system — and the additional protections are unnecessary and could be dangerous.

Marion county election officials, however, had rejected enough of the signatures to cause Wallace's number of signatures for Indiana's seventh district to fall below 500, the number required for placement on the May primary ballot.

Though there are not that many active Independence Party officials across the state — only about half of the state's 62 counties have a local chair — a number of those who are working in swing Senate districts have landed state government jobs with the chamber's Republican majority.

More than 85 local government and school district officials, as well as a number of affiliated organizations, provided a wide variety of feedback.

Voters will cast their ballots Tuesday to decide who fills six seats on the Buffalo School Board, but it could be days before some of the races are settled.Elections officials expect a large number of write - in ballots for candidates in two districts who are running write - in campaigns after being disqualified from the ballot, and it could take an extra day or two to hand - co...

In multiple member districts, Ballotpedia used the official candidate list and the seats available in a district to determine the number of major party candidates.

While most of the roundtable meeting was private, officials met with media and during the briefing revealed that four of the districts had significant numbers of students who opted out of standardized testing.

Also during Friday's Testimony, Chautauqua County District Attorney David Foley brought to the stand a number of law enforcement officials to the stand for testimony.

We found, to our frustration, that our school's administration barred us from asking for a meeting or otherwise directly contacting a number of district and state officials.

Texas officials have given the districts until April 1 to report back to the state about high numbers of erased and corrected answers on state tests.

Officials of the Minnesota district report that Asian enrollment increased by 600 this year, bringing the number of Asian students in the district to 4,884 out of a total enrollment of 32,962.

As growing numbers of legislators indicate their support for A4165 / S2767, officials within the New Jersey Department of Education have apparently initiated a campaign to block its passage by claiming that the proposed legislation would cost districts precious dollars.

The increase in the number of students who were chronically absent cost the district $ 45 million in state revenue that year, officials said.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS officials often point to the district's increasing graduation rates, climbing ACT scores, growing college enrollment rates and the numbers of high school freshmen projected to be on track to graduate.

There are a number of steps that district officials can take to help schools and their leaders make the most of data.

BOX ELDER — Box Elder School District officials have concerns with the number of teachers they're losing every year and hope an exit survey will help shed some light on the problem.

LAUSD Salvages Summer School, but Classes Will Be Limited Despite fears that Los Angeles Unified would have to cancel summer school this year, officials say they'll be able to hold a limited number of credit - recovery classes at 16 high school campuses across the sprawling district.

Newly enacted legislation helps districts temporarily cope with growing numbers of students with autism, but state officials also offer «ladder» of certification aimed at permanent solutions.

But after 16 years as a principal, Clark has also become a dinosaur of sorts — one of the last principals remaining in the city's Recovery School District who was there to guide the schools before Katrina (district officials say there are a couple of other veteran principals remaining from the pre-Katrina era, though the number is dwiDistrict who was there to guide the schools before Katrina (district officials say there are a couple of other veteran principals remaining from the pre-Katrina era, though the number is dwidistrict officials say there are a couple of other veteran principals remaining from the pre-Katrina era, though the number is dwindling).

District officials have put forward a number of initiatives to address middle school performance, especially to prepare eighth - graders for ninth grade.

As state education officials consider the possibility of sanctions against districts with large numbers of students opting out, they also promise a plan to boost participation.

Los Angeles school district officials are planning to fire more than 110 non-tenured teachers this year based on their performance, about three times the number of probationary teachers dismissed annually in recent years.

Mario Koran took on the quest, which went in a number of different directions, many of which school district officials did not appreciate.

Next school year, district officials may nearly triple the number of students using the program by expanding it to the third and fourth grades.

According to LAUSD officials, that brings the total number of dual language programs offered by the district to 57, including 43 in Spanish, 10 in Korean, and four in...

Indiana education officials currently pick one date each year (in September) to count the number of students attending public schools, using the number to determine how much state funding each district receives.

Scaling up to that number of schools has created challenges for Griffin that she's taken head - on this school year, impressing board members and district officials alike.

In response to our reporting, school board members and district officials have vigorously defended their numbers, arguing the loss of students to charter schools had no measurable impact on the district's graduation rate.

The prediction of an 80 percent graduation rate made by the district was not official, but more anecdotal and based on the high number of students enrolled in credit recovery programs to complete their A through G courses.