Sentences with phrase «public schools fired»

In the latest turn, the Houston public schools fired a teacher and reprimanded two principals this month after the state education agency raised concerns about possible test - tampering in the district — the state's largest — and 10 other districts.

D.C. Public Schools Fires Director of Food Services Amid Fight Over How Student Meals Are Served (The DCist.com, January 15, 2013)

Not exact matches

Steve Williams, chief financial officer for Conroe, Texas, said its rapid growth demanded new fire stations, schools, roads and public safety services.

The average Chicago property tax bill is going up about 10 percent this year following City Hall and Chicago Public Schools tax hikes to pay for police, fire and teacher pensions, according to calculations released Tuesday by the Cook County clerk's office.

At the hands of bureaucrats, bosses, and judges, Christian merchants, universities, schools, hospitals, charities, campus fellowships, students, public officials, employees, and citizens have been fired, fined, shut down, threatened with a loss of accreditation, and evicted for living out traditional convictions about marriage and sexuality.

Many public school teachers that are Christians have been fired because of their beliefs, especially around Christmas and Easter time, when they merely mention the reasons behind the seasons and don't advocate Santa Claus and the Easter bunny with its colored eggs (funny how the different colors of eggs represent the rainbow's colors).

As was the firing of Joseph Fernandez and the effective abandonment of «The Rainbow Curriculum» in the public schools.

As to taxes — you don't use public roads, public schools, public libraries; the police and fire services don't cover your home?

Local businesses create jobs and help fund your town's essential services such as public schools, police and fire departments through their tax dollars.

Very few of us will ever be personally touched by a school shooting or a gunman who opens fire in public.

Jeffrey Mills, former Director of Food and Nutrition Services for D.C. Public Schools is photographed at his home on April 30, 2014 in Washington, D.C. Mills was fired from his job after he reported mismanagement, fraud, and overfilling by one of the school system's largest contractors.

Jeffrey Mills, former director of food and nutrition services for D.C. Public Schools, was fired from his job after he alleged mismanagement and fraud.

We must not forget now trainee journalist George Osborne's threat to wage further austerity on the poorest if the UK chose to leave the EU — nor our previous governments» ideological adherence to slashing any and all public services, whether the NHS, the fire service and community policing, or even free school meals for children.

The metro mayor works together with leaders of the local authority to create a strategy for the wider area, but local authorities will still be responsible for most public service delivery (such as waste management, schools, recreational facilities and fire services).

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D - East Elmhurst) visited Corona's PS 19 last week and collected about 100 signatures from parents and students within an hour imploring Mayor Michael Bloomberg not to fire 4,100 teachers from city schools.

He protested in public places at both schools and has continued to call for SU to fire head basketball coach Jim Boeheim and Chancellor Nancy Cantor.

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To supporters, the public pension system - covering workers in villages, towns, police and fire departments, libraries and schools - is an unchangeable pact between government and its workers.

De Blasio has ordered his staff to review ways to fire his investigations chief amid a tug - of - war over control of an office that monitors corruption in the public - school system, sources said.

Here's Sen. John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, explaining his bill that would essentially do away with the last in, first out requirement for firing public school teachers approved by the Senate Education Committee this morning and could come up for a vote by the full Senate this afternoon.

It is just one of the many ways that public school teachers have found to teach the Triangle fire to their students.

And we've proved in government we stand up for fairness by blocking Tory plans to: run schools for profit, to pay public servants less simply because they work in Wales, and to allow employees to be fired without cause; while in Wales we have opposed Tory plans to make patients pay to use the NHS.

NEW YORK (WCBS 880)-- In addition to cutting more than 6,000 teaching jobs from New York City's public schools, Mayor Bloomberg's proposed $ 67 billion spending plan could force 20 fire companies to close.

Nor do the other public services — including schools and police and fire protection — available to all non-citizen residents simply by virtue of their presence.

Currently employed by a local certified public accountant (whom she did not name), she is business manager for John A. Coleman Catholic High School and is secretary to the Spring Lake Fire Department.

Looks like Mayor Bloomberg will indeed find a sympathetic ear in Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the issue of the «last in, first out» requirement for firing public school teachers, although the governor so far isn't willing to publicly commit to the full repeal the mayor is seeking.

The UFT, which represents teachers at three Victory charter schools in New York City, has cited Victory management at the New York State Public Employment Relations Board for firing educators for union activity, coercing employees to withdraw their union support and discriminating against employees who are union supporters.

He also supervised numerous New York City Energy Conservation Solar Projects for New York City Public Schools, Department of Transportation, New York Police Department (NYPD), and New York Fire Department (NYFD).

Combining data from four different databases to look at injury occurrence and reporting in the Philadelphia Fire Department, researchers from the Firefighter Injury Research & Safety Trends (FIRST) program of Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health discovered that, once injuries were more accurately coded, the difference in workers» compensation costs was as much as $ 1 million for some injuries.

Vogl and co-author Marcos Rangel, assistant professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, detailed their findings in a working paper titled «Agricultural Fires and Infant Health» released online in December by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

«The NRC has been pressured by the nuclear industry, directly and through Congress, to low - ball the potential consequences of a fire because of concerns that increased costs could result in shutting down more nuclear power plants,» said paper co-author Frank von Hippel, a senior research physicist at Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security (SGS), based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The analysis identified more than 6,000 fire stations, more than 800 hospitals and nearly 20,000 public and private schools that may be exposed to strong ground motion from earthquakes.

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All the public beaches have fire pits to barbecue on to, so this was our first and last barbecue for the 2016 - 2017 school year.

What is needed is a competitive certification process that establishes key criteria for entry into the teaching profession; gives public schools greater freedom to hire and fire teachers; and treats teachers like professionals and their schools like professional institutions by allowing them to tailor professional development to meet the needs of teachers.

During World War I, the superintendent of the Cleveland public schools suggested firing those teachers sympathetic to Germany, and anti-war teachers did lose their jobs in New York City.

A federal appeals court has reinstated a $ 1 million jury verdict awarded to a special education teacher who claimed she was fired by public school officials in Portland, Ore., in retaliation for complaining that her students were getting a raw deal.

The $ 1.6 billion relief package has drawn fire from some education groups because it provides aid not just for public schools, but also for private schools, both to help get damaged schools up and running and to pay tuition costs of displaced students.

But because the law applied only to schools and not to other public employers, such as police and fire departments, teachers unions argued that it engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

Within the span of one year, all public - school employees were fired, the teacher contract expired and was not replaced, and the state took control of almost all public schools, dramatically reshaping the teacher workforce and providing the first direct test of an alternative to the U.S.'s century - old system of school governance.

Michelle A. Rhee, the chancellor of the troubled public school system in the nation's capital, soon will have the authority to fire hundreds of workers in the central office after the District of Columbia Council approved a measure today to grant her that power.

We are a small district in a small town, but her concern raises a number of questions that go to the heart of public school governance: How involved should the school board be in hiring and firing decisions?

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About a month later, Dennis Chaconas was fired as superintendent of the Oakland, California, public schools.

Public school choice originally caught fire from the grass roots.

In recent letters to the editor, Brant Abrahamson, the director of The Teachers» Press, and Edd Doerr, the executive director of Americans for Religious Liberty, each take aim at our recent book, Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum (the subject of a previous news article), fire several salvos our way — and miss by a mile («On Adding Religion to the Curriculum,» Oct. 21, 1998; «Public Schools Should Treat Religion More Seriously, Book Argues,» Sept. 30, 1998).

Myers, who is not a member of Pillar of Fire, said Eden Grove, which once had a mainly white student body, draws children almost exclusively from the nearby neighborhood — in part, because the transportation schedule that Cincinnati Public Schools offers isn't convenient for students living farther away.

In his first book, Death at an Early Age, he described the horrific experience of teaching at, and being fired from, a segregated public school in Boston.

he described the horrific experience of teaching at, and being fired from, a segregated public school in Boston.

It is the FIA's opinion that designers and building owners should consider the use of more fire protection in buildings that are critical to the community, such as public buildings including schools, hospitals and community centres.