Sentences with phrase «right out of this district»

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Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

San Francisco Supervisor Scott Weiner, whose district includes parts of the Mission — an increasingly trendy area of San Francisco, where some of the bus protests have taken place — warned that lashing out against tech workers was not the right approach to address the issue of gentrification.

MaRS Discovery District («MaRS») supports the full inclusion of persons with disabilities as set out in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Ontario Human Rights Code, the 2001 Ontarians with Disabilities Act (ODA) and the 2005 Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

Ellen Gipson has been with the Jackson R2 School District since 2013, taking the job right out of college.

On Monday and Thursday evenings each week, the basement of the Mt. Prospect Park District building turns into a scene right out of historic England.

There, staff members from the Park District's Heller Nature Center dished out samples of both the just - tapped sap and the good stuff along with such facts as: Only the maple trees in North America grow in the right climate to produce the properly sweet sap that can be turned into maple syrup.

The Public Works Committee is hammering out the details involved in giving the Randolph Street right - of - way to the Park District, Borchert said.

Work on the project, which is to be done on the village right of way, had been delayed until an agreement could be worked out between the village and the park district.

It «s not a captive market any more and we have to be cognizant of putting the right things out there that they are going to eat, «explains Oliver Cinnamon, food service director of Kankakee School District 111.

Today's guest blogger, San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow, does a great job of laying out all the factors one should consider in figuring out whether and how to emulate a school or district that seems to be getting school food right.]

The article profiles the efforts of Dick Armey's FreedomWorks to «turn local Tea Party groups into a standing get - out - the - vote operation in Congressional districts across the country,» in part through a series of trainings that would be right at home in the 2008 Obama grassroots operation.

Hollingsworth claims that both the school district and the police department violated Ahmed's rights, which led to a chain of events that ultimately forced the family to move out of the country to Doha, Qatar.

While it's naturally a Democratic district, Cancel was criticized right out of the gate for being too close to the old Silver Apparatus.

«It's my job to represent this area and to make sure that we get our fair share, and that any money taken out of NYPA stays right here in this district,» said Ceretto.

We must commit to expanding voting rights and getting big money out of politics so that billionaires are no longer able to hold our democracy hostage,» Jamaica Miles, Capital District Organizer, Citizen Action of New York.

These maps were drawn before the Court's 2013 decision tossing out much of the Voting Rights Act, and they contain small deviations in population (less than 10 percent at their peak) across districts.

The mailing was sent out in the districts of Sheila Harsdorff and Rob Cowles who are both anti-gay GOP representatives who backed Govenor Scott Walker's attempt to take away collective bargaining rights from public employees and are facing recall challenges from progressive Democrats Shelly Moore and Nancy Nusbaum

New York City Council Member Larry B. Seabrook, Chair of the Civil Rights Committee and Council Member John Liu, Chair of the Transportation will host a community meeting and speak out in District 12, on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's toll and fare increases and service cuts on bus and subway lines.

Democrats who represent marginal districts, like David Valesky, Bill Stachowski, Brian Foley, Darrel Aubertine, and Joseph Addabbo Jr. (the primary beneficiaries of gay - rights fund - raising), have tried to put off the vote out of fear it would jeopardize their seats.

After the loss, he stayed on with Nadler, working as his district coordinator while also volunteering as leader of the Mitchell - Lama Residents Coalition, which sought to preserve affordable housing right around the time Mitchell - Lama properties began aging out of the program.

And since many would otherwise get right out of jail and commit the same kind of crimes, the program saves money, says Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara.

In a move reminiscent of the one that redistricted Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries out of the Brooklyn district in which he lived back in 2002 — landing him a star turn in that cult classic, «Gerrymandering» — the Republicans bumped Adams right out of the 20th SD, making a little dip right at the neck joint of this goose - like new distrtict.

Pitting high - needs districts against the affluent is ridiculous; pitting them against each other is right out of Spartacus.

Coupled wiith the need to seek out the right weapon parts over every nook and cranny of the city's entertainment district, this means that Chuck's downtime between story missions quickly becomes an utterly compulsive cyclical reward for ploughing through the compulsory objectives.

Or the state could simply require that districts that fail to reduce costs responsibly get out of the property - ownership business, either by having the state assume ownership, by placing the buildings into a third - party trust, or by establishing a cooperative to which charter schools have equal rights.

Yet when this culture - first leader took the helm of Tennessee's new Achievement School District in 2011, he concluded that anyone's first move in that role ought to be, «Get a great lawyer, understand the legislation, and understand what you can and can not do right out of the gate.»

Ben Merrill, principal of southwestern Idaho's small, rural Notus Junior / Senior High School and superintendent for the Notus School District, says, «Out here, when I have an opening for a teacher in advanced science or math, I may get two to three applicants, all right out of college — no one with a master's degrOut here, when I have an opening for a teacher in advanced science or math, I may get two to three applicants, all right out of college — no one with a master's degrout of college — no one with a master's degree.

Instead, districts would have to do significant parts of their budgeting in an ad hoc manner to make the numbers come out right each and every year.

CJ Pascoe, a professor at Colorado State University, spent more than a year observing boys in a high school in California's Central Valley, a conservative district some of the locals describe as «right out of Iowa.»

I'm in New Haven (CT) right now, and the district has gone from having an outside vendor deliver meals that are, out of necessity, pre-processed, to deciding on having a central kitchen and going as natural as they can manage while feeding 20,000 students a day.»

During the Vergara trial, attempting to do away with teacher due process rights, sworn testimony (during discovery) was given that, as stated above, thinking administrators were able to successfully ease teachers out of the profession, careful scrutiny of beginning teachers by competent administrators prevented districts from hiring teachers who did not fit the district, and the average time to dismiss a teacher via the legal process was months and tens of thousands of dollars.

Over time, key court decisions, as well as later revisions to the federal law and regulations issued by federal agencies, have spelled out the rights of students and the obligations of school districts.

Legislation allowing parents the right to opt their children out of state and district tests is moving ahead in at least 10 states, though none are likely to pass in time to affect this spring's testing season.

In addition, John E. Deasy, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District and «a staunch opponent of tenure rules and «last in, first out» seniority for teachers,» testified on the side of the plaintiffs, while also noting, however, that «good administrators don't grant due process rights to ineffective teachers.»

While the teachers, districts, and the folks in Sacramento all have the luxury of five years (as Michael Kirst likes to say) to figure things out with Common Core and the new wave of standardized tests, what about the 6 + million students in school right now?

«At the end of day, the naysayers may be dead - on right that we should not be assessing social and emotional skills or including them in a report card, but I flatly reject that we shouldn't try to figure this out... that education should not be a continuous learning institute,» notes Rick Miller, executive director of the CORE districts.

As both a third - grade teacher and a member of the steering committee that assembled the state report, I believe that we started out with the right approach to this work by identifying potential elements of institutional racism, emphasizing the role that district and school leadership play in hiring and retaining teachers, and looking at the role teacher preparation and induction play in teacher equity.

Title I districts are also newly required by the ESSA to annually notify parents and guardians that they may request information on any state or local policy regarding student participation in any state or district - required assessment, including any parental rights they may have to opt their child out of taking a required assessment.

A letter to school districts will go out Friday, adding to a highly charged debate over transgender rights in the middle of the administration's legal fight with North Carolina over the issue.

«Given that we've got expertise right here in the district, I don't see a need to spend our scarce dollars to bring in more out - of - state consultants,» Juhnke said.

«Right now, Bridgeport ranks 163 out of 165 school districts in Connecticut, with more students trapped in failing schools than in any other city in the state, according to the State Department of Education.

In response, Jennifer Alexander, the acting chief executive officer for the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), made the following statement: «Right now, Bridgeport ranks 163 out of 165 school districts in Connecticut, with more students trapped in failing schools than in any other city in the state, according to the State Department of Education.

I feel blessed that public charter schools are an option when district schools may not be the right environment and private schools may be financially out of reach.

If the state allows some parents the right to opt out of state exams, it MUST give ALL parents this right, and consequences to schools and districts across the state must be equitable.»

Families frequently take advantage of these options, with only about a quarter of public school students attending their in - boundary schools — District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) that students have a right to attend based on their address — and the rest enrolling in out - of - boundary DCPS schools or public charter schools.

Melnick doesn't see that kind of work changing much under the new administration; instead, he thinks the big change will involve the practice of issuing «Dear Colleague» letters, which lay out the OCR's position on civil rights issues, to school districts and institutions of higher education.

An out - of - state reporter recently checked a seemingly obvious fact with the head of the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools: The «recovery» in the Recovery School District's name refers to coming back from Katrina, right?

He spoke out against the governor's successful push to strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights, and Evers has also advocated for significant increases in school funding — both by increasing state aid to schools and by allowing local school districts to raise additional revenue through property taxes.

The Office of Civil Rights in the Obama Department of Education even issued guidances effectively coercing school districts into meting out racially proportionate discipline — with predictably disastrous results.

Parents of public school students in a number of Connecticut school districts continue to report that there are superintendents and principals who are not only misleading parents about their fundamental and inalienable right to refuse to have their child participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests and / or the NEW SAT, but are actually telling parents that it is «illegal» for them to opt their child or children out of these tests.