Sentences with phrase «same federal district»

Coincidentally, Madden won a reduction of his restitution amount from the same federal district court.

On Friday, in the same Federal District Court where its Wall Street actions are litigated, the Southern District of New York (SDNY), it filed its bombshell RICO lawsuit on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

Not exact matches

The new lawsuit against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was assigned to the same judge who ruled for the challengers earlier, U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen, who sits in the federal courthouse in the Texas border town of Brownsville.

That wasn't even Olson's case, but with assists from a federal district court judge who came out as being in a same - sex relationship only after ruling and retiring, and elected officials who chose to forgo their traditional duty to vigorously defend state law, Olson and Boies did succeed in disenfranchising millions of Californians on a procedural technicality.

There is an obvious disparity between the funds made available by the federal government to support free meals for low - income students and the revenue collected by school districts (from federal «paid» meal reimbursements and student payments) to support the very same meals when served to children at higher income levels.

With talk this week that the Naperville Park District could settle a federal lawsuit over trapshooting in the city's Sportsman's Park, there are indications that not all the players in the matter are on the same page.

Somehow Los Angeles USD and other districts around the country are serving school meals on the same federal reimbursement as everyone else and not serving beef with pink slime.

[* Editor's Note: All school districts receive the same federal meal reimbursement based on each participating student's socioeconomic status.

This recent article by San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow describes the struggles of some districts in California to meet not just the new federal mandate to have drinking water available, but also a California state law requiring the same thing.

Broadly speaking, the same - sex marriages in New York and the 11 other states and District of Columbia will be recognized on the federal level, making them subject to the 1,000 - plus regulations and benefits.

Former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos of Long Island and his son Adam were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on six criminal counts — the same number offered in the criminal complaint filed three weeks ago by the office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara.

Michael Benjamin has a detailed critique of the congressional lines drawn by a federal judge, contending, for example, that Howard Beach and Bed - Stuy shouldn't be in the same district.

The federal government doles out massive sums to private landlords each month to maintain Congressman Gregory Meeks's and Congresswoman Grace Meng's formal offices in their Queens districts — while the two Democrats simultaneously rent campaign headquarters in the exact same buildings at far, far lower rates.

«That you, Bala A. Mohammed, while being the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, sometime in 2014 in Abuja within the Judicial Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory did accept gratification of a house worth N550, 000,000 (Five Hundred and Fifty Million Naira) only situated at No. 2599 & 2600 Cadastral Zone A04 Asokoro District, Abuja from Aso Savings & Loans Plc as reward for performing your official duties and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 18 (b) of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000 and punishable under Section 18 (d) of the same Act.»

On Saturday afternoon, Preet Bharara, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York and the most celebrated federal prosecutor since Rudolph Giuliani held the same post three decades...

But on the same 10th July, the Commission received an order given by the Federal High Court, Abuja and dated 6th July, directing the «parties to maintain the status quo till the determination of the plaintiff's motion on notice» in respect of the suit filed by the concerned senator, seeking orders of injunction against the Commission to stop it from acting on the petition by the registered voters of Kogi West Senatorial District.

It is no coincidence that Bharara comes out of the same elite federal Southern District office as Rudy Giuliani.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled late last month that due to extensive state control over school finances, California school districts are state agencies and deserve the same 11th Amendment immunity against federal lawsuits enjoyed by other branches of state government.

Three, the federal government has a role in ensuring that low - income and minority students have equal access to resources at least within the same district.

At the same time, hold districts accountable from the state and federal levels, by making their (bad) results transparent and forcing them to adopt meaningful (and unpleasant) reforms in their failing schools.

At the same time, litigants attempted to bring «equity cases» in federal courts designed to eliminate spending variations among school districts due to heavy reliance on the local property tax.

A district which provides special education services more cost - effectively has long been threatened with losing their federal aid unless they keep on spending at the same rate.

And while revenue from both state and federal sources increased at about the same rate as that of districts throughout the state, Reading averaged almost a thousand dollars more per student from outside sources than the state average (see Figure 2).

In contrast, if a district used state and local funds to cover one teacher per 25 students in its non-Title I schools, but only got to that same ratio in its Title I schools through a combination of federal Title I dollars along with state and local funds, the auditor would — in keeping with the letter and spirit of the new law — find the district in violation.

Not only was state aid decreased, but the district also faced a loss of $ 82 million in federal stimulus aid that expired that same year.

It says that to get federal money, districts have to prove a few things — among them, that they're using state and local dollars to provide roughly the same services to kids in poor and non-poor schools alike.

But at the same time, those numbers are tainted by some districts who, under pressure to meet federal standards, simply lowered the academic bar to help more students reach it.

WASHINGTON — The Richmond school district violated federal law when it clustered white students in the same classrooms in two of its schools, the U.S. Education Department's office for civil rights has concluded.

This means our schools must meet the same academic performance standards as traditional district schools, as required by federal and state laws.

You can easily lie perpetually to the school district, state and federal departments of education, state and federal lawmakers, and so forth about that same thing by marking Student 459184 «absent with excuse» on a spreadsheet.

«Yet at the same time, the federal government is asking us to get full [district and union] support,» he said.

Topics discussed include petition filed by principals from high schools in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) on the district to apply for federal small learning community (SLC) grant from the U.S. Department of Education, early college credit options through dual enrollment, dual credit offered by academies and views of student Mohamad Obaid on the same.

• Charters must comply with all federal and state laws relating to the education of children with disabilities in the same manner as a school district (ARS 15 -183).

Charter schools are required to meet the same (or often higher) state and federal academic performance standards as district public schools.

The first was a quantitative analysis of student academic outcomes, comparing results for schools that received federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) funding to similar schools in the same districts that did not.

www.nsba.org Note: The NSBA has been involved in helping school districts understand the impact of the United States Supreme Court's rulings on same - sex marriage since the Court's ruling in United States v. Windsor, where it struck down the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

Further, the same federal audit and review standards apply to charter schools as to school districts and other federal fund recipients.

TCTA's letter pointed to a Congressional Research Service report listing disaster - related federal waivers granted during 2005 - 2009, including two accountability waivers received by Texas in 2006, the same year that the then - commissioner issued «Not Rated» ratings to hurricane - impacted schools / districts.

In a ruling released on December 9, Federal Judge Robert Shelby determined that the five voting districts must be adjusted to be roughly the same size.

At the same time, HISD spends about $ 20 million annually through federal Title I grants on outside tutoring programs over which the school district has no control, Baker says.

As such, all the elementary schools in his district have the same curriculum driven by the same comprehensive school reform model; the same school environment and discipline policy; and the same way of using Title I and other federal budget dollars.

The requirements for local district plans for federal program spending and implementation remain the same in 2016 - 17.

The NAACP resolution calls for school districts and the federal government to create structures that hold charter schools to the same standards to which they hold traditional public schools.

Until now, the Malloy administration's primary mechanism to try and force parents to have their children participate in the SBAC / NEW SAT testing was to mislead and lie to parents about their rights, while at the same time, threatening that the state would withhold Title 1 federal funding that is supposed to be used to help poor children if a school district's opt out rate was greater than 5 percent.

They must administer the same federal - and state - mandated tests as school districts.

Instead, Brown has suggested that the existing system for managing federal and state special education money that runs through regional oversight bodies be replaced with a system that would more directly provide the same money to districts for SWDs.

Many districts allocate positions equitably across schools, so all schools have the same teacher - student ratio before they receive federal aid.

Federal law says that school districts must spend the money in a way that provides extra help to poor children — that it not be used to provide basic educational services — and requires that Title I schools have comparable services to those in wealthier schools in the same district.

Alyson Klein and Andrew Ujifusa, Assistant Editors, Education Week, authors of Politics K - 12 • Title of talk: Inside ESSA — the Nation's New K - 12 Law • EdWeek's expert team on federal policy will walk you through the main features of the new federal K - 12 law — the Every Student Succeeds Act — what's new, what's the same, and what a smaller federal role will mean for school districts and their leaders.

Test scores have gone up in some districts and states, but federal audit tests do not reflect the same rate of improvement.