Rather than letting the lawsuits before the judge become more examples of
what federal district court Judge Otis D. Wright has called «essentially an extortion scheme,» Judge Baylson has decided to move forward with a «bellwether trial» to determine the validity of Malibu's claims.
Clerking with a magistrate judge is slightly more limited in scope as their remit is constrained by
what federal district judges assign them.
Not exact matches
Sessions» policy will let U.S. attorneys across the country decide
what kinds of
federal resources to devote to marijuana enforcement based on
what they see as priorities in their
districts, the people familiar with the decision said.
As New York Fed president I try to get out of my New York City office as much as I can to get a sense of regional economic conditions across
what is known as the second
Federal Reserve
District.
What is happening in
District 59 is echoing throughout the suburbs and Illinois, puzzling state and
federal officials who run the school lunch program.
Similarly, those who live in
districts dependent on
federal reimbursement should learn
what they can from more successful
districts — the reduction of inefficiencies, etc. — that may be replicable even without additional funding.
«When it comes to managing the Park
District on a day to day basis, as employees of the
District, we are bound to do
what is legal under
Federal law.
For example,
what if
districts with lower property values received more
federal reimbursement dollars for school meals than
districts with higher property values, with the affluent
districts making up the difference via a higher lunch price for paying students?
Manufacturers can fortify and tweak their products so that they are compliant with the nutrient standard and can also offer
what's called a «CN Label» that indemnifies the school
district should it later be found noncompliant with
federal nutrition regulations.
Shows like Jamie Oliver's «Food Revolution,» and school
districts like Chef Ann Cooper's former
district in Berkeley, CA and current
district in Boulder, CO, are often held up as examples of
what's possible in school food reform, yet it's seldom ever mentioned that in each of these cases, far more money is being spent on those meals than the current
federal reimbursement rate — and far more than that rate plus six cents.
Just think of
what someone with your passion could accomplish in your own local school
district if freed from all state and
federal mandates.
The New York Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday morning the settlement of a
federal lawsuit against the Buffalo City School
District for
what it charged was «the open and systematic discrimination of LGBTQ students at McKinley High School.»
WHITE PLAINS, NY — John Gallagher, the former Facilities Director for the City School
District of New Rochelle, was back in White Plains
Federal Court Thursday for a status conference to update Judge Kenneth M. Karas on
what has taken place since Gallagher was last in court of May 24th.
Who: The Blue Dogs
What They Want: This group of about 50 House Democrats is dedicated to lowering
federal deficits and creating greater health - care cost controls (though not necessarily reducing spending in their
districts).
That's
what's happened with Republican nominee Mark Greenberg in the 5th Congressional
District: His campaign treasurer filed four amended campaign finance reports Thursday with the
Federal Election Commission to reflect $ 6,400 in debt to the Greenberg - controlled Watertown Main Street LLC for eight months of office space rental.
Court papers in the two cases suggest that testimony in
Federal District Court will expose in granular detail
what watchdog groups say is a seamy world where big money and politics have long intersected with government.
The judges in the redistricting case, Reena Raggi and Gerard E. Lynch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Dora L. Irizarry of
Federal District Court in Brooklyn, noted that the magistrate judge they assigned to draw the new map managed to do in just two weeks
what lawmakers «have been unable, or unwilling, to provide New York State voters in more than a year.»
Long Island Democrats are increasingly optimistic — thanks to a
federal judge, Republican rivalries, and
what they see as a lagging Trump campaign — that they'll be able to hold on to the North Shore's Third Congressional
District seat being vacated by longtime US Rep. Steve Israel, the outgoing chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
The judge, Valerie E. Caproni of
Federal District Court, said a number of jurors» answers suggested that they had had a problem with
what they had read about the former speaker.
I'm going to bring community leader, other elected officials at the local, state and
federal level, have access to other financial and human resources to give the school board and the superintendent
what's needed to turn the city around, which is to turn the school
district around.
The
Federal Deposition also makes us question
what role did the Westchester County
District Attorneys office play in facilitating these false reports and
what role does the Westchester County Chiefs Association in upholding ethical standards among the forty three municipalities in Westchester County?
• protections for racial and language minority groups in the drawing of
district lines consistent with the Voting Rights Act, ensuring those protections remain regardless of
what happens at the
federal level; and
The complaint, filed in a
federal district court by two prominent heart researchers, offers the first indication of just
what is amiss in two papers they co-authored, which describe the heart's natural regenerative ability, and an effort to heal damaged hearts with stem cells.»
At the end of the day, no matter
what 50 state departments of education discover in the many complex pages of
federal legislation and then promulgate as official policy to local
districts and schools, teachers may continue as they please.
Districts, of course, can also seek operating levies from local taxpayers to boost revenues beyond
what the state affords them, while charters depend entirely on state and
federal per - pupil allocations and whatever they can raise from philanthropy (see Figure 1 for current spending estimates).
The suit, filed in U.S.
District Court in Hartford on Aug. 22, argues that
federal funding to Connecticut falls far short of
what is needed to meet the law's testing and accountability requirements, a violation of the U.S. Constitution and provisions in the nearly 4 - year - old statute itself.
With the tremendous pressure — and guidelines from the
federal government, state governments, and local school
districts — principals are often not sure
what matters most and
what will improve academic achievement at their schools, Hood said.
What has been the largest impact of
federal stimulus funding for your
district?
While it might be useful to interview local hiring administrators and
district personnel to get a better sense of
what's happening on the ground, there are some
federal data sources that might give us a clearer picture of teacher shortages.
Federal courts have played a key role in the development of special education policy by interpreting
what Congress wrote in IDEA three decades ago, and the Supreme Court is reviewing
what the law means by a «free appropriate public education» as it considers Endrew F. v. Douglas County School
District, which deals with the standard of services
districts are required to provide (see «Examining the Standards for Special Education» legal beat, Summer 2017).
What measures has your
district taken to build sustainability for programs run through limited
federal funding streams?
Experts in the various disciplines would develop national standards for
what students should know and be able to do at key points in their schooling; a
federal council of distinguished citizens would review and certify the standards as worthy of emulation; states and school
districts would voluntarily adopt them; teachers would teach to them; and students would achieve them.
Experts in the various disciplines would develop national standards for
what students should know and be able to do at key points in their schooling; a
federal council of distinguished citizens would review and certify the standards as worthy of emulation; states and school
districts would voluntarily adopZwcm; teachers would teach to them; and students would achieve them.
For instance, it must choose whether to allocate all the
federal dollars by formula, or ask
districts to compete for some of those dollars by declaring
what reforms those dollars would fund.
Two well - known commercial reading programs, which have been adopted by some of the nation's largest school
districts and have met the strict requirements for research - based programs under the
federal Reading First initiative, failed to earn ratings from the
What Works Clearinghouse because they do not have any studies that satisfy the agency's rigorous evidence standards.
The school
district could not know exactly
what Corbett planned to do with the education budget, but it recognized that a big increase in state funding to offset the elimination of
federal stimulus funding was unlikely.
As others have noted, the
federal government can make states and
districts do
what they don't want to, but it can't make them do it well.
Also in this issue: A look back at
what the Obama administration's signature education reform got wrong, with lessons learned to guide states and
districts in refining their teacher evaluation systems, and a warning on the limits of federally - led school reform; a proposal for how to redesign education research under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and a debate on whether there is a
federal constitutional right to education.
From this perspective, school spending may, in some states or
districts, be below
what is required to steadily improve student achievement in line with
federal requirements for «adequate yearly progress.»
As the U.S. Department of Education prepares to throw $ 3 billion in one - time money on the table to improve perennially foundering schools, a gulf is emerging between
what federal officials would like to see done with the funds and
what many
districts say is their capacity — and inclination — to deliver.
When she arrived in the Senate in 1993, there was — hard to believe — no dedicated funding stream for after - school programs in the
federal budget, which was instead sending billions to school
districts and states with little regard for
what happened after the official school day was over.
In
what experts are calling the most significant court test to date of the concept of «comparable worth,» a
federal district judge ruled this month that the state of Washington was guilty of wage discrimination in paying women employees less than men performing similar kinds of work.
U.S. Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D - Ill., says the
federal government paid for more than 1,700
District of Columbia students to attend private schools, but doesn't know
what schools many attended.
That is, absent a clearly articulated view about the
federal government's strengths and weakness,
what it should and shouldn't do, and how it ought to interact with families, schools,
districts, and states, an administration is asking for trouble.
Many feel powerless against state and
federal laws, uncertain as to
what their
district leaders will endorse, unsure how to steer anger into action, or overwhelmed by a torrent of youthful voices.
What everyone seems to agree is that ESSA will, as the Washington Post summarized, «significantly shift authority over the nation's 100,000 public schools from the
federal government to states and local school
districts.»
The
federal No Child Left Behind Act has helped prompt some school
districts to develop, for the first time, a well - articulated curriculum for English - language learners — and even to work together in tackling
what can be a daunting task for local educators.
The
federal government could pull back from telling states and
districts what to do and instead focus on gathering solid, comparable data about academics and finances.
These efforts have paid short shrift to the simple and frustrating fact that, while public policy can make people do things, it can not make people do those things well... First, state and
federal policymakers do not run schools; they merely write laws and regulations telling school
districts what principals and teachers ought to do.
What's driving the recent efforts is frustration with longstanding school failure, not the lure of
federal grant money that helped push the first three
districts into being.