Sentences with phrase «who runs the district»

Central office employees, for example, often complain they don't know who runs the district.

Progressive Era reforms transformed a set of one - room schoolhouses into the «one best system,» shifting power from the teacher and the school to the superintendent who ran the district.

Not exact matches

But so are the benefits: proximity to high - level execs, who drop in for pep talks and training sessions (founder Marc Benioff did not appear the week I was there, but his aura was everywhere); free run of the City by the Bay after hours; and the glow, the buzz, the grace that imbue Salesforce's vibrant headquarters in San Francisco's SoMa district, reminding initiates at every turn that they're part of something special.

Donors with close ties to President Donald Trump, including alt - right supporter and Cambridge Analytica creator Robert Mercer, are giving generously to vulnerable California House Republicans who are running in districts where Trump is not considered popular.

In interviews and statements, Jacobs, at 29 the youngest candidate running to represent the coastal district in northern San Diego County, has said she was a «policy maker» who worked for the State Department under President Barack Obama.

Matt Huffman, a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives (term - limited out), and now running for state senate in Jordan's district, remembers going to Jordan's daughter's wedding a few years ago and being surprised at who he ended up sitting with for dinner.

In December 2000, Austin was allegedly run over by windsurfer Dane Barnhard, who left a six - inch gash in Austin's shin and now faces prosecution by the Maui district attorney.

There's the geeky Clarence Nerdelbaum, who carries a calculator and pocket «nerd pack» full of pens and pencils; Dr. Outrageous, a hip neurosurgeon in a surgical mask and scrubs; and Gary Wallstreet, who competed last spring in the Wall Street Rat Race, a 3K run in which the runners circle Manhattan's financial district in business togs while gripping attachè cases.

Parents like that,» said Scott Stevenson, who oversees the Park District's nine harbors and helps run Prams in the Park.

But James Strang, a former park board member who is helping lead the fight against the referendum, said that if the district is dissolved and later re-established it «will take a year or two «to get programs running again.

The Park District election in Highland Park promises to be a hot one this April after Lorenz Werhane, Jr., who resigned amid a pension - padding controversy, threw his hat in the ring to run again for a seat on the board.

The Park District of Highland Park is one of the state's biggest, with a budget of $ 20 million and about 75 full - time employees who run a golf course, recreation facility, ice rink, public beaches, hundreds of acres of parks and an aquatic facility.

Ann Cooper, who runs food service for our local school district, says you can't expect everything to improve overnight.

You will hear from a panel of your peers who have implemented and are successfully running school breakfast programs in their districts.

What is happening in District 59 is echoing throughout the suburbs and Illinois, puzzling state and federal officials who run the school lunch program.

It created a more businesslike management structure, decentralized the district into regions for more local control and gave top priority to the hiring of someone who actually knew something about running a park system.

I know the Chicago Park District and Westrec Marinas (who run Chicago's harbors) are trying to find more places to fit in slips, and keeping everyone happy will be difficult, if not impossible.

Kelly, who rose to power in the park district during the heyday of the patronage system controlled by the late Mayor Richard J. Daley, was frequently accused of running a bastion of patronage in the park district and unnecessarily inflating the administrative staff.

The question of who is running the Chicago Park District headed for the courts Thursday after three members of the old district board voted to file suit challenging a Monday afternoon coup staged by supporters of Mayor Harold WasDistrict headed for the courts Thursday after three members of the old district board voted to file suit challenging a Monday afternoon coup staged by supporters of Mayor Harold Wasdistrict board voted to file suit challenging a Monday afternoon coup staged by supporters of Mayor Harold Washington.

Johnson, who moved to Park Ridge in 2009, said she knows politics very well and ran unsuccessfully for state representative in the 9th district in 2009.

Several meetings have been held to bring together Town Square's management group, the center's design group, village and Park District officials, public works employees and the folks who run one of the mall's eateries.

I can only speculate that it has something to do with Tom Vilsack's wife, Christie, who is running for Iowa's 4th Congressional District.

Kelly, who ran the park district as general superintendent for 13 years before resigning on Sunday, said last week that he emptied his office because of threats he said Madison made about breaking into the office to get files.

Mike Salazar, a resident who also is running for the Park District Board, questioned whether a recreational facility is needed at all.

But Pat Brinker, president of the Naperville Park District Swim Conference, said the area pools do lose older teens who prefer the option of Centennial Beach, a Park District - run facility.

Northbrook resident Lise Schleicher, who voted at Wescott School's election location, said the two most important races for her were in the District 30 and in the Northbrook Park District, where four candidates ran for three spots.

During the mayoral campaign Brondyke, who ran unopposed for the park board, was part of a shadow slate of Park District candidates backing Broda and his allies, helping in their campaigns and gathering nominating petitions.

Some details — like who will run it for the Park District — have yet to be worked out.

Schwartz, who also is an advisory board member with the International Racquet Sports Association, wants the portion of the Park District that is being run to make a profit to pay property and income taxes just as private sector businesses do.

Any resident of the Park District of Highland Park who meets the requirements set forth by the Lake County Board of elections is eligible to run for a seat on the Park Board.

But state GOP Chairman Ed Cox and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos intervened and brokered a deal that resulted in the candidacy — and eventual victory — of Rep. Bob Turner, who had run against former Rep. Anthony Weiner in the district in 2010.

Killian, who is running in a pivotal special election on April 24 to fill the district vacated by Westchester County Executive George Latimer, said the tax amounted to a «bait and switch» if the revenue isn't sent to a dedicated and protected fund.

Joe Crowley, who has always wanted to run in a Queens - only district and leave the Bronx behind.

We know that there were councilors who were chosen by lots who ran certain districts / held certain positions, but what did these people do on a day to day basis?

The re-election campaign committee for Gov. Andrew Cuomo donated $ 11,000 to the state Senate campaign of Democrat Barbara Fiala, who is running an uphill race for a special election to fill a vacant Binghamton - area district.

The group this week spent $ 22,201 on a mail campaign boosting Democratic state Senate candidate Shelley Mayer, who is running in a key district in Westchester County.

Sen. Tom Duane's brother, John, has created a campaign committee to run for the NYC Council in the 19th CD in Queens — a district currently represented by Dan Halloran, who is the sole Republican running for Congress in the newly - drawn NY - 6.

Conference lawmakers on Thursday held a fundraiser, attended by Cuomo and Shelley Mayer, a Democrat running in Westchester County's 37th Senate district, as well as Luis Sepulveda, who is running for a Bronx seat.

Collins is a hypocritical loser who once ran for Congress in a district where he did not reside!

It's unclear if any of the other candidates who expressed interest in this district — Assemblyman Rory Lancman, who bowed to county's wishes not once, but twice, only to be passed over yet again; Sen. Tony Avella, and NYC Councilman Mark Weprin — will decide to run without the party's support.

Cancel has ties to Silver's political allies in the Assembly district and defeated Yuh - Line Niou, who ran on the Working Families Party line.

The video, released Thursday, dovetails with Jacobs's entry into the race for the 60th Senate district, a seat that's being vacated by Democratic Sen. Marc Panepinto, who is not running for re-election.

Schumer, as reported yesterday by City & State, is lending his support to Queens Democratic Sen. Toby Stavisky, who was drawn by the Democrats into a primary with her colleague, Sen. Tony Avella, and so has opted to run in the new Asian - majority district instead.

On walks in local neighborhoods, they could run into gun - control advocates, who plan to blanket key districts with fliers.

Meng campaigned on behalf of Democrat Jon Ossoff, who is running a competitive race in the otherwise heavily Republican district formerly represented by Tom Price, now the secretary of Health and Human Services.

In the last congressional election in Brazil (where all candidates run state - wide rather than in electoral districts) the candidate who received the most votes in the state of Sao Paulo was a television clown.

Democrat Kerin Rigney, a DeWitt town councilor, is running for the 50th district state Senate seat that may be vacated by Republican John DeFrancisco, the deputy Senate majority leader who is seeking the GOP to run for governor.

Outside of Turner, who is running for US Senate, all 5 of them are running for re-election in moderate districts — though some are definitely more moderate than others.

(Also in the running were former NYC Councilman / current Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky, who was the only white candidate in the race and drew fire by moving into the district to take advantage of the split black vote; former Sen. Carl Andrews, and Owens» son, Chris).

The issue is being raised in part by Liuba Grechen Shirley, who is running in the Democratic primary for the state's second congressional district on Long Island.