Sentences with phrase «with local district officials»

In 1949, he took charge of the newly created National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, which, by the end of the 1950s, helped spur the creation of more than 15,000 citizen groups focused on working with local district officials to improve local school problems.

Inquire with your local district officials for further instructions.»

Not exact matches

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

From Schaumburg to Elmhurst to Chicago Ridge, a growing number of suburban school districts are joining forces with local park officials to create day - care programs for children of working parents.

The report was prepared by Michigan - based the Isaac Sports Group, or ISG, which spent the past six months meeting with local swim teams and park district officials from Oak Brook and Carol Stream, where there are indoor pools.

With the Park District increasingly dependent on outside funding for capital improvements, the advisory councils have stepped in, convincing state and local elected officials to contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Republican state Sen. George Amedore of Rotterdam, who represents a swing state Senate district likely to be competitive in 2018, has attracted a Democratic challenger with strong support already from local party officials: Pat Strong, a Kingston business owner.

The agreement requires «the town, its officers, officials, employees, and agents to continue to cooperate with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and any and all federal, state and local agencies and authorities, on matters whether civil or criminal in nature, regarding these allegations.»

Lancman and the New York Democratic Lawyers Council joined together with federal, state and local elected officials to announce a mobilization effort to protect the vote in swing states as well as swing districts within New York State.

Bipartisanship has been a big focus in this race, with Maloney touting the support he has received from a number of local GOP elected officials — especially state Sen. Bill Larkin — in the closely - divded district.

She has also held calls and meetings with local elected officials, local hospitals, healthcare providers, and she has spoken with community health groups in our district.

«It's absolutely critical that any congress member be working with local officials, local organizers, on all kinds of issues because the deeper that grounding (is) the more power you have,» the 19th Congressional District candidate told reporters.

Bridgeton — Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assemblyman John Burzichelli joined with local officials, educators and others in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Bridgeton School District as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

«We will also present our Shared Services Plan that we spent the last few months working on collaboratively with local city, town and village officials as well as school districts and BOCES.

Erie County Legislators Lynne Dixon, Joseph Lorigo and Ted Morton joined the New York State Attorney General, along with local, county and state officials, at a press conference today to support efforts to aid victims who were subjected to price gouging during the November storm that dumped more than six feet of snow on their districts.

News of Miller's retirement first surfaced on Twitter Wednesday after the Congressman reportedly began contacting local elected officials in his district with the news.

Though there are not that many active Independence Party officials across the state — only about half of the state's 62 counties have a local chair — a number of those who are working in swing Senate districts have landed state government jobs with the chamber's Republican majority.

Recently, CVH released a statement with dozens of high profile New York elected officials and other allies, such as District Council 37 and Transit Workers Union Local 100, calling for the expansion of the Transitional Jobs program in New York City and the termination of the Work Experience Program.

Heastie, who represents a district in the Bronx, is planning to travel through upstate New York and meet with local officials and tour businesses.

In a statement Friday afternoon, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office appeared to suggest it may consider removing Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove from office, after the local prosecutor was arraigned earlier in the day on two counts of official misconduct and one count of perjury in connection with his handling of the April 2016 police shooting of Edson Thevenin on the Collar City Bridge.

Mr. Kwatra helped turn the political arm of the HTC into a vaunted get - out - the - vote machine — ironically, his old union sided with Mr. Espaillat — and was able to win overwhelmingly in East Harlem, a noted battleground in the district where local elected officials, including Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, endorsed Mr. Espaillat.

«We continue to be incredibly grateful with the advocacy efforts of our local and New York State elected officials on behalf of the Alden and Holland Central School Districts,» said Fabiatos and Stoltman in a joint statement.

NSF officials have also asked a Bethesda, Maryland, consultant to assess best practices within an existing NSF - funded program that pairs university researchers with local school districts.

They frequently conduct in - district congressional meetings with their elected officials, and they keep local PD community members informed of the latest policy developments through a newsletter.

This may be popular with teacher unions and local district officials in Texas, but the general public nationwide may think otherwise.

With a $ 5.9 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, a local philanthropic organization, they set out to transform the prevailing vision of what preK - 12 education is for — as one district official put it, «to meet the needs of the kids» future, and not the teachers» past.»

It was the first independent audit of the district since state education officials replaced Paterson's administrators and school board with their own management team and a local advisory council in 1991.

Official Ohio Department of Education policy bans districts» use of flagging to harass the charter schools, but some charter operators complain that the state often looks the other way and insists that charter schools resolve the problem with the local districts.

Instead of deflecting potential concerns, it aggravated them, opening a festering sore about funding for district schools, which local officials say are straining to make do under an outdated state financing formula that has not kept pace with spiraling costs.

Until the district can upgrade the classrooms with $ 23,000 worth of attachments to the public address system so that the students can hear the alarms and the classrooms meet the local fire codes, officials had to come up...

We recommend the creation of a Task Force to examine these state laws and other, similar policies, and to consult with appropriate national experts, to determine an appropriate suite of state policy interventions for consideration by the General Assembly, the State Board of Education, DPI, and local boards of education and district officials.

The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday denied a request by the state's top education official to extend a flexibility waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, a decision that will place restrictions on nearly $ 30 million in annual federal funding for local school districts beginning with the 2015 - 2016 school year.

L.A. County Rejects School Districts» Bid to Avoid Voting Rights Suits Los Angeles County officials rejected a bid Tuesday from several Santa Clarita Valley school districts and a water district hoping to consolidate elections and avoid the kind of voting rights lawsuits that other local governments have been Districts» Bid to Avoid Voting Rights Suits Los Angeles County officials rejected a bid Tuesday from several Santa Clarita Valley school districts and a water district hoping to consolidate elections and avoid the kind of voting rights lawsuits that other local governments have been districts and a water district hoping to consolidate elections and avoid the kind of voting rights lawsuits that other local governments have been hit with.

If an alliance district will submit to getting rid of veteran teachers (and replacing them with scab labor from TFA); getting rid of staff people, not just in the schools and central office, but in town offices as well; hand over their democratic rights to elect their officials and let a Strong Man / Woman Mayor appoint people to the Board of Ed (even non residents); remove all checks and balances in local government; and, let any reformer do whatever they want to children, who will be guinea pigs for reform, drill - and - kill, «no excuses» punishments of preschoolers and kindergarteners — THEN Malloy will release money for leaky roofs and essential remediation of toxins.

The district must designate one or more LEA and / or school official (s) who have the authority and responsibility to ensure each school complies with the local wellness policy.

Innovation School Fellows also will receive significant support during their planning year, including feedback on their school - design plans from national and local experts; opportunities to visit best - in - class schools across the country; access to a national network of school - incubation leaders; and sessions with IPS officials to learn district operations.

Officials for the school district say they worked jointly with the local teachers» union to agree on how state - generated test - score data would be interpreted, and took pains to make the evaluation instrument clear, to help make those finer distinctions in performance.

«The way districts handle professional development with teachers — to me it's a crime,» said Rayne Martin, a former state official who authored Louisiana's Race to the Top application and now heads the local branch of a national advocacy group called Stand for Children.

Thanks to the tireless work of local advocates and organizers, officials in the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to put an end to suspensions for «willful defiance» with the adoption of a new school discipline policy that focuses on positive alternatives that keep students in the classroom.

But in spite of our financial challenges, our commitment to providing every child in every community with a high - quality education is as strong as ever, and the district, parents, teachers, principals, community members, local elected officials and business leaders must work together to protect investments in student learning that will maintain the tangible progress being made by our students.

«There won't be any honeymoon,» Pumphrey said, explaining he could hit the ground running and already has relationships with district officials and local law enforcement agencies.

Turner coordinated regional planning efforts to respond to the education funding crisis; developed and monitored collaborative work with local civic and elected officials focusing on school success; and was part of a small team, led by the mayor, that successfully averted an impending strike by negotiating a settlement between the Portland school district and the Portland Association of Teachers.

Groups representing school officials are pleased that the bill would repeal the existing set of corrective actions (public school choice, supplemental services, reconstitution, etc.) and allow states and local districts to determine how best to improve their struggling schools, but some have expressed concern that the bill eliminates the School Improvement Grant program with its dedicated funding for improving states» lowest - performing schools.

Although four years have passed since Congress approved the last major rewrite of the Americans with Disabilities Act, federal education officials are continuing their efforts to further clarify the 2008 Amendments Act» legislation for local school districts.»

REACH works with the participating SOs to help them better understand the importance of maintaining that personal relationship with their elected officials and the media to show the tremendous positive impact that the program has on children and families in their local districts.

Finally, after speaking with many local school superintendents and reviewing the correspondence that they sent out to teachers and parents last spring, it is clear that Malloy's Department of Education also tried to scare local officials into believing that any widespread opt - out or boycott of the Common Core SBAC test would jeopardize funding for the local school district.

Noted education leader Paul Vallas was in town Friday talking to local business leaders about school reform, and he plans to meet with District 150 officials sometime after Christmas.

Officials in the District of Columbia are pooling local money with federal Head Start funding in an effort to support more and better pre-K services being provided by community - based organizations and charter schools.

The Educational Service Center coordinated these activities with officials from local police and fire departments that served the participating school districts; the Lucas County Sheriff; the Lucas County Emergency Management Agency; the Lucas County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board; the Toledo - Lucas County Health Health Department; and the Lucas County Board of Developmental Disabilities to ensure that crises — whether school or community - originated — could be addressed quickly and effectively through an integrated approach.

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