Sentences with phrase «wonder whether the district»

An e-mail that some city school principals interpreted as an order to identify two tenured teachers for removal has educators wondering whether the district has set a firing quota.

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I take your point about the letter from Ray Cortines but I do still wonder whether the «new menu» (for which Jamie seems to take more than a bit of credit in the season finale) was already in the works before he came to L.A. My guess is still yes, just because there's likely to be considerable lag time in planning and procuring a new menu for a district of 700,000 kids.

While Hobbs said modeling can provide better information for would - be swimmers, she wonders whether it is wise for the Park District to completely leave the decision to enter the water in the hands of individuals.

With park officials spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to clarify ownership, some anglers, boaters and property owners wonder whether the Park District would now try to control their right to time, sun and space on the lake.

While almost all of them are keeping their spending requests within the mandatory tax cap, some districts wonder whether the cap is sustainable over the long term.

On the other hand, I am wondering what's keeping the Bronx DA from completing his investigation as to whether Pedro Espada resided in the district he is representing from the time he was elected.

While the current request for a federal prosecutor from six members of Congress focused on Mr. Donovan — there is «no indication that the local district attorney is prepared to aggressively prosecute this case,» they wrote — some activists have wondered whether a jury in Staten Island could give fair consideration to the case.

North District incumbent Jason M. McCarthy, also aligned with the majority bloc, was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday to answer allegations that he fraudulently obtained his petition signatures, and some now wonder whether his opponent, Hope R. Jay, will challenge some of the signatures themselves.

But McCaffrey wonders whether the commissioner spot is just a steppingstone for an elected post, like district attorney or county executive.

In the summer of 2014, after a series of news stories came out describing Cuomo secretary Larry Schwartz's alleged interference in the management of the governor's Moreland Commission to investigate corruption in the Legislature, Albany insiders wondered whether Schwartz might give up information about the governor to federal investigators in the Southern District U.S. attorney Preet Bharara's office, as part of a probe they had begun into the circumstances surrounding the commission's demise.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Anyone who wonders whether Congressmember Sean Patrick Maloney regrets having given up his days and evenings as a Manhattan attorney in exchange for the life of a minority party House member sitting through long DC committee hearings and weekending in his upstate district to attend pancake breakfasts and ribbon - cuttings should consider just -LSB-...]

The project began when geographer Clio Andris, a former Santa Fe Institute postdoctoral fellow now at Pennsylvania State University, wondered whether the interwoven House districts created by gerrymandering might actually foster cooperation.

Wondering whether genes might play a role, researchers at the Chulabhorn Research Institute in Bangkok, Thailand, led by environmental toxicologist Panida Navasumrit focused on the country's Ron Pibul district.

Skeptics have wondered whether CMOs constitute an effective management approach, whether they won't merely re-create the pathologies of school districts as they grow in size and scale, and whether they are well - suited to make use of new technological tools.

One wonders, then, whether the relatively small number of voters who show up on election day share the general views of other district residents.

After the release of our December study — which found that just one percent of district and charter school turnarounds were successful, as defined as reaching at least the 50th percentile in state proficiency in reading and math — Bryan wondered whether charter start - ups in similar neighborhoods would fare any better against such rigorous criteria.

Districts can differ in the way they test and grade, so parents may wonder whether the A their child is receiving really indicates that have mastered a subject.

District officials have been trying to shrink the size (and expense) of the ATR pool for years, leading some to wonder whether they would resort to forced placement to accomplish their goal.

And taxpayers would be left wondering whether the school district their dollars support are actually progressing.

Norm Pattis wonders whether the case of Librarian George Christian — whose treatment by the FBI violated his First Amendment rights, according to United States District Court Judge Janet Hall — will lead to additional hearings about The Patriot Act.

Wonder whether to send in one of the district judges, but feel on balance would not achieve anything as DJs always impressed by any member of higher judiciary — however temporary — and will only do what they're told.