district
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Otherwise, to challenge it, you’d literally need to bring lawsuits in all 96 federal district courts.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
"What I'm hoping to accomplish is that children in rural India should at least get a dignified education," said Dipke during a visit to a school in Maharashtra's Hingoli district.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
In addition to proportioning congressional seats, census results are also used to distribute federal funds and within each state to redraw congressional, legislative and local election district lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The fire started near a school in the Bagira district on the city's northern outskirts early on Thursday "while the children were in the middle of class", local leader Patrice Buduge told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
We’d rarely needed to venture beyond the eight or ten square blocks of the district, where we had our own churches, schools, theaters, stores of all kinds.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Already, some school districts are on high alert.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Texas enacted a law last year requiring school districts to stock at least one such device on each campus with at least one employee trained to use it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The authority will be replaced by the new West Surrey Council in April 2027 following the dissolution of Surrey County Council and its 11 boroughs and districts as part of local government reorganisation.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
The deputy federal public defenders said a defense analysis identified invalid service as acting or de facto U.S. attorneys in at least 16 districts across the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Could it be the people in the districts are right?
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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“Plaintiffs’ novel proposal is that we dismantle Georgia’s statewide PSC system and replace it with an entirely new districted system,” the court wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
As school districted switched to distance learning in March, the nonprofit Partnership for Connecticut spent $24 million to provide 60,000 laptops to high school students.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2020
Is choosing a more diverse school worth requesting the transfer, or should we stick with our districted school?
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2020
Less important but still a concern: Only one of our daughter’s friends from day care will attend the school that we are districted for.
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2020
The Citizens' Association, organized in 1864, through its Council of Hygiene and Public Health, districted the city for special investigation by sanitary experts.
From The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts
The justices further acknowledged the emergence of robust two-party competition and the increasing sophistication of computer-generated districting maps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
In 1986, the court articulated a test for determining when election districting is racially discriminatory.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
“A districting plan must comply with the broader constitutional standard of upholding the right to vote on equal terms and to substantially equal voting power,” Associate Justice Robin Hudson wrote in the prevailing opinion.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
“I see the argument on the other side — a state interest in independent districting commissions. But as I read this, it is about districting in Los Angeles,” Chemerinsky said via email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
Of course it was difficult to determine routes of travel there, and to a large extent that had to be left to the supervisors, but they merely revised our original districting.
From The Boy With the U.S. Census by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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