Sentences with phrase «local groups rather»

They want to devolve control to local groups rather than local government planners.

Not exact matches

This requires local and national coalitions of public interest groups to organize to demand that the existing regulatory processes work to protect the public rather than the industry they are supposed to regulate.

At the other end of the north group, Bolton stretched their lead to five points with a win against Barnsley and it is Sheffield Wednesday again, rather than United, who are in second place; that draw against Crewe being enough to take them above their local rivals.

And we, as a society, are finding ways to transcend the existing gaps at a rapid pace, with such ideas as mindfulness in schools rather than issuing detention and offering free positive discipline education at local API Support Groups.

Citing a recent paper by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, and Peter Orszag of the Brookings Institution, the groups reminded Governor Pataki that cutting state and local services during a recession will make the situation worse rather than better.

Oftentimes rather than a pure decision, instead legislatures may have a local legal group to look over a law for areas where they fell a judge MAY have issues with it.

This is his «passion» and the initiatives it has spawned are visible across government: from the new academy schools run by teachers rather than local authorities, via the health service mutuals planned in the NHS white paper, to the renewed emphasis on charities and volunteer groups.

Professor Gallent explained: «Planning and Local Government reforms are seen by community groups as serving the interests of policymakers rather than local peLocal Government reforms are seen by community groups as serving the interests of policymakers rather than local pelocal people.

The job of the State and Local Government Reform Group is to avoid addressing The Spoils System in the Agencies and Authorities as THE source of the problem (or rather, THE PROBLEM)... like The Plague!

As a voter and a local leader, I work to elect representatives that will be strong advocates for the interests of my family and for my community, rather than for single - minded interest groups.

For people who would rather make connections in person, local interest groups combine fun activities with the chance to meet like - minded souls.

Through this, leaders can search for specific skills, specialisms, and classroom year groups, establish direct contact with potential teachers in the local area and confirm work with them, rather than relying on the word of an agency that «they'll show up at 8 am tomorrow!»

Charter schools draw fire from teachers» unions and other education groups, who say taxpayer money should be spent to fix traditional public education system rather than creating schools that have less oversight from state and local officials.

The groups» mission was to press the case for individual schools, rather than district administrators, deciding how to spend money coming into LA Unified from Gov. Jerry Brown «s new Local Control Funding Formula,...

PAA was founded by a group of parents active in their communities who recognized the need to collaborate for positive change rather than remain isolated in local battles.

Stark County School Superintendent Jerry Klooster, a member of the task force that helped develop Vision 20/20 in 2012, said the goals of the group include developing a balanced state assessment system; making it easier for teachers from out - of - state to get a license to teach in Illinois; recognize that not all districts are the same, have varied resources and expectations, and differentiated accountability; and adequate funding of education based on local factors rather than «one size fits all.»

A broad coalition of more than 40 community and advocacy groups is jumping into LA Unified's prolonged spending debate, urging the board to allow individual schools, rather than centralized administrators, to decide how to spend the billions of dollars coming into the district from Gov. Jerry Brown «s Local Control Funding Formula program.

A citywide coalition of community groups is demanding that 80 % of $ 1 billion in new school funding headed to L.A. Unified be spent on needy students according to decisions made by local schools rather than district bureaucrats.

While hundreds of jurisdictions around the country still have BSL — the group Animal Farm Foundation keeps a regularly updated BSL map — these laws, which are typically enacted at the local rather than state level, are largely falling out of favor.

At the same time, many animal rights groups are aggressively promoting state and local laws aimed at eliminating, rather than improving American breeders.

If you'd rather help cats closer to home, and you know someone who feeds feral cats, offer to buy food for them, or donate to a local animal rescue group who practices TNR.

Rather than euthanize feral cats, the city works with local groups that capture the cats, get them sterilized and vaccinated, then return the cats to where they came from.

It put writers in groups and bused them around (rather like schoolchildren); it introduced them to local tourism officials; it showed them what the officials wanted them to see.

In showing understanding without praise, the game's story manages to walk a thin line between having the player act as part of what is arguably a local insurgent group and siding with said groups, the end goal of which is a more considered viewpoint which treats enemy combatants as human beings rather than koopa troopas.

The exhibition, curated by Anthony Huberman, brings together roughly 100 sculptures, photographs, videos, paintings, and site - specific installations to explore technology as a group of machines, objects, devices, systems and infrastructure, rather than a local industry.

Additionally, Shepherdstown understood that an energetic retrofit needed to be done with the aid and participation of their local community, rather than done by a small group of individuals.

But some local groups are now trying to attract a different type of tourist — one who'd rather cycle historic mountain paths than sip cocktails under a beach umbrella.

(Further, to the extent the rules are adopted with modifications, those modifications are generated by the state and local bar associations and other groups of practicing attorneys rather than by the state supreme courts themselves).

Rather than being «constrained» by firm wide choices on what markets to serve and which services to offer, Hunter firms encourage each individual (and each small group) to respond and adapt to the local market.

Rather than going to huge networking events that could cost you hundreds for a plate of food and a presentation, consider finding smaller groups of local professionals.

The support group is for Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles and Older Sibling caring for a child / young person, where the arrangement has been made by the family rather than the Local Authority.

Allow groups to recapture the federal HOME block grant funds paid back to them by assisted households, rather than remit the funds to the state or local HOME agency