Sentences with phrase «system board voted»

The California State Teachers Retirement System board voted to lower the projection of how much the teachers pension fund will earn annually on investments.

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IBM shareholders CalSTRS and The State Board of Administration for the Florida Retirement System (SBA FLA) each voted against Rommety's proposed pay package at the company's annual general meeting.

In late August, Yahoo broke news that foreign hackers had breached the state Board of Elections websites in Illinois and Arizona, which the FBI's cyber division followed up with an alert to election officials across the nation to increase voting system security.

The University System of Maryland's Board of Regents voted to waive the residency rule on Tuesday.

The board of Rockville, Maryland - based Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. (MRIS) has voted to finalize negotiations with Zillow to send the portal a direct feed of its more than 50,000 for - sale home listings and 8,800 rental listings from its more than 45,000 subscribers.

The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) will be holding its sixth policy meeting of 2017 from September 19 - 20, after the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System voted unanimously to leave its key interest rate unchanged in July.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

The reality of the pension crisis was underlined again last week when the board of the largest $ 330 + billion US public pension plan, California Public Employees Retirement System (CalLPERS), voted to shorten its period for amortizing future investment losses from 30 years to 20 years.

According to the Baltimore Sun's Maryland beat writer, Jeff Barker, it's unclear if the Terps even need a majority vote on the board to approve the transfer or if the University System of Maryland Chancellor William E. Kirwan can simply approve the move on his own.

A committee of the Chicago Park District board voted Monday to decentralize the parks system into 17 parts and to give managers of those divisions power to make many decisions on park programs, purchasing and maintenance that are now made at the district level.

The Public Safety Committee voted to recommend the board of trustees approve an agreement negotiated with Gatso USA, the company trustees selected to manage the village's red light camera system at a board meeting in May after its contract with Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. ended.

I've been asked by my employer to create an online voting system for internal elections (e.g. board of directors).

In a statement released this afternoon, Ulrich said he was «appalled, but not shocked» by the Post story that Graves was suspended from his $ 66,392 - a-year job at the board after being caught on tape soliciting a $ 25,000 «finder's fee» from Denver - based Dominion Voting Systems, which was competing for a a $ 65 million electronic voting machine contract in 2009.

He voted for all the testing that parents and kids hate and voted to impose an outrageous evaluation system on teachers, usurping the authority of locally elected school boards.

The board of the New York City Employees Retirement System, the city's largest pension fund, voted on Thursday to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer said.

And board member Veronica Vanterpool — once a proponent of regularly scheduled fare increases — said that although she could not commit to voting against the upcoming fare increases, «the riders of the systems are really the only ones that consistently uphold their responsibility» to fund the MTA.

In other words, he simply failed to take on board the point that the kind of voting system affects the kind of policies we get in a systematic way.

The existing Panel for Educational Policy, the board that votes on education issues, would be redundant under a board system and would be eliminated.

Cuomo says by not voting to extend the Bill de Blasio's authority over the public schools, they essentially voted for a return to the dysfunction of the old system of multiple community school boards.

The Board of Correction today approved a plan for an enhanced supervision unit touted by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte — but also voted to end solitary confinement for all inmates on Rikers Island under 21 by 2016, a sweeping change that will set the department apart from jail systems nationwide.

Other Westchester Municipalities having School Board And 2018 - 2019 Votes include The Peekskill City School District (2 seats up), Greenburgh Central School District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StrBoard And 2018 - 2019 Votes include The Peekskill City School District (2 seats up), Greenburgh Central School District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons Strboard seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons Street.)

He had no white board of names, or a personal system of vote - counting, he said.

Although his office can not mandate repairs to the voting system, de Blasio announced that the city would spend $ 20 million to improve the Board of Elections, provided it would agree to a series of changes aimed at addressing the problems with last week's primary.

Also at 11 a.m., members of 24 social justice and immigrants» rights groups, community - based organizations and good government groups call for improved voting systems and a more transparent Board of Elections in light voter roll purges that affected the presidential primary elections, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The board makes decisions using a weighted vote, a system that is not carried over to the committee level.

The board of the New York City Employees Retirement System, the city's largest pension fund, voted to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer said.

An at - large voting system for electing members to the East Ramapo school board — long dominated by Orthodox Jews whose children attend private yeshivas — has prevented public school parents who are largely black and Latino from electing candidates of their choice, according to a lawsuit filed by NYCLU.

The Board of Elections is actually supposed to submit recommendations to lawmakers this month on how to transition local election systems to electronic voting statewide.

As you are aware, this past September, with the support of a super majority of contracting library Boards, the System Board of Trustees voted to move forward to create a Special Legislative District Public Library System.

Most of the chamber's Republicans voted against the bill, arguing that the policies increased standardized testing and gave too much power to the Board of Regents in implementing the new evaluation system.

A central New York board of elections commissioner says switching to a vote - by - mail system would both increase turnout and save money.

Quarles Nomination — Confirmation — Vote Confirmed (65 - 32, 3 Not Voting) The Senate confirmed the nomination of Randal Quarles to be a member of the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve System.

Efforts to test prospects for Internet voting have failed miserably thus far, asserts Jeremy Epstein, a senior computer scientist at SRI International who has researched voting technology, citing in particular the Internet - based system that the Washington, D.C., Board of Elections and Ethics tried to set up in 2010.

These include photo voting, blog, pin board, the data hit for your success and our modern chat system.

The Kansas City, Mo., school district asked a federal judge last week to void a vote by the state board of education to strip the system of its state accreditation.

The state board voted 8 - 1 on Dec. 5 to place the 350 - student system in receivership, charging gross financial mismanagement by its administrators, said Vince Yanez, the executive director of the board.

The day after Trump's election, for example, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina, school board voted 9 - 0 to adopt a socioeconomic - integration plan for its magnet schools, a reminder that under the United States system of federalism, changes in Washington don't have to spell the end of education movements.

An elected school board that oversaw a system of non-profit operated schools could allow for both forms (voting, choice) of accountability to simultaneously exist.

The Baltimore County school board voted last month to make Verletta White the school system's permanent superintendent.

The three open seats on the regional board went to: John Clearwater, an independent, who had 801 votes; Richard Godfrey, who had been appointed to the board earlier in order to fill a vacancy and won 428 votes; and David Robbins, a member — but not a formal candidate — of a newly formed parent group in the community that is calling for revisions in the school system's mathematics curriculum.

That council, which Villaraigosa will dominate by virtue of a voting system weighted by each city's population, is also supposed to review the district's annual budget, though final control would still rest with the school board.

He is critical of «school boards that are elected with a fraction of the vote in voter turnout» and «special - interest groups» that lack a «unifying vision» to reform the system.

The School District of Rhinelander Board of Education voted to take a stand in favor of greater transparency when it comes to Wisconsin's school voucher system and its impact on public schools.

New York's discussion of teacher discipline comes one week after the state's Board of Regents voted to adapt a new teacher evaluation system that requires districts to use standardized test scores to evaluate 40 percent of teacher review scores — 20 percent from state tests, with the other 20 precent from either district or state tests.

Some LA Unified school board members want to raise graduation requirements to require at least a C in college prep classes, undoing a vote of the previous board to lower the requirement to a D. For the Class of 2016, less than half of graduates were eligible for the University of California and California State University systems, which require a C in those classes.

Going beyond the recommendation of staff and consultants, the board of the California State Teachers Retirement System voted Wednesday to lower by a half - percentage point — from 7.50 percent to 7 percent — the projection of how much the financially struggling teachers pension fund will earn annually on investments over the next 30 years.

Still, the pace of change isn't slowing anytime soon, both because of the expansion of the ASD and the I - Zone and because of a forthcoming wrinkle in the merger: Six suburban districts in the area are expected to vote to create their own school boards and separate from the merged system this fall.

The State Board reviewed the recommendations of the RFP Review Committee and voted to approve the new statewide assessment system.

A coalition of organizations representing business, education advocates, civil rights groups and community leaders applauds last week's unanimous vote by Kentucky Board of Education to approve a new, more robust school accountability system and commends Commissioner, Stephen Pruitt, and the Kentucky Department of Education for their work on the new framework.

Addressing the state's persistent achievement gaps and ensuring a pathway to excellent education for all students, particularly those who are most vulnerable, led the Board's discussion about the new accountability system and new charter school regulations, which will be voted on during the Board's October meeting.