Sentences with phrase «while control of the legislature»

While control of the legislature doesn't seem to matter very much under a strong executive, it could depend on results in Esopus and Rochester.

Not exact matches

But the pressure mounted on the governor to deliver deals on rent regulations, mayoral control of New York City schools, and other big - ticket items, all while the legislature remained in turmoil thanks to their leadership crises.

Of the 10, five — Ohio, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania — have split control in the governorships / state legislatures while Democrats control state government in Illinois, Massachusetts and New York.

While Cleveland was taken over by the state, Illinois» legislature passed an education reform bill turning over control of the Chicago public schools to Mayor Richard M. Daley, who restructured the troubled district.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

Much of that government activism is scheduled for the next five to 10 years, while Republicans, who fervently oppose nearly every one of these goals, are expected to control the House of Representative and well over half of the 50 state legislatures.