Sentences with phrase «call boarding system»
J. Craig Williams isn't a fan of Southwest Airline's cattle call boarding system, which works more like the bus or train, rather than traditional airlines, where you're assigned a seat in advance.
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Veritas CEO Bill Coleman, who sits on Sapho's advisory board, called Sapho's product «an operating system for work» that acts as «the connective tissue between systems of record and the end user.»
Virgin Hyperloop One, which is developing a tube - based train system, called a board meeting Sunday night and discussed allegations covered in the Bloomberg story, said people with knowledge of the discussion.
Icahn also called for the company's directors to be elected at the same time, as opposed to the current system, in which board elections are staggered, which means that it would take two years for Icahn to obtain a majority of the board.
Mr. Anglin also filed a complaint with the Calgary Police reporting he'd received an anonymous death threat after refusing to step aside for Mr. Nixon, and accused what the Red Deer Advocate called «a senior Wildrose Party player» of offering him «in essence a bribe» in return for stepping down — a job with the Alberta Electric System Operator, Alberta Energy Regulator or the Alberta Surface Rights Board, presumably on the assumption the party wins the next election.
Standard x-ray systems have one detector containing individual elements called diodes, which convert the level of detected x-ray energy into an electrical signal that's sent back to the machine's on - board computer.
Last week a special committee on intercollegiate athletics of the North Carolina University System's board of governors called for reform of special admissions programs in state schools.
Some board members called the study unfair, contending that recommendations to change school maintenance, such as an improved management information system, would require upfront costs that were not identified.
Four Chicago aldermen called upon the Chicago Park District board Tuesday to retain Jesse Madison as the park system's chief executive.
Britax called their system SafeCell Impact Protection © and the company has designe this system to go above and beyond the safety standards that are established by the federal government and the National Highway Transportation and Safety Board.
Silver has also taken issue with Cuomo's call for a new education reform commission, saying the Board of Regents — which the Legislature, not the governor, appoints — is already working to address myriad problems in the public school system.
Cuomo will be joined this morning on a telephone press conference by good government advocates who will add their voices to his call for pension fund reform that would change management of the fund from a sole trusteeship to a board system.
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Question topics during a post-announcement Q&A included the surprise resignation of Joe Percoco, the extensive list released today of New York endorsers of Hillary Clinton and Mayor Bill de Blasio's absence from that list, whether he supports de Blasio's call for changes to bail in light of the killing of Police Officer Randolph Holder, «felony drug dealers» being offered treatment instead of jail time, dealing with homeless people in the subway and rail systems, details of his executive order extending anti-discrimination laws to transgender people, Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch's departure and rules and laws around criminal defendant drug diversion programs.
The governor's also calling for the state to adopt an automatic voter registration system which would send voters» information directly to the county board of elections.
Earlier today, Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau defended the judiciary's refusal to heed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call to join the executive branch in an across - the - board 10 percent cut, insisting the court system would have to resort to mass layoffs and shutdowns in order to meet that goal.
Sen. Eric Schneiderman called Donovan a «nice man,» but noted he had lobbied against Rockefeller Drug Law reform as the head of the state DA's association (Rice was on the board, too, which has become an issue in the primary) said he «represents the past» and the «old, failed ways of thinking about the justice system.»
The delegates approved two resolutions: one calling for the proper use of assessments to further education, and the other calling for the state Board of Regents to hold public hearings on the implementation of the required changes to the teacher evaluation system.
At a Syracuse Media Group editorial board meeting, he sounded his call to toughen the statewide teacher evaluation system and make it easier to remove poor teachers.
The lease with Fort Schuyler Management Corp. calls for NexGen to create 577 jobs in 10 years, paying an average of $ 51,000 a year, according to board chairman Robert Megna, chief operating officer of the state university system.
The Board called for a $ 73 million direct investment in the SUNY system to prevent a hike, according to Time Warner Cable News.
The NY Daily News urges de Blasio to get on board with Cuomo's call for congestion pricing to provide a revenue stream for the NYC transit system, saying it's that or a fare hike, because the mayor's idea of taxing the rich is a non-starter in Albany.
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.
Mr. de Blasio today called the old community school board system — in which the mayor got his political start --» a proven disaster» after a press conference in Boston, and again called for its renewal.
On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.
JOHNSBURG — The Johnsburg Town Board has tabled a resolution calling for a moratorium on issuing permits for solar energy systems, arguing the proposal was something of a «knee jerk reaction.»
The committee called for harsh reforms to the current exam board system, arguing that boards must be «stripped of the right to own their own syllabus and content».
Still, to help streamline the system, the Cuomo administration has called for giving more authority to Workers» Compensation Board staff members to settle disputed claims.
In addition to his work with the CFI, Polak is chairman of the advisory board of a consultancy called The Westminster Connection, which has lobbied MPs successfully on behalf of Elbit Systems, Israel's major defence contractor.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority is on a collision course with the US Federal Aviation Authority over the use of an automatic on - board collision avoidance system called TCAS 2.
Earlier this month, more than 8000 Internet newsgroups, or bulletin boards, received an advertisement from a Florida - based computer retail company called Atlas Computer Systems, offering 1 - gigabyte hard disc drives.
But their on - board upgraded synthetic, Walter (also Fassbender), gives them a harsh wake - up call after the ship's systems start going haywire.
In a test of Denver's new system of school - based management, several schools are engaged in what is being called a «power struggle» with the board of education over the right to set testing policy.
The foundation supports a number of what Katzir calls «branded flagship initiatives,» such as the Broad Center for the Management of School Systems or the Broad Institute for School Boards.
There's also a schoolwide forum called SLA Talk, a combination bulletin board, assembly, PA system, and rap session.
In a system that prizes local control over curricular decisions, 10,000 school boards will be making the most critical calls over Common Core implementation.
Schools have changed relatively little, mainly because of turf battles fought by the knot of organizations that we politely call «the education system»: teachers unions and school boards try to protect their monopolies, publishing companies try to reinterpret all new ideas back into the profitable forms of the past, various levels of government try to protect their relevance by getting in front of every new concern, pretending to lead while aggressively and often destructively following whatever trends they have the wit to perceive.
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.
The Advocate Our Views: Despite objections, education board made the right call raising Louisiana grading system for public schools
Now that the NEA and AFT can count on Schwarzenegger's successor (and once - and - future governor) Jerry Brown and the state legislature to be at their proverbial beck - and - call (and the AFT now assured of a majority on L.A. Unified's board), Supt. John Deasy has had to roll back efforts to expand choice and has had to hope on lawsuits by reformers to give him the edge in revamping the district's woeful teacher evaluation system.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Florida School Boards Association calls on the Governor of Florida to establish a diverse committee, to include Florida teachers and district personnel, charged with conducting a comprehensive review of Florida's assessment and accountability system and with providing a report and recommendations, including but not limited to recommendations on the appropriate components of the system, the appropriate use of data derived from assessments; an assessment of the capacity of districts and schools to administer the required assessments without interruption in the ongoing delivery of instruction to students who are not being assessed; a feasible timeline for the transition and full implementation of the system; and the appropriate role of the system with regard to personnel evaluations.
After holding hearings on options, the board adopted emergency regulations in January, giving schools six months to create their primary planning tool for the new system, a document called the Local Control and Accountability Plan.
To help eliminate confusion among stakeholders and to improve credibility of the Utah public school system, the Utah State Board of Education approved a resolution calling for a single, coherent student achievement accountability system for Utah.
As shared in a letter to the school board, members of the GO network call on the board to hire a superintendent who is community - driven, equity - focused and a systems thinker — all qualities critical to successful school transformation and ensure all students have access to an excellent education.
, members of the GO network call on the board to hire a superintendent who is community - driven, equity - focused and a systems thinker — all qualities critical to successful school transformation
You know things are going very badly for public school teachers when The New York Times editorial board calls a bad teacher evaluation system a «sensible policy change.»
Referring to what he views as extreme federal overreach, the committee's top Republican, Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), repeatedly called the Harkin bill the «national school system» and said Congress is becoming the national school board.
Board member Joe Vrabely called it «gaming the system.»
John Woolums, director of governmental relations for the Maryland Association of Boards of Education, called the state board's approach balanced because it gives school systems the freedom to come up with their own plans to reduce suspension rates.
Under the section labeled «community control,» M4BL called for an end to state and mayoral takeovers of school systems in favor of local, democratically elected boards, more equitable school funding and a de-emphasis on standardized testing.