Sentences with phrase «control of a number of school»

Hartsbrook primary in Tottenham, north London, changed sponsors last September after E-Act, its original sponsor, was told it must relinquish control of a number of schools.

The anonymous letter, which was sent to the local council, referred to an alleged plot by hard - line Muslims to seize control of a number of school governing boards in the city.

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The poll comes at a time when the number of deadly school shootings has reached 18 thus far into 2018, reawakening debate over gun control laws and school safety initiatives.

In Republican - controlled legislatures, the number of laws proposed to loosen gun control increased by 75 percent, where in Democrat - controlled legislatures, the number of laws proposed to restrict gun access increased 10 percent, according to the Harvard Business School study.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

In all this health care discussion, another fact has been forgotten: many Catholic schools have been offering insurance that covered birth control for many years in a number of states, including New York where despite the recent brouhaha, not a peep was heard about this until now.

If a board or authority requires the placement of an automated external defibrillator as provided in this section, the it also shall require that a sufficient number of the staff persons assigned to each school under the control of the board or authority complete an appropriate training course in the use of the AED as described.

The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said that the number of school - related outbreaks reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doubled over the last decade, and generally increased an average of 10 percent per year.

He described the goal of reducing the overall number of head impacts that high school football players sustain in a season as «logical» and «appealing,» but noted that, «until the risk factors for chronic traumatic encephalopathy [25](CTE) are better defined by carefully designed and controlled research,» and research determines «what the advisable limit to head impact exposure should be,» employing contact limits or establishing «hit counts [4]» will remain «educated guesses, at best.»

The number two Republican in the state Senate believes mayoral control of New York City schools will be re-approved this year, but not for as long as Mayor Bill de Blasio would like.

Heastie, meanwhile, insisted lawmakers were working to conclude the session on a productive note, with a number of outstanding issues on the table ranging from expanding ride - hailing apps like Uber and Lyft to upstate New York as well as mayoral control of schools in New York City.

The issue of mayoral control was deadlocked because the Republican - led Senate wanted to tie it to an increase in the number of charter schools allowed to operate in New York City.

Among them is a measure to extend the New York City mayor's control of the public schools, which has now been linked to a number of diverse issues affecting people in the rest of the state.

While the Assembly bill introduced Friday would extend mayoral control over the schools for three years, the Senate has been pushing a one - year extender that would be tied to an increase in the number of city charter schools.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, between 2011 and 2016, the number of high school students who reported smoking tobacco in the last 30 days declined by more than 15 percent to about 8 percent.

A source said Cuomo spent Wednesday trying to broker a deal over mayoral control, which balanced the desire of Senate Republicans (which Cuomo shares) to increase the number of charter schools against the Democrat - dominated Assembly's refusal to budge.

ALBANY — Legislative leaders continue to talk with Gov. Andrew Cuomo about a «grand plan» to renew mayoral control of New York City schools, reauthorize sales taxes around the state and, possibly, increase the number of charter schools.

To ease shortages of homes, downward pressure on wages and to relieve pressures on hospitals and school places we do need to control numbers better.

De Blasio and Cuomo have had public disputes on a number of issues, including the minimum wage, pre-K, and mayoral control of schools.

Valdez spoke to voters on a number of topics her platform is advocating for, including stricter gun control following the high school shooting in Santa Fe.

ALBANY — The Republican - led state Senate on Monday approved bills intended to improve school safety in the wake of the latest school shooting massacre, but only after voting down a number of Democratic gun - control proposals and trading insults.

New York City waits Meanwhile a number of issues important to New York City will be before the Legislature this year - rent laws and mayoral control of schools are each set to expire and while most legislators say they expect to renew both, major battles will be fought over the details of each.

A leading charter - school advocate said Friday that Mayor de Blasio's hopes of extending mayoral control of city schools are tied to Hizzoner supporting a hike in the number of charters allowed in the state.

A number of key issues ranging from mayoral control of New York City schools, to rent control and the 421a tax abatement, are due to expire this month.

Democratic lawmakers in that chamber already have a number of issues they have to get done: rent control, monitoring the regulations for the new teacher evaluation law and an extension of mayoral control for New York City schools and criminal justice reform, just to name a few.

As employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end the uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current mayoral control law as well as expanding the number of charter schools.

ALBANY — State lawmakers were assembling the skeleton of a long - awaited deal on a number of issues on Thursday evening, including a one - year extension of Mayor Bill de Blasio's control of New York City schools and an ethics reform measure that would strip state pensions from elected officials convicted of a felony.

ALBANY — The Democratic - controlled state Senate last night passed legislation to more than double the number of charter schools — infuriating teachers - union officials who immediately declared war against the lawmakers who voted for the bill.

In response, a spokesman for Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat like Klein, blasted Cuomo for his ongoing feud with de Blasio, saying it had hurt the city on a number of issues ranging from charter schools to mayoral control.

Democrats and Republicans are digging in on the remaining issues of 2017 including a measure to extend the New York City mayor's control of the public schools, which has now been linked to a number of diverse issues affecting people in the rest of the state.

The state Senate has approved a bill giving a five year extension of mayoral control, but additionally providing for increases in then number of charter schools.

Also high up on the mayor's list of defeats are a one - year extension of mayoral control of the schools — he wanted permanent control, but a minimum of three years — and an increase in the number of charter schools authorized for the city.

Flanagan (R - LI) has called for extending mayoral control for five years, but only in concert with other provisions — including lifting the city's cap on the number of charter schools.

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

The four candidates actively running for Rochester mayor debated a number of subjects Monday night including what they would do about things like poverty, mayoral control of schools, Parcel 5 and immigration.

State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has said he will not support renewing mayoral control unless the number of charter schools are increased, an approach Cuomo has endorsed, while Assembly Leader Carl Heastie's conference packaged the renewal with several tax proposals.

Mr. Barron, a progressive firebrand, did praise the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie of the Bronx, for refusing to bend to the Senate's demands to increase the number of charter schools in the state as a condition to extend mayoral control of the city's schools.

In the final hours of this year's legislative session, for instance, the Republican - controlled Senate demanded a number of concessions for charter schools in exchange for granting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio a one - year extension of mayoral control of city schools.

«What was really remarkable was that all of the models showed that strong border control would not have decreased the total number of infections,» said Dr. Howie Weiss, professor in Georgia Tech's School of Mathematics or College of Sciences.

«These findings are extremely encouraging and suggest that with sustained commitment to increase the number of people who use combination HIV prevention, it may be possible to achieve epidemic control and eventual elimination of HIV,» said David Serwadda, M.B.Ch.B., M.Med., M.P.H., co-founder of the Rakai Health Science Program and Professor at Makerere University School of Public Health in Kampala, Uganda.

«There is a very small number of people that control a huge amount of water,» said Douglas Kenney, director of the Western Water Policy Program at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder.

«This is the first study to control for the number of times players hit their heads when comparing helmet types,» said Steve Rowson, lead author and an assistant professor in the Virginia Tech — Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences http://www.sbes.vt.edu/.

Joanna Cohen, a co-author of the Google study and director of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Institute for Global Tobacco Control, believes «campaigns for people to quit may benefit from shifting to weekly cues to increase the number of quit attempts participants make each year.»

«Our district had been assigning assistant principals (APs) strictly according to number of students,» Prall says, «but I started pointing out complexity of school sites and span of control.

There are a number of possibilities and options for using BB93 (or a suitable replacement document) to strengthen the School Premises Regulations, although it is generally accepted that mandatory controls are required to maintain minimum acoustic design standards (the industry having witnessed an improvement in standards as a result of mandatory controls, including pre-completion acoustic testing, in recent years).

«Next, minimize the number of entrance and exit points in a school,» Stephens continued, «to gain control of access to the school.

That view is countered by the author's observation that local control is, in fact, far greater now that the city's seven - member school board has been augmented by a growing cohort of charter school board members numbering in the hundreds.

Since the state seized control of the city's troubled schools last December, Pennsylvania's plan to yield a number of them to for - profit EMOs has made front - page news and has drawn intense scrutiny from students, parent groups, and teacher unions.

In order to assess this possibility, we ran the analyses for high school graduation and college attendance again with an additional control for the total number of students attending the school.

As students are claiming their rightful place in today's ongoing dialogues on gun control and school safety — leading powerful demonstrations such as March for Our Lives and National School Walkout Day — there are an increasing number of educators who urge schools to allow students to voice their opinions, and make these conversations a regular occurschool safety — leading powerful demonstrations such as March for Our Lives and National School Walkout Day — there are an increasing number of educators who urge schools to allow students to voice their opinions, and make these conversations a regular occurSchool Walkout Day — there are an increasing number of educators who urge schools to allow students to voice their opinions, and make these conversations a regular occurrence.