Sentences with phrase «control over city»

Each mission will take John one more step closer to regain his control over the city.

Take control over a city and become the leader of an aspiring kingdom.

Now if you handed me Watch Dogs 2 with a true focus on manipulation and control over the city as you ran freeform around this slick environment with better narrative, a stronger focus and an enjoyable character.

Aidan has complete control over the city's network, right down to power junctions so he can cause trains to stall or fusebox's to blow.

Black students and families are the main consumers of public charter schools in New Orleans and have been most vocal about the lack of diversity in the teaching staff and school leadership as well as a lack of local control over the city's schools.

She embarrassed the administration during a public fight over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.

Mr. de Blasio's departure from the Bloomberg philosophy of school reform has skeptics in Albany, particularly among Republicans in the Senate, who granted the mayor, a Democrat, just a one - year extension of his control over city schools, requiring him to make his case for another extension next year.

The examples of mayors Richard Daley in Chicago and Michael Bloomberg in New York City» both of whom sought and won direct control over their city's school systems — have inspired other mayors, such as Anthony Williams in Washington, D.C., to press for the power to appoint the school board's members or dissolve the board altogether.

That headline - grabbing clash was widely seen as the final straw that led state lawmakers to grant Mr. Crew's demands for greater control over the city's 32 subdistrict boards.

When former U.S. congressman and Obama administration chief of staff Rahm Emanuel marched triumphantly into the Chicago mayor's office in 2011, he promised to revamp Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely been contemplated in 16 years of mayoral control over the city's sprawling public - school system.

A bill in the Ohio legislature that would hand Cleveland's mayor broad control over his city's beleaguered public schools is a shoo - in for passage, several school officials, lawmakers, and union leaders say.

Klein has served as Schools Chancellor under Mayor Michael Bloomberg since 2002, when the mayor's office gained control over the city's schools.

When former U.S. congressman and Obama administration chief of staf Rahm Emanuel marched triumphantly into the Chicago mayor's office in 2011, he promised to revamp Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely been contemplated in 16 years of mayoral control over the city's sprawling public - school system.

Elsewhere, Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) is discovering that maintaining control over the city of Meereen as an occupying force is almost as challenging as wrangling a trio of dragons once they're all grown - up and independent.

Mayor de Blasio says he's holding out hope that he can maintain his control over city schools before it expires at the end of this month — but he sure didn't look that confident Wednesday.

A key state senator says that if Mayor de Blasio wants Albany to extend mayoral control over the city's public schools, he's going to have to allow a lot more charter schools in the Big Apple.

Earlier this week, an Assembly bill was approved that extends the ability of counties to keep a higher sales tax in place, while also continuing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's control over the city's vast school system for another two years.

On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

Depending on what happens in the coming session, this could turn out to have been a first step in weakening the mayor's control over the city's public school system.

Mayor de Blasio is not happy that a one - year extension giving him control over the city schools, which looked like it would be included in the budget, was ultimately left out.

She embarrassed the administration during a public fight over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.

The mayor said he plans to push both parties in the Senate to extend his control over the city's public school system next year.

The New York State Legislature gave then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg control over the city's schools in 2002.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday said an era of «corruption and chaos» awaits the city's public school system if state lawmakers do not renew a law by Wednesday that grants his office control over city schools.

When he did discuss the issue of mayoral control over city schools, de Blasio insisted he «could not express the urgency more,» but said the real work would begin, conveniently, next week.

As the Democratic - led Assembly today prepares to vote for a three - year extension of mayoral control over city schools, former Gov. David Pateron is siding with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on making the power a permanent one.

The year before he was forced to come to Albany twice to defend the state law giving him control over his city's schools.

ALBANY — The head of the city teachers union dismissed as «a load of crap» state Senate GOP efforts to tie the renewal of a law granting Mayor de Blasio control over the city school system to an expansion of charter schools.

Michael Mulgrew called the Senate GOP plan to tie the renewal of a law granting de Blasio control over the city school system to an expansion of charter schools «crap.»

But the two have squabbled often during the past year or more, over issues ranging from control over the city planning commission to the closing of the Ida Benderson Senior Center.

An off - the - books charter school deal between de Blasio and State Senate Republicans paved the way for the mayor to win control over city schools for another two years.

At the same time, fiscal control boards have become politically unsavory options, especially for mayors who would lose broad control over their city's finances.

Should the NYC Mayor, whoever, have control over the city's public school system?

And Cuomo's feud with Mayor de Blasio stalled the city's receipt of nearly $ 2 billion in new housing funds, failed to revive an affordable - housing tax break and limited de Blasio's control over city schools to one year.

The Senate Republicans have not been the only de Blasio critics who questioned his control over city schools.

But David Bloomfield, a professor of education at C.U.N.Y. and Brooklyn College, says the new charter legislation doesn't mean de Blasio's control over the city's schools will necessarily be further diminished.

First on the governors agenda is the extension of the New York City mayor's control over the city's school system.

At the end of June this year the law that grants New York's mayor control over city schools will expire.

ALBANY — With just three scheduled days left in the legislative session and the fate of mayoral control over the city school system hanging in the balance, insiders are amazed at how little behind - the - scenes negotiations there's been.

Perhaps the biggest takeaway from de Blasio's testimony was his call for a permanent extension of mayoral control over city schools.

But with the law granting mayoral control over city schools set to expire at midnight June 30 — and Albany's legislative session ending Wednesday — Hizzoner faced the prospect of a crushing defeat that he has said would return «chaos» and «corruption» to education in the city.

With the fate of mayoral control over the city school system hanging in the balance, insiders are amazed at how little behind - the - scenes negotiations there's been.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he plans to put serious heat on state legislators beginning Monday to renew his control over city schools, saying the ramifications of not doing so would be catastrophic.

State Senate Republicans are prepared to end the legislative session next week without extending the law giving NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio control over the city school system if the Assembly won't negotiate, one insider warns.

Park Board members told the council in a joint meeting that they need a clearer understanding of the guidelines of the lease and would like more control over city - owned park sites maintained by the district.

Or ISIS could manipulate the water and electricity governed by the dam to exert control over cities and areas dependent on it, as Saddam Hussein did when in power.

Not exact matches

Netflix description: «The longtime mayor of Marseille is preparing to hand over the reins to his protégé when a sudden and ruthless battle erupts for control of the city.»

Innovation clusters are almost always based in large metropolitan areas, and cities have control over key inputs like power and transport infrastructure.

The wave of demonstrations, that kicked off in second city Mashhad on December 28 and quickly spread, is the biggest in the tightly controlled country since unrest over a disputed election in 2009.

Bloomberg reports that stricter capital controls have cast a shadow over the future of Forest City, a sprawling a Malaysian version of Shenzhen being developed by China's Country Garden Holdings Co..