Sentences with phrase «control over their public»

TransLink, as the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority is known, has control over all public transit and roads in Vancouver and its surrounding cities.

Former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson alluded to the importance of the banking elite in maintaining control over public perception during the 2008 financial crisis, when he alluded multiple times to the public's perceived confidence in US stock markets as being infinitely and exponentially more important to US stock market behavior than any market fundamentals.

Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy insists his push for control over the public schools isn't dead even though the Legislature departed Albany without taking it up.

The Legislature snubbed Mr. de Blasio last year by granting him only a one - year renewal of his control over the public schools.

The policy was implemented at the behest of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who argued it made sense to give City Hall control over public education in the nation's largest city.

For instance, a federal or state education chief is a non-local actor with control over a public school's teacher evaluation progress or college - and - career ready curriculum.

Rodriguez thus belongs to a long line of federal cases emphasizing the value of state and local control over public education.

The decision was unusual in that the court relied not on traditional separation - of - church - and - state concerns, but instead on a provision of the Colorado state constitution that vests control over public education in local school boards.

As the event page notes, ESAs give families almost unfettered control over the public funds allocated for their child's education.

It was run by a government body (the school district) that had been given exclusive control over public education in that area.

Private schools and charter schools can be blatantly antithetical to the democratic levers of public control over public schools, as they generally operate with privately elected boards of directors or fully autonomous presidents.

The resulting substantial waivers to the stringent requirements of NCLB, the proliferation of high - stakes testing across the states, and the concerns about the loss of control over public schools by local communities proved too much.

The new federal education law is supposed to return to the states greater control over their public schools.

Until the voice of experience permeates the hegemonic control over public education reform — whether teachers buy solely into current reforms, overturn the existing system, or a combination of the two — no sustainable transformation will ever take place in American schools.

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi legislators passed with wide support a bill Thursday that proponents say will give the state more control over public education standards but even they admit it would have no effect on what schools currently teach.

The ability to end union control in even one public school is the ability to end union control over public education itself.

Besides, who knows if a union intent on keeping control over public education would go for it?

Walcott also spoke to the issue of mayoral control over the public school system.

The GSBA has a long standing legislative position supporting,» the constitutional authority vesting exclusive control over public schools to local boards of education as the level of government closest and most responsive to the taxpayers and parents of the children being educated.

It notes, however, that the tide is turning toward stronger state control over public education.

I have zero control over public equities.

O'Keeffe asserted full control over her public persona, famously rejecting feminist readings of her flower paintings as vaginas and eschewing the label of a «woman artist.»

Like Nisbet, we found that the funding of Brulle's allies dwarfed that of his foes, whom Brulle tried so hard to depict as having unmatched control over the public's view of climate science:

The US National Academy of Sciences led the real war on science, using control over public research funds to deceive the public about the source of energy that powers the Sun and controls human destiny:

Judge Dixon: You do not have control over public ramps that lawyers may be a part of.

In that article, Hirtle argues four reasons why efforts by libraries and archives to use their physical control over public domain materials in their collection to impose quasi-copyright control over them are doomed to failure.

Since Android has become a mobile powerhouse though, Google has decided it needs more control over the public source code.

Starting from very humble origins and with a view to disrupting government control over public finances, bitcoin has grown to become a powerhouse in the financial sector.

For example, the listing agreements provided for use by members of the Northeast Florida MLS provides that: «Seller understands and agrees that public Web sites determine their own content and use of data, and therefore NEFMLS, NEFAR, and Broker have no control over public Web sites and no obligation to remove any of the above content from public Web sites at any time.»

Not exact matches

Damn the investors for making money on such lunacy, damn the paranoiacs who think the added fluoride in our public water systems is a mind - control drug, damn the Times for running a massive photo of a startup founder who thinks water «expires» and is described as «sitting naked and cross-legged on a hot spring, his long brown hair flowing over his chest.»

I think history's lessons tell us that public scrutiny and competition favors the harsh realities of the public spotlight with its trials and tribulations over the easy of autocracy, control and cloaked decision - making.

But now, mere months after the agreement was signed, a chorus of critics is already raising a host of concerns over privacy, transparency, public control, and the financial soundness of the deal struck by Toronto.

«They have more control over their day, they're not being as stressed to perform in the public eye, they don't have a lot of physical demands, and nobody's life is at risk,» said Tony Lee, publisher of CareerCast.com and JobsRated.com.

«Public - sector spending — a strong, steady contributor to the economy over the past decade — is now being curtailed as federal and provincial governments try to bring deficits under control,» the Conference Board of Canada noted in a recent forecast.

While he doesn't believe MEC has any control over that debate, the organization can help advance the public conversation around the Feb. 14 shooting that resulted in 17 deaths at a high school in Parkland, Fla., he said.

Yet he remains the controlling shareholder of his two public companies, and in May, began taking the unexpected steps toward unseating Dauman that are now the subject of a raging court battle over his mental capacity.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but an earlier report from National Public Radio said the broadcaster is acquiring 40 % of The Onion's parent company, which gives it effective control over the site and its related assets.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), Neiman Marcus, Inc.'s internal control over financial reporting as of July 28, 2012, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated September 18, 2012 expressed an unqualified opinion tcontrol over financial reporting as of July 28, 2012, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated September 18, 2012 expressed an unqualified opinion tControl — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated September 18, 2012 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

As clearly demonstrated by developments of the last two years, you do not have control over budgetary revenues, cyclically sensitive spending, such as unemployment insurance benefits, and public debt charges.

The independent auditors are responsible for performing an independent audit of Goldman Sachs» financial statements and of its internal control over financial reporting in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)(United States) and expressing an opinion as to the conformity of Goldman Sachs» financial statements with generally accepted accounting principles and the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting.

The independent auditors are responsible for performing independent audits of the Company's consolidated financial statements and the Company's internal control over financial reporting in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).

Walmart's independent accountants are responsible for auditing Walmart's annual consolidated financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and for auditing the effectiveness of Walmart's internal control over financial reporting.

Instead of the governments taking over the banks as in Europe, instead of steering their lending in the public interest, the Treasury is leaving control over to the same guys who have been mismanaging the credit system all along.

For example, the Public Accounts / Budget / Updates includes employment insurance program costs, as the government has full control over this program, determining the premium rates and eligibility and the amount of the benefits, whereas the Estimates excludes them, on the basis that they are included as part of a specified purpose account.

The merger will make the Bayer - Monsanto conglomerate the largest seed and pesticide company in the world, giving it enormous power to control farm practices, putting private profits over the public interest.

Twitter's independent registered public accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP («PwC»), is responsible for performing an independent audit of Twitter's consolidated financial statements and of Twitter's internal control over financial reporting in accordance with the auditing standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and to issue a report thpublic accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP («PwC»), is responsible for performing an independent audit of Twitter's consolidated financial statements and of Twitter's internal control over financial reporting in accordance with the auditing standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and to issue a report thPublic Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and to issue a report thereon.

In addition, any testing by us conducted in connection with Section 404, or any subsequent testing by our independent registered public accounting firm, may reveal deficiencies in our internal controls over financial reporting that are deemed to be material weaknesses or that may require prospective or retroactive changes to our financial statements or identify other areas for further attention or improvement.

In particular, we must perform system and process evaluation and testing of our internal control over financial reporting to allow management and, to the extent that we are no longer an «emerging growth company» as defined in the JOBS Act, our independent registered public accounting firm to report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act.

The independent registered public accounting firm also is responsible for performing an audit of and expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of FedEx's internal control over financial reporting.

Any failure to develop or maintain effective controls, or any difficulties encountered in their implementation or improvement, could harm our operating results, cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations, result in a restatement of our financial statements for prior periods or adversely affect the results of management evaluations and independent registered public accounting firm audits of our internal control over financial reporting that we will eventually be required to include in our periodic reports that will be filed with the SEC.