Sentences with phrase «controlled by local councils»

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«The PDP holds that the governor and the APC are jittery and unpopular of going into the grass roots elections in the state, thus the decisions to control the councils by nomenclature of executive secretaries and sole administrators, which are alien and offensive to the provisions of our Constitution, which under section 7 guarantees only democratically elected local government council administrations.»

[148] In the 2008 local elections they gained 25 % of the vote, placing them ahead of Labour and increasing their control by 34 to more than 4,200 council seats — 21 % of the total number of seats.

Local authorities newly contacted by the department included Conservative - controlled Luton, Medway, Mid Devon and North Somerset councils.

Commenting on the Conservative Party's proposals to force local authorities to hold a referendum each time they increase council tax by more than a central government controlled level, Director of Unlock Democracy, Peter Facey said:

The Conservatives hoped to take control of the council and the local party was supported by visits from the national Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith and the party chairman David Davis.

The Conservative party has earned its most stunning gain of local election night so far by taking control in the hung council of Southampton.

At the 2007 local elections, control of Medway Council was held by the Conservatives; 33 of the council's 55 seats were held by the Conservatives, 13 by the Labour Party, 8 by the Liberal Democrats and 1 by an IndepCouncil was held by the Conservatives; 33 of the council's 55 seats were held by the Conservatives, 13 by the Labour Party, 8 by the Liberal Democrats and 1 by an Indepcouncil's 55 seats were held by the Conservatives, 13 by the Labour Party, 8 by the Liberal Democrats and 1 by an Independent.

He proved to be an unparalleled campaign leader in the local elections, both in 2006 (in the North Warwickshire Borough wards of Hartshill and Arley & Whitacre, when all five seats were gained by the Conservatives) and in May this year, when the Conservatives took control of Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council for the first time ever.

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.

We could actually WIN the next one — but with a still massively entrenched irreconcilable neoliberalism entranced PLP Right / centre right majority and hostile Right controlled Party machine, and too many local Labour councils dominated by corrupt and / or careerist, Austerity implementing, family - based cabals, a Labour Party elected on a radical Left Keynsian manifesto such as the current one later this year, would be carved up and broken by internal treachery and market forces pretty much as quickly as Greece's Syriza government was.

I am a strong grassroots campaigner — in the 1998 local elections Labour held control of the council because we won back a Lib Dem seat by three votes after a relentless campaign in my ward (Jeremy Corbyn and Stephen Twigg know the work involved)

Although parents can't control those factors directly, we can help by staying informed and involved in the systems that influence our children's school experiences, from voting for local school councils to being aware of national education policy.

They aren't run by the local council and as well as having control over their own budgets, they are employers in the true sense of the word and can also determine their own pay and conditions for their staff.

A school placed under the Commissioner's Network would not be allowed to keep its family - controlled school governance council; instead, it would be replaced by a turnaround committee whose parent representative would be appointed by the National Education Association or American Federation of Teachers local.

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.

Ofsted's rankings illustrate these differences by ranking councils in terms of the inspection judgements made about schools in their areas, including academies which are outside of local authority control.

Magnet schools are public schools operated by either Hartford Public Schools, Capital Region Education Council, or local colleges, and can be considered a controlled - choice program.

MYTH: The main problem with education is the lazy or incompetent teacher, who is protected by corrupt unions and supervised by out - of - control local school councils, so the key to reform is a system of rewards and punishments and the dismantling of rights to organize (as with state legislation currently under debate).

Even before the Legislature adopted the Local Control Funding Formula, foster youth had the right to receive partial credits for all work satisfactorily completed before transferring schools under Education Code Sections 49069.5 and 51225.2, according to a resource guide developed by the Alliance for Children's Rights in conjunction with the California Department of Education, the Department of Social Services, the California School Boards Association and the Child Welfare Council.

I suspect that the GreenBelt will just get nibbled away, bit by bit as the developers control the land, the local councils and soon, the government.

The group presented its findings to Santa Barbara County Flood Control just after the Jesusita fire, and their final project report has been sent to Mayor Marty Blum, the Santa Barbara City Council, and County Supervisor Salud Carbajal by way of contributing to discussions in which local government officials are deciding how best to prepare the burn area for the rainy season.

By avoiding gifting large planning gains to landowners, local authorities could be able to pass on materials savings to renters and homebuyers by either developing new council houses themselves, using new Treasury money perhaps, or passing on land to developers with price controls to limit rents and house priceBy avoiding gifting large planning gains to landowners, local authorities could be able to pass on materials savings to renters and homebuyers by either developing new council houses themselves, using new Treasury money perhaps, or passing on land to developers with price controls to limit rents and house priceby either developing new council houses themselves, using new Treasury money perhaps, or passing on land to developers with price controls to limit rents and house prices.