Sentences with phrase «elected bodies»

West Coast Environmental Law applauds two of Vancouver's elected bodies — Vancouver City Council and the Vancouver Parks Board — for passing resolutions to take a formal position on the proposed Kinder Morgan oil pipeline expansion project, and associated oil tanker traffic.

Private schools by design are selective and exclusive, not accountable to elected bodies, and allowed to operate without regard to rules and regulations applicable to public schools, including requirements related to special education and civil rights.

The major education reforms of the past 35 years — education vouchers, charter schools, tuition tax credits, and education savings accounts — all seek to remove public schools from the control of elected bodies; to subject them to the «laws» of the «market»; and to put them at the service of the economic elite.

LSCs are duly - elected bodies for each Chicago elementary, middle and high school.

It was no small sacrifice for residents when city leaders voted to dissolve the school board in 2007 — dismantling one of the city's only elected bodies.

It's another example of charter schools attacking the authority of democratically elected bodies.

In San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, a Supreme Court case on equity of school finance, Justice Lewis F. Powell in 1973 cited the lack of judicially manageable standards as a reason for leaving the issue to elected bodies.

Both elected bodies are expected to pass resolutions of support for the project; the county legislature is expected to do the same on June 24.

Labour has three democratically elected bodies all of which could play a role — its national executive, the national policy forum (NPF) and party conference.

None of the changes to downgrade the powers of the elected bodies of the party — notably the conference and NEC — and restrict members» rights to select candidates for public office could have been adopted without support from the trade union bureaucracy.

The PPA will help represent the state pediatric dentistry association in promoting children's oral health issues with the state legislature and other elected bodies, state regulatory agencies (including Medicaid and health departments), licensing bureaus, professional health and child welfare organizations, oral health coalitions, foundations, institutions of dental education, publicly - funded safety net programs, and the private sector benefits industry.

In cities and towns where voters opposed legalization, elected bodies such as town councils or boards of selectmen can impose a ban without polling residents.

An indirect one where a representative elected body (like the US house of Representatives) selects the President would also be an option.

More tentatively, an elected body replacing the House of Lords could have the important function of serving as a single upper house for all these various national and regional assemblies.

The court is not concerned with the intention of the decision - maker, especially if this is a political decision by an elected body, but with the quality and legality of the way the decision has been made.

The decision to vest power in the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee was a major reform, as centrally held control of such monetary policy was historically vested in the elected body and was traditionally a major feature of Governmental power.

Tax exemptions granted by the county's industrial development agency, on the other hand, require no approvals from any elected body.

If the elected body concerns fails to respond satisfactorily, the petitioners could trigger a binding referendum.

The London Assembly was established as a directly elected body by separate legislation and is part of the Greater London Authority.

Councilman Peter Olesheski Jr. voted against Nightngale's appointment, calling it an insult to the members of the elected body.

The prospect of an expected coalition government also forces us to ask how the Lords would see such a proposal (independent of measures that would likely see the House of Lords become an elected body too).

The first London Assembly in 2000 comprised 48 % women, and in 2003 the Welsh Assembly became the first national elected body in the world to achieve gender parity among its members.

They also ripped the Legislature for overruling a separately elected body — the City Council.

He wants to improve police - community relations, noting that the neighborhood coordinating officers program is a step in the right direction but also said that the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board needs to be an elected body and called for more community investments.

Despite an obligation to be exclusively engaged in research and university lecturing for 40 hours a week, most grant - holders (PhD students and postdocs) are not represented on the elected body of their centres.

A legislative task force recently proposed a complicated system for retaining the board as an elected body while also...

The delicate and sometimes unpleasant politics of churn are the reason many reformers question whether an elected body, such as a traditional school board, has the gumption to handle tasks as potentially unpopular as declaring schools to be failures and handing them over to more capable managers, or shuttering them altogether.

It's rare that an idea goes from the ivory tower to think tanks to actual implementation by a democratically elected body to helping citizens.

Despite its failings, the city had a strong allegiance to the school board as an institution, partly because it was the oldest elected body in the District, predating the 1974 limited - home - rule law.

I hope as an elected body, with the desire to stand up for what's right, you really put students first by supporting wholeheartedly the Governor's plan.

He said the Delegate Assembly is a duly elected body that represents the wishes of its members.

I think that some would say a negative on the Recovery School District is that same thing, that it's not a politically elected body.

However, the Rev. Willie Calhoun Jr., a lifelong resident of the Lower Ninth Ward, said the «elected body has less authority than the charter management groups.»

Opinions on this topic ranged from, «immediately» return the schools to local control to «never» return the schools back to the uncertainty of a locally elected body.

• The right of local communities to approve or disapprove the establishment of charter schools in their communities, either through direct vote or through their school board or other locally - elected body.

In Los Angeles, the county board of supervisors, an elected body, appoints the county superintendent of schools and the county board of education trustees.

The real scary issue here is the serious abuse of power by an elected body.

There should be something written that explains if animal control is managed by an elected body of officials or an agency of the government, and defines the roles and responsibilities of animal control if the services are provided by a nonprofit or for - profit organization or individual.

The Majlis Al Shura is an elected body which, as its name states, consults and also advises the government of Oman.

An elected body sanctioned by the Board of Trustees to find a sustainable cost savings plan to prevent the implementation of tuition for Cooper Union.

The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is not an elected body.

To this end, Tilonia has set up a children's parliament where an elected body of girls and boys aged between 10 to 14 years make sure that the schools are properly run — an innovative step to better child - empowerment.

The availability of advice from the Integrity Commissioner may provide these public servants with the benefits of increased certainty over how and when they can and can not participate in their elected body's decision making, thus ensuring that their voters are served to the fullest extent.

At present, if there is a dispute, ultimately the Commons wins, since it is the elected body.

At the Supreme Court level, nine states used the gubernatorial appointment process with some form of confirmation of candidates by the legislature or another elected body, according to the Brennan Center.

The ATSIEB is established under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body Act 2008 (ACT), which came into force on 15 May 2008 after a series of consultations about its structure with the local Indigenous community.

It is both a publicly elected body and a public authority that is controlled and funded by the Swedish government.

The Sami parliament became both a publicly elected body and an authority that is controlled by the Swedish government.

As this paper was being finalised, elections had been concluded in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) for members of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body (ATSIEB).

State - based mechanisms that are constituted through other means, such as direct election and / or representation of organisations — these might, for example, be constituted outside the framework of the National Indigenous Representative Body such as with the new ACT Governments» Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body;