Sentences with phrase «essentially agencies of the states»

The legal theory underlying school finance reform is predicated to a significant degree on the principle that local school districts are essentially agencies of the states, charged with providing the education mandated by the state's constitution.

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It says, essentially, that the governor's budget office can move money around in state agencies to consolidate business services, like information technology and other functions, without the permission of the legislature.

The state's Labor Law gives state agencies and public authorities broad discretion to require bidders to enter into project labor agreements (PLAs), essentially collective bargaining agreements with groups of labor unions.

Internet agencies such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) might be a reasonable place to start when trying to improve cybersecurity and avoid international cyberconflicts, but essentially this is a problem requiring input from the U.S. State Department and international policy makers and perhaps even something along the lines of an Internet Geneva Convention, Saydjari says.

To begin with, for all its faults, No Child Left Behind had at least one redeeming characteristic: it required state and local education agencies to report on the progress of particular pupil groups that heretofore had been essentially ignored — at least from the standpoint of academic achievement.

And the recent EPA decision to strip away a key component of the agency's «once in, always in» (OIAI) air pollution protection policy could result in increased emissions of toxic pollutants from major industrial sources in essentially every state.

It's a sad state of affairs when registrants do not know that agency essentially boils down to employer (client) employee (brokerage) and that the agent must carry out any lawful orders the client demands.