Sentences with phrase «from local control»

The effect would be to shrink the amount that districts get from the Local Control Funding Formula while sending a clear message to temper the public's and staff's expectations: There'd be more money to go around, were it not for escalating retirement expenses.
Their concerns: no guarantee of a parent role in governance, and oversight seemingly once - removed from local control.
Voters won't know they will be granting sweeping new powers to take away schools from local control and place them under state jurisdiction as the ballot language is vague, only asking if the state should intervene in failing schools.
WHAT»S WRONG: Too many «reforms» remove schools from local control, muting the voices and decisionmaking power of parents and local communities.
Some (including, often, teachers unions) accuse charter school advocates of trying to privatize education, wresting it from local control; supporters see charters as offering critical opportunities for some of the nation's most vulnerable children.
But the bright bulbs don't realize that good schools come from local control, good teachers / administrators and parent involvement.
Standing Together for Strong Community Schools, a nonprofit group in the state, views the state - run district and the growing charter sector as a move away from local control.
In the effort to free the Church from local control which he believed made it subservient to secular influences he augmented the power of the bishops over the parish priests.

Not exact matches

With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.
Rather, the time, effort, and resources put into the startup scene show an aggressive effort by a community to take control of its destiny and begin building a new economy from the ground up by supporting local innovators.
Amancio Ortega is the fourth - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.
Capital controls have historically been as much about preventing foreigners from buying local government bonds as it has been about preventing destabilizing bouts of flight capital, and living in China, where an aggressive demand for the privileges of reserve currency status coincide with equally aggressive policies that prevent the RMB from achieving reserve currency status (and that transfer ever more of the «benefits» to the US) made clear the huge gap in rhetoric and practice.
The multibillion - dollar development is expected to generate a huge number of jobs while also attracting FDI from international technology companies and local entrepreneurs, according to a Control Risks report entitled East Africa's Tech Hub.
These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Combine the reticence of consumers to push for change with the local realtor association - controlled MLSs, and a willingness by realtors to punish anyone changing the status quo (by not showing a house, or pointing out flaws that would kill a sale), and the best outcome for Zillow was to be an aggregator but not an integrator: the company was completely removed from the purchase process.
Now, some cities want to undo a Florida law that prevents them from passing local gun - control laws.
With scant grounding in constitutional text or tradition, court majorities took it upon themselves (usually over strong dissents) to remove a number of matters from legislative and local control.
But local warlords are prone to fight each other and to resist centralized control from Kabul.
Even reconstruction efforts, when handled by the IMF / WB, wind up being subcontracted to (mostly) American businesses, cutting out the locals not only from wages but also from any sense of control over teh reconstructions of their devasted nations.
Equally important, we should rewrite all our Status of Forces Agreements — those American - dictated «agreements» that exempt our troops based in foreign countries from local criminal laws, taxes, immigration controls, anti-pollution legislation, and anything else the American military can think of.
produces percepta which are vague, not to be controlled, heavy with emotion: it produces the sense of derivation from an immediate past, and of passage to an immediate future; a sense of emotional feeling, belonging to oneself in the past, passing into oneself in the present, and passing from oneself in the present towards oneself in the future, a sense of influx of influence from other vaguer presences in the past, localized and yet evading local definition....
Since Academy schools are not under the control of local authorities, it is a source of great wonder to me that all Catholic maintained schools have not opted for this status; it is an even greater wonder that the Catholic diocesan authorities are, it seems, actually discouraging the governors of Catholic schools from exercising their legal right to opt for Academy status.
1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes
Once the church divorced herself from the oversight and control of the local and national government, the church also no longer had the significant source of tax income which the government provided.
From a local, tribal god they found their way through to the sovereign Creator of the universe, in whose hands were the reins of all history, and from whose control no star and no nation could escFrom a local, tribal god they found their way through to the sovereign Creator of the universe, in whose hands were the reins of all history, and from whose control no star and no nation could escfrom whose control no star and no nation could escape.
It is this reality that contradicts the claim by the paid - time broadcasters that by cultivating audience support they have been able to free themselves from network and local station control over their programs and thus act independently in proclaiming the gospel.
They see it in the birth control legislation in Massachusetts and Connecticut; they see it in the Catholic pressure to remove welfare agencies that have birth control clinics from local community chests elsewhere; they see it in the Catholic objection to divorce laws that are much more flexible than the law of the Church; they see it in the attempts to have non-Catholic hospitals adopt the Catholic ideas of medical ethics in the field of obstetrics.
Should we seek a post-communist command economy to control technological development, to make the corporations subject to the nation - state, to prevent globalization from disrupting local cultures, to stop, even to deconstruct all that presses toward cosmopolitan growth?
With the chappies in Aus significantly government funded with extra coming from local church institutions, am I setting myself up to become a part of the control mechanisms of the state?
In my case the disease was distinctly what would be classed as nervous, not organic; but from such opportunities as I have had of observing, I have come to the conclusion that the dividing line that has been drawn is an arbitrary one, the nerves controlling the internal activities and the nutrition of the body throughout; and I believe that the central nervous system, by starting and inhibiting local centres, can exercise a vast influence upon disease of any kind, if it can be brought to bear.
In order to achieve biodynamic certification from Demeter, Lance had to take a local and low - input approach to weed control too.
You can steam cook vegetables and rice in one utensil.Even a pressure cooker would do.The main thing is, you would see, and control what you eat rather than trust to something in a packet, in which all you can see is alleged edibles in a batter or breadcrumbs, which alleges to be vegan and may not be.Eat what you can see and select and buy when possible from local growers or even a supermarket.
The retail sector in the Middle East is evolving fast, not least due to its overwhelmingly young population, and retailers face a major challenge in responding to the changing needs of consumers for fresh - cut and convenience products, for local produce, for organics, for online delivery options and for international brands, with many retailers taking on more control of the supply chain by importing direct from the source.
Genetic diversity is necessary, nonetheless; landraces and traditional products made from them could, with better control for quality and safety, and with good marketing, be interesting to the global market for local products — unfortunately, they are slowly but steadily being lost.
State and local laws about the lethal chemical are almost nonexistent, and the only effective control on its use seems to come from the two manufacturers.
The Chinese government has expressed an interest in bringing the supply chain under the control of Chinese firms as part of its goal of reducing the number of local infant formula producers to 10 from more than 200 within two years.
This past week I came upon a top secret correspondence from a local hospital that read something like this: «The OBGYN Department and the Infection Control Division would like to remind you that eye protection (e.g. glasses, goggles) and a face mask are required for all providers participating in a delivery.
We believe in local control, individual responsibility and freedom from burdensome government regulations.»
If you have a mercury thermometer and it breaks, keep your child away from it and call your local poison control center (1-800-222-1222) for information about how to clean it up safely.
Districts that participate in the NSLP are required, among other things, to have food safety programs and participate in health inspections by state or local health departments at least twice annually.4 School food safety plans must comply with U.S. Department of Agriculture guidance and hazard analysis and critical control point principles and apply those to any location where school nutrition program food is stored, prepared, or served.5 However, regardless of a school's NSLP participation, districts typically have policies and procedures to prevent allergens from contaminating other food.6
Real control has steadily centralized from the local level — to the state and Federal level.
I don't envy the task of a trying to ensure quality control at 300 local schools, and I'll write more about the issue of on - site quality control as I learn more from my district.
Version control We received a feedback form from our local council asking how we, as an MP's office, rate their case - working department.
Almost every Democrat in the Senate gets big, major support from the Teachers Union so expect the Democrats to add a ton of exemptions and get rid of the lesser of inflation or 2 % cap language then watch your school and other local property taxes begin to spiral out of control again which is why the tax cap law originally passed.
The report also seemed to vindicate concerns about cutting schools off from local authority control.
I recently received an email invite from Nassau County Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs inviting me to the party's annual fall fundraising gala on Oct. 18, which is intended to raise campaign cash to help fuel the Democrats» effort to win back control of the local Legislature this fall.
Yet Miner has decided getting more money from local water users - the one thing she controls - is off the table for now.
The Team, chaired by Senior Advisor to the Governor Larry Schwartz, includes representatives from private industry, education, labor, and government and look for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.
This policy brief updates the Citizens Budget Commission's (CBC's) analysis of the cost of New York's state and local economic development programs.1 The February 2015 report Bigger Not Better: New York's Expanding Economic Development Programs examined economic development programs from 2010 to 2014 and urged greater reporting, scrutiny, and control of this growing and extensive portion of the budget.
Everyone from Al Quaeda to indie musicians have already used the «net to create international networks of support untied to traditional gatekeepers and authorities, and in the decades to come, distributed power production and 3 - D printers promise to shift even more power to the small, local and hard - to - control.
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