Sentences with phrase «increased local control»

ESSA has not increased local control of any policies governing a local district's public schools; nor has it increased the authority of a governor or state legislature, either.

Although many in the education community are deeply concerned about how changes at the Federal level will effect local schools, there is reason for optimism if increased local control will benefit your school.

The task force recommended a revamp of the common core system, more stakeholder input, a reduction in standardized testing, and increased local control over standards and curriculum.

At the heart of this fundamental change is increasing local control and flexibility while emphasizing equity, continuous improvement, and support.

Finally, UrbEd works towards regaining and increasing local control of our school board here in the Philadelphia school district.

Supporters of the District of Innovation concept in 2015 (including school board / administrator groups, along with affiliated associations such as Raise Your Hand Texas), expressed their desire for flexibility that would increase local control and the «freedom to innovate.»

NAR supported several provisions of the bill during the legislative process, including a «Complete Streets» policy and provisions that increase local control of funds that can be used for smaller - scale infrastructure projects.

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Sports events, they argue, increase local government spending on public safety and traffic control.

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.

Those technologies that manipulate DNA artificially increase corporate control over seeds, diminish rich, diverse diets of local communities, promote monoculture, increase biosafety risks to health and environment, and need high investment and complicated regulatory frameworks which many countries lack.

By understanding how local / autocrine control of milk synthesis works, we can gain an understanding of how to effectively increase (or decrease) milk supply.

After more than a decade (ending in 2011) of working with the Alaska Division of Public Health tracking local SIDS and sleep - related death cases, we were unable to find evidence that co-sleeping increased the risk of death when controlling for other factors.

Anna Minton's 2009 book, Ground Control, and the 2011 London Assembly Report, Public Life in Private Hands, both highlight an increase in surveillance and control in the public realm as the management of newly designed public spaces is ceded to developers, rather than retained by elected local authorities, resulting in a winnowing out of people thought «undesirable&Control, and the 2011 London Assembly Report, Public Life in Private Hands, both highlight an increase in surveillance and control in the public realm as the management of newly designed public spaces is ceded to developers, rather than retained by elected local authorities, resulting in a winnowing out of people thought «undesirable&control in the public realm as the management of newly designed public spaces is ceded to developers, rather than retained by elected local authorities, resulting in a winnowing out of people thought «undesirable».

Under the terms of the agreement, Cuomo would support local control for a minimum wage increase — a proposal he has previously opposed — as well as back a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate.

[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.

Senate Democrats call for more education aid — at least $ 2 billion — while also backing an indexed minimum wage increase coupled with local control.

Cuomo was endorsed by the party last month, however, after agreeing to help Democrats retake the state Senate and back a host of liberal legislation such as a minimum wage increase as well as local control for future hikes.

In response, Cuomo's team pointed to the governor's record, including increasing the minimum wage, banning natural gas hydrofracking, passing strict gun control, capping local property tax increases, legalizing same - sex marriage and directing state investments in infrastructure like a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge.

The Harris Academy in Peckham has increased the number of students getting five good GCSEs — from 12 percent when it was under local authority control to almost 90 percent now.

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:

Local control of increasing the state's minimum wage, school construction and paid family leave measures are part of the 2015 legislative agenda for the Senate Independent Democratic Conference.

The wild turkey known to most locals as Tom — beloved by some and disdained by others - was trapped by an animal control officer after police received an increased number of complaints about him.

«This new law limits property tax increases to two percent and it gives you the power to control spending of your local government,» Cuomo says in the spot.

But the election of President Donald Trump in 2016, and the corresponding anti-Trump fever, and the #metoo movement, calls for stricter gun control, the opposition to the Trump tax cuts which also included a cut in the state and local tax deduction, and a tax increase for many in Westchester, have all hurt Republicans and helped Democrats in Westchester.

«I'm still standing as hard as I can for local control and increased insurance limits and the black car fund and disability rights,» said Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, a Democrat from Kingston who chairs the chamber's insurance committee.

The government insists that in giving NHS trusts and schools more freedom to govern their affairs, as in the case of foundation hospitals and city academies, they are reducing Whitehall control and increasing participation of service users and local people.

Cuomo has called for increased control over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and is pushing local governments within the MTA's service area to spend more on transit in the area, including New York City.

This new law limits property tax increases to two percent and it gives you the power to control spending of your local government.

«This study, one of only a few large studies to have follow - up beyond five years, demonstrates that patients who have head and neck cancers and who are being treated with radiation therapy alone have improved local - regional control and no increase in late toxicity when radiation therapy is delivered twice a day in two smaller doses which we call hyperfractionation,» said Jonathan J. Beitler, MD, MBA, FASTRO, lead author of the study and professor of radiation oncology, otolaryngology and hematology / medical oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

Developing countries have resisted enshrining their programs into binding international law because most of these initiatives are rooted in national goals, such as controlling local pollution and increasing the value of forests, which makes them skittish about foreign commitment and monitoring.

As schools move away from local authority control and the government gives them an increasing amount of autonomy to spend their budgets as they see fit the need for teachers, the reason for ICT heads and school leaders to visit Bett strengthens.

Genesys Enterprise resolves issues associated with the increasing geographical scope of clients, corporations, governments and institutions, while adhering to a multi-tiered hierarchy (or «federated» system), where total control is centralised but allows individual sites to maintain local control.

In these cases, local control has been asserted by the state defensively to relieve it from having to increase its school spending or take on unsought oversight responsibilities.

This is a local control debate that is sure to heat up as we stumble through the current financial crisis, with more and more proposals to increase the centralization of school governance and financing.

The 1909 law, which is still in place, was intended to improve education by providing increased state involvement in public schools while still permitting considerable local control and accountability.

As schools move away from local authority control and have to manage the provision of school dinners we can expect to see an increase in the adoption of cashless catering systems.

This has resulted in a significant increase in the number of number of schools opting out of Local Authority control and becoming academies; employers in their own right.

In an era of widespread disagreement on education reform, increased confidence in local control of education, and the absence of a dominant theory on where reform goes from here, visionary mayors are emerging as leaders of thought and action in defining a new role for municipalities to play in developing and educating young people, with particular attention to children living in poverty.

Projected increases in funding under Proposition 98, which sets a minimum funding level for schools, plus more money to the district under the state's Local Control Funding Formula, should ease some of the tensions over the district's special treatment for Priority Schools.

Unlike local - authority - run schools, they are exempt from teaching the national curriculum and have increased control over teachers» pay and conditions and the length of school terms and days.

Furthermore, as additional eligible students are identified through Medicaid Direct Certification, schools can leverage increased education dollars through the Local Control Funding Formula.

A GOP aide incoherently attempted to spin this to EdWeek, saying confusing regulations actually increase state and local control, because it «leaves a lot of this to states to figure out and the secretary's ability to interfere with those state decisions is astonishingly limited.»

Here and now, with local control funding and increasing recognition of the importance of educating the «whole child», we have enormous opportunities to ensure every child comes to school ready and able to learn, with the whole range of supports and opportunities they need and deserve.

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Tomorrow, the LAUSD school board will ratify the 2015 - 16 budget, along with the district's Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), increasing an investment in restorative justice to $ 7.2 million from $ 4.2 million.

The growing number of academies outside council control meant increasing numbers of schools had lacked any local oversight until RSCs were appointed in 2014, says the report.

With the advent of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and the increased focus on student engagement and school climate, mental health services in schools are a cost - effective way to increase attendance and reduce suspensions / expulsions.

The budget increases school spending per student to $ 10,591 in 2016 - 17 — a boost of nearly $ 3,600 compared with 2011 - 12 levels, according a post on Brown's website: «The budget provides a fourth - year investment of more than $ 2.8 billion in the Local Control Funding Formula, which focuses on students with the greatest challenges to success, bringing the formula to 95 percent implementation.

For example, a part of the resolution informs us that charter schools «have contributed to the increased segregation rather than diverse integration of our public school system» and that weak oversight of charters «puts students and communities at risk of harm, public funds at risk of being wasted, and further erodes local control of public education.»

The Local Control and Accountability Plan summarizes a three - year plan for meeting student needs, including increasing or improving services for foster children, English learners and students in poverty.