Sentences with phrase «local board control»

It is an argument for more local control, not less — provided, of course, that one doesn't transform that impulse into more local board control.

TREB later cut off his access to the MLS (each local board controls access by its members), citing rules requiring realtors to carry out the entire transaction in order to list.

Not exact matches

One week later, in early November, the editorial board of the Daily Progress, Charlottesville's local paper, opined that because Republicans also control Virginia's General Assembly, «we believe Ed Gillespie has the best chance of leading Virginia to a brighter economic future.»

CB: Was Penguin's decision to create a local board damage control related to management's recent sexual harassment scandal?

«To ensure public shareholders are not disadvantaged, any takeover bid would need to be put to a shareholder vote and any recommendation by the board would have to be based on an appropriate premium as well as safeguards for future probity given past track records of the businesses controlled by the Murdoch family», said Kieran Quinn, chairman of Britain's Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF).

She research [ed] and verified how a very small number of families created an «interlocking directory» of relationships through owning major businesses, holding significant or controlling interests in multiple forms of media (both print and broadcast), serving on major philanthropical foundations and / or non-profit boards, and involving themselves in the shaping of local politics.

A fund controlled by a local church gave the board $ 250,000 for «racial justice,» and the money was allocated to BAG and BAWA.

Also, check with your local school authorities (school board), and / or your local government that controls schooling where you live, but be careful of what school authorities and the government tell you.

Deemed out of control, he was sent to a local authority boarding school.

Federal regulations serve as the baseline for school nutrition programs thus allowing state governments and local school boards an element of local control.

School boards & some unnamed cities oppose it because of local control.

The governor says he vetoed legislation because control boards such as NIFA need ability to «restore fiscal order» to local governments.

The state has responded on a case - by - case basis, creating separate public authorities, commonly known as control boards, to oversee local financial workouts in six different localities.

DiNapoli, whose office oversees local finances, is reportedly considering a more comprehensive system of state response, including an early - warning system to head off emerging crises and the creation of a state - level financial control board.

Control boards such as NIFA are intended to «restore fiscal order» to local governments, Cuomo noted in a veto message issued Tuesday.

As a Southampton Town Board member, Ms. Fleming says she's helped to eliminate a budget deficit, thereby restoring the town's credit rating; focused on proper staffing and controls in the town finance department; and spearheaded economic initiatives such as the Farm Fresh Market in Flanders, which is run by teenagers and sells local produce, and the Youth Build Project in Riverside, which teaches young people about sustainable building methods while restoring blighted homes.

To drive the point home, we find our Republican congressman, Lee Zeldin, assisting the Democrat - majority town board to regain local control of the airport by writing letters to the F.A.A., drafting legislation, publicly supporting the town board's restrictions, and holding rallies in the Peconic region to promote the great work he is doing assisting East Hampton Town to bring much needed noise relief for the East End.

«The Governor, Legislature, Education Commissioner, and Board of Regents must restore local control of our schools,» Astorino said.

He said standards that are developed in New York would «go back to our roots... and back to local control in the classroom and local school boards.»

«The Erie County Control Board played a crucial part in improving the financial health of the county and minimizing burden felt by the taxpayers following the «Red - Green» budget, but as Erie County's bond rating continues to improve and the local economy becomes increasingly diversified the control board has taken on a purely advisory status» said Legislator Patrick Burke (7th DisControl Board played a crucial part in improving the financial health of the county and minimizing burden felt by the taxpayers following the «Red - Green» budget, but as Erie County's bond rating continues to improve and the local economy becomes increasingly diversified the control board has taken on a purely advisory status» said Legislator Patrick Burke (7th DistrBoard played a crucial part in improving the financial health of the county and minimizing burden felt by the taxpayers following the «Red - Green» budget, but as Erie County's bond rating continues to improve and the local economy becomes increasingly diversified the control board has taken on a purely advisory status» said Legislator Patrick Burke (7th Discontrol board has taken on a purely advisory status» said Legislator Patrick Burke (7th Distrboard has taken on a purely advisory status» said Legislator Patrick Burke (7th District).

Mayoral control was introduced in 2002 to replace the older system of a Board of Education dominated by borough president appointees and local elected school boards which were, in some cases, corrupt.

While Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw and County Executive Mark Poloncarz are often at odds, they both look at the county's improved financial health — for which they both take credit — and question the long - term need for a local control board that costs taxpayers about $ 480,000 a year.

Once June 30 comes and goes, the bureaucratic wheels of restoring control to local New York City school boards begins.

Comptroller DiNapoli says some local governments might eventually have to be taken over by a financial control board.

Without mayoral control, running the schools would fall to local elected school boards.

As part of the agreement, the Yankees also created a Community Benefits Fund, controlled by a volunteer board, that would give out $ 800,000 a year in grants to local community groups, $ 100,000 a year in equipment and merchandise, and 15,000 free game tickets.While some of these grants, merchandise and tickets have been distributed, activists at the rally said much of it remains unaccounted for.

Also bring academies into some kind of proper locally based democratic control, local government or directly elected schools boards, admissions to be done by LAs, insist on pupil premium, absolutely vital.

A so - called super control board for troubled local governments has been discussed, which would assume much of the budgetary and bargaining powers from local elected leaders.

It's true there is broad agreement that mayoral control is a better governance system for the city's 1,800 schools than the previous system of local school board control.

The three voting members of the Public Authorities Control Board must unanimously approve the loan, which has been criticized as a violation of state and federal law by state and local legislators as well as the Environmental Protection Agency.

Cuomo's Five - Year Financial Plan keeps revenue sharing with local governments flat at a time when scores of local governments and school districts are headed for insolvency and a takeover by state Control Boards.

A federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico's finances authorized up to $ 1 billion in local funds to be used for hurricane response, but the governor said he would ask for more.

KINGSTON >> School trustees are asking state lawmakers to recognize that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking to take control of education away from communities while making contradictory budget demands on local school boards.

To ingratiate himself with Mangano, Cuomo in 2013 appointed local political hack Jon Kaiman as chairman of the Nassau County Interim Finance Authority (a state control board on which I served as a director from 2010 to 2014) instead of appointing a municipal - finance expert.

De Blasio's ostensible allies among the Senate Democrats are more aligned with the teachers» union view that mayoral control gives parents and local school boards too little power over city schools.

Baynes notesthat rather than declaring bankruptcy or submitting to a state takeover by a financial control board, cities would like to see state government restore funding to local governments that has been cut in recent years.

Restore the right of parents to direct their children's education, and Keep control of schools with the local school board, not with state or federal agencies.

Mayor Michael R. White, along with an appointed nine - member school board and a superintendent of his choosing, will take over the Cleveland schools, returning the district to local control for the first time in nearly 25 years.

Anyone thinking about centralized control — federal or state — should volunteer for a local school board.

«This law moves against the tradition of local control in a fundamental way,» said one midwestern school board member in the autumn of 2001.

The plaintiff districts claimed that the commission fatally violated a provision of the state constitution holding that the local «school board shall operate, control and supervise all free public schools within the school district.»

The court said that charter schools are not «common» schools under the state's Constitution because they are controlled by a charter board rather than by local voters.

Second, Washington's high court ruled that «charter schools are devoid of local control» over educational issues because an elected school board does not govern them.

That view is countered by the author's observation that local control is, in fact, far greater now that the city's seven - member school board has been augmented by a growing cohort of charter school board members numbering in the hundreds.

The state's association of school boards rightly condemned it as an infringement of local control over school resources.

Last year, the state board returned control over budget and the school calendar to the local board.

Even with the financing and support of major reform foundations, the unions and their allies could hijack Portfolio Management in New Orleans, returning control to the local school board whose elections they dominate.

In 26 states (including 10 of the 12 states above), the initial decision by a local school board to deny a charter school application may be appealed to the state board of education or another institution, thus curbing school districts» control over the approval of charters even where school districts are given a role.

The Colorado court struck a compromise that would affirm the state board's authority as well as the local board's interest «in controlling instruction.»

The board asserted that the statute gives the state board of education more powers than the Colorado state constitution permits and infringes on the state constitution's provision that the local school board «shall have control of instruction in the public schools of their respective districts.»