Sentences with phrase «local democratic control over»

I think there should be a great deal of local democratic control over speed limits and the means of enforcing them.

Not exact matches

The Democratic Left was firmly in control of local politics, media, and academia, and the gloom of intense political correctness had settled over the region.

Besides being democratic and transparent in group activities and taking interest in studying issues related to organic agriculture, MASIPAG also aims to strengthen farmers control over the selling of their produce while improving productivity and sustainability and achieving food self - sufficiency at local level.

The leaders in the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly on Monday indicated they would push to change Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to require local governments to develop ways of sharing services and scale back his efforts to expand his office's powers over the state budget.

«The legislation is therefore a step forward in achieving and maintaining local, democratic control over this significant town asset for the benefit of all members of the community.»

Focusing on a notion of accountability which is broader than just league tables and published measurement scores, the Big Education Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local school systems.

The county democratic party hardly focuses on judicial races and judicial candidates seldom reach out to local clubs for endorsements; however, I have elected to include their ratio in this piece because courts have the ability to deeply impact anyone who is involved in the justice system, and people in a lower socio - economic class are likely to have less control over and support with their legal matters.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

105 Milwaukee Public Schools were joined by 14 La Crosse schools in hosting morning «Walk Ins» to demonstrate the widespread support for public schools in the city and the unified outrage over a Takeover that rips local and democratic control from the people of Milwaukee.

This from the Democratic governor whose «Commissioner's Network» program has undermined local control, handed public schools over to the disgraced Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain in Hartford and Bridgeport and devastated a number of urban schools by implementing a «money follows the child» system that has left troubled schools without the resources they need to even serve the students that have remained in those schools.

But unlike many states, Maryland has seen a power struggle develop between the Republican governor and the Democratic - controlled legislature over who has final say over local control of the schools.