Sentences with phrase «local prerogative»

(If they did so no state would have adopted the standards, because specific content is a local prerogative in the U.S.) But those words are an impetus to a brave governor or state superintendent to get down to brass tacks.

While some districts say the federal largess and direction will help advance improvement strategies already under way, others warn that the department's vision, as outlined in regulations proposed last month, leaves little room for local prerogative.

To those most protective of state and local prerogatives, «common» became a synonym for «federal.»

Not exact matches

It not only implies, for the several national «governments», the prospect of having to waive a substantial portion of the pomp, prerogative and privilege which they now enjoy as the traditional concomitants of the possession of national military power, and having to content themselves with the considerably smaller amount of glory which is reserved for mere units of local administration.

As a governor he has the prerogative right to select those members, is not about election, where you say that this person is our choice, even at that he still called meeting of stakeholders in all the Local Government Areas and the Stakeholders gave him the endorsement.

«That's certainly within the prerogative of the executive, and we would respect that decision,» said Soares, but he says he thinks local authorities know best how to handle the demonstrators.

Much will be learned from these experiences in the years ahead, but for the time being one immediate takeaway merits repeating: Local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs.

My advice to my fellow education reformers is to play the long game, remaining mindful of both the sunlight and disinfectant power of student achievement data on the one hand, and of our own rhetoric on parental prerogative and local control on the other.

Finding that «local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs,» Smarick urges policymakers to heed the lessons learned from that experience and to focus on reducing the gulf between reforms promised and reforms delivered when it comes to the Department of Education's $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top fund.

When will the advocates of school - based management learn that education bureaucracies will not devolve without a fundamental change in authority that extends beyond creating local school councils or adding a few more prerogatives for principals?

He submitted that neither was the case since the proposals were acknowledged to fall outside the existing statutory regime for local government restructuring (Local Government Act 1992 (LGA 1992), Pt 2) and the actions in question were not prerogative local government restructuring (Local Government Act 1992 (LGA 1992), Pt 2) and the actions in question were not prerogative Local Government Act 1992 (LGA 1992), Pt 2) and the actions in question were not prerogative acts.

In every state, the local government has the prerogative to make amendments in its traffic and insurance policies.