Sentences with phrase «majority of states»

I would say that in majority of states, the issue of court services to self represented is relatively new.

A vast majority of states require your corporation to keep regular meeting minutes.

It finds that the overwhelming majority of states provide schools with few incentives to focus on their high - achieving students.

As in 2007, a large majority of the state's major party candidates proceeded to the general election without a primary challenge.

The great majority of states (44, or 88 %) report individual student scores.

For the vast majority of state legislators, it is the beginning of a new session, for the newly elected lawmakers, it is the beginning of a new career.

The overwhelming majority of states provide schools with few incentives to focus on their high - achieving students.

In short, a sizable majority of states have failed to provide equitable funding.

While that's a slight majority of states, it shows how limited the spread of community solar still is.

And the vast majority of states moved toward an assumption of joint custody.

Those two areas represent the vast majority of state spending.

The vast majority of state colleges and universities admit most of their applicants, and do not require minimum scores for admission that represent college readiness.

Furthermore, the vast majority of state programs target low - income students, students in failing schools, or students with disabilities.

The vast majority of states fail to help people with mental illness navigate the justice system, the findings show.

In the large majority of states, we won't even ask about your mileage.

This is a reflection of how affordable homes are in the vast majority of the state.

The vast majority of states allow for UTMA accounts.

She was either supposed to glide toward easy re-election as the only woman in the Republican majority of the State Senate or she was to step aside gracefully after seven terms to make room for a younger and more conservative Republican, 47 - year - old Assemblyman George E. Pataki.

The vast majority of states require drivers to carry at lease25 / 50/25 limits.

A few states have specific laws that govern how old children must be to be left home alone or to be allowed to walk to school, the vast majority of states don't have such specific laws.

«It's great news that a bipartisan majority of State Senators and Assemblymembers support closing the corporate contribution floodgate Citizens United opened,» said Senator Daniel Squadron, in an emailed statement.

The vast majority of states use a balancing test to determine whether inadvertent disclosure is considered a waiver of the privilege.

Rivera, a Cleveland State University graduate who wrestled on the varsity team there, was nominated for the interim position with support of the Republican majority of the state school board all but guaranteed.

«Large majorities of California parents, and even larger majorities of state voters, want to see students tested regularly and in a wide range of subjects.»

For example, he won majorities of states, counties, and electoral college votes.

But lawmakers so far have balked, with the Senate's Republican leaders vowing to oppose any new tolls and the Democratic majority of the state Assembly backing much smaller surcharges and only on for - hire vehicles traveling below 96th Street in Manhattan.

The groups bolstered their call for reform with a report, titled Serving Two Masters: Conflicts of Interest in Albany, which found that an overwhelming majority of state lawmakers already restrict their outside income.

When cases do implicate funding disparities, the federal courts can build upon the consensus that has emerged from the overwhelming majority of state courts that have concluded, after a review of the relevant social science research, that money does matter for the quality of educational opportunity.

For example, its judges must have expertise in criminal or international law, and can be elected only by a two - thirds majority of states which are parties to the treaty, most of which will be democracies.

Teacher evaluations are being instituted in the vast majority of states across the country as part of President Barack Obama's Race to the Top initiative.

The overwhelming majority of state constitutions make no mention whatsoever of school districts or local school boards.

The report, however, noted that «that number could decline» as at least five states are considering repealing the standards, but that «the vast majority of states adopting the Common Core continue to support the effort.»

The vast majority of states already take advantage of some end - use energy efficiency programs and policies, and all states have vast untapped reserves of this resource.

While not the worst offender, Ohio still has a great deal of partisan gerrymandering according to research from the Brennan Center, a non-partisan public policy and law institute in D.C. Republicans have held the state governorship and controlled majority of the state and national legislative seats for years.

I am very confident that this time round, two - thirds majority of state assemblies will vote in support of financial autonomy for state legislatures.

The Catholics controlled the overwhelming majority of state hospitals, schools, and virtually every other social service.

Yet the change is opposed by clear majorities of the state's players and coaches, according to the IHSAA's own polling.

Twelve years later, a day doesn't go by without a story about concussions appearing in newspapers and on countless websites, and a growing majority of states have enacted laws to protect youth athletes against the dangers of returning athletes to sports before their brains have healed.

Whenever Gov. Andrew Cuomo is periodically asked about whether he will actively support a Democratic majority of the state Senate, he says a lot, without saying much at all.

Amid increasing calls for New York to pass bold government ethics reform and minimize the role of money in elections, a bipartisan majority of state lawmakers has taken a symbolic but somewhat significant step in calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution overturning the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case.

The State of Texas joined the great majority of state governments in requiring citizens to supply evidence of their capability while on the highway to cover minimal liability limitations, on January 1, 2011.

Charles, wants her constituents to know that «the state budget that was recently enacted includes a provision tying an overwhelming majority of state school funding to what is known as an «evidenced - based model.»»

However, a vast majority of State grads still live in Raleigh.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the vast majority of states participating in its National School Lunch Program have opted to order ground beef that doesn't contain the product known as lean finely textured beef.