Sentences with phrase «majority on»

It seems that I have some slightly different views from the majority on this matter and so I decided to investigate further.

Independent majority on SRO boards need with an independent source of revenues.

In large part because the legal environment has changed: it's much more hostile to mass tort actions, thanks in large part to a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.

I am with the vast majority on this one - will not recommend.

Aside from a few brand - name tablets, the majority on the show floor were still running Android 2.0, 2.1, or 2.2.

A good majority on either side of the publishing fence understand that it is book publishing that is in need of improving.

The majority on the national list were vehicles with models 10 years or older and pickup trucks.

The majority on the national list were vehicles with models 10 years or older and pickups.

Passage of the legislation would allow the current board president to install an anti-public education majority on the board.

LA Weekly: LAUSD Runoff Means a Pro-Charter Majority on the School Board Is Within Reach https://t.co/lvJG6eyA7S

Vouchers are popular with the Republican majority on Capitol Hill but anathema to most Democrats.

Remember, this year's Los Angeles School Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School District.

Opposition culminated in 2010, when a Tea Party — backed majority on the school board voted to end the plan.

, in a hastily called special Hartford Board of Education meeting scheduled for late this afternoon, Mayor Pedro Segarra and his appointed majority on the Hartford Board are expected to vote in favor of a resolution asking Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, to step in and unilaterally eliminate the involvement of the parents and teachers of the Clark Elementary School.

For the past year, the majority on the board of the 167 - school district have been pushing to return to zoned schooling, essentially eliminating the array of magnet schools and other options created as part of a three decade - long desegregation effort.

Last week Hartford Superintendent of Schools, Christina Kishimoto, announced plans that she wants to close Hartford's Clark School and hand the building over to Achievement First, Inc., the larger charter school management company that already has one school in Hartford but was promised another by Mayor Pedro Segarra and the majority on the Hartford Board of Education.

«The Republican majority on the Senate HELP Committee made a critical mistake today.

Opponents of economic desegregation gained a majority on Raleigh's Wake County School Board in an election last fall.

The wins by Melvoin and Gonez created the first pro-reform majority on the school board since 2010.

In the first step toward launching the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, the Legislature this month determined that a teacher and two superintendents will form the majority on its governing board.

A majority on the Board fell for the ploy and Connecticut and Bridgeport taxpayers will be paying Vallas $ 900 a day for an extra month.

Now Gonez and Melvoin — the charter school advocates — will join kindred spirits Monica Garcia and Ref Rodriguez to create a pro-charter schools majority on the school board.

Now that the NEA and AFT can count on Schwarzenegger's successor (and once - and - future governor) Jerry Brown and the state legislature to be at their proverbial beck - and - call (and the AFT now assured of a majority on L.A. Unified's board), Supt. John Deasy has had to roll back efforts to expand choice and has had to hope on lawsuits by reformers to give him the edge in revamping the district's woeful teacher evaluation system.

Since then, despite a shift to a Democratic majority on the school board, the number of Wake County schools serving a majority of low - income children on the free and reduced lunch program has more than doubled, surging from 18 in 2008 to 48 this school year.

Meanwhile, a newly elected majority on the seven - member School Board touted UNO's progress at Capdau and said they are advocates of creating more university - run schools.

In a school board election held on Tuesday in Los Angeles, a reform candidate defeated the board president and reformers reached a majority on the school board.

With a new charter - backed majority on the board, there's lots of speculation about whether the district will accelerate the growth of charters in the years to come.

Yet a majority on the court ruled that the administrators who conducted the search could not be held personally liable because of the uncertainty of the law in this area.

If the mayor could deliver his new majority on the board — the vote was set for late August — more than one - third of L.A.'s schools would eventually compete in a marketplace unprecedented in scope.

By February, Villaraigosa's majority on the school board began to unravel.

The majority on the Bush court decided to interpret away this clause, claiming that it referred exclusively to junior colleges and adult education outside K - 12 schooling.

Today, the United States is composed of a vast majority of minorities plus women (who are a majority on their own).

After Tom Boasberg replaced Bennet in 2009, the local teachers union mobilized and the next election limited the reformers» majority on the school board to 4 - 3.

Likewise, in 1995, a union - led coup in Milwaukee produced a majority on that city's school board that reform superintendent Howard Fuller realized he could not work with.

While about 90 percent of the world's population use these surrogates in their everyday lives, the other ten don't care for the idea too much, going so far as to live outside of the majority on reservations where signs boasting / warning «Humans only» stand by the entrance.

The council voted by majority on September 25, 2013, to adopt the acronym SURPAS.

Nudges could change public behaviour without having to get a majority on the Floor.

In comments on the 2019 budget proposal, the GOP majority on the Science panel led by Smith suggested that EPA's funding should be contingent on the administrator's «requiring that all scientific and technical information and data relied on to support a risk, exposure, or hazard assessment; criteria document; standard; limitation; regulation; regulatory impact analysis; or guidance issued by the EPA is made publicly available.»

The majority on the ERCOT board «is taking a deep, hard look at this issue.

In Kansas, supporters of evolution were already assured a majority on the 10 - member state board after a primary election earlier this year.

Co-sponsored by Lamar Smith (R — TX) and other members of the Republican majority on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and passed by a largely partisan vote, the House bill would give the Office of Science a 5.3 % boost next year but hold its budget flat the following year.

After conservatives won a majority on the state board in 2004, they quickly moved to adopt standards that critics say were tainted with creationist ideology, including a definition of science aimed at allowing supernatural explanations for natural phenomena.

Despite having had an African - American majority on the city council since 1988, ethnic communities had little voice in local politics, according to Corburn and others who follow the environmental justice movement in Richmond.

Whatever the merits of Mr Hunt's policies, he speaks for a government elected with a clear majority on a manifesto commitment to move the NHS to a full seven - day service.

He expects that as party spokesman (minority leader) he will automatically be returned should Democrats pick up the one seat they need to regain the majority on Nov. 5.

The Conservatives have been on a drive to win back the voters in the north of England it needs if it is to secure an overall majority on May 7.

Increasingly, our democracy recognises that fact, with fairer electoral systems and more power - sharing between parties in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, none of which has a legitimate majority on its own.

UKIP have made a couple of gains in Huntingdonshire but it failed to dent the Conservative's comfortable majority on the council.

The problem is that next May she'll get a bigger mandate, a larger majority on the council to push ahead with her brain dead ideas, when a «hung council» or a smaller majority might place some restraints on her, or force her out altogether.

I would say that it is virtually certain that Labour will lose its majority on Derbyshire CC in May, and that the Tories will finish up as the largest party.