Sentences with phrase «majority took over that district»

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Waronker, who took over as schools chief on June 2, contended in that letter that his attempts to turn around the struggling district have been undermined by the board's three - member majority.

The lame - duck Legislature of 1964 met for a special session at the State Capitol in Albany from December 15 to 31, 1964, to re-apportion the legislative districts for the election in November 1965, gerrymandering the districts according to the wishes of the Republican majority before the Democrats would take over the Legislature in January.

Seddio picked Kavanagh without calling on members of the county committee, which he oversees, to vote on the nomination, as had taken place in Manhattan over the weekend, where Paul Newell, a district leader in Lower Manhattan, took the majority of the votes, a spokesman for the party confirmed.

Though Assemblyman Bill Nojay took his own life last week, a majority of Republican voters in his Assembly district backed him over opponent Rick Milne in Tuesday's primary.

The candidates seated on either side of him ranged from Robert Carroll, the Democratic Party - backed favorite to succeed Brooklyn Assemblyman James Brennan, to Kent Iverson, a white independent hoping to take over Congressman Charles Rangel «s majority - minority district — to Arthur Schwartz, a Sanders campaign lawyer challenging long - sitting Manhattan Assemblywoman Deborah Glick.

His first election in partisan politics wound up as a tie against an 18 - year incumbent...»... who was the majority leader of the county legislature and the committeemen - even though it takes place in a very public forum it's actually a party election, and so the committeemen broke the tie, gave it to the incumbent, and I wound up being elected in a write - in election with over 3,000 votes cast, just on a county legislative district, so, you can beat city hall.»

A majority of the districts want to keep control of academics, despite a few highly publicized experiments in which private companies have taken over instruction in public schools.

Because, in his mind, it could fuel too much «chaos» and «disruption» when a majority of families manage to take over a school, displeasing those families in the minority who would prefer to keep the school in traditional district hands.

Indeed, while the Orleans Parish School Board owns the majority of the city's public school property, the recovery district took over operation of the properties when schools were turned over.

All of the state's «F» rated school districts are majority - black districts, and all of the districts taken over by the state since 2010 are also majority - black districts, with one exception.

LOS ANGELES — A revolution is coming to the nation's second - biggest school system, with a pro-charter majority set to take over the governing board of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

The Herald took an online poll of the community over the terminations, and the majority want district officials to fire the teachers involved and deal with any potential lawsuits.