Sentences with phrase «more local discretion»

It also provides more local discretion in how evaluations are conducted.

Not exact matches

Local pension funds could be allowed more discretion to adjust the level of benefits offered to pension fund members.

Organizer Sean Collins is with Capital Area Against Mass Incarceration: «And in the resolution it talks about, it calls on local law enforcement officials and agencies to utilize their discretion they have, use greater discretion to provide more leniency and more compassion in the system, and do what they can now, even though there isn't a law on the books to divert 16 - and 17 - year - olds away from prisons.»

The National School Boards Association's general counsel criticized that DCL for «creating an expectation that school officials are to respond to each and every offensive incident as if it were a civil rights violation,» thus «needlessly drain [ing] school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.»

He also wants to eliminate state rules and programs, and let local districts have more discretion.

The two agree the state spends too little on education, favor giving local districts more discretion about how to use their funding and share support for the Common Core State Standards, the national learning benchmarks that have generated a backlash over whether they undermine states» rights.

However, with an increase in school violence and gang - related activities, the political climate seems to have turned more conservative, and the Supreme Court has begun to return many decisions back to the discretion of the local school board.

On the surface LCFF combines traditionally progressive instincts toward steering money to the children in the most need with traditionally conservative instincts that give local authorities more discretion over programs.

Upon request, the court may, in its discretion, stay further proceedings for not more than sixty days pending the termination of State or local proceedings described in subsection (b) or the efforts of the Commission to obtain voluntary compliance.

The Court of Appeal held — on a more or less technical judicial review basis — that the decision not to call J was within the local authority's discretion and could not be set aside by judicial review.

S.C. Code § 63-3-620 enumerates these sanctions as, «a fine, a public work sentence, or by imprisonment in a local correctional facility, or any combination of them, in the discretion of the court, but not to exceed imprisonment in a local correctional facility for one year, a fine of fifteen hundred dollars, or public work sentence of more than three hundred hours, or any combination of them.»

Multiple listing services may, as a matter or local discretion, require applicants for MLS participation and licensees (including licensed or certified appraisers) affiliated with an MLS participant who have access to and use of MLS - generated information to complete an orientation program of no more than eight (8) classroom hours devoted to the MLS rules and regulations, computer training related to MLS information entry and retrieval, and the operation of the MLS within thirty (30) days after access has been provided.