Sentences with phrase «of charter laws»

In national comparisons of charter laws, Medler said, Washington ranks near the top in terms of following advice and preparing to create a quality system.

The measure was based on the share of students attending schools of choice, the strength of charter laws in each state (including, of course, the strength of the authorizing and quality control system), and a gauge of parent influence on policy.

In one sense, the upshot of charter laws has been much like that of private - school choice programs: They gave families more K - 12 options from which to choose.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has rated Ohio 26th, Hawaii 34th, and Maryland 40th among the states when it comes to the clarity and strength of their charter laws.

We did find a positive relationship between the fraction of students enrolled in private schools prior to the passage of charter laws and law passage and strength.

State - level differences included the strength of charter laws, statewide demographics, existing school choice policies, number of school districts, and the presence of charter support or opposition groups that operate throughout the state.

In a new analysis of the charter school experience in South Carolina, Jonathan Butcher and Joel Medley observe, «despite the proliferation of charter laws and new schools around the country, charters and their authorizers still spend their first several years in a fight for survival.»

Mr. Amper said the county's move was illegal because the program, created in 1987 to safeguard drinking water by purchasing land and preventing development, can only be altered or repealed through the adoption of a Charter law that's subject to a mandatory referendum.

Almost every state now has some sort of charter law on the books.

If they are not a corporation with a private management board, then they are not a charter school under the meaning of the charter law of California.

That makes 145 charters approved since passage of the charter law in December 1998, including several regular public («district») schools converted to charter status...

Not exact matches

«If Apple thinks the lawsuit is a waste of resources it could simply end the matter by complying with existing law and filing a new proxy that unbundles the proposed changes to the charter so that shareholders can express their views on each matter separately,» a Greenlight spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday.

Shareholders provide capital to a corporation in exchange for a bundle of rights defined by state law and the corporation's charter and bylaws.

The Corporate Governance Guidelines and committee charters adopted by our Board of Directors reflect regulatory requirements, New York Stock Exchange listing standards and applicable law.

When a corporate charter is alleged to contain a restriction on the fundamental electoral rights of stockholders under default provisions of law ---- such as the right of a majority of the shares to elect new directors or enact a charter amendment — it has been said that the restriction must be «clear and unambiguous» to be enforceable.

Or, almost no one: «The license is not required for merchants or consumers that utilize Virtual Currency solely for the purchase or sale of goods or services; or those firms chartered under the New York Banking Law to conduct exchange services and are approved by DFS to engage in Virtual Currency business activity.»

Among other matters, the audit committee evaluates the independent auditors» qualifications, independence and performance; determines the engagement of the independent auditors; reviews and approves the scope of the annual audit and the audit fee; discusses with management and the independent auditors the results of the annual audit and the review of our quarterly financial statements; approves the retention of the independent auditors to perform any proposed permissible non-audit services; monitors the rotation of partners of the independent auditors on the company's engagement team as required by law; reviews our critical accounting policies and estimates; oversees our internal audit function and annually reviews the audit committee charter and the committee's performance.

They also examine how the rights and privileges of farm workers, including seasonal and temporary foreign workers, conflict with those of their employers, and reveal the barriers many face by being excluded from most statutory employment laws, sometimes in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The transaction documents and issuance of shares do not conflict with the company's charter documents, material contracts and laws applicable to the company;

Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, known as the «notwithstanding clause,» has just about acquired the status of a zombie law in recent decades, left largely untouched by legislatures (at least in the Rest of Canada).

Whether through the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, labor and environmental standards, or other elements of the Canadian legal and regulatory system, we should ensure that human rights standards enshrined in our laws and regulations are respected by our PRC partners.

Abortion has been legal in Canada since 1988, when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Canada's abortion law violated Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees «life, liberty and security of the person.»

They stated that the «brutal aggression» is a «clear violation of the international laws and the UN Charter», and was an «unjustified assault» on a sovereign country that is a member of the United Nations.

In particular, the declaration references the charter's «principles of constitutional contractual citizenship» and «freedom of movement, property ownership, mutual solidarity and defense, as well as principles of justice and equality before the law,» in regards to Muslims and non-Muslims.

Because the Charter has been used and will be used to read the moral law out of the Common Law and to read in a doctrine of autonomy that represents an incoherent anthropology of unfettered self - determination, incompatible with the Common Llaw out of the Common Law and to read in a doctrine of autonomy that represents an incoherent anthropology of unfettered self - determination, incompatible with the Common LLaw and to read in a doctrine of autonomy that represents an incoherent anthropology of unfettered self - determination, incompatible with the Common LawLaw.

«Although the direct source of the Review Board's authority lies in Article 9 of the [Dallas] Charter, the Board's ultimate authority lies in church law.»

A sexual offense, the charter says, is not «necessarily to be equated with the definitions of sexual abuse or other crimes in civil law.»

The zero tolerance policy requires that any priest who at any time sexually abused a minor will be removed from ministry and, subject to applicable provisions of canon law, dismissed from the priesthood (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People [2002] at Art. 5).

Together with the Nuremberg and UN charters, it would overturn a longstanding doctrine of international law that left human rights, with few exceptions, within the domestic sovereignty of each nation.

Last year, Canada's Supreme Court unanimously decided that laws criminalizing assisted suicide are unconstitutional and in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

This development is most strikingly illustrated in the history of the Church of England in the colonies, which in the South was established from the beginning by the Charters, rather consistently supported by successive laws, and generally nurtured by the civil rulers.

Automated External Defibrillator (AED): Education Law 917 requires school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards and charter schools to provide and maintain on - site in each instructional school facility automated external defibrillator (AED) equipment.

The right to breastfeed anywhere, anytime is protected, for instance, by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and by U.S. state laws.

The right to breastfeed anywhere, anytime is protected, for instance, by equality legislation in the UK, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and by U.S. state laws.

In May 2010, the D.C. Council passed the Healthy Schools Act, a landmark law designed to improve the health and wellness of students attending D.C. public and public charter schools.

@Andy international treaties such as UN charter are part of the legal system of the member nations (in Russia for instance, international treaties have precedence over federal laws except the constitution, in the US AFAIK the treaties have the same weight as federal laws).

De Blasio is defending the privately - funded non-profit organizations tied to his administration after a government watchdog group, Common Cause New York, demanded an investigation, saying he js making a mockery of the city's campaign finance laws and may be running afoul of the City Charter.

Talking to Politics.co.uk last week, Cash said the Tories» attempt to blame Labour was unfair because David Cameron's then - shadow Cabinet had failed to back his campaign to explicitly state the charter of fundamental rights would not apply to UK law at the time.

«What they've done is completely fail to prevent the European court from having jurisdiction in respect of the charter of fundamental rights over the United Kingdom in respect of domestic law.

See for example the 2000 Declaration of the South Summit by the G77 composed of about 130 member States [«We reject the so - called «right» of humanitarian intervention, which has no legal basis in the United Nations Charter or in the general principles of international law».

Arguably, state officials with a legislative role who are not members of the state legislature aren't covered, but this does not reflect common practice and this hole is often filled by a state constitutional provision or a state law or a local government charter.

Chris Grayling has pledged to go court to make sure the EU's charter of fundamental rights does not apply to the UK, following reports that Britain has been «duped» into coming under new human rights law.

The same controversial and sweeping powers on data retention were added to the Investigatory Powers Act (AKA the Snoopers» Charter), which passed into law late last year a matter of weeks before Dripa — which at the insistence of the Liberal Democrats had a built - in self - distruct date of 31 December, 2016 — was set to expire.

Also at 11 a.m., the City of Mount Vernon Department of Law Corporation Counsel Lawrence R. Porcari will hold a press conference to announce new anti-corruption and public ethics measures, which include full funding of an independent Inspector General as required by Mount Vernon charter, City Hall, 1 Roosevelt Square, Mount Vernon.

As is well known, United Nations Charter prohibits the use of force in Art. 2 (4), as does customary international law.

The argument that there is a right of humanitarian intervention is usually put as an argument that a rule of customary international law has developed since the UN Charter.

What we're looking at now is an extremely active post-budget session, with everything on the table — from the charter cap and DREAM / EITC to the NYC rent laws and mayoral control over the NYC school system, both of which sunset early in the summer.

* A declaration that the detention of the applicant by EFCC on January 5, 2016 at an unknown location, without access to his lawyers, family and doctors, constitutes a flagrant violation of the applicant's fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutional.

* A declaration that the arrest of the applicant by EFCC on January 5, 2016 at his home at No. 14, Drive 1, Prince and Princess Estate, Abuja, constitutes a flagrant violation of the applicant's fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutional.

This explicit grant of power would also prevent the sort of federal pre-emption that stopped Bush - era state AGs from enforcing even state laws against federally chartered banks.