Sentences with phrase «on the delegate assembly»

Therefore, I call on the delegate assembly to (reading from resolution) resolve that the UFT should mobilize teachers, parents and students towards a repeal of the Education Law 3012c and the new evaluation scheme.

Not exact matches

It is ironic that events that took so much time and energy in the Assembly had effectively ended by the time delegates got home and the early reports on the meeting were circulating.

The Executive Council greeted Assembly delegates on the opening day with a statement on the war that reminded participants of previous commitments to «overcoming... the institution of war as a means to resolve conflict.»

The statement added that the delegates and other stakeholders in the conference will brainstorm on how to liase with the national assembly and other stakeholders for the passage of the long overdue Social Work bill.

In the last year, Uruguay became the first national jurisdiction in the world to legalise cannabis; the world's first legal, recreational cannabis market opened in Colorado; Colombia and Guatemala took a daring stand at the UN general assembly, telling assembled delegates that the war on drugs had failed; and the Organisation of American States became the first multinational body to raise the prospect of drug treaty reform.

Wife of the President, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, National Assembly members and other 3,000 delegates will converge at the All Nigerian Women Leaders Conference on Peace Building...

UFT President Michael Mulgrew appealed to delegates at the April 13 Delegate Assembly to join and bring colleagues along for a big action on Thursday, May 12, to call on the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes instead of cutting services to the middle class and the safety net for the poor.

Delegates on May 18 passed five resolutions by unanimous or overwhelming majorities and added a sixth resolution to the next month's Delegate Assembly.

In an intense Delegate Assembly on Jan. 18, UFT President Michael Mulgrew explained to delegates the competing visions of teacher evaluation held by the UFT and the city Department of Education that have resulted in the union being in Mayor Bloomberg's direct line of fire.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew opened the Delegate Assembly on March 25 by thanking delegates for the union's outstanding work in countering Gov. Cuomo's destructive education agenda.

«Silver, by the power he amassed as speaker and all the power he has — he's gotten people jobs in the courthouse — also had sway at the judicial conventions because the delegates from his Assembly district and sometimes adjoining districts was able to dictate, on occasion, who would be a judge,» Flacks said.

However, the Post reports, those same delegates had no criticism for State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, who in June signed off on a hushed $ 103,080 settlement for two sexual harassment claims filed against Lopez.

The attorney general also called for more power to be delegated to individual members of the legislature, in a strike at Albany's «three men in a room» culture, and for longer terms for Assembly members to cut down on time spent campaigning and fundraising — the latter requiring an amendment to the state constitution.

After a series of neighborhood assemblies in October, where community residents brainstormed ideas for improving the community, budget delegates began working on those project ideas to determine project cost, feasibility and more.

Delegates to the National Education Association Representative Assembly last week approved a policy statement on charter schools that aims to limit the growth of charter schools and regulate the schools more closely.

[Chapter Leaders, Delegates, and Rank and Filers — Please support this resolution by helping to distribute it before the Delegate Assembly on Wednesday — 4:15, 52 Broadway — and raising it during the motions period.

Yet at the United Federation of Teachers Delegates Assembly on January 17, 2018, the largest teachers» local in the country, at the leadership's suggestion and after only five minutes of debate, voted against supporting the

At this year's Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly, NEA delegates will gather in Boston, Mass., to vote on issues facing public education and to set the organization's policies and priorities for the upcoming year.

On Tuesday morning, as the FBI issued a recommendation to not indict Hillary Clinton for her use of a personal email server while secretary of state, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee came before more than 7,500 delegates at the National Education Association's Representative Assembly in Washington, D.C., and praised public charter schools — to the audible dismay of some of the delegates — while condemning for - profit ones.

The amendment will be voted on by delegates at this year's CEA Representative Assembly on May 6th.

Yet at the United Federation of Teachers Delegates Assembly on January 17, 2018, the largest teachers» local in the country, at the leadership's suggestion and after only five minutes of debate, voted against supporting the NYC Black Lives Matter Week of Action.

The motion on opting out was unanimously adopted by teachers who were delegates to the CEA Representative Assembly (CEA RA), the highest policymaking body of the Association.

The work carried out by Grueso together with Mercedes Moya, as delegates of the newly - formed PCN to the 1991 Constituent Assembly, proved decisive in the inclusion of Transitory Article 55 that recognized the cultural and territorial rights of the black river communities on the basis of their traditional production practices.

And he referenced The Commission on Constitutional Revisions» proceedings to conclude that Article IX, § 2 language intentionally «elevated the Commission's authority over electric rates from a power merely delegated by the General Assembly to one with a direct constitutional foundation -LSB-.]»

The momentous decision by Sinn Fein to support the policing and justice services of Northern Ireland ie the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), the police boards, police ombudsman etc, and the court system — at a specially convened six - hour conference (the ard fheis) in Dublin, on 28 January 2007, attended by 2,000 delegates, where 900 party members voted on the motion — would appear to signal the possibility, if not probability, of the restoration of full devolutionary powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly (NIA) based at Stormont, Belfast.

Delegates at the upcoming OREA Annual General Meeting and Assembly will be asked to vote on a special levy to continue to fund the ad campaign,» says OREA.

Voting delegates to the OREA Annual General Meeting and Assembly will vote on the recommendation on March 11.