Sentences with phrase «strong local control»

And they made sure the measure required strong local control.

The referendum was carefully drafted by Democratic and Republican legislators to ensure it included strong local control, accountability, and achievement provisions.

It has received regular attention in the press, has prompted a review of Mr. Stephenson's legal charges by the state attorney general's office, has caused the Colorado State Board of Education to issue a statement supporting the policy of strong local control...

She will advocate for strong local control of schools; improved teacher, student and parent accountability; and renewed pre-eminence for Iowa's educational system.»

Not exact matches

Another reason is that cities with a strong entrepreneurial culture and local control of economic resources have more capacity to solve problems on their own and are more resilient and adaptable in times of distress.

According to Fitch, Chile's biggest lenders «exhibit a solid risk management framework based on local regulatory standards and robust corporate governance practices, adequate provisioning and controlled impairment levels», whilst also possessing strong levels of liquidity.

With scant grounding in constitutional text or tradition, court majorities took it upon themselves (usually over strong dissents) to remove a number of matters from legislative and local control.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

A healthy degree of local control is necessary, but the process of rebuilding Libya and its shattered infrastructure requires a strong central government.

Last year the Tories made a net gain of four councils, in an unexpectedly strong performance for the party which controls the bulk of local government in England.

The Localism Bill, which was published on Monday, has its origins in the detailed policy development work that the Conservative Party undertook in opposition and in particular the ideas contained in three key papers; Control Shift - Returning Power to Local Communities, Strong Foundations - Building Homes and Communities and Open Source Planning.

Among the external players, the most powerful are the counties of Queens and the Bronx, who collectively control a large block of votes in the Council — 14 members are from Queens, another eight are from the Bronx — and have strong organizations with the ability to help move forward, or hinder, a local politician's career.

I am a strong grassroots campaigner — in the 1998 local elections Labour held control of the council because we won back a Lib Dem seat by three votes after a relentless campaign in my ward (Jeremy Corbyn and Stephen Twigg know the work involved)

In particular, the government needs to quickly establish the Itombwe Natural Reserve, support local - community management of the Punia Gorilla Reserve, reinforce Kahuzi - Biega National Park efforts, and establish strong coordination between ICCN and the DRC military to tackle armed militias that control illegal mining camps in Grauer's gorilla heartland.»

Russian women would always compare you to the local men, so be in control you are generous enough, open - minded, caring and are of strong nature.

But this strong local - control state doesn't have many of the state policies tracked by Education Week that influence school climate.

I want every child to have quality school choices, I want stronger (and broader) external standards, I want more open paths to becoming an educator, I want empowered school leaders (really empowered, in ways that would also break the union stranglehold) who are compensated like CEOs, I want super pay for great instructors and no pay for incompetents, and I want a complete makeover of «local control.»

The focus is on independent local ownership, backed by strong central quality control and guidance.

And, experts say, recognizing that accepted «norms» — among them, a strong federal involvement in American schools, such as No Child Left Behind and Common Core — were anything but normal, in a system that for the majority of its history has been under state and local control.

«As governor, I passed reforms based on the sound principles of local control, high standards, and strong accountability,» Bush said.

Georgia's constitution is strong on «local control» (which is why the state's highest court struck down the original version of a statewide charter authorizing body, later reconstituted via a referendum amending the state constitution).

On the other, local control isn't strong enough to clear the obstacles that state and federal governments place before reform - minded board members and superintendents in the relatively few locales where these can even be observed.

In fact, because of the strong tradition of local control, New Hampshire's districts and charter schools were free to interpret and implement the state's competency mandate as they saw fit.

Included in the Capitol Update this week: * Thank You Senator Liu * Local Control Funding Formula FAQ * CDE Smarter Balanced Assessments Field Test Update * LAO Forecast: State's Fiscal Position is Strongest in a Decade * Happenings: Updates and Deadlines

What helps make it work, he said, is a combination of strong community partners and local control of district funds, called site - based funding.

Standing Together for Strong Community Schools, a nonprofit group in the state, views the state - run district and the growing charter sector as a move away from local control.

Quote: «New Jersey is a strong local - control state, and that is clearly a challenge,» McGuinn said in an interview.

If your district has a strong history of local control, it may make more sense to provide participating schools with the authority to decide where to start the program.

I appreciate your strong support of students, educators, and public education in Tennessee, especially your commitment to local control of public education.

The California STEM Learning Network (CSLNet) has recently released a report and supplement toolkit with resources to help advocates built a strong foundation of STEM and science education in schools» Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs).

The LCFF holds great promise for foster youth, but in order for that to become a reality, districts and counties need to develop strong goals and sets of actions specific to foster youth in their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAP) to ensure foster youth receive the supports and services they need to succeed in school and thrive in life.

Spurred by a strong education governor, a commission recommended major revisions to the heretofore locally - controlled enterprise and recommended the establishment of a «minimum foundation program of state and local financial support» (Cárdenas, 1997).

Our kids deserve strong schools and great teachers under local control.

Getting a well - prepared, well - supported principal in every school is a bipartisan cause, and effective school leadership is critical to delivering on ESSA's promise of local control: strong, sustained, cost - efficient implementation of school improvement strategies that get results for kids in every classroom, every year.

There is great value in having more autonomy and accountability at the state level, and in many ways California has been ahead of this curve in terms of a strong statewide approach that focuses on local control and multiple measures of effectiveness.

Strong majorities of Californians support the Common Core State Standards and the Local Control Funding Formula.

We also failed to understand the political and district costs of tying such laws to federal incentives, particularly given a strong ethos of local control in many school districts, like most of those in Colorado.

If we can accomplish the two pivotal goals: elect the right people to office and support the locals in bringing value to members, then instituting equitable and learning - centered funding, getting teachers back in control of our profession, and maintaining a strong and vibrant CEA will become much more achievable.

Low - performing public schools have become a critical battleground between corporate - backed initiatives that remove local control of schools and favor the privatization of public education, and proponents of community schools who assert that parents, teachers and students — in short, the public — are the greatest asset in restoring strong educational outcomes.

Ironically, while Democrats are often considered to favor strong federal rules and Republicans local control, those roles are reversed here.

«We have a really strong constitutional obligation to local control and not many state takeovers.

«Under our system of government, state education policy is determined by the Legislative and Executive Branches and implemented under a strong tradition of local control by municipal school boards and, ultimately, teachers,» Jepsen said in a statement.

In response to his comments, over 50 California - based civil rights, social justice, and education organizations signed the letter below urging the Governor to continue the state's commitment to equity by not just narrowing, but closing the achievement and opportunity gaps, continuing the work of the Local Control Funding Formula, and supporting a strong accountability system.

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At the same time, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's wildlife chief intends to send a strong message to local governments to get their feral cat populations under control.

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The ASPCA, The Humane Society of New York, The Toby Project, and several other local and national organizations are strong supporters of our efforts to bring the feral and stray cat population under control in New York City.

This strong degree of correlation indicates that regional climate patterns, not local microclimates, are the primary control of glacier annual balance in the North Cascades.

We believe that the proposal would have been stronger if the PI had forged some institutional ties, or had proposed to collaborate with the local sanitarian community and to integrate this project into a broader effort to study and control cholera.