Sentences with phrase «took control of the legislature»

The last time majority lawmakers and the county executive were from different parties was in 2000 and 2001, after Democrats took control of the legislature during Republican County Executive Thomas Gulotta's final two years in office.

In Virginia, the Republicans took control of the legislature for the first time in more than a century, after a campaign in which GOP candidates talked a...

Republican lawmakers have made fundamental changes to the way K - 12 education is provided in North Carolina since taking control of the legislature in 2011.

Since Republicans took control of the legislature, they have been working to restructure teacher pay, which used to have many more steps associated with it.

Even more dramatically, the Democratic Progressive Party will take control of the legislature for the first time.

Not exact matches

Trump's coat - tails in Kentucky were so strong that Republicans took control of the state's legislature for the first time since 1921.

At a moment when the Republican Party has reclaimed power in the House, has taken control of most state legislatures, and is set to begin the process of choosing its next presidential nominee, the Christian Right is playing an increasingly influential role in the party.

«Why haven't the Governor and the state legislature taken control of this bloated, inefficient authority and make it a Department answerable to the Governor?

If approved, this level of local control would fly in the face of actions taken this session by the legislature, which stripped New York City of the ability to impose a bag tax.

Iowa is one of three states in which each party controls one chamber of the legislature, and Republicans are taking similar aim at the state Senate.

Heading into the redistricting process, the GOP took over both legislative chambers in 25 states and had control of the legislature and governorship in 21 states.

The governor published an op - ed this week detailing the measures he's taken to protect transgender New Yorkers in the absence of GENDA passing the legislature, where it has been blocked by the Republican - controlled Senate.

So, we would only need to flip four seats to take control of the county legislature,» Thickstun said.

Dems took the New Jersey and Virginia governorships, and they may also take control of the latter state's legislature, which will soon welcome its first transgender lawmaker,

Dems took the New Jersey and Virginia governorships, and they may also take control of the latter state's legislature, which will soon welcome its first transgender lawmaker, Danica Roem, who trounced a Republican who had referred to his opponent using male pronouns.

But Republicans won enough seats on Election Day — 32 of 63 — to take outright control of the chamber, meaning Skelos is set to become outright leader, a post he held briefly in 2008 and then again in 2009 - 10, when the legislature convenes in January.

He talked about what's going on behind the scenes of the legislature's joint budget committees, explained a controversial proposal from Governor Cuomo to take more control over the budget process and outlined his organization's blueprint for economic development transparency.

The bipartisan coalition that came together earlier this week to take control the New York State Senate is drawing mixed reactions from some local members of the legislature.

That is because the law largely took control of rent regulation out of the hands of the city government and gave it to the state legislature.

When Republicans have taken control of Congress and state legislatures, they have often tried to push through legislation that weakens unions and provides funds for private schools.

When the Illinois legislature gave Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley direct control of the city's faltering school system in 1995, Daley appointed Vallas, the city's budget director, to take the reins of the nation's third largest district.

While Cleveland was taken over by the state, Illinois» legislature passed an education reform bill turning over control of the Chicago public schools to Mayor Richard M. Daley, who restructured the troubled district.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

In the weeks after the storm, the Louisiana legislature changed its previous definition of an academically failing school to be able to take control of the vast majority of schools in the city.

As Wagner reports, Republicans, who took control of the state legislature in 2010 and the governorship in 2012, are intent on expanding education options in the state by providing some parents with school vouchers to transfer their children to private schools and by increasing the number of charter schools in the state.

With the express mission of unseating Republican governors and flipping control of conservative state legislatures — legacies of the GOP tide in 2010 — the two national unions, in particular, are taking a page out of the playbook of some newer and smaller education advocacy groups: Focus on down - ballot candidates and work up to the top ticket.

In 2011, after Republican lawmakers took control of the state legislature, the 100 charter school cap was lifted — and since then there has been an effort to rapidly expand the number of charters in the state.

Actually, the reason that they had «local control» in the south was the Compromise of 1877 which was a backroom deal between the Republicans and the Democrats to let Rutherford B. Hayes (who lost the election) become president if the federal government pulled all troops out of the south and let the Democrats take back control over the state legislatures.

The Republican party just took control of Congress, the US's legislature.

With a Republican - controlled legislature, there is a good chance that most or all of his proposals will take effect in 2017.

The Georgia legislature's attempt to take control over the membership of the Judicial Qualifications Commission was approved with 62 % of the vote.

Billy could form a «Let Billy show up to every meeting» party, run candidates for the legislature in every State and federally, lobby hard, raise funds for lawyers to run test cases, change the constitution, take control of the armed forces, pass a resolution through the United Nations General Assembly, etc etc..

In the two weeks since the shooting that claimed the lives of 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., a wave of gun - control measures were proposed and taken under consideration in various state legislatures.