Sentences with phrase «under state control since»

Philadelphia has been under state control since 1998, imposed in the midst of a financial crisis.

In New Jersey, the Newark school district has been under state control since 1995 but still registers low test scores and graduation rates.

And the district had been operating under state control since 1995 and receiving court - ordered state aid that pushed its per student spending to beyond $ 20,000 a year.

But since Newark's school system has been under state control since 1995, Baraka's entrée presents more questions than answers.

NYRA has been under state control since 2012, overseen by a reorganization board that includes public and private appointees.

Russia, on the other hand, was on site after a day and has had the area under state control since shortly after that.

Not exact matches

Adding to their woes, they have not been paid since the government suspended salaries to its employees in areas under Islamic State control nearly three years ago.

But this is Florida, a laboratory for the N.R.A. and a state that has become recognized for its consistent efforts under legislative Republican control since 1996 to expand gun rights.

It's also the creation of Republicans who have controlled state government since 2011 and has been under withering criticism by legislative Democrats almost since its inception.

Church volunteerism and social ministry are very new in Russia, since under communist rule the state controlled all social work.

It is not normally considered proper under international law principles to unilaterally militarily «liberate» territory under control of another sovereign state, without the endorsement and military involvement of a legitimate claimant to that territory (outside the context of an ongoing international war that has been in progress since the imminent aftermath of the legitimate claimant's loss of control, and even then, conferral with a government in exile and local insurgents is expected).

The latest enrollment figures underscore the strain New York Republicans have been under to grow the party in a deep blue state, where the party has not won a statewide race since 2002 and could lose control of the state Senate, its last lever of statewide control in New York.

Syracuse, N.Y. - Nearly 1,000 people have been charged under the NY Safe Act in the eight months since the tougher gun control law was passed, according to the state's Division of Criminal Justice Services.

Since going under state control, NYRA is once again in the black, and has worked to improve attendance at its tracks.

Since you state that a decrease in net calcification could result from a decrease in gross calcification, an increase in dissolution rates, or both, you distinguish between these responses and get to the conclusion that the impact of ocean acidification on a creature's net calcification may be largely controlled by the status of its protective organic cover and that the net slowdown in skeletal growth under increased CO2 occurs not because these organisms are unable to calcify, but rather because their unprotected skeleton is dissolving faster.

It's been more than a decade since most New Orleans public schools were put under state control after Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaks.

In the nation's largest city, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been in charge of the nation's largest school system since 2002, when the state legislature approved legislation putting the 1.1 - million - student system under control of the New York City mayor.

The majority of districts under state control at some point since 1996 have a «D» grade in the state's 2016 accountability rankings.

Since lawmakers approved a change in state law in the spring, districts in «transformation status» now must stay under state control until they have achieved a «C» grade or higher for five consecutive years.

It's been three years since Tennessee implemented the Achievement School District (ASD), a statewide district to turnaround the state's lowest - performing schools by pulling individual schools under state control.

Teachers unions have come under increasing attack since the 2010 mid-term elections which shifted ten states from democratic to republican control.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

Since state law prohibits the sale or adoption of animals under the age of 8 weeks, whenever possible Animal Control will accept foster families or volunteers to assist with getting the puppies and kittens to adoption age.

Since, of course, none of these states of affairs were, in fact, under my control, their fulfillment or frustration of my plans, desires and managerial manipulations caused constant psychological and emotional turbulence that my sadhana just barely contained.

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.