Sentences with phrase «whose boards they control»

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At the moment, control over National Amusements is scheduled to pass to a trust whenever Sumner Redstone dies — a trust whose board consists of Shari Redstone, her son, Viacom CEO Dauman and a number of legal advisors appointed by Redstone.

DiNapoli, whose office oversees local finances, is reportedly considering a more comprehensive system of state response, including an early - warning system to head off emerging crises and the creation of a state - level financial control board.

One of Wendy's opponents has recently admitted that he won't take tax hikes off the table, and the other serves as comptroller of New York's Nassau County, which has some of the highest taxes in the nation and whose finances are in such bad shape that the state mandated the creation of a Financial Control Board to oversee it.

Even the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), a creaky, cobwebbed tyrant whose mandate is to bully countries into toeing the line on drugs, has reluctantly said it is wrong.

Charter advocates, who feel they have gotten short - shrifted by the city and state, say they would look to run candidates to grab control of the community boards, whose elections would be held in May 2018.

East Ramapo schools have suffered deep cuts to programs and staffing from the school board, which is controlled by the area's Orthodox Jewish community whose members send their children to private yeshivas.

«Oversight of the Executive Branch should not be done by the Executive Branch,» said Reinvent Albany Executive Director John Kaehny, referring to a university whose board is controlled by the governor being investigated by an office headed by a Cuomo appointee.

She cited as an example the governor's control of the Long Island Power Authority, whose structure she recently proposed to overhaul to be controlled by a directly elected board.

The board, whose control slipped out from the hands of ID proponents after elections held in November (ScienceNOW, 8 November 2006), voted 6 - 4 to adopt new standards that scientists say will strengthen the teaching of evolution.

It is known widely as the «teacher professionalism» agenda, but it in fact substitutes the faà § ades of professionalism - the lengthy training, peer - controlled licensing boards, and certificates of advanced proficiency - for the hallmarks of a true profession, whose members possess specialized skills and knowledge and whose employment and compensation are based on reputation and performance.

But what made Levy's ascension so highly symbolic was its unique combination of all the elements of urban school drama: a mayor whose desire to wrest control from the city's elected school board was long voiced; a city fed up with failure on a grand scale and in the long term; a competition between city hall and school leadership to pass the blame; and the realization, finally, that a system the size of a Fortune 500 company might be better led by someone with the skills of a Fortune 500 executive.

Even with the financing and support of major reform foundations, the unions and their allies could hijack Portfolio Management in New Orleans, returning control to the local school board whose elections they dominate.

A nine - member Newark Educational Success Board, whose members include parents, students, and business and community leaders appointed by the mayor and governor, has been tasked with developing a plan that will restore local control as soon as possible.

Broad, whose nonprofit foundation has pushed for mayoral control in urban districts around the nation, criticized the Los Angeles plan because it would force the mayor to share power with the school board and the teachers union.

; terminate implementation of the Common Core standards; direct the State Board to replace these standards with the Math and English courses in use immediately prior to Common Core; convene Course of Study committees to update these standards and improve upon them using the pre-common core standards from states whose national scores ranked no less than the top 10 %; implement these proven, improved standards and aligned assessments; prohibit imposition on Alabama of other such national standards or assessments that cede control away from Alabamians.

Prior to the 2002 legislation that placed Michael Bloomberg in near complete control of the city schools, New York City schools were run by the central Board of Education whose members were appointed by the mayor and by the five borough presidents and by elected school boards in each of the city's 32 community districts — which had much greater power before a 1996 law demoted their role.

(A) An individual who is a citizen of the United States; (B) A partnership each of whose partners is an individual who is a citizen of the United States; or (C) A corporation or association organized under the laws of the United States or a State, the District of Columbia, or a territory or possession of the United States, of which the president and at least two - thirds of the board of directors and other managing officers are citizens of the United States, which is under the actual control of citizens of the United States, and in which at least 75 percent of the voting interest is owned or controlled by persons that are citizens of the United States.

He said his firing was orchestrated by animal control advisory board members who, he claimed, wanted him to put sick animals up for adoption and whose kennel he was investigating for poor operating conditions.

They have been flown out to La Jolla by the Climate Accountability Institute (whose board of advisers includes one Michael Mann) to attend a workshop titled: «Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons from Tobacco Control.»

(a) principals of real estate firms, or individuals in position of management control on behalf of principals who are not physically present and engaged in the real estate business in connection with the firm's office or individuals employed by or affiliated as independent contractors with REALTOR ® principals of real estate firms, and who are deemed qualified for REALTOR ® membership by: (i) a local Board within the state in which the real estate firm is located; or (ii) a local Board within a state whose border is contiguous with that state; or (iii) if the real estate firm is located outside the jurisdiction of any local board, by the state association within whose territory the real estate firm is located having an effective membership agreement with the National Association as provided in Article XV, SectiBoard within the state in which the real estate firm is located; or (ii) a local Board within a state whose border is contiguous with that state; or (iii) if the real estate firm is located outside the jurisdiction of any local board, by the state association within whose territory the real estate firm is located having an effective membership agreement with the National Association as provided in Article XV, SectiBoard within a state whose border is contiguous with that state; or (iii) if the real estate firm is located outside the jurisdiction of any local board, by the state association within whose territory the real estate firm is located having an effective membership agreement with the National Association as provided in Article XV, Sectiboard, by the state association within whose territory the real estate firm is located having an effective membership agreement with the National Association as provided in Article XV, Section 2.