But that paragraph-long mandate did not provide specific guidelines or designate staff to put the new policies into effect.
Over the past several months, Pedicone and his administrators have clearly demoralized and disenfranchised the Mexican American Studies program and refused to attend three public forums in Tucson, which drew large crowds and featured panels of distinguished education experts on the program's decade-long mandate and documented success in alleviating the achievement gap for district students.
BEIRUT, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Syrian forces have pulled back from a rebel-held town under a local ceasefire, residents said on Thursday, but there was no sign of an overall easing of violence as a month-long mandate for Arab peace monitors in Syria expired.
The proposal follows a long study, mandated by the national intelligence overhaul of 2004.
Again, having started off needing funds of funds to get going, most investors are now comfortable making their own selections.Some amalgamators are doing well: once a niche, funds of funds that raise money to buy stakes in buy-out vehicles partway through their decade-long investment mandate are thriving.
Had Mr. Clinton told Americans the truth -- that when the economic boom went bust we'd still have to face the challenges of a country concentrating more wealth and power in fewer hands -- he could have built a long-term mandate for change.
Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday passed a long-awaited mandate for residents of the county's unincorporated areas to spay or neuter and microchip their cats. .
At last week's heartfelt forum at the Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Tucson, four members of the TUSD school board -- including critics of the Ethnic Studies Program -- and intergenerational citizens from across the district heard from a panel of distinguished education experts on the program's long-time mandate and documented success in alleviating the achievement gap among area students.
In Texas, there are proposals to eliminate the state's long- standing mandate to keep class sizes in grades K-4 to no more than 22 students; recommended by the Perot Commission and implemented by Gov. Mark White in 1984 -- a reform which has contributed to the state's black and Hispanic students having some of the highest achievement levels in the country.
It also wants a limit on how long a strike mandate can last.
It suggests changes that would allow the UN to respond robustly so long as the mandates are realistic.
