The spokesman said: "The longer the vast majority of sponsored academies are open, the better the results – far outstripping the under-performing schools they replaced, far faster than the national average and with a higher proportion rated outstanding by Ofsted.
It is thought that around 100 families a year will have to set up home elsewhere, presumably in the United States or Israel where the majority of sponsored spouses come from.
A Department for Education official said it was "extremely disappointing that pupils in a number of E-Act schools are not receiving the excellent education found in the majority of sponsored academies".
Today, over a third of plan sponsors, and a majority of large plan sponsors, use this feature to nudge employees to save for retirement.
A majority of delegates had sponsored the bill, but that doesn't ensure majority support in a particular committee.
A bill to that effect nearly passed in the fall of 2007, gaining a majority of co-sponsors and passing a committee vote.
But Richard Burr, Republican of North Carolina, has introduced a rollback bill similar to Stevens's in the Senate, and already has a majority of co-sponsors on Tauzin's committee.
One official said that Congress might ultimately seek a majority of co-sponsors on the legislation to signal wide pro-Israel sentiment, but stop short of voting on it.
And while the fact that a majority of council members have sponsored Intro 101 might make it appear that it is assured of passage, Mr. Chachere said that tenants' advocates, who preferred Local Law 1 to Local Law 38, were taking no chances.
Last year Britain granted nearly 50,000 family migration visas, he said, yet a big majority of sponsors had post-tax earnings below £20,000 a year: incomes "this low" pose an "obvious" risk to taxpayers.That sounds objective enough.
