Sentences with phrase «city education issues»

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New York's City Council convened to vote on the issue and almost unanimously passed resolution 1281, calling for the Department of Education to recognize the holidays.

She served on the Board of Education for a year under former Mayor Eugene Sawyer, and under Daley, oversaw the city Law Department division responsible for financial aspects of tax increment financing and bond issues.

Saldana is a banker with Ramirez & Co., Inc., an invest firm that underwrote more than $ 2 billion in city and Board of Education bond issues last year.

In the end, however, the mayor's testimony and exchanges with lawmakers from both parties was largely cordial and amounted to a lengthy discussion on education policy issues facing New York City.

Flanagan is specifically taking issue with city Department of Education officials submitting a report on school finances that doesn't adhere to state law.

But that same poll found that Buffalo voters are an unhappy lot over the state of the city, with voters giving him poor grades for his handling of education and employment issues.

«I tend to look at topics and issues through the perspective of education, and I've seen a continuing decline in the Syracuse City School District that mirrors the overall decline of the city,» Lavine sCity School District that mirrors the overall decline of the city,» Lavine scity,» Lavine said.

Pols including U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez, state Sen. Daniel Squadron, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Councilmembers Brad Lander and Stephen Levin, Assemblymember Walter Mosley and former Assemblymember Joan Millman praised Simon for tackling tough issues like gun control, public education, civil and disability rights, ethics in government, minimum wage, and paid family leave.

State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. recently had the opportunity to meet face - to - face in Albany with Richard A. Carranza, the newly appointed Chancellor of New York City Schools, to discuss a variety of critical education issues.

Republicans in the Senate, however, have been deeply skeptical of de Blasio's handling of education and criticized his decision to not attend a second public hearing on the issue in New York City last month (de Blasio traveled to Albany earlier to personally pitch a mayoral control extension.

«Our Education Committee will hold a second public hearing in New York City on May 19 to further examine this issue, giving Mayor de Blasio and his administration another chance to make their case in a more thorough and more convincing way.»

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio urged Cuomo and the Legislature to reauthorize mayoral control of New York City's public schools, ratcheting up public pressure as his aides scrambled behind closed doors on several budget - related education issues.

Among the issues she said candidates should be discussing are the development of neighborhood commercial strips, supporting education initiatives, job training opportunities in the construction field, and ways to transfer vacant city - owned homes and properties to prospective owners.

Nixon, an actress known for her role in the HBO series «Sex and the City» is a prominent advocate for public education funding and has often pushed Albany to spend more money on schools, criticizing Cuomo's stance on funding issues.

Nixon, an advocate for public education issues, has been exploring a potential Democratic primary challenge to the governor, receiving support from former campaign aides to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has been locked in a feud with Cuomo over the last several years.

New York City's two biggest education issues were the focus in Albany Tuesday, with Governor Cuomo attending one event and Mayor de Blasio headlining a competing rally.

Governor Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke at dueling rallies on education at the State Capitol that highlighted the two politicians» differences over education issues.

The top spenders so far in 2015 correlate with the top issues this year, fights over the future of public education and New York City's rent regulations.

Board Member Theresa Harris - Tigg is a former city school teacher and now studies education issues as an assistant professor in the English Department at Buffalo State.

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

Though many major, city - based unions are involved in the independent expenditure, Lhota seized on the United Federation of Teachers so he could draw distinctions between himself and de Blasio on education issues.

Queens Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, who chairs the powerful Committee on Finance, suggested the city could lose precious monies for the NYPD for its non-cooperation on immigration issues, while the public hospital network could suffer if the president repeals the Obama - era Affordable Care Act and the school system might lose funding under the policies of U.S. Secretary of Education - designate Betsy DeVos.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke at dueling rallies on education at the state Capitol, highlighting the two politicians» differences over education issues.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo and the leaders of both houses of the State Legislature announced a «framework» for a deal Tuesday on several outstanding issues, including rent regulations, the 421 - a tax abatement program, mayoral control of New York City's schools and the education tax credit.

The mayor raised the issue of the $ 15.2 billion MTA capital budget deficit and the state's failure to abide by a 2007 settlement that promised additional education funds to the city — saying arguments about lean economic times no longer hold water.

BY VINCENT ABBATECOLA The Rockland County Legislature met on Tuesday, July 10 at the Allison - Parrish building in New City, where they discussed issues regarding Rockland Community College's budget, final plans for Summit Park Nursing Home, and special education for East Ramapo students.

It was deemed more important than education issues, creating more affordable housing, combating heroin addictions, increasing cancer screening, or deciding if mayoral control of New York City's schools should continue.

After releasing his $ 77.7 billion preliminary budget, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio raised the issue of the $ 15.2 billion MTA capital budget deficit and the state's failure to abide by the 2007 CFE settlement that promised additional education funds to the city, saying arguments about lean economic times no longer hold water.

Paul Massey, the 56 - year - old whose commercial brokerage, Massey Knakal Realty Services, sold to Cushman Wakefield for a reported $ 100 million, will launch a political - action nonprofit in NYC he hopes will «foster a dialogue in the city» about issues related to education, infrastructure, crime and the economy.

At the same time, the stories about Nixon running inevitably bring up the education issue, dormant during the sleepy summer weeks in Albany, when most of the attention has been focused on New York City transit troubles.

At 11 a.m., United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew hosts UFT Lobby Day lunch for hundreds of teachers and parents from New York City who will meet with the local members of the Legislature to lobby for more education funding and other issues.

«There is an association between the likelihood of mental illness and social and economic issues such as poverty, poor education achievement, unemployment and inner city living,» it says.

At 8 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at the ABNY breakfast where he will address «critical issues» facing education in the city, Hilton New York, 1335 Ave. of the Americas, Manhattan.

City Councilwoman Jessica Lappin, Assemblymen Dan Quart and Micah Kellner, and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, among other area elected officials, have asked the DOE to reconsider the plan before the Panel for Education Policy votes on the issue June 19.

Dedicating a single press conference to the issue for the first time, Mr. de Blasio laid out in dire terms what would happen if New York City reverted to the old system of education that existed before his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, won mayoral control of public schools in 2002.

At one school, after the principal two years ago «was giving out limited access letters like candy,» McLean said, his local Community Education Council held a meeting with city school officials and the National Action Network to discuss the issue.

Mayor Bill de Blasio won a second term in a landslide on Tuesday, bringing four more years of Democratic rule to New York City as Council members hope for more action on key issues such as police reform, affordable housing and education.

Just one day after Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared at City Hall with a bevy of business leaders to push for extending mayoral control of New York City schools, the state Senate education committee held its second hearing on the issue right across the street.

New York, NY — StudentsFirstNY today issued a brief analysis comparing the difference in teacher effectiveness between New York City's high poverty and low poverty districts following the State Education Department's recent release of teacher evaluation data.

Cuomo also ranked poorly on how he is handling key issues including education, where 73 percent think he's doing the wrong things, to protecting New York City tenants, where half think he did a bad job, to the state's economy, where two thirds say the governor is not doing enough to help.

Top issues for voters are «the racial divide» in the city as well as the economy, education and crime, he added.

Candidates will have to face issues related to poverty, crime, education, Interstate 81, the city - county merger and immigration.

The budget itself includes a number of political trip wires, from criminal justice reform, to transit issues for New York City, education spending and gun control.

In a last - ditch effort to push this issue before de Blasio is likely elected, the NYC Department of Education is giving the green light to open or expand 23 charter schools before Bloomberg leaves office and provide them with free space in city buildings.

Assembly Housing Committee Chairman Keith Wright was not enthusiastic about the idea of linking the education investment tax credit to the extension of rent control laws in New York City and the surrounding area, calling the two issues «apples and oranges.

In 2005, when she gave up her seat on the City Council to run for Manhattan borough president, the New York Times editorial board praised her as «smart and driven and an expert on education issues,» but ultimately concluded «her style — often described by those who have worked with her as abrasive — would not be well suited to this office.»

POUGHKEEPSIE >> Democratic state Sen. Terry Gipson and Republican challenger Sue Serino sparred over issues including the SAFE Act, funding for education and the influence of New York City lawmakers on the Hudson Valley during a debate Tuesday before the Dutchess County Association of Realtors.

In the coming months, the city and state education departments are expected to rule on an issue that may have huge repercussions for parental school choice and religious freedom.

With an eye on Albany, it was time Thursday morning for New York City schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to again testify in front of the City Council about her agency's proposed fiscal year 2016 budget and key education issues facing the cCity schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to again testify in front of the City Council about her agency's proposed fiscal year 2016 budget and key education issues facing the cCity Council about her agency's proposed fiscal year 2016 budget and key education issues facing the citycity.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who appear to be fighting for the right to meet de Blasio in a runoff — if there is a runoff — took the public advocate to task for flip - flopping on issues such as term limits, for what Quinn called «pie - in - the - sky» promises about education and for accepting campaign donations from building owners who appeared on a slumlord watch lCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who appear to be fighting for the right to meet de Blasio in a runoff — if there is a runoff — took the public advocate to task for flip - flopping on issues such as term limits, for what Quinn called «pie - in - the - sky» promises about education and for accepting campaign donations from building owners who appeared on a slumlord watch lcity Comptroller Bill Thompson, who appear to be fighting for the right to meet de Blasio in a runoff — if there is a runoff — took the public advocate to task for flip - flopping on issues such as term limits, for what Quinn called «pie - in - the - sky» promises about education and for accepting campaign donations from building owners who appeared on a slumlord watch list.