Sentences with phrase «committee moved to action»

At its January meeting, the State DOE Charter Committee moved to action approval of three new startup charter school petitions.

Not exact matches

A survey for the High Pay Centre showed huge public support for action against executive pay, with two - thirds of people demanding worker representation on remuneration committees, a move the government refused to enforce last week despite official recommendations.

Updated: 2:30 p.m. In a move to highlight Arizona Sen. John McCain's national security credentials in this election year, a political action committee backing his campaign for re-election has launched a large television advertising campaign, Roll Call has learned.

She's not the only one of this opinion: Rove is reportedly backing a political action committee tasked with finding primary challengers for candidates that might be too far to the right for a party hoping to move towards the center.

The creation of the regulations was cited among ESPA's main accomplishments as the venerable LGBT rights group moved to wind down its operations this year, though it retains its political action committee.

Members have stepped up with energetic Committee initiatives on Voter Outreach, Campaigns, Environmental Action and a very aggressive move to restore J51 tenant's rent - stabilized status.

The bill, she noted, will now simply move on to the full committee without debate or action by the subcommittee, at a date to be determined.

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

While the Senate HELP Committee action is another big step in the legislative process, Senators must agree to move ECAA to the Senate floor for an up - or - down vote.

The Prichard Committee sees the report as a conversation starter and framework for discussions and plans to follow up the report with data updates and support for local action, said Brigitte Blom Ramsey, the group's director, pledging «an aggressive and consistent effort in the months ahead to galvanize support among community and business leaders, advocates, policymakers and others to move with urgency.»

Knudson said the move by the Legislature's budget committee is similar to action taken in Indiana to halt implementation of the Common Core until further review.

Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate; Narayana Kocherlakota, who believed that the Committee's decision, in the context of ongoing low inflation and falling market - based measures of longer - term inflation expectations, created undue downside risk to the credibility of the 2 percent inflation target; and Charles I. Plosser, who believed that the statement should not stress the importance of the passage of time as a key element of its forward guidance and, given the improvement in economic conditions, should not emphasize the consistency of the current forward guidance with previous statements.

Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate;

Law reform commissions as well as self - standing initiatives such as the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters have made this sort of rethinking a priority for moving forward.

Dimitri Lascaris, a partner with Siskinds LLP's class actions department, said he believes the OSC took the steps it did because it felt it had to move fast and not wait any longer for further information to come from the independent committee of company directors that was investigating the company's actions since June following a report accusing Sino - Forest of engaging in fraud.

The hearing was information only, so no action is taken, but, The Family Partnership hopes the committee was receptive to the presentation and we were able to answer the right questions that will be able to motivate the committee to move The Family Partnership closer to their goal for this capital campaign.