Sentences with phrase «what local and state officials»

What local and state officials did or didn't do in recent months had little impact on Kraft Heinz's decision to close its Madison Oscar Mayer plant.

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This list — called a Tier II filing — is released every year to local, state and federal officials, and includes what they imagine could occur in a «worst - case» scenario, NBC News reported.

Dig Deeper: Health Care Issues How to Open a Medical Marijuana Dispensary: Where You Can Open and What to Do If you're planning on opening a dispensary, first check with state officials to navigate the local laws and ordinances that will govern your dispensary's actions.

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — A new study by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace are home to rapid job and population growth — but some local officials and activists say too little is known about what kinds of jobs are being created in the area, and who is benefiting.

De Blasio's testimony this morning before a joint legislative budget committee in Albany marked the kick off of what's known as «Tin Cup Day» at the Capitol — typically a day in which mayors and other local government officials from around the state provide their reactions to the governor's budget proposal.

Local, state and federal officials first delivered a recap of what has been done to address PFOS contamination and residents grew impatient, wanting to hear more about a blood testing program.

«We're still contemplating a variety of measures including grassroots mobilization, advocacy, engagement with local and state officials and even litigation to oppose what we view as unlawful and discriminatory executive orders,» Cahn said.

A determined coalition of local environmental groups and elected officials were able to protect that view for what I hope will be the next 400 years,» said State Senator Adriano Espaillat.

While recall elections might prevent local and state government officials from doing the opposite of what was promised, promises are exactly that, just promises.

Details of what the decommissioning process will look like will continue to be hashed out by a recently formed task force, which consists of both state and local lawmakers as well as various officials from Cuomo's administration.

I'm going to bring community leader, other elected officials at the local, state and federal level, have access to other financial and human resources to give the school board and the superintendent what's needed to turn the city around, which is to turn the school district around.

John Coppola, executive director of the New York State Association of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers, said legislators should aim penalties at what he called «big corporate dealers,» who might best be blocked by federal law enforcement officials, not local ones.

When we are not responding to daily emergencies, we are working within the communities teaching the importance of fire safety, raising awareness to our charitable organizations such as the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) and Firefighters» Coats for Kids, and taking part in the political process ensuring that our local elected officials and our state legislators understand the importance of our profession and what it takes to ensure your safety.

Madison County legislators decided late last month to wait and see what New York state does, as any laws or regulations the state adopts would preempt a local law, officials said.

In what has become an all to familiar story, the FBI made arrests early this morning of state officials, local politicians and local party bosses caught in a bribery scheme involving political favors

State and local officials declined Monday to comment or speculate on what Cuomo will say.

While conducting research for my new book on local media policy in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, I watched as officials» priorities changed, favoring what they say is «freer» competition in the marketplace of ideas.

At the end of the day, no matter what 50 state departments of education discover in the many complex pages of federal legislation and then promulgate as official policy to local districts and schools, teachers may continue as they please.

The education committee leaders in both the House and the Senate have repeatedly expressed a desire to be kept abreast of implementation, and they have consistently stated their intention to make sure state and local education officials do what the new law requires of them.

Once educators and local (and state) officials see how poorly their kids do on tougher assessments and what the standards really require, they will start looking for better curricular materials and training.

That should help state and local officials determine how best to align what they have been doing with what they must do with No Child Left Behind.

In what is called a «peer review process,» local and national educational consultants, together with state school officials, will analyze those plans, which then must be approved by U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige.

For the sake of all Washington kids, state and local education officials should keep a close eye on what is happening at Washington's first charter schools.

Advocates of federalism should be concerned that their state officials have ceded authority of the standards and assessments that drive what is taught in local schools.

Once educators and local (and state) officials see how poorly their kids are doing on these tougher assessments and what the standards really require, they will start looking for better curricular materials and training.

Unless Common Core is stopped, its officials will dismantle what remains of state and local decision - making on classroom lessons and replace it with a new system of national tests and a national curriculum.

Does Connecticut's Governor Malloy and the array of state and local officials who are saying that schools will lose money really not know what the federal law is or are their intentionally misleading, even lying, as a way to keep parents and the public from knowing the truth?

One obvious answer is Common Core and the deep distrust many conservative Republicans — especially in the House — have of the federal government's role in dictating to states and local officials what students should be learning.

That's what NEA Vice President Becky Pringle, Rev. Al Sharpton, state and local officials and the media discovered in Trenton, New Jersey when they embarked on a learning tour and community forum on the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans.

There's no way now to make the comparison perfect, but one preferred method would be comparing the choice payment to what public schools get from local property taxes and general state aids, we heard from researchers or other officials at DPI, the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance and School Choice Wisconsin.

At that point, the State Department of Education employees and the local officials turned their backs on the parents in the room and, what could only be described as «scurrying,» exited the room as if fire and smoke was about to consume them.

Their utter failure to do what is right has left parents and public school advocates with no choice but to take steps to hold state and local school officials accountable for their abusive strategies and tactics.

State and local government officials might question what you have been doing with the money appropriated to fund your public library: «You say you bought the books, but now you don't have them anymore?

Instead, it gives constitutional protection to corporations who profit off industrial farming, entrusting them, and not local and state officials, to decide what's best for Oklahomans» public welfare.