Sentences with phrase «advanced by the governor»
While one may debate whether this is a good idea, the reality is that the legislature has limited authority to make changes to the budget advanced by the governor.
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«Recent state budgets advanced by the Governor and approved by the Legislature have improved the long term picture for counties, but in the short term counties have a deep hole to climb out of.
Hawkins said the tepid changes to marijuana laws advanced by Governor Cuomo, including for medical marijuana, were grossly inadequate.
Skelos says he prefers the phased in pre-K plan advanced by Governor Cuomo.
«Since the executive budget was first unveiled, Senate Republicans have strongly opposed the $ 1 billion in new taxes and fees advanced by the governor,» Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif said.
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When Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz commented recently that unemployed youth can advance their careers by volunteering their services instead of expecting to be paid, he inadvertently unleashed a firestorm of criticism.
Levy said one way Grant and Schroeder can cut into Brown's lead is by making the case they can do a better job of advancing Buffalo's interests through the Governor.
The funding, according to the governor's office, will be used to upgrade municipal drinking water systems by installing advanced wastewater treatment systems and upgrading aging wastewater treatment plants.
The announcement comes in advance of Cuomo's widely expected announcement that he'll seek the Democratic nomination for governor by next week's state Democratic convention.
Chaired by Governor George Pataki, Revere America is dedicated to advancing common sense public policies rooted in our traditions of freedom and free markets that will once again make America secure and prosperous for generations to come.
If the governor calls a special session on April 19 to fill former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Lower Manhattan seat, the Staten Island Advance would like to see a similar contest held for the vacant South Shore seat most recently held by Joe Borelli, who was sworn into his new position in the NYC Council last week.
Everyone will be waiting to hear what the governor has to say, and he'll likely be traveling around the state in advance of his speech to play up some of the highlights — making sure his top policy priorities get covered by the media and aren't lost in the shuffle.
The project advances Governor Cuomo's Reforming the Energy Vision («REV») strategy to build an energy system that is clean, resilient and affordable for all New Yorkers, and includes the State's goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030.
Today's announcement follows last month's exciting announcement by CNSE that it will expand its G450 PILOT facility with plans to build a 450 MM enabled semiconductor campus here at SUNYIT to help transition R&D activity into advanced manufacturing opportunities and validates a key part of Governor Cuomo's strategy to leverage our colleges and universities to make them engines of economic opportunities.
«The governor will continue to lead by example in advancing transparency» and «will immediately direct state agencies to fast track FOIL appeals» via executive order.
Coupled with the governor's vetoes of bills advanced by the Administration's openness watchdog weakens the claims that the governor will champion reforms in 2016.
The approval of Cuomo's plan, along with a similar free tuition initiative by Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo, is the latest evidence that Democratic Party's best idea of the 2016 race continues to advance at the state level.
This new legislation builds on two executive orders signed by the Governor last year to eliminate the wage gap by prohibiting state entities from evaluating candidates based on wage history and requiring state contractors to disclose data on the gender, race and ethnicity of employees - leveraging taxpayer dollars to drive transparency and advance pay equity statewide.
«Continuing the Governor's commitment to reduce the number of nonviolent individuals who become needlessly entangled in the criminal justice system, Governor Cuomo will advance legislation amending the State's marijuana drug laws by removing the criminal penalties that too often result in the over-prosecution and jailing of non-violent individuals.
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said today that he was very disturbed by the efforts of the Republican Gubernatorial candidates to advance their sagging election prospects by crudely inflaming religious and ethnic tensions by attacking the proposed Muslim Center near the former World Trade Center.
The launch of the Buffalo High - Tech Manufacturing Innovation Hub at RiverBend, fueled by the attraction of Silevo and Soraa and the promise of additional corporate partners in the future, further builds the Governor's high - tech Erie Canal and positions Western New York as a nexus for advanced research and manufacturing for clean energy technologies.»
This year, the Governor will advance legislation addressing this disconnect by expanding the MWBE goal setting to localities and entities that subcontract with those localities.
The governor also says he previously advanced $ 5 million in funding that was approved by the state legislature this week, bringing the state's total commitment to $ 50 million.
«With valuable guidance and support by Governor Cuomo, we have advanced our shared goal of improving educational opportunities.»
If implemented, the governor's commitments will put New York on the map as a national leader — reducing dangerous climate pollution while advancing opportunities to harness the environmental and economic benefits provided by a forward - thinking renewable energy economy.
Without much fanfare, but by a unanimous vote, the state Senate's Finance Committee on Tuesday advanced a bill that would put more scrutiny on Governor Andrew Cuomo's economic development projects.
Mike Elmendorf, state director of National Federation of Independent Business / New York, said of the budget, «The governor has advanced a bold plan to change not only the way Albany does business, but also to change what Albany has been doing for far too long to business by undermining job creation and decimating our private sector economy.»
«This pattern of behavior is repugnant by every standard and directly contradicts the policies the Assembly has advanced for the last 20 years,» the governor said, adding that if the two men did not resign, the Assembly should «seriously consider» expelling them.
As events unfold, this much is clear: the argument being advanced by some of Governor Paterson's supporters — that he is being unfairly singled out — will not wash with the majority of New Yorkers.
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The plan to use clean water funds to pay for part of the $ 4 billion bridge project was announced by Governor Andrew Cuomo in June with little advance notice and no chance for public comment.
Another reason Rozzelle gave for NCZ opposition was that it ignores the proposed upgrades to existing transmission lines being advanced by the PSC as described in the Governor's «New York State Energy Highway Blueprint,» which aims to boost the load capacity high enough to meet projected needs upstate and down.
MacDonald is one of some 20 scientists who have submitted written comments in advance of a public hearing today by a state commission responsible for vetting the governor's proposal.
Funding Research reported in this news release was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (award number 1 - UG3 - NS -105703-01) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (award number R56DK106202 - 01) of the National Institutes of Health: the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute; the F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute; and the Drown Foundation.
Brian Wirth, UT - ORNL Governor's Chair for Computational Nuclear Engineering, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «advancing knowledge of radiation damage mechanisms and fuel performance in fission and fusion energy via multiscale modeling using high performance computing validated by experiments.»
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Because Driscoll was a former superintendent who had carefully cultivated relationships with other superintendents and Democratic Party leaders, he could temper their opposition to this requirement being advanced by a Republican governor and a reform - dominated state board led by Jim Peyser.
As reported by the Tribune, once the governor signs this bill, Illinois parents will have the right «to monitor a child's special education classroom, or to observe in advance the classroom a school district believes is the best fit for the child.»
«This bill advances the dialogue envisioned by the governor regarding programmatic changes and the future of the state school facilities program, but it is a work in progress,» she said.
To earn the Governor's Award for Educational Excellence, schools and school divisions must meet all state and federal achievement benchmarks and achieve all applicable excellence goals for elementary reading, enrollment in Algebra I by the eighth grade, enrollment in college - level courses, high school graduation, attainment of advanced diplomas, increased attainment of career and industry certifications, and, if applicable, participation in the Virginia Preschool Initiative.
The Governor has advanced sensible proposals in his Executive budget that would expand school choice for parents and students by guaranteeing that public charter schools in New York City have access to space and increased financial support.
Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.
Future investments in local program capacity can be advanced by recruiting champions for expanded digital learning, including governors, mayors, businesses interests in economic development, as well as chief state school officers, state boards, school districts, and influential nonprofit partners.
Funded by the Florida Legislature and championed by Governor Rick Scott, Math Nation is a comprehensive online teaching and learning system designed to help students improve their conceptual and procedural understandings of mathematics, from foundational pre-algebra concepts to advanced topics such as trigonometric functions.
To qualify for the Governor's Award for Educational Excellence, schools and school divisions must meet all state and federal achievement benchmarks for at least two consecutive years and achieve applicable excellence goals for elementary reading, enrollment in Algebra I by the eighth grade, enrollment in college - level courses, high school graduation, attainment of advanced diplomas, increased attainment of career and industry certifications, and participation in the Virginia Preschool Initiative.
The Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) program awards points to schools and divisions based on the percentage of students achieving at the advanced level on Standards of Learning assessments and progress made toward educational goals advocated by Governor Kaine and adopted by the Board as part of its comprehensive plan for further strengthening public education in the Commonwealth.
The award is the highest honor under a new incentive program for schools and school divisions created by the Board of Education to advance Governor Kaine's «competence to excellence» agenda.
The award is the highest honor under the Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) incentive program created by the Board of Education in 2007 to advance Governor Kaine's «competence to excellence» agenda promoting advanced learning and achievement.
To qualify for the Governor's Award for Educational Excellence, schools and school divisions must meet all state and federal achievement benchmarks for at least two consecutive years and meet Governor Kaine's goals for achievement in elementary reading; enrollment in Algebra I by grade 8; enrollment in college - level courses; attainment of advanced diplomas and career and industry certifications; and participation, if eligible, in the Virginia Preschool Initiative.
The VIP program awards points to schools and divisions based on the percentage of students achieving at the advanced level on Standards of Learning assessments and progress made toward educational goals advocated by Governor Kaine and the board.