Sentences with phrase «already policy of the state»

For example, Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, said, «There is nothing in here on energy efficiency and renewable energy that is not already policy of the state.

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The change, which applies to all retailers that accept AmEx, comes in addition to similar policy changes the company has already made, such as the elimination of signature requirements for purchases under $ 50 in the United States, $ 100 in Canada and 30 euros in the United Kingdom.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) requires utilities to buy power from independent power producers if they can generate below the cost that utilities expect to otherwise pay for power, and it has driven multiple gigawatts of solar deployment already in several states.

Forty - three states and the District of Columbia already have net metering policies, and they've played a large role in the growth of rooftop solar nationwide, along with rapidly - falling solar panel costs.

This heightened state of transparency is already having policy consequences as political will to regulate offshore entities mounts in both the U.S. and abroad.

None of these businesses survive in the same organizational state as 150 years ago; some of the names are only historical reminders, left after a century of mergers and acquisitions; and many of them have already put into place elaborate affirmative hiring policies, racial sensitivity training, and programs that underwrite black education.

Fortunately, a number of good laws and policies were in effect already, helping to maintain the quality of the environment within the United States.

And while it's still too early to know the true effects of the new USDA regulations - other public policies could also play a role - the researchers said some states had already implemented their own lunch requirements that exceeded the federal standards by 2012.

But it might surprise readers to know that my adopted home state of Texas, a place hardly known for its progressive policies, is among the states that already had competitive food regulations in place.

Already prior to the financial crisis, since the early / mid - 2000 s, the Commission had attempted to coordinate European aid policies more closely for the sake of reducing fragmentation and enhancing their effectiveness by committing the EU institutions and member states to one common policy.

The Suffolk County Republican Committee works hard to advance the interests of taxpayers by reigning in out - of - control spending at the state level and lowering taxes in New York, which is already the highest taxed state in the nation thanks to the policies of politicians like Andrew Cuomo and Charles Schumer.

Reasoning that the Council on Health meeting would give room to review the health sector reform and formulate policies for consolidation of health gains and development, the Governor stated that the law on confidential Enquiry into maternal Death was already on ground likewise the Primary Healthcare Development Medical Sciences, among others.

«The delay is creating chaos in a system that was already overburdened,» said Elie Ward, director of policy, advocacy and external relations at the New York State American Academy of Pediatrics.

He's already driven enough people out of the state by his policies with respect to business.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo will give his State of the State address Wednesday, but he has already previewed much of his 2015 agenda, including a minimum wage hike, small - business tax cut and a statewide campus sexual consent policy.

The state Board of Regents, which sets education policy, already decided in February to advise school districts against using results of Common Core tests in decisions regarding students» promotion and class placement.

New York state taxpayers are already subject to some of the highest state and local taxes in the nation as a result of the tax - and - spend policies that come out of Albany.

Mason Tvert, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, a pro-legalization group, said a growing number of state Democratic parties had already backed legalization in their platforms this year.

According to Adesua the state government has also adopted a new water and sanitation policy, already approved by the State House of Assembly and signed into law by the governor, Mr Ayo Fastate government has also adopted a new water and sanitation policy, already approved by the State House of Assembly and signed into law by the governor, Mr Ayo FaState House of Assembly and signed into law by the governor, Mr Ayo Fayose.

Reactions are already rolling in from around various corners of New York, but most groups for now say that at least on a policy basis, state residents won't be impacted.

«The plan and the trap goes like this: On the 6th of May 2017 — Saturday night stroke Sunday morning — the EFCC, alongside local and international media, both print and TV and radio, will raid an apartment under the guise of whistleblowing policy of the Federal Government with a search warrant already obtained in the magistrate's court to search an apartment alleging to be one of your guest houses in Enugu State capital or any suitable available apartment in your senatorial district that will serve this evil purpose.

As Mayor Bloomberg said, â $ ˜ What we are urging you to do is provide our students with their fair share of state aid and our city with the tools and reform needed to end unnecessary mandates and crippling policy that otherwise will accelerate an already daunting situation,»» she said.

A $ 15 minimum wage is already state policy for fast food workers and employees of state government and state college campuses.

The United States has already undertaken substantial policy action to reduce its emissions, taking the necessary steps to place us on a path to achieve the 2020 target of reducing emissions in the range of 17 percent below the 2005 level in 2020.

But 90 percent of that highway and bridge spending was already included in the state Department of Transportations 5 - year capital plan last year, according to E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank.

Of course, Moskowitz has already had significant influence on state - level education policy.

Mike Elmendorf, president and CEO of Associated General Contractors, said the Cuomo policy has meant that general contractors are forced to exhaustively cull the state's list of certified minority subcontractors and try hiring them to show a good - faith effort to hit the 30 percent mark — even if it's already known to be impossible.

In the Assembly, Speaker Carl Heastie rattled off a list of Democratic agenda items in his opening remarks to kick off the session in the chamber, chastising federal policies that those on the left side of the aisle in Albany say already are having serious repercussions for the state.

Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner, a former co-chair of the State Democratic Party who has been an outspoken critic of Cuomo's policies, said mayoral control in her city might improve students» outcomes, but she's concerned about introducing more changes when schools are already overwhelmed.

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«To weaken and undermine the governor beyond the weakness that already exists to me doesn't serve the interest of our state, doesn't serve the interest of our country and I would just focus a lot more on policy than politics if I were leading the county today,» Pataki said.

Joining other states and localities in reacting to Trump's decision, Cuomo issued a new executive order reaffirming existing state policies directed at climate change problems, some of which already exceeded those contained in the Paris Agreement.

Scientific research can inform policies aimed at addressing the needs of communities displaced by climate change, something that is already happening in the United States and around the world, according to experts at a 25 - 26 July meeting of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters)- A warning from U.S. scientists that Oklahoma may be hit by a major earthquake has caused a run on insurance policies for tremors in the heartland state, adding to the woes of residents already in the firing line of devastating tornadoes.

«Wind energy is already pretty cost - competitive and solar energy is quickly getting there,» said Anna Kelly, a graduate student in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University, and an energy policy anPolicy at Oregon State University, and an energy policy anpolicy analyst.

ESSA's empowerment of states isn't radical because, thanks to the «secretary's leadership and through his policies, the work has already begun.»

State officials and courts have already grappled with many of these issues, and creating a federal right to education would destabilize policies and decisions that have shaped local school systems for generations,» they say, noting that unlike the federal Constitution, all 50 state constitutions contain provisions that explicitly address educaState officials and courts have already grappled with many of these issues, and creating a federal right to education would destabilize policies and decisions that have shaped local school systems for generations,» they say, noting that unlike the federal Constitution, all 50 state constitutions contain provisions that explicitly address educastate constitutions contain provisions that explicitly address education.

The intuition behind this approach is that NCLB represented less of a «treatment» in states that had already adopted NCLB - like school - accountability policies prior to 2002.

While the policy idea is often attributed simply to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), 44 states already had some form of test - based accountability when the 2002 federal accountability law came into existence.

The exploding opt - out movement has already achieved its first victories.It is altering state and local testing policies for the better, reducing the number of tests and lowering their stakes.

Various studies in the 1970s and 80s described the limits of higher levels of authority in the governance structure for education, and the relatively weak impact of state policy on student outcomes.294 But loose coupling does not mean that no influence flows from superordinate entities.295 Even as schools are busy developing their own policies and initiatives, they pay attention to demands from «outside the system» when those demands are consistent with the directions in which their organizations are already moving.296

In this sense, RAND simply repeats an already well - known finding: that if you rely on imprecise statewide data and if you ignore all other aspects of state educational policy, you will often find that average statewide school spending and class size have at least a minor effect on student performance.

But blunting the policy's potential impact, the union also made clear that it continued to oppose the use of existing standardized test scores to judge teachers, a core part of the federally backed teacher evaluation overhauls already under way in at least 15 states.

But if it wasn't already clear enough, Stefan Pryor has now proven that he is completely and utterly tone - deaf to the anger and frustration that is building up around the Malloy administration's handling of public education policy in the state.

States could encourage the widespread development of such high - quality principal preparation programs by incorporating the elements detailed above into policy through program accreditation or state licensing standards, a practice that several states have already underStates could encourage the widespread development of such high - quality principal preparation programs by incorporating the elements detailed above into policy through program accreditation or state licensing standards, a practice that several states have already understates have already undertaken.

Vermont's ESSA plan ties together priorities the state has been developing for about four years, and builds on the state's already - rich framework of laws and policies on personalized learning, including different graduation paths, ways to determine when schools are struggling and how to use personalized learning to improve.

As the Center on Education Policy noted in its recent survey of states granted waivers under the gambit, there is already fears that they will have scotch the accountability systems they put in place after receiving the waivers and start all over again under a new version of the federal education law.

«There are far too many questions about their track record in other states, combined with how new these schools are to North Carolina, to already be proposing ways to make them less accountable,» Keith Poston, president and executive director of the nonpartisan, Raleigh - based Public School Forum of N.C., told Policy Watch this year.

While thousands of people are gathering in Washington for the National Alliance's charter conference, it is helpful to remember that the federal role in education reform has been to support developments that were already occurring in state policy and on the ground.

And all of this is happening despite the fact that teachers and principals in this state of New York already, and democratically, created sound evaluation plans to which the majority had already agreed, given the system they created to meet state and federal policy mandates was much more defensible, and much less destructive.