Sentences with phrase «appointees on»

It allows Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran, R - Land O'Lakes, to proclaim «Never Again» yet bully his appointees on the Constitution Revision Commission into quashing a proposal that would have let voters decide whether Florida should ban military - style weapons.

Gore even insinuates as the film begins that Bush appointees on the Supreme Court stole the 2000 year presidential election from him.

As for this charade, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education and his political appointees on the State Board of Education approved Perry's proposal for Bridgeport even though there is no funding in Connecticut's state budget for another charter school.

The fact is that while Stefan Pryor will be gone by the end of the week, Malloy and his political appointees on the State Board of Education are charging forward with their Common Core Testing strategy and, to further that effort, have decided to appoint Dianna Roberge - Wentzell as Connecticut's Interim Commissioner of Education.

The charter school application submitted by Steve Perry and approved by Governor Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education included the names of the members of the Governing Council of Steve Perry's new charter school...

Sources at the State Capital report that Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees on the Connecticut State Board of Education will be directed to name Nathan D. Quesnel as Connecticut's next Commissioner of Education.

But in a sadly predictable move, Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education continued their incredible record of failure by refusing to step at today's State Board of Education meeting to protect Connecticut's public school parents and children.

Although the corporate education reform entity, Relay School of Education, has recently been prohibited from working in California and Pennsylvania, Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education are poised today to grant the controversial teacher training scheme, «full program approval» to operate in Connecticut.

When it comes to their new proposed education agenda, it is bad enough that Malloy and Wyman plan to give more money to the privately owned but publicly funded charter school industry while making the deepest cuts in state history to Connecticut's public schools, but in a little understood piece of proposed legislation, the Malloy administration is trying to sneak through legislation that would give his Commissioner of Education and the political appointees on his State Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testing program.

However, despite that opposition from the local officials responsible for education policy and despite the fact that Connecticut doesn't even fund its existing public schools adequately and the fact that the State of Connecticut is facing a massive $ 1.4 billion projected budget deficit next year, Governor Malloy's former Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education approved four new charter school proposals last spring.

It is a sad commentary that the Malloy administration and his political appointees on the State Board of Education remain unnecessarily and inappropriately committed to the unfair SBAC testing system.

Yet exactly sixty - one days later, Erin Benham, the teacher who Peters promised would, «ensure that the voices of educators are heard and respected, and [who would] play a role in helping to shape policy in all our state's schools,» joined Malloy's other political appointees on the day after the election to vote in favor of diverting millions of dollars to even more privately run, publicly funded charter schools.

Considering that Governor Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education approved the two new charter schools last summer knowing there was no money in the budget to fund the schools and that the State of Connecticut would be facing a $ 1.6 billion deficit in the next fiscal year, it is unclear what Mr. Grace means when he says that that the state is reneging on its commitment to charter schools.

Bypass all elected officials on school boards and in state legislatures by making federal funds flow to the Governor and his appointees on workforce development boards.

Cuomo's aides say they did not suggest a direct trade, and the governor would not be twisting the arms of any of his appointees on the commission to change their minds, it would be up to lawmakers to make the argument themselves.

But in the opinion of Cuomo's appointees on a commission tasked with determining an appropriate salary level for state officials, lawmakers haven't done nearly enough to warrant their first pay raise in 18 years.

The decision came after some non-Cuomo appointees on the board asked to do a national search for a new director.

These people will eventually see that our state and federal officials will keep the political appointees on the payroll, and these appointees receive the higher paying positions.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has the majority of appointees on the commission, and some of its executive directors are former Cuomo aides.

Cuomo has three of the seven appointees on the pay commission.

On Monday, gubernatorial appointees on a compensation commission declined to approve a pay raise for legislators unless they restricted their outside employment — a reminder to voters, whatever the outcome, that he's not the only one with a problem.

«We're calling on President Trump to replace those appointees on the IJC, put appointees who know what they're talking about, who know the Great Lakes, and he can do that immediately,» Cuomo said Thursday afternoon, as he signed legislation for flood relief.

Cuomo convinced members of the independent board that oversees horse racing in New York to agree to a restructuring that will give the governor the majority of appointees on a new, slimmed down board.

Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo says she will be urging area representatives to put pressure on the United States» appointees on the International Joint Commission.

An anonymous source connected to the governor suggested to reporters that the governor would use his appointees on a commission weighing a pay hike for legislators to hold base salaries at $ 79,500 if the budget were late and ethics reforms are not adopted before legislators leave for the year this June.

Knight will join six other mayoral appointees on the City Planning Commission, as well as one appointee from each borough president, and one appointee by the public advocate.

In exchange, the governor's appointees on a pay commission said they were willing to approve a substantial salary increase, if lawmakers went along with Cuomo's proposal.

If that's guido - anderthal speak for why his appointees on the LILCO Board are not responsible for the authority's poor performance, then it only begs the question — Why then do we have a LILCO board?

The mayor has seven appointees on the board.

The ad buy comes after an amendment to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Capital Plan was withdrawn at the Capital Program Review Board, potentially fearing a veto from Flanagan's appointees on the board.

But the project had stalled as an amendment to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Capital Plan was withdrawn at the Capital Program Review Board, potentially fearing a veto from Flanagan's appointees on the board.

«I intend to seek from them, solutions for Monroe County's shoreline residents and businesses and I will urge those representatives to put pressure on the United States» appointees on the International Joint Commission to act in the interests of residents and businesses along the southern shore of Lake Ontario.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited the Lake Ontario shoreline community of Wilson to call on Trump to replace appointees on the International Joint Commission with «people who know the Great Lakes.»

A long - serving president could eventually have a majority of his appointees on the Supreme Court.

In the statement, Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan knocked Gov. Andrew Cuomo's appointees on the commission for calling for ethics measures be linked to the first pay hike in 18 years.

Kruppenbacher is one of Scott's 15 appointees on the commission, which has the power to put proposals directly on the November ballot.

Novartis's four appointees on the joint venture's board will step down when the transaction closes.

A fifth, Justice Kennedy, is a Republican appointee on the liberal end of the Republicans in Congress.

Klein himself does not have an appointee on the commission.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's appointee on the commission, Pat Bulgaro, also questioned the need for secrecy.

Mitchell Wu, a Public Advocate Appointee on the Citywide Council on English Language Learners, said the DOE is also seeking more involvement from families who don't use English as their primary language.

The report released on Tuesday blamed Board of Elections spokesman John Conklin, a Republican appointee on the board, for the release of the «privileged and confidential» material compiled by Independent Enforcement Counsel Risa Sugarman related to efforts by de Blasio and his political team on behalf of Democratic candidates in 2014.

He is the highest - level Cuomo appointee on the board.

b. Served as an appointee on a commission or two, and / or have been on the board of a neighborhood organization or other local civic organization, and / or have been involved in local electoral campaigns.

Isaac Carmignani, a mayoral appointee on the contract committee, said he spent an hour or so in the office of the DOE procurement chief to get some basics, but it was far from enough.

Don't forget about Pryor's latest appointee on the State BoE — Andrea Comer of — you guessed it!

He serves as the American Indian Library Association appointee on the Digital Content Working Group.

Deal Booth also served as a gubernatorial appointee on the board of the California Cultural and Historical Endowment for the State of California.

He has also served on the Section's Steering Committee, as the BBA's appointee on the Land Court Committee on Registered Land Guidelines and for ten years served as Co-chair of the BBA's Real Estate Pro Bono Committee, which created and operates the Lawyer for the Day Program at the Boston Housing Court.

Mr. Moskowitz has also served on the Section's Steering Committee, as the BBA's appointee on the Land Court Committee on Registered Land Guidelines and for ten years served as Co-chair of the BBA's Real Estate Pro Bono Committee, which created and operates the Lawyer for the Day Program at the Boston Housing Court.