Sentences with phrase «around changes to state laws»

They built their plans around changes to state laws, ensuring that all districts would faithfully implement the policies that were passed.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to change the state tax code to get around the loss of deductions under the new federal law is «the work of a mind severed from reason and reality,» GOP gubernatorial candidate John DeFrancisco, the deputy state Senate majority leader, said.

Gov. Cuomo's proposal to change the state tax code to get around the loss of deductions under the new federal law is «the work of a mind severed from reason and reality,» GOP gubernatorial candidate John DeFrancisco said Monday.

After 39 applicants went home losers from the first round of the Race to the Top competition, many states regrouped and raised the stakes for round two — changing laws to revamp teacher evaluations, drumming up more support from districts and teachers» unions, and getting more aggressive about turning around low - performing schools.

A recall petition was filed around the same time as the legislature was changing the law to save state senator Josh Newman's seat.

«We needed state law changed, just for Cleveland, mainly revolving around workforce rules... and these changes would allow us to take action.»

Around 8:00 pm, as seven weary Board members were debating a proposal put forth by Board member Steve Zimmer calling on the district and state to bring greater transparency to the parent trigger signature - gathering process, Superintendent John Deasy suggested that the Board might as well lobby Sacramento to repeal the law instead of just lobbying Sacramento to change it (as the original Zimmer resolution requested).

Since state law needs to be rewritten to make the changes required by ESSA, it is reasonable to expect the 2017 long session of the General Assembly will have a bill passed around just for school performance reports.

The High Court judge, Mr Justice Francis, said that Parliament can not have intended for legal aid not to be available in such cases: «However, it does seem to me that when Parliament changed the law in relation to legal aid and significantly restricted the availability of legal aid, yet continued to make legal aid available in care cases where the state is seeking orders against parents, it can not have intended that parents in the position that these parents have been in should have no access to legal advice or representation... I am aware that there are many parents around the country in similar positions where their cases have been less public and where they have had to struggle to represent themselves.