Sentences with phrase «black legislators from»

For the first time, black legislators from New Orleans, Rep. Austin Badon and Sen. Ann Duplessis, sponsored the voucher bill.

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In June 2015, in the wake of Dylann Roof's murderous rampage at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, legislators gathered to debate removing the Confederate flag from the state capitol.

Mayor Bill de Blasio briefly answered questions from the press this afternoon while in Albany for the annual legislative conference hosted by the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators, Inc..

Because African - Americans were overrepresented on this list — they account for more than a fourth of its members — the typical black legislator earned more from state pension payments than their colleagues.

Many of the problems stem more broadly from what Kaehny called «the black box that is New York state government»: a lack of transparency that leaves the public — and even many legislators — in the dark about how the government works.

The letter from Caucus Chairman N. Nick Perry, a Brooklyn Democratic assemblyman, is particularly noteworthy given that the caucus, through its nonprofit arm the state Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators Inc., holds a well - attended annual «Caucus Weekend» retreat in Albany, with some events at the Hilton in past years.

Almost every elected official from New York, including Governor Andrew Cuomo, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, NYC Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz, Jr., State Assemblymen Marcos Crespo and Luis Sepulveda, and many, many others — Black, Hispanic and White legislators — who have traveled to Puerto Rico to join Puerto Rico's Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla in this March.

On Sunday, Crain's NY Business reported that three Brooklyn legislators are seeking to wrest control of black politics from the Harlem establishment.

He knew he had a problem with black and Latino city legislators, who were bristling from Cuomo's previous cuts to education and Medicaid, so he included $ 62 million for inner - city jobs programs; he held a much stronger hand with Senate Republicans who might object to tax increases on the wealthy — if they weren't so scared of Cuomo's redistricting them out of their narrow majority.

Urban legislators tend to be mostly black Democrats from within the cities of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport.

A wide array of civil rights and minority groups appreciate the help they receive from the NEA, including the NAACP ($ 25,000), Congressional Black Caucus Foundation ($ 170,000), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund ($ 10,000), the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network ($ 7,500), the National Women's Law Center ($ 10,000), Rainbow PUSH Coalition ($ 5,000), People for the American Way ($ 128,000), National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Education Fund ($ 12,500), National Black Caucus of State Legislators ($ 5,500), National Association for Multicultural Education ($ 5,000), National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education ($ 17,500), and something called the Hip Hop Caucus Education Fund ($ 10,000).

From the 1960s through the 1980s, activists and legislators proposed a variety of programs to provide public funding to Milwaukee's independent Black private schools, some of which were in serious financial jeopardy.

The NAACP vote came after intense lobbying against the resolution from the industry and its allies, including editorials in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, a letter from black pro-charter legislators from California (where the sector gets almost anything it wants), and out - of - state protesters who were bused in and interrupted the NAACP's proceedings.

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