Sentences with phrase «controversial policy»

Numerous respondents also expressed different views on controversial policy issues across survey years.

It is unlikely that the resolution would include controversial policy riders.

But then there are controversial policies which further efficiency at the expense of equality (as was true for the personal tax cuts of 1981 - 4) or vice versa.

Councilman Rory Lancman of Queens asked Bratton specifically what was happening with the NYPD's «more controversial policies of the prior administration, as it relates to the surveillance of the Muslim community,» and deployment of officers overseas.

Unpopular governors have good chances of winning re-election — as long as they push their most controversial policies early on.

But for controversial policies where misconceptions likely run high, researchers and policymakers should consider testing refutation texts as a means to reduce misconceptions and possibly improve support.

Gov. Cuomo picked what could have been a major constitutional showdown with the Legislature by stuffing his budget bills with highly controversial policy changes — including tuition aid for undocumented immigrants, a tax credit for private - school scholarships, tougher teacher evaluations and stronger anti-corruption measures for the lawmakers themselves.

A number of the more controversial policy items from Cuomo's 2018 agenda were removed from the spending plan.

The most controversial policy in this election should be the Tories plan to raise fares by 2 % above inflation each year.

Cuomo remained unusually popular with New Yorkers through two budget battles, contract fights with the public employee unions and the passage of several controversial policy proposals, including same - sex marriage and the creation of a sixth pension tier.

Second, refutation texts can affect people's conceptions and attitudes toward policies, even somewhat controversial policies like Common Core.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R — Syracuse) complained that Cuomo — like other governors before him — stuffed the spending plan with controversial policy issues that held up completion of the negotiations.

1) Urging and preparing top classroom teachers to weigh in on the implementation of controversial policy issues.

This year, the mayor tried to appeal to Mr. Cuomo's reason: He gathered diverse supporters like tenant activists and Fortune 500 chief executives, spoke at rallies and made pre-emptive concessions on controversial policies as a show of good will.

This is a hugely controversial policy which has already received widespread opposition, with claims it could endanger liberties and even disrupt the Northern Ireland peace process.

Thirteen thousand servicemen and women have been discharged under the highly controversial policy, he noted.

That was because legislators and Gov. Andrew Cuomo could not come to an agreement on a budget that would have funded the government for a whole year and also adopted several controversial policies.

Stop - Loss is a cranky film that regularly pulls at the heartstrings while trying to persuade viewers to oppose the title's long - employed and somewhat controversial policy.

But lawmakers this legislative session have chaffed under what they see as an executive overreach with linking so much controversial policy to spending increase for education and the funding of capital projects.

In addition, the U.S. Department of Education strongly pressured states to adopt controversial policies expanding charter schools and measuring teacher effectiveness on the basis of student test scores.

During his 11 - year tenure as CEO of TD, he has shepherded the bank through controversial policy changes, a successful U.S. expansion and built a company that earns genuine affection from its customers.

Stock prices have continued setting record highs as investors brushed aside Trump's controversial policy actions in his first month in office and the uncertainty about how his planned agenda of tax, regulation and trade reforms eventually will play out, even though they see that pro-business agenda as bullish overall.

Naomi Klein's important work, Shock Doctrine, suggests that governments will initiate man - made disasters to destabilize a country in order to introduce controversial policies while its citizens are too overwhelmed to resist.

Controversial policy problems such as the extent of the government's interference in people's diets and their use of retail loyalty cards, such as those offered by major supermarkets, are expected to be discussed.

Often this means controversial policies like the DREAM Act or marijuana decriminalization fall off the table.

And that's to say nothing of Democratic demands for a deal to help hundreds of thousands of Dreamers who face possible deportation next year, as well as a host of other controversial policy issues.

Lawmakers will consider reforms to the NYPD's controversial policy at the City Council hearing.

Many of the less controversial policies — including legislating for a transferable tax allowance for married couples and making the Coalition's introduction of same - sex marriage subject to referendum — are known to be very popular amongst Conservative MPs.

Lawmakers stripped out many controversial policy riders, but kept several directing EPA to re-examine its greenhouse gas and wetlands protections policies.

That recognition has driven a tidal wave of controversial policy reforms over the past decade, rooted in new evaluation systems that link teachers» ratings and, in some cases, their pay and advancement to evidence of classroom practice and student learning.

Third, carefully refuting misconceptions can reduce partisan views toward controversial policies.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders» union NAHT said the election showed the public failed to endorse many of the Conservative's more controversial policy ideas, adding «it is right these policies are dropped».

The typically overlooked race for state superintendent of public instruction is under a national microscope as it pits incumbent Tom Torlakson, a former teacher closely aligned with labor unions and the school establishment, against fellow Democrat Marshall Tuck, a charter school administrator backed by education reformers who advocate for controversial policy shifts like school vouchers and changes to teacher employment laws.

WASHINGTON — A Wednesday hearing on 2012 education spending turned into a skeptical grilling of the Department of Education's wide - ranging and sometimes controversial policies.

The District, which initiated major school reforms in 2007, has served as a test case for often controversial policies — such as expanding school choice, eliminating teacher tenure and tying evaluations to test scores — which have since been adopted by a growing number of states.

One of the most controversial policies rewarding people for making their own power, such as through rooftop solar panels, is net metering.

This lack of accountability raises legitimacy concerns, the most prominent of which is the fear executive branch officials will delegate controversial policy decisions to intergovernmental bodies in order to escape democratic deliberation.

That's quite an unusual, potentially controversial policy, but OnePlus 2 and X users no doubt appreciate receiving frequent incremental updates, as well as entirely new versions of Google's mobile industry - leading platform, sprinkled with OEM - exclusive OxygenOS goodies on top.

De Blasio, who said his team has put a call into Trump to schedule a phone conversation, said it's too early to tell if Trump will follow through on some of his most controversial policy proposals.

They believe that state officials — school chiefs, governors, lawmakers, and others — can not only use the bully pulpit to encourage cooperation on issues that can improve student achievement, but that they can also use the resources of their offices to bring complicated and controversial policy changes to scale across many districts.

The White House could also signal support for controversial policy riders that would bar agencies from spending money on enforcing particular regulations, including environmental rules.

The fact remains that the BBC published a misleading article on a hugely controversial policy and took over six months to accept they were at fault.

EPA funding is typically among the most divisive along partisan lines, and it remains a target for controversial policy riders, the AAAS analysis notes.

State Board Shifts Policy on Eighth Grade Algebra The State Board of Education ended a decade - long controversial policy of pushing eighth graders to take Algebra I when members voted unanimously Wednesday to strip California's Algebra I standards from the state's eighth grade math standards.

Several new groups work to amplify the voices of top classroom teachers as they weigh in on controversial policy issues, as with the evaluations in Los Angeles.

Her votes against major sections of the 2015, 2016, and 2017 state budgets — omnibus bills that combined popular legislation with controversial policy and basic funding measures — may provide further ammunition for the opposition, according to Sherrill.

He made noises about «getting back to work» and the budget, talked about being black and blind, indicated he wasn't planning any major changes to his predecessors more controversial policies, and became the first human being in government to express sympathy for Spitzer himself.