Sentences with phrase «controversy over the state»

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday it's not his place to say whether education commissioner John King should step down amid controversy over the state's implementation of new curriculum standards and testing.

Turning to the ongoing controversy over the state's response to water quality issues in Hoosick Falls and elsewhere, Cox called Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of the PFOA contamination crisis «despicable.»

Controversy over state accountability tests is likely an important influence on the widespread perception that U.S. students are tested too much.

And it is what fuels the controversy over state school funding generally — poor school districts under - resourced compared to districts that are rich in property valuation.

The controversy over state adoptions has recently been highlighted by the news that the Hart family of Washington likely received over $ 240k in state subsidies for their adoptions of the six Texas children involved in the tragic accident that took the lives of at least three of them (plus the two adoptive mothers.)

Not exact matches

The state's building commissioner says contractors and suppliers need to be paid within 50 days, as controversy over the extension of Rio Tinto's payment terms continues.

The explosive social media controversy that ensued over the Giuliani interviews centered on the fact that on April 5 the President had stated flatly «no» when asked if he was aware of the $ 130,000 payment that Michael Cohen had made to porn star Stormy Daniels as hush money over her allegations that she and Trump had had a sexual relationship.

The controversy in the United States over multiculturalism in and beyond education has now faded» perhaps because Nathan Glazer is right that «we're all multiculturalists now.»

While the United States has been preoccupied with another Kennedy scandal, the controversies over Clarence Thomas and Mike Tyson, and the political fallout from a recession that may or may not he over, to the north something truly important is taking place.

The controversy over the injunction issued in October 1997 by Alabama Federal District Judge Ira M. DeMent restricting religious activity in public schools, as well as the continuing controversy in the state concerning Judge Roy Moore's courtroom display of the Ten Commandments, can be....

Even the New Feminist Version (NIV for short) states there's no controversy over 1 Timothy 3:12.

Many centuries later John Henry Newman, in part stimulated by the Tractarian controversies over the rival claims of the State and secular learning versus the claims of theology, came to a similar conclusion about the primacy of theology without having to reject secular learning.

The debate over the appropriate role of religion in the public square was the most interesting church - state controversy of the 1980s.

This season saw one of the first major BCS controversies, thanks to Florida State's title game selection over a Miami team that had defeated it in Coral Gables.

* Republican governors watch automated production process * Say campaign against «pink slime» unwarranted scare SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb., March 29 (Reuters)- A maker of the hamburger filler branded by critics as «pink slime» on Thursday allowed three state governors supportive of the U.S. beef industry and a handful of journalists to see it being made for the first time since a controversy erupted over use of the meat scraps.

(Repeats for wider coding, story unchanged) SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb, March 30 (Reuters)- A maker of the hamburger filler branded by critics as «pink slime» on Thursday allowed three state governors supportive of the beef industry and a handful of journalists to see it being made for the first time since a controversy erupted over use of the meat scraps.

In the United States, there has been a controversy over the past decade about locations of infant sleep, pitting the research and promoters of safe co-sleeping with a breastfeeding dyad and the research and promoters of never allowing the breastfeeding baby into the parental bed.

There has been a lot of finger pointing involved with this issue — especially as the subject of preserving emails and making them public has become a very hot topic, thanks to the controversy over Hillary Clinton's use of a private server based in her Westchester County home to conduct public business while she was secretary of state.

Ongoing bickering between state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday spilled into a legislative controversy over the payment of stipends to certain senators, prompting another round of jabs between the two Democrats.

The Common Core controversy has claimed another victim: New York State United Teachers president Dick Iannuzzi, who lost his seat over the weekend.

After an embarrassing controversy over stipend payments, the beleaguered group of breakaway Democrats in the State Senate are trying to change the subject.

Cuomo has jumped into the controversy over the Port Authority's quiet 1986 deal to sell the rights to the World Trade Center name for $ 10 to a non-profit organization, asking the state attorney general to investigate the arrangement.

Russian ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak — a high - profile figure in the controversy over Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election — has concluded his assignment in Washington.

New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

However, the President of the state's teachers union - New York State United Teachers» Andy Pallotta - said controversy over the Common Core learning standards is not quite overstate's teachers union - New York State United Teachers» Andy Pallotta - said controversy over the Common Core learning standards is not quite overState United Teachers» Andy Pallotta - said controversy over the Common Core learning standards is not quite over yet.

All aid to Rwanda is to be halted immediately amid controversy over the east African state's involvement in violence in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

ALBANY — An unusual level of controversy over education issues at the state level has left lawmakers under election - year pressure to produce a scalp.

The warning came as the controversies over the identity of the Liberian corpse brought into a hospital in Nkwelle Ezunaka, Oyi local government area of Anambra State, are yet to die down.

Beth Gilinsky, founder of the Jewish Action Alliance, said that between the uproar over the mosque near Ground Zero and the controversy over the Empire State Building lighting, she felt there was something «very screwed up about what's going on in this city.»

After the controversy over what has come to be called the «flawed» implementation of the Common Core, there is some concern over having the state jump into a federal program, such as the pilot.

After an embarrassing controversy over stipend payments, the beleaguered group of breakaway Democrats in the state Senate is trying to change the subject.

Prompted by the national controversy over the Confederate flag, the state Democratic Party voted unanimously Wednesday night to change the name of its annual fundraising dinner and strip the names of two slave - owning American presidents.

ERROL LOUIS: For over a week now we've been telling you about the controversy involving stipends paid to state senators for positions they do not technically hold.

HARTFORD — Prompted by the national controversy over the Confederate flag, the state Democratic Party voted unanimously Wednesday night to change the name of its annual fundraising dinner and strip the names of two slave - owning American presidents.

Controversy over the county's contracting procedures system erupted last year when former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) was charged in federal court with influencing the county to award a $ 12 million contract to a company that employed his son.

His state campaign co-chair, Carl Paladino — a Buffalo real estate developer who ran against Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2010 — is a longtime Cox critic who engendered controversy over the summer by telling the Observer there was «no doubt» President Barack Obama is a Muslim.

As the controversy raged over President Donald Trump's executive order on travel bans into the United States, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's social media presence was felt, according to his team.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman pointed to the trove of assault weapons confiscated this week in suburban Rochester and offered his own advice to a federal government embroiled in controversy over gun - control laws.

Zeldin, a state senator from Suffolk County, is running to unseat Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop, who has been hammered by the National Republican Campaign Committee, including an ad this week that reignites the controversy over his office securing a permit for a fireworks display and then campaign seeking a political donation.

He said Tenney meanwhile, appears to have moved further to the extreme with recent comments, including blaming the «deep state» for a controversy over a dining set bought for HUD Secretary Ben Carson's office.

At the center of the controversy over the women's agenda was a provision aimed at codifying Roe v. Wade into state law.

Republicans contend Cuomo's involvement in the race, however, could hurt Fiala given the opposition in upstate communities to his gun control law as well as the controversy over a ban on hydrofracking in the state.

The state comptroller's office will audit the Hempstead Town Industrial Development Agency and Valley Stream School District 30 after a controversy over tax breaks granted to the Green Acres Mall.

The allegations of possible foul play in his death; the violence and attacks on individuals by miscreants who claimed to be followers of the late senator; the controversies over the autopsy and the hullaballoo over the Coroner's Inquest which was ordered by the state government, have all conspired to ensure that the attention of watchers of political events are not diverted from the issues of the death, the suspicion and the controversies.

The Board Chairman of the Millennium Excellence Foundation, Victor Gbeho, has stated that donations were actively solicited for the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards on December 8, which has courted some controversy over extortion allegations.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, for his part, called he proposal a «very commendable idea» and that it «looks like a real step forward» but said that he looks forward to getting more specifics about the plan, recalling a «big controversy» last year in the state budget where he stated «tried to move some important costs over to the city.»

E-mail policies of public official's are drawing national attention with the controversy over Hillary Clinton's using a personal email account for government business when she was Secretary of State.

While declaring the training open earlier, Nasarawa State Governor, Alahaji Tanko Almakura, noted that the proposed 2016 census will put to rest controversy over the last one, adding that the figure released by the commission for the population of the State was wrong, however, contested at the tribunal which ruled in favour of his State.

Still, Paterson seems to recognize the debate over drilling that's fueling controversy here and throughout the state.

The Albany Mayor discusses ICE, controversy over the proposed power plant, and the city's quest for state cash.