Sentences with phrase «decisions at the state level»

In a Daily News OpEd, Cuomo defends his effort to address the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision at the state level.

Make all of the key decisions at the state level.

Principal - teacher relationships, district leaders «interactions with principals, and policy decisions at the state level all are intertwined in a complex and changing environment.

As LCFF is implemented at the local level, it is crucial that local stakeholders remain informed of decisions at the state level to ensure these regulations provide school districts with additional clarity and ensure the intent and goals of LCFF are realized.

The best policy is likely to push these decisions about teacher compensation downward below the district level to the school level, as the teachers» present management will likely be better positioned to judge the value and relevance of teachers» (often commendable) efforts to improve their subject knowledge than is the personnel office of a huge, wasteful district like LAUSD, while making these decisions at the state level is even less likely to prove efficient.

«Policy decisions at the state level have helped by providing additional funds for the state's smallest and lowest - wealth counties, yet investments in schools still vary dramatically by zip code,» Poston said.

Policy decisions at the state level have helped by providing additional funds for the state's smallest and lowest - wealth counties, yet investments in schools still vary dramatically by zip code — and it's getting worse.

CPP was, more importantly, a shift in the political power of who makes big energy decisions at the state level 3 /

Not exact matches

By educating yourself on the general state of the economy, what decisions are being made at the national level, and how economic forecasts might affect your industry, you can put yourself a step ahead of others.

Meanwhile, a coalition of almost two dozen state attorneys general is suing the FCC at the U.S. Court of Appeals, demanding a federal - level rollback of the agency's decision.

Since each body — individual, congregation, state, and national — remains autonomous, decisions regarding the appropriate amount of giving are made at each level.

In the decades after the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision ensured legal protection for abortion procedures nationwide, the anti-abortion movement was initially uncompromising in advocating across - the - board abortion bans at the state and national level.

The Court's own case law shows that in order to maintain the abortion right at the level of fundamental law, many other sectors of the states» legal order, at both statutory and common law, need to be altered: family law, marriage law, laws regulating the medical profession, and, as we now see with the recent circuit court decisions, criminal laws prohibiting private use of lethal force.

Church experts say Penn State's decision to fire its president and its football coach reflect more of a top - down approach to personnel than in the Catholic Church, where issues are expected to be resolved locally, at the diocesan level.

Street spotted Scarratt's «superstar» potential while she was playing for England at youth level and gave her a chance in the senior squad, a decision he says raised a few eyebrows, that is until she made her debut against the United States - and scored.

«If Financial Fair Play does not fulfil its role at a European level, the state must be able to step in and take the decisions to check and verify where the funding for these sorts of things came from.»

The project will help us better understand and address these challenges as well as incorporate the information into decision - making at local and state levels in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

I think that if I were in a position where I couldn't afford enough food, I would prefer if I could solve the problem on the homefront, making my own decisions (i.e., with welfare $ $, or food - specific $ $), rather than having those decisions made at a state - wide level.

School districts are typically responsible for top - level decision - making when it comes to food: they oversee the food services group that determines breakfast and lunch menus; they set the district - wide wellness policy, which usually covers the food that may be sold or distributed during the school day; and they decide whether vending machines may or may not be placed in schools (although in some cases this is decided at the level of the state board of education).

Firstly, Merkel and Sarkozy need to start understanding or remembering how strategic political coalition - building, collaboration and decision - making works at the level of both 17 and 27 member states.

Mr Mahama stated that more women were now taking part in the decision - making process both at the local government and national level in Ghana.

I asked if the decision to get involved at the federal level at a time when the GOP has a full slate of statewide candidates and is battling to retain and / or improve its slim hold on shared control in the state Senate indicates that Faso doesn't think much of his fellow Republicans» changes at the state level, and he insisted that was not the case.

After back and forth, Mr Afoko on Monday appealed the decision of the NEC at the National Council level stating constitutional breaches as the basis of the 14 - paged petition, which prompted the highest decision - making body of the party after congress, to meet over the matter Thursday afternoon.

Abass said the function of the committee was simply to examine the allegations levelled against Banire by concerned members of the party, saying the committee would be fair in arriving at its decision which would then be submitted to the ward executive of the party for onward delivery to the local government and then the state executive of the APC.

And with changes to healthcare looming at the federal and state level, Floss says the Legislature may have some tough decisions to make.

The Conservation Fund focuses on educating New Yorkers about environmental issues and the environmental decision making processes at the local, regional, state and federal government levels.

I think if we were to make decisions at a federal level that would make America more competitive, it would be better than pitting communities against each other on a local level or even the state level.

The teams debated the merits of consolidation, often straying into decisions and policies made at the city, county and state level.

He said the decision was to allow fresh people to occupy party offices at the ward, local government and state levels with a view to taking the APC to the next level in the state.

This ombudsman firmly believes that this example of our newspaper working in a BI-PARTISAN way with our County, State and Federal Governments, as well as with our President, will better help our readers to understand how an INDEPENDENT PRESS may influence important decisions made by our government at all levels!

Some chief executives have even issuing executive orders declaring that education decisions would be made by their state governments, not at the federal level.

This latest decision to join forces comes at the heels of a new shared services initiative spearheaded at the state level.

During his time at the Pride Agenda he has been actively involved with the passage of dozens of laws, ordinances, regulations and Executive Orders on the state and local level affecting New York's LGBT community, including statewide measures like: the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act; the Hate Crimes Act of 2000; making the state's 9/11 relief inclusive of same - sex couples; guaranteeing domestic partners hospital visitation, legal authority over a loved one's bodily remains, access to Family Court and medical decision making authority; prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in state employment; and securing over $ 50 million of funding for LGBT health and human services.

It was learnt that the governors had assured the state chairmen and their officials that their positions were not under threat by the decision not to elongate the tenure of the leaders of the party at all levels.

He said: «after receiving the minutes of the Ward C meeting, concerned and committed members of our great party, APC in Mushin Local Government deliberated on the resolutions of the ward meeting and having carefully considered the decision of Ward C EXCO, we decided to adopt the resolution for further necessary action at the State and National level.

On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

Following the high court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the General Assembly passed a law in June 2010 that removed those restrictions at the state level.

Even though there are federal laws on the books guaranteeing women's rights to earning equal pay for equal work and making family planning decisions, hardline Republicans like my opponent George Amedore have fought tooth and nail to chip away at them on a state level.

Ryan said he wrote to the acting director of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to find out how the decision was made to locate Moore at Waterfront Center and whether the facility and its staff were properly notified of Moore's status as a level 3 predicate sex offender.

The researchers also found an association between longer future - sightedness and less risky decision - making at a U.S. state population level.

The world's only deep underground nuclear waste dump is in New Mexico, and efforts of many New Mexicans to prevent high - level waste disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) have had an effect on the state's decisions (page 5).

This decision was supported by the conclusions of the NIAAA report, which stated: «Although elderly drinkers reach higher blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) with lower levels of consumption than the younger counterparts, their level of impairment at any given BAC level does not differ from that of younger drinkers.»

But the truth of the matter is that what happens in these localized governments actually has a bigger impact on our daily lives — and a lot of the decisions made at the state or local level actually inform the decisions your reps make federally.

Just one percent of teachers felt their opinions impacted decision - making at the national level; just two percent did at the state level; and nineteen percent did at the district level.

At minimum, these layers represent decisions made in, and funding arising from, Washington, the state level, and the local level.

But he draws a bizarre link between that problem and his scorn for NAEP's achievement levels, wrongly asserting that the National Assessment Governing Board's decision to fix the «proficient» level at an ambitious «aspirational» level was folded into NCLB's mandate to states to set their own proficiency targets.

Besides all that, governance - type decisions may be made at the building level — and frequently at intermediate levels within a big district or region of a state.

In order to fulfill this obligation, states will need a scalable model of impact evaluation which could operate at the local level, where decisions are being made.

Although national education policy steals most of the headlines, most policy and funding decisions occur at the state and local levels.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.