Sentences with phrase «decisions of this new leader»

The decisions of this new leader will impact the future of more than half a million children every year, with massive public policy and social justice ripple effects...

The decisions of this new leader will impact the future of more than half a million children every year, with massive public policy and social justice ripple effects reverberating far beyond the district's attendance boundary.

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One of the pipeline's most vocal opponents, McKibben said the decision gives Obama «new stature as an environmental leader.»

The goal of a new computer system, says experiment leader Colonel James Lasswell, is to get enough of this information back to the squads so they can make better decisions about where to call in fire.

VICTORIA — The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a B.C. court decision which found that the Christy Clark government deliberately tried to provoke a strike with B.C. teachers for political gain while leaving children undersupported in overcrowded classrooms, says B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

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VICTORIA — New Democrat leader John Horgan issued the following statement about the announcement of a final investment decision for Woodfibre LNG:

Yesterday, the Chair of the board of trustees, Randy Fairfax praised the school's leaders for their «ethical, moral, and spiritual leadership» in an email to the school's community, but added, «However, we are unanimous in our decision that it is time for a new season of leadership... Understandably, there are many questions at this time.

The interests on which the leaders were called to rule vary in different areas, places, and conditions, making it allowable for the successors of the original leaders to review the position in the light of new circumstances and to make a new decision if the changed situation requires it.

Huffington Post: «Beyond the Robe»: New Generation of Buddhist Monks Embraces Science Recently, the Dalai Lama addressed a luncheon gathering at my home in Boston and announced a decision by the leaders of the monasteries to make the study of Western science part of the core curriculum required of all monastic scholars in the Gelug tradition.

For Soviet leaders and high officials President Reagan's decision to use bellicose language was and is a political fact that amounts to a policy pronouncement (New York Review of Books [February 16, 1984]-RRB-.

New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez was ordered to face 18 counts of corruption — dashing his hopes for an early acquittal based on the same Supreme Court decision that overturned convictions for two ex-New York legislative leaders: Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is demanding that the federal Department of Transportation reverse its decision to derail new rules that would have required all railroad engineers to be tested for sleep apnea.

The 2015 convictions of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos were overturned on the basis of the McDonnell decision.

Labour members now face an unenviable dilemma: do they dethrone the leader they put in place so emphatically (through all sections of the Party, not just the new registered supporters) and thereby accept that the PLP are the real decision - makers?

And he says under a leadership driven system like New York's, the Assembly Speaker is one of just three people, along with the governor and Senate leader, who make all of the major decisions about the budget and other important legislation that effects everyone in the state.

Silver was known as one of New York's «three men in a room» — along with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Dean G. Skelos, the state Senate majority leader — who controlled decision - making in Albany.

The New York Public Interest Research Group, Citizens Union, the League of Women Voters, and Common Cause, are calling for an end to the long Albany tradition of closed door meetings between the governor and legislative leaders where they make key decisions on the budget and other issues, known as three men in a room.

Last year, for example, he blasted a decision by the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health to invite controversial American leader Linda Sarsour to be a graduation speaker, charging her with anti-Semitism.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the decision «reckless» and said New York will continue to be a green energy leader, citing state efforts to achieving 50 percent of electricity from renewables by 2030.

Mr. Paterson, meeting publicly in Albany with leaders of the Legislature, also said he would not sign any budget that relied on borrowed money to close New York's $ 9 billion budget gap, a decision that would essentially kill a proposal crafted by his own lieutenant governor, Richard Ravitch, to use short - term borrowing to offset some cuts to government programs.

The new Leader of UKIP should bypass the vanity of such people and make big decisions about UKIP's future via direct polling of the membership.

Appealing his conviction, lawyers for former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos say he should receive a new trial based on the outcome of a Supreme Court decision outlining how public corruption charges should be interpreted.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco says businessman Harry Wilson's decision to stay out of the 2018 race for New York governor — one that seems to open the field for Republican candidates — won't affect his own plans on whether to seek the GOP nomination.

The 421a abatement — the sine qua non of Mr. de Blasio's proposal to construct 60,000 new below - market apartments — expired in January after an ill - fated decision by Mr. Cuomo and the legislative leaders to have the real estate industry and unions negotiateinclude new prevailing wage requirements for construction workers.

Legislators, union leaders and activists rallied outside City Hall today to attack Gov. Andrew Cuomo for what they alleged was his failure to honor a Court of Appeals decision in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. New York State case, which determined that Albany had shortchanged New York City schools some $ 15 billion.

David Miliband's decision to jump ship from the Shadow Cabinet comes as no surprise, and as a stroke of fortune for the new Labour leader.

Ian Smith had just declared a Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) from Britain, and Wilson's decision to impose oil sanctions on the illegal regime put pressure on the new Tory leader, Edward Heath.

«This was not an easy decision given magnitude of issues faced by our community, but I believe we are best served supporting other progressive leaders in this election both at home and across New York,» Miner wrote on Twitter.

«As the new leader of our great party and the NDC's Presidential Candidate for the 2012 elections, it is my pledge to provide the needed leadership to ensure that citizens» voices matter in decision - making», President Mahama stated.

She released a new TV ad today that continues her ongoing effort to link Martins with disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who lost his job in a federal corruption scandal — though his conviction was recently overturned, thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly narrowed the definition of an «official act» in connection with public corruption.

«This was not an easy decision given magnitude of issues faced by our community, but I believe we are best served supporting other progressive leaders in this election both at home and across New York.»

In response to President Donald Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Accord, Governor Andrew Cuomo is joining state leaders on the West Coast to form a new climate coalition.

I understand the decision is likely to be approved when Labour's Organisation Committee meets in October, especially when it should have the backing of the new leader, be it David or Ed Miliband.

Davis» decision not to seek the support of groups like the Alabama Democratic Conference and the New South Coalition — he has long been at odds with the leaders of those organizations — led them to throw their endorsements behind state Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks, who is white, in the primary.

Upstate New York Congressman Chris Gibson led a gathering of state and local leaders Tuesday in Schoharie County, with the intent to spark FEMA to make a decision.

Espaillat's decision to run against Rangel sets up a contest that many of New York's black and Latino leaders have said they hoped to avoid, and seems to represent at least a temporary step backward in the construction of a long - dreamed - of, elusive alliance between New York City's black and Latino political establishments.

«This should be a decision made by the residents and the taxpayers of New York,» state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said.

New York Sen. Charles Schumer opened his first remarks as leader of the Senate Democrats on Tuesday with a warning to President - elect Donald Trump, saying Mr. Trump will fail if he sticks with a «Twitter presidency» and outsources his deeper policy decisions to the most conservative voices in Congress.

Supporters of the approach say the state has prompted new discussion among the business and civic leaders of the areas in which the councils operate and has made it much easier to apply for and observe the decision - making process for how taxpayer funds are spent.

«They should've had a primary,» the former Republican National Committee chairman said of the ill - fated decision by local party leaders in upstate New York to anoint Dede Scozzafava as the establishment choice in Tuesday's special election.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand urged the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to reconsider their decision to deny New York State's recent appeal of FEMA's initial denial of a disaster declaration for New York State, Friday.

Abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman will grace a new $ 20 bill: «With this decision, our currency will now tell more of our story and reflect the contributions of women as well as men to our great democracy,» Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said.

The movie covers the brewing conflict as decisions are made to create a new Muslim homeland, Pakistan, as political leaders including Nehru, Jinnah and Gandhi come together in the house to wrangle over the birth of independent India.

A young Lieutenant Martinez (Ramon Rodriguez) is Nantz» new commanding officer, fresh out of school (certain to waver in his decisions in combat, letting us see what a natural leader Nantz is) and with a pregnant wife at home.

Leaders of New York State United Teachers met last month to talk about a possible merger with the National Education Association of New York, but no decision was made, according to Dennis Tompkins, a spokesman for NYSUT.

In a decision designed to spark a transformation of New Jersey's school finance formula, the state board of education concluded last week that poor rural districts have been shortchanged in a state known nationally as a leader for providing billions of dollars in extra aid and programs to its poor urban districts.

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - making.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.