Sentences with phrase «economic achievement»

It is a day dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers.
The long - sought measure to control the highest property taxes in country remains the most significant economic achievement the governor has under his belt since taking office this year.
It's a day to celebrate the social, political, and economic achievements of women while also re stories of activists throughout history.
The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.
The measure was first approved in June 2011 and is a signature economic achievement for Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his first term.
The cap on local property tax increases has been a signature economic achievement for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who often cites the measure that passed in June 2011 alongside his other legislative victories.
The Nana Akufo - Addo - led government is touting its «unmatched» economic achievement in less than two years in office, as it announces...
The cap also remains a signature economic achievement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first term and he has also called for the cap to be approved on a permanent basis.
There is remarkable testimony to the truth of this observation in the fact that the two periods which apparently marked the peak of Roman imperial economic achievement, namely the reign of Vespasian and later that of Trajan, saw Palestine ravaged and repressed and Jerusalem a heap of ruins.
Indeed, that the data show the increase in death by self - destruction is not limited to whites with low educational achievement suggests that something else is at work — or at least something more complicated than lower economic achievement or increasing inequality.
Fletcher Building chairman Ralph Waters said Australia has a lot to learn from New Zealand's tax and economic achievements as he calls time on his 13 years with the building products giant.
Vince Cable has said that Britain must recognise China's economic achievements instead of focusing on «lecturing» the country on its human rights record.
The ruling from Judge Patrick McGrath was latest setback to NYSUT's effort to challenge the constitutionality of the cap, which was first approved in 2011 and is one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature economic achievements since taking office.
The cap is one of the top economic achievements for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first term and this year he plans to once again pursue local government consolidations as a means of controlling spending on the municipal level.
Cuomo, now a Westchester County resident, has made a concerted effort in his first year to appeal to suburban voters, the cap on property taxes being his biggest economic achievement before the tax code deal.
The changes take dead aim at reversing a longstanding lag in student achievement and, especially, narrowing the socio - economic achievement gap in a state whose schools were once the envy of the nation.
The Nana Akufo - Addo - led government is touting its «unmatched» economic achievement in less than two years in office, as it announces the removal of value added tax (VAT) on over 1,000 items that will be imported into Ghana.
Those efforts have largely failed in the face of opposition from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who counts the cap among the significant economic achievements of his first term.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo backs a permanent property tax cap, which as a signature economic achievement from his first term.
The cap is the signature economic achievement for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first term and is tied to rent control for New York City, which is also due to expire on June 15, a year before the tax cap.
Such a proposal is unlikely to be backed by Cuomo, who has counted the tax cap as one of the signature economic achievements of his first term.
International Women's Day on Thursday is intended to celebrate women's cultural and economic achievements and call for more gender parity.
Besides, does anyone really consider densely packed New Jersey to be the pinnacle of economic achievement?
Gary Cohn has been the steady hand on the tiller of the administration's economic policy and deserves considerable credit for the economic achievements of the past year, in particular the tax cut package.
However, oftentimes it is simply about the direct changes in the EUR / JPY based on some European economic indicators or Japanese policies and economic achievements.
«America's economic achievements have led to staggering profits for stockholders,» Buffett writes.
But what is much more remarkable than the economic achievement is that the contents» or rather lack of contents» show....
Up until he engineered an overhaul of the tax code in December, the long - sought property tax cap was Cuomo's signature economic achievement.
Cameron rattles off a list of economic achievements.
Cuomo, of course, is less apologetic about the tax cuts and a $ 1,5 billion multi-year rebate program for property owners is the signature economic achievement for him in this budget.
Still, along with changes to the state's tax code that helped generate revenue to close a budget deficit, the tax cap is one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature economic achievements of his first term.
These nations represent the past, present and immediate future of economic achievement.
The New York State United Teachers union filed a lawsuit today to challenge the state's 2 percent cap on property tax increases, taking aim at one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature economic achievements.
As experienced educators and reform activists, they know the problems firsthand: racial and economic achievement gaps, sharp budget cuts to public education, misinformed policy decisions, and more.
In the 2000s, ECLAC (ECLAC, 2000) evidenced that the economic achievements reached by the region in the first half of the 90s were translated, for the first time, in an important reduction of the proportion of the population living under the poverty line.
58 % of Uncommon NYC students scored Proficient or Advanced in Math, closing the economic achievement gap.
Overall ISTEP + scores are higher than they've ever been, but stubborn socio - economic achievement gaps remain.
The report defines what it means to be academically prepared at key steps in a student's education, examines Illinois students» academic performance from early childhood education to postsecondary, calls attention to lingering racial and economic achievement gaps, and shares information on the school environment and other factors that contribute to student success.
Tom and I exchanged views last year in The Washington Monthly, and in his current piece he continues to sidestep or ignore the bad stuff, such as the revolving door for principals, the swollen central office bureaucracy, and the widening racial and economic achievement gaps.
Clearly, any attempt to improve achievement and to reduce racial and economic achievement gaps across the United States must involve these school districts as a major focus of action.
In this new round of research, the university team will identify those schools in Wisconsin where racial and economic achievement gaps are narrowing.
But as I noted last month, part of the NAACP's agenda focused on cutting criminal justice spending, which would actually do little to solve the underlying cause of high levels of imprisonment — the low quality of education in America's schools (and the racial, ethnic, gender and economic achievement gaps that they help foster).
As we've reported, federal education officials echoed the concerns of civil rights groups who felt the «No Child» waivers undercut the intent of the original law — to close the socio - economic achievement gap.
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