Sentences with phrase «efforts in state legislatures»

«Just because teachers unions block reform efforts in state legislatures and local school boards, reform advocates don't have to sit idly by while children and our education infrastructure suffer.»

There's also Indiana, where the two - year - long battle between reformers on the state's board of education and Supt. Glenda Ritz will likely come to a head with efforts in the state legislature to make the latter's job a gubernatorial appointment as well as Gov. Mike Pence's plan to clarify state law by allowing the body to appoint its own chair instead of having Ritz at its helm.

Covering more than 3,000 acres in the northeast corner of Puerto Rico, the Northeast Ecologico Corridor had been designated as a nature reserve in 2008 by preceding governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá after a multiparty effort in the state legislature.

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I remember a few years ago, several churches in my area got really involved in the Tennessee legislature's effort to amend the state constitution to include a ban on gay marriage.

The effort to secure action by state legislatures to require the teaching of creationism as science along with evolutionary theories has already succeeded in two states.

When the play was revived on Broadway in 1995 by Tony Randall's National Actors Theater, Randall — citing recent renewed efforts by the Tennessee state legislature to restrict the teaching of evolution — asserted that the play is «much more timely today than when it was written.»

Specifically, state level California Republicans had been pushing an effort in the legislature there to assign California's 55 electors by proportion of the popular vote to give them an opportunity to win some votes in a state with 12 % of the national population that they haven't had success winning in a generation.

It's a cute idea, but one with a purpose: The Riders Alliance is collecting these terrible commute stories in order to present them to the state legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo in an effort to get lawmakers to take the deterioration of the subway system more seriously.

He and the mayor singled out state Sen. Andrew Lanza (R - Staten Island) for helping to guide the bill through Albany, and Ignizio praised the bi-partisan effort behind the legislation - which passed through the state legislature in a prompt 23 days once it had been introduced, a timeframe de Blasio declared «pretty damn good.»

But faced with a historically low level of control of state legislatures, and with congressional redistricting in 2020 at stake, the party's leaders, well - heeled contributors, and strategists are vowing to mount a never - before - seen effort to win these state - level battles.

Reform groups including Citizen Action New York gathered in Albany on Monday to protest the outsized influence of the natural gas industry on the state legislature's approach to hydrofracking, noting that the industry has contributed more than $ 1.3 million to state legislators in an effort to buy support for the controversial practice.

Efforts to help potential first - time home buyers save for down payments using special tax - favored accounts have been gaining traction in state legislatures.

Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz's failed effort to qualify to seek the post in 2010 should cause the legislature to clarify the standards.

In any case, the pieces are there so that, with enough effort, Gov. Andrew Cuomo could push congestion pricing through the state legislature.

New York Hotel Trades Council President Peter Ward, who is involved in efforts to turn state legislative chambers in three swing states Democratic, called the Obama era «an absolute bloodbath for Democrats in state legislatures across the country.»

ELIZABETHTOWN — Republicans in the state legislature are dusting off efforts to repeal the SAFE Act.

The organization intended to coordinate action and provide mutual support among the various minor parties for efforts he believed would, in his view, liberalize ballot access laws through state legislatures as well as through the courts.

He also said 2018 will see an effort to push the state legislature to extend film tax credits so the boom in film and TV production the county has seen of late will continue.

Under the umbrella of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) the group coordinated a major effort in 2010 to urge the New York State legislature to lift a charter school cap that had been a stumbling block in the state's first bid to win a federal Race to the Top (RttT) gState legislature to lift a charter school cap that had been a stumbling block in the state's first bid to win a federal Race to the Top (RttT) gstate's first bid to win a federal Race to the Top (RttT) grant.

Maryland would have been the first state in the country to take over schools for NCLB restructuring, but Grasmick's efforts met with intense political opposition from Baltimore's mayor and other political leaders, and the state legislature passed a bill blocking the takeover.

In their continuing efforts to extract more school spending from state legislatures through the courts, advocacy groups recently acquired a powerful new weapon: the standards movement.

For all the concern and caution that has crept into union leaders» rhetoric, neither one has joined conservative Republicans» efforts to roll back the standards in state legislatures around the country.

Charter advocates in Massachusetts sought to increase the number of urban students who can enroll in charters, and the state had several well - qualified charter operators eager to open new schools, but both efforts failed in the legislature and in a referendum after a fierce campaign by teachers» unions.

The political opposition and technical challenges around tenure reform have historically prevented these efforts from advancing very far in state legislatures, but both have decreased in recent years.

Perhaps the two most obvious reasons are: 1) public opinion drives political actions in state legislatures, such as repeal efforts and efforts to adopt new assessments outside the Common Core - aligned consortia, and 2) public opinion likely affects schools» implementation, as politically active groups involve themselves in school board meetings, contact teachers directly to express their concerns, and «educate» parents with information or misinformation.

In addition to supporting the movement, Klein has emerged as a strong voice in the effort to lift a cap on the number of charter schools in the state legislaturIn addition to supporting the movement, Klein has emerged as a strong voice in the effort to lift a cap on the number of charter schools in the state legislaturin the effort to lift a cap on the number of charter schools in the state legislaturin the state legislature.

New Jersey — Governor Chris Christie attempted to insert a pilot school voucher program into the state's budget that would have given vouchers of up to $ 10,000 to students in poor, low - performing school districts, but the Democratically - controlled state legislature squelched his effort.

A + Colorado is encouraged by the legislative efforts to update the accountability clock A + believes that a deeper challenge than the accountability policy structure is a lack of political will to intervene in even the most dramatic circumstances A + Colorado calls on the Colorado legislature, our Governor and the state board of education to enact...

After giving shout outs to Michigan and Wisconsin for leading the privatization effort, she lauded the 43 state legislatures in 20 states that have expanded privatization efforts just this year.

Now that the NEA and AFT can count on Schwarzenegger's successor (and once - and - future governor) Jerry Brown and the state legislature to be at their proverbial beck - and - call (and the AFT now assured of a majority on L.A. Unified's board), Supt. John Deasy has had to roll back efforts to expand choice and has had to hope on lawsuits by reformers to give him the edge in revamping the district's woeful teacher evaluation system.

When Maine's education commissioner, Stephen Bowen, lamented that he could not persuade the state legislature to expand online learning in schools, a foundation employee assured him that Bush «will probably want to engage Governor [Paul] LePage directly to express our support for efforts to advance a bold agenda.»

Tags: Chris Larson, community schools, state school takeovers by Félix Pérez; image: candidate Chris Larson addresses school walk - in participants Milwaukee parents, residents, educators, students and community groups are organized, vocal and persistent when it comes to derailing the effort by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his friends in the state legislature to take over their community schools.

She is supportive of efforts by a conservative, pro-business group known as ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange Council, to create model legislation for school vouchers and similar programs for states to pass in their legislatures.

K12 was a major supporter of the effort, donating at least $ 300,000 in 2012 to «Families for Better Public Schools,» a Georgia political action committee behind a constitutional amendment that would further the charter school industry by bypassing the legislature and state board of education to create a new, politically appointed commission that would have the authority to independently override state and local control and approve new charter schools and online virtual schools.

Today's success in the state legislature demonstrates the power of our students» efforts and the strength of our parents» voices.

Our duty to engage in advocacy efforts goes beyond the 140 days the state legislature meets.

The independent commission of education experts was created by Governor Rick Snyder and the legislature in 2011 as part of the state's teacher tenure reform efforts.

In 2011, after Republican lawmakers took control of the state legislature, the 100 charter school cap was lifted — and since then there has been an effort to rapidly expand the number of charters in the statIn 2011, after Republican lawmakers took control of the state legislature, the 100 charter school cap was lifted — and since then there has been an effort to rapidly expand the number of charters in the statin the state.

In their effort to prevent states from protecting a free and open Internet, a small handful of massive and extraordinarily profitably Internet service providers (ISPs) are telling state legislatures that network neutrality would hinder their ability to raise revenues to pay for upgrades and thus force them to charge consumers...

The federal refinancing policy is so popular that other state legislatures have attempted to implement their own refinancing policies; the legislatures in Minnesota and Virginia are two recent examples of these efforts according to The Student Loan Report.

The organization is a registered non-profit, established by the Oklahoma legislature in an effort to benefit the State of Oklahoma and its students who currently have federal education debt.

The organization is a registered non-profit, established by the Oklahoma legislature in an effort to benefit the State...

ALEC said it would «continue to support the efforts of state legislatures in resisting the EPA's regulatory agenda» and «urges Congress to take the concerns of these states seriously and stop this regulatory train wreck in order to avoid the enormous negative impacts the EPA's overreaching regulations will have.»

Witness, for example, the efforts by ALEC to roll back renewables standards and similar pro-renewables measures in state legislatures around the country.

Last month Madigan helped kill efforts in the Illinois legislature to support two nuclear plants that are suffering from being excluded from federal subsidies and the Illinois state Renewable Portfolio Standard — both of which Madigan supports.

Iowa's strong asbestos litigation reform law combats fraud in the asbestos compensation system, and we applaud the state legislature for its efforts.

In an effort to force the rewriting of junior high social studies books nationwide, The Daily Caller reported Saturday that Republican Congressmen Eric Cantor and Bob Bishop will be proposing to amend the Constitution to allow state legislatures to repeal any federal laws they don't care for.

This move comes after similar efforts in Tennessee approved in 2010 that give the legislature the power to name 6 out of 16 members of that state's judicial disciplinary body (Board of Judicial Conduct).

That plan was never formally introduced into the NJ legislature, however I did find one effort to change judicial selection in the state, specifically focused on the state's Supreme Court.

Past efforts to introduce tort reform legislation were vetoed by Missouri's previous governor, Jay Nixon; however, the state's new Republican governor, Eric Greitens, has made tort reform a top priority and one likely to be supported by the GOP, which holds supermajorities in both houses of the Missouri legislature.