Not exact matches
In addition to electing club officers and executive committees, members of New York Democratic clubs are extremely influential in nominating and electing unpaid party officials
known as District Leaders and members of the New York State Democratic Committee, as well as Democratic
legislators at the City, State and
federal level.
Nassau County
legislators said last week that they didn't
know that the son of State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was on the payroll of a firm awarded a contract that
federal prosecutors reportedly are scrutinizing as part of a corruption probe.
Instead of continuing to throw millions of precious tax dollars into the proverbial, but very real, pit of failed education reforms; instead of continuing to enrich test corporations and educational entrepreneurs who game the system; instead of maintaining the false and demoralizing narrative that our students and teachers are failures, our state
legislators need to take this opportunity to tell the CSDE and CSBE that it will
no longer support expensive mandates that unnecessarily impact our budget health when a re-design of state assessment practices has been encouraged by recent
federal legislation.
Several points that I felt were imperative: 1) Everyone at the
federal level
knows that the current law is disliked and must change, 2) There is a recognized effort to make the language and details of the next ESEA reauthorization more user - friendly — all stakeholders of a school community should be able to understand the legislation and be vested in the success of schools, and 3)
Legislators are seeking the right balance between formula funding and competitive grants — one area of consideration is the consolidation of educational programs or initiatives, which will allow
federal monies to be used more effectively to help schools and children.
Contact your
federal legislators and let them
know how you feel about puppy mills!
• Contact their
federal and state
legislators and let them
know that they are concerned about the inhumane treatment of dogs in puppy mills and want the puppy mill issue to be a priority for Congress.