Sentences with phrase «few state initiatives»

Gov. Cuomo has endorsed Hillary Clinton, which is probably the reason Sanders gave no praise for the governor while applauding a few state initiatives.

Not exact matches

We can dream of a perfectly balanced society, where the difference between individual initiative and solidarity are reduced to a simple state of tension, where human beings are judged because of what they are rather than the added - value they produce, where cultures are considered to be equally valid expressions of being and where scientific and technical progress is oriented towards the well - being of all rather than the enrichment of a few.

Most state constitutions are not easily amended; fewer than a dozen provide for amendment by popular initiative.

In the days leading up to today's combined State of the State / budget address, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced no fewer than 12 initiatives and leaked out a handful more, aiming to ensure some of his top policy priorities get the coverage he believes they deserve.

One of the state's most ambitious initiatives to reform its Medicaid program and improve care for its costliest patients has enrolled just a few hundred people during its first two months of operation, while nearly 30,000 people have opted out of the program.

Though the mayor highlighted a few of the larger projects in the document in his State of the City address, Strichman says it includes initiatives of all sizes.

As Empire Center's E.J. McMahon wrote a year ago, «few economic development initiatives in New York State's history have been the subject of more marketing hype than START - UP NY.»

State legislators and city officials, who have praised the governor's leadership on Close to Home, say the loss of the revenue is compounded by the fact that the program is expected to triple in size over the next few years when the city implements the Raise the Age initiative.

According to Benjamin, a few years ago, his think tank was commissioned by the county to study its court systems as part of a state initiative on court reform.

«In the few short months Eric has held office he has launched major initiatives such as the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit dedicated to recovering taxpayer dollars and the Taxpayer Protection Unit, which is designed to go after corruption in state contracts and pension fund ripoffs.»

SUNY Polytechnic is headed by Alain Kaloyeros, a key supporter of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's high - tech economic development initiatives around the state over the last few years.

Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz used his State of the County speech Wednesday to warn about the proposed spending cuts and policy changes in Washington while also promoting new initiatives he plans to roll out over the next few months.

With major restructuring of state and private enterprises, corporate consolidations and mergers, and a refocus of government initiatives, employment trends are changing so fast that few can keep up.

«Other than in the United States, industrial research initiatives in this area have been very few,» laments Catenhusen.

Considering that these standards are one of the most significant educational initiatives of our time, the fact that fewer than half of Americans know about them — and that fewer than half of those recognize what is touted as one of the biggest benefits of the Core — is concerning, particularly since in many states there is a great deal of pushback against the Common Core right now.

I think [Common Core] is essentially a federal initiative at this point, having been created by a small group of people, including very few if any teachers, working in conjunction with the Duncan administration, and it has been at the very least aggressively encouraged for states to adopt, particularly through the Race to the Top funding.»

Although few states require the teaching of media literacy, educators throughout the country are introducing classroom and even schoolwide initiatives designed to increase students» awareness and analysis of the media that surround them.

In K — 12 education, the states are ultimately in charge and few federal initiatives in this realm work nearly as well as intended.

And because this analysis is limited to initiatives under Title II, Part A, it is not an exhaustive list of states» strategies to improve the educator workforce; rather this brief highlights a few noteworthy states that have proposed promising teacher pipeline initiatives that they are either starting or continuing with support from Title II, Part A of ESSA.

Although many states have modeled their own education initiatives after Jeb Bush's Florida policy, few have embraced the former governor's blueprint as fully as Indiana.

The main topics covered were: 1) the respondent «s perceptions of the major state - level policy initiatives of importance over the last few years (allowing the respondent to determine the starting year / policy); 2) specific policy initiatives in two arenas: accountability and promoting school leadership; 3) a discussion of the policy initiators and actors, and their stakes and stands on major policy initiatives; and 4) their comments about the way in which groups and individuals work together or separately to exercise influence over educational policy.

State Department of Education: how effective has the statewide reading initiative has been these last few years?

The recommendations below suggest a few ways to maximize the potential that already resides in the 21st Century Community Learning Centers and in similar local and state initiatives to promote school success.

Georgia PTA dedicated its efforts over the past year to advocating against the Opportunity School District ballot initiative, which would have put a state political appointee in charge of public schools with few accountability measures and removed control from locally elected school boards and families.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

An initiative (1351) for lowering class size passed in WA State a few years back.

Principals have to manage, lead, and are held accountable for: common core; technology initiatives; social and emotional learning; referendum initiatives; math implementation; science implementation; special education, community outreach; reading; testing (local and state); effective instruction; transportation; public relations, parent custody issues, residency; student and staff discipline, evaluations; hiring; parent complaints; bullying; safety issues; budgeting; human resources issues; immigration questions / concerns; school safety, visibility in and out of school; championing the never ending requests and demands from the central office (one of the biggest challenges); the constantly increasing demands around social media and communications; and the barrage of emails / texts demanding immediate response 24/7, just to name a few.

Many big publishers are supporting the Worldreader initiative, such as PCaine Prize for African writers, CK - 12, Harlequin, Pearson, the U.S. State Department, and the World Health Organization, to name a few.

Initially the train had only a few takers but persistent efforts by the state tourism department and international marketing initiatives seem to be paying up now.

Just a few years earlier, in another round of treaty talks, the chief Bush administration negotiator, Harlan Watson, gave a speech holding out state actions as evidence of American initiative on climate.

The last few weeks have seen a boom in efforts to step up and extend state - level renewable energy mandates, with ballot initiatives and bills in Maryland, Michigan and Nevada seeking to extend the timelines of policies soon to expire, as well as increase targets.

We started our own campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns, and over the past few years we built CarbonWA, a Washington state grassroots organization with over 20 chapters that put forward America's first carbon tax initiative.

Perhaps the most visible initiatives are pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by New Jersey's 56 colleges and universities; by a few major corporations; by a coalition of nine religious denominations and more than 6,000 congregations; by public schools; and by the state's dominant utility, the Public Service Enterprise Group Inc..

Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»

Although the state has gone through a number of initiatives to improve traffic safety, North Dakota was one of the few states that saw an increase to the number of vehicle crashes in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Both nation - states and special interest groups in every conceivable variation are battling for the pinnacle position in controlling the public narrative, and though there are many initiatives operating in this space, few understand the actual process for harnessing a consistent grip on the narrative in this digital age.