Sentences with phrase «first state in the country»

And it was the first state in the country to legalize recreational pot.

I am proud to announce that Maryland has become the first state in the country to pass legislation that requires transparency and accountability for social -LSB-...]

New York was one of the first states in the country to use digital imaging to take people's fingerprints back in 1996.

He said the support has afforded Lagos to become the first State in the country and also in the continent to have embarked on a hugely - successful year - long celebration of a milestone anniversary.

A few days ago, the State of Washington became the first State in the country to enforce its newly enacted «red flag» law and confiscate the firearm of a man who had broken NO law and who had not even threatened anyone.

On Thursday Governor Dannel Malloy said Connecticut has become the first state in the country to match all the people it has identified as chronically homeless with housing.

But the task force members say they are encouraged by the governor's public commitment to the idea of being the first state in the country to end its epidemic, a move being closely watched by other states like Washington and Minnesota, where similar plans to lower new AIDS infections have recently been announced.

And he set a goal of making New York the first state in the country to end the HIV / AIDS epidemic.

U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald says Connecticut is the first state in the country to end chronic homelessness among veterans.

In January 2016, Oregon became the first state in the country to implement Automatic Voter Registration (AVR).1 AVR increases access to voting by using information already provided to governments...

«We made the single smartest investment that is going to pay dividends for generations, and will be finished by the end of this year, which is the first state in the country to have 100 percent broadband coverage,» he said.

The Kaduna State government is set to be the first state in the country to use Electronic Voting Machine in the conduct of its local government...

McClusky adds that the first states in the country to adopt Common Core received the most «Race to the Top» funds.

With Cuomo's signature, New York will become the first state in the country to fund free tuition for students at community colleges or four - year public institutions, as long as their families make less than $ 125,000 a year.

New York is the first state in the country to increase the minimum wage for just one industry.

If the governor's proposal is passed by the state Legislature, which seems unlikely at the moment, given opposition by the Senate Republicans, New York would become the first state in the country to raise the minimum wage to $ 15.

We have the best paid family leave program in the United States — first state in the country to mandate testing of water in schools for lead.

If the proposal is passed by the state Legislature, New York would become the first state in the country to raise the minimum wage to that level.

«We will be the first state in the country to acknowledge the problem and say we're going to create an independent prosecutor who does not have that kind of connection with the organized police departments.»

Kogi State government is the first state in the country to introduce clocking time regulations for its workers.

69, wrote a decade ago in 2003, making Massachusetts the first state in the country to recognize gay marriage, is only one part of Marshall's story.

I'd love for Florida to be the first state in the country to truly embrace competency - based education, where students advanced when they master the material, and where schools draw down funding when they are successful with students.

Arkansas is the first state in the country to require yearly body - mass index, or BMI, screening for all of its 450,000 public school students, and this was the first year those measurements were taken by school nurses across the state and analyzed.

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.

West Virginia is one of the first states in the country to try to implement project learning in every classroom.

Ms. Asay went on to make significant contributions towards the development of well prepared nurses and strong local school health programs by convincing the NC DHHS Division to be the first state in the country to have regional school nurse consultant positions.

Two years ago, it became the first state in the country to switch to new assessments.

Connecticut was one of the first states in the country where the courts stepped in to say that a child's right to an education was so fundamental that state governments must act to ensure that school financing systems «provide a substantially equal educational opportunity.»

To begin to address the foster youth achievement gap, California became the first state in the country to hold itself accountable for the educational outcomes of foster youth.

Washington just became the first state in the country to lose a waiver from the 2001 law, which mandated standardized testing and set annual growth goals called Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).

Kentucky was the first state in the country to adopt the Common Core educational standards, a movement started by the National Governors Association that became a Republican punching bag after its embrace by the Obama administration.

Vermont was the first state in the country to adopt a sustainability standard in 2000.

In February, Kentucky was the first state in the country to adopt new common core standards at a joint meeting of the Council on Postsecondary Education, the Kentucky Board of Education and the Education Professional Standards Board.

Five years ago, Kentucky became the first state in the country to start implementing the Common Core State Standards in classrooms and measuring whether students are reaching those standards.

Being the first state in the country to name a Director for UAS and deploying an Unmanned Traffic Management system, Kansas has been a pioneer amongst states.

Minnesota is the first state in the country to address animals in the event of a radiological catastrophe.

California could soon make history as the first state in the country to ban all puppy mill pet store sales.

If passed, New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, and Rhode Island would be the first states in the country to outlaw declawing cats.

At the beginning of this year, Tennessee became the first state in the country to pass a statewide animal - abuse registry.

-- Maryland is the first state in the country to impose a new requirement to graduate from high school — something called environmental literacy.

In February 2014, with support from some of the largest natural gas companies in the state, Colorado finalized new rules that will dramatically reduce air pollution from natural gas development, and became the first state in the country to target methane directly.

The California Energy Commission is expected to approve the new rule when it votes this week, making California the first state in the country to require that new houses come with photovoltaic (PV) Generation of electricity directly from sunlight.

«California is the first state in the country to bring a lawsuit jointly with the FTC under a federal anti-spam law that took effect January 1, 2004.