Sentences with phrase «from statehouse»

They have taken the lead in this endeavor, addressing challenges that reach from the statehouse to the classroom.

Together we can elect leaders from the Statehouse to the White House who will defend and expand access to reproductive health care for all.

Fielded questions from Statehouse press corps regarding legislation, scheduling and legislative procedures.

Since surviving the experience, Daniel has been adopted by New Jersey dog trainer Joseph Dwyer, and has embarked on a trail of animal advocacy that has taken him from the Statehouse to animal rights rallies to the Anderson Cooper television program.

From Statehouse to Schoolhouse: Anti-Bullying Policy Efforts in U.S. States and School Districts, examines the anti-bullying policies of all 13,181 school districts across the country.

Every policymaker in our system, from our statehouse to our classroom, plays a vital role in ensuring student success.

After months of racially charged violence, including the killing of nine Emanuel AME Church members, as well as the disputed removal of the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds spurred by that horror, the Charleston County School District has banned students from displaying the flag emblem on campus.

ProgressNow, by the way, was one of the key players in ousting school reform - minded Michigan legislator Paul Scott from his statehouse seat earlier this month and has decried Gov. Rick Snyder's efforts to allow for the expansion of charter schools and school choice....»

After trying for years to get Alabama lawmakers to replace thousands of decrepit portable classrooms statewide, Lt. Gov. Don Siegelman decided he would put the problem where they couldn't miss it: a parking lot across from the Statehouse.

From the capitol to the courthouse, from the statehouse to the city council, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) serves as a partner and an ally to our members.

Cuomo has largely stopped appearing on Live from the State Capitol with Fred Dicker and Susan Arbetter's Capitol Pressroom, the two daily radio shows broadcast from the statehouse.

House Democrats have made no secret about their preference for recruits who aren't from the statehouse.

Despite cutbacks by its parent company, Newhouse, New Jersey's Gloucester County Times made a decision to not back away from statehouse coverage, says Editor John Barna.

Lieutenant Governor David Patterson, Andrew Cuomo, Shelly Silver, et al are all in; Spitzer will announce from Statehouse steps this noon.

Local lawmakers then voted to remove the flag from statehouse grounds in July 2015.

Mayoral control, meanwhile, has pulled authority away from school boards in some districts, and lawmakers are seeking to mandate changes from statehouses and the judiciary.

Not exact matches

Tough, smart, fearlessly outspoken, and possessed of an uncanny gift for strategically mobilizing her Middle American supporters (overwhelmingly women, those housewives from Peoria), she not only beat back the seemingly unstoppable ERA but played a key role in securing the presidential nominations of Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Ronald Reagan in 1980, paving the way for today's Bush presidency and Republican dominance of Congress and statehouses across the country.

More than one - third of the nation's statehouses do not have the metal detector security systems that can be found in a range of public places, from middle schools to museums.

Cuomo has pushed through a plan to shield his state residents from tax hikes under the Republican tax law — and Democratic - controlled statehouses across the country are following suit.

And that would've been enough to flip the statehouse from Democrat to Republican.

Lawmakers at the Statehouse are considering proposals that would prohibit Massachusetts school districts from denying hot lunches to children who don't have the money to pay for them or whose parents have fallen behind on meal plan installments.

Laws are typically state - wide, affecting all groups at once, so when a party sues the state, the party almost always has something to recover from the investment; even if just a few more gerrymandered statehouse slots or mayors.

Supporters of New York's gun control measures — among the most restrictive in the U.S. — held a smaller event inside the Statehouse to announce several new bills, including one that would prohibit anyone from buying more than one gun a month.

August 21, 2004: From an antiquarian fly on the wall of a chamber under the New Jersey Statehouse comes a tale of political sound and fury.

In the 420 - some days that he has been in the Statehouse, Cuomo hasn't done a single interview with any of the national television networks, despite more than a dozen requests from Sunday morning shows.

And New York voters have widespread negative attitudes toward the Confederate battle flag, which was recently taken down from the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse.

In states with narrowly divided statehouses like Iowa, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Oregon, it was able to help surgically remove threats of gay - marriage bans and build momentum behind same - sex marriage laws and other gay - rights legislation, by injecting millions of dollars from a vast network of donors into select races.

Karyn Polito, a state representative from Worcester County who served in the Statehouse from 2001 to 2011 is running with Charlie Baker as he tries to take the governor's seat after losing to Democratic Governor Deval Patrick in 2010.

Rev. Nelson Rivers III of Charity Missionary Baptist Church, on the political movement to take down the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina Statehouse in response to the shooting at Emanuel AME Church last week

Washoe County stands as a reminder that Common Core will succeed or fail not based on what happens in statehouse or talk radio debates, but in classrooms, often far away from power centers and the nattering of opinion leaders both for and against the standards.

Our work examined the multiple levels at which leadership can be exercised in education — from the classroom to the statehouse.

But parents at other schools say elementary math instruction has changed so much they've formed a group called Hoosiers Against the Common Core that's leading a statehouse push to withdraw Indiana from the new standards.

Today, we're answering a question posed from longtime commenter karynb9 on a post about the statehouse Common Core hearings earlier this year:

Erin Tuttle, left, and Heather Crossin speak at a statehouse rally calling for Indiana's withdrawal from the Common Core State Standards.

NJ Spotlight's John Mooney sat down with Sweeney in his Statehouse office on Friday and asked him where he stood on a host of key education issues, from school funding to vouchers to state takeovers of troubled school systems.

This alignment of goals contributed to the rash of statehouses that reformed teacher tenure and evaluation laws from 2010 to 2014, with prominent Democrats such as New Jersey Sen. Corey Booker, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo championing the cause.

In light of this, the Department of Education should create a competition to fund — with federal dollars — ideas for building or expanding school choice that come from the field, not from Washington or statehouses.

Anger over right - to - work legislation from General Assembly Democrats and protestors in the statehouse may have been Tuesday's biggest story, even as Gov. Mitch Daniels delivered his final State of the State address.

Education will continue to be a critical issue at the Statehouse with public promises from Gov. Butch Otter and other state officials to increase school funding.

Those figures stand in contrast to the sometimes high - profile portrayals of schools as unsafe places in venues ranging from television shows and social media and to school board and statehouse hearings.

But issues at the statehouse haven't stopped Evansville educators from continuing to achieve student success through the Equity Schools program.

«I have not seen a tax plan, or heard of a tax plan, that is that robust,» Sen. John Skubal, a Republican from Overland Park, said on the Statehouse Blend Kansas podcast.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach got a Statehouse rebuke Friday from lawmakers even as they avoided mentioning the combative candidate for governor by name.

He has over twenty - five years experience leading education reform efforts from the classroom to the statehouse.

After all, unlike Bennett, she will not work with a governor and statehouse leaders from her own party.

It was certainly hard to ignore cheering teachers Tuesday as they filled a second - floor atrium, lined Statehouse staircases and peered over balconies from the third and fourth floors.

Next week a bill that would withdraw from the Common Core will get a lengthy hearing at the statehouse.

They are working in key positions in school districts and charter - school networks, legislating in state capitals, staffing city halls and statehouses for reform - minded mayors and governors, writing papers for policy groups and dispensing grants from billion - dollar philanthropies like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

When we testified before the state legislature this year, I think we piqued the interest of lawmakers who heard constructive and positive feedback from educators in the statehouse.

At the core of the American democratic architectural tradition is the modest, single - family house, which gave rise to the statehouse, the courthouse, the firehouse, the schoolhouse, the jailhouse, and the President's house (as it was known before it became the White House)... The Architecture of Democracy traces a common line from the earliest colonial settlements to the Western frontier of the nineteenth century and today's ultramodern city centers.