Sentences with phrase «governor and the legislature»

The court order was never fulfilled by governors and the legislature over the past decade.

Yet the collision between governor and legislature was never in doubt; only the timing was uncertain.

The court order was never fulfilled by governors and the legislature.

We are guessing that other courts that receive petitions asking for restoration of funds will attempt a similar approach and will seek to defend positions staked out on grounds of equity or adequacy, but will avoid picking fresh fights with governors and legislatures if they can.

It's putting enormous pressure on governors and legislatures in Red states to retreat from their support of the Core, including Jindal, and «there will probably be others before this is over,» he adds.

In other words, the adequacy movement has matured, and the courts are now grappling with many of the same implementation and compliance issues that have stymied governors and legislatures for years.

Only recently, teachers unions seemed to be riding high in the saddle, enjoying for the first time in more than a decade a government unified under the union - friendly leadership of a Democratic governor and a legislature controlled by the same party.

If that happens, it will be the biggest victory for pro-nuclear forces since Connecticut's governor and legislature took similar action late last year.

Even the presence of a reform - minded governor and legislature doesn't ensure that districts pushing to overhaul their operations won't struggle with entrenched traditionalist constituencies opposed to any change — especially if the state still requires the district to reach consensus with the union.

To be sure, budget matters are likely to dominate the work of governors and legislatures again in 2010, even as they are expected to take up a variety of more locally driven policy issues outside the scope of the Race to the Top initiative, such as efforts to consolidate school districts.

In this guest blog from Minnesota businessman Dirk Bak, he contends the state's governor and legislature want to destroy the business climate.

Long - term charter school success will require both growing consumer demand for individual schools and support in principle from governors and legislatures.

At Odds With Bush's Rejection of Mandatory Cuts, Governors and Legislatures Enact Curbs on Greenhouse Gases

They should be mad at their state governor and legislature, not Obama for nationalizing a rule that was already approved at a state level.

They do not complain when governors and legislatures cut billions from the public schools while claiming to be reformers.

He said, «I support legislation approved by governor and legislature last year — people who wish to marry should be able to.

Forest said that teacher pay was «frozen for years» under the previous state leadership, but that our current Republican governor and legislature have raised teacher salaries by an average 11 percent and entry level pay for teachers by $ 5,000.

She equates Wisconsin's democratically elected governor and legislature that lawfully ended collective bargaining for teachers with Egypt, where the government led by Hosni Mubarak was a dictatorship and directly controlled the only union in the country — the Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF.)

New York is falling behind competitive states in the Midwest, where GOP governors and legislatures have used their political capital to improve the fiscal and business climate and attract jobs.

Earlier this year the Democratic governor and the legislature imposed a moratorium on the Common Core tests effects on students, now that postponement moratorium extends to teachers who received poor ratings on their annual evaluations as a result of low scores by students on the controversial new tests.

NYRA, formed in the 1950's, has had a long history of battling governors and the legislature.

It hasn't solved all the budget problems but I am optimistic, given the current climate, that the next governor and the legislature will approach things in a better way,» he said.

Rather than proceed with the second half of the suit, which rested on claims that charter schools had failed to comply with statutes and sponsorship contracts, their opponents withdrew it in December and instead appealed for regulatory help from a newly - elected Democratic governor and a legislature whose Republican majority had been reduced.

Connecticut governors and legislatures have a history of contributing significantly less than the full amount.

«As New Jersey elects a new governor and legislature this fall, it's important to remember the faces behind the data and recognize the incredible opportunity government leadership has in making real change for children,» Zalkind said.

The NEA and AFT thought that they could whip up outrage against moves by governors and legislatures in Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey and Florida to abolish collective bargaining and begin overhauling costly teacher pay systems.

The state governor and legislature should scrap their plans to include video slot machines at the Aqueduct race track, according to Hugh O'Neill, president...

The largest Democratic congressional advantage was in Maryland, where redistricting was controlled by a Democratic governor and legislature.

After spending hundreds of millions on lobbying, these groups were able to persuade tea - bag and conservative Republican governors and legislatures to repeal collective bargaining for teachers, limited bargaining rights for others, dramatically expanded funding for charter schools or otherwise undermine what most would describe as the American public education system.

No wonder that it took three special sessions for the governor and legislature to reach an agreement on a new budget, narrowly averting a government shutdown on July 1.

He is also co-sponsoring legislation that would require the New York State Health Care Quality and Cost Containment Commission to submit a report to the governor and the legislature on the impact on health insurance costs of requiring coverage of these diseases.

The only question that remains now is whether the governor and the legislature will pass it.

Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Agudath Israel's executive vice president, congratulated the Governor and the legislature for «their recognition, even in these challenging times, that including rabbinical colleges in the state TAP program — just as they are included in the federal Pell program — is a matter of simple equity.»

A one paragraph clause in Governor Cuomo's budget has caused some concern among state lawmakers over the separation of powers between the governor and the legislature.

NYRA will continue to focus on building profitability by energizing racing, continuing to deliver a world - class fan experience, and attracting the finest race horses in the world to New York state, consistent with the statutory mission given to us by the governor and the legislature.»

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi joined a group of homeless activists who want the governor and legislature to move on Cuomo's promised 20,000 new units of supportive housing.

«We need real leadership from Albany from the governor and the legislature,» said Nick Sifuentes, the executive director of the transit advocacy group Tri-State Transportation Campaign.

The governor and legislature have passed measures to raise the minimum wage, Molinaro says he'd rather help businesses cut their costs saying a «government dictate doesn't solve problems».

«That best thing to do is take it out of the hands of the governor and the legislature and put it in the hands of an independent commission.»

New York's governor and legislature are touting progress in higher education funding in the just - passed state budget.

«What the governor and the legislature have done here is make it next to impossible to get out if you disagree with something your union is doing.»

Given the great income disparities in our state, we think the Governor and the legislature should go further.

This year's state budget, which passed earlier this month, allocates money for criminal justice reform, but the details of that package have yet to be negotiated by the governor and the legislature.

«We look forward to continuing to work with the governor and the legislature on implementing the comprehensive recommendations as outlined in the FixNYC plan to ensure New Yorkers have access to a spectrum of affordable, reliable and convenient transportation options,» Campbell Matthews, a Lyft spokesman, said in a statement.

«Uber supports the agreement between the governor and the legislature to target a per - trip fee on Manhattan riders where there is convenient access to public transit and to adopt a first - in - the - nation tax discount on shared trips,» Anfang said in a statement.

State Open Data Legislation needs to be developed collaboratively between the governor and the legislature.