Sentences with phrase «in election year»

«It's going to continue to be (the GOP's) dialogue that they're going to put out in an election year that they're trying to take care of teachers,» said Meyer.

Bottom line: The war over charter schools is being waged on many fronts, so beware teachers unions bearing «gifts,» especially in an election year.

The one and only Michelle Herczog returns, past president of NCSS and currently History - Social Science Consultant at Los Angeles County Office of Education on the C3 Framework and its importance in this election year.

And it's always nice in Republican - controlled Utah to give some small tax cut in an election year.

And in an election year, that had greater influence than we did... It's a reality.

Inasmuch as the Broader, Bolder movement can be expected to gather steam in an election year, especially given the success of Occupy Wall Street and the «1 percent» campaign, it is worth giving attention to the scholarly foundation on which its claims rest.

While I would love to say we're going to get 20 or 25 high - quality bills over the finish line, that simply isn't realistic in an election year.

Critics of the petition, which President Pro Tem of the Senate John Revens Jr. has filed in the state supreme court, said they believe it was a ploy to avoid the risk of having to raise taxes in an election year.

In an election year in which education loomed large across the country, the state races Tuesday showed that neither that issue nor any other could easily be turned to partisan advantage.

But the attacks are growing fiercer; some recent recruits to the attack squad are people who tend to get taken seriously; and anything can happen in an election year.

Digging into the politics of education in an election year to find out what the candidates are talking about — or not

It's a valentine to the country's love affair with the first family — and given its release in an election year, a memorial for the same.

In the months and days leading up to the release of Zero Dark Thirty, about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the film was pilloried by the right as propaganda for President Obama in an election year, and by the left as a love letter to torture.

OkCupid reports that term with the greatest spike this year was «Pokémon Go,» which is refreshing that it topped politics in our election year.

Match has noted that in this election year, the study also reveals the significant, yet subtle similarities and differences between single Republicans and Democrats.

Particularly in an election year, Republicans do not want to challenge Bush with new legislation, even though some of the most strident conservatives in the party are now in favor allowing scientists to study cells from embryos that were frozen as part of assisted reproduction techniques.

AIDS has become a deeply partisan issue in an election year.

Facing bipartisan hostility over high drug prices in an election year, the pharma industry's biggest trade group boosted revenue by nearly a fourth last year and spread the millions collected among hundreds of lobbyists, politicians and patient groups, new filings show.

In 2012 we developed a similar list, called «The Top American Science Questions,» that candidates for public office should be answering [see «Science in an Election Year» for a report card by Scientific American's editors measuring how President Obama and Governor Mitt Romney did].

Undoing Dickey - Wicker altogether could, legally speaking, be the safest bet — but it may not be politically palatable to lawmakers, especially in an election year.

And even if Congress does manage to introduce last - minute legislation, as many observers expect, the sequester will have cast a shadow over the contentious process of funding science in a time of fiscal constraints — and in an election year.

«In an election year we usually see a bump — and we didn't see that this year,» added Saima Anjam, the group's government affairs associate.

Legislative leaders supported Cuomo, a traditional reaction for the State of the State address while the cameras are on, even in this election year.

«Everybody goes back to their districts in an election year.

He said he was also appalled that Cuomo seemed to be fast - tracking the project in an election year.

It would seem unlikely such a plan would be embraced by Senate Republicans, who are in a scramble to try to retain control of the 63 - member chamber in an election year for all lawmakers.

In an election year it's not unusual to see elected officials traveling to support candidates of their own Party in locations outside of their home.

The Cohen campaign said that Mr. Latimer's incontrovertible record as a high taxer can not be whitewashed in an election year.

So citizens of Rockland, in this election year take the time to assess each candidate on a scale that ranks their trustworthiness, their core principles, their personal integrity, their sense of honor, and their transparency.

Quinn is substantively on the right side of this issue, but in an election year, she has lost her nerve to stand firm.

So far, lawmakers and the governor have been cool at best to the prospect of raising any taxes, especially in an election year.

Some observers believe the plan would be in store for an uphill battle because it would require the state Legislature to pass tax hikes on the wealthy, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo might not support it in an election year in 2014.

Cuomo listed public campaign finance reform as a goal in his election campaign, and mentioned it in his State of the State message, but recently cast doubt on the bill's chances for passage this year, saying that in an election year, there's not a «tremendous appetite» for it.

Apart from whatever generous state aid is likely to be negotiated by Cuomo and lawmakers in an election year, set aside $ 3 million in annual funding to keep open the STEM high school and the Long Island High School of the Arts run by Nassau BOCES.

He faces a tough dilemma in an election year: Blocking lawmakers» push for a moratorium would be unpopular, but allowing them to move forward would take the teeth out of a law that he has presented as one of his crowning achievements.

Mr. Clinton had sought to improve relations with Cuba, but in the election year Cuba shot down two planes of Brothers to the Rescue, a Florida - based group that provided assistance to Cubans escaping the island by raft.

(The law also prohibits officials from appearing in government - funded advertisements in an election year.)

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo will give his fourth State of the State speech at 1:30 p.m. today, detailing his priorities for 2014 and unofficially kicking off his re-election campaign in an election year.

It appears the bridge will have to be funded by tolls, but in this election year, neither Cuomo nor any state official will say how much they might increase.

The stakes of a strike «are exponentially more important in an election year,» said Douglas Muzzio, political science professor at Baruch College.

After years of neglect and a winter of heating failures, New York City's massive public housing system is finally getting attention from politicians, who are simultaneously promising a fix and using the crisis to blame and bludgeon their rivals in an election year.

It was no coincidence that DiNapoli, in this election year, managed major reductions in local pension payments to the state retirement fund.

Perhaps the legislature, too often a rubber stamp for the executive, was merely asserting its independence in an election year.

But how on earth did hapless Grant Shapps, rarely allowed near a live mic nowadays, survive as Tory chairman in an election year?

The NDC government cancelled the program in March 2009 but after seven (7) years, in an election year knowing the harm they have caused the fishing industry, government has proposed to take 30 % off the cost of outboard motor and the 70 % paid in three (3) years after their mismanagement has drastically increased the price per outboard motor to GH cents 13 900.00 now.

Freezing property taxes is a budget win in an election year for Republicans, moderates and Cuomo, who tries to balance fiscal conservatism with progressive social policy.

He said the various ethics and anti-corruption measures should be something lawmakers want to tout about in their districts in an election year.

«Why take that risk in an election year when you can do it the year after?»

It is also worthy of note that, it was an election related case, in an election year.

10.45 pm Mandelson described Hoon and Hewitt's move as a «monumental distraction» in an election year and that he did not have to twist any of his cabinet colleagues» arms to come out in support of Brown.