Sentences with phrase «legislative arena»

The lawsuits show that two of the nation's most contentious battles over the teaching profession are shifting from legislative arenas to the courts, giving judges the chance to make decisions that could shape the way teachers are hired, fired and paid.

The problem is no less egregious on several other legislative arenas of which I will mention only one here and save the others until they arise over the course of this new session (41st Parliament, 1st Session or 41:1).

«In the legislative arena, especially when the country is closely divided, compromises tend to be the rule of the day,» he wrote in the National Review in 2005.

The 52 - year - old Takoma Park resident, who is a professor at American University Washington College of Law, has focused his energy on a number of civil rights and constitutional issues in both the academic and legislative arenas, including marijuana legalization, campaign finance, and voting rights.

We work hard in the legislative arena to represent your interests to elected officials and agencies.

As it stands, he is a real zero in the legislative arena.

Will he be able, during a campaign, to convince enough New Yorkers that he can be effective in a consensus building, collegial, legislative arena?

«For example, I believe I am much more effective in the legislative arena because of my [fellowship] experience.

Previously, Dr. Brainard spent over three decades in a series of executive - level leadership roles in the higher education, business, government, and legislative arenas in Delaware.

The awards were announced at NSBA's Advocacy Institute in Washington, which focuses on building year - round advocates for public education and local school governance in public, legal, and legislative arenas.

We seek to promote the role of the Registered Veterinary Technician by broadening our skills, knowledge, and professionalism and by securing representation of Registered Veterinary Technicians in the regulatory and legislative arena.

This is particularly true in the legislative arena.

This is especially important in the legislative arena, where helping animals frequently requires compromise to obtain the best possible results.

Taking on the seemingly unsolvable problem of illegal firearms, McComb uses photographs and video to reach people from the street level to the legislative arena and to help provide communities an outlet where they feel safe enough to seek help, empowered enough to give help, provoked enough to work harder to unify, and unified enough to make change collectively through art.

While this may be a laudable goal, it certainly constitutes an intrusion into the legislative arena.

One of their strategic issues in the legislative arena is to ensure that all pharmacy technicians have the knowledge, skills, and abilities (that is, they are competent) to practice in the state of Michigan.