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* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

In the lead up to this weekend's New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus» conference in Albany, the Center for Working Families and Citizen Action of New York has released a study that found public financing of political campaigns helps candidates in poor and majority - minority districts.

Good Government Groups to Cuomo and Legislative Leaders: Pass Reform Before Budget Deadline Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance reform.

Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.

Previously, he developed a keen understanding of the state legislative process as an assistant legislative representative in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's state legislative affairs office, working on various pieces of legislation including the World Trade Center Presumption Bill, the Coordinated Construction Act, and a bill regulating the activities of street vendors in the City of New York.

At the annual Mohawk Valley legislative forum in Utica, state and local leaders said the region's economy is poised to expand thanks to several major projects, but the endangered status of the nano technology center in Marcy loomed throughout the discussion.

On Wednesday, Cuomo delivers his second State of the State address at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center — kicking off the new year for the 2012 legislative session.

At 12:30 p.m., Families Together in New York State, a lead member of the Raise the Age NY campaign, holds its annual Legislative Awareness Day and Luncheon where over 400 family members, state leaders, youth and advocates from around the state will speak on issues impacting families of children with social, emotional and behavioral needs, Empire State Plaza Convention Center, AlState, a lead member of the Raise the Age NY campaign, holds its annual Legislative Awareness Day and Luncheon where over 400 family members, state leaders, youth and advocates from around the state will speak on issues impacting families of children with social, emotional and behavioral needs, Empire State Plaza Convention Center, Alstate leaders, youth and advocates from around the state will speak on issues impacting families of children with social, emotional and behavioral needs, Empire State Plaza Convention Center, Alstate will speak on issues impacting families of children with social, emotional and behavioral needs, Empire State Plaza Convention Center, AlState Plaza Convention Center, Albany.

In the first analysis of its kind in 2018, the Brennan Center's Voting Laws Roundup shows that lawmakers in eight states have introduced at least 16 bills making it harder to vote, and 35 restrictive bills in 14 states have carried over from previous legislative sessions.

At 6:30 p.m., Deputy Secretary for Legislative Affairs Mark Weprin outlines Cuomo's 2016 State of the State agenda, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, Room 301, 208 W 13th St., Manhattan.

Recipient names and amounts for more than 3,000 state grants totaling more than $ 400 million, including more than 500 approved on the final day of the 2015 legislative session, were added to the Empire Center's SeeThroughNY today.

Cuomo and legislative leaders reached a compromise over legislation that includes a new state agency that Cuomo is calling the Justice Center, which he says will help prevent abuse of people with physical and mental disabilities in state care.

In addition to the convention center plan, the Governor introduced a range of policy proposals building on his legislative success in 2011, including the creation of a new pension tier for new state employees and an expected push to legalize gambling in the state.

Nationally, women hold 24.9 percent of state legislative seats, according to the Center for American Women and Politics, a number that has seen little change over the last decade.

March 5, 2010 Pomona hearing 1:00 - 4:00 PM Health and Mental Health Transportation, Economic Development, Environmental Conservation Rockland County Fire Training Center Auditorium 35 Firemen's Memorial Drive, Pomona, NY 10970 Contact: Dan Moscato at [phone] or [email protected] March 12, 2010 Bronxville hearing 4:00 - 7:00 PM Education, Labor and Family Assistance Public Protection and General Government Concordia College Sommer Center for Worship & the Performing Arts 171 White Plains Road, Bronxville, NY 10708 Contact: Shelley Andrews at [phone] or [email protected] The Hudson Valley Delegation of the New York State Senate In an effort to ensure the Hudson Valley is fairly represented in all legislative matters before the Senate, nine local Senators representing the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester have formed a bipartisan delegation to more effectively advocate for the needs and concerns of their constituents.

Formerly served as deputy director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where he worked on election law and campaign finance reform, and published a comprehensive analysis of the legislative process in the state Legislature.

She was a special assistant to the Board of Education's Center for Career and Occupational Education from 1975 - 1976, a legislative aide for the New York State Assembly's Committee on Housing in 1977, a senior program analyst for the New York State Assembly's Committee on Cities from 1977 - 1979, Executive Director of the advisory council of the office of the New York State Senate minority leader from 1979 - 1982, Director of Special Projects in the office of the New York State Senate minority leader from 1980 - 1982 and a member of the New York City Council from 1982 - 1992.

ALBANY, NY (01/08/2013)(readMedia)-- Hundreds of workers, community advocates, and members of several faith communities from Brooklyn and throughout the state joined together at a rally at the Legislative Office Building to protect SUNY Downstate Medical Center and maintain the essential health services it delivers to New York City's most populous borough.

The Buffalo solar panel factory, which received about $ 750 million in state subsidies, as well as a state - funded nanotechnology hub in Syracuse, are at the center of last year's sweeping probe by then - U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office, which ensnared nine men — including two who had been powerful state officials — whose trials may overshadow the 2018 legislative session in Albany, set to begin in January.

The state Office of Mental Health, without needing legislative approval, intends to close the center as it consolidates 24 psychiatric facilities into 15 «centers of excellence» to save money.

Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled his full policy agenda for the 2018 legislative session on Wednesday, returning to his traditional State of the State format: a single address at the Empire State Convention Center, chock full of slideshow - aided proposals and lofty rhetoric, with legislative leaders of all five conferences and other statewide elected officials accompanying him on stage.

Thomas Lickona, the head of the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs (the fourth and fifth being respect and responsibility) at the State University of New York at Cortland and a leading figure in the field, says that two - thirds of the states» schools are now required either by legislative mandate or by administrative regulation to implement programs in character education.

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Given the role of NEA and AFT affiliates as prime campaign financiers of state legislative campaigns, along with the fact that districts are often the centers of political power in southern states, the federal lever is critical to advancing systemic reform.

Eric Premack, executive director of the Charter Schools Development Center, who used to work in the state Legislative Analyst's office on education funding issues, said there is no perfect methodology to determine exactly where California ranks.

by Bob Sloan For years VLTP, Center for Media and Democracy, PRWatch, Common Cause and other organizations have reported upon alumni of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) taking positions of authority in state and federal agencies.

The Center was asked by the state of Illinois to lead the state Legislative Task Force on School Leader Preparation, resulting in a 2010 law which closed all existing Illinois principal preparation programs after 2012 and required programs to reapply for a new P - 12 state Principal Endorsement under a far more rigorous set of outcome - based criteria.

Despite widespread public opposition to the corporate - driven education privatization agenda, at least 172 measures reflecting American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model bills were introduced in 42 states in 2015, according to an analysis by the Center for Media and Democracy, publishers of ALECexposed.org and PRWatch.org.

The Madison Group, the predecessor to the State Policy Network (SPN)-- which was exposed recently in a Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) report, followed by the release of funding proposals detailing its coordination by The Guardian — was «launched by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC... and housed in the Chicago - based Heartland Institute.»

According to documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), the American Petroleum Institute (API) and other oil industry groups have been directing state legislators to make public and legislative statements in favor of the pipeline project, and have provided legislators with draft legislation, language for op - eds and testimony to be presented as their own.

Used by state lawmakers across America since 2008, Rich States, Poor States: ALEC - Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index, is authored by White House Advisor and economist Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, White House Advisor and Economist Stephen Moore, and Jonathan Williams, Vice President of the American Legislative Exchange Council Center for State Fiscal Restate lawmakers across America since 2008, Rich States, Poor States: ALEC - Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index, is authored by White House Advisor and economist Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, White House Advisor and Economist Stephen Moore, and Jonathan Williams, Vice President of the American Legislative Exchange Council Center for State Fiscal ReState Economic Competitiveness Index, is authored by White House Advisor and economist Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, White House Advisor and Economist Stephen Moore, and Jonathan Williams, Vice President of the American Legislative Exchange Council Center for State Fiscal ReState Fiscal Reform.

Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.

Although SPN's member organizations claim to be nonpartisan and independent, the Center for Media and Democracy's in - depth investigation, «EXPOSED: The State Policy Network — The Powerful Right - Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government,» reveals that SPN and its member think tanks are major drivers of the right - wing, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)- backed corporate agenda in state houses nationwide, with deep ties to the Koch brothers and the national right - wing network of funState Policy Network — The Powerful Right - Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government,» reveals that SPN and its member think tanks are major drivers of the right - wing, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)- backed corporate agenda in state houses nationwide, with deep ties to the Koch brothers and the national right - wing network of funState Politics and Government,» reveals that SPN and its member think tanks are major drivers of the right - wing, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)- backed corporate agenda in state houses nationwide, with deep ties to the Koch brothers and the national right - wing network of funstate houses nationwide, with deep ties to the Koch brothers and the national right - wing network of funders.

ALEC Exposed Also run by the Center for Media and Democracy, ALEC Exposed tracks the corporate - funded American Legislative Exchange Council's efforts to undermine the public interest and democracy through lobbying and collaboration between corporations and politicians on «model bills» developed behind closed doors to shift state laws in favor of corporate interests instead of the public.

«Released in July of 2004, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law report, «The New York State Legislative Process: An Evaluation and Blueprint for Reform,» concluded that New York's legislative bodies discourage rank - and - file lawmakers from participating fully in the legislative process and, in turn, deprive citizens of full representationLegislative Process: An Evaluation and Blueprint for Reform,» concluded that New York's legislative bodies discourage rank - and - file lawmakers from participating fully in the legislative process and, in turn, deprive citizens of full representationlegislative bodies discourage rank - and - file lawmakers from participating fully in the legislative process and, in turn, deprive citizens of full representationlegislative process and, in turn, deprive citizens of full representation in Albany.

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