Sentences with phrase «legislative panel»

Trenton — Angry at being excluded from the planning of Gov. Thomas H. Kean's education - reform program, members of two key legislative panels told New Jersey's education commissioner that they will proceed with plans for their own reform package.

ALBANY — Just hours after the first meeting of the joint legislative panel tasked with redrawing New York's political map, Gov. Andrew Cuomo repeated his promise to reject its final product if it fails to meet his criteria for fairness.

New York State United Teachers President Andy Pallotta is expected to make the call in testimony to a joint legislative panel on education spending.

And lastly, laws found to be the product of corrupt conspiracies should be reviewed by a joint legislative panel for repeal or amendment.

The announcement was paired with Cuomo administration officials set to testify before a joint legislative panel of lawmakers, including those who are skeptical of the plant's closure, its impact on the New York City area's utilities as well as the hit jobs and taxes will take in the area.

Common Core opponents still have the opportunity to repeal standards in states like Kansas or West Virginia, where bills await hearings before legislative panels.

Little is among the four GOP state senators interviewing candidates vying to fill out the remainder of former state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's term as part of a state legislative panel.

He also criticized Mr. Sini for saying to a county legislative panel during his confirmation hearing as police commissioner that he would not run for district attorney.

(Calif.) Key legislative panels approved Thursday $ 1.25 billion for helping schools transition to the Common Core State Standards and another $ 650 million to support expanding pre-kindergarten to all low - income four - year olds.

Speaking at a hearing on the redistricting plan, which was developed by a bi-partisan legislative panel to redistribute districts statewide to address population growth reported in the 2010 U.S. Census, Mr. Losquadro said Riverhead should not be cut off from the North Fork and the South Fork should not be lumped into the same district.

Traveling in two separate vans, the 30 - member legislative panel will visit 15 cities over a three - month period, conducting public hearings in each city, according to Roger L. Noe, chairman of the House education committee.

(Calif.) A bipartisan majority of a key legislative panel voted Tuesday to reject Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to delay a hike in reimbursements to child care providers in another sign lawmakers are looking to challenge the administration's frugal fiscal outlook for 2017 - 18.

A bill that would require California public schools to allow transgender students to participate in activities, including athletics, and to use the facilities that align with their gender identity was moved by a key legislative panel Wednesday.

NASHVILLE — After clearing two legislative panels last week, a bill that would let low - income parents with children in failing public schools use taxpayer dollars to attend private institutions faces its next test this week.

(Calif.) The Brown administration's proposed, one - month deferral of some $ 860 million in school funding this summer drew widespread opposition Tuesday before a key legislative panel from both school groups and lawmakers.

ALBANY — The state ethics watchdog has forwarded a report of its findings to two legislative panels for possible sanctions after ending its probe of the Assembly's handling of sexual harassment allegations involving a senior member.

The mayor, who is the co-chairwoman of the state Democratic Party, testified before a joint legislative panel of Senate and Assembly lawmakers today on the governor's $ 142.6 billion budget proposal.

The governor's administration is under investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey, as well as a state legislative panel, after aides orchestrated the closing of access lanes to the George Washington Bridge last September out of apparent political against the mayor of Fort Lee.

The contract awarded to AbTech in 2013 was unanimously approved by a Nassau County legislative panel, the New York Times reported.

(Calif.) School districts facing significant increases in the number of new refugee students could receive $ 5 million in one - time Proposition 98 funding under a proposal considered Tuesday by key legislative panel.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan on Thursday named Sen. Jim Seward to join a legislative panel on Lyme disease and tick - borne illnesses.

Only pay increases in the past — before they were up to a legislative panel — have been linked to policy, such as the 1998 expansion of charter schools in the state.

Speaking during a legislative panel, Otis and three other sitting lawmakers who were previously local leaders said they would push to modify Cuomo's budget proposal.

The Brennan Center at NYU is urging the legislative panel overseeing the redistricting process to count prisons as residents of their last known address, not in the facility they reside in.

Cuomo, who convened a cabinet meeting at the exact time de Blasio was providing budget testimony to a legislative panel, scoffed at the notion that he would seek to upstage a man whom he has repeatedly referred to as a good friend, saying: «Only a really twisted mind would come up with that.»

A legislative panel investigated some of them, and Silver eventually issued heavy sanctions against the veteran Brooklyn Democrat.

The maps are currently drawn by LATFOR, a legislative panel jointly controlled by Democrats who dominate the Assembly and Republicans who hold a bare majority in the Senate.

It would leave investigations of lawmakers to a legislative panel, despite calls for harassment investigations to be carried out by an independent authority.

A legislative panel is examining how Massachusetts could respond after the repeal of federal net neutrality rules.

Investigative reports on lawmakers must be made public within 45 days of filing, and the legislative panel will have to disclose publicly what it did and why 90 days later.

Barbara D. Underwood, the New York solicitor general who is currently the acting attorney general, seemed to have the upper hand as a legislative panel interviewed her and other candidates seeking a formal appointment to the position.

Long Island Republican Assemblyman Andrew Raia served as the legislative panel's skeptic.

Following approval by a legislative panel Thursday, a bill that would prohibit governments from using mandatory project - labor agreements is on its way to the full state Legislature.

The county attorney reviews and approves all of the county's contracts, and the AbTech contract also was approved by a legislative panel.

Webster, Petersburgh's supervisor, said when he appeared with Borge before the legislative panel in September he wrote his own speech «for better or worse» and without assistance.

Districts are now shaped by a legislative panel controlled by the majority conferences in the Assembly and Senate — a practice derided by good - government groups as allowing elected officials to pick their voters instead of the other way around.

The members of ReShapeNY — comprised of Citizens Union, the state League of Women Voters and the New York Public Interest Research Group — are anticipating the release of redrawn district maps from LATFOR, the legislative panel charged with carrying out the once - a-decade redistricting process.

A legislative panel investigating the school massacre in the Russian town of Beslan last year has blamed government forces for an uncoordinated response to the crisis and has contradicted some aspects of the military's official account of the event, according to media reports.

(Calif.) A plan to put a statewide bond measure on the 2016 ballot to help pay for new school construction and modernization projects moved ahead Wednesday in action before a key legislative panel.

But the legislative panel that spent the summer taking testimony on the standards wrapped up its work earlier this month without making a recommendation on what direction Indiana should go.

A legislative panel evaluating the Common Core educational standards meets today for the second time.

SB 652, scheduled to be considered today by a key legislative panel, changes the date by which the California State Board of Education must adopt a new framework based on the Next Generation Science Standards — from Jan. 31, 2016, to Jan. 31, 2017.

He was the only Democrat at the final meeting of the legislative panel reviewing Common Core in Indiana.

But lawmakers voted this spring to pause rollout until a legislative panel can study the Common Core and make a recommendation on standards.

The legislative panel tasked with reviewing academic standards has already met once.

(Calif.) SB 652, scheduled to be considered today by a key legislative panel, changes the date by which the California State Board of Education must adopt a new framework based on the Next Generation Science Standards — from Jan. 31, 2016, to Jan. 31, 2017.

(Calif.) Legislation that would require all schools to stock epinephrine auto - injectors and train onsite personnel to administer them to a student suffering anaphylactic shock was one of several bills moved forward Wednesday by a key legislative panel.