Sentences with phrase «measures he proposed failed»

Cuomo introduced the legislation in the final weeks of the session after additional ethics and campaign finance reform measures he proposed failed to gain any traction.

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Mr. Russell added that the State Assembly had proposed a redistricting that would have put Southold and Shelter Island in the South Fork district in 1992, but that measure had failed.

The rally, headlined by Sen. Terry Gipson, Senate hopeful Justin Wagner and Assembly candidate Andrew Falk, comes after a half - dozen candidates for state Senate failed to qualify for the Women's Equality Party, the new ballot line formed this year meant to boost the package of measures proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- New York state avoided a government shutdown Monday when reluctant lawmakers passed an emergency two - month spending measure proposed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo after he and the Legislature failed to strike a deal on a spending plan.

The ballot also discovered that: 96 per cent of respondents lacked confidence in proposed Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) measures to reduce workload in the 2016 - 17 session; 94 per cent of respondents said they lacked confidence in the SQA's plans to reduce workload; and the Tackling Bureaucracy Report, a Scottish government initiative from March 2015, had failed to reduce teachers» workload in 96 per cent of schools.

In response to Steve Lopez's editorial, «This School Tax is a Bargain», the writer fails to mention the fact that this proposed parcel tax, Measure E, has purposely left out charter schools: students, teachers, and parents....

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

A clue to why the proposed increase to a 51 % green power mandate failed could be found in Assemblyman Perez's related measure Assembly Bill 148 — the Salton Sea Renewable Energy Bill.

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The measure also proposed that a mistrial be declared if the court failed to provide such instructions.

In 2013, private member's Bill C - 560 proposed to amend the federal Divorce Act to create a rebuttable presumption of ESP, but failed at second reading in the House of Commons, despite polling that suggested the vast majority of Canadians would support such a measure.

This submission identifies those proposed measures that make the NTER non-discriminatory and human rights compliant as well as outlining concerns where the proposed measures fail to remove the discriminatory impact of the legislation and where human rights concerns remain.