Sentences with phrase «movement in giving states»

While H.R. 2218 is a step in the right direction in terms of charters, we are hopeful that we will see movement in giving states and local districts the room they need to create systems that works for students and teachers alike.»

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President Barack Obama has come out in personal support of same - sex marriage, has encouraged states to recognize the rights of same - sex couples to marry and even led the movement to abolish Don't Ask, Don't Tell, but he has kept mum on whether or not he believes the Constitution gives gay people the right to marry.

Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

If the Crucifixion does not express and embody a decisive self - transformation of God, then at most it can only give a guilty humanity a temporary respite from the sovereign power of the transcendent Creator, while at worst it can seal a fallen humanity in its abject state of powerlessness and self - abasement, totally repressing every tendency to movement and life.

Whereas secular accounts of the tradition locate legitimate authority in the heads of state, with some movement toward giving authority to international agencies, the Christian tradition understands legitimate authority more broadly.

A revised and expanded version of the Henry L. Stimson Lectures that Walzer gave at Yale University in 2013, his new book seeks to explain how secular national liberation movements, which built independent states in Algeria, India, and Israel following World War II, eventually spawned «religious movements that challenged the achievement roughly a quarter century later.»

The currents that give birth to sidereal systems; the folds and upthrusts that form mountains and continents; the ebb and flow within the biosphere — in each case what we had supposed to be the extreme of immobility and stability is discovered to be a state of fundamental and irresistible movement.

The movement has had a stark impact on the number of students in grades 3 - 8 in Nassau and Suffolk counties taking state tests since 2012 — the last year that non-Common Core tests were given.

Margaret Bartley gave U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a crash course on the suffragist movement in New York State — including in the remote Adirondack Park.

«You can't imagine their unbelievable dedication and never giving up,» Gillibrand said at the Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown on Thursday, where she toured an exhibit detailing the state's suffragist movement.

In the end, the book is a fascinating glimpse into a grassroots political party that has become the largest in New York State and for good reason: It's fusion politics that gives movements like the Independence Party a fighting chance in New York, and for this very reason it is often at odds with Democrats who seek one party control by eliminating fusion politics altogetheIn the end, the book is a fascinating glimpse into a grassroots political party that has become the largest in New York State and for good reason: It's fusion politics that gives movements like the Independence Party a fighting chance in New York, and for this very reason it is often at odds with Democrats who seek one party control by eliminating fusion politics altogethein New York State and for good reason: It's fusion politics that gives movements like the Independence Party a fighting chance in New York, and for this very reason it is often at odds with Democrats who seek one party control by eliminating fusion politics altogethein New York, and for this very reason it is often at odds with Democrats who seek one party control by eliminating fusion politics altogether.

Newsday calls Cuomo's executive order prohibiting the state from doing business with, giving money to, or investing in a company or institution that participates in the decade - old boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, «disturbing.»

Though no injection sites exist yet in the United States, the endorsement of the strategy by New York may give the movement behind it special impetus.

A longtime Albany reporter was arrested early Wednesday afternoon after he used his cell phone in the lobby of the New York State Senate — a move that gave birth to a hashtag movement and saw Gov. Andrew Cuomo step in to free him.

Hawkins said he will give voice to the next demand of the grassroots movement that fought for the ban on fracking, which is a ban on all new fossil fuel infrastructure in the state.

Protests by fast - food workers in New York City in 2012 got the movement started, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has now given the effort its biggest boost so far by announcing the creation of a board to look into raising wages for the state's more than 180,000 fast - food workers.

Paul Weiss, a chemist and physicist at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, says the result shows proper design of molecule and surface can give researchers an extra degree of control over the movement of molecules.

When we give ourselves permission to break down, we give what we've been holding in back to its natural state of movement.

And in 1996 the president gave the movement the ultimate blessing when he said, in his State of the Union address, «I challenge all our schools to teach character education, to teach good values and good citizenship.»

Uncle Sam's role is to encourage movement in this direction, probably by giving states that join such consortia some breaks on No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and its successors, perhaps a bit more money, perhaps automatic approval of their standards and tests without further inspection or negotiation.

Indiana's entry into the charter movement was nearly arrested in early 2002 when Suellen Reid, the Republican state superintendent of public instruction, balked at giving Indiana's new charters any money during their first semester, basing her opinion on legal advice from members of her staff.

The movement also includes proposals to give teachers more control over the profession through independent, state - level standard - setting boards and to give the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the body that accredits education schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education each year.

From his first days in office, President Bush promised to make education reform a centerpiece of his administration, using the reauthorization of the ESEA as an opportunity to give the state - led accountability movement a dramatic shove forward.

When someone in 30 or more years looks back on the academy movement to write the history, I believe that they will describe the first few years as a watershed in state education characterised by high risk and high returns and which its Alumni credit with giving them life chances.

The first mandatory WASLs were given to fourth - graders in 1997, the year Bergeson took office as state superintendent, and she remains closely identified with the reform movement as she seeks election to a third four - year term this year.

But as the reform movement gathers momentum, teachers unions are giving no quarter in their massive resistance against states trying to shake up failing public education...

New state tests were given across New Jersey on Monday amid controversy and a growing test refusal movement that overshadowed what state education officials said was intended to be a boon to learning and instruction in schools.

Yet, in spite of all of the drama that has occurred in the time since the ruling, a number of individuals — from parents to politicians to members of the media — have inexplicably opined in letters - to - the - editor, blog posts and the like that the fateful decision made by four of the seven justices on the State Supreme Court would not hurt the charter school movement in Georgia nor stifle the progress that has been made to give parents and students quality public school choice options.

«Teacher evaluation will soon be in a state of flux given that the grand scheme to use teacher evaluation to «weed out» ineffective teachers and «reward» effective teachers has simply not worked because the movement was solely focused on measuring teachers as opposed to helping them grow.

Chevrolet, Volkswagen, Toyota Mini Cooper, Scion, State Farm all joined in on the selfie movement and gave people the option of taking them and sharing on social media, which enters them to win prizes.

In a statement, the leader of one of the first exhibitions as part of the Resistance movement lists the aspects of life and culture that have been attacked and compromised under the Trump administration, and states they will not give up.

Written at the dawn of the Civil Rights movement in the United States, Baldwin's Stranger in the Village gives an account of the author's own experience as the first African - American to visit a remote Swiss village in 1951, taking the xenophobic reaction that his arrival triggered in the villagers as a metaphor for the history of race relations, colonialism and national identity.

«Given the state of U.S. politics today, climate action is entirely dependent on Democrats, With a Democrat in the White House, we got some movement through executive action; if Democrats eventually regain the House, there could be more.

NOWHERE do they talk about AIR PRESSURE, vertical air movement is once mentioned where they state that water vapour rises etc.; no explanation is given whether or not the barometric equation is used (it is, in the models; it assumes hydrostasis and we KNOW that the atmosphere is not hydrostatic!)

Given that corporations are capable of exerting so much control over US Federal and state government (hence the 99 % movement) in so many ways, it is remarkable indeed how the Republican Party, traditionally the party of business, can slide along without recognizing the risk climate poses to business.

«to take the opportunity afforded by these two references to give clear and structured guidance as to the circumstances in which the third country national family member of an EU citizen who is residing in his home Member State but who is exercising his rights of free movement can claim a derived right of residence in the home Member State under EU law.»

10) For the purposes of the free movement of judgments, judgments given in a Member State bound by this Regulation should be recognised and enforced in another Member State bound by this Regulation, even if the judgment debtor is domiciled in a third State.

Given the CFSP and the internal market for the movement of capital, the Member States used the Union, in particular CFSP instruments and (former Community) regulations, to comply with those obligations.

The Court of Appeal in R (on the application of Low) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] 2 C.M.L.R. 34 [2010] I.C.R. 755 [2010] EWCA Civ 4 has given an important judgment holding that companies established in the European Union can not rely on the free movement of services provisions in Article 56 -LSB-...]

Given the movement to cut workers» compensation benefits in many states, a third - party claim may be critical to achieving full financial recovery from a devastating work injury.

This means that in some states, the state is definitely infringing upon the freedom of movement and infringing upon peoples liberty because their laws conflict with the federal definition that @Jaybird1966: disqus gave above therefore, conflicting with federal law.

(26) After a period of 10 years spent on the territory of that State, the links between the Union citizen who has exercised his freedom of movement and that State are presumed to be close, to the point that they give that citizen the feeling that he is an integral part of the society of that State, and that, let us remember, is in order to promote social cohesion, which is one of the fundamental objectives of the Union.

The free movement rules currently give EU nationals the right to live and work in other member states.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sparked the conscience of the nation as he courageously and selflessly gave direction to the early civil rights movement in the United States.