Sentences with phrase «now for the public advocate»

The goal right now for the Public Advocate is to study the issue of legalizing marijuana in addition to the complicated process of expungement which is something she will be doing with Governor Cuomo's office.

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«Folks from all over this city — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he said.

Neither John DiIulio, who now heads the White House Office of Faith - Based and Community Initiatives, nor Stephen Goldsmith, the former Indianapolis mayor who will lead the Corporation for National Service, has ever argued for total privatization of community development and social services, though both strongly advocate a new mix of public and private in which congregations figure more prominently.

For the first time ever, a complete global overview of policies supporting organic agriculture has been compiled, and tools for advocates and policy - makers are now available in the «Global Policy Toolkit on Public Support to Organic Agriculture&raquFor the first time ever, a complete global overview of policies supporting organic agriculture has been compiled, and tools for advocates and policy - makers are now available in the «Global Policy Toolkit on Public Support to Organic Agriculture&raqufor advocates and policy - makers are now available in the «Global Policy Toolkit on Public Support to Organic Agriculture».

Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is procured.

NEW YORK — Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Public Advocate Leticia James today announced that lunch is now free for every student at every public school across New YorkPublic Advocate Leticia James today announced that lunch is now free for every student at every public school across New Yorkpublic school across New York City.

NEW YORK — Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Public Advocate Letitia James today announced that lunch is now free for every student at every public school across New YorkPublic Advocate Letitia James today announced that lunch is now free for every student at every public school across New Yorkpublic school across New York City.

Now that she has taken herself out of the running to be considered as an interim replacement for Schneiderman, NYC Public Advocate Tish James is seen as a front - runner heading into the May 23 - 24 state Democratic nominating convention that will choose candidates to appear on the ballot for a full four - year term.

Other potential Democratic candidates include real estate mogul Don Peebles, NYC comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Letitia James, Brooklyn Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, and Christine Quinn, the former council speaker now working for Gov. Cuomo.

Now comes word that Cuomo «convinced» Public Advocate Letitia James to forgo the WFP's endorsement for attorney general or risk losing his support when the Democratic State Committee picks its candidate slate next week.

State Senator Daniel Squadron, now running for Public Advocate, has doggedly advocated on behalf of a little - known cause in each of his three terms.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.

With no oversight or subpoena power, «it is clear by now that the public advocate position has just become a taxpayer - funded method to run for mayor of the city of New York,» Sliwa said.

But now, the former congressman is reportedly talking to friends about a 2013 comeback, possibly running for mayor or public advocate and the friends are making the idea public to see how it flies with New Yorkers.

Her warm - up act included several female firsts: State Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the first female legislative conference leader in the New York State, Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, the legislature's first openly lesbian member, and Public Advocate Letitia James, the first woman of color to hold citywide office in New York City, as well as city first lady Chirlane McCray and former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who is now one of the country's best - known advocates for gun control.

«There is motion now in Republican - controlled legislatures to support an amendment,» said Jonah Minkoff - Zern, co-director of the Democracy Is For People campaign at Public Citizen, a nonprofit group that led a coalition of advocates calling on state lawmakers to support an amendment.

For a brief period this week it appeared as though Public Advocate TIsh James had the momentum to become the next state attorney general, but now the picture has grown decidedly more complex.

The public advocate also said she would hire a chief diversity officer for the Department of Education in order to address segregation in city public schools, which she said is more rampant now than it was in the 1960s and the 1970s.

The party usually cross-endorses Democrats; Ms. Richardson is the first candidate to win an office solely on their party line since now - Public Advocate Letitia James won the a special election for City Council in 2003.

«Folks from all over this city — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he said.

They have offices in six cities across the state, and now regularly advocate for an agenda that includes ending the school - to - prison pipeline, increasing funding for community schools and pre-kindergarten programs, and railing against the expansion of privately - run charter school networks, what Easton calls the «privatization» of public education.

«I have been advocating for greater public access to the Internet for many years now and strongly support the goals of this proposal to provide free, public, city - wide WiFi.

As he so often does when asked about fundraising, de Blasio stressed the need for campaign finance reform, advocating for full public financing of elections that would not only pull big moneyed interests out of politics but would also focus, «all that time that goes into fundraising now back into public service.»

Now there is a runoff between a black woman and a white man for public advocate.

We're rolling out new workshops and webinars on topics like Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis (PSHA) and computational seismology, providing enhanced support for student and early - career members, and creating a strong network of advocates for geosciences — more important now than ever before — through our public policy programs in Washington, D.C. Membership is an introduction to a growing and global community preparing for our first joint meeting with the Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission in April 2018.

Now a public advocate for marriage equality, thanks to his «Blue Neighbourhood» music video series highlighting the pressures same - sex couples face, Troye, like a lot of Australia, is embarrassed that we haven't stepped our game up and legalised same - sex marriage.

For example, in 1996 CMU saw the need for charter schools to have representation in the state capitol and with the media, which led to the founding of the Michigan Association of Public School Academies, which now serves as the unified voice for Michigan's charter schools and was a major advocate for removing the cFor example, in 1996 CMU saw the need for charter schools to have representation in the state capitol and with the media, which led to the founding of the Michigan Association of Public School Academies, which now serves as the unified voice for Michigan's charter schools and was a major advocate for removing the cfor charter schools to have representation in the state capitol and with the media, which led to the founding of the Michigan Association of Public School Academies, which now serves as the unified voice for Michigan's charter schools and was a major advocate for removing the cfor Michigan's charter schools and was a major advocate for removing the cfor removing the cap.

The hashtag #OklaEd is used by public education advocates in our state (including our state superintendent, who now seems to be doing a better job at encouraging public education advocates to beg for more money than managing what's given her), the other, #StuVoice, tracked to an organization called Student Voice.

DC School Reform Now is educating, organizing and advocating to build support for public education strategies that prepare kids to become college and career ready.

Sylvia Lazos, policy director at Educate Nevada Now — a program launched by The Rogers Foundation to advocate for improving public education — called Nevada's school choice law «the most radical voucher program in the country.»

Now, we as the public are responsible for consuming this study with much critical caution, while also advocating that others (and helping others to) do the same.

Now, DeVos is President - elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. education secretary, and observers expect her to lessen the federal role in public education and vigorously advocate to expand access to voucher and charter schools in other states just like she has done here.

The New Orleans Advocate: Battle over funding public schools in New Orleans now likely headed for court http://bit.ly/1U7hIjc

Now the Mississippi outreach coordinator for the Washington D.C. - based Black Alliance for Educational Options, Powell crisscrosses the state talking to parent groups and Jackson lawmakers advocating to give parents more options when the public schools — no matter how good they are — fail their child.

Now, we as the public are responsible for consuming this study with critical caution and advocating for our peers and politicians to do the same.

However, Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor has put Connecticut's public school superintendents in an untenable position and now they must choose whether they see their job as carrying out orders from above or serving as the voice and chief advocate for the students, parents, teachers, staff and taxpayers that are part of their school district.

Despite having promised their support for the lawsuit, they are now not only trying to get the case dismissed, but are asking the court to prevent the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding [CCJEF], a broad coalition of towns, schools, parents and public school advocates, from even serving as the plaintiffs in the case.

«Those who really want to end public education as we have it now are now poised to move on different state legislatures with ESA laws similar to Nevada,» said David Sciarra, the executive director of the Education Law Center, a New Jersey group that advocates for equitable school funding and helped organize the legal case against Nevada's voucher program.

Chatham County Schools leaders have now scheduled a special meeting to consider closing schools so teachers can go to Raleigh to advocate for public education.

Public support has risen over the years and there is now bipartisan support across the country advocating for high - quality charter schools.

In fact, a number of organizations join Children Now in calling for the further development and adoption of a Weighted Student Formula concept in 2013, including the ACLU, California School Boards Association, Californians for Justice, Campaign for Quality Education, The Education Trust — West, EdVoice, MALDEF, New Schools Venture Fund, Parent Leadership Action Network, Public Advocates, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, United Ways of California, Youth Together, and many others.

It seems, for now at least, that advocates of using public tax dollars for private schools will wait to fight another day.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been the strongest advocate for those degrees, which are now available (with caveats) at some Texas public colleges.

The public discussion on this issue will be much the poorer for this — both directly because this event is (yet) another reason not to have a serious discussion, but also indirectly because his voice as an advocate of science, once powerful, has now been diminished

Given the public's growing awareness of the spatiotemporal cloud / circulation issue, assumptions such as uniformity are now a deal - breaking problem for advocates of oversimplified models.

The increase in support may reflect the public outreach efforts of advocates and agency officials to list the specific transit improvements that would be funded by congestion pricing (in addition to Tri-State and RPA's borough and regional fact sheets, the Campaign for New York's Future now has fact sheets for individual City Council and State Legislative districts).

Previously known as Bitcoin Jesus and now a vociferous advocate for Bitcoin Cash, Ver has recently advised NAGA Group, a German public fintech company who's about to launch an ICO, to accept Bitcoin Cash and other cryptocurrencies alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Founded in 2007 by Kimberly Wong, Esq., Maternal Mental Health NOW is a volunteer network of over 200 individuals representing more than 50 public, private, and community agencies as well community leaders, research partners and advocates for mothers, infants and families, survivors of maternal depression and affected family members.

«As the leading advocate for home ownership, housing issues and private property rights, the National Association of Realtors ® and our members are committed to keeping housing first on the nation's public policy agenda, because housing and home ownership issues affect all Americans,» said NAR President Ron Phipps, broker - president of Phipps Realty in Warwick, R.I. «Now is the time to «seize the day,» and I am confident that Realtors ® have the strength, wisdom and leadership to shape a bright and positive future for our industry and our nation.»

So the Competition Bureau and all its advocates, including a strong and well - funded lobby group in Ottawa, have proclaimed that what we've been doing in providing an excellent facility for posting listings is now unfair to the public and we must bend or else!