Sentences with phrase «number of policy proposals»

(Recall that Cuomo has said his first priority during the transition is «talent, talent, talent,» noting that he has already laid out a considerable number of policy proposals in his seven - book campaign library.

ALBANY — With the April 1 state budget deadline in their sights, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have been closing in on a deal this week, but it is likely to exclude a number of the policy proposals the governor originally demanded.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa said in a joint statement that Cuomo's State of the State address «contains a number of policy proposals that will help New York's students in important ways, including focusing resources on at - risk students and schools with the greatest needs.»

The governor jettisoned a large number of policy proposals he had hoped to yoke to the state budget, amid resistance from legislators.

«Governor Cuomo's State of the State address contains a number of policy proposals that will help New York's students in important ways, including focusing resources on at - risk students and schools with the greatest needs.

Not exact matches

Second, the Liberals have made a number of major policy proposals with respect to environmental policy, although little detail has been provided and most of the proposals have not been costed.

Insisting that what is important is not the amount of aid but its quality (a point of agreement with Edwards), Lancaster makes a number of sensible proposals for reform which are mainly of interest to specialists, and certainly grist for policy mills inside the Washington beltway.

So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

The Manhattan group is also reluctant to join the convention campaign because it has alliances on its broader policy agenda with a number of groups that actively oppose Proposal 1.

A number of Tory MPs favouring free market policies, including some at senior ministerial level, feel the plan is far too interventionist for a Conservative government, and are aiming to water down the proposal in the next parliament.

Mayor de Blasio has offered a number of proposals with great fanfare, but so far his policies have failed to deliver real results.

Iain McLean, in reviewing the report, argues policy - makers should revisit a proposal which was explicitly ruled out of the commission's terms of reference and would see a reduction in the numbers — though not the powers — of MPs from devolved territories in the way that applied to Northern Ireland between 1922 and 1979.

«The number of programs and proposals is likely to grow because free - tuition programs meet several policy priorities of governments, including increasing higher education participation rates to cultivate a trained workforce while maintaining affordability,» the report found.

Senior members of the party want Mr Cameron to announce a number of new policy proposals in the new year as a way of taking the electorate's focus away from the economy, over which he has appeared weak when compared to Gordon Brown in recent polls.

Now, both Silver and Skelos are staking out their positions in advance of the unveiling of the 2015 - 16 budget proposal, which is expected to include a number of changes to the state's education policy.

Since then, she has co-chaired his transtition committee, become a NYPA trustee and been a staunch advocate for a number of his policies, including his controversial pension smoothing proposal that has caused so much friction between Cuomo and his hand - picked state Democratic Party co-chair, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

Bobbie Sackman, director of public policy at LiveON NY, a senior citizen advocacy organization, said the Cuomo proposal would lead to a cut in the number of meals served to the city's aging population as well as a reduction in services, including social activities, eviction assistance and help with health care.

De Blasio and many others have complimented some of Cuomo's many policy proposals, but are eager to see what the budget numbers look like.

«This proposal threatens to dramatically increase the number of New Yorkers at risk of going hungry,» said Ron Deutsch, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute.

That is the reason that a number of people will not referee proposals while this policy is in place,» he e-mailed ScienceInsider.

► On Thursday, ScienceInsider reported that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has abandoned its long - time policy of limiting the number of resubmissions of the same grant proposal.

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Mayor de Blasio has offered a number of proposals with great fanfare, but so far his policies have failed to deliver real results.

Not if the objective is to add Minnesota to the growing number of states where new Republican majorities have sparked a wave of policy proposals that would affect public - sector unions.

As is the case with the election as a whole, both party platforms offer specific proposals related to immigration policy but provide few details on what their party believes to be the best strategy for supporting the large and growing number of ELLs who are in U.S. schools.

Following her appointment as secretary of state for education, Justine Greening moved to scrap a number of policies, including forced SATs resits for 11 - year - olds and proposals to force schools to academise.

During the Forum — and in response to the demands for information, training, technical and policy advice, and financial assistance by an increasing number of cities, ICLEI and RUAF Foundation, launched the proposal for setting up a CITYFOOD network on resilient city - region food systems and urban agriculture.

If that is the case, here is the problem: existing policy proposals do not, as far as I know, supply even «fuzzy» benefits — something like (don't pick on the numbers — I pulled them out of my nether region as an example only): Best case: RCP8.5, TCS 6.0, estimated reduced warming: 5C GMST by 2100 Worst case: RCP2.0, TCS 1.4, estimated reduced warming: 0.2 C GMST by 2100 Estimated costs per 1C increase in GMST: $ 150B p.a.

To this end, a number of SRM governance proposals will be tested against a range of «Climate Response in 2030» scenarios constructed by a multi-disciplinary group of participants consisting of a core group of 10 - 12 researchers from multiple disciplines, practitioners from policy and NGO backgrounds, and a revolving set of figures external to the SRM research community.

The Washington and Oregon legislatures are considering a number of important clean energy and climate policies, including proposals that would levy a charge on fossil fuel suppliers to fund investments in solutions to the climate crisis.

Specifically, a report (undated) prepared by the Policy Secretariat, «Unbundling» of Legal Services and Limited Legal Representation, [PDF] has made a number of proposals for change in the rules governing lawyers and paralegals, and the law society invites responses to these.

This Chapter explores some of the themes and assumptions underlying the National Indigenous Council's Principles for Land Tenure (NIC Principles) as outlined in Chapter 1 and suggests a number of factors and features of land that policy makers and traditional owners / claimants ought to consider in any proposal to promote and foster economic development on Indigenous lands.

A number of general principles are embodied in this proposal, with negative consequences for housing and real estate measured against present policy.