Sentences with phrase «officials felt state»

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It said some officials believed he decided not to come because he felt the arrangements for the visit were too low key, and would instead send Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to open the embassy.

Administration officials have been reluctant to discuss psychological factors in the case, in part because they fear offending or antagonizing the stricken diplomats (many of whom already feel badly treated by the State Department leadership).

Schools may feel like the state is in a generous mood, while municipal officials in the Southland might think Illinois is being downright stingy.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

I don't know if that will happen, but it feels unlikely that Campbell will end up at Ohio State no matter what he does about an official visit.

krieger / minnesota mamaleh: I also have a feeling that the States are a bit overdoing it with safety guidelines and warnings, but new moms are often insecure and can be easily confused with an official statement like that so it is important to keep explaining

(private prison industry is a great example) While there can be corruption by state officials as well, i feel better when public services are non-profit.

Some of the elected officials present at the Equality Day rally — Public Advocate Letitia James and State Senator Liz Krueger — have been vocal in their support of the Working Families Party, though neither chimed in when Brewer expressed her feelings on the Women's Equality Party.

County leaders are feeling the squeeze this year, as are other local government and school district officials, given the allowable growth in the state's cap on property taxes is less than 1 percentage point.

While legislative spokespeople did not immediately offer official comments, the decision to target the Democratic State Committee could blunt the feeling among legislators that the commission is on a witch hunt.

Officials from the company, AbTech Industry, testified under non-prosecution agreements that they felt pressured to raise Adam Skelos» salary as a consultant from $ 4,000 per month to $ 10,000 per month, in order to position the company for future state contracts related to Hurricane Sandy and hydraulic fracturing.

In a question that asks about the job performance of federal, state and local officials, people in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives got the worst numbers, with more than 70 percent of those surveyed feeling their performance is «just fair» or «poor.»

«It was irresistible for state and local officials to say, «Let's pocket that money and use it to replace our contributions so everyone can feel good about it,»» said James Parrott, chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute, a Manhattan - based liberal think tank.

The electoral regulatory body has established a five - member panel of eminent persons to look into the merit and demerit for a new voters» register, but LMVCA feels it is taking forever for the EC to state its official position.

When town officials saw that a state budget proposal would give their counterparts in cities, villages and counties more money for roads, they felt like road kill.

He told Wilson he had no sympathy for state officials who felt stressed, comparing their situation to mothers in Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh who worried about high PFOA levels in their children's blood.

The «what about us» chorus started up almost immediately, particularly from officials in Rochester (hometown of former mayor - turned - LG Bb Duffy), who feel they've been particularly screwed by the state of late and were also reeling from the news of Kodak's likely bankruptcy filing.

Fracking supporters in the Southern Tier felt doubly neglected when, on the same day as the hydrofracking decision, state officials announced they would locate a resort casino marked for the region in the northern Finger Lakes, passing over a proposal to enhance an existing facility at Tioga Downs.

A state official said the taxes from any school or municipal district whose proposed budget feel within the state's tax cap would be combined and measured against income.

No state official would speak that way without feeling empowered to do so from the top.

Bagley said he felt it was important to give state officials a directive to action — not just tell the Ulster County IDA how they felt about PILOTs.

One of the pragmatic reasons the union officials who play such a big role in the WFP's operation wanted to give him its nomination rather than backing an obscure law professor whose lack of name recognition at the time was equaled only by her paucity of funding was that they felt more confident he could produce the 50,000 votes on the WFP line necessary to preserve its spot on the state ballot four years from now.

When pushed, they may find a way: As one official at a recent State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA) event noted, in his state districts and schools felt like they were being pushed off the cliff when online testing was implemented, but in reality, the cliff was only a couple of feet State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA) event noted, in his state districts and schools felt like they were being pushed off the cliff when online testing was implemented, but in reality, the cliff was only a couple of feet state districts and schools felt like they were being pushed off the cliff when online testing was implemented, but in reality, the cliff was only a couple of feet high.

Citing evidence that many of Florida's novice teachers feel ill - prepared for their jobs, Sunshine State officials are proposing a wide range of new requirements for the state's schools of educaState officials are proposing a wide range of new requirements for the state's schools of educastate's schools of education.

Notably, both the GAO and AASA studies reported that local school officials felt compelled to disregard the calls for reform given «the realities of strained federal, state, and local budgets,» and the resulting likelihood of layoffs and other cuts.

It is also unclear why officials felt a need to issue a national regulation requiring all 50 states to rate teacher - preparation programs when research had not reached a consensus that rankings would be practical or useful.

Aside from that issue, Barley said state education officials felt «pretty positive» about the feedback.

When those parents complain to the teachers, and when the teachers say it's because of Common Core and that the Common Core was mandated by some far - away state official (or even the feds, or Bill Gates, or Pearson...), the result is frustration, a feeling of powerlessness, and eventually anger.

In New York City, where $ 300 million in state aid is at stake this year, city officials say they feel confident that they will reach a deal before Cuomo's deadline, and union leaders say constructive discussions are back on track after a nearly monthlong hiatus following Hurricane Sandy.

Many Texas school officials have been advocating to push back standardized testing as they feel that students will not be able to successfully pass the STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) tests.

Meanwhile, state education officials feel that the controversial form of education hasn't been vetted enough to warrant taxpayer money flowing through to a company with mixed reviews.

article, Incredulous: Watching CT Department of Education officials lecture school administrators on how to mislead parents, reported on the incredible meeting in which public officials from Governor Dannel Malloy's State Department of Education lectured a group of school administrators about how to STOP parents from opting their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing scheme and then quickly shut down the meeting when a parent stood up to explain why many people feel so strongly about the significant problems associated with the SBAC testing craze,

White and his attorneys felt the measurements state education officials used to determine which schools were eligible for takeover were «discriminatory.»

Gary Community Schools officials say they felt out of the loop on the Indiana Department of Education's plans to assume management of one of its schools the state labeled as «failing,» reports our partner station Lakeshore Public Radio.

People already are raising concerns that some state officials are too eager to close low - performing schools, expand charters, or intrude into local decision - making — and that schools serving high - poverty communities undoubtedly will feel accountability measures target them for scrutiny.

They felt most disrespected by DeVos (86 percent), the media (61 percent), and state and federal elected officials (59 percent)-- many of whom, no doubt, will pay their «respects» to teachers during this week in their honor.

CEO Sharlonda Buckman says Detroit parents have come to feel «extremely disrespected» by state education officials.

Redelman say there are many who feel state education officials have shut down the conversation about the rules with outside interest groups.

Elected officials and law enforcement in Mississippi felt that this was an overt disregard of the state's segregation laws.

While this already may seem like a lot, make sure to bring any other official documentation that you feel might be relevant, whether you are a U.S. citizen born in the States or abroad.

Hey Gates, since you felt the need to point out that leaning La Nina is not an official ENSO state I feel obliged to point out that neither is La Nada an official ENSO state.

Avangrid feels it has an advantage over the other bidders because it has already filed for permits to build an 800 MW farm with state and federal officials.

[That's] Probably what two Oregon Agriculture Department officials are feeling like as the 2nd discrimination suit in which they were the key actors went against the state, this time a loss of $ 425,000...

One of the more disturbing provisions states that Apple will give your data to any law enforcement authority, government official or third party if they feel it appropriate, necessary or legally required.

«As the state official who will issue and sign up to $ 175 million in general obligation bonds to finance the project, I want to feel comfortable that building the factory will proceed as the Legislature intended, and the Nevada taxpayer is protected.»

«If a very senior official in the United States feels you are not being cooperative, how can we expect that you will be cooperative with us?»

This session will be held at the Child Care Providers Coalition of Kansas Professional Development Event Advocating on behalf of young children and for the field of family child care is an important responsibility, yet oftentimes providers and practitioners don't know where to start, are low on time, or feel uncertain about how to effectively communicate with local, state, and federal officials.