Sentences with phrase «other agenda items»

Several other agenda items were postponed, including one from Mónica Ratliff that called for more transparency in the operations of charter schools.

According to an article in the LA School Report, Steve Zimmer, Monica Ratliff and Monica Garcia worked to ensure charter parents do not sit for hours waiting to make their case for a charter renewal amidst 50 other agenda items.

He insisted for months that he would veto lines that were gerrymandered, but in the end let stand the products of legislative electioneering in exchange for a slew of other agenda items and a constitutional amendment that somewhat wrested the redistricting pen from legislators» hands.

Other agenda items included the ECIDA s» 2016 Operating Capital Budget, which passed in a unanimous Board vote.

A Morrow Sodali survey finds that 68 percent of institutional investor respondents cite as highly important «the quality and completeness of [a company's] disclosures on business strategy and issues of material importance» when making voting decisions on director elections and other agenda items.

Negotiations look set to be fraught, as Republicans and Democrats alike will attempt to resolve a series of legislative issues by attaching other agenda items to the must - pass bill.

Not exact matches

Other key Democratic - leaning interest groups were knocking at the President's door with agenda items for him to act on after he was elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012.

on his ability to push through other items on his agenda, such as tax reform, infrastructure spending and deregulation — the promise of which has helped propel stocks upward since his election.

This list is not exhaustive, but it need not be so; more important than any one of the specific items above is the general principle that crafting a reasonable agenda for dialogue requires a commitment to allowing the other party to define itself on its own terms.

Relationships with those of other faiths should not be items added on to the Christian agenda but ought to be at the heart of much of our mission efforts.

Additionally, you can devote 10 minutes at the end of the meeting to an agenda item labeled «Other» to address issues that come up.

Is it that libertarians prioritize that one particular agenda item over all their others?

While this agenda item must compete with those of various other agencies and advocacy organizations jockeying for program funding at the end of the budget season, the potential risks of shuttering nonprofits could be particularly devastating across the city, as has been demonstrated recently.

Kallos says he recognizes that the mayor hasn't been able to prioritize election reform over other items on his agenda.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders essentially drove a dagger through the other items Friday, listing only an immigration bill when asked to lay out the White House's 2018 legislative agenda.

It was largely comprised of staffers from the AG's office, enthusiastic volunteers and a number of veterans of Cuomo I — in other words, the administration of former Gov. Mario Cuomo, who was, of course, on hand to hear his son declare con - con — his father's pet project — to be a major agenda item.

«If you add up the Tappan Zee Bridge, the LaGuardia (airport), Penn Station and all the other capital projects he had in that budget, and then you say we've got a record - breaking $ 22 billion for the state of New York for infrastructure, that isn't even (the value of) one of the projects that he mentioned for downstate,» said the Syracuse - area lawmaker, referring to some of the other big - ticket infrastructure items on Cuomo's agenda.

The Electoral Reform Society will be keeping tabs on how issues like Boundary Changes interact with other items on the Government's reform agenda, and their implications for voters.

«It is a very important committee because the administration itself is committed to ensuring that we are able to deal with not only with question of corruption which is a big item on our agenda but also other economic crimes, terrorism which has assumed different shapes and proportions of late,» he said.

He added that Republicans in the conference want to move forward with their agenda in the post-budget session, which had very few substantive to - do items, other than preserve the state's property tax cap.

Republicans have sought to turn the women's agenda issue around on Democrats, saying their insistence of passing the full package has prevented other items that stand of chance of becoming law from being approved.

«To further our unity solution for the New York State Senate and define each other's position, there is no doubt all Democrats agree that a united Democratic delegation will take up a progressive agenda including such items as the Dream Act, GENDA, single payer healthcare, the Reproductive Health Act, campaign finance reform, the Contraceptive Care Act among other progressive initiatives that have been, or may be advanced.

Among the items on the agenda: dividing up money to boost Tourism; calling on the state to fund its mandated pay increase for the District Attorney — as many other counties including Cortland are doing.

But with the two - month extender in place, «it's all running, it's all in place,» he said — even if many other budget items and high - profile agenda items like raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 were left unresolved.

«Among other items, the agenda will include a revised version of the Education, Labor and Family Assistance Article VII bill that I was forced to veto earlier this year to prevent an unaffordable increase in school aid, an appropriation bill to authorize distribution of $ 607 million in federal Education Jobs Fund money to school districts, and necessary legislation to reorganize the New York City Off - Track Betting Corporation.»

We wish to invite Nana Addo to give serious consideration to the other eight items on our ten (10) point agenda since the PPP has become a new source of inspiration for the NPP's policy direction.

Miller said that while NARAL NY continues to support the other nine agenda items, her organization needs to marshal its energies for the coming battle.

During the interview, Camara stressed Cuomo's past and ongoing support for other items on the Caucus» agenda, and portrayed the Independent Democratic Conference as the principal stumbling block.

Appearing at the Pierce Arrow Museum, Clinton promoted an agenda that includes student debt relief, tax credits for American - based manufacturing and affordable health care, among other items.

New Yorkers also gave a thumbs up to other items on the governor's agenda, including the raising the minimum wage, at 83 % to 15 %, and public financing of political campaigns at 59 % to 36 %.

Cuomo has tried to salvage his women's agenda, asking the state Assembly to come back for a special session to act on the other items in the package that do not include abortion rights that the Senate already passed.

Education, of course, must compete with other items on Obama's ambitious agenda, as well as with erupting crises that will inevitably distract the White House.

How widespread is teacher opposition to rigorous teacher evaluations, school accountability, teacher pension reform, merit pay, charter schools, school vouchers, and other items on the reform agenda?

To arrive at this conclusion, she excludes the value of medical programs and other government services, the very items that later become part of her policy agenda.

Amid the budget items, special projects, hiring issues, and other typical topics, students were on the agenda.

There's reason, alas, to suspect that the center isn't holding, even among those who have favored charter schools, and certainly among those who have differing views on a host of other items that have been prominent on the reform agenda.

The other big item on Cuomo's agenda was the elimination of rules that force school administrators to lay off teachers in order of seniority, regardless of student need.

Agenda items can include school policies, budgets, legislation, goal - setting, student outcomes and other important topics.

Couched in concerns over Duncan's «failed agenda focused on more high - stakes testing, grading and pitting public school students against each other based on test scores,» the item was introduced at the behest of the California Teachers Association.

This year, more than two dozen paid lobbyists are running around the State Capitol and Legislative Office Building working to divert more money to charter schools, while supporting the Common Core SBAC testing scam and other «education reform» agenda items.

On behalf of parents of public school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board of Education Committee meeting to review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner of Education and other State Department of Education staff as they relate to the issue of a parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local school districts should deal with children whose parents have opted them out of the SBAC testing.

One of the main agenda items on Tuesday, the eve of the trade show, is The Markets, a conference that's been reconfigured for a half - day program to let attendees get to other events during the day.

A major item on our agenda this year will be to require that abusers handle the «costs of care» for the animals rescued from dogfighting, cockfighting, and other cases of cruelty — rather than placing the financial burden on animal protection groups.

The IPCC's own «background» material on this «Other Business» agenda item (billed as «Potential Study of the IPCC Process») contains somewhat more detail than can be found in either Hulme & Mahony's (self - serving?!)

The other key agenda item for Alec's meeting this week is the EPA.

COP10 had barely opened when the US proposed to delete agenda items which welcomed input from other international negotiations (the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island States, the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, and the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development) with the clear motivation of blocking any dangerously proliferating discussion of the impacts of climate change.

Eventually, the book concludes that five last items remain on the EU's human rights agenda even after accession: the proper implementation of the accession agreement, a re-evaluation of the ECHR's impact on the EU legal order, the allocation of responsibility in the EU's multilevel governance system, engagement with other international human rights initiatives, and the protection of fundamental rights through positive measures (Bruno de Witte).

Your tasks are the items you've added to your agenda or those added by others in your firm.

Other items on the conference agenda: what crimes were committed, where might they be prosecuted, and who will coordinate all this.

Other items on his agenda included having all local cryptocurrency exchanges and services register with the government and also abide by the Know - Your - Customer requirements by the end of 2019.