Sentences with phrase «over local government policy»

Miner is a former state Democratic Committee co-chair who departed the role after a public disagreement with Gov. Andrew Cuomo over local government policy.

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Night inched its way over Charlotte and the local government called off their citywide midnight curfew and arrest policy.

For local policy geeks, yesterday's debate over government consolidation was the Ali - Frazier of Syracuse.

Miner, a former state Democratic Committee co-chairwoman, has been a critic of the governor over the years when it comes to local government policy.

The press release touts Jenkins as someone with «over a dozen years of experience in local and national politics, government administration and public policy» and also makes mention of his two consulting firms: Patrick B. Jenkins and Associates (opened in 2008) and Distinctive Public Affairs (co-founded with MarySol Rodriguez).

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo raises the possibility of an «extender» budget blamed on federal government - level uncertainty over potential cuts in spending to the state, the Fiscal Policy Institute has released a report examining the impact of D.C. aid to New York state and local governments.

The Welsh Lib Dem team have been furiously trying to convince voters that the local elections are not a good time to be influenced by events in Westminster, for fear of a backlash over Nick Clegg's support for Tory - led government policies.

Araoye, who said over 2,500 elders had benefited from the programme across the six local governments in the senatorial district, described the policy as a re-enactment of Fayemi's Social Security Scheme, where 25,000 people above 65 were paid N5, 000 per month.

Lucy Anderson from the National Policy Forum said Labour must seek to re-establish a form of local authority control over schools and Heather Wakefield from UNISON said that local government has been the biggest victim of the coalition's austerity binge and that, with privatisation, huge amounts of public funds were wasted when local government contracted out public services.

If not for outside analysts like the Empire Center for New York State Policy, taxpayers wouldn't know that state and local governments could rack up an estimated $ 5.3 billion in debt over the next three years.

The proposal says local government administrators should be allowed to manage their own accounts as against the existing policy in which governors exert powers over allocations to local government areas.

I would welcome the appointment of Eric Pickles as chairman of the party, as I think he is an excellent campaign strategist - but more importantly because it would get him away from areas of policy formation in the field of local government where I believe that, despite his apparent experience, he has been too focussed on areas which appeal to the tabloid newspapers and has not fought hard enough over important issues such as local government powers and planning.

While state governments have had a heavy hand in teacher preparation, licensure, and certification policy for over a century (American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, 1990; Hawley, 1990), states have traditionally delegated teacher tenure and evaluation policy to localities, often in conjunction with local collective bargaining units (Ballou, 2000; Cohen - Vogel & Osborne - Lampkin, 2007; Hannaway & Rotherham, 2006; Hungerford & Blom, 2014; Strunk, 2012).

That means putting students over special interests, expanding access to high - performing schools, empowering parents and loosening the federal government's grip on education policy decisions that are better left to local officials.

As a leader with more than 25 years» experience working in education and government, she currently oversees public policy related to teacher preparation and licensing and directs an agency that awards over 250,000 credentials per year and accredits more than 250 colleges, universities, and local education agencies offering educator preparation programs.

But state and local governments still have a lot of control over education policy.

Over these past two years, we have shined a hot lamp on the problem — political handwringing, using yesterday's funding levels to solve tomorrow's challenges, expecting state and local governments to place big bets when the national government won't make long - term commitments, and applying 20th century policy to a 21st century context.

With the implementation of encouragement policies by the central and local governments, China is expected to have over 10 million units of clean - energy vehicles by year 2020, the largest number in the world.

This new report by Forest Trends and IDESAM (Instituto de Conservação e Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Amazônia) shows that over US$ 2.2 billion in REDD + funds have been used by Brazil to implement deforestation policies and recommends that more finance should go directly to the stakeholders who are implementing the deforestation policies, in particular subnational governments, indigenous peoples, farmers and local communities of the Amazon.

A new report «Mapping REDD + and Land Use Financial Flows in Brazil» by research organizations Forest Trends and IDESAM shows how over US$ 2.2 billion in REDD + funds have been used by Brazil to implement deforestation policies, and highlights new ways to make these investments more effective at reducing emissions, including by making payments directly available to the stakeholders who are implementing the deforestation policies such as subnational governments, farmers, local communities and indigenous Peoples of the Amazon.

Still, despite the concerns over investor protection by the FSC, several sources within the government told The Korea Times that local financial authorities are attempting to authorize domestic ICOs by enabling strict Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) systems, as well as a taxation policy for investors.

The monitoring of child development and well - being over time and across the whole population enables local communities to determine if they are making improvements and fosters the relative comparison of communities and populations subgroups.19 This commitment to tracking and reporting early childhood outcomes across the entire population, underlines the federal government's leadership role in providing communities and governments with evidence - based information for policy and service evaluation.

The report finds that 45 % of English local authorities have still not published a policy over five months after the deadline in the Government's Statutory family and friends care guidance.

Yet only 19 out of 32 London local authorities have published a family and friends care policy on their website their family, over 18 months after the deadline set in the statutory government guidance on family and friends care.

More than 40 per cent of English local authorities still do not have a family and friends care policy, over seven months after the Government's deadline.

Over the last decade, the Scottish Government and local authorities have supported the introduction of a range of legislation, policies and interventions focused on improving parenting capacity through the delivery of parenting support and education (Hutton et al. 2008).