Sentences with phrase «passed at the initiative»

The HCRA was passed at the initiative of Governor George Pataki to replace the system of State - regulated payments to hospitals with a more competitive strategy that encouraged negotiations between the institutions and insurers and promoted the use of managed care organizations for the Medicaid population.

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Further, after the emergency has passed, these communities are often displaced or left out of rebuilding initiatives as developers and corporations use the destruction as an opening for permanent displacement of the people who live there and launch rebuilding initiatives aimed at turning a profit and privatizing public services.

in the goodness and idealism and faith of the American people... I ask you to pass both my faith - based initiative and the Citizen Service Act, to encourage acts of compassion that can transform America one heart and one soul at a time» (emphasis added).

For example, California recently passed an initiative aimed at reducing carbon emissions that require over-the-road logistics firms to utilize newer - model trucks with emission - control systems.

Bills that automatically expire at a given date must be passed to reauthorize and re-fund those initiatives usually require Democrats to gather majorities to do so.

Not in California, at least judging from the battle waged over the internet to pass Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in that state: The ProtectMarriage.com coalition used the Web to fuel fundraising, volunteerism, and voter...

«The Independence Party of New York firmly believes that this is the path expanded gambling should take and as an example of our commitment to this initiative unanimously passed the enclosed resolution at the aforesaid meeting,» MacKay wrote.

Brown's new initiatives for lead in drinking water testing come one day after the Buffalo Common Council passed legislation aimed at addressing chipping and peeling lead paint hazards in rental units following two years of reporting by Investigative Post on Buffalo's serious lead poisoning problem.

He is currently embroiled in an all - out campaign to pass four ballot initiatives in a special election on Nov. 8 — none of which is ahead in the polls at the moment.

«It was comprehensive in a way that covered almost the entire state when you look at all the initiatives that were passed,» the governor said at a press conference in the Capitol's Red Room.

«If the ballot initiative passes, it would mark a turning point for public activism in the United States,» says Charles Benbrook, chief science consultant at the Organic Center, an organic farming advocacy group in Troy, Oregon.

In 2001, overwhelming bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress passed NCLB, a key initiative of the George W. Bush administration at a time when partisanship had been suppressed by the 9/11 tragedy.

At a hearing of the House Early Childhood, Youth, and Families Subcommittee, Mr. Gingrich said his goals for the year are to pass three separate choice initiatives.

If legislation voiding the state's current academic standards passes, Indiana will be the first state to exit the Common Core initiative and write its own expectations for what students should know and learn at each grade level.

Spokane Public Schools Superintendent Shelley Redinger, who facilitated a charter while superintendent at an Oregon school district, announced as soon as the initiative passed that she wanted a charter school in the district.

The Biltmore Elementary staff and community members were excited at the PASS kickoff when Principal Sabrina Session Jones shared an excellent PowerPoint presentation providing PASS plan focus areas to support student achievement initiatives at the school.

OGDEN — The Weber School District is looking at renovations, building a new junior high school and three elementary schools should a bond initiative pass this fall.

The final reports from Bridgeport's November 2012 education reform referendum are in and it turns out that the corporate education reform industry and its supporters spent at least $ 562,955.16 in their effort to pass Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch's anti-democracy initiative, a proposal that would have eliminated the City's democratically elected board of education and replaced it with one appointed by the mayor.

At the state policy level, 46 states have adopted leadership standards for principals, and many have begun aligning them to all components of a school leader's career continuum.125 In addition, recently more than half of states, through a mix of state and federal initiatives, have passed laws to strengthen the evaluation process for principals.3 AAnd under the federal Race to the Top grant, states such as Louisiana and Rhode Island implemented new requirements for principal preparation programs.

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This is part of Microsoft's new initiative to offer first - party titles on Xbox Game Pass at launch.

When Microsoft launched their Xbox Game Pass initiative, the subscription service was originally designed for gamers to access a wide library of older games at a low monthly rate.

He spent about $ 50 million in an unsuccessful effort to pass Proposition 87, the November ballot initiative aimed at taxing oil companies to fund alternative energy initiatives.

At this point, the members of the Federation will discuss the issue at a meeting next month, and then the initiative passes to the law societies in the provinces and territories, who will be mulling over what rule would be best in the interests of the public, clients and the professioAt this point, the members of the Federation will discuss the issue at a meeting next month, and then the initiative passes to the law societies in the provinces and territories, who will be mulling over what rule would be best in the interests of the public, clients and the professioat a meeting next month, and then the initiative passes to the law societies in the provinces and territories, who will be mulling over what rule would be best in the interests of the public, clients and the profession.

by SAM DILLON Tucked away in an $ 87 billion higher education bill that passed the House last week was a broad new federal initiative aimed not at benefiting college students, but at raising quality in the early...