Sentences with phrase «previous administrations in the state»

The governor held that the legacies that he is leaving behind in the state surpasses what previous administrations in the state especially the seven and a half years disaster the PDP meted on the state.

Not exact matches

Threatening to leave NAFTA altogether may be the administration's preferred tactic to force Canada and Mexico's hand, but — as discussed in a previous commentary — Trump probably does not have the political support in Congress and at the state level to pull the U.S. out.

Finally toward the end of my first day in Office as the President of the United States, I will use Executive Orders and repeal anything that smells of decency and humanity from the previous sinful Administrations.

My attention has been drawn to a video which captures the Member of Parliament for Dome / Kwabenya, Deputy Majority Leader and Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Public Procurement, the Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo claiming in the said video that the Community Senior High School constructed and commissioned in her constituency during the tenure of President John Dramani Mahama was as a result of her personal intervention with the World Bank, that the Senior High School was not from the then NDC Government and that with the exception of the Dome / Kwabenya Senior High School project, all the other schools constructed during the previous NDC administration were executed in NDC strongholds.

In one of your examples, prior to Hillary Clinton's confirmation the Acting Secretary of State was William Burns, previously the Deputy Secretary of State under the previous administration.

In the interim however, State Governors have continued to appeal for release of payment on the grounds of fairness because some States had already received refunds under previous administrations.

Over the weekend, Rangel blasted President Obama for his commitment to the war in Iraq, arguing that his motivation for U.S. involvement in the war matched that of the previous administration - to secure more oil for the United States.

The criticism sprayed in your recent editorial («Gov. Cuomo's proposed budget keeps the spending train rolling,» March 2, 2018) ignores the unarguable fact that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's record on state spending outshines any previous administration.

His signs loan contracts on behalf of the state, his daughters, brother and nephews have taken over the oil industry, his nephew has been offered of lucrative contract to review all contracts signed under the previous administration, his former wife appointed appointed an ambassador, his «Nigerian in laws» have been offered juicy contracts etc..

After spending exactly one month in office, Cuomo has made a number of agency appointments, but he has not yet replaced all the holdovers from the previous administration (s) in the upper echelons of state government.

And it is unclear whether the Empire State Development (ESD) corporation, an entity of the Cuomo administration, will provide the bulk of the necessary funds by the deadline, as was laid out in previous public documents.

The National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has accused the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo - Addo, of peddling falsehood about the state of the economy he inherited from the previous administration According to Kofi Adams, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government took over the most stable economy of any administration in the fourth republic.

It will be recalled that pregnant women and their children below 5 years enjoyed free medical services under Previous administration of Olusegun Mimiko in the state.

The state government in reference to the previous administration said Dr. Bukola Saraki obtained a N17b bond in 2009 to fund major infrastructure projects in the state which was paid off in August 2013.

Yet - to - be sworn - in Special Prosecutor, Martin A.B.K. Amidu has stated that public officials in the current and previous administrations do not have to go into hiding if they have not engaged in corruption or any corruption - related activities.

El - Rufai stated that the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari had restructured governance in practical terms more than the previous governments.

According to the state, the previous administration had contracted an Israeli company, NSO Group Technology Limited, to supply a listening equipment at a cost of $ 6 million to enable the authorities to monitor conversations of persons suspected to be engaged in terror activities.

The report from the budget office, a arm of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration, released late, found the state faces a gap of $ 1.7 billion if spending increases remain capped at 2 percent as they have in previous years.

«On assumption of office in 2010, the terrible status of the state's treasury propelled us to go for borrowing to bring to our people the required infrastructural facility which they had been deprived in the previous administration.

The Cuomo administration has set April 24 as the date for the special election, in which state Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, a Democrat, is vying for the Senate's 37th District seat against either Dan Schorr, a former prosecutor in Westchester and New York City and previous Yonkers inspector general, or Sarmad Khojasteh, a commercial litigation attorney from the town of Bedford, both Republicans.

There are also worrisome reports of fresh kidnap of dozens of girls and burning of buildings in Bam Village of Yobe State; reported missing and fleeing soldiers in Galtumari town in Borno State; destruction of military base in Gulak, Adamawa and media allegations that terrorists snatched military trucks, artillery guns that were bought by the previous administration.

Also speaking on the state of non-functional CHPS compounds in the country, Alex Segbefia conceded that the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration should be held responsible for some of the abandoned facilities.

Wilber produced copies of correspondence with the state comptroller's office from 2000, his first year in office, that demonstrated, he said, that he took prompt action to correct accounting deficiencies in the town's finances that occurred under the previous administration.

The overall passing rate for prospective teachers in Massachusetts improved on the third administration of the state's controversial licensing test over the previous round, but not by much.

Manuel, Washington Post - «How Gates Pulled Off The Swift Common Core Revolution»»... Bill Gates was de facto organizer, providing the money and structure for states to work together on common standards in a way that avoided the usual collision between states» rights and national interests that had undercut every previous effort, dating from the Eisenhower administration... The Gates Foundation spread money across the political spectrum, to entities including the big teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers... Read More

In Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Wolf's administration recently cancelled a charter school's pre-k program, saying state law prohibits charter schools from offering pre-k and the school was only allowed to offer pre-k due to an «oversight in the chartering process during the previous administration.&raquIn Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Wolf's administration recently cancelled a charter school's pre-k program, saying state law prohibits charter schools from offering pre-k and the school was only allowed to offer pre-k due to an «oversight in the chartering process during the previous administration.&raquin the chartering process during the previous administration.»

Following similar action in the House of Representatives, the United States Senate voted today to pass a resolution under the Congressional Review Act to repeal the final regulations issued by the previous administration regarding implementation of school accountability and improvement systems, data reporting, and consolidated state plans required by the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA.

Though it was in the previous administration, the Department has withheld funds from a state for not adhering to federal rules on testing.)

Because annual state testing is still obligatory under ESSA, and the vast majority of states are still using the Common Core, the only news story worth emphasizing related to this issue is that congressional «spending committees have generally ignored the Trump blueprint»: the president's lack of influence at present means that non-rich Americans have no practical means of avoiding sticking with the status quo of the two previous administrations, a test - based accountability strategy that has here been no more effective in promoting social mobility than it has in its original setting, Margaret Thatcher's Britain.

But despite the previous confidence that the Malloy Administration had in Connecticut's standardized testing program, the Connecticut Post is now reporting that due to human error, test results were reported incorrectly last year and that, «The Department hired Blum Shapiro, an auditing firm, to look at the state's calculations and processes relating to test data and accountability.»

Duncan's announcement comes in the wake of mounting pressure to address the timing misalignment among the implementation of the Common Core standards, the ongoing administration of old state tests aligned to previous standards, and teacher evaluation requirements that straddled the two.

This proposal would aim to block states from passing laws intending to regulate student loan servicers.According to Mick Mulvaney, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the previous administration was overzealous in its...

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.&raquin a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.&raquIn what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.&raquin the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.&raquin the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.&raquin both wealthy and poor countries.»

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released data this week showing that United States coal exports hit a record 126 million short tons in 2012, a 17 percent increase over the previous year.