Sentences with phrase «prodded states»

For the most part, though, RTTT just prodded states to promise to plan to make reforms, and even things like lifting charter caps do little good when the problems go much deeper.

Donald Trump is crediting New York's never - ending corruption scandals for prodding the state's ethics agency to investigate his complaint that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman hit up Trump's relatives and associates for campaign contributions while investigating his business school.

Cuomo, however, is prodding state lawmakers to pass stronger ethics measures in the wake of a series of corruption scandals.

A coalition of civil rights advocates sued New Jersey to prod the state to better integrate its public schools.

The (obvious) concern is that, while such participation is technically voluntary, Uncle Sam is deploying potent incentives to prod states into joining.

In addition, Mitchell said, the department also wants to find ways to prod states and local school districts to increase funding.

Federal grant - in - aid conditions should be used to prod states in one of these directions

Federal nudges keep prodding states along in ways that are good for the country.

Fortunately, the new law not only provides unprecedented recognition for the role of principals and prods states to put effective principal recruitment, preparation and on - going professional learning in place, but provides opportunities for states and districts to put in place programs that foster a complete and well - rounded education for all students.

The U.S. Department of Education is contemplating issuing new rules that could prod states to ensure that poor and minority children get access to as many high - quality teachers as their more - advantaged peers.

No Child Left Behind, which President George W. Bush proposed and later signed into law, has been widely criticized for labeling too many schools as failures, narrowing school curricula and prodding states to water down standardized tests.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan would have $ 5 billion under the stimulus bill to back new approaches to improve schools, a fund that could prod states to raise standards and reward top teachers as the Obama administration presides over a massive infusion of federal education aid.

In 1980, a district fiscal crisis that prompted banks to withhold loans from CPS prodded state lawmakers to create the Chicago School Finance Authority to supervise schools.

Not exact matches

The crazy, real - life story of how the CEO of electric - car maker Tesla dazzled, seduced, squeezed, bluffed, manipulated, and prodded his way to epic state incentives to build a massive battery plant in the Nevada desert.

When he prodded (right - handed) Michigan State quarterback Connor Cook to pull his lead elbow (left arm) through in his throwing motion, Whitfield crouched behind the Spartan standout and told him, «Just imagine there's a midget talking shit right here.

But the White House hopes it will set a standard that will prod lawmakers, private employers, and state and local governments to expand their leave policies.

President Bush has stated that he will attend to refugee concerns, and letters to his office could prod him.

Prodded by mothers tired of being asked to adjourn to a bathroom while nursing in a public space, six states have recently passed laws giving a woman the right to breast - feed wherever she «is otherwise authorized to be.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is prodding lawmakers to back first passage of a pair of constitutional amendments that would set term limits for state elected officials and create a full - time Legislature that bans outside income.

Dyster hopes the dispute could prod the Senecas and state to negotiate other issues, including infrastructure and tourism investments by the state in Niagara Falls that could benefit the Senecas» casino.

After being prodded by the state Board of Elections» new enforcement counsel, Republican John Cahill's campaign has made public a poll it commissioned on the race for state attorney general.

It remains to be seen what stick state Democrats would use to prod the IDC to fall in line.

With prodding from the State Senate head, the Arizona - based firm sought contracts from Nassau County for state - financed post-Sandy drainage and waste treatment infrastrucState Senate head, the Arizona - based firm sought contracts from Nassau County for state - financed post-Sandy drainage and waste treatment infrastrucstate - financed post-Sandy drainage and waste treatment infrastructure.

MirRam has used its political relationships before: In 2014, the Daily News reported that the firm's principals prodded its political clients — including New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Manhattan state Sen. Adriano Espaillat and Ferreras - Copeland — to send letters to the Federal Trade Commission slamming Herbalife.

After years of prodding multiple administrations to reduce incarcerations and prison spending, state lawmakers this session took a tougher line with the department, holding up budget requests, passing bills aimed at accountability and setting benchmark targets for releasing more prisoners.

That included patient prodding from Cuomo, with whom — in addition to group sessions — he met with privately in the governor's second - floor office in the state capitol.

The report illustrated the problem by quoting blunt emails: from lobbyists prodding their clients to keep contributing tens of thousands of dollars to lawmakers in a position to approve legislation, because «with the NYS Legislature it is not over until the fat lady sings,» and from one recipient of a state grant complaining that «it was likely over the last 15 years, we had paid [the official]... more than [the official] was now giving us.»

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo controls the MTA and the state Legislature is supposed to provide oversight, Albany has been notably missing in action as riders have endured one disastrous commute after another — even in the face of more regular prodding by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and others.

And Cuomo has benefitted from the help of the Committee to Save New York — a coalition of real estate and business interests that has been compared to a Super PAC on the state level (though the comparisons are little off, considering CSNY registered, after some prodding, as a lobbying organization).

The administration has broken down potential stimulus results state by state and distributed them to supporters in an effort to prod some reluctant lawmakers to back the bill.

In a questionnaire to candidates, the WFP prods legislators to fight Exxon Mobil in exchange for its endorsement, pointing to a probe underway by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office.

Federal officials believe the subsidy program could successfully prod ranchers to put hundreds of billions of gallons of water back into the river and help relieve the shortages plaguing states downstream.

A number of suits challenge the nascent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effort to reduce greenhouse emissions, but the agency has actually been prodded into action by lawyers from states and environmental groups from the other side.

They can prod districts and states to examine their special education policies and practices, potentially identifying ones that unintentionally yield discriminatory results, and shine a light on groups in need of greater early intervention resources.

Similarly, when it came to the idea that the feds needed to force states to act, we wrote «Prodding public sector institutions to set goals, monitor performance, and then reward excellence and address mediocrity has been a signal success for reformers on both the left and the right... Sensibly structured accountability systems encourage self - interested workers to take goals seriously, focus on outcomes, and employ all the levers at their disposal to produce those outcomes.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

States labored for decades to put such standards in place, prodded in 1994 by the federal Goals 2000 Act, then in 2002 by the No Child Left Behind Act, with its insistence on annual testing and consequential accountability.

After years of prodding multiple administrations to reduce incarcerations and prison spending, state lawmakers this session took a tougher line with the department, holding up budget requests, passing bills aimed at accountability and setting benchmark targets for releasing more prisoners.

The promise of federal money has prodded 11 states to revamp their laws to allow for more charter schools, for new plans to remake failing schools, and to create more incentives to attract better teachers.

At the state's prodding, the proportion of students taking Algebra in eighth grade increased 60 percent over the past decade — a significant achievement.

With some prodding from interested researchers and policy advocates, the Department of Education is allowing states to rectify this situation.

Within a few years, however, prodded by the Clinton administration's Goals 2000 program, almost every state was devising its own accountability system.

One must ask, too, whether Perry's Texas experience — plus his towering self - assuredness — would blind him to the droopy reality of more typical states and the prodding and political cover they might need from outside if they're ever to pull up their education socks.

Hopefully, with the President's prodding, Washington will revisit charter schools and at least set up a few pilots around the state to see if they can help students learn.

Two weeks ago, seven members of the 17 - member New York State Board of Regents issued a vigorous dissent (included below) charging that the state's «new and improved» teacher evaluation system, being forced into policy primarily by the state's Schools Chancellor Merryl Tisch, with the support and prodding of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, is not (at all) research based, research supported, or research State Board of Regents issued a vigorous dissent (included below) charging that the state's «new and improved» teacher evaluation system, being forced into policy primarily by the state's Schools Chancellor Merryl Tisch, with the support and prodding of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, is not (at all) research based, research supported, or research state's «new and improved» teacher evaluation system, being forced into policy primarily by the state's Schools Chancellor Merryl Tisch, with the support and prodding of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, is not (at all) research based, research supported, or research state's Schools Chancellor Merryl Tisch, with the support and prodding of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, is not (at all) research based, research supported, or research wise.

After some careful prodding, we figured out Jayna's knowledge was a product of the different approach to teaching her school had recently adopted — including a challenging and diverse reading curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

But as Education secretary, DeVos would likely prod more states to get on board, perhaps dangling millions of dollars in federal grants as an incentive.

States, cities and counties, prodded by the White House and impatient politicians, are pushing ahead as fast as they can with...

Over the last six years, prodded by federal requirements to publish test results, teachers» colleges have begun screening students before or soon after admission for the ability to pass state certification exams.

Prodded by the Education Department, most states have set up evaluation systems for teachers built on the gains of their students on standardized tests, alongside more traditional criteria like evaluations from principals.»