Sentences with phrase «public hearings led»

«Proposal Number One, like the public hearings leading up to the lines adopted in 2012, the task force that formulated them, and the end product, is a farce.»

15) When the commission held its first public hearing the lead - off witness was Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, who urged the panel to adopt a much more aggressive approach.

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Surprised by plans» comprehensiveness; 90 - day public comment period likely to lead to months of Commission reflection before next steps like another hearing; evaluating proposals to take time, depend on enforcement

But the understandable anxiety of American Jews over the future of Israel — especially when they hear of rocket attacks by terrorists against villages in northern Israel (and of Israel's massive retaliation)-- should not lead American Jews to think that unceasing pressure against the president, the Congress and public opinion in this country represents the best means of ensuring Israel's future security.

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At the same time, the Democratic - led Assembly plans to hold public hearings on water quality issues in early September.

Barring any further hitches, the Joint Committee of House of Representatives investigating the Jon - Ode led Presidential Arms Probe Panel will commence the public hearing on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja.

The embattled head of the city's public housing authority was grilled at a city council hearing Tuesday over her agency's failure to conduct mandatory lead paint inspections for years.

The law covers counties, towns, cities and villages, will create panels which locally will be led by the Nassau and Suffolk county executives, to develop joint savings plans, hold public hearings and require local officials to justify their decisions to reject parts of the plans.

Technology Committee Chair James Vacca and Gibson, the Public Safety Chair, led a City Council hearing on January 14 to gauge the feasibility of implementing the system in the city.

Helsmoortel said he was disappointed by the company's decision to not send a representative to a public hearing originally scheduled for Thursday night, leading to the cancellation of the hearing.

So it is odd to hear someone as canny and careful as David Greenfield break the façade and reference the Speaker's race on the public record, 19 months ahead of time, with the two leading candidates for the job (Johnson and Ferreras - Copeland) sitting right there.

At 10 a.m., NYC Council members hold a public hearing on lead paint removal at NYCHA, Council chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

Despite the public's fury over the Obama comments — anti-Paladino demonstrations occurred routinely leading up to the hearing — the commissioner focused her decision narrowly on the argument of public disclosure of confidential information.

The Senate Education Committee, led by Long Island Republican John Flanagan, has released a set of relatively mild legislative proposals for tweaking Common Core implementation, informed by a set of public hearings he held around the state.

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

While Bharara — whose ongoing probes of state government corruption led to the convictions of the two former leaders of the Legislature, Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos — has refused to say when his investigation of Cuomo's office will wrap up, one source close to the probe predicted, «The public will be hearing something in July or August.»

Ultimately, the Republican - led Senate agreed to hold the hearings following weeks of mounting public pressure.

Roosevelt also had begun public corruption hearings that could have led to the unseating of New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker, but Walker resigned before Roosevelt made a decision, according to research provided by the governor's office in 1988 and reported by The New York Times.

The public safety committee hearing was the penultimate executive budget hearing, with the finance committee set to finish the proceedings Tuesday before closed - door negotiations lead to a budget deal between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council before the July 1 start of the new fiscal year.

The party, which has been the lead advocate for a new voters» register, has raised concerns about the objectivity of some members of the EC's panel tasked to hold the two - day public hearing.

Katherine Nadeau, with Environmental Advocates, says it's good news that there will be another public hearing and comment process, she believes the tens of thousands of comments from public hearings late last year led to the decision to go ahead with a health impact review.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

Soon - to - be-retired New Paltz supervisor Toni Hokanson — rival Susan Zimet has every line except the Working Families Party — led the town board vote to set a public hearing on residency next month.

The President can further subvert the cause of justice so that the people of Ghana do not hear the truth about the loot of the public purse he led until after the elections on 7th December 2016.

Mr. Koch went on to praise Ms. Gibson as «an excellent Public Safety chair who has led many critical and important hearings in her two years at the Council and the Speaker is proud to have her there serving the people of New York City.»

The Regents on Monday also heard a report from Dennis M. Walcott, the former New York City schools chancellor, whom the state appointed in August to lead monitors overseeing the East Ramapo school district in Rockland County, which has been accused of diverting money from its public schools to provide services for yeshiva students.

He said the Conservatives» poll lead would narrow once the campaign gets under way and the public hear Labour's message «in our own voice».

Then last week a state judge hearing a lawsuit by public housing residents ordered the agency to conduct thousands of missed lead inspections within 90 days.

Abe claimed in a letter he wrote to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, that the public hearing was part of the political manipulation of the Governor Nyesom Wike - led Peoples Democratic Party's government in Rivers State.

He noted that the person who signed the petition leading to the public hearing was Mr. Livingstone Wechie, an ally of Wike.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President - elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expressed doubt about the science behind global climate change during a contentious Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, but added he would be obliged for now to uphold the EPA's finding carbon dioxide poses a public danger.

«Given the number of professional musicians and the severity of the outcome, leading to occupational disability and severe loss of quality of life, hearing loss in [this group] is of high public health importance,» they add.

The study, led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, analyzed the relationship between the hearing of more than 2,200 young adults in Nepal and their nutritional levels as children 16 years earlier.

At the same time Obama was speaking in Atlanta, the U.S. Senate held an Ebola hearing that featured testimony from leading public health officials and perhaps the world's most famous Ebola survivor, Kent Brantly, who became ill with the disease while treating patients in Liberia in July.

You and a guest can hear Eric's remarkable story from Ben Russell, Lead Curator for the Robots exhibition, and see the first demonstration of Eric before he goes on public display.

Only when public uproar over my first Sunday Times MMR reports led to the retraction of the paper's «interpretation» section in March 2004, and the UK General Medical Council invoked its formidable powers under the 1983 Medical Act, were they brought to light at a fitness to practise hearing.

«Withdrawing Kathleen Hartnett White's nomination is the right thing to do, and I believe it is past time for this administration to nominate a thoughtful environmental and public health champion to lead this critical office in the federal government,» Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said after hearing reports of White's plan to witpublic health champion to lead this critical office in the federal government,» Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said after hearing reports of White's plan to witPublic Works Committee, said after hearing reports of White's plan to withdraw.

He also pledged to lead a series of public hearings on the issue around the state in 2008.

Did you hear the one about the professor in Connecticut who leads in - service training sessions on laughter for public - school teachers and administrators?

Carrie Hillyard, who leads the turnaround team Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation leaders created to assist five struggling district schools, speaks to State Board of Education members at a public hearing on the future of Glenwood Leadership Academy.

Ward 6 Representative Joe Weedon attends the DCPS Public Budget Hearing led by Chancellor Antwan Wilson at Stuart Hobson Middle School.

Parent advocates from across the country converged on New York City on Monday, February 7 for the first national forum of Parents Across America, a parent - led movement to make parent voices heard in the national debate over education reform — and to promote positive, common - sense solutions that will improve public schools nationwide.

Chicago Public Schools has experienced deep budget cuts in recent years that led to widespread teacher layoffs and the closing of almost 50 schools located primarily in low - income neighborhoods, prompting months of protests and school board hearings.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

The Regents on Monday also heard a report from Dennis M. Walcott, the former New York City schools chancellor, whom the state appointed in August to lead monitors overseeing the East Ramapo school district in Rockland County, which has been accused of diverting money from its public schools to provide services for yeshiva students.

In the week leading up to the public hearing and for the weekend following, USOE also solicited opinions and questions both electronically and through the mail.

Yanira Canizales, Paul Koh, and Jenna Stauffer led their team and community in support of Lodestar's charter petition at OUSD's public hearing.

The call for Congressional hearings — addressed to Senators Lamar Alexander and Tom Harkin of the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, and Representatives John Kline and George Miller of the House Education and Workforce Committee — states that high - stakes testing in public schools has led to multiple unintended consequences that warrant federal scrutiny.

The CEA election is for teachers, by teachers and about teachers, but as the most important voice in Connecticut for public education, students, parents and all public school advocates are eager to hear from those who are or may be leading the union in the year ahead.