Sentences with phrase «public meetings with lawmakers»

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Concerned about children's exposure to lead found in drinking water, lawmakers met with reporters today at the state capitol in Albany to discuss a last - minute push to require lead testing in all public schools.

After a public event Friday morning on Long Island, the Democrat said the vulgarity the Republican president used Thursday during a private meeting with lawmakers on immigration shows Trump «doesn't really understand what this country is all about.»

And after a secretive budget process this spring, he began holding weekly public meetings with top lawmakers.

In weekly meetings over the past four weeks, at the governor's office in Manhattan, high - level aides to Mr. Cuomo have repeatedly pressed advocates to communicate to lawmakers and the public with one voice.

He almost never gave significant on - the - record interviews, reneged on a campaign pledge to post online his private schedule of meetings with lawmakers and lobbyists, and eschewed the public meetings with legislative leaders favored by his predecessors.

According to county Legislator Benjamin Boykin, a White Plains Democrat and chairman of the Public Safety Committee, a $ 500,000 bond, which was discussed at a committee meeting for the first time on July 10, will likely be approved with unanimous support from lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle.

Donald Trump Jr. refused to tell lawmakers about conversations he had with his father regarding a 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer after emails detailing the meeting had become public, according to the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee.

This week, lawmakers met with Deputy County Executive Kevin Plunkett, commissioners from the departments of Social Services, Corrections, Public Safety, and Probation, and immigration advocates to discuss the proposal.

The Niagara Falls City Council will hold a public hearing on the proposed 2016 city budget at 6 p.m. Nov. 2 in Council Chambers in City Hall, 745 Main St. City lawmakers on Tuesday and Wednesday met with various department heads about their individual budgets, a process that will continue with other department heads on Oct. 13, 14 and 20.

In their meetings with lawmakers, UFT members advocated for a substantial state funding increase, noting that Albany still owes New York City public schools $ 2 billion as a result of the 2016 settlement of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity school aid lawsuit.

Last week, it became clear in House and Senate education committees» meetings that not all lawmakers were on board with the move to these grade - level learning expectations that would have brought Pennsylvania public school instruction more in unison with the standards that 44 other states and the District of Columbia were in the process of implementing.

About four years ago, Richard Barth, CEO of KIPP Public Charter Schools, was visiting Capitol Hill with a few colleagues for a series of meetings with lawmakers.

In a meeting with the Tribune Editorial Board, Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool warned that classroom budget cuts would be necessary if teachers don't agree to concessions in a new contract and if state lawmakers don't come through with $ 215 million for the district's budget.

She met with educators and students at great schools across Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin and campaigned to make public education a priority for lawmakers.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — West Michigan lawmakers will meet with leaders of Grand Rapids Public Schools during a luncheon Monday, Dec. 11, to hear what they need to help students reach their full potential.