Sentences with phrase «push for more funding»

Actress and education advocate Cynthia Nixon speaks during a press conference with school superintendents, academics and other officials to push for more funding for schools Monday, March 24, 2014, at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y.

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Actress and education advocate Cynthia Nixon speaks during a press conference with school superintendents, academics and other officials to push for more funding for schools Monday, March 24, 2014, at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y.

Actress and education advocate Cynthia Nixon speaks during a press conference with school superintendents, academics and other officials to push for more funding for schools Monday, March 24, 2014, at the

Advocates used a legislative hearing to push for more funding for veteran suicide prevention.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Borough President James Oddo is starting an online campaign to try and push for more funding for road repaving in New York City.

Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh added that he would push for more funding for the MTA for infrastructure improvements and more buses on 14th Street.

Esposito has pledged to push for more funding for complete - streets initiatives, fight for expanded and improved mass - transit services, and champion transit - oriented development around Long Island Railroad stations in the 3

«We're going to demand that Governor Cuomo provide the funding that was afforded to us in a court decision for our schools,» she said as she joined advocates to push for more funding under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 2007 won a lawsuit against the state to provide increased education funding to the city.

But when the SNA's members actually sit down with Congressional representatives at the organization's Legislative Action Conference in Washington, DC next week, how strongly will they push for more funding?

«We are facing a tough budget this year — we expected this, which is why my colleagues and I went to Albany to push for more funds earlier this year.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

As a member of the appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, Specter has long pushed for more funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Experts also advise pushing for more personal finance in the school curriculum, lobbying both your local schools for inclusion and area businesses for sponsorship or teacher training funds.

SoftBank's Vision Fund plans to invest in 30 more companies over the next two years and push for consolidation within its owned companies, according to the Fund's CEO.

With this in mind, James says her next big goals are to make the funding situation more equitable for local women and to push local early - stage startups toward commercialization.

LONDON / FRANKFURT / MILAN, May 2 (Reuters)- U.S. hedge fund Elliott is stepping up its activities in Europe, a Reuters review of data shows, as it sees more opportunities to unlock value for shareholders by pushing through management changes, company break - ups and merger deals.

LONDON / FRANKFURT / MILAN, May 2 - U.S. hedge fund Elliott is stepping up its activities in Europe, a Reuters review of data shows, as it sees more opportunities to unlock value for shareholders by pushing through management changes, company break - ups and merger deals.

The International Monetary Fund welcomed calls from the U.S. that it should push for more transparency in global trade and lending, the Fund's boss said Sunday.

Separately, Bill Gross, manager of the world's largest mutual fund, said in a Twitter posting that Icahn should stop pushing Apple for additional share repurchases and do more for charitable causes.

It seems more fund companies are pushing for non-US holdings to be a larger percentage of a portfolio than in the past.

Following a Superfunds Round Table last November hosted by Visy and The Australian Financial Review at which business leaders and financiers backed a push for super funds to increase their lending to companies, a leading fund manager said that more discussions were taking place between lenders, borrowers and intermediaries.

Also, the initial gains of certain companies that acted on activists» push for change have attracted more investor money into activist hedge funds.

The answer for this is to push the state legislature for more local control of funds.

I'm not sure if that makes it more or less likely to make it, but I'm hoping that piece of it is worth enough someday to cover for pushing all my retirement savings into a house fund.

Instead of fancy new uniforms, or multi-million dollar stadiums, parents should push for more of a program's funds to be spent on keeping kids safe, such as by purchasing

De Blasio had campaigned on the push for a tax hike for those earning $ 500,000 and more a year in order to fund the program.

It could push for a more secure and sustainable funding mechanism for the Arctic Council, particularly to allow for continued indigenous participation (which is costly to maintain).

Mark - Viverito, an outspoken progressive, pushed as speaker for more stringent limits on police cooperation with immigration officials about undocumented immigrants in their custody and developed a free legal defense fund for immigrants facing possible deportation.

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The Greater New York Hospital Association and the influential labor union 1199 SEIU on Tuesday launched a six - week ad campaign to push for more health care funding in the state budget.

Schumer, the Senate minority leader, and King met with Teamsters Local 707 in Hempstead to push for the bill, which could help fund pensions for 4,500 Long Island families, including more than 3,700 retirees, Schumer said.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

Nixon, an actress known for her role in the HBO series «Sex and the City» is a prominent advocate for public education funding and has often pushed Albany to spend more money on schools, criticizing Cuomo's stance on funding issues.

Nevertheless, advocates have pushed him to spend more, arguing urban and rural school districts have been left short changed by the state's complicated formula for funding schools.

Nixon, who headlined a fundraiser for the union - aligned advocacy group Alliance For A Quality Education this week, issued a statement Thursday pushing for more school funding — fueling more talk that she will run for governor herself next yefor the union - aligned advocacy group Alliance For A Quality Education this week, issued a statement Thursday pushing for more school funding — fueling more talk that she will run for governor herself next yeFor A Quality Education this week, issued a statement Thursday pushing for more school funding — fueling more talk that she will run for governor herself next yefor more school funding — fueling more talk that she will run for governor herself next yefor governor herself next year.

«The comptroller is really looking at, as we move into next year, whether or not the tax cap, which is at its lower point ever for school districts for the upcoming fiscal year, for 2016 - 17, to see the impact of that and whether or not if forces more districts to spend down that fund balance, to rely on borrowing, and if the impact does push anybody else into fiscal stress next year,» Butry says.

After de Blasio released his executive budget on May 7, council members have continued to push for an increase in funds for libraries, parks, NYPD headcount, senior citizen services, women's health services, city - funded school lunches for all students, and more.

This afternoon's event was supposed to focus on gun crimes in low - income communities, and to push for more city funding for summer jobs intiatives, but activist Tamika Mallory took it as an opportunity to blast the commissioner for his «disparaging» remarks.

One question focused on possible reasons to vote for «Woodstock,» citing reasons like fighting to improve the economy by taking on big businesses and monopolies, pushing for campaign finance reform, increasing education funding, changing the tax code to require the wealthy and large corporations to pay more and raising the minimum wage.

«I'm very concerned about the strength and aggressiveness of you two pushing back,» said Sen. Sherrod BrownSherrod Campbell BrownHillicon Valley: Facebook, Google struggle to block terrorist content Cambridge Analytica declares bankruptcy in US Company exposed phone location data Apple starts paying back taxes to Ireland Overnight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Senate Dems call for probe into why Trump has not issued Russia sanctions MORE (Ohio), the panel's ranking Democrat.

It's also pushing for more state funding to help districts provide pre-kindergarten classes and internet access.

Nearly 300 local bridges across Western New York are out of date or in need of repair, US Sen. Chuck Schumer announced as he launched a push for more federal funding to help fix those spans.

For advocates in the Working Families Party and education organizations that have pushed for more school funding, the feeling has been mutual, suspicious a Democrat who they believe is a bit too transactionFor advocates in the Working Families Party and education organizations that have pushed for more school funding, the feeling has been mutual, suspicious a Democrat who they believe is a bit too transactionfor more school funding, the feeling has been mutual, suspicious a Democrat who they believe is a bit too transactional.

The conference has spent the last month pushing back on the claims of advocates for public financing and debated the cost of the system, pointing to more pressing needs for the use of public funds.

Not everyone agreed, including Democratic Sen. Mike Gianaris, who had pushed for a tax hike on those making more than $ 1 million in the MTA service region to fund upgrades to the ailing subway system.

De Blasio cites the city's 21 % poverty rate as proof of this, and he campaigned on closing the gap by pushing real estate developers to build or preserve 200,000 affordable homes and creating a universal pre-K program for the poor, funded by raising taxes on those who make a $ 500,000 or more.

The IDC has long argued that it can achieve more legislation important to progressives by pushing on the Republicans, including two minimum wage hikes, funding for immigrant legal services and raising the age of criminal responsibility.

More than 40 protesters were eventually arrested at the rally, which was over general cost shifts, a push for increased funding, and the expired faculty union contract.