Sentences with phrase «pushed back on»

What they got pushed back on was the percentages.»

Ronan gave her significant political cover when the city teachers» union pushed back on pieces of the turnaround effort, including staffing changes at four of the targeted schools that replaced nearly everyone — even, in some cases, secretarial workers and custodians.

Various African American led school choice groups pushed back on the resolution as well.

Kidd, who is on the task force, pushed back on a merit pay plan already enacted last year by lawmakers — the teacher contract system.

Although we all agreed that the math content involved was important, my colleagues pushed back on the context, saying it was uninteresting.

Perhaps understanding this, the contrast, helps explain why, during this month's school board meeting, the superintendent bristled at and pushed back on school board member Erika Mitchell's proclamation to work with the Harper - Archer Elementary School community to include in the school's reopening the planetarium the facility once housed when it was Harper - Archer High School.

States such as Kansas, Oregon, and Washington State (likely with help from congressional leaders who represent their states) have pushed back on the administration's effort to place their waivers into so - called «high risk status» (and thus, threatening to cancel them).

Andy knows that I've offered much more extensive discussions of the pros and cons of RTT (given that he's pushed back on several of my points in his blog and over beers), but I thought this phrase pithily captured the problems with RTT as an example of competitive grants.

That said, several big - name education researchers have pushed back on the proposed rule.

DeVos pushed back on those who insist that support for school choice is necessarily an «attack» on public education and argued that choice can be wholly consonant with the historic mission of public education:

The unencumber date used to be additionally pushed back on account of this.

Back at E3 there were concerns about its streamlining of major mechanics and systems, something the game's Producer and Director pushed back on in our interview at the time.

I pushed back on every inquiry.

And I just have to share these since I've been snacking on them all month and feel bad that they just kept getting pushed back on the posting schedule.

But the Administration pushed back on the czar, among other things, and with the economic chaos this fall, the bill never made it through.

Industry representatives have pushed back on the research, saying federal agencies deem the chemicals safe and that mice were exposed to unrealistically high levels.

Speaking to radio host Brian Lehrer on WNYC following the unanimous decision to elevate New York's senior senator to replace retiring Minority Leader Harry Reid, Sanders pushed back on complaints from callers and left - leaning journals like The Intercept that Schumer is too aligned with Wall Street financial firms to resist the Republican majority's agenda.

Cuomo and his allies have pushed back on the idea of these disclosure requirements, saying that the regulations would make it difficult to recruit new members, who are volunteers and typically successful businesspeople.

Cost Shifts & Cuts During his budget testimony, de Blasio pushed back on the more than $ 100 million in cuts and cost shifts to New York City proposed in Cuomo's executive budget, primarily related to placement of foster children and special education services.

GOP lawmakers have pushed back on Democrats» characterization that Ryan's proposal to privatize Medicare amounts to «ending the program as we know it,» maintaining that they simply want to reform it.

WILLSBORO — Just six days before Election Day, Mike Derrick took his campaign to Willsboro, the adopted hometown of Rep. Elise Stefanik, where he aggressively pushed back on a new super PAC - funded ad and questioned the lawmaker's ties to the community.

The officials said they agreed in principle with Chin's proposal for public notification, but they pushed back on the notion that the towers in the Two Bridges area are inappropriate for the neighborhood.

On Wednesday, Cuomo also repeated his claims that his administration was aggressive in its response to Hoosick Falls, despite evidence the state health department aggressively pushed back on federal regulators who wanted to sound an alarm about the municipal water pollution.

The National Rifle Association, the country's most powerful lobby group for gun rights, said Thursday that it would support an effort to restrict bump stocks — an unusual move for a group that has long pushed back on efforts to impose new firearms regulations.

In a packed auditorium, an angry crowd pushed back on the city's plan to open a homeless shelter for 132 families at 267 Rogers Ave. in Crown Heights, demanding to know how much the project will cost and whether it will help solve, as Assemblywoman Diana Richardson put it, the area's «housing crisis.»

Hawkins pushed back on what he described as a narrative that he has «big ideas and little money» so he can't win.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions pushed back on the immediate need for a second special counsel to investigate former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Trump pushed back on concerns about a lack of nominees for key positions at the State Department, arguing it wouldn't affect his agenda.

A joint statement issued by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Health pushed back on the comments made by a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday that the state did not act swiftly when warned of a chemical contamination in Hoosick Falls's drinking water.

Still, he stressed that the city did its part, and pushed back on claims from some in Washington that Mayor Bill de Blasio submitted his invoice late and with sketchy details.

Yamali pushed back on a suggestion by one of Edward Mangano's defense attorneys, Matthew Brissenden of Garden City, that his business» Plainview warehouse was farther from the county emergency operations center in Bethpage than was H.R. Singletons, Singh's former restaurant in Bethpage.

However, Heastie said the Assembly would have pushed back on the New York City provisions regardless of who occupies the mayor's office.

President Donald Trump tweeted his supported for the people of London on Sunday and criticized the city's mayor for being too politically correct, a claim the mayor later pushed back on.

At the same time, Assembly Democrats had pushed back on a $ 250 million «cost shift» in the Medicaid program for New York City.

Cohoes Mayor Shawn Morse pushed back on calls that he resign in the wake of a Times Union story detailing information that he has been the subject of domestic abuse allegations dating back decades.

Collins, meanwhile, pushed back on the campaign, pointing to Cuomo's unpopularity in his conservative House district.

Corey Johnson asked Dr. Goody some basic questions and pushed back on her statements in a normal way.

Mayor Bill de Blasio pushed back on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's criticism of the city's handling of its beleaguered Housing Authority.

Tuesday, he forcefully pushed back on any suggestion that his team violated that directive, despite appearances to the contrary.

Cuomo already has pushed back on efforts to change how the regional councils work.

De Blasio has pushed back on that proposal, arguing that the pilot program his administration funded last year that provided free lunch to all middle schoolers has yielded «mixed results.»

But much of Mr. Cuomo's agenda seemed to hinge on a proposal that the Republican - controlled State Senate has already pushed back on.

Sources close to the Advance Group and NYCLASS have pushed back on the reports, claiming the FBI has not been in contact with members of either group.

Updated: In a lengthy statement of its own, the Alliance for Quality Education pushed back on what it said were distortions in the statement.

God Bless the selfless souls who pushed back on DeBlasio's radical agenda for the good of the children and indeed all decent people of New York City and State

DeVos pushed back on Bennet's premise, suggesting that if a parent is happy with the process of choosing a school, that is more than enough.

But it was the NBA Players Associaton that ultimately pushed back on the idea of airing the draft live.

However, these issues aren't new in an era when title games have been pushed back on the calendar.

We made and photographed these beauties this past winter, but they kept getting pushed back on the blog post schedule, as something more seasonal or appropriate always came up.

These turned out really well and I made sure that they were well pushed back on the counter so that George, the Artful Dodger couldn't get a hold of any.