Sentences with phrase «pushing for more local»

And the move should also endear the company to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has been pushing for more local manufacturing jobs under his «Make in India» initiative.

In response, school board members are pushing for more local funding to hire counselors and other support staff.

«Part of that is because they are coming off a smaller base but there's a push for more local sourcing by the major retailers as well.

Picente said the mending of fences between himself and Cuomo will not stop him from being «aggressive» in advocating for his community going forward, and he will also continue to push for more local input in the future of the Marcy site.

Facebook is choosing to fight fake news by showing less news in general as the platform tweaks the news feed for users» «well being,» though a push for more local news is also part of the changes.

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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.

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.

Still, Pynt hopes there will be a more focused effort to continue the push for a local food movement while preserving the heritage of Singapore's famously multicultural cuisine.

Venice has become a beautiful cautionary tale, a city that is more theme park than home, as local grocery stores and butchers are pushed out for yet more hotels and boutiques aimed at well - heeled tourists.

Facebook sees local news as an opportunity to push community - building and more positive content — a way for its users to interact about something that isn't Donald Trump.

As political and economic chaos worsened, more and more turned to bitcoin to help them survive, pushing the local market price of a single bitcoin above $ 13,000 with already over $ 1 million in processed transactions for 2017.

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

Senate Republicans have repeatedly pushed for the cap to be permanently extended; local government advocates have sought more wiggle room under the cap, including an end to the rate of inflation link.

«We will push for more AIM aid because local governments unlike any government haven't seen AIM increase in probably eight, nine years,» McDonald said.

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.

Advocates and local elected officials have pushed for a more comprehensive outreach plan by the state to ensure the tens of thousands of residents, many of whom are minorities and speak a language other than English at home, know about the need for testing.

During his budget presentation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo renewed his push for local governments to share more resources as part of a plan to freeze property taxes if counties stay within a two percent cap.

However, it seems altogether unreasonable for nanny state interventions from local councils to be pushing even more of them out of business.

Excerpt: «Cut property taxes for middle class families and local businesses and push for more low - interest loans for Main Street businesses.»

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.

I look forward to the answers and to local councils pushing ahead with these proposals that I believe will lead to more houses being built for those that we all know desperately need them.

Former Gov. George Pataki, whose political focus has been more national than local of late, will take time off from his push to repeal «ObamaCare» to join former Assembly Minority Leader / ex-WNY Rep. Tom Reynolds in headlining a fundraiser for the Republic Assembly Campaign Committee.

What this could mean: Lawmakers in an election year will almost certainly be spurred to push for more money in the state budget that would flow to schools and their local municipalities.

Gillibrand, a national leader in the push to elect more women, praised the efforts of 21 in» 21, making the point that in order for more women to get elected on the federal level it is imperative for there to be a pipeline of women elected officials at the local level.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is pushing for more federal money to help fix local bridges.

Cuomo has called for increased control over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and is pushing local governments within the MTA's service area to spend more on transit in the area, including New York City.

Local educators say the state's new push for community schools could be a mechanism for getting more resources into schools with greater needs.

Local news reporters highlighted how Bratton seemed to be turning on the Council after they supported his ultimately successful push to fund the hiring of new police officers — even giving him 300 more than he asked for.

Rather than address legitimate concerns, A Crestwood executive sent an email to colleagues in June 2013 pushing for withholding local propane deliveries to the more than 200 local business owners who expressed opposition.

Major casino operators are aggressively pushing for the licenses, and spent more than $ 11 million in the past two years to influence state and local policymakers, according to the nonprofit New York Public Interest Research Group.

Republican State Senator Jim Seward is turning to town leaders in a push to for more state funding for local highway projects.

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The good news is that there's been a seismic shift away from the federal mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act to a more local push for deeper learning.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

With the move to push responsibility for school budgets down to head teachers and away from local authorities, there is an opportunity to introduce lots more schools across the state sector to the Firefly platform.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

They are offering — perhaps screaming — a counterargument against the thrust of decades: a push for a more powerful federal government, the belief that there are «correct» policy answers, the certainty that locals and civil society can not be trusted, and the conviction that we must rely on technical experts to get things right.

These flexibilities can not be found in the statutory text, and in the absence of regulations, states may default back to the status quo and take the less risky path by hewing closely to the statute, rather than pushing for more creative solutions that work better in their local contexts.

Meanwhile, in the House, a key member last week told local officials that he would push for more money for teacher training in the city.

Twenty - one New Jersey school districts are among more than 370 nationwide to apply for $ 400 million in federal Race to the Top funds, as the sweeping and sometimes controversial competition goes local with a push into specific instruction models and technology.

Education Minister Liz Truss is writing to every local authority in England in a push to get more childcare for toddlers available on school sites.

Yes, the push for attendance needs more oomph behind it than just including it in Local Accountability and Control Plans or posting stale information on the district website.

So as a result of the policies being pushed by Commissioner Stefan Pryor, Connecticut teachers and students spent thousands of hours during the past school year prepping and taking the Connecticut Mastery Test and state and local taxpayers spent tens of millions of dollars paying for the Connecticut Mastery Test but the man in charge of the entire testing scheme now says that «some of the more pronounced decreases in lower grades may be due to the shift to the Common Core curriculum... [and]... Students using the new curriculum haven't covered some of the areas in the test.»

I would love for our single issue sales to be higher (and I'm hoping more of our collection readers will get impatient and subscribe at their local comic shops) but right now our trade paperback sales are strong enough that we can continue to push forward.

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The local animal welfare community has been pushing MAS to adopt a no - kill model for more than a decade.

More than # 100 million will go towards local road schemes to bust congestion pinch - points and speed up journeys, while an extra # 300 million will help push forward plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail to bolster links between Northern towns and cities with more frequent and faster serviMore than # 100 million will go towards local road schemes to bust congestion pinch - points and speed up journeys, while an extra # 300 million will help push forward plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail to bolster links between Northern towns and cities with more frequent and faster servimore frequent and faster services.

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She was also instrumental in getting farmers, restaurant owners, farmers markets, consumers and citizens together to talk about and take action around creating more local, sustainable food options in Jefferson County during a Menu for the Future community organizing push a few years ago, which served as an example for other groups in the US, with Cleveland, Ohio and Vermont replicating her efforts.

Lowell also founded Economic Justice Monitor in 2017, a new Hong Kong - based organization that pushes for local businesses to be more socially responsible, through research and education.