Sentences with phrase «reform than any governor»
This governor has talked more about government ethics reform than any governor in memory, and yet the rules and high mindedness never apply to him.»
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Governor Cuomo just held a news conference with members of the Medicaid Redesign Team, praising them with coming up with more than $ 2 billion in cuts for this year and laying out a plan to reform the expensive system.
It is not clear, however, whether this increase can be attributed to Volodin's reforms: a similar rise in approval for the activities of President Putin, Prime Minister Medvedev, the Government, and regional governors suggests a broader shift in support for political institutions and individuals, rather than a localized response to the appearance of increased parliamentary professionalism.
«New York's bloated Medicaid program, which spends at a rate more than twice the national average, must be reformed to help our state begin to make ends meet,» said Governor Cuomo.
A member of a government reform group says it's OK if New York Governor Andrew Cuomo uses his campaign coffers to finance this week's trip to Israel if the visit is for political, rather than government purposes.
Governor Andrew Cuomo began the budget season with an ambitious agenda than included a wide array of items that he tied to the budget, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, and reforming the state's grand jury process.
«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.
Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi, in an email, said of NYPIRG's criticism: «No governor has fought harder to reform New York's campaign finance system than Governor Cuomo, who included public campaign financing in his budget and is using the funds that NYPIRG is railing against for commercials urging the public to support itgovernor has fought harder to reform New York's campaign finance system than Governor Cuomo, who included public campaign financing in his budget and is using the funds that NYPIRG is railing against for commercials urging the public to support itGovernor Cuomo, who included public campaign financing in his budget and is using the funds that NYPIRG is railing against for commercials urging the public to support it.»
«Forcing small business owners to shoulder an unprecedented $ 15 minimum wage burden will have greater negative ramifications than the governor's tax cut proposal can make up for,» said Brandon Muir, executive director of Reclaim New York Center for Government Reform and Accountability.
The reform groups have been speaking out every week, but concede that they've so far had little impact, other than to anger the governor, whose spokesman recently turned tables and accused the groups of being a source of the Capitol's problems, something they deny.
The governor issued an unmistakeable message to George Osborne, who is currently in Brussels discussing banking reform with European colleagues, that the Vickers reforms of the banking sector must be implemented sooner rather than later.
The former governor also discussed the need to reform the tax code in the United States, saying tax loopholes for the wealthy need to be closed, suggesting that a Pataki presidential campaign certainly would have had some different ideas than the rest of the Republican field.
The governor was criticized last year when he disbanded a Moreland Act Commission on corruption in exchange for a reform package that was far weaker than what Cuomo had originally sought.
The governor also seems to conveniently forget that last year, CSEA came to an agreement on pension reform that the governor claimed would save the state taxpayers more than $ 35 billion over time.
«Rather than reflecting any merit in the bill,» NYSSBA wrote to Governor Hugh L. Carey, «the Legislature's approval was manifestly its way of appeasing public employee unions angered by Executive and Legislative rejection of their protracted and expensive campaign» to repeal pension reforms enacted in 1976.
No. 2, interestingly, is the middle - class tax cut achieved through the extraordinary session tax code reform deal passed earlier this month — a move that also resulted in a higher than pre-millionaire's tax rate for the state's wealthiest residents, causing some on the right to accuse the governor of breaking his no - new - taxes pledge.
Asked whether he is going to seek to get a deal on things other than the budget — including ethics reform and a property tax cap — prior to the April 1 start of the new fiscal year the governor said he's going to be «moving forward on all of these issues simultaneously — now, now.»
ALBANY — More than 1,000 teachers and public education advocates marched through the Empire State Plaza concourse on Monday, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million Dollar Staircase in a boisterous protest of Governor Andrew Cuomo's education reform proposals.
«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» Azzopardi said.
ALBANY — Attorney General Eric Schneiderman isn't impressed with the proposed ethics deal Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders announced yesterday, saying at an unrelated press conference Monday that the reported compromise, full details of which have not yet been made public, seems more like a tweak than a comprehensive reform.
The recent release of these two reports and the ongoing corruption trials of two legislative leaders have put the spotlight on New York's dire need for state action on ethics reform, yet as Bob Hardt wrote in a recent NY1 column on the issue, «Never aggressively pushing campaign finance reform or transparency, Governor Cuomo seems content to play the master of Albany's current political game rather than rewriting its rules.
While Governor Cuomo has touted reforms to solitary, New York still has a higher percentage of people in solitary (5.8 %) than the national average (4.4 %) and much higher than states that have reformed solitary (less than 1 % to 2 %).
Sheldon Silver was the teachers unions» biggest ally in Albany, and his arrest came less than 24 hours after Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed an ambitious education reform plan in his State of the State address.
2012 marked the second year of Governor Andrew Cuomo's term in office and was much less dramatic than the previous year when he was able to get the legislature to pass a property tax cap, ethics reform and same sex marriage.
Governor Cuomo began the budget season with an ambitious agenda than included a wide array of items that he tied to the budget, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, and reforming the state's grand jury process.
Schneiderman called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to «hold out» in the state's upcoming budget negotiations until the Legislature delivers «even bolder reforms» than the ones proposed by the governor himself last month.
The only other Reform Party nominees for Governor of any state who ever polled more than 10 % of the vote were Jesse Ventura in Minnesota in 1998 and Tom Golisano in New York in 2002.
As for voting reform, the Assembly voted to agree with Cuomo's calls for automatic registration and early voting, but recommends a period of early voting commencing eight days before an election rather than the 12 - day window proposed by the governor.
«This equates to more than one million more pupils in good or outstanding schools than when we began our reforms in 2010, a testament to the hard work of teachers, headteachers and governors across the country.
Rather than invite states to present their own compelling reform plans, Obama and Duncan asked governors and state superintendents to develop plans that complied with federal guidelines set forth in excruciating detail.
Legislature spent much of session in dispute with Governor over its education budget, which was $ 5 million less than the Governor's proposal and did not include any funding for a school - reform committee and the pilot projects it supports.
Other than former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who heads the Foundation for Excellence in Education and seems even more committed to reform than his brother was, and Lamar Alexander, another former governor who «gets» this issue and cares deeply about it, party leaders seem uncertain as to what needs to be done or how to go about it.
Moreover, independents are more supportive than members of either party of expanding private school choice for disadvantaged students, the centerpiece of Governor Romney's proposals for K — 12 education reform.
Governor Patrick has begun that work in Massachusetts and I believe the students will be better served by acknowledging where the state needs to improve its education reform efforts than by simply declaring victory based on past success.
More than making up for its fiscal limitations, the state, led by former governor Jeb Bush, implemented a series of school reforms that together appear to have had dramatic consequences for student performance.
Bush calls attention to Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana, who pushed his state legislature to adopt «the most dramatic suite of reforms in one [legislative] session than anybody's ever done.»
More than two years after governors and business leaders endorsed the idea of reforming schools through competitive academic standards, the group they created to carry on their agenda says it is ready to show states whether they are meeting that challenge.
Republican governors and legislators, the «Chiefs for Change,» and a growing number of DFER - type Democrats have proven themselves more than capable to carry the mantle of reform without help from Uncle Sam.
Its proposal would invest $ 47.1 million less than the governor in education reform measures overall, in part, by cutting the number of new charter schools from nine to four.
Necessary state budget cuts could be a boon, rather than a burden, to education if state governors and legislators adopt meaningful education reforms by introducing more competition and school choice in their states.
readers know from earlier posts, Governor Malloy, Democratic Party Chair Nancy DiNardo and the Democratic State Central Committee syphoned over more than $ 37,000 in a failed attempt to beat back a Democratic challenge slate in Bridgeport that did not support Paul Vallas or Governor Malloy and Mayor Bill Finch's corporate education reform agenda.
One of the leading reasons behind these proposals appears to be a belief that Governor - led public education governance models were better than State Board - led public education governance models in improving student achievement and reforming public education.
This equates to more than 1 million more pupils in good or outstanding schools than when we began our reforms in 2010, a testament to the hard work of teachers, headteachers and governors across the country.
For one, there remains a core group of influential reformers — including former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, congressmen on both sides of the aisle, and reform - minded governors, who know that AYP has done more to focus the nation on dealing with the widespread problems within American public education than any other policy decision in the past five decades.
Even if Cuomo's «conversion» on the Common Core is nothing more than political self - preservation, it is certainly an interesting development that even New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has come to recognize that parroting the Common Core and Corporate Education Reform Industry rhetoric is not the right thing to do.
Clearly, a major centerpiece of George W. Bush's success as Governor of Texas and a significant plank in the platform for his Presidential candidacy was his leadership of the Texas public education reforms in accountability and standards of the mid to late 1990's, and nowhere were these reforms in more evidence than in Houston, which -LSB-...]
As reported in today's CTMirror, it wasn't even two hours after Governor Malloy signed the «education reform» bill into law before the three groups representing the school superintendents, principals and school boards went back on their word, claiming that the new law gave them the right to implement policies that student's standardized test scores can account for 50 percent of a teachers evaluation rather than the 22.5 percent that was listed in the draft bill and agreed to by all of the parties last January.
Clearly, a major centerpiece of George W. Bush's success as Governor of Texas and a significant plank in the platform for his Presidential candidacy was his leadership of the Texas public education reforms in accountability and standards of the mid to late 1990's, and nowhere were these reforms in more evidence than in Houston, which was recognized as the best urban school district in America in 2002.
For more than two years many Connecticut teachers, public school advocates, parents of public school students and others have been warning about the dangers that will result from Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiative.
It turns out that it took less than 24 hours for Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy to make it clear that Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor's departure IS NOT a sign that Connecticut's anti-teacher, pro-corporate education reform Democratic governor is going to use a second term to do a better job representing the concerns of teachers, students, parents and public school advocates in ConnGovernor Dannel «Dan» Malloy to make it clear that Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor's departure IS NOT a sign that Connecticut's anti-teacher, pro-corporate education reform Democratic governor is going to use a second term to do a better job representing the concerns of teachers, students, parents and public school advocates in Conngovernor is going to use a second term to do a better job representing the concerns of teachers, students, parents and public school advocates in Connecticut.