Sentences with phrase «rejecting earlier proposals»

On his blog, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called the proposal «a good first step,» especially in promoting «transparency on resource inequities and rejecting earlier proposals to allow resources to be siphoned away from our neediest schools.»

The Department rejected an earlier proposal that transfer schools that fail to meet the benchmark for three years be put into receivership.

The plan also includes four school closures this summer; Roberts has rejected earlier proposals that called for closing 28 schools over the next five years.

Not exact matches

Unilever rejected the U.S. group's surprise proposal of $ 30.23 in cash and 0.22 shares in the merged company for each outstanding Unilever share two days earlier.

In an earlier interview Ms Jowell said the government had «no plan B» if parliament rejected the order and last night the culture secretary said: «Ministers will want to reflect and come back to this elected house in due course with proposals as to how to take this policy forward.»

An early proposal in response to growing antisemitism in Europe was to establish a state in modern day Kenya with British support, but was rejected by the group.

In early 2015, the Legislature rejected Cuomo's proposal to increase New York City's overall minimum wage to $ 11.50 and $ 10.50 for elsewhere in the state.

Lawmakers in the next few weeks will consider a proposal to reverse a change to the STAR, or School Tax Reduction, program that was earlier rejected by the Legislature but ended up in the budget anyway.

Earlier this week, both chambers of the state Legislature rejected a Cuomo proposal that called on Consolidated Edison, Verizon and others to kick in $ 375 million to help defray the MTA's cost of moving the utilities» wires and pipes during construction and renovation work.

Here's what I was going to post earlier: Actually the vote was «yes,» to reject the proposal, just to be clear.

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the community board rejected the proposal.

They perceive an agency bias against Venus, a planet that hasn't seen a U.S. mission since the Magellan probe radar - mapped its shrouded surface in the early 1990s, and which won't see one any time soon, after NASA this year rejected a bumper crop of Venus proposals.

But proposals in three states that had the potential to restrict spending on schools - the idea known as a Taxpayer's Bill of Rights - were rejected, early returns showed.

CTU President Karen Lewis rejected the idea earlier this week after CPS released a $ 5.4 billion budget proposal that depends on phasing out the pension pickup, saying «we will not accept an imposed pay cut.»

But after voters rejected higher - education proposals twice in the early 1990s, the legislature began to combine the K - 12 and college bond requests into one proposal.

The photo series «Looks Like a Landscape» was made in resistance to the biennale organizers, who had rejected Liu's earlier proposal of a large - scale installation that he had wanted to make with artists who had not been invited to participate in the biennale exhibition.

Major public cultural institutions in Greece are on the point of collapse, say leading Greek art professionals, as concerns mount that the country faces insolvency after 61 % of the population rejected bailout proposals earlier this week made by international creditors.

This proposal was unanimously rejected by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) earlier this month, but illustrates the administration's commitment to support fossil fuel generation.

Before ISO - NE's filing on May 1, the Department of Energy had made onsite fuel supplies the center of its bailout proposal for coal and nuclear plants, which FERC unanimously rejected in early January.

In rejecting the Winklevoss ETF proposal early last year, the SEC specifically left the door open to approving a Bitcoin ETF in the event that regulated futures markets emerged.

This was their key objection when rejected earlier ETF proposals.

This increases the odds that the SEC, which had rejected two Bitcoin ETF proposals earlier this year, might reconsider its stance.

«The Winklevoss ETF proposal was rejected because the SEC found that the significant markets for Bitcoin tend to be unregulated overseas markets that are potentially subject to price manipulation,» Jerry Brito, the executive director at CoinCenter, said earlier in 2017.