Sentences with phrase «rollout of»

She comes back to New York at a time when parents are so upset over what top politicians say was the botched rollout of the new Common Core learning standards that they allowed their children to boycott the tests.

He also attacked Cuomo for the state's botched rollout of Common Core requirements, calling it a «disaster for parents, teachers and children alike» and hit the governor for a recently announced plan to offer free college to prisoners, calling the idea «outrageous and unfair.»

But legislators, already sour on Cuomo after a failed special session and aborted pay raise, as well as the rollout of his State of the State message and budget presentation, see the move as an unnecessary encroachment.

State Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch has appointed a task force to study the rocky rollout of the Common Core academic standards in New York and develop recommendations for improvement, the Albany Times Union reports.

Today sees the national rollout of the cap, which had been piloted in the London boroughs of Haringey, Enfield, Croydon and Bromley since April.

New York teachers, parents, and students have expressed resistance to the rollout of the Common Core standards and its associated curriculum.

The governor began the multi-day rollout of his agenda right after the winter holidays during an appearance with Sen. Bernie Sanders (D - VT), who is still popular among New Yorkers on the left after his presidential campaign.

Hartzog touted the city's «targeted, prudent investments» in the new budget, including the expansion of pre-kindergarten for more three - year - olds in the city, efforts to increase the city's affordable housing stock, funding to protect tenants from construction harassment, increased capital funding for the New York City Housing Authority, spending on mental health services and the full rollout of the NYPD's body camera program, among others.

The rushed rollout of the Common Core State Standards under Gov. Andrew Cuomo during the 2012 - 13 school year set off alarm bells in school hallways and living rooms across the state.

Governor Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers should consider lowering the stakes in order to account for the flawed rollout of the Common Core standards in New York, rather than removing the test scores from the ratings altogether, King said.

The rollout of CompStat 2.0 coincided with the final phase of releasing smartphones throughout the NYPD, officials said.

The governor has said he would consider removing Common Core - aligned test scores from consideration in teacher evaluations temporarily to account for the flawed rollout of the tougher curriculum standards.

Silver said leaders were discussing «how we deal with the fact that the rollout of the Common Core wasn't appropriate, and how do we deal with the consequences?»

Beginning a carefully orchestrated rollout of his 2016 agenda, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that he will include $ 7 billion in proposals for upstate, including transportation, energy and agriculture projects.

He's also cited low crime rates and touted his administration's rollout of universal pre-K for four - year - olds.

Mr. de Blasio's biggest education initiative, and his biggest success, has been the rollout of free, universal prekindergarten for 4 - year - olds.

He plans to have a panel of education experts, business people, and lawmakers investigate the rollout of the learning standards.

However, Democratic Congressman Brian Higgins feels a solution to the «rushed» rollout of Common Core is delaying implementation of the standards for two years.

Magee ousted a three - term incumbent, and teachers held a symbolic vote of no confidence in Education Commissioner John King, over what critics call a botched rollout of the new Common Core learning standards.

In Louisiana, Senator Mary Landrieu has aggressively criticized the rollout of the law, but has also attacked Republicans for refusing to implement the Medicaid expansion.

The Government has dismissed criticisms of its rollout of free schools, claiming a scathing report by MPs into recent scandals is «misplaced».

The vice president didn't bring up the turbulent rollout of Obamacare - an issue that's creating heartburn for red state Democrats.

In the latest rollout of initiatives to be included in his State of the State address, Cuomo called for requirements on websites and other digital platforms that run New York political ads to disclose who purchases them and to make «reasonable efforts» to ensure they are not being bought by a foreign interest.

Following the 2012 rollout of Common Core, Latimer made an effort to explain his opposition to initiative to John King, the state Education Commissioner at the time, saying, «I'm convinced we're heading down the wrong path [for education].»

The government is still committed to a nationwide rollout of the scheme, which will be trialled in Manchester this autumn.

Facebook announced the rollout of new ad transparency features amid its push to boost accountability on its platform.

The Republicans are tapping into an anger among many parents in New York state over the botched rollout of a more rigorous curriculum that relies more on standardized tests, and is tied to teacher evaluations.

The rollout of a suite of new email security services by Google follows a 2016 US presidential election that was shaped in part by the disclosure of emails of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton that were obtained through phishing schemes.

Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

The rollout of Christie's full slate of endorsements began Monday night, at a New York City fundraiser for California gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman, the self - funding former eBay CEO who has made taking on the unions a linchpin of her campaign against Democrat Jerry Brown.

Buffalo continues to have a lead poisoning crisis — hundreds of children were diagnosed with dangerous lead levels again last year — but you wouldn't know it by City Hall's slow rollout of its plan to deal with the problem.

Our second installment takes a look at the rollout of the standards and why it appears New York State is leading the way.

Lawmakers dissatisfied with the rollout of the Common Core plan to «shake up» the State Education Department.

He credited de Blasio with reducing stop and frisk and the rollout of neighborhood policing, calling them «hallmark things that have played a big role.»

The 50 - year city educator says some of her major accomplishments in her inaugural year include new contracts for teachers and principals, the rollout of universal pre-K and the creation of 128 community schools with added social services.

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

In his press conference, Astorino blamed Governor Andrew Cuomo for a «terrible» rollout of the standards, saying that «Cuomo's Common Core has been an awful mistake in this state.»

According to the New York Post, the Board of Regents will pass a proposal on Tuesday allowing educators to blame the rollout of the Common Core standards as a reason for poor student performance:

It is a testament to the rough rollout of the Common Core agenda in New York, and perhaps even more so to the poor marketing of it, that there should be such unanimity of political opinion about it.

From guaranteed paid sick leave to tougher gun control laws, from a higher minimum wage to a comparably smooth rollout of the Affordable Care Act, few governors have embraced President Barack Obama's liberal policies with the zeal of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

The governor also recently formed a panel to examine the rollout of the new learning standards and make recommendations for improvement before the end of this year's legislative session.

The flawed rollout of the Common Core standards «was a significant factor that had to be taken into consideration,» he said.

The rollout of the so - called «full service» across the UK will start this month for all new claimants in jobcentres in Newcastle upon Tyne, Lowestoft, Rugby, Bath, and Bridgewater, and will take more than two years to complete.

City United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said: «We have been very vocal on what our positions are on a whole range of problems created by the rollout of the Common Core.»

But Mr. Cuomo has also recently acknowledged that the state's rollout of Common Core hasn't been handled properly.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo suggested he won't sign a «safety net» bill that would shield educators from consequences of the rough rollout of the Common Core standards in New York, citing new teacher - evaluation data released on Tuesday.

Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, has assured that the National Identification Authority (NIA) will begin the rollout of processes for the issuance of the new National Identification Card in April, 2018.

About two dozen educators as well as students took to a podium at Tuesday night's Common Core forum in Manorville to, for the most part, poke holes in the state's rollout of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Education was a sticking point for the Legislature, which spent hours debating funding for statewide full - day pre-kindergarten, charter schools and the flawed rollout of the Common Core, a new testing standard.

The report acknowledged that many mistakes were made in the rollout of the curriculum since 2009 and that reforms are necessary.