Sentences with phrase «similar state efforts»
As I wrote here and on Civil Eats, the BAKE SALE Act and similar state efforts to bring back school junk food fundraising make perfect sense in the short term.
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And while similar rebuilding efforts in Florida after the 2004 hurricanes led to a greater acceptance of concrete building in that state, ICF makers appear to have their work cut out for them in the Deep South.
The removal of Confederate monuments has also stirred up anger in cities like New Orleans, and officials in several states are now making similar efforts.
Some 52 % of executives said that they are finding it requires much harder work to raise much less money as compared to 2008, whereas 45 % state they are still able to raise similar amounts, though it requires a lot of hard work and effort as compared to the good old days.
A similar shift is possible in the United States, Axsater said, pointing to efforts by states to create state - based retirement plans for residents without access to workplace States, Axsater said, pointing to efforts by states to create state - based retirement plans for residents without access to workplace states to create state - based retirement plans for residents without access to workplace plans.
Olson strikes a chord similar to Ken Mehlman, Bush's 2004 campaign manager whose effort was greatly assisted by traditional marriage ballot initiatives in key states like Ohio but who has since come out of the closet to favor the nullification of those results.
The Hoosiers say they are «working diligently» to see if they can find a last - minute opponent for their previously scheduled Oct. 7 bye week after Florida International was forced to cancel this Saturday's game (on Tuesday afternoon, they found a dance partner in Charleston Southern); the Yellow Jackets have not publicly stated any similar efforts after losing this week's trip to UCF, which has offered up its campus and stadium as a staging area for the National Guard.
The effort to get these measures through the Legislature is similar to Cuomo's tour in the lead up to the state budget.
Cynthia worked with the Empire State Pride Agenda to fight for marriage equality in New York state, and traveled around the country to support similar efforts in Maryland, Washington, and New JeState Pride Agenda to fight for marriage equality in New York state, and traveled around the country to support similar efforts in Maryland, Washington, and New Jestate, and traveled around the country to support similar efforts in Maryland, Washington, and New Jersey.
The legislation, broadly speaking, is similar to efforts backed by Democrats in the state Senate as well as the Assembly.
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Since Cuomo took office, hundreds of agency workers have been moved to state - owned space as part of similar «restacking» efforts.
But Mayor Bill de Blasio has also quietly pushed state lawmakers to take similar action, and this week the State Senate passed a bill that would require letter grades, and would supersede the council's effstate lawmakers to take similar action, and this week the State Senate passed a bill that would require letter grades, and would supersede the council's effState Senate passed a bill that would require letter grades, and would supersede the council's efforts.
Sherpardson spearheaded a similar effort in 2012 for former U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon, the mayor of Bridgeport, Bill Finch, made a comment about turnout in the state's largest city.
Though it has been suggested her actions against NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio were politically motivated, state Board of Elections enforcement counsel Risa Sugarman has sounded the alarm over similar behavior in the past — and the targets of her previous efforts were not enemies of the governor.
This effort, of course, did not prevent political opponents from organizing pockets of protests and coopting willing reporters into false reports, even when nearly 30 states were in a similar dilemma.
Since it began circulating in January, the letter has gained more than 100 signatories, women and men, including dozens of Assembly members and their staff members, echoing similar efforts in other state capitals.
Similar arguments are rehearsed each time the state undertakes a major construction project: contractors say the makeup of the workforce is dictated by the construction trades, who in turn say they are making their best efforts to diversify, while minority leaders say not enough is done by way of outreach and recruitment.
Similar and complimentary programs are aligned and working together, reducing costs, red tape and duplicative efforts while increasing the effectiveness of the state's housing and community renewal programs.
Similar efforts have been tried (unsuccessfully) in New York State.
As part of efforts by the Cuomo Administration to build support for the budget, Hoyt and other top administration officials are delivering similar briefings in all 150 of the state's Assembly districts.
The Cuomo administration loosened state rules on local craft wineries in 2011 to encourage more off - site sales, and followed with similar efforts aimed at breweries in 2013 and at cider makers and distillers in 2014.
We've seen, in this very state, vast amounts of money spent by similar groups, no effort to figure out who those donors are.»
On Thursday, the Attorney General and State Police announced a similar effort in Buffalo, called «Operation Rolling Thunder,» bringing the total of indictments to nearly 100 alleged narcotics distributors in the past five days.
Cuomo also is creating a new voter registration task force made up of members of his administration to oversee the effort, including ways to create «secure» online voting registration systems in different state agencies, similar to the ones already used by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
(WBEN) Now that state officials have announced plans to get rid of the toll barriers and go all electronic at the Grand Island Bridges, the push is on to have a similar «drive now, pay later» system at the Lackawanna and Williamsville barriers, and the effort just might get a boost from a template that funded startup of Buffalo's Canalside.
Similar efforts in other states have failed to get that far (Climatewire, Feb. 20).
Malaria has been eliminated before, in the «easy» places such as the southern United States, Europe, and Turkey, and similar efforts are underway elsewhere.
Evangelical state legislators and school board members mounted similar efforts this year in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Alabama, and the Texas Republican Party platform opposes «the teaching of... critical thinking skills and similar programs that... have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.»
After the ceremony completed, Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, said similar desertification reversal efforts were taking place in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the northeastern United States.
Upholding Texas's HB2 could have bolstered similar efforts in other states, making it much harder for women across the country to seek an abortion.
Diet sodas can be no more than 25 percent of the items offered, the directive says.There should be «ample choices» of water, «soy milk, rice milk and other similar dairy or non dairy milk,» says the directive, which also covers fat and sugar content in vending machine snacks.It's all part of Newsom's effort to combat obesity and improve San Franciscans» health, similar to a national effort being championed by first lady Michelle Obama.The mayor's administration points to studies linking soda to obesity, including a UCLA one released last year that found adults who drink at least one soft drink a day are 27 percent more likely to be obese than those who don't, and that soda consumption is fueling the state's $ 41 billion annual obesity problem.
By 2006, 21 other states and several local districts had begun similar programs, both to service homebound or other special - needs students and as an effort to lure home schoolers (and the tax dollars they represent) back into the public education system.
In visiting the Volunteer State, President Obama pledged to provide two years of community college free for «responsible» students, seeking to build off a similar effort the state had already launched for Tennessee residState, President Obama pledged to provide two years of community college free for «responsible» students, seeking to build off a similar effort the state had already launched for Tennessee residstate had already launched for Tennessee residents.
Compared with current efforts in the United States, the British movement is more unified, more extensive, and further along, though both nations are seeking to change schools in similar ways.
That effort was similar to RTT in that it involved states making reforms across a number of areas, with evaluation systems being only one component.
Earlier this year, the state of Washington launched the Open Course Library, a collection of open source textbooks for the state's 81 most popular college courses, and California has just proposed legislation that would fund a similar effort there.
«This visit was an opportunity [for the Brazilian educators] to learn from similar efforts in Massachusetts, in the city of Cambridge, and in the United States, and to engage in conversation with some of our leaders of thought and practice who share similar aspirations for our schools.»
Because of the way Congress creates and funds programs, the department traditionally operated in program - based silos, which led to similar silos in states and hampered efforts to link together programs in comprehensive reform.
Each state sets its own laws governing teacher tenure, dismissal and layoff policies, and the rights the students assert are given under the state constitution, so similar efforts will come in state courts.
Now, state chiefs across the nation are making similar efforts through the...
A spokesman for the senator, David Turner, said that she is also concerned about the nature of Mr. Christie's efforts to increase the state's role in struggling schools, given the problems similar undertakings in New Jersey have encountered previously.
New York City's District 4 (by creating an extensive magnet system) and the state effort in Jersey City (by installing state officials at the top to remake a corrupt system) have taken different routes yet seem to have produced similar results.
He noted that similar grants to states have committed officials to efforts that cost more than the grants provided.
Similar efforts are underway in states and districts from Maine to Mississippi, New Mexico to Wyoming, often led by networks of NBCTs that recruit and support candidates for certification and advocate on behalf of effective education policy that benefits students.
Parents and educators in other states hope their legal efforts get similar results.
And while eligibility varies in the handful of Republican - controlled states — Arizona, Florida, Tennessee, Nevada and Mississippi — that have authorized similar efforts, education savings accounts generally dispatch public K - 12 funds into private savings accounts for parents.
Hall seems well aware of the skepticism surrounding the model, once dubbed the «Achievement School District» but given a new name this year after rocky beginnings for similar efforts in states like Tennessee and Louisiana grabbed headlines.
She is supportive of efforts by a conservative, pro-business group known as ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange Council, to create model legislation for school vouchers and similar programs for states to pass in their legislatures.
K12's operations in California have produced similar results, as In the Public Interest (ITPI) has documented, despite K12's efforts to blame the state.