Sentences with phrase «state lawmakers who»

State lawmakers who oversee North Carolina's public schools think the two low - performing virtual charter schools should be allowed to remain open for four more years and that elementary schools must prove they're teaching cursive handwriting and multiplication tables.

State lawmakers who are looking into how to break up North Carolina's school districts agreed Wednesday that additional study is needed before legislation is considered to split up any school systems.

I recently joined several of my urban teacher colleagues, who are members of the Connecticut Education Association's Ethnic Minority Affairs Commission, and met with representatives of the Connecticut African - American Affairs Commission and state lawmakers who are members of the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus.

The school board conducted the search for the new superintendent without telling the public or key state lawmakers who were seeking input in the selection.

Senger was taking part in semi-secret meetings of state lawmakers who were discussing the «pension crisis.»

State lawmakers who campaigned on being champions of public schools should step forward and change the rigid state school calendar law to the benefit of the people in the schools: the students.

That's the claim of state lawmakers who say the problem lies in Tax Increment Finance (TIF) districts, a mechanism that allows local governments to use tax revenues created by increasing property values in the districts to encourage development.

Conservative state lawmakers who rail against federal mandates often find themselves using the same weapon in dealing with their own cities and counties, Stateline.org reports.

RENO, NEV. — The word «accountability» was on the minds and lips of many of the 1,500 state lawmakers who gathered here last week for the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Like other state lawmakers who have declined to run in the past three days, Vos said he wanted to concentrate on his own re-election and continuing his work in the Wisconsin Legislature.

This poor - mouthing of his own mojo must have come as a happy surprise to the handful of state lawmakers who showed up for the event, one of the governor's periodic «Capital for a Day» showpieces.

The Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, created by Governor Andrew Cuomo earlier this year, sent a letter in late August requesting information from state lawmakers who earned more than $ 20,000 in income aside from their part - time legislative salaries.

An anti-corruption commission appointed by the governor, known as the Moreland Act Commission, subpoenaed state lawmakers who earn more than $ 20,000 a year from private law firms, asking to see their private client lists.

Other groups, including Common Cause and the New York Public Interest Research Group, say the new commission would not be sufficiently independent from state lawmakers who would appoint the majority of its members.

New York voters have not been kind in recent years to state lawmakers who run for Congress, rejecting them in favor of political neophytes and often up - ending entrenched party strongholds in the process.

With more than 30 state lawmakers who have been embroiled in legal or ethical dilemmas since 2000, the state needs an independent watchdog with subpoena powers to not only examine individual instances of wrongdoing, but also to propose solutions to systemic problems of corruption that plague New York.

A prominent state senator recently claimed that religious groups may try to oust state lawmakers who won't support a controversial education tax credit.

Already state lawmakers who represent districts where the prisons are located are complaining.

John L. Sampson, Sheldon Silver and Dean G. Skelos, all former state lawmakers who have been convicted of crimes, will be sentenced in May.

New Yorkers will soon get a chance to decide whether to hold a constitutional convention in New York, but some government reform groups say there needs to be some major changes made first - including banning double dipping by state lawmakers who might become delegates.

Some state lawmakers who have the prisons slated for closure in their districts are also upset.

Klein also did indeed «alienate» swaths of people, predominantly state lawmakers who made an effort to strip the mayor of control of the school system — something he wrested from the Board of Education in 2002 when he took office.

New Yorkers will soon get a chance to decide whether to hold a constitutional convention in New York - but some government reform groups say there needs to be some major changes made first - including banning double dipping by state lawmakers who might become delegates.

During a stop in Buffalo Thursday to help sell his 2013 - 2014 budget proposal Governor Andrew Cuomo praised state lawmakers who voted for the SAFE Act.

Later in the interview, Malloy appeared to say that governors and state lawmakers who did not vote to expand Medicare would go to Hell.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo was effusive in his praise this afternoon for state lawmakers who agreed to a tentative $ 132.6 billion budget that will likely pass in advance of Saturday's deadline.

The League says state lawmakers who were also again the constitutional convention, now have to step up to the plate and enact real reforms to combat corruption and improve voting access, among other things.

The state lawmakers who approved the change may have partly got what they wanted.

Bruno's win has major implications for the dozens of other state lawmakers who hold outside jobs and have recently found themselves in investigators» cross-hairs.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is saying «thank you» to the state lawmakers who backed his sweeping gun control law in letter that's being sent to members today.

It's also sent letters to numerous state lawmakers who are also attorneys, asking them to disclose the names of all clients they've represented in public civil or criminal cases, and the amount of money they received in legal fees.

But Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney isn't quite so quick to call for Skelos to go, and says she will go along with state lawmakers who have agreed to let Skelos keep his post.

State disclosure reports released Tuesday independently confirm what CalNewsroom.com first reported last December: the names of 18 state lawmakers who relaxed on the beaches of Maui with Sacramento's most powerful special interest groups.

Hoylman is one of a handful of state lawmakers who've introduced legislation to ban the devices in New York.

-- Legislators would amend the State Constitution to strip the pensions of state lawmakers who are convicted of crimes, even if they've already been serving in office.

Koch promised to record robocalls against state lawmakers who seem to be renegging on their NY Uprising pledge.

And the issue remains a personal one for state lawmakers who back the measure, like Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, who spoke about her mother's final days.

Democratic state lawmakers who ran in House primaries this past month missed a slew of votes over the last six months while running for federal office, according to today's NYPIRG analysis.

The measure, known as the Education, Labor and Family Assistance budget bill, included a suite of ethics reform legislation that address client disclosure for state lawmakers who are attorneys as well as per diem and campaign finance reform.

James was endorsed by the New York State Nurses Association, as well as state lawmakers who hold leadership posts in the state Assembly.

The fact that the former governor is lending his name to an effort that has considered trying to oust state lawmakers who aren't sufficiently reform - minded at a time when his son is seeking to be in a position where he will have to work with the Legislature is fascinating — and potentially problematic.

The measures were requested city officials and state lawmakers who represent the area as its school district seeks to plug yet another budget deficit.

(To be honest, it's hard to see what the incentive would be for some of the state lawmakers who won't be returning in January to drag themselves up to Albany for a special session — unless it's to clean out their offices).

Flanagan is one of 16 state lawmakers who reported earning at least $ 100,000 from outside work in 2013.

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Even while declining to weigh in on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget proposal, Rep. Charlie Rangel last night seemed to be siding with state lawmakers who are agitating in favor of extending the millionaire's tax and using the revenue that would produce to soften the governor's proposed spending cuts.

He also said rather flatly during a CapTon interview that he didn't believe the plan would cut $ 2.85 billion — or even the revised $ 2.3 billion, for that matter — in the current year, as the administration has insisted, and is among the Democratic state lawmakers who have championed extending the millionaire's tax.

The state's tightly regulated medical marijuana program is due to be in place by January, though state lawmakers who backed the program are pushing for a faster phase in of the program in order to help patients — especially children with epilepsy — now.

Here's a look at the state lawmakers who were elected to another office and potential contenders for several of the seats.

New Yorkers will soon get a chance to decide whether to hold a constitutional convention in New York — but some government reform groups say some major changes need to be made first — including banning double dipping by state lawmakers who might become delegates.