Sentences with phrase «state reform efforts»

The Collaborative for Student Success became a leading advocate for college - and career - ready standards in US schools, and continues to support state reform efforts today.

Fellows have opportunities to broaden their understanding of state reform efforts; learn media skills; and receive continuous support in writing blog posts, op - eds, and letters to the editor.

They have opportunities to broaden their understanding of state reform efforts; learn media skills; and receive continuous support in writing blog posts, op - eds, and letters to the editor.

First, there were large - scale investigations of state reform efforts.

Not exact matches

While last week's budget vote cleared the way to begin the tax reform effort, 20 Republicans voted against it, citing issues with the elimination of state and local tax deductions and a massive expansion of the federal deficit.

China is stepping up efforts to reform its bloated state - owned enterprises by streamlining their activities - a strategy bankers and private equity executives expect will produce a series of spin - offs and divestments.

In «The Grammar of Baptism» (December 1991) the Rev. Alvin F. Kimel, Jr. argues with considerable ingenuity against the efforts of feminists to «reform» the name of the Holy Trinity, from its current benighted state of «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,» in the direction of «non-gender-specific terms.»

Challenge Success has since worked with almost 800,000 students, faculty, administrators and parents throughout the United States and across the world on efforts like changing bell schedules, reforming homework policies, shifting to alternative assessments and encouraging project - based learning with the goal of creating «healthier and more productive pathways to success.»

Top Democrats in Albany still won't tell survivors where they can stand on the decade - old effort to reform the state's statute of limitations law on child sex abuse claims.

The 21 members of the mainline Democratic conference in the Senate have signed onto a letter raising concerns with the effort to reform the state's workers compensation regulations.

This is an effort beyond that to try to get real reform in the state of New York.»

He played an instrumental role in ensuring New York State qualified for, and won, $ 700 million in Federal Race to the Top dollars, a US Department of Education sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 educaState qualified for, and won, $ 700 million in Federal Race to the Top dollars, a US Department of Education sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 educastate and local district K - 12 education.

But despite the efforts of the Attorney General's Public Integrity Bureau and those of U.S. Attorneys across the State, the cycle of corruption persists, in part due to the negligible impact of marginal reforms previously enacted in the wake of public corruption scandals.

Once the state's political leaders got past the congratulatory «atta - boys» and backslapping on their most recent effort to reform Albany, the public was left to dig through the details of the legislative agreement.

And many of them gladly paid lip service to voluntary reform efforts such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, a program created in 2002 to prevent corruption in resource - rich states.

We aim to assess the effects of successive efforts to reform the executive government (the «state machine») of the UK over the past thirty years.

Mettler examines three parts of the American submerged state — subsidised bank - based student lending, private healthcare, and tax expenditures — and details the Obama administration's efforts to reform them.

«In that spirit, I am writing to you today to open a dialogue that I hope will help us work together to enact much - needed reforms on which the NFIB and the WFP now stand united: Enactment of a property tax and a spending cap, reducing state spending and our job - killing cost of doing business and fighting efforts to increase taxes even further in New York.»

«As both an elected official and candidate for attorney general, I am proud to support this long overdue effort to reform state government from top to bottom.»

«We will keep looking hard at corruption in our legislative branch as we have been, but not just there, but in the executive branch, too — both in city and state government,» Bharara said on April 12 at a gala hosted by the good - government group Common Cause, where he suggested there should be more efforts at government reform.

«While the Republican Party spends the next eight weeks fighting and bickering amongst themselves, New York Democrats will be reaching out to voters in every county in an effort to bring real reform to this state,» Jacobs said.

This year, in a speech that included applause for Cuomo's criminal justice reform efforts such as strengthening state oversight of jail and his plan to fight the federal government on the tax law, Cuomo sought to give shootouts to individual members of the Legislature and praise Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as well as DiNapoli.

«Now is the time for serious reform and I support Senator John DeFrancisco's effort to restore contracting oversight to the independently - elected State Comptroller.»

My two - year effort to reform the operation of the city and state Boards of Election is gaining some steam due to the closeness of the congressional race in NY - 13 (Harlem / NW Bronx).

State Senate Leader John Flanagan (R - 2) says he's open to talking about adding the ideas to a reform package, saying the super PACs «can not be fronts for coordinated efforts of candidates.»

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

As the group was gathered at City Hall, a parallel voting reform effort was being advanced in the state capital as well.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

Other school - reform advocates accused bureaucrats of caving to political pressure as union - aligned Assembly Democrats vowed to block efforts to raise or repeal the cap on the number of charters the state allows.

Reform groups including Citizen Action New York gathered in Albany on Monday to protest the outsized influence of the natural gas industry on the state legislature's approach to hydrofracking, noting that the industry has contributed more than $ 1.3 million to state legislators in an effort to buy support for the controversial practice.

Only an imperial governor like Cuomo would label my efforts to fix the tax code as «treasonous,» as he did last week, reacting to my support for reform that would cut taxes for most New Yorkers while removing the state and local deduction.

The state's Catholic Conference spent $ 2.1 million between 2007 and 2015 lobbying against efforts to reform the law, as well as other measures.

When ethics expert Jane Feldman's departure from the New York State Assembly, and her appraisal of the experience as «as waste of money,» was first reported by the Times Union last week, many saw it as another blow to reform efforts in Albany.

New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, a super PAC backed by supporters of education reform and charter school efforts, is spending more money in potentially pivotal races for the state Senate.

The effects of forthcoming federal tax reform efforts — such as limitations on the deductibility for state and local taxes and the exemption for municipal bonds — could hit the state hard, the duo said, and have «significant implications» for the revenues of both New York City (the state's main economic engine) and the state.

The effort is a clear continuation of Andrew Cuomo's often - repeated pledge to get outside the «beltway» of the Capitol and enlist the people in his quest to reform state government.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins on Thursday weighed in on the education funding discussions in the state budget, saying in a statement school aid should not be «held hostage» in the ongoing effort instill education reforms.

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.

A marquee issue for businesses: reforming the state's workers compensation laws, a long - sought effort that has stalled.

At 2 p.m., key elected officials representing all levels of state government join reform advocates in calling on their colleagues to support efforts to end political corruption, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At 11:30 a.m., good government groups unveil an effort to pressure Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Flanagan, and Assembly Speake Heastie to «more openly engage» in addressing ethics reform, outside Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

The governor, who is also negotiating with the legislature on the state budget and related items, like pension reform, says of the legislature's efforts on redistricting reform «my trust level is low, my skepticism is high».

The mayor, who says he favors campaign finance reform, led a massive fundraising effort to retake control of the state Senate.

The sentence handed down Tuesday to former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver drew quick reactions by two local lawmakers, both of whom called for a serious effort to reform ethics in Albany.

ALBANY — The two long - serving members of the state Board of Regents ousted by lawmakers on Tuesday were brave soldiers for the Common Core standards and other recent education reform efforts, board chancellor Merryl Tisch said.

One effort to reform the Port Authority, the agency at the center of the Bridgegate scandal, died this year when the state Senate failed to override a veto by Christie (New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a parallel bill; each state must pass identical laws to reform the bi-state agency).

The statement also touted Schneiderman's writing ethics reform legislation and his efforts to expel Hiram Monserrate from the state Senate.

Efforts to enact early voting and other reforms were unsuccessful when the state Senate, led by a coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats, did not act on the bills.

Woolwich — Senate President Steve Sweeney, Assemblyman John Burzichelli and Assemblyman Adam Taliaferro joined with local officials, educators and others today in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Kingsway Regional School System as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

The spokesman said that as part of reform efforts to «create greater transparency» all of the administrators except Shaw will be paid with state money as of May.