Sentences with phrase «statehouses do»

He went on to say that if statehouses don't have Democratic governors going up against Republican legislators, then the progressive values will be «taken away at the state levels.»

More than one - third of the nation's statehouses do not have the metal detector security systems that can be found in a range of public places, from middle schools to museums.

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I'm an organizer for an abortion rights advocacy group, and there's no lactation space in the statehouse so I did what I had to!

Lawmakers at the Statehouse are considering proposals that would prohibit Massachusetts school districts from denying hot lunches to children who don't have the money to pay for them or whose parents have fallen behind on meal plan installments.

He is unfit to be our governor, and we plan to do everything in our power to keep him and his dangerous ideas out of the statehouse.»

Gov. Cuomo accused a female reporter of doing a «disservice to women» during a press event with statehouse reporters.

In the 420 - some days that he has been in the Statehouse, Cuomo hasn't done a single interview with any of the national television networks, despite more than a dozen requests from Sunday morning shows.

The other two are State Assembly Leader Shelly Silver, a Democrat, and the governor, who was get - along Republican George Pataki until Eliot Spitzer came in, determined to change the way business was done in the statehouse.

«Occasionally there's a fourth man — like if there's an Independent Democratic caucus — but they don't last too long,» said former state Sen. Seymour Lachman, co-author of the 2006 study «Three Men in a Room: The Inside Story of Power and Betrayal in an American Statehouse.»

To be sure, in many red states, charter supporters don't need Democratic votes in the statehouse in order to get bills passed and budgets enacted.

If Republicans do make major gains in Congress and the statehouses on Tuesday, the public sector may well lose some of its privileges.

The statehouse was even more eager to see the state take the reins in New Orleans, handily passing an alternative plan (that didn't become law) to take over all schools in the district.

«The fact of the matter is, there was enough momentum about this issue for everybody in the statehouse, enough people to get it passed, to say, timeout, stop, and let's do a thorough review,» says Schneider.

While Fordham's Mike Petrilli has traveled to Indiana and other states to confront such thinking in statehouses, others have not bothered to do so, especially on the pages of the very media outlets that inform the movement.

You can't be a reformer and think that you can do the right thing by all children by simply relying on activism at the nation's statehouses.

In the course of reporting a story about Michelle Rhee, the controversial former District of Columbia chancellor seeking to take her brand of education reform to statehouses across the country, the Los Angeles Times asked her spokeswoman a simple question: Do Rhee's children attend public or private school?

Kansas News Service editor Amy Jeffries talks with Statehouse reporters Celia Llopis - Jepsen, Madeline Fox, and Stephen Koranda about some of what lawmakers ultimately did, and didn't, do.

The resulting patchwork not only varies in terms of rigor, but has saddled many k - 12 teachers with standards that have more to do with ideological squabbles in a particular statehouse than with ensuring that every child leaves school with the critical thinking skills, creativity and flexibility needed to enter college or the workforce.

But a greater focus on statehouses will actually do more on the policy front for our children.

«In education policy, there would be times where they didn't have votes — maybe 10 or 15 Republicans who didn't want to vote for totally expanding the charter - school cap,» says Brandon Dillon, who served in the Michigan Statehouse before becoming the state Democratic chair.