Sentences with phrase «system after taking office»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, railed against earmarks during his 2010 gubernatorial campaign and proudly announced the end of the «member item» system after taking office.

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With the larger economic problems the nation faces in funding the Depression - era program, Astrue has made little headway, particularly since he took office after the collapse of President Bush's efforts to reform the system, and especially now that his six - year appointment has carried him, a Republican legacy, into a Democratic administration.

Republican / Conservative mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis pledged to examine the City's property tax system promptly after taking office.

Unfortunately, Gordon Brown's miserable announcement on electoral reform (a referendum on the non-proportional AV system, after the next election, which presumably will be canned as soon as the Tories take office) had served to puncture everyone's enthusiasm, and apparently fill the room with a mixture of disappointment and fury.

The Ghanaian economy is regaining its confidence after the Nana Addo - led government took office and put in place strategic measures to revamp the system.

As things stand now, lawmakers who joined the retirement system after Aug. 15, 2011, who are convicted of a crime related to their office can have their pensions taken away.

In a letter to Nancy Zimpher, First Deputy Comptroller Pete Grannis said the comptroller's office was stripping SUNY of the privilege of speedy approval of spending requests because of a $ 270,000 report commissioned by Zimpher shortly after she took control of the 64 - campus public university system in 2009.

In February 1977, two weeks after taking office, Carter urged Americans to turn down their thermostats and announced a plan to move the U.S. away from fossil fuels and toward a system based on solar and other renewable energy sources.

While the Indiana Department of Education's Office of School Improvement and Turnaround offered support and encouragement, it also reminded local educators of what was at stake for schools where test scores remained low: after six straight F's under Indiana's school rating system, the state can take the school over.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

After months of revisions, the new accountability system negotiated by LA Unified and seven other California school districts under the guidance of the California Office to Reform Education (CORE), will take effect next month.

According to the judge's order posted at Lat's site (we'll get to that in a minute), the law firm of Snell and Wilmer figured out that it could take advantage of a Utah federal court's after - hours filing system by stamping the first page of a filing on the due date and returning it to the office.

The «smart» firms, which were up and running again in less than 24 hours, had taken heed after the first quake and backed up their client management systems and databases to ensure that if their office became uninhabitable and they could not get access to physical files etc, they could still run their operations.

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Advocated aggressive investment of public monies in lower - income communities and New Urbanist projects after taking office in 1999; spearheaded initiatives by the California State Teachers» Retirement System to channel $ 400 million into retail infill programs.