Sentences with phrase «than a dozen states»

The rare event will be visible in certain regions within more than a dozen states.

Consumers in more than a dozen states would have foot the bill, which could have totaled billions.

With more than a dozen states approving the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, the Chicago Tribune looks at some of the entrepreneurs blazing a trail in the quasi-legal pot industry.

More than a dozen states have similar legal protection, although this is the first time Wisconsin's courts are facing such a case.

More than a dozen states offer prepaid tuition plans, though some are currently closed to new enrollment.

Business began to grow, and the company eventually expanded to more than a dozen states.

Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have proposed taxing prescription painkillers as a way to hold drugmakers accountable for the nation's opioid addiction and overdose crisis.

And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.

Indeed, there may have been more political action in the 1990s, when the NCC funded organizers in more than a dozen states.

From windows of stores, banks and homes elaborate decorations peep out at gaily dressed youngsters anxiously awaiting the annual avalanche of visitors from more than a dozen states.

Florida - based Bonefish Grill started in January 2000 and has grown to more than 100 locations in more than a dozen states.

More than a dozen state and city lawmakers on Friday signed on to a letter aimed Bloomingdale's chairman and CEO Tony Spring urging a fair contract to 2,000 unionized retail workers.

More than a dozen state lawmakers and law - enforcement officials held a news conference in Albany on Monday to call on the state Parole Board to deny parole for Judith Clark, who drove a getaway car in the 1981 Brinks robbery in Rockland County.

In more than a dozen states, House and Senate primary elections will happen on the same ballot with the presidential race — timing that could pose a challenge for incumbent candidates in intra-party battles.

Governors in more than a dozen states, too, have said they oppose having refugees settle in their states, though their power is limited when it comes to federal immigration policy.

New York joins more than a dozen states that have hiked the minimum wage over the last year or so.

The new language follows a report by The New York Times last month that showed Mr. Cuomo had raised about $ 890,000 from his appointees to more than a dozen state boards and commissions.

In the last few years, more than a dozen state lawmakers have been convicted or pleaded guilty to corruption charges, including former Speaker Sheldon Silver — your predecessor, Mr. Heastie — and former Majority Leader Dean Skelos — your predecessor, Mr. Flanagan.

More than a dozen state lawmakers have signed onto a letter calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor to probe the death of Eric Garner after he was subject to a choke hold from police.

AG Eric Schneiderman joined more than a dozen state attorneys general in sending a letter to Trump calling for him to ignore «misguided advice» and continue federal support for the Clean Power Plan

The conviction of Mr. Silver, 72, served as a capstone to a campaign against public corruption by Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, which has led to more than a dozen state lawmakers» being convicted or pleading guilty.

In March, New York was one of fewer than a dozen states without an anti-bullying statute on the books.

The measure was inspired by SLA's pursuit of the Colonie retailer Empire Wine, which in August 2014 was cited for shipping to consumers in more than a dozen states where such shipments are illegal.

More than a dozen state legislators, legislative officials and other insiders interviewed by the Daily News give credit to Preet Bharara for targeting Albany wrongdoing but are fuming over what they say is the powerful prosecutor's publicity seeking, tarring of the entire Legislature, and wading into governance issues far beyond the scope of his office.

PITTSFORD — As more than a dozen states investigate energy companies over an alleged global warming coverup, Vermont RICO 20 professor Alan Betts says backers aren't engaged in an anti-free-speech witch hunt.

ELIZABETHTOWN — Ahead of next the general election, more than a dozen state, local and federal representatives have endorsed Essex County Judge Richard Meyer and Essex County Clerk Joseph Provoncha.

More than a dozen state and congressional investigations were launched in response to the videos; none found evidence leading to charges against Planned Parenthood, other abortion providers, or companies that receive and process the tissue.

Though early in the season, the Centers for Disease Control has already alerted more than a dozen states, many in the South and Southwest, of local flu outbreaks.

Steve DelBianco, executive director of NetChoice, a coalition of e-commerce companies and tradegroups, such as America Online, eBay, Oracle, Orbitz and Yahoo, said more than a dozen states have considered but not passed such laws.

This year legislators in more than a dozen state capitals will decide how to spend hundreds of millions of new education dollars slated for preschool.

The network has grown: Today, more than a dozen states are involved, covering nearly 46 percent of K — 12 public school students.

Over the past two years, more than a dozen states have sought to change laws that make seniority the determining factor in layoff decisions; so far, Florida, Idaho, Utah, and Ohio have succeeded.

Benton was one of more than a dozen state CAOs who visited Louisiana with Joanne Weiss last fall, a trip funded by the Council of Chief State School Officers.

Joanne Weiss, the former chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Education under Secretary Arne Duncan, has brought education officials from more than a dozen states to Louisiana in her capacity as a consultant to the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).

More than a dozen states have begun using a similar system since then, several of them just in the current year.

Results from the initial round of Common Core - aligned tests (administered last spring) have been trickling out for the past few weeks in more than a dozen states.

We have worked with more than a dozen state departments of education to support their efforts to improve school climate.

More than a dozen states and several large cities currently operate voucher programs.

Center associates are supporting more than a dozen states responding to the Every Student Succeeds Act with inventive and technically defensible accountability designs.

More than a dozen states introduced legislation to pull out of the Common Core State Standards, but most bills went nowhere.

In the past two years, more than a dozen states have passed laws and removed obstacles to encourage virtual schools.

The Wisconsin Center for Education Research found that less than a dozen states can claim their high - stakes tests are aligned with their standards.

Georgia is one of more than a dozen states where teachers looking to renew their licenses can ditch the one - off seminars and instead craft personalized plans for improving their instruction.

«Charter schools in New Jersey, specifically in Newark, have some of the largest learning gains we have seen to date,» wrote Margaret Raymond, director of CREDO, which has conducted charter school research in more than a dozen states.

The National Center for Fair and Open Testing counted more than 640,000 opt - outs in more than a dozen states, including about 240,000 in New York.

In the past few years, more than a dozen states have passed or proposed new laws to raise awareness about dyslexia through increased screening, intervention programs, and teacher training.

More than a dozen states now grade their public schools using the traditional A through F system.

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Conservatives in more than a dozen states have introduced or plan to introduce measures dropping out of, or taking steps toward ending, Common Core.

Board members and administrators from more than a dozen state - funded charter schools are profiting from their affiliations by doing business with schools they oversee.