Sentences with phrase «while in the state legislature»

Our endorsement is based upon his personal background and his actions in defense of our civil rights while in the state legislature.

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FYI, lib, Obama voted in favor of partial birth abortion while he was in the Illinois state legislature.

Two days ago, I was in the school hallway with my friend Andrea discussing the hullabaloo a while back when Texas parents successfully demanded from the state legislature the right to continue to bring birthday cupcakes to school (also known,... [Continue reading]

While announcing his endorsement for Alcántara in July, Espaillat declared 2016 «the year of the women,» stating that more female representation in the state legislature is sorely needed.

The UN's failures can be traced to the way the Security Council (SC) is currently able to act in a judicial manner in determining whether states have complied with SC resolutions, while also acting as the executive in drawing up those resolutions, and also as the principal legislature in voting on them.

Mr. Cuomo declined to criticize Mr. Schneiderman's ideas, but noted that the legislature often takes considerable time to pass bills, given that the Assembly is in the hands of the Democrats while the Republicans hold the reins of the State Senate.

«The budget agreement assumes $ 481 million in «savings» from the unnecessary layoff of state employees making the legislature complicit in a reckless and irresponsible plan that is both impractical and nasty while eroding state services at a time when they are needed most.

«As a state legislature, and in coordination with the Governor, we must fight for real, lasting tax reform because it is painfully obvious that middle America is paying the bills while the super wealthy benefit from loopholes and the 40 % on the lower spectrum pay nothing at all.»

In each of his State of the State speeches Cuomo has used the capitol building as a metaphor for something that was once glorious and can be restored; he has said he wants to re-establish New York «the progressive capital of the nation»; he has touted the number of on - time budgets he and the legislature have delivered (this year he'll say four in a row and counting); he has demanded more teacher accountability but explained new changes he's seeking; and, he has stressed a need for ethics rules overhaul and campaign finance reform while mentioning unsavory headlineIn each of his State of the State speeches Cuomo has used the capitol building as a metaphor for something that was once glorious and can be restored; he has said he wants to re-establish New York «the progressive capital of the nation»; he has touted the number of on - time budgets he and the legislature have delivered (this year he'll say four in a row and counting); he has demanded more teacher accountability but explained new changes he's seeking; and, he has stressed a need for ethics rules overhaul and campaign finance reform while mentioning unsavory headlinein a row and counting); he has demanded more teacher accountability but explained new changes he's seeking; and, he has stressed a need for ethics rules overhaul and campaign finance reform while mentioning unsavory headlines.

A 2004 court decision limited the legislature's ability to make changes in the governor's spending plan, and the current governor has increasingly put more policy language into the state's spending plan, including raising the minimum wage in 2013 and increasing penalties for texting while driving in 2014.

Hein, in a 12 - page single - space budget message delivered in Rosendale again banged the state legislature for imposing unfunded mandates, while praising Gov. Andrew Cuomo for trying to offer relief.

While campaigning in 2010, he said he favored a convention «to rewrite the Constitution» and make changes to «clean up Albany» immediately «because we can not wait any longer for the state legislature to act.»

However, Cuomo's economic development chief Howard Zemsky told a joint state legislature committee on Monday that while the new Wadsworth would be located in the Capital Region, no specific location has been targeted.

Toobin reported that DeLay left Washington and returned to Texas to oversee the project while final voting was underway in the state legislature, and that «several times during the long days of negotiating sessions, DeLay personally shuttled proposed maps among House and Senate offices in Austin.»

While some issues come and go at the state capitol in Albany, education always remains on the agenda for the governor and the state legislature, and this year will be no different.

With Ruben Diaz apparently sticking to his threat to withhold support for the emergency spending bills that have been keeping the government in operation for the past two months while the legislature tries to craft an annual budget (Pedro Espada has seemingly backed down), the state is preparing for the possibility of its first - ever government shutdown.

Democrats took both houses of the state legislature and picked up a senate and house seat in 2004, all while Bush was winning election.

While state legislative sessions in most states are longer and more active in odd years, almost all state legislatures meet in even - numbered years as well.

Of the 10, five — Ohio, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania — have split control in the governorships / state legislatures while Democrats control state government in Illinois, Massachusetts and New York.

In 2014, when he challenged pro-LGBTQ State Senator Gustavo Rivera in that year's Democratic primary, a YouTube video he produced while in Uganda surfaced in which he praised that nation's aggressively homophobic government as «the righteous» at the very moment its legislature was considering infamous «kill the gays» legislatioIn 2014, when he challenged pro-LGBTQ State Senator Gustavo Rivera in that year's Democratic primary, a YouTube video he produced while in Uganda surfaced in which he praised that nation's aggressively homophobic government as «the righteous» at the very moment its legislature was considering infamous «kill the gays» legislatioin that year's Democratic primary, a YouTube video he produced while in Uganda surfaced in which he praised that nation's aggressively homophobic government as «the righteous» at the very moment its legislature was considering infamous «kill the gays» legislatioin Uganda surfaced in which he praised that nation's aggressively homophobic government as «the righteous» at the very moment its legislature was considering infamous «kill the gays» legislatioin which he praised that nation's aggressively homophobic government as «the righteous» at the very moment its legislature was considering infamous «kill the gays» legislation.

While Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and much of the Albany establishment opposed the measure, many good - government types said a constitutional convention would be the best way to break down institutional corruption in Albany by forcing changes in campaign finance and ethics laws that state legislature would never approve.

Local school officials, in turn, are admonishing members of the legislature for the shortfall, while lawmakers are blaming the state school board, and school board members are pointing to faulty data.

After years of easy - to - spot trends, the most recent surge of school - finance activity in state courts and legislatures finds some states retrenching while others confront fresh legal challenges.

An August report from the National Conference of State Legislatures noted, «While Fiscal Year 2009 can be summed up in one word: dismal, FY 2010 can be characterized by two words: even worse.»

In Massachusetts, 34,000 children remain stranded on waitlists for charter schools while the state legislature continues to ignore the demonstrated wishes of their constituents, forcing the question of access to high quality schools to a ballot question this fall.

While state education agencies are responsible for implementing federal programs, in many states the governor and the legislature, not the chief state school officer and the state education agency, are in charge of testing and accountability policy.

While the two massive victories mean a great deal to the education justice community who've been demanding the legislature fully fund public schools, the state education funding formula bill will now have to be passed in the House where it faces a serious uphill battle.

While the N.C. Association of Educators and teachers have demanded increases to per pupil spending, funding is only a symptom of a larger problem.Much of the tensions between the state legislature and teachers — arising from a decline in inflation - adjusted per - pupil spending and a 10 percent decline in inflation - adjusted salaries — could have been circumvented with stronger rights for public - sector employees.

In 2015 - 16, a few more states passed laws recognizing the right of parents to hold their children out of standardized testing, while similar opt - out bills advanced in one or both houses of several other legislatureIn 2015 - 16, a few more states passed laws recognizing the right of parents to hold their children out of standardized testing, while similar opt - out bills advanced in one or both houses of several other legislaturein one or both houses of several other legislatures.

While this didn't mean that schools received no funding, the extreme decrease in state and federal funding, (as well as later freezes and sequestrations as the legislature attempted to deal with the state budget), meant that Kentucky's school districts were forced to rely on their other source of income: property taxes.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today shot back at U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who expressed opposition to a bill in the California legislature that would eliminate statewide testing for a year while districts shift to new protocols aligned with Common Core.

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).

One change to New Jersey's charter school law passed the legislature yesterday, while talk mounts that a broader rewrite of the state's 15 - year - old statute governing the semi-autonomous schools may be in the offing.

In a speech to New York's state legislature last November, Mayor Bloomberg praised «data - driven systems» while arguing that student test scores should be linked to teacher tenure decisions.

In that race, Hagan successfully tied her opponent Thom Tillis to his leading role in cutting education spending while serving as the Speaker of the House in the state's legislaturIn that race, Hagan successfully tied her opponent Thom Tillis to his leading role in cutting education spending while serving as the Speaker of the House in the state's legislaturin cutting education spending while serving as the Speaker of the House in the state's legislaturin the state's legislature.

While the Common Core brand has soured in the state, Morgan contends the standards themselves will drive down remediation levels over time and that the legislature shouldn't fiddle with them.

While Arizona's tax - credit programs were fully vindicated by both the Arizona and U.S. Supreme courts, 10 the voucher programs were declared unconstitutional by the Arizona Supreme Court in Cain v. Horne under a provision of the state constitution that prohibits appropriations of public funds «in aid of» private and sectarian schools.11 In the wake of Cain v. Horne, the legislature passed Lexie's Law, 12 a corporately funded scholarship - tax - credit program to help fund private school scholarships for children with disabilitiein Cain v. Horne under a provision of the state constitution that prohibits appropriations of public funds «in aid of» private and sectarian schools.11 In the wake of Cain v. Horne, the legislature passed Lexie's Law, 12 a corporately funded scholarship - tax - credit program to help fund private school scholarships for children with disabilitiein aid of» private and sectarian schools.11 In the wake of Cain v. Horne, the legislature passed Lexie's Law, 12 a corporately funded scholarship - tax - credit program to help fund private school scholarships for children with disabilitieIn the wake of Cain v. Horne, the legislature passed Lexie's Law, 12 a corporately funded scholarship - tax - credit program to help fund private school scholarships for children with disabilities.

While we likely will not have quite so many when legislative sessions start in 2016, I still think almost every state legislature will introduce legislation on student data privacy.

The irony of the legislature advancing this package of accountability measures, while at the same time approving new alternative routes to certification in the state (see: http://progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/behind-michigans-teacher-shortage-a-manufactured-crisis-180426/) is beyond rich.

«Just because teachers unions block reform efforts in state legislatures and local school boards, reform advocates don't have to sit idly by while children and our education infrastructure suffer.»

The National Education Association shared that teachers are also going on strike in southeast Washington in Pasco while the state legislature struggles to increase funding for education due to a state supreme court order that sanctions the state $ 100,000 every day that the lawmakers failed to «adequately pay to educate the state's 1 million school children.»

So to increase revenues, for - profit schools must bring in more students while public schools can lobby the state legislature for increased funds.

In 2015, the legislature passed a moratorium intended to delay fracking while the state's Department of Natural Resources studied whether fracking — a method of oil and gas production that uses large amounts of chemical - and sand - laced water to break up shale gas below ground, releasing deposits of fossil fuels.

There are currently four carbon tax bills in front of the state legislature which, if passed, would demonstrate leadership on climate change policy while offering a path forward for creating the revenue required to rewrite the state's biennial budget.

«This is a good and important piece of legislation,» Malloy said, adding that the state's legislature «took real steps toward reducing our overall emissions and creating good jobs in the green economy, all while decreasing costs for ratepayers.»

There was an attempt a while back to introduce a measure in the state legislature that claimed climate change was actually beneficial to Montana,» he says, incredulous that these members of the state legislature were driving through the same dying forests as him during this episode.

While paralyzing partisanship, elections and fiscal throwdowns had most lawmakers spending 2012 doing a good impression of rats caught in a coffee can, legislatures at the state level did appear to find a bit of unexpected common ground.

While the senior leadership of the Georgia Bar Association work on plans for a lawyer incubator (a small pilot program) and a rural lawyer assistance plan (now in the hands of the state legislature), the bar's Young Lawyers Division have launched the Succession Planning Pilot Program with the idea of matching successful, practicing, small city or rural lawyers with young lawyers and recent graduates looking for positions.

While the State of Louisiana began regulating this dangerous practice in 2008, the legislature recently has decided that the existing law did not go far enough to protect innocent drivers.

While serving on the Colorado Association of REALTORS ®» Legislative Policy Committee, I learned that Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and our state legislature were so panic - stricken over the fires that they wanted to create a statewide mandate to require fire mitigation disclosure in a home sale.