Sentences with phrase «with statehouse»

Indianapolis Star education reporter Scott Elliott points out General Assembly members could vote to strip the state superintendent's power over the State Board, making it all the more critical for Ritz to find common ground with statehouse Republicans.

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.

With the Statehouse a few hundred yards behind him, Mr. Levy offered harsh words for Albany's leaders, saying they had badly mismanaged state finances and had made New York a punch line for late - night comedians.

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

Not exact matches

Walmart said Monday it will no longer sell the Confederate flag or items emblazoned with its likeness in stores or online, a move that came in the hours after South Carolina's governor called for the flag to come down on Statehouse grounds.

The move by Georgia's statehouse was not a complete surprise as earlier in the week Casey Cagle, Georgia's lieutenant governor who presides over Georgia's Senate, said in a tweet he would «kill any tax legislation» that helps Delta unless the company continues ties with the NRA.

Would a measure making its way through the statehouse, to skirt the $ 10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions, pass muster with the IRS?

Greaves also credited Rep. Mike Ritze, who led the effort to place the Ten Commandments on the statehouse steps, with the opportunity to raise the profile of Satanism.

The fact that Captain Maunsel White served in the same militia with Captain Dudley Avery, and also served with Averys son Daniel Avery as a statehouse commissioner, is conclusive of a relationship spanning nearly four decades between Maunsel White and members of the Avery family.

When the House version of the proposed legislation, with the support of the state's 350,000 member youth soccer association, passed unanimously last week, Zackery and his father, Victor, were on the statehouse floor to witness the vote and hear Rodne tell them, though Zakery might never play football again, that the statute would be his legacy forever.

In other business, the district voted unanimously to renew its contract with the South Cook Organization for Public Schools, a group that has lobbyists in the Statehouse in Springfield to represent the interests of south and southwest suburban elementary schools.

With Parkland students present, having traveled to the statehouse by bus, Florida lawmakers voted down a motion to take up a bill banning assault rifles.

She said that the Democratic Party is in the process of developing its comeback strategy after the decimation it suffered on Election Day and in cycles prior, but argued that the party has to focus on winning back statehouses and start with grassroots organizing.

Holland, a minister, noted that he would be the first African - American man to lead the GOP ticket in New York and that his «historic candidacy» would «not only help with the funding gap by getting earned media but also... put together the winning coalition that is needed to win the statehouse as a Republican.»

With Bruno gone, Cuomo's primary nemesis — the immovable object to his irresistible force — is surely going to be the speaker of the State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, a shrewd political tactician who wields enormous power inside the statehouse.

It's only the latest story in a statehouse where a handful of lawmakers feel they can get away with anything — be it frat house behavior and sexual harassment, bribery, or misuse of member items.

King has been close to Cuomo for years, working with Cuomo at HUD, running for lieutenant governor in tandem with Cuomo's brief 2002 bid for the statehouse, then running against Cuomo, unsuccessfully, in the 2006 primary for state attorney general.

In Illinois, Bost has been singled out over his tirade on the statehouse floor, in which he throws papers and yells, providing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee with material.

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.

-- Politico, «Obama, Holder to lead post-Trump redistricting campaign,» by Edward - Isaac Dovere: «As Democrats aim to capitalize on this year's Republican turmoil and start building back their own decimated bench, former Attorney General Eric Holder will chair a new umbrella group focused on redistricting reform — with the aim of taking on the gerrymandering that's left the party behind in statehouses and made winning a House majority far more difficult.

A progressive with Democratic majorities in both chambers of the statehouse, one of Murphy's first gambits will be an attempt to legalize recreational marijuana, something Cuomo considers a «gateway drug.»

During the Skeloses» four - week trial, prosecutors alleged that Dean turned his statehouse office into a «cash cow» to fund Adam's lavish Long Island lifestyle, including a $ 675,000 house with a pool in Rockville Centre.

After one of the most shocking displays of Machiavellian politics in a statehouse awash with plots and conspiracy — when Democrats Hiram Monserrate and Pedro Espada helped Republicans take back control of the New York State Senate — it would not have been surprising if fistfights had broken out at the Italian Community Center near Albany, where Republican and Democratic lawmakers gathered last night for a fund - raiser.

It began with New York Post statehouse columnist Fred Dicker pressing Paladino to back up an explosive allegation he made to the Politico website Wednesday that his opponent, Andrew Cuomo, had taken «paramours» during his marriage to Kerry Kennedy.

«I'm glad to have the vice president in my corner,» Brownback told reporters after a meeting with Kansas legislative leaders at the statehouse in Topeka.

Cuomo has largely stopped appearing on Live from the State Capitol with Fred Dicker and Susan Arbetter's Capitol Pressroom, the two daily radio shows broadcast from the statehouse.

In states with narrowly divided statehouses like Iowa, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Oregon, it was able to help surgically remove threats of gay - marriage bans and build momentum behind same - sex marriage laws and other gay - rights legislation, by injecting millions of dollars from a vast network of donors into select races.

Democrats were skeptical saying Statehouse Republicans wasted time on less important issues instead of addressing school safety and problems with the Department of Child Services.

Working together at the statehouse, Howe had forged a bond with Cuomo's son and he followed Andrew Cuomo to Washington, where he worked as a policy and strategic adviser at the Department of Housing and Urban Development when Cuomo was HUD secretary under President Bill Clinton.

Karyn Polito, a state representative from Worcester County who served in the Statehouse from 2001 to 2011 is running with Charlie Baker as he tries to take the governor's seat after losing to Democratic Governor Deval Patrick in 2010.

Calls to reform teacher layoff policies have begun to appear with regularity in newspaper editorials, policy briefs, and statehouses — and for good reason.

To his credit, has tried to navigate these turbid waters and has acquired a reputation for being willing to work with almost anyone on either side of the aisle, both on Capitol Hill and in statehouses.

But that bill fell apart in the statehouse, with much of the blame laid at the feet of DeVos and GLEP.

Parent choice, another GOP favorite, is a fine thing but (a) there isn't nearly enough of it (the establishment at work again via statehouse and union contract), (b) too many of the available choices are abysmal, and (c) a lot of parents — painful as this is to say — make mediocre education choices and then stubbornly persist with them.

So here we are again, with Republicans winning stunning victories in races for governor's mansions and statehouses nationwide.

Earlier in the day a handful of teachers affiliated with the education advocacy group Stand for Children invited a half - dozen reporters to Ritz's statehouse office, urging the state superintendent to allow implementation of the Common Core to continue.

Like North Carolina, those are right - to - work states with weak or no official teachers unions and Republican majorities in the statehouse.

At the time, statehouse conversations around the Common Core made it unclear if Indiana would stay the course with the new standards.

With this budget bill not likely to be finalized until some time in June, and with the Ohio Department of Education being given until the end of October to create this new shared attribution system, could someone at the Statehouse please explain how schools and districts are supposed to begin the year with this highly - accountable process is such drastic fWith this budget bill not likely to be finalized until some time in June, and with the Ohio Department of Education being given until the end of October to create this new shared attribution system, could someone at the Statehouse please explain how schools and districts are supposed to begin the year with this highly - accountable process is such drastic fwith the Ohio Department of Education being given until the end of October to create this new shared attribution system, could someone at the Statehouse please explain how schools and districts are supposed to begin the year with this highly - accountable process is such drastic fwith this highly - accountable process is such drastic flux?

About 200 people affiliated with Hoosiers Against Common Core rallied at the statehouse before the Education Roundtable meeting and marched in with signs panning the state's efforts to write new standards.

Latest in the Legislature It's all transportation, all the time these days in the statehouse, with some elected officials calling for solutions while others are drawing lines in the sand around no new borrowing.

Yet especially with Republicans taking office in statehouses and governorships since the commitments were made, the standards have been perceived by some as a political liability: a potentially big - government - seeming program that appears to standardize education across the country when state control has long been Conservative currency.

NJ Spotlight's John Mooney sat down with Sweeney in his Statehouse office on Friday and asked him where he stood on a host of key education issues, from school funding to vouchers to state takeovers of troubled school systems.

This alignment of goals contributed to the rash of statehouses that reformed teacher tenure and evaluation laws from 2010 to 2014, with prominent Democrats such as New Jersey Sen. Corey Booker, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo championing the cause.

At the beginning of last session, Republican political heavyweights at the Indiana statehouse remained on board with the new standards.

In light of this, the Department of Education should create a competition to fund — with federal dollars — ideas for building or expanding school choice that come from the field, not from Washington or statehouses.

While districts under control of mayors such as New York City and Chicago can count on the considerable political heft of municipal chief executives (and in the case of the Big Apple, the wallet of Mayor Michael Bloomberg) to beat back traditionalists in Albany and Springfield, districts with traditional school board governance structures often have few tools at their disposal against NEA and AFT locals with waning - but - still - more considerable political influence in statehouse corridors.

School choice advocates rallied in the rotunda of Mississippi's statehouse Tuesday with one message: Choice is great, and we want more of it.

Education will continue to be a critical issue at the Statehouse with public promises from Gov. Butch Otter and other state officials to increase school funding.

Malloy is having particular trouble with Gary Holder - Winfield — a major player on education in the statehouse — and Roberta Willis (who sits on the state legislature's higher education panel); this will make it difficult for Malloy to pass any school reform legislation.