Sentences with phrase «working statehouse»

It is also why NEA and AFT affiliates, which have long - understood the importance of working statehouses, are stepping up their efforts on that level to preserve their influence.

Not exact matches

Worked for a decade as a journalist, starting at a Boston - area weekly and then for almost nine years at the Boston Herald, 1985 - 94, finishing as Statehouse bureau chief.

Mr. Stringer acknowledged in an interview on Monday that he would have to win support in Albany for his plan to work — no easy task at a Statehouse where suburban lawmakers are in open revolt against a payroll tax meant to pay for mass transit.

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.

While more senior House members are already working their ties in statehouses back home to protect their districts, many freshmen are just waking up to what is coming.

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.

Yesterday I was contacted by Susan Haigh who wrote to say she was the statehouse / political writer for The Associated Press in Connecticut She told me she was working on a national story about the legislative efforts in CT and other...

«Across the nation, committed individuals in early education settings, schools, communities, and statehouses are working tirelessly on efforts and initiatives to promote children's literacy development,» says Lesaux.

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.

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.

Our work examined the multiple levels at which leadership can be exercised in education — from the classroom to the statehouse.

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

Anger over right - to - work legislation from General Assembly Democrats and protestors in the statehouse may have been Tuesday's biggest story, even as Gov. Mitch Daniels delivered his final State of the State address.

So you may wonder why they've been included in a series on the biggest influencers working in the statehouse cloakroom.

Rep. Bob Behning, R - Indianapolis, who heads the House's Education Committee and authored the original HB 1003, told IPBS statehouse reporter Brandon Smith after the vote lawmakers will have to work out issues in the amended bill.

After all, unlike Bennett, she will not work with a governor and statehouse leaders from her own party.

They are working in key positions in school districts and charter - school networks, legislating in state capitals, staffing city halls and statehouses for reform - minded mayors and governors, writing papers for policy groups and dispensing grants from billion - dollar philanthropies like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

02/7/12 - City Beat - Breeding Ground, Lack of dog auction regulation draws out - of - state dealers 02/3/12 - Columbus Dispatch, Editorial - Dogged effort 01/31/12 - The Oxford Press - Auctions, puppy mills to blame for increase in unwanted dogs 01/28/12 - Columbus Dispatch - Ohio lawmakers to consider dog auction ban 01/28/12 - 13 ABC (Toledo)- Ohio group clears step in dog auction ban effort 01/24/12 - Westlake / Bay Village Observer - Petition shows support for dog auction ban 01/24/12 - Ohio Akron Beacon Journal, Letter to the Editor - Push for animal rights 01/23/12 - Toledo Blade - Ohio group seeks to ban dog auctions 01/21/12 - Examiner - Coalition to Ban Ohio Dog Auctions Exceeds Signature Goal for Ballot Initiative 01/19/12 - Columbus Dispatch - Signatures collected to prompt action on dog auctions 01/13/12 - WOUB News - Group Wants Ohio to Ban Dog Auctions 01/12/12 - DogHeirs - Proposed Ohio Dog Auctions Act Stops Distribution for Puppy Mill Breeders 01/11/12 - WOSU All Sides with Ann Fisher - Efforts to Ban Puppy Mills and Dog Auctions in Ohio / Open Forum 01/11/12 - The Athens News, Letter to the Editor - Please sign petitions to end quarterly dog auctions in Ohio 01/10/12 - Cincinnati Animal News Examiner - Group works to ban dog auctions in Ohio 01/8/12 - Tanglewood Hairdressers - Dog auction petition signatures being certified 01/7/12 - Pack Mentality - Pack Line Headlines: Dog auctions, dog lawsuit and puppy mill legislation 01/6/12 - Cleveland Scene - Puppy Sales on Hold at Ohio Dog Auction 01/5/12 - Cleveland Plain Dealer - Ohio dog breeders association owns shuttered Farmerstown dog auction 01/3/12 - Life with Dogs - Ohio Dog Auctions: Going... Going... Gone 12/31/11 - Columbus Dispatch, Letters to the Editor - Ohioans deserve a say on puppy mills 12/30/11 - Orvis - Ohio One Step Closer to Banning Dog Auctions 12/28/11 - Statehouse News Bureau - Group files petition to put before voters a law banning dog auctions 12/27/11 - Columbus Dispatch - Dog - auction ban a step closer

07/21/10 - Cleveland Scene - Amish Dog Breeders Face Heat 07/07/10 - The Daily Jeffersonian, Letters to the Editor - Ohio Dog Auctions Bad for Ohio 07/02/10 - Statehouse News Bureau - Activists working against puppy mills concerned that deal on humane ballot issue won't help.

From courthouses to statehouses to Capitol Hill, Planned Parenthood works to protect access to health care for women across the country — taking action to ensure that women have access to care, no matter what.

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund and local Planned Parenthood political organizations are fighting back against these attacks in statehouses and courtrooms, and working with legislative champions to introduce bills to expand access to reproductive health care — all while more than 600 Planned Parenthood health centers care for patients across the country.

From courthouses to statehouses to Capitol Hill to the grassroots, reproductive rights advocates are working to protect access to health care through education, litigation, and mobilization of millions of Planned Parenthood supporters.

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