Sentences with phrase «year moratorium with»

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If these proposals are implemented, there may be stiff penalties associated with companies that don't comply, such as a one - year moratorium from the ability to raise funding via exemption 506, so pay attention and tread carefully.

I just came up with an idea: How about all churches commit to a one year moratorium on vision - casting, goal - setting, and mission statements?

Bill Kurtis, CBS correspondent and anchor of Cold Case Files, launches The Death Penalty on Trial with the statistics that convinced former Illinois governor George Ryan to declare a moratorium on executions in his state in 2000 and, three years later, to commute all death sentences.

We were pretty much on a two - year travel moratorium during our prime Baby Bunching years, but we did have a few occasions where we all had to bunk together and here's what I remember (and still look for, when making reservations) as keys to success when traveling with baby (ies).

Cuomo earned international headlines and significant credit with progressives and environmentalists when he banned fracking — a decision that was supported by public polling by the time he made it, more than six years after the state issued a de facto moratorium as it weighed the pros and cons (and polling), and that made New York the first state with a major shale gas deposit to enact a ban.

The group Concerned Health Professionals of New York is calling on Cuomo to enact a three to five year moratorium on fracking, saying «emerging scientific data show harms and inherent problems with drilling and fracking».

Last week, we were confronted with a bill presented by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conference that would essentially provide for a two - year moratorium on the APPR (teacher evaluations) while establishing some restrictions regarding use of a student's personal data.

Under the loan arrangement, a maximum of US$ 50 million can be on - lent to any single borrower at single digit interest rate for a tenor of between seven and 12 years, with a moratorium of two to three - and - a-half years — depending on project's cash flow.

The lawmakers, concerned with a backlash not just from the teachers but in some cases from vocal parent - constituents, appear to have followed the union's lead: The moratorium, which has been a major legislative priority of New York State United Teachers, would essentially hold harmless teachers, principals and students from low test scores on Common Core - aligned exams for two years.

The Board of Regents, with Cuomo's support, recently placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores for teacher evaluations through the 2018 - 19 school year.

Gibson was referring to a September 30 measure that struggled through the House of Representatives with elements that would strip the Affordable Care Act of subsidies and expand a one - year moratorium on tax penalties for businesses to everyone involved.

The test refusals have continued despite the moratorium on evaluations: This marked the third year of massive statewide boycotts, with the Island at the epicenter.

Lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly are both calling for a minimum two - year moratorium on further implementing Common Core in schools across the state, a proposal that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office has called «premature» until an education commission can come up with recommendations to change the standards by the end of the session in June.

Nearly two years ago, the union flexed its muscle with influential lawmakers to win City Council passage of a bill that slapped a two - year moratorium on the conversion of large hotels into residential properties — a measure designed to thwart conversions like that of the Plaza Hotel.

The Assembly has already passed a bill to essentially impose a two - year moratorium on the impact of the new testing associated with Common Core, on both teachers and students, and Senate Education Chair Flanagan says he expects full agreement on a new law by the end of March.

The draft also includes a space for the task force to weigh in on the impact of student test scores on teacher evaluations, and the panel will likely use that space to recommend up to a four - year moratorium, according to a source familiar with the task force's plans.

Preston stood with State Senator Adriano Espaillat on October 22nd in support of his call to institute a one - year moratorium on «on - premise» liquor licenses issued in the area by the State Liquor Authority (SLA).

In a rare show of unity on a controversial issue, leaders of both the State Senate and Assembly last week advocated a two - year moratorium that would decouple Common Core - aligned test scores with teacher evaluations and student - placement decisions.

BRUSSELS — The European Commission is going ahead with a 2 - year moratorium on three widely used pesticides that are potentially harmful to bees, although E.U. countries remain split on the issue.

A U.S. Senate vote on Doney's nomination had been blocked for more than a year by Senator David Vitter (R - LA), who was unhappy with the Obama Administration's decision to impose a moratorium on offshore drilling in the wake of the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

In 2004, a possible derogation to the law became possible — on case - to - case basis — with a 5 - years moratorium (initiated on Feb 2006).

Though skinny jeans were de rigueur for years (along with a moratorium on bread products), wider pants, sloucher styles and bread baskets are back in fashion.

NEA's poll also indicated concern with how these new assessments will be used in accountability — and 81 percent of their respondents favor a moratorium or grace period on accountability provisions, with the most popular duration being two to five years.

The years of Graham's administration also brought stability to the senior faculty as a ten year moratorium on granting tenure was lifted with nine new tenured appointments.

Notable recently were the Gates Foundation's call for a two - year moratorium on tying results from assessments aligned to the Common Core to consequences for teachers or students; Florida's legislation to eliminate consequences for schools that receive low grades on the state's pioneering A-F school grading system; the teetering of the multi-state Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment consortium (down from 24 to 15 members, and with its contract with Pearson to deliver the assessments in limbo because of a lawsuit that alleges bid - rigging); and the groundswell of opposition from parents, teachers, and political groups to the content of the Common Core.

Democratic legislators, buffeted by New Jersey's largest teachers» union, were pushing for a two - year moratorium on using the standards but were satisfied with Christie's commission.

Although not advocating for a moratorium, Linn says that he would like to see schools held «harmless for the results for a few years» by relaxing some of the accountability associated with the new assessments.

Last year, the NAACP passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on the expansion of charter schools until problems with accountability and the loss of funding from traditional public schools are addressed.

And because the Obama Administration has followed up on its waiver gambit with other senseless decisions — including Duncan's move this past June to allow waiver states a one - year moratorium from fully implementing teacher evaluation systems they promised to put into place in order to allay opposition from teachers» unions and others to the use of exams aligned with Common Core reading and math standards — the waiver gambit has also made it harder for reform - minded politicians to push ahead on transforming education for kids.

The battlegrounds are the classrooms, the kitchen table, and auditoriums packed with parents and teachers who are demanding a three - year moratorium on high - stakes testing, but will settle for the resignation of New York State (NYS) Commissioner of Education John B. King, Jr. and the head of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

NAACP REPORT FINDS «WIDE RANGE OF PROBLEMS» WITH CHARTER SCHOOLS: After calling for a moratorium on charter school expansion last year, the NAACP today is releasing a highly anticipated report that calls for the elimination of for - profit charter school operators.

ACPA was successful in working with the governments to secure a five - year moratorium on cross-border transport of dogs for the trade in 2014, and focuses on strengthening enforcement of the ban and training of relevant officials, as well as raising public awareness of the ban and the health risks of the dog meat trade, especially rabies.

A one - year moratorium for developments on the shores of Lake Elementaita has been postponed following consultative processes with, and stated compliance by, tourism investors;

The good news is that with 3/4 of a 40 year moratorium on fishing for Atlantic sturgeon in U.S. waters, it's likely they will rebound at least part way.

After years of overfishing and rampant dam - building, a senior fisheries expert with the Chinese Academy of Sciences has spoken out against the ecological threats facing the Yangtze River by calling for a 10 - year fishing moratorium and joining environmentalists in decrying the proposed Xiaonanhai Dam.

Local fractivists fear a moratorium would conflict with the city's «Climate Bill of Rights and Protections» — a measure that effectively, if not symbolically, preempts drilling in Lafayette in the name of residents» health — which was approved earlier this year.

Japan abandoned commercial whaling in accordance with an international moratorium in 1986 but conducts what it calls «scientific research» whaling every year and is pushing for the resumption of commercial whaling.

Indeed, in 1998, Disney led the successful campaign done in the name of the late Sonny Bono to go to life + 70 years — with a mass extension resulting effectively in a moratorium on additions to the public domain until at least 2019.

With residential foreclosures exceeding 2 million for the year, according to RealtyTrac, concerns about neighborhood stability will surely remain firmly focused on housing for the foreseeable future, particularly if foreclosure freezes are prolonged or a proposed national moratorium on foreclosures takes hold.