Sentences with phrase «years as state legislators»

These state - run schools enroll 11,000 students and have steadily been cut over the last several years as state legislators worked to close budget deficits.

In 2016, he lost a contentious Democratic primary for his retiring mentor Charles Rangel's congressional seat to rival Adriano Espaillat, then a state Senator, and now he is facing blowback for accepting a job at a prominent lobbying firm following his years as a state legislator.

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Exactly 20 years ago, just as Cisco's John Chambers took the reins as CEO, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected term limits for Congressional leaders, wiping off the books laws in 23 states limiting the terms of office for U.S. legislators.

Legislators in a handful of oil - rich states are struggling to do the seemingly impossible as the 2016 fiscal year draws to a close this week: balancing their budgets, as required by law, despite massive declines in revenues due to falling oil prices.

Having served billions of targeted voter - matched digital ads online, social media, and mobile devices over the past five years and helping to elect scores of Democrats up and down the ballot for offices ranging from senator and governor to state legislator and school board member, DSPolitical has earned a reputation as a progressive ally and committed innovator.

As state legislators approved a $ 168 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year, they left out a controversial proposal to change the way the state pays local taxes on its lands.

Hudson Valley Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney and New York's Acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood are among 16 people state legislators plan to interview to take over as New York's top law enforcement officer through the end of the year.

Last year, for instance, the New York City Council did away with lulus as part of a deal to raise its members» salaries to $ 148,500, a large pay increase that towers over the base pay for state legislators: $ 79,500.

Venditto's son, Michael, a former county legislator and state senator, had worked as a 16 - year - old as a «weed picker» at a town - owned golf course where Singh was concessionaire and referenced Singh in a text message as «uncle,» according to testimony and evidence from Wednesday.

Matt Driscoll, the former Syracuse mayor who spearheaded the I - 81 project until last year as commissioner of the state Department of Transportation, said the governor's decision simply respected the overwhelming consensus of local legislators.

In the past year, state legislative elections in New Jersey and Virginia, as well as special elections and appointments, have led to a net increase of 10 black women state legislators across the country.

Levy noted he has been in public service for «25 of my 51 years,» serving 15 years as a Suffolk County legislator, three as a state assemblyman and seven as county executive.

Antonacci asked the law department to address two main issues: The county charter appears to say that raises for county legislators should be voted on when the budget for that year is approved; and state Municipal Home Rule Law indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the Legislature.

Latimer served as Chairman of the County Board of Legislators 20 years ago, and was noted for his bi-partisan, collegial style of governing during that four year assignment, as well as during his tenure as a State Assemblyman and State Senator.

But in a year when the state's top two legislators were arrested, and as New York remains one of the nation's highest - taxed places, many voters on Syracuse's east side want leaders to address the growing population of deer.

As state legislators grapple with how to close a more than $ 2 billion deficit for next year, they are now facing budget troubles in the current year.

Prior to his Senate stint, he had served for eight years in the state Assembly, 13 years on the Westchester County Board of Legislators including four as chairman, and four years on the Rye City Council.

The letter credits the sponsors of the bills, Senator David Carlucci and Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee, as well as co-sponsor Assemblymember Kenneth Zebrowski, with designing a plan the county legislators describe as a collaborative partnership between a state - appointed monitor and East Ramapo officials to develop a five - year plan to improve the operation of the district and rebuild trust in the community.

It was also advertised as a way to end the horse - trading that's been a part of pay raises for decades — in 1987, Mario Cuomo linked a salary increase to ethics reforms, and the 1998 pay hike was accompanied by the creation of the state's first charter schools, a bill pushed by dairy farmers, and an agreement to give the comptroller authority to withhold legislators» paychecks in years when budgets are late.

Earlier this year, company officials took the unusual step of issuing a public statement as state legislators were discussing a proposal to increase taxes on some major corporations.

De Blasio is making his first appearance before state legislators in a budget hearing Monday morning as he seeks permission from Albany to raise taxes on those earning $ 500,000 and more a year in order to create a universal pre-Kindergarten program in New York City.

Over 100 years ago, when legislators only had to go to The State Capital a few times a year, the job made sense as part - time, thus, allowing other or outside income.

The million dollar question now is whether the state legislator will increase the «mansion tax» from $ 1 to $ 2 million as the Empire State begins the fiscal year with a $ 4 billion defstate legislator will increase the «mansion tax» from $ 1 to $ 2 million as the Empire State begins the fiscal year with a $ 4 billion defState begins the fiscal year with a $ 4 billion deficit.

Boulevard in Harlem, where Mr. Williams will pitch himself to the legendary 84 - year - old legislator as the best candidate to thwart what is likely to be a third challenge from State Senator Adriano Espaillat.

The Record discovered the double payments while reviewing five years worth of campaign expenditure records, as well as state Legislature travel and expenditure records, for several state legislators from the mid-Hudson.

Currently, senators and Assembly members have the summer of election years to prepare for their September primaries as needed (state legislators serve two - year terms).

Malloy's budget director, Ben Barnes, said that the legal language in the budget bill could cost the state as much as $ 1 billion over two years, but legislators in the House and Senate did not make any changes.

Rules prohibit those with conflicts of interest from serving on the Commission including no person who has served in the last three years as a New York legislator, statewide elected official, member of congress, and spouses of the preceding groups, legislators» staff, lobbyists, state officers, state employees, or party chairs.

Patty Bentley, a NYSUT political action coordinator, said as a county legislator, Jones has demonstrated he understands the funding formula that has led to a reduction of state aid in recent years.

As governors and state legislators gear up for a new year of budget action and policymaking, the federal Race to the Top competition is helping to drive a flurry of measures nationwide aimed, at least in part, at making states stronger candidates for a slice of the $ 4 billion in education grants.

The poll was conducted for The Boston Globe as a follow - up to this year's state - of - the - state message by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, who urged legislators to «invest» in education for the long - term good of the Massachusetts economy.

The result was that school officials were able to pare down the opening bids for new school construction from $ 433 to $ 300 per square foot, an important development as the city tried to make the case to state legislators that it deserved billions of dollars more each year as part of a school funding adequacy lawsuit (see Hanushek, «Pseudo-Science»).

Roy Romer, the former Colorado governor who retired last year after six years as superintendent of L.A. Unified, tried in vain before leaving his job to convince the mayor, state legislators, and the governor that the district was not failing.

Parent Power activists such as the Connecticut Parents Union are already gearing up for a fight with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association over expanding the reach of the state's Parent Trigger law; the fight is particularly tinged by revelations earlier this year of the AFT's presentation on how it unsuccessfully attempted to kibosh the passage of the Parent Power law and how it exacted revenge by ousting Jason Bartlett, the legislator who led the passage of the law and the neutralizing of his former colleague, Gary Holder - Winfield.

As I learned from last year's NCSL Legislative Summit (see my takeaways here), state legislators are eager to receive input from teacher educators.

The SBE's power, at times, has seemed to chafe state lawmakers, with powerful legislators such as Sen. Jerry Tillman, a Republican representing Moore and Randolph counties, speeding legislation this year limiting the state board's ability to close charters.

Yet, even as state lawmakers approved modest raises for some teachers in recent years, legislators faced withering criticism from education advocacy organizations who pointed out the state's most experienced teachers were left out.

«After advocating for Ivy Prep as a state legislator for many years, it feels like coming home to now serve as their leader.

Perhaps in response to Illinois having been named the third most corrupt state in the nation, and maybe also just having watched former governor Blagojevich head off to prison for 14 years, our state legislators have begun acting uncannily as though they are listening to us instead of the power elite.

As our organization has traveled across the state over the past year speaking about school finance and meeting with parents, students, educators, legislators, local officials, and interested community members, one point in particular has rung loud and true in every community no matter the town's size, wealth, demographic makeup, or location — Connecticut needs a school finance system that makes sense.

The Governor continued, «As a new academic year gets underway, I look forward to continuing to work with legislators to elevate the Lone Star State to become a model for educational excellence in the nation.»

After serving a combined twenty - four years as governor, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and state legislator, Gov. Wise has become a sought - after speaker and advisor on education issues as well as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Education, White House, and key policymakers in the U.S. Congress.

Gary Bennett will head the new Office of Educational Opportunity (OEO), an entity proposed by Darling and other Republican legislators and approved last year as part of the state's biennial budget process.

He will establish and lead the new Office of Educational Opportunity, an entity proposed by Darling and other Republican legislators and approved last year as part of the state's biennial budget process.

State legislators approved the senior judge program seven years ago as a way to clean up case backlogs.

In the wake of the FCC's net neutrality repeal late last year, the hottest thing to do as a Democratic state legislator has been to introduce state - level net neutrality bills.

Gov. Jay Inslee has chosen Rep. Ross Hunter, a 13 - year legislator with experience in the public and private sectors, to lead Washington's Department of Early Learning as the state opens a new chapter of its early education work.