Not exact matches
One example of the threats to religious liberty that have arisen
in Congress is the current
bill proposing a «voucher» system directing
education funds to either public or private (including religious) schools.
In the end, all 31 Republicans in the conference backed the measure, which was tucked into a larger budget bill that included a boost in funding for educatio
In the end, all 31 Republicans
in the conference backed the measure, which was tucked into a larger budget bill that included a boost in funding for educatio
in the conference backed the measure, which was tucked into a larger budget
bill that included a boost
in funding for educatio
in funding for
education.
Nixon is best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes, a lawyer
in HBO's «Sex & the City,» but has also been involved
in New York politics
in recent years, calling for more
funding of public
education and stumping for Cuomo's frequent public sparring partner, NYC Mayor
Bill de Blasio.
These statements come from a Minister who
in the past has attacked secularism as «intolerant and illiberal», has said that religious people contribute more to society than the non-religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality
Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment
in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment,
education,
funding, and elsewhere.
She has also said that religious people contribute more to society than the non religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality
Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment
in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment,
education,
funding, and elsewhere.
Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan nudged New York City Mayor
Bill de Blasio to provide more information on how the city spends $ 9 billion
in state
funding for
education as a precursor to considering an extension of mayoral control of public schools.
Cuomo, meanwhile, has crafted an image and a record
in the centrist mold of
Bill Clinton, though the governor has a real claim on progressive achievements, from legalizing same - sex marriage to the expansion of childcare and
education funding.
Ms. Nixon is best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes, a lawyer
in HBO's «Sex & the City,» but has also been involved
in New York politics
in recent years, calling for more
funding of public
education and stumping for New York City Mayor
Bill de Blasio, a Democrat.
A large coalition of early childhood
education advocates and elected officials took to the City Hall steps on Wednesday to call on Mayor
Bill de Blasio — again — to
fund pay parity between teachers at all pre-Kindergarten and day care centers
in New York City.
A for - profit network of schools and the family behind it have agreed to pay the state more than $ 4.3 million
in a settlement after having spent state
funds, intended to pay for special
education preschool, on credit card
bills, maintenance of a boat and a son's law school tuition, as well as claiming false tax deductions.
Paul Massey, the Westchester Republican who remains the most well -
funded challenger
in sight to Democratic NYC Mayor
Bill de Blasio, waded into the city's deeply polarized
education politics for the first time today with a visit to a charter school
in Brooklyn.
The
funding is part of Gillibrand's School Asthma Management Plan Act and was included
in the national
education bill recently signed into law by President Obama.
The omnibus
education bill included
funding for the «Schools of Hope» program, which encourages charter schools to open
in low - performing school districts by giving them incentives.
Clinton urged Silver's Assembly to «absolutely» pass a Senate
bill that would more than double the cap to 460 from 200 — and «not just because of the federal
funding» (the up to $ 700 million that New York could win
in a competition for states that enact
education reforms).
«The governor is including
funding for the
education tax credit and the DREAM Act
in the same budget
bill,» said a source with knowledge of the plan.
Independent Democrat David Carlucci, who introduced the
bill in the Senate, says the legislation will allow for public feedback
in future
funding projects, budgetary oversight provided by the Commissioner of
Education and the continuation of appointed monitors on the ground
in the district.
Emergency Hurricane Harvey Supplemental Appropriations — Vote Passed (419 - 3, 11 Not Voting) Frelinghuysen, R - N.J., motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution that would provide for the House to concur
in the Senate amendments to a
bill (HR 601) that would codify practices and programs at the United States Agency for International Development related to U.S.
education assistance abroad, with further amendment that would appropriate $ 7.9 billion
in emergency supplemental
funding for fiscal 2017 as an initial payment to cover the costs of responding to Hurricane Harvey.
«Among other items, the agenda will include a revised version of the
Education, Labor and Family Assistance Article VII
bill that I was forced to veto earlier this year to prevent an unaffordable increase
in school aid, an appropriation
bill to authorize distribution of $ 607 million
in federal
Education Jobs
Fund money to school districts, and necessary legislation to reorganize the New York City Off - Track Betting Corporation.»
Mr Gate and his wife have been involved
in many development projects, like The
Bill and and Melinda Gates Foundation that has given $ 36bn to
fund health, development and
education projects.
There's plenty of
funds in a more than $ 115 billion budget to pay the
bills and make sure that those citizens most
in need get the help they need and that children get the
education they need.
Miner and Assemblyman
Bill Magnarelli joined Heastie to discuss things like
funding for the Centro bus system,
education and Infrastructure
in a brief meeting that kicked off the tour.
He said there were «numerous issues» the residents of his district wanted to address
in Albany, including the
education investment tax credit
bill, security
funding for private schools and additional
funding for infertility drugs.
Trustees of Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox Jewish organization, told Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, a Sheepshead Bay Democrat, during an Albany meeting
in April that he would be the target of a 2016 primary if the
education investment tax credit, a
bill that would give a tax break to people and companies donating money to public schools and private school scholarship
funds, does not become law this session.
At a rally
in Bed - Stuy this morning, Mayor
Bill de Blasio announced a new four - week public relations push with local clergy members, aimed at Albany lawmakers who oppose his plan to tax the city's highest - earners to
fund expanded
education programs.
Now, parents and some state legislators think it is time the City of Buffalo pay a bigger part of the
education bill, especially since the city has not increased its
funding for schools
in more than a decade.
Republicans defended the increase
in charter school
funding as part of an agreement included
in a separate
education bill (HB 7055) that will let school districts keep their local property taxes for maintenance and construction rather than share it with charter schools.
Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson is reaching out to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Gov. David Paterson
in hopes of getting an agreement to bring both houses back to the Capitol next week — perhaps on Tuesday or Wednesday — to decide how to best allocate some $ 600 million worth of
education funding the state expects to receive following today's passage by the House of a $ 26 billion spending
bill.
Former legislative leaders John McKinney and
Bill Dyson launched a bipartisan campaign Monday which they hope will fix the
education funding formula
in Connecticut.
«The
bill's $ 5.5 trillion
in spending cuts focus mostly on Republican's favorite targets, programs crucial to low - income families and the middle class: health care programs,
funding for higher
education, assistance for the families that need it the most, and infrastructure investment.
Assemblyman
Bill Magnarelli, D - Syracuse, indicated the thruway toll tax credit did not get included in the Assembly budget bill because members wanted to increase funding for educat
Bill Magnarelli, D - Syracuse, indicated the thruway toll tax credit did not get included
in the Assembly budget
bill because members wanted to increase funding for educat
bill because members wanted to increase
funding for
education.
Mayor
Bill De Blasio's preliminary budget assumes that city
funding of the Department of
Education (DOE)
in 2015 will exceed state
funding for the fourth year
in a row.
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NASA's Office of
Education, which was slated for termination
in the President's request, was also protected
in the Senate
bill, with flat
funding recommended for FY 2018.
What's more, a 2005 federal transportation
bill allocated an additional 612 million for a new national Safe Routes to School program, requiring all states to hire a coordinator to administer
funds to communities for new bike lanes, pathways, sidewalks, and
education and promotion campaigns
in elementary and middle schools.
But the fate of that NASA -
funded education program and many others was very much up
in the air until this week, when Congress passed a $ 1 trillion spending
bill to
fund the federal government through 30 September 2015.
In addition, the Senate
bill would give the
Education Department, working with NSF, the authority to
fund states that want to create so - called STEM secondary schools.
Senator Terri Bonoff (DFL - Minnetonka) says that's a scary thought, but anti-cloning language Republicans have introduced into Minnesota's Higher
Education funding bill would prevent life - saving stem cell research at the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic
in Rochester.
But as well as a strong, strategic voice
in UKRI, the Higher
Education and Research
Bill clearly sets out how Council leaders will retain their autonomy to
fund the very best research and innovation activity, employ the best staff, and serve their individual discipline communities.
On a 209 - 206 vote, the House passed a
bill March 6 that would provide almost $ 21.2 billion
in discretionary
education funding, $ 3.3 billion less than
in fiscal 1995.
Lucas» proposed
Bill would require PSHE to be a statutory subject for all state -
funded schools
in England and Wales and for the lessons to include Sex and Relationships
Education (SRE).
Federal Opposition Leader
Bill Shorten delivered his budget reply
in parliament overnight and put
funding for
education, particularly STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)
education, down as a top priority.
Federal President for the Australian
Education Union Correna Haythorpe, together with a delegation of parents and students, is scheduled to meet with Education Minister Christopher Pyne and Labor leader Bill Shorten in Canberra to put disability education funding back at the centre of the conv
Education Union Correna Haythorpe, together with a delegation of parents and students, is scheduled to meet with
Education Minister Christopher Pyne and Labor leader Bill Shorten in Canberra to put disability education funding back at the centre of the conv
Education Minister Christopher Pyne and Labor leader
Bill Shorten
in Canberra to put disability
education funding back at the centre of the conv
education funding back at the centre of the conversation.
Meanwhile, The Australian has reported that Labour states are pressuring Opposition Leader
Bill Shorten to commit $ 7 billion
in federal
funds to meet the final two years, 2018 and 2019, of Gonski
funding that was agreed to under the Australian
Education Act with former Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
The Center for
Education Policy Research is providing these services as part of its Strategic Data Project (SDP) work, an initiative at the Center for
Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR)
funded in part by the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The
bill, which sets the programs»
funding at $ 35 million, will provide an as - yet unspecified amount for precollege
education programs, which had been eliminated entirely
in the President's proposal.
Also
in 2010, Representative Phillip Owens, the chair of the House
Education and Public Works Committee introduced a
bill aimed at establishing a more sustainable
funding policy for CSD, and despite being stalled by opponents representing traditional districts, the 2011 - 12 state budget included a
funding increase for CSD schools.
The
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12
education over the next five years, with the bulk of the
funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress
in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.
Gov. Roy Romer of Colorado has signed a school - finance
bill that includes $ 205 million
in new
funding for K - 12
education but will still result
in an overall 4 percent decrease
in per - pupil spending.
Special
Education S 1284 President Clinton signed into law last week the 1993 Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, which authorizes $ 19 million in funding for university - affiliated programs for training of early - intervention and special - education service p
Education S 1284 President Clinton signed into law last week the 1993 Developmental Disabilities Assistance and
Bill of Rights Act, which authorizes $ 19 million
in funding for university - affiliated programs for training of early - intervention and special -
education service p
education service providers.
In addition to providing
funding for GSE's Change Leadership Group, the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated $ 4.9 million to the Center for Collaborative
Education to support the work of small schools.