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Romford MP and Shadow Home Affairs Minister Andrew Rosindell introduced his Teaching of British History in Schools Bill yesterday.
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«Amendments to the bill face an uphill battle, says John Coffee Jr., a professor at Columbia University Law School who testified in favor of bananas yesterday, «but they sometimes win.»
DTN Political Correspondent Jerry Hagstrom reported yesterday (link requires subscription) that, «Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln on Wednesday unveiled a bill to reauthorize the child nutrition programs that would increase funding for school lunch and other programs by $ 4.5 billion over 10 years, with some of the money coming from the budget for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.
Meanwhile, the House Appropriations subcommittee yesterday released its fiscal year 2015 agriculture appropriations bill, which included language that would allow any school district which operated its meal program at a loss for at least six months this past school year to seek a waiver from compliance in the coming year with the new, healthier school food standards.
Governor Larry Hogan signed The Hunger - Free Schools Act of 2017 (House Bill 287 / Senate Bill 361) yesterday, which will extend the successful Community Eligibility Provision to allow more high - need schools in Maryland to provide free school breakfast and lunch to all stSchools Act of 2017 (House Bill 287 / Senate Bill 361) yesterday, which will extend the successful Community Eligibility Provision to allow more high - need schools in Maryland to provide free school breakfast and lunch to all stschools in Maryland to provide free school breakfast and lunch to all students.
Yesterday the House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal 2015 spending bill with controversial language, drafted by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R - AL), which would allow struggling schools to request a 12 - month waiver from complying with healthier school food standards.
webcast of the markup of the House Education and the Workforce Committee «s school food bill yesterday (my dedication to TLT readers only goes so far, people) but I've seen summaries of the outcome and it looks like the final bill is about as bad as expected, at least from the perspective of children's health.
AG Andrew Cuomo, who said during his acceptance speech yesterday that it would be a «tragedy» if the Legislature didn't pass a bill to lift the charter school cap and improve the state's chances at landing «Race to the Top» funding, just released a (very) brief statement in response to the news that his wish had come true.
State lawmakers yesterday approved measures to renew Kendra's Law and allow medical marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder — but Mayor Bill de Blasio's future control of the NYC schools remained an unsettled issue.
The NYC - based teachers union is ratcheting up its war over charters in the wake of the Senate's 45 - 15 passage yesterday of a bill that would increase the cap on the schools from 200 to 460.
Tory anger at Nick Clegg's attack on free schools was evened - out yesterday when the prime minister appeared to make an off - the - cuff commitment to rolling back green levies on energy bills — a policy the Liberal Democrats strongly oppose.
«Before we discuss the bill before us today, I want to address the horrific school shooting in Florida yesterday.
«Yesterday's tragedy, the 40th since 2000, highlights once again why we need to take a cold, hard look at my two bills, languishing in Albany, that would safeguard our schools and protect our children,» he said.
Charter - school supporters slammed Harlem state Sen. Bill Perkins yesterday for canceling a promised follow - up hearing — after they had been shut out of an initial session packed with charter opponents last month.
Concerns about the Education Bill's potential to increase further religious discrimination in schools were raised during its «second reading» in the House of Lords yesterday by Labour, Conservative and Crossbench peers including Christians, Hindus and humanists.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio received a generally friendly welcome from Senate Republicans throughout several hours of testimony in Albany yesterday during a hearing on mayoral control of city schools, for which the mayor is seeking a seven - year extension.
The most powerful man in Albany isn't accustomed to taking direction from anyone (save his union - boss patrons)-- but you can bet his ears perked up yesterday when former President Bill Clinton publicly pronounced himself strongly in favor of raising New York's charter - school cap.
The state Senate did its duty by New York's public - school children yesterday, passing a bill that would more than double the number of charter schools allowed to operate statewide — without the usual poison pills meant to strangle the wildly successful charter movement by stealth.
But this is obviously not the case: Tisch yesterday blasted the Senate bill for neither limiting the number of charters allowed in a certain neighborhood nor making it harder for them to share space with underpopulated traditional public schools.
MISTER «ED»: Bill Clinton, surrounded by charter kids in Harlem yesterday, says opening more charter schools is «the right thing to do.»
Cuomo signed a bill late yesterday allowing the next phase of Rochester's $ 1.3 billion school modernization program to go forward as planned.
New York taxpayers caught a huge break yesterday, when Gov. Cuomo vetoed a bill that would've let school districts borrow to cover pension costs.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina today will meet behind closed doors with staff at the Urban Assembly for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx, where a deadly stabbing took place yesterday.
Yesterday, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Senator Jeff Klein, and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. announced the expansion of speed cameras near schools.
Mayor Bill de Blasio outlined a number of major reforms coming to city schools yesterday at a Queens press conference.
«Yesterday's tragedy, the 40th since 2000, highlights once again why we need to take a cold, hard look at my 2 bills, languishing in Albany, that would safeguard our schools and protect our children.»
At a press conference yesterday at a Brooklyn middle school, Mayor Bill De Blasio explained his hopes to meet with some government officials while he vacations in Italy for the next 9 days.
As area farms brim with sun - warmed tomatoes, crisp kernelled ears of corm and slowly reddening apples, the New York City Council yesterday enacted five bills and several resolutions designed to bring some of that food to city school cafeterias, senior centers and jails.
The bill passed the Tasmanian parliament yesterday, bringing into effect the option for students to start school at four - and - a-half years of age, as proposed by Premier Will Hodgman at the beginning of 2016.
After the act passed yesterday, Tasmania's Education Minister, Jeremy Rockliff said the bill is part of a long - term plan to to improve education outcomes in the state, and that it «will help close the gap where currently Tasmanian students can receive up to two years less schooling than their interstate counterparts.»
Education secretary Justine Greening made the announcement yesterday to make amendments to the Children and Social Work Bill to make lessons compulsory in all English secondary schools.
Now that the Senate has passed the bill which the House agreed to yesterday, Illinois is poised to become the 26th state with private school choice and to have the 52nd program in the country, along with bolstered funding for charter students.
«This bill is essentially a hostile takeover of Network Schools — it's incredibly anti-democratic,» CEA Director of Policy, Research, and Reform Donald Williams told legislators yesterday, saying that CEA strongly opposes Senate Bill 5bill is essentially a hostile takeover of Network Schools — it's incredibly anti-democratic,» CEA Director of Policy, Research, and Reform Donald Williams told legislators yesterday, saying that CEA strongly opposes Senate Bill 5Bill 5551.
Onto less productive activities by our State Legislature: yesterday it passed a bill, A1877, that would require all aspiring charter schools to subject themselves to a public referendum.
Yesterday evening, I testified on behalf of the Texas Charter Schools Association (TCSA) before the Senate Education Committee in support of SB 1658, the bill proposed by Chairman Larry Taylor (District 11) to address the disposition of charter property when a -LSB-...]
The House also passed legislation (HB 1044) related to charter schools yesterday, but unfortunately their bill was much narrower in scope.
In a statement made yesterday following the release of the Kinston audit, State Board of Education chair Bill Cobey said the board would pursue legislation that would better equip them to deal with financially troubled charter schools.
Yesterday, the Missouri House passed a bill that will expand the opportunity for high school students to enroll in classes at another school or virtually.
After hours of anticipation yesterday as a bill lingered on a House Rules committee agenda that could allow for - profit charter school operators to takeover some of North Carolina's worst performing schools, Rep. Rob Bryan (R - Mecklenburg) told the Charlotte Observer Thursday night that his proposal won't be taken up by fellow lawmakers this year.
Here's Mayor Bill de Blasio yesterday during an actual visit to a charter school, KIPP Infinity Middle School in Hschool, KIPP Infinity Middle School in HSchool in Harlem:
Now we hear that several state representatives ganged up on CPS at yesterday's House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee hearing on HB 4487, the House companion to the Senate school closing moratorium bill, SB 3239.
But the bill that he and state Assemblyman Carmelo Garcia (D - Hudson) finally ended up introducing yesterday had some significant changes from the original draft, most notably a provision that would give local school boards more say than ever over the approval of new charter schools.
Baton Rouge, La. — Yesterday, the House Education Committee voted down bills that would restrict school choice across Louisiana.
Big school choice news yesterday in Illinois and Wisconsin: The Illinois House passed a tax credit scholarship program and a charter funding equity bill that is going to be voted on today in the Senate.
Yesterday at the Utah Capitol only a few bills moved, but two committee hearings drew dozens of public education supporters to the Capitol to hear reports about the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind and a proposed statewide online education program.
With only three months left in the school year, yesterday started with the news that Mayor Bill Finch was reneging on his promise and cutting the Bridgeport school budget by $ 4.4 million dollars.
In the meantime, the Florida House passed the school safety / gun access bill yesterday, sending it to Gov. Rick Scott for a likely signature.
The promises were outlined in a speech by Federal Opposition leader Bill Shorten to the Melbourne Law School yesterday (published in full below, with bolding by Croakey).
And on that cheery note... I'm signing off to pay a few of the bills that have been piling up on my kitchen counter — beside the groceries I still haven't put away from yesterday's supermarket shop — before I ice 24 reindeer cupcakes for a school band fundraiser tonight, while feeling guilty about how long it's been since I took the dogs for a walk... all on five hours sleep... bloody garbage trucks at 4.30 am.