Sentences with phrase «adopted by charter»

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The submission comes as Verizon and other top Internet service providers like AT&T (t), Comcast (cmcsa), and Charter Communications (chtr) have won several victories over regulations adopted by the FCC under the Obama administration.

One charter client that's pledged to adopt the product is Earnest, a San Francisco - based lending firm, which is headed up by Louis Beryl.

The Corporate Governance Guidelines and committee charters adopted by our Board of Directors reflect regulatory requirements, New York Stock Exchange listing standards and applicable law.

The Compensation Committee has duties and powers as described in its written charter adopted by the Board.

The Audit Committee has certain duties and powers as described in its written charter adopted by the Board.

As long as the Charter sounds like the bumper stickers of my New Age and hippie neighbors, I just can't see it being adopted by the terribly unhip General Assembly of the United Nations.

The Charter has now been adopted by a growing number of organizations and individuals around the world and several activities inspired by the Charter are planned for the coming years.

Concussion or Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 20 -2-324.1 (2013) requires each local board of education, administration of a nonpublic school and governing body of a charter school to adopt and implement a concussion management and return to play policy that includes the following components: 1) an information sheet to all youth athletes» parents or legal guardians informing them of the nature and risk of concussion and head injury, 2) requirement for removal from play and examination by a health care provider for those exhibiting symptoms of a concussion during a game, competition, tryout or practice and 3) for those youth that have sustained a concussion (as determined by a health care provider), the coach or other designated personnel shall not permit the youth athlete to return to play until they receive clearance from a health care provider for a full or graduated return to play.

Waldorf methods are also being adopted by many U.S. public and charter schools.

A local law is a law adopted pursuant to the Erie County Charter within the power to do so granted by the constitution, any act of the legislature or provision of the cCharter within the power to do so granted by the constitution, any act of the legislature or provision of the chartercharter.

Regulations adopted by the State University of New York's committee on charter schools is illegal and allows unqualified teachers to work, the state's umbrella teachers union group on Wednesday said.

Amendments to the present Charter shall come into force for all Members of the United Nations when they have been adopted by a vote of two thirds of the members of the General Assembly and ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional processes by two thirds of the Members of the United Nations, including all the permanent members of the Security Council.

Mr. Cuomo had declared he would boost education funding by just over $ 1 billion only if the legislature agreed to adopt his reform plans — which included state receivership of failing schools, an increase in the charter cap, new teacher evaluations based on state exams, and changes to teacher tenure.

His policy initiatives, by charter the prerogative of the legislature, are adopted with the budget.

Adopting Question 2 — approved by the Charter Revision Commission and...

The Security Council has adopted the resolution as a measure to maintain or restore international peace and security under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, which provides for such action by air, sea and land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security.

ALBANY — After years as a pro-charter school operative, Democratic state Senate candidate Micah Lasher is adopting a more union - friendly attitude on education issues, vowing in his campaign literature to «ensure that charter schools have to play by the same rules.»

On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

The Rockland County Charter, Term Limits, and You An Open Letter To Voters In Rockland County Ed Day — County Executive PROPOSAL NUMBER FOUR: «Shall the local law entitled «A Local Law Amending the Rockland County Charter», adopted by the Legislature of Rockland County and requiring the...

The charter amendment adopted by the council would make sure the planning commission couldn't quietly derail a project without the council and the public getting a chance to weigh in, councilor Pat Hogan said then.

The Charter was adopted by member states at the 8th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) in 2007 but came into force on February 15, 2012.

A model charter was provided by the Ministry of Research, and several of the charters subsequently adopted by universities have been gathered on a single Web site by the Guilde des Doctorants and the Confédération des Etudiants - Chercheurs.

The yoga community at the UN recognizes that the principles of the United Nations, as presented particularly in the United Nations Charter and other major internationally adopted instruments, are intimately related to the basic values promoted by the yoga tradition.

And as Waldorf methods have become more accessible and better understood, more teachers have joined charter schools specifically inspired by Waldorf methods or have adopted some of its approaches for their own classrooms within traditional public schools.

To answer this question, we first studied how D.C. and the 37 states that passed charter laws before 1999 differed from the remaining states that had not adopted charter laws by 1999.

In recent years, choice advocates cheered because Indiana and Louisiana adopted new voucher programs and because charter schools — boosted by President Obama's Race to the Top program and movies like Waiting for Superman — continued to expand and attract supporters.

Among other reforms encouraged by Race to the Top, Washington, D.C., adopted a new teacher contract that raised salaries across the board while adding performance pay, and New York City increased its allotment of public charter schools, to cite just two notable examples.

Sandra Bullock has long supported a charter high school in New Orleans, where her adopted son is from, that was damaged by Hurricane Katrina, and Viola Davis and Meryl Streep have both pitched in various amounts to the same charter school in Davis» Rhode Island hometown.

TUMWATER, WASH. - The Washington State Board of Education is ready to take public comment on rules it hopes to adopt in February concerning the next steps toward opening up to eight public charter schools by fall 2014...

TUMWATER, WASH. — The Washington State Board of Education is ready to take public comment on rules it hopes to adopt in February concerning the next steps toward opening up to eight public charter schools by fall 2014.

Charter schools, like all other public schools in the state of Connecticut, have been working to implement Common Core State Standards since they were adopted by our state in July 2010.

If they are adopted without change, we will know by early April which school districts are interested in authorizing charter schools in the first round.

Obama and the Gates Foundation share some goals that not everyone embraces: paying teachers based on student test scores, among other measures of achievement; charter schools that operate independently of local school boards; and a set of common academic standards adopted by every state.

On top of all that we approved virtual schools, unlimited charter schools, put undue pressure on teachers and principals by adopting an assessment tool that is unnecessarily bureaucratic, adopted the Common Core, and are preparing to implement a new assessment called PARRC.

• Charters who receive an exemption from state structured procurement practices, do so by developing and adopting procurement policies and practices that are subject to review during annual independent financial audits.

The school choice reforms adopted by the legislature this year are already receiving national attention with the Washington Times saying, «Mississippi parents and school choice advocates hit a trifecta last week» after expansions to the charter school law and the Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program, and a renewal of the Dyslexia Scholarship Program occurred on the same day.

To be eligible, states had to agree to adopt new common standards and tests (the Common Core State Standards); expand the number of charter schools; evaluate the effectiveness of teachers in significant part by the test scores of their students (and remove any statutory barriers to doing so); and agree to «turn around» their lowest - performing schools by taking such dramatic steps as firing staff and closing the schools.

Rather than just urging struggling schools to fire teachers or bring in non-union charter school operators, Harkin suggested in October that a school could be turned around by adopting a magnet theme or approach in order to bring in a cross-section of students from all backgrounds together — an idea whose effectiveness is backed up by ample research.

Phillips expects the state might try to force the issue when charter schools authorized by the education department are up for renewal, requiring them to adopt the state's teacher evaluation system.

Often bypassing Congress, Duncan used the money to work directly with states, persuading them to adopt favored policies by providing incentives through Race to the Top, a $ 4.35 billion competitive grant program in which states were awarded points for adopting ideas such as performance - based teacher and principal evaluations, higher academic standards, and raising charter school caps.

The model was developed by a school leader at Mueller Charter School, and was adopted at EJE (with a few modifications) after observing the success it had.

The resolution also would establish a new oversight committee and requires that all charters adopt ISIS by January 1, 2013.

And although he confessed he is «disappointed» by the number of Nottingham schools that have adopted the charter so far, he is surprised by how many local authorities which contacted the EIB for advice on how to implement the scheme.

[October 15, 2016 Press Release from NAACP.org] «Statement Regarding The NAACP's Resolution on a Moratorium on Charter Schools CINCINNATI — Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Board of Directors ratified a resolution Saturday adopted by delegates at its 2016 107th National Convention calling for a moratorium on charter school expansionCharter Schools CINCINNATI — Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Board of Directors ratified a resolution Saturday adopted by delegates at its 2016 107th National Convention calling for a moratorium on charter school expansioncharter school expansion and...

Echoing the criticism of at least three school superintendents of large Florida districts, Oropeza wants lawmakers to adopt the elements of Sen. David Simmons» bill (SB 1552) that will provide additional help to students in struggling schools, instead of threatening «takeover» by charter schools.

Almost every high - performing charter network in the country, from KIPP to Achievement First, uses significantly more scheduled time to achieve impressive academic gains, and many public schools, spurred by local initiatives, innovative state policies and federal leadership, are also adopting this promising practice.

This work culminated with a revised set of regulations adopted by the State Board of Education to add specificity to the condition of district facilities charter schools are entitled to under Prop. 39, and the criteria and timelines of the Prop. 39 facilities request and offer process.

The initial City Charter High School Bullying Policy was adopted by the Board of Trustees in June 2008.

Districts, county offices of education, and charter schools must use this template — adopted by the California State Board of Education (SBE)-- to describe goals within each of eight state priority areas and their plans to achieve those goals for all pupils and for identified subgroups.

The union's updated policy on charter schools, adopted unanimously by the NEA board of directors.