Sentences with phrase «amend charter laws»

As yet, however, it's still possible to enact and amend charter laws in many places with bipartisan support.

WHEREAS Klinsky is also a founder of the Great Oaks Foundation, a not - for - profit educational company established after New York State amended its charter law to prohibit for - profit charter management of new charter schools, which is sponsoring charter schools in New York and New Jersey; and

Not exact matches

Legislators proposed a law that would amend portions of the County Charter.

Erie County Local Law number one of nineteen hundred fifty - nine, constituting the Erie county charter, as amended, is amended by amending section sixteen hundred twelve thereto to read as follows:

The proposed law would amend the Erie County Charter to require that goods purchased by the county that cost more than $ 10,000 be manufactured in the U.S. and all contracts for services for more than $ 10,000 are made with entities in the U.S. Morton said he has not given up on the issue and continues to pursue a compromise.

During Wednesday's scheduled legislature meeting, a local law amending the county charter is on the agenda.

Except as otherwise provided in this Charter, the Erie County Tax Act, being chapter eight hundred twelve of the laws of nineteen hundred forty two as amended, shall remain in full force and effect.

Should the County Executive, his or her appointed Director of Budget and Management, or anyone fail to provide information including but not limited to the budget reports requested in subsection (f) above, the chair of the Commission shall notify the clerk of the Erie County Legislature and the chair of the Erie County Legislature, in writing, and the Chair of the Legislature shall compel that such information be provided to the Commission by exercising the powers available to the Legislature, in particular those powers to subpoena and require the production of evidence as outlined in article 2, section 202, paragraph h of Local Law No.1 - 1959, as amended, constituting the Erie County Charter.

He proposes in the literature that the Legislature amend the charter school law to «remove any doubt that all laws and regulations governing school discipline apply to all taxpayer - funded schools.»

After removing the proposed changes to the County Attorney's office that County Executive Mark Poloncarz rejected, the amended Charter Revision Law was approved by a vote of nine to one.

JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO Pine Barrens Society head Richard Amper reads from the Suffolk County Drinking Water Protection Program, which states the law «may only be amended, modified, repealed or altered by an enactment of an appropriate Charter Law subject to mandatory referendum.&raqlaw «may only be amended, modified, repealed or altered by an enactment of an appropriate Charter Law subject to mandatory referendum.&raqLaw subject to mandatory referendum.»

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In 2010, the law was amended to double the number of charter students permitted in the state's lowest - performing districts, from about 9 percent to 18 percent of public school students.

Sure, that includes vouchers and such, but there are many other possibilities, such as amending state charter laws to allow existing private schools to convert and even making room for religious charter schools.

The center has rated Georgia's amended charter school law as «strong,» rather than «weak,» as was reported.

(In 2000 the charter law was amended to remove the 25 - charter cap while ending the practice of local districts» chartering schools in other districts.)

The State Legislature should amend state law to include explicit standards for expelling students to ensure that expulsions for all schools, including charter schools, are limited to the most severe and dangerous behaviors in accordance with decisions of the Education Commissioner.

«This bill is a good first step toward amending the current charter school law to support the expansion of high - quality charter schools,» said Donna Siminski, the association's director of policy and advocacy.

HB 1269 also proposes to amend the law regarding the notification of a new charter school campus.

The Maryland Association of Boards of Education «does not see a need to revamp or amend the state law to facilitate successful charter schools,» said John Woolums, director of governmental relations for the group.

2003: In Springfield, the charter law is amended to increase the charter cap to 60.

SB 734 passed by the 2016 General Assembly amended the charter application section; added a section on the applicability of other laws, regulations, policies, and procedures; and amended sections relating to contracts between the local school board and the public charter school management committee to require:

There we see a coherent three - part strategy, beginning with a legislative move to amend the Bay State's charter law.

In it, the Charter School Plaintiffs also requested additional and amended Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law.

And the language amends the law to allow any school district employee or parent to sue a local charter school in state court to enforce these flawed targets, opening charters up to more and more lawsuits from local gadflies and teachers unions.

But NSBS amended its regulation to add a qualifier that says a person meeting this criterion could be licensed, «unless council, acting in the public interest, determines that the university granting the degree unlawfully discriminates in its law student admissions or enrolment policies or requirements on grounds prohibited by either or both the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act.»

Perhaps, s. 15 of the Charter should be amended to include the socioeconomically challenged to the list of the disadvantaged who should have the right to equality before and under the law.