Sentences with word «biennium»

Based on these discussions, our focus is on a proposal that encourages the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee to provide $ 5 million annually in state funding over the next biennium for legal aid services to the indigent where legal assistance would: (1) help remove barriers to employment; or (2) protect vulnerable residents from abuse.

Online classes - a maximum of 12 is allowed per biennium, if the webinar course is live with the ability to interact with the presenter, it can be used as a live CE credit

At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, House Speaker Tim Moore, R - Cleveland, and Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger, R - Rockingham, said part of the adjustment to the 2017 biennium budget will bring average teacher salary to about $ 53,600 next year.

With the significant voter mandate as backing, the job now is to ensure that the Oregon legislature allocates the approximately $ 300 million necessary to implement Measure 98 in the next biennium while also maintaining sufficient funding for K - 12 schools in general.

Instead, the governor is launching a working group to fix the funding issue at a later date and he pledges to include the ESAs in his final budget recommendations for the upcoming biennium.

He makes vague promises about tax relief in the second year of the next biennium without a specific plan of how to get there, and he thinks putting tolls back on highways is an idea worth pursuing.

Influential teacher groups had pushed for across - the - board increases in salaries, even though they had been the beneficiaries of the greatest percentage of new state aid in the preceding biennium.

When I served as Chairman of Texas Business Leaders for Educational Choice during the 1998 - 99 Texas legislative biennium, I began most of my speeches and debates across the state with the following opening:

The official budget for the 2018 - 19 biennium provides no extra funding for High Quality Pre-K, and strips school districts of $ 30 million in supplemental Pre-K funding.

Buydown funds up to $ 60,000 over the lifetime of the borrower are available if applied for on a separate project or in a separate biennium.

These three individuals will hold their posts for the 2014 - 16 biennium along with Lee, the new slate of officers that were elected in July 2014 and two other regional vice presidents Lee appointed in July 2014.

The legislature passed a compromise package that involved passage of a new marijuana tax that is estimated to bring in $ 70M per biennium.

The General Assembly is proposing slashing funding even deeper in the upcoming biennium.

(a) A license issued under this subchapter expires on December 31 of every even - numbered year unless renewed for the next biennium.

In my budget for the 2016 — 2017 biennium, I proposed additional funding to provide screenings and treatment for postpartum depression to women's health services for low - income women.

The Democrats» plan would increase spending by $ 216 million over the amount approved when the biennium budget was signed in October of last year, and was $ 146.2 million more than what Malloy proposed in his budget recommendations in February.

«Randy is a dedicated public servant, and has invaluable experience in the private sector and in the legislature, which will allow him to hit the ground running next week when we start the second half of the biennium,» said Scott.

The $ 107 million reduction for the biennium is higher than the $ 70 million assumed in UConn's approved fiscal 2018 budget, reflecting the university's planning.»

These awards, now in their fourth cycle, allow for a comparison between different movie seasons to pick the absolute best of the biennium.

As part of an ongoing effort to reduce class size in the early grades, proposed supplemental budget for the second year of the biennium includes $ 3.7 million to reduce average 3rd - grade class size from 26 to 20.

Proposal also includes $ 14.9 million to accommodate increased enrollment and operating costs in the second year of the biennium.

For the second year in the biennium, the figure is adjusted for inflation by the consumer price index for New York City and Philadelphia.

New Jersey's foundation formula is based on the «thorough and efficient,» or T&E, budget amount, which is revisited every biennium through the «Governor's Report on the Cost of Providing a Thorough and Efficient Education.»

Each biennium, the state adjusts the figure for inflation.

Funded at $ 5.8 million for the biennium, the act will provide funds for inservice training in the use of educational technology, the establishment of up to 10 demonstration sites around the state, and development and evaluation of educational software.

The Democratic Governor's budget, which calls for an 8.6 percent, or $ 260 million, increase in overall education spending in the next biennium,...

Gov. Ed Herschler of Wyoming in his opening address to the legislature has asked lawmakers not to subject the state department of education to cuts over the next biennium any deeper than the 6 - percent reduction he recommended in his budget.

As part of a $ 40 million increase in funding he has proposed for K - 12 education in the 1995 - 97 biennium, Governor Schafer would put $ 25.5 million into a supplemental fund earmarked for evening out inequitable funding among school districts.

In two separate lawsuits, opponents of educational choice alleged that Nevada's ESA violated the state constitution's mandate that the state provide a «uniform system of common schools» (Article 11, Section 2), its prohibition against using public funds for sectarian purposes (Article 11, Section 6), and a clause requiring the state to appropriate funds to operate the district schools before any other appropriation is enacted for the biennium (Article 11, Section 10).

The proposal by Mr. Parker, a former chairman of the Senate education committee, calls for the state comptroller to certify the state's school - spending legislation each biennium before the legislature can enact funding for other state services.

In planning their budgets for the 1993 - 95 biennium, state agencies are being asked to prepare budgets at 80 percent of the previous two - year budget, after inflation adjustments.

La Crosse, a district with nearly 7,000 students, faced a budget decrease of $ 7.7 million over the biennium.

The legislature appropriated an additional $ 70 million, funding the program at $ 765 - million for 1985 - 86 and $ 840 million in the second year of the biennium.

Founded by the Oregon State Legislature's HB3233 in the 2011 — 2013 biennium, the -LSB-...]

About $ 127 million needs to be added in the first year of the biennium just to allow schools to tread water, and additional investments are needed in the second year as well.

If the Legislature does not act to put more money into schools, there will be a $ 150 per student decrease in funding in the first year of the biennium.

Depending on how these Proclamations fell in the biennium, these were savings that districts could have used for technology and professional development.

Using some of the funds that would be available thanks to slashing 8,500 + TAs over the next biennium, local school districts would be able to hire additional classroom teachers to eventually get early classroom student to teacher ratios down to 15:1.

That legislation requires Indiana students to keep taking the ISTEP + through the 2015 biennium.

The new law states the Indiana Department of Education will continue to administer its current assessment, the ISTEP +, through the 2013 - 15 biennium — a year longer than the IDOE had planned.

That budget spends $ 500 million dollars less than the 2008 inflation - adjusted budget for the next biennium.

Washington state spends $ 14 billion a biennium on the K - 12 system.

That's because the same legislation that paused Common Core rollout also leaves Indiana's current assessment, the ISTEP, in place through the 2015 biennium.

Noting that research supports the notion that students do better in early grades with smaller classes, the Senate proposes increasing funding for classroom teacher positions by more than $ 270 million over the biennium to reduce class sizes in kindergarten to a 1:17 ratio and in grades 1 - 3 to a 1:15 teacher - student ratio.

Senate leaders unveiled portions of a 2015 - 17 budget proposal Monday that gives teachers an average four percent pay raise and lowers class sizes in the early grades — but much like last year's initial Senate proposal, the budget would also substantially gut funding for teacher assistants by eliminating more than 8,500 * TA jobs over the biennium.

And independent charter schools would receive $ 18.4 million more over the biennium.

Enrollment growth is fully funded for higher education with the Senate plan, but UNC would still face a management flexibility cut of $ 17.9 million each year of the biennium.