Sentences with phrase «community schools bill»
A number of state and city politicians joined the press conference, including State Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, who committed to carrying a community schools bill in the coming legislative session.
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The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.
As I outlined in a piece for Civil Eats, the House CNR bill would have seriously undermined key school food provisions, including taking a decidedly anti-science approach to school nutrition standards, significantly limiting the Community Eligibility Provision (which provides free meals to students in low - income areas without paperwork or stigma) and opening the junk food floodgates on school campuses by gutting the Smart Snacks rules for competitive food.
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.
Done right, they can help shift the eating norms in a school, in a community and — in tandem with other efforts such as the Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Bill — in the entire country.
School lunch is so important because in the community, many parents of color have problems purchasing healthy food because they are already struggling with other bills they have to pay for.
SNA's decision to aggressively lobby for a controversial rider in a House agriculture appropriations bill that would force the USDA to give schools waivers from the nutrition standards next school year has sparked a civil war within the nutrition community and the association itself.
As has been chronicled by nutrition, hunger, medical, national security, education and community organizations across the country, the bill is harmful to children's health, heaps administrative costs on schools, and plans to bury parents in more bureaucratic red tape, all while subsidizing well - off children at the expense of our less fortunate kids who need help.
Among other things, the bill would undermine school nutrition standards, limit the Community Eligibility Provision, allow junk food to once again flood school campuses and weaken the Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program.
And she underscores that the bill empowers school boards to ask their communities if they would like to establish voting wards.
Following a month of abundant citywide community activism and outreach, City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has submitted to City Hall more than 10,600 parent petition signatures, dozens of video and audio testimonies and nearly 20 resolutions from Community Education Councils, Community Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day ccommunity activism and outreach, City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has submitted to City Hall more than 10,600 parent petition signatures, dozens of video and audio testimonies and nearly 20 resolutions from Community Education Councils, Community Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day cCommunity Education Councils, Community Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day cCommunity Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day care cuts.
«The only reason I can think to do this is [is that] when real numbers come out in June and show less - than - positive results, it will be Bill de Blasio's administration's fault and not on Bloomberg's twelve - year legacy running the schools,» charged Miriam Aristy - Farer, President of District 6's Community Education Council (CEC).
Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein announced Wednesday he had introduced a bill that would extend mayoral control of New York City public schools for two years and strengthen Community Education Councils.
The fight to prevent the co-location of a new school inside Bedford - Stuyvesant's already - cramped PS 308 continued on March 31 at a meeting between the school community and representatives from the offices of Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and State Sen. Velmanette Montgomery.
Cuomo says by not voting to extend the Bill de Blasio's authority over the public schools, they essentially voted for a return to the dysfunction of the old system of multiple community school boards.
Cuomo's $ 100 million proposal to bring social workers, mentors, medical personnel and mental health experts into failing schools and make them community schools is an echo of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Renewal Schools pschools and make them community schools is an echo of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Renewal Schools pschools is an echo of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Renewal Schools pSchools program.
ALBANY — The tensions between the Jewish and black and Hispanic communities in Rockland County's troubled East Ramapo school district were mirrored Thursday in the state Assembly, where lawmakers debated and ultimately approved by an unusually low margin a bill establishing state oversight of the public schools.
BEDFORD - STUYVESANT — The city is expanding its network of «community» schools, where high - needs students are given extra supports like mental and physical health services, as well as longer school days for expanded learning time and social services for their families, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.
Reacting to the bill's passage, East Ramapo school board president Yehuda Weissmandl said the Assembly's «spirited and lengthy debate» served well to educate members on the complex challenges faced by the unique community.
The bill includes measures to lengthen prison terms for felonies committed during gang activity, create a gang - prevention curriculum in schools and provide funding for non-profit community outreach to stop gang recruitment.
In a bid to encourage the initiative, billed as part of the government's «relentless drive» to improve standards in historically deprived communities, schools minister Andrew Adonis today launched a new prospectus explaining how schools can take part.
Betsabe said she had hoped Ms. Farina would be more willing to listen than prior chancellors — Mayor Bill de Blasio has vowed to give parents and communities more of a say in their schools — but it has not turned out that way.
«The NYPD initiated a yearlong investigation that dismantled a drug dealing network that peddled crack cocaine less than a block from a middle school and instilled fear in local residents in and around the Sterling community,» Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said in a press release Thursday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed during his election campaign to create 100 community schools by the end of his first term in office.
It was unclear if the Senate would take up a bill that passed the Assembly making it easier for residents of Hoosick Falls and other communities to sue for damages related to water pollution, or if the Assembly would pass a bill mandating testing for lead in school districts.
«Voters are responding to Bill de Blasio because he is the only Democrat who will boldly break from the Bloomberg years by raising taxes on the wealthy to invest in universal pre-K and after - school programs, ending racial profiling, and fighting to save community hospitals,» the de Blasio campaign said in a statement.
Asked whether his bill would make it harder to close or truncate poorly performing schools, Benjamin said it would simply require the city to make a better case to the community while possibly coming up with a more comprehensive plan that would satisfy local leaders and parents.
«The UFT has been meeting with Bill de Blasio on education and other issues important to New Yorkers since he was on the District 15 community school board, a member of the City Council, and then Public Advocate.
Whether it is expanding the community schools model so more schools provide students the support they need to succeed, or front - loading services to children age five and under so they are ready to learn once they get to school, Bill Thompson is focused on getting kids what they need to achieve — in school and in life.
Benjamin, who worked as a managing director at real estate firm Genesis, defeated Republican candidate Dawn Simmons, a businesswoman who campaigned on school choice and improving police - community relations, and is now set to occupy the seat that was left vacant when former Senator Bill Perkins joined the New York City Council.
But the fighting must stop, at least temporarily, so that they can finish the session and deal with important bills such as marriage equality, revenues our cities and communities need and New York City school governance.
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.
Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, a cosponsor of the «Three R's» bill, worked tirelessly, and against considerable opposition from members of both political parties, to increase the targeting of federal education dollars to low - income communities and schools in an effort to better support their school reform efforts.
In its deliberations, the committee — which planned to introduce the measure as early as this week — heard complaints from the education and scientific community that its $ 300 - million package was insufficient to solve schools» problems, as well as the objection of Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell that the bill was too expensive.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was a leading member of the school choice advocacy community, and Donald Trump has called for a congressional bill that would fund school choice for disadvantaged youth, stating that «families should be free to choose the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school that is right for them.»
Gov. Michael Rounds has signed a $ 3.2 billion budget bill for fiscal 2007 that includes a so - called «sparsity formula,» which distributes $ 1.5 million to lightly populated school districts that are too far from neighboring communities to consolidate operations.
In 2014, Tennessee governor Bill Haslam, a Republican, created the Tennessee Promise, which uses lottery funds to cover tuition and fees not covered by the Pell grant or other state assistance to make two years of community college more affordable for all Tennessean high - school graduates.
An increasingly popular idea in the spirit of the government's new Localism bill, which aims to encourage members of a community to volunteer in the provision of services, is for school playgrounds to be opened for use at the weekends and after school.
Bill Gaudelli: Promoting earnest dialog, engaged listening and empathic opportunities, mainly in schools but also through community - based organizations, are needed to help people see that otherness is not a fundamental threat but a core advantage of being in the U.S., one that contributes to a stronger society.
Announcing Monday that the city's worst schools will be turned into community schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio transformed a little - remarked campaign promise into the centerpiece of his administration's vision for improving schools, and a hallmark of his education platform.
With respect to program guidance, the bill establishes principles of effectiveness as well as a Full - Service Community Schools Advisory Committee.
Additionally, the bill allows such grants to be used to: (1) support strategies to increase parent, family, and community engagement in the education of English learners; (2) develop and share effective practices in the instruction of English learners; and (3) support strategies that promote English learners school readiness.
By the time a new $ 100 million T.C. Williams was being built in 2005, the pendulum had swung away from comprehensive schools and toward «smaller learning communities,» in part because of support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In addition, the bill establishes the Full - Service Community Schools grant program.
While Mayor Bill de Blasio has made community schools a central part of his education agenda, critics have said there is mixed research on whether the community school model actually improves academic achievement in low - income neighborhoods.
About 100 education activists and teachers» union representatives called on Bill de Blasio to keep his promise of creating 100 community schools by the end of his second term in a rally on Wednesday evening, a request the de Blasio administration was apparently happy to be reminded of.
Section 4105 of the bill being considered makes changes to the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program, including language that would drastically alter funding for the initiative by allowing these funds to be diverted to support whole scale school reform.
Senator Lamar Alexander, the Tennessee Republican who is chairman of the Education Committee, said the bill would usher in a new period of experimentation in schools as communities are released from federal control.
Sarah Shad Johnson, a parent of children in Charleston County Schools and co-founder of Community Voice, says, «The timing of Secretary Duncan's visit comes at a critical time when our state legislators are discussing whether or not to support the adversarial Common Core State Standards, as well as bills regarding school choice, charter school expansion, and tax credits for private schools; our State Superintendent of Education seems to be embracing a controversial stand on the teaching profession; and the focus here in Charleston County appears to be only on experimental, questionable, and expensive initiatives, as opposed to goals of increased learning opportunities.Schools and co-founder of Community Voice, says, «The timing of Secretary Duncan's visit comes at a critical time when our state legislators are discussing whether or not to support the adversarial Common Core State Standards, as well as bills regarding school choice, charter school expansion, and tax credits for private schools; our State Superintendent of Education seems to be embracing a controversial stand on the teaching profession; and the focus here in Charleston County appears to be only on experimental, questionable, and expensive initiatives, as opposed to goals of increased learning opportunities.schools; our State Superintendent of Education seems to be embracing a controversial stand on the teaching profession; and the focus here in Charleston County appears to be only on experimental, questionable, and expensive initiatives, as opposed to goals of increased learning opportunities.»
At Thursday's event, Reclaim Our Schools LA called on Bill Siart, one of the billionaires most deeply involved in public education in Los Angeles, to support the call for «20 by 20» and an expansion of the Community Schools model.