Sentences with phrase «district given the passage»

What are the likely timelines for action by the air district given the passage or rejection of proposed legislation?

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But now sources have told Kramer that if any good is to come out of the drumbeat of corruption charges last week, which also ensnared state Sen. Malcolm Smith and City Councilman Dan Halloran, it will be the passage of legislation that gives local district attorneys and the state attorney general more power to nab crooked officials themselves.

In order to remove the confounding influence of unobserved factors that have an impact on both school spending and student outcomes, we calculate how much spending in a given school district would have been predicted to change due solely to the passage of an SFR, and use that prediction, rather than the spending change the district actually experienced, as our key variable.

State Still Has a Role in Supporting and Holding Districts Accountable With the passage of Proposition 30 and almost nine out of 10 local ballot measures last November, the voters of California gave our schools an almost unprecedented chance to begin rebuilding after years of budget cuts.

The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act gives states a new opportunity to hold districts and schools accountable for the quality of their work with students prior to 3rd grade.

Bob Baker, executive director of the Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation, attributes the decline to the passage of the Canine Cruelty Prevention Act which raised standards of care and gave authority to the attorney general to prosecute non-compliant or unlicensed kennels (prior to that prosecutions were handled by local district attorneys more sympathetic with puppy millers, he said.)