Sentences with phrase «education legislation enacted»

Despite the waiver, Connecticut hasn't reversed its plan to use state testing data in teacher evaluations, a plan that was part of the sweeping education legislation enacted in 2012.

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Meanwhile, the governor issued yet another budget veto, striking legislation that he said lawmakers altered in a backdoor effort to enact a $ 600 million restoration to education aid.

The school district is under the oversight of a state Education Department appointed monitor per legislation enacted in June.

This move in the budget may slow Council attempts to enact legislation requiring more reporting by the DOE on physical education programming, staffing, and space.

Nevertheless, the WFP's overtures presented him with a new dilemma: His «New Democratic Party» platform includes a pledge not to raise taxes and a promise to enact legislation capping future increases in local property taxes that directly contradict WFP tenets which seek more funding for education and social welfare programs by raising taxes on the wealthy.

However, only 25 percent of this legislation made it through the respective state education committees for a vote by a state legislative chamber, and the only states where bills were enacted into law were Louisiana and Tennessee.

Called the Post-9 / 11 GI Bill, the legislation is a throwback to the first GI Bill enacted in the»40s, which allowed thousands of U.S. soldiers returning from World War II to get a college education.

Part of the historic extension of equal educational opportunity rights to the disabled, Public Law 94 - 142, the Education of All - Handicapped Children Act, now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), was one of the most popular pieces of federal education legislation everEducation of All - Handicapped Children Act, now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), was one of the most popular pieces of federal education legislation everEducation Act (IDEA), was one of the most popular pieces of federal education legislation evereducation legislation ever enacted.

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.

With ESSA now on the books, prospects for Congress to enact major education legislation in the foreseeable future are pretty slim, outside of a potential reauthorization of the Higher Educaeducation legislation in the foreseeable future are pretty slim, outside of a potential reauthorization of the Higher EducationEducation Act.

Educator effectiveness is a top Obama administration reform priority, and ASCD will be working to enact this important legislation and advocating its inclusion as a central part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization.

As the 2004 presidential campaign takes shape, President Bush's education platform emphasizes the education reforms he advocated in the «No Child Left Behind» legislation enacted in 2002.

In 2009 Florida lawmakers enacted legislation (H.B. 991) at the urging of Education Commissioner Dr. Eric Smith, aligning our state's school grading system with the No Child Left Behind Act (Federal law) four years ahead of schedule.

In 2013, she worked with several education reform groups to pass legislation enacting a new teacher evaluation system.

However, thanks to the education reform legislation enacted by last year's legislature it has «dramatically and comprehensively altered the public education system the plaintiffs ask this court to declare unconstitutional» (p. 2, Motion to Modify Scheduling) The state also claims that the funding that accompanied those reforms, laid out in the Mahoney affidavit, was substantial.

E3 is working to educate citizens on the benefits of legislation to create ESAs in New Jersey modeled after the first near - universal education savings account program in the nation enacted by Nevada in 2015.

E3 is working to provide Education Savings Accounts and Opportunity scholarships before OSA legislation is enacted.

The goal was not public education or anything that she claims it to be about now — it was about enacting breed specific legislation... even though she has no credentials to propose legislation like that with any basis of expertise.

Over the past two years, however, five states enacted legislation, and all but one supported abstinence - only education.

Between 2007 and 2010, seven states enacted legislation related to sex education, and all but one expanded access to comprehensive sex education or added requirements that the sex education provided be medically accurate.

NCSL's 2017 Enacted Legislation on Early Care and Education report provides an overview of significant 2017 legislative enactments in the major early care and education topEducation report provides an overview of significant 2017 legislative enactments in the major early care and education topeducation topic areas.