Sentences with phrase «extended school assembly»

After an hour and a half, we filed into a long narrow room, like an extended school assembly.

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The Democratic - led Assembly today will vote on a measure to extend mayoral control of New York City schools for three years.

State Senate Republicans are prepared to end the legislative session next week without extending the law giving NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio control over the city school system if the Assembly won't negotiate, one insider warns.

The Senate had sought to extend mayoral control with an expansion of charter schools — a provision viewed as untenable for Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

While the state Assembly approved a measure extending mayoral control for two years, the leader of the GOP - controlled Senate sent de Blasio a letter demanding more information on how the school system spends state funds.

While the Assembly bill introduced Friday would extend mayoral control over the schools for three years, the Senate has been pushing a one - year extender that would be tied to an increase in the number of city charter schools.

With talks on a new rent regulation bill going nowhere, the Assembly Democrats introduced a bill late Friday that would simply extend as is a host of expiring laws — including rent regulations for two years and mayoral control of city schools for three.

Speaker Carl Heastie laid down the brightest marker yet on Monday he insisted to reporters the Democratic - led Assembly won't strike an agreement on extending mayoral control in New York City that also strengthens charter schools.

In an extraordinary session, the governor dictates the agenda, and Cuomo has listed just one explicit item: «Enacting legislation memorializing the agreement of the Senate and the Assembly that would extend mayoral control of the city school district of the city of New York for an additional year; specifically extending the effectiveness of chapters 91 of the laws of 2002 and 345 of the laws of 2009 relating to the organization of the city school district of the city of New York.»

If, for example, the Republican - led Senate agreed to extend rent laws that expire Monday in return for Assembly Democrats passing a tax break to benefit parochial schools, would Bharara slap someone in handcuffs?

And with the Assembly passing a bill to extend both mayoral control and local sales taxes, and the Senate tying mayoral control to various charter school provisions, Cuomo was betting lawmakers would return toward the end of the year to meet a different deadline — the one to re-authorize local taxes before they expire.

Cuomo said his plans to extend public tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants — the Dream Act — and a plan proposed tax credit offsetting donations to private and parochial school scholarship funds (as well as public schools) were «highly likely» to fall out of talks because the State Senate and Assembly were «dug in» in their respective opposition.

Cuomo, in the interview, said the Assembly is «really hostile to charter schools» and also acknowledged some Democratic lawmakers are also skeptical of extending mayoral control.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

A coterie of the city's business elite are demanding the State Senate and Assembly extend mayoral control of public schools for at least three years.

The Assembly passed an omnibus bill extending local sales taxes and included two - year control of schools for de Blasio.

The GOP - controlled Senate warned it's prepared to leave without extending the mayor's authority over New York City schools if the Democratic - controlled Assembly refuses to negotiate on its priorities, which include more charter schools.

Mayor de Blasio is on board with the Assembly's plan to extend his control of city schools for three years, though he was jockeying for seven years.

Earlier this week, an Assembly bill was approved that extends the ability of counties to keep a higher sales tax in place, while also continuing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's control over the city's vast school system for another two years.

Mr. Barron, a progressive firebrand, did praise the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie of the Bronx, for refusing to bend to the Senate's demands to increase the number of charter schools in the state as a condition to extend mayoral control of the city's schools.

Cuomo is also supportive of both extending mayoral control and increasing charter schools, whereas the Assembly Democrats are opposed to any expansion of charters.

The Assembly and State Senate closed their 2017 session Wednesday night without renewing Mayor Bill de Blasio's power over the New York City school system — leaving the receivership to expire at the end of this month unless Albany lawmakers reconvene to extend it.

Although the State Assembly has passed a bill extending mayoral control of city public schools, Republicans in the State Senate have proposed bills that extend mayoral control only with conditions that favor charter and private schools.

The Senate Republican majority wouldn't go along and instead pushed through three bills that extended mayoral control but tied it to other issues like pro-charter school provisions — something the Assembly Democrats opposed.

Literacy, numeracy, art, assemblies and investigative work are also planned, with sufficient detail for individual lessons, extended topics or whole - school approaches.

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«The Assembly acted responsibly by extending mayoral control for New York City schools as well providing the certainty that our local governments so desperately need in order to function properly.

The Wisconsin Assembly recently held a hearing on Assembly Bill 92, which would eliminate the enrollment cap for the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and extend the program to permit private schools located in Milwaukee County to participate.

But next year that provision expires, and unless the General Assembly takes action to extend this hold harmless provision, either local school districts must come up with extra funds to pay those veteran principals, watch them prematurely retire — or watch those school leaders» salaries take a nosedive.