Sentences with phrase «legislative education package»

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Major issues during the 2014 legislative session included a court - mandated $ 5 billion education funding package, transportation funding through a gas tax increase, and climate change proposals.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeffrey Klein announced a final agreement Tuesday on a legislative package that includes required pain management education for physicians, a scaling back of opioid prescriptions from 30 days to seven days, an increase in treatment beds and the elimination of prior insurance authorization before an addict can enter inpatient treatment.

Major issues during the 2013 legislative session included education reform, providing healthcare for low - income and other uninsured residents, and a tax relief package that sought to lower property taxes.

The bill was introduced in the House as part of a legislative package that also called for the establishment of a «Council for Science and Mathematics,» which would study math and science education in the state.

Finance: Mr. Barbour, a Republican, called for making education funding a legislative priority, and urged the Democratic - controlled legislature to reconsider an education package he proposed...

A delicate coalition in Alabama that recommended nearly $ 500 million in tax - and education - reform measures has begun to crumble in response to cuts in the legislative package made by the Senate.

The department's plan to eliminate federal aid for dropouts going on to higher education — mainly proprietary schools — was submitted to the Congress last week as part of a draft legislative package to implement the Administration's 1986 postsecondary - education budget.

Malloy's «education reform» bill is the driving force behind the Common Core testing scheme and the unfair and inappropriate teacher evaluation system — a legislative package that passed the Connecticut House of Representatives 149 - 0.

Early Childhood Bills (S973, S997, S1454, S1455, S1456) Ceil Zalkind recently testified before the Senate Education Committee on a package of early childhood bills, to both support the legislative proposals and to strengthen some provisions of the bills to better serve children and families.

After a period of relative quiet, voucher proponents have been active, pushing variety of proposals that appear to have made it into the package of K - 12 education items agreed upon by the Senate and Assembly, as reflected in the Legislative Fiscal Bureau summary of the Senate Republican budget plan.

Gov. Jerry Brown and Legislative leaders Monday wrapped up negotiations on several budget trailer bills, including AB 1476 - the education financing package that relies heavily on voters approving a sales and income tax measure on the November ballot.

ALBANY — Three state lawmakers say they will push a package of bills in the 2017 legislative session designed to make it easier for homeless preschool kids to get an education.

«School choice was an important part of the legislative education reform package enacted in 2015,» Sandoval said.

A problem left unaddressed in the legislative package was Michigan's approach to financing special education services, and that omission has the real possibility of derailing the fresh start provided to Detroit's primary public school option.