Sentences with phrase «local board passed»

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Within days, a dozen city council members sent a similar letter, while the county board of supervisors unanimously passed a resolution calling for local ownership.

The momstown program pass also provides access to private, local message board forums where you can engage with moms in your community, take advantage of special momstown discounts, and become connected with moms in your community that you might not have met without momstown!

«I think it should be left to local school boards to make that decision,» Rell said at a news conference before the bill was passed.

Although North Carolina law allows local school boards to permit corporal punishment, under legislation passed in 2011, parents have the right to opt out of corporal punishment for their children in public schools.

If passed, the bill would prohibit the board from hearing appeals of license revocations and other punishments imposed by local liquor officials.

The four candidates have been in limbo since Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie passed on his authority to select one of two local members to a board that will review the project.

Witghout a property tax cap, your local school board can pass those cuts right onto the packs of property owners.

ATHOL — The town of Thurman's Local government functions came to a standstill Jan. 3 after a slim majority of the newly - aligned town board refused to pass routine municipal resolutions that allow government to operate, and questioned the basic authority of the supervisor to run a meeting and serve as the town's chief executive.

In an effort to create more affordable housing options in Southold Town, the Town Board passed a local law last Tuesday that would permit up to six «moderate income» rental units near village centers.

The governor himself has always emphasized that local government boards, by a 60 percent vote, can pass a local law overriding the cap.

An override of the cap, passed in June, requires 60 percent of a local elected board to bypass the limit.

The St. Lawrence County Board of Legislators took the unusual step of passing a resolution expressing no confidence in the local DA, Mary Rain, listing a series of embarrassing revelations and accusations, including a suggestion by a former assistant that Rain planned to use grand juries to investigate people she disliked.

School districts, teachers unions and local government officials are concerned that the cap was passed without a real effort at chipping away at unfunded state mandates, while the Cuomo team argues that once the cap is in place, governments and school boards will be forced to make the difficult (and presumably correct) spending choices while retaining essential services.

The Bethlehem town board passed a resolution declaring the town a «sanctuary community,» affirming that the local government and police department would continue as it had been — not requesting a person's immigration status or citizenship unless necessary for the protection of public safety.

When the Rosendale Town Board passed a new local law at the end of last year allowing the creation of

The Town Board also passed a resolution Tuesday on behalf of Pearl River murder victim Paula Bohovesky, aimed at keeping one of her convicted killers in prison for the equally infamous killing of the popular local teenager.

Over the year that followed, I joined local MTA Board Member Susan Metzger in leading the fight to have an Orange County midway train yard as well as passing sidings between Suffern and the new yard included in the plan.

The legislature would have to pass that as a procedure or the state legislature allow the local boards of elections to go ahead with such a procedure.

A resolution just passed unanimously by the East Hampton Town Board is careful, deliberate and measured, speaking of «considerable local concern regarding disturbance from noise and related impacts from aviation operations at the airport.»

If the tax increase does end up being more than two percent, New York State requires that the board pass a local law to increase the tax levy by more than two percent.

The package, including $ 55 million in reductions to Medicaid services and $ 260 million in across - the - board cuts in state aid to local governments, was intended to cover shortfalls in tax revenue during this fiscal year that have emerged since the budget was passed.

Developers recently resubmitted reworked plans for power lines, but after months of community objections and local town boards passing resolutions against the transmission lines, the state Public Service Commission will hold a June conference on whether they're needed.

The institute helped the conservative Louisiana Family Forum (LFF), headed by Christian minister Gene Mills, to pass a state education act in 2008 that allows local boards to teach intelligent design alongside evolution under the guise of «academic freedom».

Taking these pictures meant having to move out of the way a dozen times for passing cars, once for two teen - aged boys on skate boards, and once for a city truck searching for the coyote that was roaming around in the local backyards (not even kidding!).

«It will take immense effort and ingenuity on the part of local educators to help all students meet these standards and pass these exams,» Mr. Mills wrote in the proposal submitted last week to the state board of regents.

A certain amount of its cash and the responsibility for how it is spent nationally will be retained by Whitehall but the bulk of the money — and financial incentives for those who show how it improves local health — will pass to the local Clinical Commissioning Groups [CCGs] and Health & Wellbeing Boards.

Last year, heeding calls for «local control» of education decisions and less invasive interventions in underperforming schools, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, granting states and local school boards, rather than the federal government, broad latitude in determining how to rate the performance of schools and how to intervene when performance lags.

When Senate Bill 432 passed and was signed into law as Act 91 it should have been evident to New Orleanians that despite a gradual return to local control they will not be witnessing the same old school board that they once knew.

In addition, 130 local school committees (district school boards) have now passed resolutions opposing the ballot measure.

The Lakeland School Board and Williamson County School Board in Tennessee both passed resolutions that called for ending use of the Common Core and petitioning the state for local control of curriculum standards.

In addition, the local, county, or parish school board may have passed specific implementations within its jurisdiction.

The existing law - passed in 2011 - allows parents to convert a low - performing district public school to a charter if a majority of parents signs a petition, but local school boards have to sign off on the conversion.

«But more importantly, local school boards should pass resolutions opposing the provision, explaining why its ill - timed and ill conceived, and suggesting the legislature repeal the provision.

Did you know that if HB 634 passes, your local school board will have no say whether a charter school can open within your community?

Given the unique understanding of their communities and vital role school boards have, federal regulations should empower state and local leaders to make decisions, which Congress clearly intended when it passed ESSA.

«NSBA applauds lawmakers in the House and Senate for their commitment to passing a modernized law that preserves important federal cornerstones, such as equity and excellence, while establishing a «new federalism» in education policy — upholding local governance and creating a new federal - state - local partnership to ensure that states and local school board members are better positioned to provide all students with a world class public education,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director of the National School Boards Association.

NSBA urges Congress to take immediate action to mitigate the effects of the U.S. Department of Labor recently approved overtime regulations and immediately pass legislation that will provide much needed relief to local school boards members in meeting the new rule requirements.

The charter school law that passed in 2001 allows the Indianapolis mayor, public state universities and local school boards to act as authorizers.

In this letter to U.S. Senate Leadership, the National School Boards Association joined the State and Local Governance coalition in urging the Senate to pass the Every Child Achieve Act, prior to debate of the Elementary and Secondary Education reauthorization bill on the Senate floor.

July 7, 2015: State and Local Governance Coalition Letter to Senate Leadership Regarding the Every Child Achieves Act (S. 1177) In this letter to U.S. Senate Leadership, the National School Boards Association joined the State and Local Governance Coalition in urging the Senate to pass the Every Child Achieve Act prior to debate of the Elementary and Secondary Education reauthorization bill on the Senate floor.

With both the House and Senate having passed their respective education bills, NSBA remains steadfast in working with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to pass a final bill that restores community ownership to local school boards, maximizes federal funding for Title I, and excludes private vouchers, tuition tax credits, or existing voucher programs.

The legislation, cosponsored by three Senate Republicans — directs local county boards, rather than school systems, to pass along state per - pupil funding to regional charters.

Though state lawmakers this year passed a measure to return RSD schools to local boards by July 2018, critics say it won't make any difference because the law still maintains charter schools» operational autonomy.

(An aside: Legislation passed in 2016 is supposed to systematically return the charters to the local school board.

During the 2017 Legislative Session, the Maryland General Assembly passed the Open Meetings Act training requirements for public bodies, including local school boards.

Encourage your local community group or school board to pass a resolution in support of the school funding lawsuit and send the resolution to your area newspapers, your lawmakers, and the governor.

The Board of Education of High School District 214 in Illinois was the first local Board of Education to pass a resolution in support of this national initiative.

The local school board has passed a resolution to review Common Core.

Assume the state only pays 80 % of actual cost = $ 800 K so school board asks local homeowners to pass local levy to make up the difference.

SB 734 passed by the 2016 General Assembly amended the charter application section; added a section on the applicability of other laws, regulations, policies, and procedures; and amended sections relating to contracts between the local school board and the public charter school management committee to require: