Sentences with phrase «of state charter laws»

The choice aspect of the paper is especially interesting — the district has been resourceful in its use of the state charter law.

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Shareholders provide capital to a corporation in exchange for a bundle of rights defined by state law and the corporation's charter and bylaws.

They stated that the «brutal aggression» is a «clear violation of the international laws and the UN Charter», and was an «unjustified assault» on a sovereign country that is a member of the United Nations.

The zero tolerance policy requires that any priest who at any time sexually abused a minor will be removed from ministry and, subject to applicable provisions of canon law, dismissed from the priesthood (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People [2002] at Art. 5).

The right to breastfeed anywhere, anytime is protected, for instance, by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and by U.S. state laws.

The right to breastfeed anywhere, anytime is protected, for instance, by equality legislation in the UK, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and by U.S. state laws.

Talking to Politics.co.uk last week, Cash said the Tories» attempt to blame Labour was unfair because David Cameron's then - shadow Cabinet had failed to back his campaign to explicitly state the charter of fundamental rights would not apply to UK law at the time.

See for example the 2000 Declaration of the South Summit by the G77 composed of about 130 member States [«We reject the so - called «right» of humanitarian intervention, which has no legal basis in the United Nations Charter or in the general principles of international law».

Arguably, state officials with a legislative role who are not members of the state legislature aren't covered, but this does not reflect common practice and this hole is often filled by a state constitutional provision or a state law or a local government charter.

This explicit grant of power would also prevent the sort of federal pre-emption that stopped Bush - era state AGs from enforcing even state laws against federally chartered banks.

Mount Vernon — Accusations of impropriety continue for Mayor Richard Thomas, who is already facing corruption charges as the Mount Vernon Board of Ethics has accused Mayor Richard Thomas of collecting more than $ 100,000 as a trustee of the Amani Public Charter School in violation of state education law.

He criticized the «chief law enforcement officer of the state» for not standing up for Mayor Bill de Blasio's plans to close charter schools, «for the corruption in Albany» and for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to close the Moreland Commission, an anti-corruption panel that was created by Cuomo in 2013.

The charter law was enacted after the Democrat's predecessor, Republican Steve Levy, took his annual State of the County message on the road, incurring extra costs for staff and security.

Antonacci asked the law department to address two main issues: The county charter appears to say that raises for county legislators should be voted on when the budget for that year is approved; and state Municipal Home Rule Law indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the Legislatulaw department to address two main issues: The county charter appears to say that raises for county legislators should be voted on when the budget for that year is approved; and state Municipal Home Rule Law indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the LegislatuLaw indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the Legislatulaw, not a resolution as passed by the Legislature.

On the prekindergarten issue, Success argues that the city's demand that it sign the contract violates state law, which it says gives a charter school's authorizer, not the city, oversight of its prekindergarten programs.

New York City has just 28 slots left for new charters, a number that could easily drop to zero over the next year with the growth of local charters guaranteed under a state law passed earlier this year.

«These regulations significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY authorized charter schools by permitting insufficiently prepared individuals to educate large numbers of high needs students beyond that which is already allowed for by law,» the lawsuit states.

New Jersey's new governor will consider changes to the state's charter school law, potentially slowing the expansion of controversial, yet in - demand schools championed by former Gov. Chris Christie.

The NYC Department of Education rejected requests for space made by a dozen charters so far this school year, forcing them to file appeals in Albany for relief under the state's charter - school siting law.

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

ALBANY — The head of the city teachers union dismissed as «a load of crap» state Senate GOP efforts to tie the renewal of a law granting Mayor de Blasio control over the city school system to an expansion of charter schools.

She has some additional thoughts on changes to ethics laws, charter schools and the possibility of a state lottery.

The provisions of this Charter are addressed to the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity and to the Member States only when they are implementing Union law.

The initial rejections led to lawsuits from Success Academy, along with a political battle between Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio that ended with the new charter law, which was part of the state budget that funded universal pre-K in the city.

Moskowitz organized several massive pro-charter rallies after de Blasio rescinded a handful of previously approved co-locations, and she helped push the passage of a new state law that guaranteed protections for local charters.

Mr. de Blasio, closely aligned with the teachers» unions, is one of those critics, but toned down his rhetoric after the State Legislature passed a law last year that guaranteed charter schools free space to expand.

She called the plan a violation of a state law demanding «reasonable, adequate or comparable» facilities for charters.

The city also has the option of turning the school into a charter under state receivership law, but the administration is highly unlikely to choose that option considering de Blasio's intermittent feud with the local charter sector.

Although the state constitution and county charter prohibit the use of government resources for political purposes, «it is nearly impossible to bring a criminal charge for these abuses under current law,» Singas wrote.

In addition, the Board of Elections is governed by state law, and it was not clear how it might be altered through changes to the City Charter.

JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO Pine Barrens Society head Richard Amper reads from the Suffolk County Drinking Water Protection Program, which states the law «may only be amended, modified, repealed or altered by an enactment of an appropriate Charter Law subject to mandatory referendum.&raqlaw «may only be amended, modified, repealed or altered by an enactment of an appropriate Charter Law subject to mandatory referendum.&raqLaw subject to mandatory referendum.»

Under current state law, signatures from 10 percent of voters can require the formation of a county charter commission to revise local government rules.

The governor could also work to change the state's charter law to include a mandate that New York City's charter students should either have access to sufficient space or that funding be made available to ensure that schools have enough money to pay for additional space, Bill Phillips, president of the Northeast Charter School Network, told Ccharter law to include a mandate that New York City's charter students should either have access to sufficient space or that funding be made available to ensure that schools have enough money to pay for additional space, Bill Phillips, president of the Northeast Charter School Network, told Ccharter students should either have access to sufficient space or that funding be made available to ensure that schools have enough money to pay for additional space, Bill Phillips, president of the Northeast Charter School Network, told CCharter School Network, told Capital.

WHEREAS Klinsky is also a founder of the Great Oaks Foundation, a not - for - profit educational company established after New York State amended its charter law to prohibit for - profit charter management of new charter schools, which is sponsoring charter schools in New York and New Jersey; and

State education law requires that the board of trustees of a charter school, with minimal exceptions, employ teachers who «shall be certified in accordance with the requirements applicable to other public schools.»

UFT lawyers argue that «while charter schools may receive some funding from private entities, they are overwhelmingly funded by public tax dollars and they are subject to the disclosure requirements applicable to government agencies under the New York state Freedom of Information Law.»

They also claim that the city's Department of Education doesn't hold the charter chain accountable and fails to abide by state education law requiring equity in capital spending at co-located district and charter schools.

Yet among the 41 states (and the District of Columbia) with charter laws, only 17 provide some kind of direct facilities aid, either capital grants or per - pupil funding, and just three of those provide annual per - pupil capital funding of more than $ 1,000.

Among the states, Minnesota (home of the nation's first charter law), Florida, and California allocate some financial assistance for lease payments to charter schools on a per - pupil basis, similar to the way in which operating funds are distributed.

National organizations that rank charter - school laws have varying opinions on the charter laws of the Four Corners states.

A third organization, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), gives low marks to the laws of all four states.

In studying the simple and immensely practical question of how charter schools handle teacher retirement when state law allows them to opt out of the state's pension system, Podgursky and Olberg examine just how much rethinking charters are doing when it comes to the familiar, expensive, and binding routines of schooling — and what lessons that holds for schools more broadly.

In our study, we assigned states without charter school laws a CER law strength score of 0.

But in states and school districts with strong unions and charter laws of similar strength, more families have sought out alternatives for their children in charter schools.

When studying the pattern of charter school enrollment across the country, we took into account how each of three factors contributes to or retards charter school growth: per pupil expenditures (also measured during the 1989 — 90 school year), length of time a charter law was on the books, and degree of permissiveness of each state's charter school law, as measured by the CER index.

In California, for example, which has the most charter schools of any state, the law stipulates that «admission to a charter school shall not be determined according to the place of residence of the pupil...» In Texas, another important charter state, the law prohibits «discrimination in admission policy on the basis of... the district the child would otherwise attend....»

On Top of the News Washington Charter School Law Ruled Unconstitutional by State's High Court Wall Street Journal 9/5/15

Because the presence of charter schools in an area might affect both student achievement and the decisions of families to move to a district, we measured state demographics and student achievement during the 1989 — 90 school year, several years before the first charter laws took effect.

Although each initiative failed at the ballot box, they collectively laid the foundation for approval of the state's charter law in 2012.

Long since the first state charter law passed in 1991, a majority of adults still have little or no clue, a new poll suggests.