Sentences with phrase «old state mandate»

Though there is a nearly two - year - old state mandate that opens the free summer lunch program to all children in Illinois — whether or not they're in summer school — there has not been much improvement in participation, and officials say millions of federal dollars available for the meals are going untapped.

Not exact matches

When Seattle hiked its minimum wage to $ 15 an hour from the state's mandated $ 9.32, for instance, at least one small - business owner was pleased: Makini Howell, who owns the nine - year - old vegan restaurant chain Plum Restaurants.

A coalition of conservative states historically opposed to the Affordable Care Act is suing the Trump administration in a move to end the nearly - decade old health law following last year's repeal of Obamacare's individual insurance mandate.

In the old days of bond investing, you would pick a bond fund with a narrowly defined mandate, like «medium - term corporates,» and the bond manager would spend his life trying to outperform the stated benchmark.

We resonate to the old rites of passage, and wonder what business it is of the State finally to set them aside, with no obvious reason, and with no clear mandate for doing so.

It matters when they get legislation passed at the state level to mandate illegitimate «science» be taught in schools, such that refutes big bang cosmology, evolutionary biology and an 11 billion year old universe / multiverse and 4.6 billion year old solar system.

Term limits, which are common at the state and local government level, also often impose de facto age limits, because most very elderly elected officials mandated to be so old by being re-elected many times after being first elected at a much younger age.

As Mayor Bill de Blasio has become embroiled in the burgeoning scandal, the city's comptroller, the Department of Investigation and the state Attorney General are probing the deal in which city bureaucrats lifted a decades - old deed restriction on 45 Rivington St. that mandated the Lower East Side property be used only for non-profit, residential - health care purposes.

«There is a clear legislative mandate for the Department to implement this program in a manner which enables the delivery of quality full - day pre-K programming to four year olds throughout the state in the 2014 - 15 school year.»

The state has started implementing a policy mandating the deletion of emails older than 90 days; state lawmakers are drafting legislation to change the policy, he notes.

Other question topics included whether the issuance of addenda to his Executive Order 147 signals a modification of how the cases will be reviewed and addressed, the status of an expected executive order mandating that 16 and 17 year olds held in New York State prisons be moved out of adult prisons, the latest on Hurricane Joaquin preparations, whether he's yet selected races to focus on in the 2016 elections, whether he intends to declare a state of emergency related to Hurricane Joaquin and whether any arrests have been made in the killing Carey GState prisons be moved out of adult prisons, the latest on Hurricane Joaquin preparations, whether he's yet selected races to focus on in the 2016 elections, whether he intends to declare a state of emergency related to Hurricane Joaquin and whether any arrests have been made in the killing Carey Gstate of emergency related to Hurricane Joaquin and whether any arrests have been made in the killing Carey Gabay.

Hours after the 160 - year - old hospital shut its doors, city officials terminated a state - mandated agreement that had legalized the work of St. Vincent's midwives.

To improve the quality of their evaluation, they analyzed law - mandated child safety seat use against use in three other groups: children in different states in the same year, children in the same state in different years and older children in the same state during the same year.

The state curriculum mandates that third - grade students learn local history, and in Woodstock, the vintage school is an important teaching tool.The original Old Quasset schoolhouse was built some time before 1738.

Regional breakdown: The South refers to the eleven states of the Old Confederacy, from Virginia through Texas and the Border states refer to the other six states bordering the South that had legally mandated segregation until the Brown decision.

West Virginia's school - finance system goes on trial this month when a judge revisits a landmark 13 - year - old court mandate for injecting equity and quality into the state's schools.

Ruling in a 25 - year - old school - desegregation case, the judge rejected the state's argument that the district could pay for the court mandates through cost - saving measures, including cutting...

The Obama administration will announce plans on Monday to enforce a long - ignored federal mandate: a decade - old requirement that states give students of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds equal access to good teachers.

Eithne J. Smith, a remedial - mathematics teacher at Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School, spent hours last year printing out old test questions from state - mandated exams and then cutting and pasting together items on the topics that gave her students trouble.

In 1998, in New Jersey's school funding case, called «Abbott,» the state's highest court ruled that preschool is an essential component of a constitutionally adequate education and mandated universal full - day preschool for 3 - and 4 - year - olds in the 31 highest poverty districts in the state.

The data we get from federal - and state - mandated tests are usually old by the time we get them, so they aren't useful for making instructional decisions on the current year.

The lawyers are asking for a hearing in August and a written plan from the state as to how it intends to meet the basic education mandate outlined in the decades - old landmark lawsuit, known as the Leandro case.

The Obama administration will announce plans on Monday to enforce a long - ignored federal mandate: a decade - old requirement that states give students of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds

The Florida public - school establishment is suing to repeal the Sunshine State's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.&rState's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.&rstate's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.&rstate's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.&rstate to provide for the education of Florida's children.»

The researchers focused on 18 - to 22 - year - olds in Georgia, Idaho and Texas — three states which implemented state - mandated financial literacy courses that first measured results for the class of 2007 without making any other significant changes to their schools» coursework.

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

And even in the American Midwest and Northeast, nuclear plants have been at very high risk of closure because they've been forced to pay an economic penalty, and an oversupplied market, resulting from federal subsidies — now a quarter century old — to wind developers, and from their exclusion from state clean energy mandates.

The youth, between 9 and 14 years old, had petitioned the State agency to create a rule mandating reductions of greenhouse gas emissions based on the most current climate science, which says that 350 ppm of carbon dioxide is the maximum level for a safe climate system.

But judges and lawyers can apparently work into old age (the Supreme Court of Canada mandates retirement at 75 and the Supreme Court of United States has no mandatory retirement).

Many states mandate discounts for older drivers who take a safe driving course, says Taylor Tepper, financial planning analyst at Bankrate.com.

If you are age 55 or older, you automatically qualify for the state - mandated discount through completion of a driver improvement course.

Previously, anyone seeking to get their first driver's license in Texas who was 18 years of age or older was not required to complete any state mandated driver education course.

In the state of Massachusetts, health insurance is mandatory for any person 18 years of age or older under the «individual mandate.»

Attention 16 and 17 - year - old drivers: We provide the 20 hours mandated course required by the state at our commercial school.