Sentences with phrase «other education legislation»

As work is finishing on those bills, then other education legislation can start to move.

However, the Governor has signed other education legislation, including measures to require criminal - records checks of new employees of private schools, to survey the need for «parenting» education, and to update the state's standardized tests for 12th - grade students.

Not exact matches

not only will this save us money we can use the money we save to improve are education infrastructure, which help reduce crime, something FOP and CCPOA (i do not now what the call it in other states) have been historically against, those two Gangs have no desire to reduce crime in fact they lobby to increase it; by supporting new legislation and fighting against ones that will reduce crime

When the religious try to impose their beliefs on others by attempting to change legislation and education standards, then it DOES become relevant to non-believers.

Other: A White Paper on Health, Nutrition, and Physical Education produced by the Department of Education entitled, Healthy Children Ready to Learn (2005), highlights the need for local wellness policies and outlines steps the Department is taking to accelerate their adoption and implementation, including collaborative efforts, promoting a coordinated school health approach, and supporting state legislation supporting wellness policies.

«Sometimes, what looks good on paper doesn't work on the ground,» said Katherine Shek, a legislative analyst for the National School Boards Association, which praised Obama's commitment to school nutrition but joined two other national education advocacy groups — the American Association of School Administrators and the Council of the Great City Schools — in opposing the legislation.

Obstetrician — gynecologists and other obstetric care providers should be in the forefront of policy efforts to enable women to breastfeed, whether through individual patient education, change in hospital practices, community efforts, or supportive legislation.

«However we do have to come back to implement federal legislation for education, an OTB plan for New York City and a couple of other things that have to be done, and we will be coming back.»

Almost 90 minutes of proceedings in the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee included the first - ever Senate testimony from an openly transgender witness, who joined three other speakers in making a robust case for the legislation as necessary for workers and helpful for business.

This past legislative session alone, he sponsored legislation to require the Department of Education to establish an education for environmental sustainability program to teach children the importance of conserving and protecting our environment; ban formaldehyde in certain children's products; and to require facilities generating excess food waste to take measures to minimize food waste, among manEducation to establish an education for environmental sustainability program to teach children the importance of conserving and protecting our environment; ban formaldehyde in certain children's products; and to require facilities generating excess food waste to take measures to minimize food waste, among maneducation for environmental sustainability program to teach children the importance of conserving and protecting our environment; ban formaldehyde in certain children's products; and to require facilities generating excess food waste to take measures to minimize food waste, among many others.

Still, even as a number of other measures melted away from the budget talks, Cuomo stuck with including education reforms, as well as ethics legislation, in the final budget agreement.

On the other side of the aisle, Assemblyman Ed Ra, a Long Island Republican who is the ranking minority member on the chamber's education committee, explained his «no» vote by arguing the legislation was too controversial to bring peace to the community.

* Both Senators have proposed legislation on a range of issues: Clinton addresses health, banking, foreign policy, energy, and education, among others; Obama addresses nuclear non-proliferation, energy, foreign policy, ethics reform, and education, among others.

Though the funding comes from the state, Cuomo has little influence over education policy in New York other than through legislation — policy is crafted by the Board of Regents, appointed through a legislative process dominated by Assembly Democrats.

«Among other items, the agenda will include a revised version of the Education, Labor and Family Assistance Article VII bill that I was forced to veto earlier this year to prevent an unaffordable increase in school aid, an appropriation bill to authorize distribution of $ 607 million in federal Education Jobs Fund money to school districts, and necessary legislation to reorganize the New York City Off - Track Betting Corporation.»

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Labor leaders and some public - education advocacy groups, on the other hand, are hoping for a majority of exclusively mainstream Democrats which would be more inclined beat back pro-charter legislation and a controversial tax credit proposal.

Co-sponsored legislation and supported efforts to combat the Heroin and Opioid crisis, including a policy to raise additional revenue for education and prevention, creating a Family Advocate to help individuals and families navigate insurance and other issues while seeking treatment and supporting local advocacy groups.

A bipartisan draft bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the original name of the federal education legislation, would bar the federal government from requiring states to use student test scores in teacher evaluations or forcing closure or other sanctions on strugglingEducation Act, the original name of the federal education legislation, would bar the federal government from requiring states to use student test scores in teacher evaluations or forcing closure or other sanctions on strugglingeducation legislation, would bar the federal government from requiring states to use student test scores in teacher evaluations or forcing closure or other sanctions on struggling schools.

The legislation, signed into law on Tuesday, restores funding for what NASA calls education and public outreach (E / PO) programs operated by SOFIA and dozens of other scientific missions.

The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) has reported that the Tennessee legislation also is opposed by the Tennessee Science Teachers Association, the National Association of Biology Teachers, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, and the National Earth Science Teachers Association, among others.

By the time it was incorporated, the focus has expanded to include elementary and secondary education, professional development training for researchers, and outreach to the public and the media about science education, the use of animals in biomedical research, and other topics such as the harmonization of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees and Institutional Biosafety Committees, as well as monitoring legislation.

Legislation provides for compulsory schooling and the right to free pre-primary and basic education, which includes, among other things, daily meals for students and subsidised transport.

Action on the other proposals — which make up the so - called «social issues» agenda of legislation promoting greater family choice in education and Christian values for youth — is being pushed by Congressional conservatives and pro-family...

Along with other major changes to state - funded education, the new legislation gave public schools more flexibility in offering single - sex programs.

Under the new legislation, however, it's less a matter of if than of how: How far must schools go to ensure that boys» and girls» educations mirror each other exactly?

HGSE Grads Talk About Why Today's Kids Need Full - Service Education Last year, when Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer introduced landmark legislation to provide funding for full - service community schools, he became part of a nationwide movement aimed at making children's school days longer, more numerous, and filled with services once provided solely through other industries.

As researcher Rebecca Dibiase reported in a September 2005 review for the Education Commission of the States, «Most school plans call for activities that fall under «any other major restructuring of the school's governance arrangement,» or Option # 5 in the legislation....

Members of the Citizens Council on Women's Education (ccwe), a project of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, also endorsed the civil - rights act of 1984 — the measure tabled by the Senate last week — and urged participants to vote against legislators who failed to back that and other legislation affecting equity in eEducation (ccwe), a project of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, also endorsed the civil - rights act of 1984 — the measure tabled by the Senate last week — and urged participants to vote against legislators who failed to back that and other legislation affecting equity in eEducation, also endorsed the civil - rights act of 1984 — the measure tabled by the Senate last week — and urged participants to vote against legislators who failed to back that and other legislation affecting equity in educationeducation.

If that's all they really care about, the best way to hold their jobs was to simply work closely with the president, fashioning budgetary compromises, designing bipartisan education reform legislation, and getting other governmental business in hand.

Legislation authorizes institutions other than traditional public schools to provide public education online.

The proposal by Mr. Parker, a former chairman of the Senate education committee, calls for the state comptroller to certify the state's school - spending legislation each biennium before the legislature can enact funding for other state services.

In May this year, Mayor de Blasio signed legislation to develop a comprehensive Cultural Plan for New York by 2017 with arts programming for schools, and in so doing joined other US cities dedicated to increasing arts education, including Houston, Chicago and Denver.

Hoping to stimulate new approaches to education, 11 states have passed charter - school legislation allowing educators and others to create innovative...

The associated regulations, SEND Code of Practice and other related guidance documentation provided by Department for Education (DfE) provide comprehensive statutory and non-statutory advice and guidance on implementation of the new legislation.

As an historian, I was particularly pleased to see how the editor saw fit to include an historical review of the period since the 1950s, mentioning, among other things, Arthur Bestor's great book, Educational Wastelands: The Retreat from Learning in Our Public Schools, the influence of Sputnik, and (a little later) the Great Society legislation, to underscore the national commitment to education for everyone.

For more in - depth analysis of pending legislation and other education policy matters, please visit our Inside Scoop Policy Blog.

Still, she said Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday is examining potential costs, oversight rules and other issues surrounding charter schools to determine if the department would support enabling legislation.

In building support for this legislation and other efforts to support student attendance, ACNJ strengthened partnerships with diverse groups such as NJPTA, NJSACC, Jersey CAN, Paterson Education Fund, NJSSNA, the League of Women Voters, SPAC and NJASA, and most importantly schools and communities across the state that are tackling absenteeism.

The work produced during this Feb. 3 - 6 weekend will help us keep public education per pupil funding requests and other anti-public education legislation that will certainly arise during the 2 - year budget process in the media and on the minds of Wisconsin residents.

State Rep. John Forgety, who chairs a House education committee and supported the legislation, told The Tennessean the intent was not to create a law that allowed districts to market to each other's students.

Newly passed legislation shortens expulsions and requires school districts to help disciplined students keep up with studies, among other efforts aimed at improving education for...

The agenda, which was unveiled at ASCD's 2009 Annual Conference, is designed to help the Association, its members, and other educators influence policy discussions and decisions regarding federal education legislation as well as reforms at the state and local levels.

The legislation was crafted by a working group that included CEA representatives and other stakeholders in the education community, including the co-chairs of the General Assembly's Education Committee and the state commissioner of eeducation community, including the co-chairs of the General Assembly's Education Committee and the state commissioner of eEducation Committee and the state commissioner of educationeducation.

October 19, 2015: NSBA Joins NCPE in a Coalition Letter Opposing Reauthorization Legislation of the DC Voucher Program in the U.S. House of Representatives NSBA and 55 other organizations, as part of the National Coalition for Public Education, wrote this letter to the U.S. House of Representatives to voice opposition to H.R. 10, the reauthorization of the District of Columbia private school voucher program.

In other action, the education committee also approved legislation that would require California public and private schools built or modernized after Jan. 1, 2014 to install carbon monoxide detectors.

Along with medication, the Maryland state legislation also mandates that all public schools put in place «age - appropriate» drug education programming that includes the dangers of heroin and other opioids.

readers may recall the series of posts about how Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, brought in Leeds Global Partners and the other corporate education reform consultants though no - bid contracts to help him write and push through Malloy's «education reform» legEducation, Stefan Pryor, brought in Leeds Global Partners and the other corporate education reform consultants though no - bid contracts to help him write and push through Malloy's «education reform» legeducation reform consultants though no - bid contracts to help him write and push through Malloy's «education reform» legeducation reform» legislation.

Difference is, the Sheff efforts are rooted in Brown vs. Board of Education and other Civil Rights legislation, whereas the Common Core and other «reformy» actions are untried ploys that ultimately will increase the racial and economic segregation of our Two Connecticuts and further widen the achievement gap for our students.

Just a few weeks ago, Bridgeport, Windham and other school districts cheered when the Legislature approved and Governor Malloy signed legislation that allocates an additional $ 98 million as part of the new «education reform» act.