Sentences with phrase «pass school bonds»

Voters overwhelmingly passed the school bond and mill, demonstrating support for initiatives to improve aging buildings and expand programming in the arts, early childhood, and tutoring.

Among the long list of accomplishments that includes participation in nearly every major education policy decision since the mid-1980s - O'Connell said he is most proud of his role in getting voters to approve a ballot measure that reduced the threshold for passing school bonds to 55 percent.

Not exact matches

A supportive school board helped pass a bond issue in 2000 and didn't flinch when the program failed inspection its first year, Coplan said.

When the last school bond was trying to get passed, it was unbelievable what some of these people wrote on the comments section.

It's noteworthy that school districts will be asked to submit their requests for funding after the bond issue is passed.

Cuomo today announced that the first school district funding requests from the $ 2 billion Smart Schools Bond Act, passed in 2014, have been approved.

In total, Westchester public school districts will be sent $ 61,742,607 if the bond is passed.

When the mayor vetoed a tax hike passed by the council to support city schools, councilors hit back elsewhere: They delayed bonding to pay for street sweeping.

They were convinced that parents could positively impact public schools, and one of their first acts was to help pass the first bond election in many years, enabling the improvement of the school district facilities.

What's more, Grier led Houston voters in passing a nearly $ 2 billion bond package in 2012 to build 32 new schools, modernize 6 others, and provide new technologies.

The Sequoia Union High School District in Redwood City, California (one of the wealthiest in the state), filed suit in May 2002 in San Mateo County Superior Court to stop Aurora Charter High School from receiving its fair share — either in the form of rent money or buildings — of the $ 88 million bond measure that Sequoia passed in 2001.

But when the drafting of a new law was scheduled for the 1996 legislative session, dozens of school districts had more than a year to seize the chance to pass construction - bond issues under the current law.

Its main purpose was to make it easier to pass bond issues for public school funding, and district advocates say that most voters were not aware of the provision («buried in a little Easter egg,» as Folsom put it) requiring public schools to offer charters their unused space.

The Fresno, Calif., school system has narrowly failed to pass a $ 215 million bond for school construction.

In cooperation with the council, the school's corporate sponsor, Nestlà ©, provided $ 50 savings bonds to students for passing all elements of the proficiency exams.

Six charter schools will receive more than $ 48 million in such aid this month from revenue generated by a statewide school construction bond passed in November of last year.

Charters receive per pupil funding from the state like traditional district public schools but differ in not being able to receive funding for facilities and can not sell bonds and pass overrides.

All the King County school districts had at least one passing levy or bond measure, except for Tahoma, whose three levies were all failing.

With the United States Senate passing its version of a tax redistribution bill in the wee hours of December 2nd, it's now almost certain that the death knell for the corrupt use of refunding bonds by the school bonds cartel has tolled.

Successes in Houston during Grier's tenuire include significantly expanding the number of students taking and passing Advanced Placement exams, raising the high school graduation rate and overseeing passage of a $ 1.9 billion bond issue,

A recent attempt by the 11,000 - student urban district to pass a $ 49.8 million bond issue for school construction and repair - its first since the 1960s - failed earlier this year.

The district passed what was a record $ 1.5 billion bond issue for school construction 31/2 years ago, and is just now beginning to get projects underway.

Our charter school would receive a substantial portion of the bond proceeds for new facilities, should the bond measure pass.

In November, just four years after voters approved a $ 9.2 billion school facilities package, Californians will pass judgment on Proposition 47, which seeks authorization for $ 13 billion in bonds for school facilities across the state.

OGDEN — The Weber School District is looking at renovations, building a new junior high school and three elementary schools should a bond initiative pass thisSchool District is looking at renovations, building a new junior high school and three elementary schools should a bond initiative pass thisschool and three elementary schools should a bond initiative pass this fall.

It's unclear how much will be spent on equipment versus construction if the bond act passes — that's left up to the schools.

This matches the 55 percent majority vote required to pass a local school bond.

Historically, the state has passed a bond referendum every 10 years for school capital construction.

But in many communities, passing these bonds has been a challenge, and statewide, there is currently an estimated $ 7.6 billion in deferred school maintenance costs.

We haven't passed a statewide school bond in ten years, and we face a massive backlog of local school projects.

In light of a $ 185 million bond passing in November, the District plans to renovate existing schools and develop new schools.

As in many other states, Oregon school districts generally address facility needs by passing local, voter - approved bonds, according to the Department of Education.

Oakland voters passed a $ 435 bond measure in 2006 that helped pay for the $ 75 million Escuelita center, which will open Aug. 27 and serve pre-K through high school students with services including a health clinic and community center.

Los Angeles presented the perfect model of the costs that accompany Common Core when Superintendent John Deasy pledged to spend $ 1 billion to buy iPads for all students and staff, money taken from a school construction bond issue passed by voters.

And just this month in the general election, San Diego passed a first - of - its - kind $ 2.8 billion school bond that earmarked «an equitable, pro rata share for charter schools» amounting to $ 350 million for charter facilities in the district.

The last statewide school bond was passed in 2006.

(Calif.) A legislative dilemma over how to deactivate a big jump in fees paid by home builders for school construction will resolve itself once money starts to flow from a $ 9 billion bond measure passed by voters in November, sources said late last week.

FairTest compared the results from the NAEP 1996 grades 4 and 8 math tests (Quality Counts, 1998) with whether a state required its students to pass a test to obtain a high school diploma in 1994 - 95 and 1995 - 96 (Bond, et al., 1996a, 1996b).

In addition to financing long - term infrastructure projects, bonds help governments manage the ebb of its cash flow, passing savings onto taxpayers who help the government pay for needed services, such as those provided by military, police, hospital staff, school teachers, and others.

In order to become licensed as a home inspector, an individual must pass the licensing examination prescribed by the Board, have minimum net assets or a bond in an amount determined by the Board (not less than $ 5,000 nor more than $ 10,000) and meet certain educational conditions, including: 1) have a high school diploma or its equivalent, have been engaged as a licensed associate home inspector for at least one year, and have completed 100 home inspections for compensation; 2) have education and experience the Board considers to be equivalent to that in subpart 1.

I know that your archive surely contains many views into NYC artistic life of the 20th century; as the personalities of that time who created the New York School now pass on - it would be remarkable to read examinations of the type of families and collective associations (mutual bonds) that were created and upheld that made formed the world for the NY intelligentsia.

And an additional $ 125 million in matching grants for school districts that pass local school bonds.

«If these measures were to pass, companies will have no other option but to file a lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma,» said Yates «If you go bankrupt or they unload a project because of the economics of it, you also have the potential of school districts that bonded these projects — who's going to foot that bill?

Lawsuit alleging the misuse of school bond funds, which bond was passed by voters to build a high school in Alpine.

In order to become licensed as a home inspector, an individual must pass the licensing examination prescribed by the Board, have minimum net assets or a bond in an amount determined by the Board (not less than $ 5,000 nor more than $ 10,000) and meet certain educational conditions, including: 1) have a high school diploma or its equivalent, have been engaged as a licensed associate home inspector for at least one year, and have completed 100 home inspections for compensation; 2) have education and experience the Board considers to be equivalent to that in subpart 1.