Sentences with phrase «passed education bills»

The last time the federal government passed an education bill of this magnitude was in 2002, when Congress delivered the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

For what it is worth, he has repeatedly argued that school choice will be a priority of his administration, going so far as to say in his first joint address to Congress, «I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino children.

I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino children.

In his address to a joint session of Congress in February, Trump called on Congress «to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth.»

«I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African - American and Latino children,» he declared.

«I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African - American and Latino children.

«I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African - American and Latino children,» President Trump said during his first address to a joint chamber of Congress.

«I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of -LSB-...]

While awaiting conference proceedings to begin, NSBA will continue to work with potential conferees to ensure that Congress passes an education bill that reaffirms local governance, invests in Title I programs, and excludes vouchers, tuition tax credits, or other means of authorizing the use of public dollars for private education.

The NEA shared reports about President Trump's recent address to Congress, in which he indicated that he «remains serious about his campaign - trail pledge to expand school choice,» urging Congress «to «pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African - American and Latino children.

Not exact matches

The Bill, which was passed by 268 votes to 177 and now goes to the House of Lords, is strongly supported by the Catholic Education Service (CES), which last week hailed an amendment to the Bill that it said it had secured after «extensive lobbying».

If that seems a little hysterical, consider The Catholic Herald's account of an interview given by Ed Balls on the Today programme, a few hours before the House of Commons passed, by 268 votes to 177, its Sex Education Bill (against which, Catholics should note, the Tories voted):

«We are proud to have worked alongside Members of Congress, as well as a broad coalition of public health and education groups and others in the food and beverage industry, to see this bill pass,» Neely said.

Regular TLT readers know all about the (misguided) Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill passed by the House Education & the Workforce Committee, a bill which would roll back key school food reforms and put economically disadvantaged kids at risk.

But now the House Education and the Workforce Committee has passed a CNR bill that's so wrongheaded, even the SNA is taken aback and urging its members to speak out against it.

Republicans were unsuccessful in passing the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016 (H.R. 5003) bill that aimed to reform an Obama - era program called Community Eligibility Provision (CEP).

The federal bill that will provide New York with some $ 2.6 billion in Medicaid and education aid just passed the US Senate 61 - 39 (no surprise, as that was the same as yesterday's cloture vote in which two moderate Maine Republicans joined with the Democrats to end the GOP filibuster).

If the budget isn't done by then, Paterson said, he'll be putting the rest of it into extender bills — including education — and force the lawmakers to choose between a shutdown and passing controversial cuts.

Remember: He executed the first veto — of $ 419 million worth of education aid, the bulk of the $ 519 million worth of funding restored by the Legislature that he nixed — on the same day the Assembly and Senate passed the first bills of their two - way deal.

The Legislature last session passed two bills, one which would allow certain capital project expenditures for Boards of Cooperative Education Services, and the other, PILOT agreements, to be exempt from the tax cap calculation.

The House's version of the tax reform bill passed last week, and the Senate's version — which notably lacks those education cuts — passed Saturday.

Senate Republicans are nudging de Blasio to release more information on how the city spends its education money; the Assembly on Monday passed an omnibus bill that packages a two - year extender with a continuation of local government tax measures.

Nolan's bill passed the Education Committee today and is being fast tracked for passage in the Assembly despite the fact that it currently has no chance of becoming law.

The Assembly worked until 4 a.m. Tuesday, and managed to pass bills that created a commission to examine judicial pay and an education bill that would freeze the per - child allowance paid by school districts to charter schools.

Under the bill, which passed the chamber 40 - 18, eight of the 17 - member education policymaking board would be chosen by the governor, three by the Senate majority leader, and three by the Assembly speaker.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

asked Noah Gotbaum, a member of Community Education Council 3, which passed a resolution this month supporting the bill and has come out against the high - rise project.

A massive education budget bill was passed, but before decisions were made about how it would be funded.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

The governor this week sought to turn the education equity argument back on de Blasio, suggesting that any bill that doesn't approve pre-K for all kids in the state won't pass.

The Senate's Higher Education committee advanced a bill that if passed would impose a fine of up to $ 1,000 for the sale or purchase of term papers, dissertations or other academic assignments over the Internet.

«We will not tolerate the previous generation passing on its debts to the next, nor will we pick up the bill to access a college and university education that was funded for them.»

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The Wisconsin Senate passed a series of education reform bills Thursday designed to make the state compete for nearly $ 4.5 billion in federal stimulus money.

The American Heart Association used Phone2Action to make it easy for advocates to take action resulting in passing a landmark health education bill in New York.

Clinton urged Silver's Assembly to «absolutely» pass a Senate bill that would more than double the cap to 460 from 200 — and «not just because of the federal funding» (the up to $ 700 million that New York could win in a competition for states that enact education reforms).

A bill relating to public protection and general government (PPGG) passed by a vote of 57 - 3 and another dealing with education, labor and family assistance (ELFA) by a 59 - 1 vote.

Emergency Hurricane Harvey Supplemental Appropriations — Vote Passed (419 - 3, 11 Not Voting) Frelinghuysen, R - N.J., motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution that would provide for the House to concur in the Senate amendments to a bill (HR 601) that would codify practices and programs at the United States Agency for International Development related to U.S. education assistance abroad, with further amendment that would appropriate $ 7.9 billion in emergency supplemental funding for fiscal 2017 as an initial payment to cover the costs of responding to Hurricane Harvey.

A bill that makes provisions for rehabilitation of delinquent children and «to force delinquent children to acquire the said education at any of the special schools across Nigeria» has passed through second reading in the House of Representatives.

• So could the many other bills that need to be passed by tomorrow, including but not limited to: New York City's adjusted sales tax, which is needed to balance the city budget; a bill to renew federal support for special education; and a bill to allow the city to continue to sell bonds to raise money.

Out Councilmember Corey Johnson of Chelsea also voted against it as did Inez Barron of Brooklyn, a staunch advocate for public education, but it passed 43 - 4 with the support of all three citywide elected officials — Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott Stringer, and Public Advocate Letitia James — as well as otherwise liberal officials such as Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.

My dear reader, I hope and pray that both of these tuition assistance bills will be able to pass this year, but I do share Governor Andrew Cuomo's position that the best way for the DREAM Act and the Education Investment Tax Credit to pass is to link them together for one vote.

«We hope to follow our own lead and pass a comprehensive charter bill and educational reform package to give New York the points we need to win and our children the education they need to compete.»

Passing AB 1266, the Transgender Bill and SB 48, the Gay Education Bill was a tragic disgrace that Governor Brown should not have signed into law.

It was the Republican Senate — spearheaded by Senator Marty Golden — who took the bill and quickly passed it through the Senate Education Committee to get it to the Senate Floor, today Monday, February 6, 2012 in order to give all 62 Senators the opportunity to vote yes or no.

With no state budget and Albany leaders passing emergency spending bills that keep the state government running, the mayor has cut school budgets for next year on the assumption that the deepest cuts to education being contemplated in Albany will come to pass.

This special bill passed by state legislature and signed by Cuomo authorizes the commissioner of education to grant a waiver ensuring that neither the district nor the students are penalized.

Bill Thompson, who nearly unseated Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2009, said de Blasio's plan to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for pre-K education had little chance of passing the state Legislature.

The Assembly has already passed a bill to essentially impose a two - year moratorium on the impact of the new testing associated with Common Core, on both teachers and students, and Senate Education Chair Flanagan says he expects full agreement on a new law by the end of March.

Call on the NY State legislature to pass a Peoples Board of Education bill before June 2015 when Mayoral Control is scheduled to either be reinstated or replaced by some other school governance structure.

The bill is now under debate in the Senate after passing the Senate education committee 22 - to - 0.