Sentences with phrase «passed last»

The education reform bill, passed last year by the state legislature with overwhelming support and signed by Governor Dannel P. Malloy, grows high - performing public school options, provides fairer funding for public charter school students, and creates a Commissioner's Network to turnaround our state's chronically failing schools.

Per you point about getting the «same» amount of money, first AF schools are not unionized and AF got a bill passed last year that allows charter schools to have up to 30 % of its teacher staff not certified — those two things raise the costs in district public schools.

«Our current system, in many respects, rewards mediocrity, punishes excellence by granting unlimited job security to all who teach a few years,» Berger said last March at a news conference to unveil his Excellent Public Schools Act of 2013 — which contained language that ended career status and was ultimately inserted into the budget bill passed last summer.

The funding comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the economic - stimulus package passed last year by Congress.

A law the Legislature passed last spring was more modest than previous proposals, but the state's largest teachers union, the Washington Education Association (WEA), launched an effort to get rid of it.

The $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants, which seek to reward states for their commitment to reforming teacher effectiveness, data systems, low - performing schools, and academic standards and assessments, are paid for through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year by Congress.

The House passed it last week and the Senate is expected to pass it this week, with President Obama promising to sign it.

The bill we passed last month made significant changes for 4 of them.

The House last week passed the last in a series of crime bills that would replace prevention and community - policing programs with a $ 10 billion block grant that local governments could spend on the anti-crime measures of their choice.

Some observers say the results show that voters generally support the Democratic governor's plan, which the legislature passed last spring.

It's been a long road to comprehensive charter reform in Ohio, but the legislation that overwhelmingly passed last week drew bipartisan support and praise from editorial boards across the state.

School - finance reforms passed last year by Wisconsin lawmakers in an effort to reduce the gap between wealthy and poor school districts could have the opposite effect.

An especially intense spotlight had been trained on the scores of students whose native language is not English — largely because of Proposition 227, the ballot initiative passed last year that curtailed bilingual education in the state's classrooms.

The twin principles upon which rests the so - called Solomon Amendment [to the fiscal 1983 Defense Department authorization bill, passed last year], which denies federal assistance to students who fail to register for a potential military draft, are these: It is the first priority of our federal government to preserve freedom and national security, and it is the primary responsibility of free citizens to obey the laws that are necessary to guarantee...

The bill, passed last month by the legislature, responds to the wishes of some parents who wanted a longer summer, as well as the tourism industry, which has pushed for extended summer breaks to boost profits and ensure the availability of student workers.

Hard Hat Area: The Deteriorating State of School Buildings The spending bill passed last month by Congress didn't include the monies President Clinton had asked for to address the crumbling state of America's school infrastructure.

In Bedford - Stuyvesant's District 16, for example, just 15 percent of test takers passed last year.

Until then, states should abide by the requirements of the IDEA amendments passed last year and any previous rules consistent with the...

Lawyers for Minnesota's public - employee unions say that state's law, passed last December to help close a $ 312 - million budget deficit, is unconstitutional because it abrogates the workers» constitutional claims to contract and equal - protection rights.

The resolution was passed last Saturday at the NAACP national board meeting in Cincinnati, but the issue is not going to go away.

Under a law passed last year in Albany, the city will have to either find space for the new schools in public school buildings or pay a portion of their rent.

And, thanks to legislation Florida passed last spring, she'll also enjoy a yearly bonus from...

Of course, Black Panther has already passed The Last Jedi at the domestic box office, and as long as Marvel / Disney doesn't pull the film from theaters, it can continue to run much higher.

Party On: Legislation passed last week allows the Federal Helium Reserve to continue selling the stockpiled gas.

My wife passed last year and I now feel it is time to try to move on.

I sit it in often since my Nana passed last year.

The government is operating on a stop - gap spending bill passed last December, which expires Friday.

CIOMA is no longer lobbying for legislation to keep fuels out of cap and trade, McKeeman said, having lost a quest to get a bill passed last year.

Such cultures, in turn, have passed the last 500 years subjugating the native populations of the Americas, Africa, and Australia.

The House CR passed last month would cut NIH's budget by $ 1.6 billion.

The National Institute of Mental Health's FAST Initiative, which was established to validate the use of biomarkers to facilitate drug development, aligns with the 21st Century Cures Act passed last year by Congress.

The extension of the so - called continuing resolution reduces current spending by $ 4 billion, but none of the science, energy, and education programs that would suffer greatly under a bill passed last month by the House of Representatives would be affected.

The moves came in a series of amendments to a 2016 spending bill for the Department of Commerce, home of the Census Bureau, and several other agencies that passed last night on a mostly party line vote of 242 to 183.

The most important thing that could happen to drive IGCC forward would be putting a price on CO2 emissions in the form of a mandatory economy - wide «cap and trade» approach, which is what a Senate resolution passed last summer recommended.»

So says the Board of Chosen Freeholders, legislators of Ocean County, New Jersey, in a resolution passed last February.

► «A provision in a new biomedical innovation bill passed last week in the [U.S.] House of Representatives would create a new program to launch prize competitions at» NIH to «incentivize medical breakthroughs,» Servick reported at ScienceInsider on Thursday.

The National Science Foundation would receive the full $ 3 billion increase that the House had passed last month.

But, thanks to a nudge from the European Commission and a Spanish law passed last March, the process seems to have become much quicker and easier — although only time will tell whether the problem has been solved.

The larger and more comprehensive COMPETES bill passed last year by a margin of 217 to 205, with 23 Republicans voting against it and no Democrats in favor.

Known as the Criminal Justice Reform Act, the package of bills that passed last year created a new civil system for handling minor offenses that in the past often resulted in open warrants and the possibility of arrests for a disproportionate number of minority New Yorkers.

Changes in the House since the health care bill passed last fall leave Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D - Calif.)

It passed last month in a 3 - 2 vote.

The governor pushed for a major gun - control law that the State Legislature passed last year in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and it has proved unpopular in more conservative, rural counties upstate.

The union contested a similar resolution passed last month, saying the legislature could not impose a contract without a union vote.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, shown in a Nov. 7, file photo, vetoed today a city charter amendment that Common Council passed last month.

None of those reforms passed last year.

McMahon said lawmakers were advised that the law they passed last year did not allow them to adjust pay levels contrary to the CPI.

A non-controversial debt service bill had been passed last week.

The bill we passed last year is the bill we need to pass.

The Saugerties Town Board was expected to approve a $ 400,000 increase to town taxes to pay for Safety Net charges not included in the budget passed last month.