Sentences with phrase «program as an amendment»

Some private - school advocates are urging Congressional supporters not to propose a voucher program as an amendment when a school - reform...

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We provided treatment, encouraged such programs as Alcoholics Anonymous, and few would argue that the country was better of f under the crime - ridden weight of the Eighteenth Amendment.

Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary debates over such vexing issues as school prayer, voucher programs, government funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.

(«Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistent with the First Amendment.»)

This effort, like that of the NCBCPS, relies heavily on the distinction made by Justice Thomas Clark in the 1963 Supreme Court decision forbidding devotional reading of the Bible in public schools: «Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.»

I know that Democrats generally oppose school voucher programs which have a similar function as Cruz's amendment, so is that why Democrats voted against Cruz's amendment?

But the project had stalled as an amendment to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Capital Plan was withdrawn at the Capital Program Review Board, potentially fearing a veto from Flanagan's appointees on the board.

The 2017 budget, which was passed by the Board of Legislators on Monday by a slim margin of 10 - 7, and modifies a previous budget submitted to the legislative chamber by Astorino last month, will retain the county executive's proposed flat tax rate, but will also add four additional engineering positions to the county's depleted Department of Public Works roster, in addition to injecting $ 1 million to the county's Title XX child care program as a result of legislators» amendments.

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.

The so - called Faso - Collins Amendment, which pertains only to New York, would cut part of the state's Medicaid funding by 2020 if it continues making its counties pay a portion of the cost, as it has done since the program began in 1966.

The program was the subject of an extraordinary showdown last week as Gov. Andrew Cuomo sparred with upstate House Republicans over an amendment to the now - dead American Health Care Act that would have stopped the state from charging county governments for Medicaid costs.

Through participation in this civic leadership development program; students will become deeply familiar with the 1st & 19th Amendments guaranteed in the US Constitution and the role each amendment played in securing greater gender equity for women and appreciate the historical significance of Seneca Falls, NY as the Birthplace of Women's Rights in America.

Thanks to an amendment from Rep. Chris Collins, R - Clarence, that includes $ 2.3 billion annually that upstate and Long Island counties now pay as their share for the Medicaid program.

Minnesota Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar was instrumental in the retention of RTP by introducing it as an amendment to MAP - 21 as a stand - alone program with its own dedicated funding.

The amendment did exclude those research and technology programs administered by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the nondefense Office of Nuclear Energy, as well as other DOE activities related to radioactive waste cleanup.

While politicians are still working on the final wording of the amendment, «[t] he agreement spells out that the federal government will also continue its funding of several key programs that have boosted research budgets in recent years, such as the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation — which funds nonuniversity research organizations like the Helmholtz Association and the Max Planck Society — and the Excellence Initiative, which allows universities to compete for extra funding for special projects and the title of «elite university.»»

The committee spent most of the morning rejecting a slew of Democratic amendments aimed at reversing proposed cuts to research programs and removing language seen as an attack on NSF's vaunted peer - review process.

Mandatory carbon trading programs, such as the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that began in 2005, have their roots in the U.S. Clean Air Act amendments of 1990.

The leading measure is an amendment authored by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) and Senator Jim Inhofe (R - OK) that would nullify previous efforts to scientifically define greenhouse gases as «endangering health and welfare» and to implement the program.

«I find it deeply troubling that while our country is facing fiscal challenges of gigantic proportions... that programs such as this are being funded on the back of the American taxpayer,» he said in offering his amendment on 29 May.

The changes to some parking offence penalties under the Road Transport Legislation Amendment Regulation 2017, comes as the NSW Government hits a major milestone in its $ 10 million school infrastructure program.

The migrant program was created in 1966 as an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to address the needs of children of mobile farm workers.

Unveiled last month, it includes such items as a school - voucher demonstration program and a «religious equality» constitutional amendment that would likely affect...

As even the Florida School Boards Assocation, an opponent of the amendment, noted at the time, passage or rejection of the amendment would have no direct impact on the tax credit scholarship program.

New regulations for Chapter 2 contained in the Sept. 18 Federal Register mainly address questions of program administration, as required by technical amendments that were passed by the Congress in 1983.

The initiative by the Illinois Democrat, which he has offered as an amendment to the Job Training Partnership Act, would target grants to programs for youths who are not college bound.

Supporters of the amendment routinely cited the NAS designs as representative of the kinds of programs they hoped school districts would adopt.

The Colorado Supreme Court upheld the Colorado higher education grant program against a challenge brought under one of its Blaine Amendments (Article IX, Section 7) because the program benefits students, not their schools, because it is available to private as well as public school students, and because it eliminates any danger of indirectly supporting religious missions by attaching statutory conditions on the use of the money.

The Washington Supreme Court held that a state educational grant program for «placebound» students — those who the state identified as not likely to complete a four - year degree without public financial assistance — that included religious schools does not violate Washington's first Blaine Amendment (Article I, Section 11) because the program was not intended to aid religious schools.

The U.S. Supreme Court held that New York's textbook loan program does not violate the First Amendment by including children in religious schools because it was intended to aid students, not to benefit parochial schools as such.

Choice as a reform strategy, First Amendment rights in the school setting, and immigration reform and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program were some of the issues covered at the Institute.

It is the policy of San Antonio ISD not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation or disability in its vocational programs, services or activities as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and SAISD's board policies DIA, FFH, and FFI.

SB 1394, which Wyland proposed last year as a floor amendment to the LCFF, would require the state board to adopt regulations by Jan. 15 of next year that require funds allocated for the benefit of disadvantaged students to be spent on programs or services that are «evidence based,» though those are not yet specified in the legislation.

As I just mentioned, a Florida court interpreted the Florida Blaine Amendment to prohibit the state from funding a religious organization, such as a religious school, even if the organization receives the funding indirectly, such as through a voucher prograAs I just mentioned, a Florida court interpreted the Florida Blaine Amendment to prohibit the state from funding a religious organization, such as a religious school, even if the organization receives the funding indirectly, such as through a voucher prograas a religious school, even if the organization receives the funding indirectly, such as through a voucher prograas through a voucher program.

But as the result of an amendment offered Monday by Sen. Rene Garcia, R - Miami, the only teachers who could take the sheriff's office training and qualify to carry a firearm on campus would be teachers in the Junior Reserve Officers» Training Corps program, a current member of U.S. Reserves or National Guard and or current or former law enforcement officer.

In May 2008, the Arizona Court of Appeals held that the programs: (1) did not violate the state constitution's bar to public money being «appropriated for or applied to any religious worship, exercise, or instruction, or to the support of any religious establishment»; but (2) did violate the Arizona Constitution's «Aid Clause,» which the court declined to characterize as a true Blaine Amendment.

Today the Assembly Committee on Education recommended passage of Assembly Bill 751 as amended by Assembly Amendment 3, which (see previous post) will have a detrimental fiscal effect on 142 school districts currently impacted by the Racine and statewide voucher programs.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D - OH), offered an amendment that would let the federal government create a grant program for schools that become «community schools,» or schools that provide wraparound services such as health care and extracurricular activities all year.

As a large number of New Hampshire's nonpublic schools are religious, opponents of school choice have challenged the program under, among other things, an 1877 amendment to the state constitution frequently referred to as a Blaine AmendmenAs a large number of New Hampshire's nonpublic schools are religious, opponents of school choice have challenged the program under, among other things, an 1877 amendment to the state constitution frequently referred to as a Blaine Aamendment to the state constitution frequently referred to as a Blaine Amendmenas a Blaine AmendmentAmendment.

This week, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice rescinded guidance regarding Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 as it relates to transgender students in schools and educational programs that receive federal funding.

As you know, in one of the most anticipated church - state decisions in decades, the United States Supreme Court last year made clear that the First Amendment doesn't prohibit the inclusion of religious schools in certain state - financed school voucher programs.

But as with the Blaine amendments, as I said, these can be construed — they don't have to be, and frequently have not been, but they can be construed — in just the same way that the opponents of parental choice programs wanted the federal Establishment Clause construed, and would like the Blaine amendments construed, namely, to apply to assistance to families that use that assistance to attend a religious school, in a free and independent choice.

The Assembly on Tuesday is scheduled to take up his proposal, attached as an amendment to a bill making technical changes to the state's new voucher program for students with disabilities.

The 1997 Amendments to IDEA contain new regulations about sending students to alternative educational settings for drugs, weapons, or «substantial evidence that maintaining the current placement of the child is substantially likely to result in injury to the child or to others...» (Section 300.521) As a result, the number of students in alternative programs could increase.

Vos introduced the idea as an amendment to a separate voucher bill that makes technical amendments to the state's new voucher program for students with disabilities.

107; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; 29 C.F.R. Part 1614; Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government; Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations; Executive Order 13087, Further Amendment to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government; Executive Order 13160, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Sex, Color, National Origin, Disability, Religion, Age, Sexual Orientation, and Status as a Parent in Federally Conducted Education and Training Programs; Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009; Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations governing the processing of complaints of discrimination in the Federal sector; and EEOC decisions, procedures, guidelines, and program and management directives.

(19) provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that the continuing studies required under clause (15) of this subsection, as well as an annual evaluation of the effectiveness of the program in meeting the goals and priorities set forth in the plan, will form the basis for the submission, from time to time as the Secretary may require, of appropriate amendments to the plan.

You will find previous rules and regulations on the DBE program as well as various amendments and reports.

(c) The Secretary shall also insure that (1) in developing and carrying out individualized written REHABILITATION program required by section 101 in the case of each handicapped individual primary emphasis is placed upon the determination and achievement of a vocational goal for such individual, (2) a decision that such an individual is not capable of achieving such a goal and thus not eligible for vocational REHABILITATION services provided with assistance under this part, is made only in full consultation with such individual (or, in appropriate cases, his parents or guardians), and only upon the certification, as an amendment to such written program, that the * evaluation of REHABILITATION potential has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that such individual is not then capable of achieving such a goal, and (3) any such decision shall be reviewed at least annually in accordance with the procedure and criteria established in this section.