Sentences with phrase «public education legislation»

The nearly 150,000 members who are still covered under the public education legislation have free access to Bookshare's titles, and once those students have graduated they are able to pay a very small membership fee to continue their access to the catalog.

He has served on numerous statewide boards and committees focusing on higher education improvement, K - 12 public education legislation, public education funding, educational technology, and reforming public education in Michigan.

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The budget legislation keeps taxes flat, increases public education spending by $ 1 million, raises college tuition assistance and invests $ 2.5 billion in upgrades for the state's aging water infrastructure.

«However, despite the fact that 99 percent of this federal funding would go to traditional public schools, union leadership has tried to kill this education reform legislation because it increases the cap on public charter schools, which don't necessarily have to be unionized.»

Expanded Public Education Campaigns to Prevent Opioid and Heroin Use: The legislation includes the following provisions to expand public awareness campaigns to help educate New Yorkers particularly students and young people about the dangers of opioid and heroiPublic Education Campaigns to Prevent Opioid and Heroin Use: The legislation includes the following provisions to expand public awareness campaigns to help educate New Yorkers particularly students and young people about the dangers of opioid and heroipublic awareness campaigns to help educate New Yorkers particularly students and young people about the dangers of opioid and heroin use:

ALBANY — Unlike past proposals, Governor Andrew Cuomo's new legislation establishing an education tax credit offers more incentives for donations to private school scholarship funds than public schools.

Mr. Flanagan (R - East Northport), who chairs the senate's Standing Committee on Education, is also sponsoring legislation to create independent oversight, as well as establishing civil and criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure of personal information stored on the state's student data portal received from public schools.

Clinton's comments came during a 32 - minute speech in which she took aim at Walker and his signature legislation that all but eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public employees and his proposal in the last state budget to cut funding for higher education.

The state Senate has passed legislation to create a new process for selecting Board of Regents members, which are the appointed officials tasked with crafting public education polices for schools in New York.

He also noted education spending was in many ways driven by the result of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity's 2006 court decision and the following year's legislation enhancing resources for public schools.

«Our actions build upon the landmark legislation Governor Cuomo signed into law last year and this year's investment of over $ 200 million in additional support for prevention, treatment and recovery programs which address chemical dependency, expand residential service opportunities, and promote public awareness and education.

Independent Democrat David Carlucci, who introduced the bill in the Senate, says the legislation will allow for public feedback in future funding projects, budgetary oversight provided by the Commissioner of Education and the continuation of appointed monitors on the ground in the district.

«The tax legislation, in its current form most recently passed by the US senate, would be a disaster for New York State's public education system and the 2.6 million children it serves,» the groups wrote in the letter.

«Karen's commitment to public education, labor, human rights and civic action are the reasons for our endorsement,» said said Paul Egan, the UFT's director of legislation and political action.

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.

Collaborating with the Alliance for Quality Education and Citizen Action of New York in efforts to fairly fund public schools, she sits on NYSUT's LGBTQ Task Force, which resolves to support legislation banning conversion therapy and to protect intended parental rights.

According to Gillibrand's office, the legislation would help improve nutrition and enhance learning in under - served areas by better integrating summer education and meals programs, making it easier for public - private partner organizations to participate in the summer meals program, and by providing a third meal for children who attend evening enrichment programs.

President Obama on Dec. 10 signed into law major legislation that dials back the federal role in public education and bars the federal government from tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

The paper names delays to plans for a new Public Data Corporation, legislation to allow loans to be paid to people in further education, a white paper to reduce regulatory burdens on industry and the full establishment of the «Big Society» bank.

President Barack Obama on Dec. 10 signed into law major education legislation that dials back the federal role in public education and bars the federal government from tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

Despite years of anti-smoking education and legislation, tobacco use still remains an important public health issue in the United States.

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.

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.

This Education Week special report offers a detailed look at the leadership of governors in shaping their states» education agendas through legislation, regulatory action, public involvement, and proposal or endorsement of ballot Education Week special report offers a detailed look at the leadership of governors in shaping their states» education agendas through legislation, regulatory action, public involvement, and proposal or endorsement of ballot education agendas through legislation, regulatory action, public involvement, and proposal or endorsement of ballot measures.

Coming at a time of wide public concern about the state of education, the NCLB legislation set in place requirements that...

After a brief career teaching math in the Manhasset Public Schools, he moved to Washington, D.C. and served in the Johnson Administration, first in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare developing legislation, and then as associate director of the White House Fellows program.

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

The governors of Iowa and Kentucky have signed legislation requiring all public schools in their states to offer comprehensive sex - education courses.

Part of the historic extension of equal educational opportunity rights to the disabled, Public Law 94 - 142, the Education of All - Handicapped Children Act, now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), was one of the most popular pieces of federal education legislation everEducation of All - Handicapped Children Act, now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), was one of the most popular pieces of federal education legislation everEducation Act (IDEA), was one of the most popular pieces of federal education legislation evereducation legislation ever enacted.

Proposed legislation, which initially prohibited for - profit education organizations, now would require that such entities make available to the public information on their profitability as well as their use of voucher funds.

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

Thirty - five years ago, legislation mandated that public schools had to provide a free, appropriate education for all children, including the disabled.

Known popularly as the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and passed with strong bipartisan support in Congress, this new legislation promises an important shift in efforts at all levels to improve the quality of public education.

That county's school superintendent, Robert Avossa, said, «It's the single largest piece of legislation to dismantle public education that I've ever seen.»

To entice a presidential signature of the legislation — which would create tax breaks for parents» public and private education expenses — House and Senate negotiators have included a new reading program in it and deleted language that would have blocked plans for new national tests and transformed most federal education funding into block grants.

Children with disabilities did not have a right to a free public education until after the passage of federal legislation in 1975 and were often excluded from public schools.

Policymakers representing the public have spoken clearly though legislation that education is not going back to its old ways of rating teachers, where 98 percent are deemed to perform satisfactorily.

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.

Across the U.S., legislation to privatize public education funding continues to gain traction.

Vic Smith of the Indiana Coalition for Public Education said Indiana's tax credit scholarship program, which passed in 2009, was the «gateway drug to [a state legislation authorizing] vouchers,» which passed in 2011.

The proposed education reforms are to be included in legislation that will set the 1996 budget for the capital city and its public school system.

Washington — The nation's chief state school officials, in a markedly emotional meeting last week, voiced extreme displeasure with the Reagan Administration's posture towards public education, particularly its intention to seek legislation that would introduce a system of tuition tax credits for families with children attending private schools.

Nevada went even further, passing legislation that would convert every single public education dollar into a voucher dollar.

Three of the state's largest public education advocacy groups are leading opposition to legislation that would greatly restrict the use of long - term bond issues by school districts.

«Thank God we have a very strong viable public education system in Connecticut, but that does not mean that we can't use some alternative, creative ways of providing educational opportunities - public school opportunities - and that's what charter school legislation is all about.»

Americans should realize that, after years of legislation and special education advocacy, every child no matter the disability, can learn and deserves the right to a free public education!

Legislation advancing education choice tears down barriers and empowers parents with the ability to choose an education that they determine is right for their child, whether at a traditional public school, charter school, or private school.

PRIORITY: NSBA opposes any legislation that diverts public funds from K - 12 education directly through voucher programs, or indirectly through tax credits or related schemes to fund private, religious or home school education.

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.

This legislation (HB 394) would create a pilot program providing parents of students with special needs the option of withdrawing their child from a public school and receiving an Education Scholarship Account (ESA) with funds to help pay for educational expenses outside the traditional public school.