Sentences with phrase «require free public schools»

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Uber's black cars (and regular cars and SUVs and taxis) offered free rides for families and students to and from any Boston public school, no promo codes required or questions asked, according to VentureBeat.

The Committee directs the Secretary to issue minimum national standards to address the ongoing issue of shaming school children for unpaid school lunch fees, including standards that protect children from public embarrassment; that require all communications about unpaid school lunch fees be directed at the parent or guardian, not the child; and that schools take additional steps to determine if families falling behind in their school lunch fees are in fact eligible for free or reduced - price school meals.

Public schools are required by law to make reasonable meal accommodations for celiac patients on a gluten - free diet or kids who are at risk of having a life - threatening allergic reaction to wheat.

Title II requires public schools and private schools receiving federal money to all of the rights and remedies under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act7 including that of a free and appropriate education (FAPE) in the least restricting environment (LRE).11

This success is due in part to the D.C. Healthy Schools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoschools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular school day.

State law requires that all public schools offer a free meal to eligible students even if the schools do not participate in the federal lunch program, said Mark Haller, who supervises child nutrition programs at the Illinois State Board of Education.

Although still required to provide a free lunch to their low income students, public school districts like the one in the article (which in 2009 - 10 had only 1.1 % low income children) can easily afford to feed such tiny numbers of students for free even without the government reimbursement.

Under a 2014 law opposed by Mr. de Blasio and championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City is legally required to provide new charter schools free rent in public school buildings or pay for their rent in a private building.

It would require tampons and sanitary napkins be made available free in all public restrooms across the state, including fast - food restaurants, office buildings, homeless shelters, schools and government facilities.

The United Federation of Teachers, in a proposed amendment to a City Council resolution, today called for charter schools seeking free space in New York City public school buildings to be required to make public financial data and political donations, along with student demographics, suspension rates, and teacher and student attrition.

Districts with schools that had persistently failed to make «adequate yearly progress» in their test - score performance were required to offer the students in those schools options ranging from a seat in a higher - performing public school to free tutoring services.

Federal courts have played a key role in the development of special education policy by interpreting what Congress wrote in IDEA three decades ago, and the Supreme Court is reviewing what the law means by a «free appropriate public education» as it considers Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, which deals with the standard of services districts are required to provide (see «Examining the Standards for Special Education» legal beat, Summer 2017).

«Least restrictive environment» is the magic phrase used in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the landmark 1975 law that requires schools that accept federal money to provide children with disabilities a «free, appropriate public education.»

If not, Section 8 (2)(f) would not have been in the Act which requires taking steps to ensure barrier free environment in public places, work places, public utilities, schools and other institutions.

The parents asked the school district to reimburse them for his tuition since, the argued, the district was failing to provide their son with a «free appropriate public education,» as required by law.

The school district, they argued, was not providing Drew with the «free appropriate public education» required by IDEA, thus qualifying him for placement in a private program.

Those against the law also raised the familiar criticism that charter schools would be free to use the new local dollars without the accountability and oversight required of traditional public schools.

CEP requires all participating schools, both public and private, to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students enrolled in the school.

The change to Indiana's transfer rules took effect before the start of the 2010 - 11 school year, which no longer requires public school districts to charge families to accept transfer students — thus the «free transfer tuition» in the Maconaquah billboard.

Moreover, advocates should keep in mind that school districts in participating states access Medicaid dollars directly to pay for medically necessary services for students with disabilities.70 The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requires that districts provide all necessary services and resources to afford every child a «free appropriate public education,» and some medically related supports qualify for Medicaid reimbursement.71 With less Medicaid funding statewide to meet that guarantee, states and districts would have to siphon money from other education funding streams to afford necessary medical services that support the learning of students with disabilities.

Charter School: Funded through public tax dollars from money meant for traditional public schools, operates in the private sector, may be managed by for - profit charter management organizations (CMO), and are not required to be transparent about how tax dollars are spent, free from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools.

Require that public charter schools be free and open to all students just as traditional public schools are, and that students be selected by lottery to ensure fairness if more students apply than a school can accommodate;

It's how the General Assembly proposes to provide for that system of free public schools the Constitution requires.

Keele found that even though the Constitution requires the Legislature to establish and maintain free public schools, the General Assembly is not precluded from also supporting students who attend private schools.

Homeless Contact Education of Homeless Children and Youth Program that entitles children who are homeless to a free, appropriate public education and requires schools to remove barriers to their enrollment, attendance, and success in school.

WLA is a free, non-selective, open enrollment, public charter high school in Washington, D.C. WLA participates in the common lottery for public schools in D.C. WLA does not require recommendation letters, test scores, essays or interviews.

While a law passed in Georgia in 2013 (HB555) now requires «unused» public school buildings to be made available rent free to locally approved charters, the actual supply is small and many of these buildings need a great deal of work to meet code requirements.

The state and the district level charter authorizers need to do their due diligence and make sure these school are not free to act a private schools with public money just as TPSs are required to be accountable.

North Carolina's private schools that participate in the school voucher program are free to hire untrained people to teach, are not required to be accredited or meet any curricular requirements and do not have to share details of their budget or governing body with the state or public.

Judge Hobgood granted his injunction to temporarily halt the school voucher program on the basis of voucher challengers» first claim for relief: that the state constitution requires that state funds be used exclusively for establishing and maintaining a uniform system of free public schools.

Fourth Circuit panel held that Maryland school district provided with a disabled student with a free appropriate public education as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act even though the student's individualized education plan did not address the students religious and cultu

[xxvii] Thus, when Congress authorized the admission of Washington, along with Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota, into the Union, it also required the adoption of state constitutions providing «for the establishment and maintenance of systems of public schools, which shall be open to all the children of said States, and free from sectarian control.»

Remember that special education law requires a school system to provide a «free appropriate public education» which must be provided, to the maximum extent appropriate, in the «least restrictive environment» (LRE).

I have represented a number of students who have attended public charter schools, which are required to provide a free appropriate public education, that were either ill - equipped or misrepresented their ability to meet the needs of students with disabilities.

This legislation would require all public K - 12 schools in Massachusetts with 60 percent or more students eligible for free and reduced - price meals to offer breakfast after the instructional day begins.

-- Dylan Wiliam «It is right that teachers and schools are accountable to those with a stake in public education, and this requires assessments that are free from subjectivity.

As noted by Judge Cole, the IDEA was amended, effective June 4, 1997, to provide that the Act no longer requires a local educational agency to pay for educational services for a disabled child at a private school «if that agency made a free appropriate public education available to the child and the parents elected to place the child in such private school or facility.»

(District of Columbia) In a carefully - worded but unanimous opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the right of students with disabilities to a «free appropriate public education» requires more than a simple compliance «check list» from schools.

The state's constitution does have a «uniformity clause,» however, requiring that the state provide a general and uniform system of free public schools.

Charter schools are required to provide a free appropriate public education to qualified students with disabilities under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.

When the EHA transformed into the IDEA in 1990, the legal language became even more explicit, requiring schools to provide «a free appropriate public education» that included «special education and related services designed to meet [the] unique needs [of students with disabilities]» and that established means of measuring «the effectiveness of efforts to educate children with disabilities» (IDEA 20 U.S.C.A. 1400 2004).

The amendments to the Education of Homeless Children and Youth program provided local educational authorities with greater flexibility in the use of funds; specified the rights of homeless preschoolers to a free and appropriate public preschool education; gave parents of homeless children and youth a voice regarding their children's school placement; and required educational authorities to coordinate with housing authorities.

Important to know: All Florida vouchers require that the money be spent in a private school thereby forcing parents to relinquish their child's right to a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE).

My personal opinion is that more knowledge is required on spending public money (and accountability) by those thinking of becoming academies and setting up free schools — and those already academies.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)(formerly called P.L. 94 - 142 or the Education for all Handicapped Children Act of 1975) requires public schools to make available to all eligible children with disabilities a free, appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment appropriate to their individual needs.

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But Ms. Mather said the trust required only that the school provide free lectures at night, as well as a reading room for the public.

There are also going to easy questions, like, for example, whether a regulator acting under a public interest mandate should have an accurate name that the public understands or provide its imprimatur to — as one national newspaper has put it — a «gay - free» law school or, indeed, to take the highest profile example of late, require its members to act in ways that promote equality, diversity and inclusion.2 I don't say that these questions are easy because everyone will agree on them — clearly people have not and do not.

Furthermore, the federal Gun - Free Schools Act of 1994 requires states receiving federal education funding (i.e. all of them) to have a state law that requires their public school districts to expel any student who brings a firearm to school or possesses one at school for a period of at least 1 year.