Sentences with phrase «said state charter»

«The Board was fortunate to have great applicants from which to choose,» said State Charter School Board Chair Kristin Elinkowski.

The California Charter School Association (CCSA) is calling «simply inaccurate» a report released yesterday that said state charter schools require more financial oversight.

Not exact matches

«In connection with our transactions with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks last year, we reaffirmed this resolve, stating that we expected to hire 20,000 new employees at Charter, many in customer service,» the company said in a statement on March 24.

Signature, a New York state - chartered bank, said in an email that, with the permission of its client, it could state that «the Kushner Family and Kushner Co have been clients since 2010.»

«The state and city used Katrina to wipe away the dysfunction and corruption in the school system,» Medberry says, referring to the city's charter school initiative, which largely replaced public schools with privately operated institutions after 2005.

The commission contends the companies are violating a state law that says any nongovernment entity providing passenger transportation services must obtain a charter party carrier license.

Meanwhile, the FDIC on Nov. 19 issued a financial institution letter for banks it supervises saying that activities operated by a state - chartered bank's LLC subsidiary do not require formal FDIC approval as long as the activity is permissible for a national bank.

OTTAWA — In a letter to an employer in his Ontario riding, a Liberal MP says his own government is wrongly invoking the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on its controversial Canada Summer Jobs attestation, and calls the whole thing «regrettable» and a «lamentable state of affairs.»

Democratic institutions must not delay the Earth Charter revolution; at the 1995 State of the World Forum, Maurice Strong said, «We shouldn't wait until political democracy paves the way.

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was critical on Thursday of an effort being pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to have the state take over low - performing public schools, saying it could potentially lead to them becoming charter schools.

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

Talking to Politics.co.uk last week, Cash said the Tories» attempt to blame Labour was unfair because David Cameron's then - shadow Cabinet had failed to back his campaign to explicitly state the charter of fundamental rights would not apply to UK law at the time.

Four charter schools are expected to be approved for New York today that state officials say illustrate the original goal of the charter movement: innovation.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said that efforts in the state Senate to tie mayoral control of the New York City school system to an expansion of charter schools is «a load of crap.»

AG Andrew Cuomo, who said during his acceptance speech yesterday that it would be a «tragedy» if the Legislature didn't pass a bill to lift the charter school cap and improve the state's chances at landing «Race to the Top» funding, just released a (very) brief statement in response to the news that his wish had come true.

State Senate Democrats are accusing Julie Killian, the newly minted Republican choice in an upcoming key Westchester County state Senate race, as a «no - show» politician, saying she missed over half the meetings and skipped over 80percent of the votes taken while she was an appointed member of the Westchester County Charter CommisState Senate Democrats are accusing Julie Killian, the newly minted Republican choice in an upcoming key Westchester County state Senate race, as a «no - show» politician, saying she missed over half the meetings and skipped over 80percent of the votes taken while she was an appointed member of the Westchester County Charter Commisstate Senate race, as a «no - show» politician, saying she missed over half the meetings and skipped over 80percent of the votes taken while she was an appointed member of the Westchester County Charter Commission.

Issues that Paterson and state lawmakers must resolve before a June 1 deadline, which is this coming Tuesday, include figuring out how public schools and charter schools can fairly share the same building, the governor said.

Neither First Niagara nor Key are chartered by the state's Department of Financial Services, and as such, the state will not have a role in considering the merger, a DFS spokesman said.

He goes on to say, «Article 9 of the Charter simply leaves it to States to decide whether they wish to afford homosexual couples the right to marry» — and this in the context of a decision about civil, not religious marriage.

A statement issued and signed by his aid, Reginald Seth Dogbey, said: «Article 40, article 75, and Article 88 and the various parliamentary ratifications of the African Charter compel the above personalities representing the State of Ghana to obey the orders of the African Court of Human & People's Rights.

Nevertheless, it's not entirely clear what Cuomo means when he says he will «save» charter schools in the city and state.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

«The taxpayers and more importantly our children and parents deserve a charter education free from fraud, abuse and self - dealing,» said State Sen. Bill Perkins (D - Harlem), who convened the Manhattan hearing and ripped the «hidden and questionable behavior» of some charter operators.

Regulations adopted by the State University of New York's committee on charter schools is illegal and allows unqualified teachers to work, the state's umbrella teachers union group on Wednesday State University of New York's committee on charter schools is illegal and allows unqualified teachers to work, the state's umbrella teachers union group on Wednesday state's umbrella teachers union group on Wednesday said.

Although there are no formal rules for when a state should be admitted or not, the Charter does say this:

Antonacci asked the law department to address two main issues: The county charter appears to say that raises for county legislators should be voted on when the budget for that year is approved; and state Municipal Home Rule Law indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the Legislature.

Critiquing the state's arcane election laws, Stringer said instant runoffs are a «progressive leap» that would allow elections to be decided quickly and efficiently, and he said the mayor's Charter Revision Commission affords the city a prime opportunity to pursue the policy.

On the prekindergarten issue, Success argues that the city's demand that it sign the contract violates state law, which it says gives a charter school's authorizer, not the city, oversight of its prekindergarten programs.

But with half of the session's last scheduled day behind them, the state's top men still have not reached a resolution and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said he was still refusing to give on a push by Cuomo and Senate leaders to help charter schools.

He said the union also needs to work to make permanent the ban on the use of state ELA and math tests in teacher evaluations and to make sure the charter school cap is not increased.

The plan does not make the charters eligible for state building aid to make up for the mayor» scapital funding cut, sources said.

With just days to go before the April 1 deadline to finalize the state budget, he said Senate Republicans were pressing for the elimination of the charter cap and more money for charters at the expense of public schools.

Now that all charters have the right under state law to co-locate rent - free, the mayor's ability to help the charters he favors and manage the networks he doesn't is restricted, Cantor says.

Only one day before massive rallies for universal pre-K and charter schools, other advocates say they've gathered evidence for potentially another lawsuit for more state aid for schools.

But former D.O.E. administrators and education experts say there's no question that the mayor's authority over charters has been partially absorbed by the state, leaving de Blasio's (and future mayors») hands tied when it comes to charter - related policy decisions that could shape his education agenda.

«This proposal tells the people of this state that we care more about nail salon customers than charter school children,» Andy Pallotta, the president of New York State United Teachers, said in a statestate that we care more about nail salon customers than charter school children,» Andy Pallotta, the president of New York State United Teachers, said in a stateState United Teachers, said in a statement.

ALBANY — Two of the state's top education leaders say there isn't an urgent need to raise or eliminate the state's cap on charter schools since a third of the available charters under the limit have not yet been awarded.

Tisch, who heads the state's powerful education policymaking panel, said recently she'd like to see the charter sector grow.

Charter advocates, who feel they have gotten short - shrifted by the city and state, say they would look to run candidates to grab control of the community boards, whose elections would be held in May 2018.

Charter Communications also said that the 100 megabit per second speeds will be available to their customers in more than 2 million homes in New York State by early next year.

Elia said the tweaking of the teacher certification process is in sharp contrast to a proposal being considered by the State University of New York Board of Trustees charter schools committee.

The money can be used, they say, to enact needed education reforms — ones that differ from those proposed by Cuomo, which includes state takeovers of chronically failing schools and an expansion of charter schools.

The governor has also said that he won't increase school aid in the state budget unless lawmakers agree to a list of changes, including adding more charter schools and making teacher performance tests more stringent.

Cahill says he wants to do more to protect children at Charter Schools, who often come from the poorest families in the state, and says he sees it as «the civil rights issue of our time».

In testimony to lawmakers on the state budget in Albany, de Blasio said the current number of open charter slots is sufficient and that scrapping the cap is unnecessary.

Charter schools will be big winners in the new state budget under a tentative deal hammered out by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders Thursday night, sources close to the talks said.

A leading charter - school advocate said Friday that Mayor de Blasio's hopes of extending mayoral control of city schools are tied to Hizzoner supporting a hike in the number of charters allowed in the state.

[Anyone] who, in public and against the facts, ascribes to the Polish Nation or to the Polish State, responsibility or co-responsibility for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich, [as] defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Annex to the Agreement for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis, signed in London on August 8, 1945 -LSB-...], or for other offences which are crimes against peace [or] humanity or [that are] war crimes, or who otherwise grossly reduces the responsibility of the actual perpetrators of said crimes, is subject to a fine or [to] imprisonment for up to 3 years.

Article 2 of the European Social Charter says that Member States should agree: