Sentences with phrase «school after the passage»

I have a friend who was a child integrating a white public elementary school after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

McConville and thousands of other college - bound students across the state are now eligible for free college tuition at State University of New York schools after passage of the 2017 - 18 state budget last week.

Not exact matches

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

* That «amusing» «We Are Hungry» video referenced by Miller, which went viral shortly after the passage of the HHFKA, was not the spontaneous outcry from students it purports to be; later news reports revealed that the video was conceived, and the lyrics written, by two adults, one a teacher and the other a school district employee, who then sent the video to their Republican Congressional representatives to show their support for the repeal of the HHFKA.

-LSB-...] gives a sample school lunch menu before and after the passage of the bill.

Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proSchool District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool lunch, is procured.

The articles, «The Effect of Coach Education on Reporting of Concussions Among High School Athletes After Passage of a Concussion Law» and «Implementation of Concussion Legislation and Extent of Concussion education for Athletes, Parents, and Coaches in Washington State,» are available online through the journal: http://ajs.sagepub.com/.

In case you missed this infamous episode, after the passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act the USDA was tasked with coming up with improved nutrition standards for school meals, based on recommendations from the Institute of Medicine.

«This change starts with doing everything in our power to keep guns out of the hands of people too dangerous to have them,» said Cuomo, who led the passage of the 2013 SAFE Act a month after the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

After achieving the passage of a new evaluation system that will rely on a mix on at least one standardized test and in - classroom observation, the governor is renewing his focus to areas NYSUT has opposed, including a lifting of the cap on charter schools and a $ 150 million education investment tax credit, which is strongly backed by private and parochial schools.

Cuomo, who successfully advocated for the passage of gun control legislation after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, called for «real action» following the most recent school shoSchool shooting in 2012, called for «real action» following the most recent school shoschool shooting.

Cuomo in 2013 pushed through the passage a package of gun control laws known as the SAFE Act, approved in the weeks after an elementary school shooting in Connecticut.

But the media take - away from the Report, that school quality does not affect children's achievement, was disturbing, especially coming one year after passage of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Programs, a cornerstone of which was that improving schooling for disadvantaged children would reduce economic inequality in the U.S.

The «shocks» we use are the sudden unanticipated increases in school spending experienced by predominantly low - spending districts soon after passage of court - mandated SFR.

The validity of our design relies on the idea that districts that experienced sudden increases in school spending right after the passage of a court - ordered SFR were not already improving in other ways in exactly those same years.

We then see if, within districts predicted to experience larger reform - induced spending increases, «exposed» cohorts (children young enough to have been in school when or after the reforms were passed) have better outcomes than «unexposed» cohorts (children who were too old at the time of passage to be affected by the reforms).

After the report appeared, stimulating a variety of reform efforts, public evaluations of their local schools climbed steadily to an all - time high of 51 % in 2000, just prior to the national debate over the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which held schools accountable for low performance.

Soon after the law's passage, the Association of California School Administrators urged districts to «do a self - examination» to understand why kids might want to transfer.

Stevenson compared the college - going and labor - force rates between girls who attended high school before the 1972 passage of Title IX and those who attended after.

But since the official enrollment counts for the MFP are conducted at the end of the school year (to determine dollars for the following year), any indirect impact on MFP funding from the voucher program was delayed for a year after the bill's passage.

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.

Motivated to enter politics after a «life - shattering, perspective - shattering» experience as a Baltimore City Schools teacher, Bill's time in the classroom continues to inform his legislative efforts, most recently his leadership on the passage of an unprecedented $ 1 billion initiative to renovate and rebuild 35 city sSchools teacher, Bill's time in the classroom continues to inform his legislative efforts, most recently his leadership on the passage of an unprecedented $ 1 billion initiative to renovate and rebuild 35 city schoolsschools.

I would agree with you that if the new Charter's have to run a certain standard, those charter's already in place should be required to comply with the new standards in a certain period of time (perhaps 1 - 2 academic years after passage so that the charter school may properly adjust).

PEFNC outlined here that upon passage of a 2012 bill that would grant state tax credits for donations to tax - exempt scholarship - granting organizations that would fund scholarships for low - income students to use at private schools, PEFNC would administer that scholarship program, which was modeled after a program in Florida called Step Up For Students.

Presumably, Judge Chalfant's decision is based on 44662 (b)(1)(which appears to be the amendment that Villaraigosa introduced in 1999 after passage of the Public School Accountability Act, the gift that keeps on giving) because 44662 (e) negates the use of the ETS - suggested norms.

One critical move would be to pass the voucher - like tax credit bill that was defeated in the state senate last year after passage by the lower house; pushing for the creation of a state commission to authorize and oversee charter schools (or requiring the state's education department to take on that task) would also be sensible.

Te state's school funding per child dropped below the national average in 1985 a few years after passage of Prop 13.

«After successful passage in the House, the Senate will soon act on a bipartisan education bill — the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- which will return control of education to the states and local school districts from the federal government.

State Still Has a Role in Supporting and Holding Districts Accountable With the passage of Proposition 30 and almost nine out of 10 local ballot measures last November, the voters of California gave our schools an almost unprecedented chance to begin rebuilding after years of budget cuts.

After Senate passage of S. 1177, Rep. Kline (R - MN), Chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, stated «There is a lot of work that lies ahead, but I am confident we will find common ground and send a bill to the president's desk that helps ensure every child in every school receives an excellent education.»

He was particularly ruffled early after the law's passage in 2001 when school districts argued that they could never meet one of its key goals — having 100 percent of their students score proficient or above by 2014 on state exams.

Linda Darling - Hammond, a professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Education and senior research advisor to Smarter Balanced, said that the inclusion of the more in - depth questions makes up for some of what was lost after the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which emphasized using standardized test scores to hold schools accountable for student learning.

But eleven months after the passage of the new law, the draft of our state plan did not have even ONE INDICATOR of school quality decided.

Holtz, a former teacher, principal and superintendent, touts himself as a more experienced educator and clear conservative candidate, in part because Humphries signed a petition to trigger a 2012 recall of Walker after the passage of Act 10, which curtailed collective bargaining and sparked massive protests — especially from public school teachers.

Yet a StateImpact Indiana analysis of results from the state's standardized test released Tuesday also show passage rates among charter schools with high percentages of low - income students are slightly worse than passage rates in public schools, as the graph after the jump shows.

Educational outcomes are shaped by many factors, but research shows that teacher quality is the most important in - school factor influencing student achievement.59 Of course, other out - of - school factors, which are often caused by poverty, can also influence student outcomes.60 Because teacher quality has been shown to have a measurable impact on standardized test scores, some academics have started trying to directly measure the impact of Act 10 on student outcomes by examining how students fared on standardized tests after its passage.

After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Moses left the US and taught secondary school in Tanzania, returning in the mid»70s and eventually settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Just after the passage of the budget proposal containing the school voucher provisions, the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) notified members of the General Assembly that

Just after the passage of the budget proposal containing the school voucher provisions, the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) notified members of the General Assembly that they plan to challenge the constitutionality of using taxpayer dollars to fund private education in court.

After the passage of the Charter Schools Act in 1992, the number of schools in California has grown from a handful to more than 1,230 serving 581,000 stSchools Act in 1992, the number of schools in California has grown from a handful to more than 1,230 serving 581,000 stschools in California has grown from a handful to more than 1,230 serving 581,000 students.

«After years of poor bar passage rates and high unemployment statistics, students were left with the bill when Charlotte School of Law closed its doors earlier this year,» Adams said.

From 1920 — 1921 he studied at the Art Students League of New York, after which, having determined to become an artist he left high school at the age of 17 and worked his passage to Europe on a merchant ship.

After completing art school in Los Angeles, Altoon moved to New York where he spent the next four years (1951 - 55) earning his generational rite of passage through the New York School of painters and their Abstract Expressionist praschool in Los Angeles, Altoon moved to New York where he spent the next four years (1951 - 55) earning his generational rite of passage through the New York School of painters and their Abstract Expressionist praSchool of painters and their Abstract Expressionist practice.

Almost a year after graduation in 2011, only 55 percent of law school grads held full - time, long - term positions requiring a legal degree and bar passage; fewer than half of graduates found jobs in private practice (good - bye marbled lobbies and fancy associate titles!).

New Canadians who became citizens after the passage of Bill C - 24 could also lose their citizenship if they move abroad for work, school, or family reasons.

Although it's difficult, High School is a basic rite of passage, after all.