Sentences with phrase «school bill sponsored»

Gov. Matt Bevin and state Rep. John Carney, R - Campbellsville, asked the Senate Education Committee Wednesday to approve the charter school bill sponsored by Carney.

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The Newfane Republican, who represents Niagara Falls and Niagara County as well as Orleans County and western Monroe County, told YNN Buffalo's Sara Serafin Tuesday that he's sponsoring a bill that would exempt the money schools spend on security from being calculated in the state's two - percent property tax cap.

Assemblyman Karim Camara (D - Brooklyn), who is sponsoring the charter - school bill, said he supports lifting the cap because «we need an educational system that educates all children — including poor, minority children.

(New York, NY)-- A week and a half after the shooting at Marjory Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a coalition of New York legislators and gun violence prevention advocates today urged the State Senate and Assembly to promptly hold votes on a bill sponsored by Senators Brian Kavanagh and Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon that would empower family members and law enforcement to prevent gun violence.

«There are still too many situations reported by students, parents and advocates in which students are harassed or threatened in school, often by the people who are supposed to protect them,» said Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, who heads the Council's Education Committee and sponsored the bill.

Assemblymember Robert Carroll (D - Park Slope - Kensington) welcomed the high school students to Albany in support of the bill that he helped sponsor.

Cuomo signed a bill sponsored by Felder and Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman (D - Laurelton) to direct the New York City Schools chancellor to come up with recommendations for the expansion of career and technical high sSchools chancellor to come up with recommendations for the expansion of career and technical high schoolsschools.

Persaud has sponsored three bills during her brief tenure that have passed both houses, all of which were extenders of laws already on the books; they dealt with studio apartments, physical therapists at schools, and black sea bass.

UFT members participate in a protest on March 21 in front of the Bay Ridge office of state Sen. Marty Golden, who sponsored a bill making its way through the Legislature that would grant sizable tax credits for donations to scholarship funds for religious and other private schools in New York State.

He was also a sponsor of the accessible ferry bill, He served as a reader for Senate Democratic Leader David Paterson while they attended law school together.

Senator Terrence Murphy and Assemblyman David Buchwald sponsored a bi-partisan bill that would arm school bus drivers across the state with the authority to administer an epi - pen to a child in case of an emergency.

It was a day schools were closed,» said Councilman Mark Levine, one of the bill's sponsors.

Flanagan said the bill sponsored by Senate Environmental Conservation Committee Chairman Thomas O'Mara (R - Elmira) is the first in the nation to mandate lead testing of water in schools.

Meanwhile, the parents also met in early 2014 with City Councilman Mark Levine (D - Manhattan) to get him to sponsor a bill restricting noise at construction sites within 50 feet of schools and hospitals to no more than 45 decibels.

Klein said the report, which is based on data from the state's registry of convicted sex offenders, shows the need for the Legislature to finally pass a bill he's sponsoring that would include standalone pre-ks in the same law that bars sex offenders from living near schools.

The bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan and Sen. Hugh Farley, would reclassify «failing» schools as «struggling.»

This legislation expands on a bill that was signed into law by Governor Cuomo in 2012, sponsored by Senator Rivera and Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz, which banned smoking outside of schools.

Ellen Jaffee, a Democratic Assembly member from Rockland County who is one of the bill's lead sponsors, said that installing a monitor to oversee the school board «has nothing to do with who they are in terms of their culture or religious background.»

The four mayoral hopefuls — Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, City Comptroller John Liu, and former comptroller William Thompson — spoke out against the city's school closing policy at the press conference, which was sponsored by the Coalition for Educational Justice.

He supported a bill sponsored by Nolan that would restrict schools» ability to sell their playgrounds.

He introduced a bill to provide a tax credit to families that pay private school tuition, and fielded questions on the Assembly floor about another bill he sponsored that would require food - inspection violations to be posted on a state website.

The senator, the former Erie County Sheriff, noted he co-sponsored a bill to expand the criminal statute of limitations in abuse cases sponsored and in January introduced a bill to close a loophole that does not require private school teachers and administrators — unlike their public school counterparts — to report allegations of abuse.

Representative Harry Mitchell (D — AZ), the sponsor of the bill in the House of Representatives, and Ben Latigo, dean of the engineering school at the University of the District of Columbia, spoke to us about the bill and its implications for veterans and the country as a whole.

The bill's sponsor argued that the provision has caused unnecessary problems for teachers and detracts from other aspects of elementary school reform.

The Education and Adoption Bill is undemocratic in forcing academisation without consultation and excludes the school from selecting the sponsor that is most appropriate to them.»

Sen. Gregory Hecht, one of the bill's sponsors, said friends who are educators had urged him to address the teacher shortage in low - performing schools.

This 2006 report, sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is based on interviews with young men and women, ages 16 - 25, who dropped out of high school.

Ten top tips for schools We worked with our energy sponsor, EDF Energy, to come up with ten top tips for schools looking to reduce their bills and increase their credentials.

The government's Education and Adoption Bill will give RSCs responsibility for converting coasting and failing council - maintained schools into academies, while finding new sponsors for those academies which are not up to scratch.

According to the bill's sponsor, Democratic Senator L. Douglas Wilder of Richmond, the measure would have denied tax exempt status to schools that discriminated on the basis of race, but not on the basis of religion.

Considering the district's sobering graduation - rate statistics — a 2006 study sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ranked the LAUSD in the bottom six of the country's fifty largest school districts — there's practically nothing to lose in embracing new technologies and strategies for reaching at - risk students.

The three - year study, sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, included an analysis of about 3,000 teachers and their students in seven school districts.

State Representative Robin Vos, the Wisconsin state chair for ALEC, sponsored the bill codifying Walker's radical expansion of online, for - profit schools.

Bill sponsors, including Republican state senator Rick Murphy and representative Debbie Lesko, revised the measure in 2012 to specify that any students receiving scholarships under the proposed expansion would be new scholarship recipients switching from public school to private school.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Kirk Talbot (R - Jefferson), will allow students who are currently participating in the Louisiana Scholarship Program to switch to the Tuition Donation Rebate Program, which will expand its capability by providing an alternative to current scholarship students who wish to transfer to a different school or who are continuing to a grade without any available seats in the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

The initial bill, passed by the House, was identical to the federal amendment, which bars schools from involving children in certain federally sponsored programs of research or psychological testing without parental consent.

House Bill 1315 is a bill that, as its Senate sponsor put it, will help schools from becoming «distressed» like corporations in Muncie and GBill 1315 is a bill that, as its Senate sponsor put it, will help schools from becoming «distressed» like corporations in Muncie and Gbill that, as its Senate sponsor put it, will help schools from becoming «distressed» like corporations in Muncie and Gary.

The bill is one of three being sponsored by the California Teachers Association aimed at restricting charter schools and already generating significant political drama.

The day before Alexander announced his bills, a Kline - sponsored bill that would alter the federal government's role in creating charter schools passed the House.

«Yet Nicky Morgan is persisting with driving through Parliament a Bill that will force more and more schools to become sponsored academies whilst depriving parents and governors of any say in the matter.

The study was a fallback when a bill by the governor, and sponsored by Hoffmann, would have allowed school officials to use test data as they chose on teacher evaluations failed to gain traction in the Legislature.

Links to ACNJ's reports • Third annual statewide report on absenteeism • Report on high school absenteeism in Newark • Video from ACNJ's most recent forum on chronic absenteeism, featuring Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle, the main sponsor of the bill

Rep. Jim Christiana, main sponsor of the bill, says «It's an attractive program for those who want to get students out of violent, failing schools.»

Senate Bill 1, sponsored by Senate Republican Education Chairman Jeffrey Piccola and Senate Democratic Whip Anthony Williams, would greatly increase school choice options for families by creating school choice opportunity scholarships for low and middle income families across Pennsylvania and increase funding for the EITC program.

(Our sponsored bill in 2011, SB 645, would also expand eligibility for this program to include more schools.)

Bill sponsor Sen. Stuart Adams, R - Layton, noted that the bill actually gives schools more ability to earn As and Bs by lowering the percentage of total possible points they must hit to get an A to 80 percent from 90 percBill sponsor Sen. Stuart Adams, R - Layton, noted that the bill actually gives schools more ability to earn As and Bs by lowering the percentage of total possible points they must hit to get an A to 80 percent from 90 percbill actually gives schools more ability to earn As and Bs by lowering the percentage of total possible points they must hit to get an A to 80 percent from 90 percent.

Nearly a year in the works, this bill contains needed charter school oversight provisions that will strengthen accountability for both sponsors and schools, as well as increase operator transparency

In fact, he's the sponsor of a strict school accountability bill that relies largely on testing.

The bill's sponsor, Rep. John Jagler, R - Watertown, said Vos» changes to his bill are a break - even proposition for public school districts.

-- The Senate Education Committee today approved SB 645, a bill sponsored by the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) that calls for the increase of accountability criteria for charter schools at the time of their rSchools Association (CCSA) that calls for the increase of accountability criteria for charter schools at the time of their rschools at the time of their renewal.