Sentences with phrase «school bill through»

Charter - school supporters will need all the help they can get to try to get a charter - school bill through the Assembly, where the teachers unions hold considerable sway.

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Before his long - form experimental rock band sold 12 million albums and garnered an obsessive worldwide following, the Tool frontman was an army enlistee hoping to get through art school on the GI Bill.

Before his long - form experimental rock band sold 12 million albums and garnered an obsessive worldwide following, the Tool front man was an Army enlistee hoping to get through art school on the GI Bill.

Schulich School of Engineering Dean Bill Rosehart describes the program as a natural fit for students seeking the best of both academic worlds, through programs that complement each other in entrepreneurship and creative thinking.

«History will tell you that when a school gives a guy only three or four years, the next guy will go through another three or four without success,» says Bill McCartney, whom Colorado administrators stood by through three losing seasons, including a 1 - 10 nadir in 1984, before the Buffaloes broke through.

On Tuesday, January 15 Christian Liberty Academy School is holding a basketball fundraiser in support of Bill and his family as they manage through this challenging time.

The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.

* Positive Discipline * Positive Discipline for Developing Capable People * Building Self - Esteem through Positive Discipline * Keys to Developing Self - Reliance: A Gift to Our Children * The Significant Seven: Life Skills for Adults and Youth * Positive Discipline: Practical Application * Why Children Misbehave and What to Do About It * Parenting Teenagers: · Empowering Teenagers — and Yourself in the Process * Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: * Classroom Management: Shared Responsibility through Class Meetings: Eliminating your Role as a disciplinarian (The Kids Can Do It Better Anyway) * Positive Discipline in the Classroom (two - day training on class meetings) * We've Got to Keep Meeting Like This (teacher in - service on class meetings) * School Administrators: Positive Discipline in the Classroom (two - day training with Bill Scott, principal of Birney Elementary School)

Tomorrow, the House Education and the Workforce Committee will hold a markup of its school food bill, the process through which committee members debate and amend draft legislation.

A bill to reform concussion management and treatment at the high school and youth sports levels was defeated by the state House of Representatives on Tuesday, despite earlier passing through the state Senate with ease and gaining headway in a House committee.

The bill, which has been a long - sought goal for Catholic officials, is aimed at strengthening both public and private schools through private donations to scholarships and non-profits.

Former Governor George Pataki's School Tax Relief (STAR) program, passed in 1997 and fully phased in by 2002, actually does reduce most homeowners» tax bills, through the mechanism of sending added aid to school districts that are required to use the money to finance a partial homestead tax exemSchool Tax Relief (STAR) program, passed in 1997 and fully phased in by 2002, actually does reduce most homeowners» tax bills, through the mechanism of sending added aid to school districts that are required to use the money to finance a partial homestead tax exemschool districts that are required to use the money to finance a partial homestead tax exemption.

For the third year in a row, the New York State Senate passed «Erin's Law,» a bill requiring schools to teach age - appropriate sexual abuse and assault awareness to children in pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade.

The STAR program provides a state - funded offset for property - based school taxes through payments the state sends to school districts each year that are then subtracted from a homeowner's bill.

NEW YORK, NY — New York City students will go through random security screenings and a refresher on how to handle violent threats after last week's massacre at a Florida high school, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.

Introduced at the end of July by City Councilman Mark Levine, the bill has since gained the support of 12 fellow councilmembers through the lobbying efforts of Levine's staff and parents at P.S. 163, a West 97th Street elementary school that would neighbor a construction site under a plan to build a 20 - story nursing home development.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

Putnam said he couldn't have signed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act as it was, though he added that if he were to be elected Governor, the self - proclaimed «NRA sellout» would enforce the law that has led to a lawsuit from the gun group, and a ritual defenestration of House Speaker Richard Corcoran for pushing the gun control bill through.

The bill requires that all school buildings serving students in pre-K to grade five must collect a sample for testing, while students in grades six through 12 will be required to collect samples by Oct. 31.

But despite an end - of - session slate of bills passing that included needed extensions for rent control, the property tax cap, the 421a tax abatement and mayoral control of New York City schools, it's likely unresolved policy questions will linger through the rest of the year.

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.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio named Houston Superintendent Richard Carranza to lead city's schools less than a week after his first choice fell through.

A bill that makes provisions for rehabilitation of delinquent children and «to force delinquent children to acquire the said education at any of the special schools across Nigeria» has passed through second reading in the House of Representatives.

Southern Tier Republican Sen. Tom O'Mara has launched the second TV ad of his re-election campaign, which focuses on his success in getting a bill passed through the Legislature and signed into law that mandates the testing of public school water for lead.

Moskowitz continued her critical comments about Mayor Bill de Blasio and his administration, through a criticism of schools chancellor Carmen Fariña.

BY ANDY HUMM City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and her colleagues pushed through an «unprecedented» bill December 7 to have city government pick up yet another function of private and religious schools — security — allocating almost $ 20 million in taxpayer funds outside the normal budget process for «safety officers» in any school with more than 300 students that wants one.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and her colleagues pushed through an «unprecedented» bill December 7 to have city government pick up yet another function of private and religious schools — security — allocating almost $ 20 million in taxpayer funds outside the normal budget process for «safety officers» in any school with more than 300 students that wants one.

His loud and expensive campaign had finally succeeded in passing a bill through the State Senate that would allow for merit - based personnel decisions in the city's schools.

Lib Dems have already helped to get the Academies Bill (which helps to pave the way for free schools) through parliament it doesn't mandate MPs to vote against a coalition measure.

Citing her dedication to «re-imagining» education through the charter schools movement, Eva Moskowitz ruled out today that she would challenge Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2017.

The rankings were based on three past votes: the 2013 SAFE Act pushed through the Legislature by Cuomo in the immediate aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in December 2012; a June 2015 Senate vote passing a bill to repeal portions of the SAFE Act; and a June 2015 Assembly vote passing a bill called «Nicholas's Law» requiring all firearms to be locked up.

The mother and son bounced from family member to family member, trying to find a place to stay for years before Henry managed to finish high school, join the military and eventually get through college through the G.I. Bill, he said.

Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Fariña Announce 115 More High Schools to Offer New Advanced Placement Courses Through Equity and Excellence For All Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Carmen Fariña today announced that 115 high schools have committed to offer new Advanced Placement courses this fall, including 38 offering the AP Computer Science Principles Schools to Offer New Advanced Placement Courses Through Equity and Excellence For All Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Carmen Fariña today announced that 115 high schools have committed to offer new Advanced Placement courses this fall, including 38 offering the AP Computer Science Principles schools have committed to offer new Advanced Placement courses this fall, including 38 offering the AP Computer Science Principles course.

But much major legislation failed to get through in time, including Shirley Williams» education bill, which would have extended parental choice, made school governors more representative and introduce maintenance grants for 16 - to - 18 year - olds.

The Senate Republican majority wouldn't go along and instead pushed through three bills that extended mayoral control but tied it to other issues like pro-charter school provisions — something the Assembly Democrats opposed.

Science education: Both the Senate and House bills urge the federal government to do a better job of coordinating and assessing its $ 3 billion investment in programs that support STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education from grade school through graduate school.

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Yeah, thanks... thanks Bill Condon, if we wanted to sit through a lecture on information gathering in the digital age, we would (and a lot of us probably) have made tuition payments for school.

Release: Friday, October 18, 2013 [Theater] Yeah, thanks... thanks Bill Condon, if we wanted to sit through a lecture on information gathering in the digital age, we would (and a lot of us probably) have made tuition payments for school.

Buoyed by its findings, two Colorado legislators — one Republican, the other a Democrat — introduced a bill in May that would pay first - through fifth - graders in high - risk schools $ 2 for each book they read and for which they pass a comprehension quiz.

Georgia is aiming to boost the number of nationally certified teachers in the state and entice more - experienced teachers to low - performing schools through incentives in two proposed legislative bills.

All of these schools received financial support through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Next Generation Learning Challenges, the earliest and most significant philanthropic investment in personalized learning to date.

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - mSchool of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - mschool district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - making.

A bill to extend by 5 months (through Sept. 1982) the date by which a child must have been enrolled in a postsecondary school to be eligible for benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act and...

Bill Gates, the co-founder of the world's largest philanthropy, last week called on President - elect Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to expand support for education and make the federal government «a dynamic agent of school reform,» even as the nation struggles through grim economic times.

And though he had many supporters, including powerful state legislators who pushed through a special bill that transferred powers from the school board to the superintendent, Amato could not survive the disastrous financial reports, audits, and indictments that began flowing through his office in 2005, almost as a prelude to Katrina's tidal surge.

In New York there was not only a new governor in the statehouse - a Republican - but he had pushed through a charter school bill and was now serving his third four - year term.

The bill to reauthorize NCLB moving through the House would change the way Title I funds are distributed, allowing the funds to follow low - income students to the schools of their choice.

Some of President Bush's top education priorities — especially his plans for improving the nation's high schools — are rebuffed in a spending bill making its way through the Republican - controlled House of Representatives.