Sentences with phrase «school bills debated»

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As the Children's Schools and Families Bill 2009/2010 hurtles towards Royal Assent via the debating of committee stage amendments, there is a great deal at stake for home schoolers in particular and liberty in general.

The food safety bill was passed by the Senate, the long - awaited child nutrition / school food legislation is ready to be signed into law, and we had a lot of really intense debate over school food reform.

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.

ALBANY — While the Assembly was debating a bill dealing with oversight of the East Ramapo school district on Thursday, Speaker Carl Heastie stood in the chamber's wings.

At the end of a debate over a measure to institute a monitor in the troubled East Ramapo school district, for example, Silver voted against the bill, which passed.

Mayor Bill de Blasio dug in his heels on charter schools Monday, as the fierce debate threatened to cost him control of the city's school system and bring back the bad old days of the Board of Ed.

Things got heated on the New York State Senate floor this week over a debate on bills that majority party Republicans say will improve school safety.

During a debate in the New York State Senate on enhanced school safety measures, Democrats asked the Republican majority to support a bill to ban teachers from having guns in schools.

Most of their day was spent debating a «big ugly» revenue language bill that dealt with dozens of Issues like authorizing ride - hailing services, subsidizing tuition at state schools, reviving the 421 - a tax credit and expanding Gov. Andrew Cuomo's power to make mid-year budget adjustments.

This includes the pre-kindergarten debate prompted by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and a tax credit advocated this week by Cardinal Timothy Dolan that could boost Catholic school attendance.

During a debate in the New York state Senate on enhanced school safety measures Monday, Democrats asked the Republican majority to support a bill to ban teachers from having guns in schools.

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

The NASUWT participated in the debate on the adverse impact of the Immigration Bill at the TUC Congress in Liverpool, highlighting the adverse impact on schools.

From 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Democratic NYC mayoral contenders Anthony Weiner, Bill de Blasio, Bill Thompson, John Liu, and Sal Albanese (but not Council Speaker Chris Quinn, who dropped out of this event) participate in the New Yorkers for Great Public Schools education debate.

ALBANY — The tensions between the Jewish and black and Hispanic communities in Rockland County's troubled East Ramapo school district were mirrored Thursday in the state Assembly, where lawmakers debated and ultimately approved by an unusually low margin a bill establishing state oversight of the public schools.

Reacting to the bill's passage, East Ramapo school board president Yehuda Weissmandl said the Assembly's «spirited and lengthy debate» served well to educate members on the complex challenges faced by the unique community.

And as he did last year in the debate over the renewal of mayoral school control, Felder is using as leverage several items that are important to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, including design - build authority for the rehabilitation of the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway and the authorization of more speed cameras near schools.

«Westchester is consistently shortchanged on school funding, and now we see why: our own state senator won't pay his school taxes, and when the debate over funding is going on in Albany, he's not there to represent us,» said Astorino campaign spokesman Bill O'Reilly.

The meetings offered a preview of the debate over mayoral control, which puts power over the schools in the hands of City Hall, and which Mayor Bill de Blasio — in what has become an annual ritual — must persuade the state to renew.

Public Advocate and mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio has stepped into the debate after parents from the school reached out to him.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday acknowledged he has fallen short in explaining his position on charter schools, after coming under criticism from both sides of the debate.

Senators had planned to debate and pass a one - house bill dealing with mayoral school control, but held off doing so as talks continued.

In recent weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio's policies have run up against an age - old forces of inertia and resistance in the city, especially one that springs forth in policy debates on everything from housing to bike lanes to school desegregation and even closing down Rikers Island jails.

The veto came amid public and legislative debate on the bill, which opponents claimed would have unconstitutionally provided public funds for religious institutions and overburdened already struggling school districts by forcing them to pay for private special education.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, First Lady Chirlane McCray, convened a town hall on Thursday afternoon that attracted roughly 100 high school students to discuss steps the city can take to ensure safety in schools amid a national debate about gun control.

The debate got most heated over a bill to create a «Guardians for Schools» license plate to raise money to help pay for school resource officers.

Long Introduction [1] By extolling freedom of religion in the schools, President Bill Clinton has raised the level of debate on the importance of religion to

Introduction [1] By extolling freedom of religion in the schools, President Bill Clinton has raised the level of debate on the importance of religion to Colorado Public Radio (CPR) produces and curates in - depth and meaningful news and music, establishing thoughtful connections to Colorado for listeners

I've done the Ramen diet, I've sold everything I own to make rent up to and including my middle school band flute, and I've debated the necessity of paying the electricity bill versus the gas bill.

By a 31 - 4 vote on Feb. 8, the Senate passed a bill that would bar student parents who miss more than four weeks of payments from sports and other extracurricular activities, including drama, debate, and school publications.

Following a spirited debate about federal spending priorities in education, the House education committee approved a bill last week that would authorize new money to help districts improve school facilities, including making them more environmentally friendly.

The debate over a school choice bill in the Missouri legislature has opened a bitter rift among some of the state's top black elected officials.

And in the past few years, as debates about merit pay for school teachers have come up, major public figures such as Bill Gates and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have questioned the wisdom of rewarding teachers for degrees.

NAESP Expresses Concerns with House Education Funding Bill, Urges an Open Debate of Expected Budget Cuts On July 29, 2013 NAESP and the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) expressed concern with the Fiscal Year 2014 Labor - Health & Human Services - Education appropriations bill in a formal letter to the House LHHS Appropriations SubcommitBill, Urges an Open Debate of Expected Budget Cuts On July 29, 2013 NAESP and the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) expressed concern with the Fiscal Year 2014 Labor - Health & Human Services - Education appropriations bill in a formal letter to the House LHHS Appropriations Subcommitbill in a formal letter to the House LHHS Appropriations Subcommittee.

As Congress debates No Child Left Behind, proposed bill ignores opportunity to improve U.S. school systems for students with disabilities.

(Calif.) Middle and high schools will be prohibited from starting the regular school day before 8:30 a.m. under a bill at the center of a heated debate Wednesday during a Senate Education Committee hearing.

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, I examine the debate between congressional Democrats, President Barack Obama and centrist Democrat school reformers over the edujobs bill.

With Wake County and Charlotte - Mecklenburg school board members packing the room, Rep. Bill Brawley, the committee co-chairman, said the group isn't targeting any specific school systems but is trying to inform the debate about whether some districts are too large.

As debate commenced today for floor action of the Senate's Every Child Achieves Act (S. 1177), NSBA sent a letter to all 100 U.S. Senators urging their strong support for moving forward on a final bill that restores community ownership to local school districts, maximizes authorized funding for Title I, and advances academic achievement among all students.

Tennesseans are debating the efficacy of a K - 12 school voucher bill that would allow 5,000 children attending failing schools (most of which are located in and around Nashville and Memphis) to choose a private school.

North Carolina is in the thick of the school voucher debate, with two bills moving through the General Assembly now that would siphon at least $ 90 million out of the public school system and into voucher programs intended for low - income and disabled students.

As Congress considers bills to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the most heated debate has been over how to hold schools accountable for student performance, and...

Assembly Bill 484, which has been approved by the Assembly and is currently being debated in a state Senate committee, would eliminate all of the California Standardized Tests that high school students would have taken over the 2013 - 2014 academic year — tests in subjects like history, algebra, chemistry and physics.

In this letter to U.S. Senate Leadership, the National School Boards Association joined the State and Local Governance coalition in urging the Senate to pass the Every Child Achieve Act, prior to debate of the Elementary and Secondary Education reauthorization bill on the Senate floor.

July 7, 2015: State and Local Governance Coalition Letter to Senate Leadership Regarding the Every Child Achieves Act (S. 1177) In this letter to U.S. Senate Leadership, the National School Boards Association joined the State and Local Governance Coalition in urging the Senate to pass the Every Child Achieve Act prior to debate of the Elementary and Secondary Education reauthorization bill on the Senate floor.

Lawmakers continue to debate a bill that would change the state's school - accountability system.

Simon Knight, deputy headteacher at the Frank Wise special school in Oxfordshire, said he thought it was «coincidental» that the review of assessment of pupils with lower attainment by special school headteacher Diane Rochford had been announced during the passage of the bill, and said alternative and special needs provision should also be «part of the debate».

For now, passage of the charter conversion bill is the latest development in the escalating debate as to the merits of the alternative schools and how to best oversee them.

A major newspaper expose demonstrating the U.S. school testing industry's inability to competently design and administer the current level of required state exams should persuade Congress to drop a plan to greatly increase mandated testing now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest).

Proving that it can always get worse, Wisconsin Senate Republicans have entered the debate on school accountability with a proposal, Senate Bill 1, even weaker than the bill proposed by their counterparts in the state AssemBill 1, even weaker than the bill proposed by their counterparts in the state Assembill proposed by their counterparts in the state Assembly.