Sentences with phrase «school bills put»

As HuffPost's Joy Resmovits reported in November, because it lacked quality controls, the charter school bills put Democrats who favor school choice between a rock and a hard place.

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He read the Billings Gazette and the St. Paul Pioneer Press to figure out which high school students were putting up big points in rural parts of the country.

While the bill's intention is to protect children from the repeated head trauma that occurs during the course of a football game, a worry is that it could put players behind developmentally when they get to high school.

This week the White House put out a video in which Elmo and White House chef Sam Kass discuss what food will look like under the school food bill signed into law last week.

I'm under - employed, putting what little money I have from part - time work into rent, bills, and occasional grad - school tuition.

Regular TLT readers know all about the (misguided) Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill passed by the House Education & the Workforce Committee, a bill which would roll back key school food reforms and put economically disadvantaged kids at risk.

If Congress wants to put healthier food into school lunches, it may have to go with the bill the Senate passed last month, or risk rehashing the whole thing later and getting nothing.

Though he never became a politician, he did later go to the John Marshall Law School at night — a move he said was prompted by fears that President Bill Clinton's health - care reform efforts would put home births out of business.

It's a measure that is also strongly opposed by the New York School Boards Association, which believes the bill would put in place the state's «first private voucher system.»

Thompson is hoping for an agreement on a stand - alone bill that would allow the empowerment plan to be put in place on a pilot basis at at least two schools — UB and SUNY Stony Brook (that's for Sen. Brian Foley, who faces a tough re-election fight this fall)-- and possibly UAlbany, too, (that would be for Sen. Neil Breslin).

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he plans to put serious heat on state legislators beginning Monday to renew his control over city schools, saying the ramifications of not doing so would be catastrophic.

Legislative insiders said Silver is miffed that Senate Democrats passed a bill Monday to lift the statewide cap on charter schools to 460 from 200 — putting the political hot potato squarely in his lap.

The bills instead focus on classifying schools shooters as terrorists, requiring more active shooter drills at schools, and putting in scanners to detect any guns.

At the end of last year's legislative session the state senate approved a bill directing the New York City Police Department to put an officer in every public and private school under their jurisdiction.

Mayor Bill de Blasio flunked two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top education proposals that would weaken his say over school policy — including one that would allow the state to put failing city public schools into receivership.

Responding to an email from a New York City deputy mayor's chief of staff, then - REBNY President Steven Spinola wrote in March of 2015 that it did not appear as if the state Senate majority leader at the time, Republican Dean Skelos, had put anything about school governance in his budget bills.

Silver was reportedly none too pleased when Sampson and his conference put the charter school cap bill up for a vote and passed it (with some help from the Republicans), tossing a political hot potato into the Assembly's lap.

State lawmakers have introduced a bill to add libraries to the restriction put in place in 2012 that prohibits smoking within 100 feet of school entrances or exits.

The governor had been a mild supporter of charter schools throughout his tenure as governor until he made «saving» charters from Bill de Blasio a key issue in recent months, as the mayor made promises to charge some charter networks rent and put other restrictions on the city's charters.

Speaking from a packed high school auditorium in the South Bronx, Mark - Viverito proposed a far - reaching overhaul of Rikers Island to bring it to the point of closing down and a plan to scrap old warrants from New Yorker's records — policies that could put her ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on justice reform and in direct conflict with the city's powerful correction officers» union, the court system and the police department.

Put forth by state Assemblyman Steve Otis, a Rye Democrat, and state Sen. Michael Razenhofer, a Republican from Erie County, the bill authorizes the private school to negotiate the purchase of the property with its current owner, the New York State Thruway Authority, under the condition that it enters into a shared - use agreement with the city of Rye.

Bill de Blasio, the Democratic nominee for mayor and a proud public school parent, has indicated that his administration would put a moratorium on co-location and require «well - resourced charter networks» to pay rent.

Proponents say the gaming will create thousands of jobs and put more money into school districts and help lessen property tax bills.

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.

Democratic candidate for governor Gwen Graham also tweeted, «If I was Governor, I would veto any bill that puts more guns in schools & doesn't ban assault weapons, and I'd call the Legislature back all summer to get this right.»

The Florida Senate has passed a school safety bill putting new restrictions on rifle sales and allowing some teachers to carry guns.

«They're just playing to Bloomberg and the charter - school crowd and they know the bill isn't going to pass the Assembly,» is how one leading Assembly member put it.

ALBANY — Days after the Republican - controlled House voted to repeal and replace Obamacare, a former staffer to Gov. Cuomo announced he is putting law school on hold to try to «repeal and replace» a freshman upstate congressman who voted for the bill.

«House of Cards» starts off at a remove, but it really gets going when its story plunges into something like the real world, one in which Bill Maher and Dennis Miller comment on the proceding on TV and a gaff on CNN gets autotuned into a viral clip, where an education bill is broken down and haggled over in terms of details on charter schools and collective bargaining and the slower moving but responsible reporting of a newspaper is put up against a fast - paced website in which an editor tells a writer she can just post her stories herself as soon as she's done with tBill Maher and Dennis Miller comment on the proceding on TV and a gaff on CNN gets autotuned into a viral clip, where an education bill is broken down and haggled over in terms of details on charter schools and collective bargaining and the slower moving but responsible reporting of a newspaper is put up against a fast - paced website in which an editor tells a writer she can just post her stories herself as soon as she's done with tbill is broken down and haggled over in terms of details on charter schools and collective bargaining and the slower moving but responsible reporting of a newspaper is put up against a fast - paced website in which an editor tells a writer she can just post her stories herself as soon as she's done with them.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation put two stakes in the ground last week in support of next - generation digital learning: one in the postsecondary school space and another in secondary schools.

In City Journal, Charles Sahm urges New York City major Bill de Blasio not to roll back the accountability - based, competition - driven school reforms put in place by his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg.

Time magazine relates a story about an autistic child whose parents put him in an expensive private school and then «informed Colorado's Thompson school district it had to pick up the bill for Boston Higashi's $ 135,000 annual tuition.»

In the state of Washington, parent protests against the adoption of several standard math curricula (like Connected Math) led a state representative to introduce a bill earlier this year to put Singapore Math in all the state's elementary schools.

About one - third of Saint Martin's $ 6.6 million annual budget comes from the two voucher programs, putting the school in a unique category among schools in Ohio with a high percentage of voucher students: unlike other such schools, the state does not pay the bulk of Saint Martin's bills.

Technology is available now that can help to monitor the indoor air quality in schools and it is my hope that these small devices, that cost as little as # 200, will put the quality of air being breathed as high up the agenda as the electricity bill.

A story in the Feb. 5, 2003, issue of Education Week inadvertently omitted the word «not» from a sentence describing the views of Bill Montford, the superintendent of the Leon County, Fla., public schools, regarding a class - size - reduction plan put forward by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

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.

Opponents of charter schools put Referendum 55 on the ballot in an effort to repeal a bill that Gov. Gary Locke signed into law last spring.

(Calif.) The growing struggle between charter schools and opponents within the traditional system will spill into legislative chambers this week as lawmakers consider several bills that would put new regulations on charters and their operators.

The coalition was on the outside, as Bill put it, and he was on the inside, pushing to improve school environments.

But the economy has changed, putting many school districts in a budget squeeze, and after voters rejected the 2000 initiative, Billings had a change of heart.

Groups consider trying to put charter - school initiative on ballot As prospects for a bill allowing charter schools dims in the Washington Legislature, some in the so - called «education reform» movement are considering compromise options or again asking the voters about it.

The House has passed a bill on charter school oversight, and Kline has also put forward bills that increase funding flexibility and slash half of all federal education programs.

Proposals first put forward under the Labour government to raise the school leaving age to 18 are in the bill.

Naming North Carolina as one state of several where new «parent choice» laws have been passed, the Waltons are putting even more money into the Alliance for School Choice, on organization that provides model legislation for state lawmakers to use as they introduce bills that would create alternatives to public education.

But in this year's negotiations, labor was more closely aligned with Republicans on some of the most contentious points of the bill: how often to test students, what constraints to put on opting out of exams and how states should rate schools.

The California Charter Schools Association also fought the SB 322 bill, which would give charter school students the same reasonable due - process rights afforded students who attend public schools, as well as SB 739 which would put some restrictions on the ability of a district to open up «resource center» charters in other counties, which led to the abuses described earlier in this Schools Association also fought the SB 322 bill, which would give charter school students the same reasonable due - process rights afforded students who attend public schools, as well as SB 739 which would put some restrictions on the ability of a district to open up «resource center» charters in other counties, which led to the abuses described earlier in this schools, as well as SB 739 which would put some restrictions on the ability of a district to open up «resource center» charters in other counties, which led to the abuses described earlier in this report.

The speed of the introduction and then passage of the bills in both houses of Congress left no time for the school bonds cartel to put all the pieces in place to get refunding bond resolutions adopted by governing boards which were already getting ready for holidays and school breaks.

Senate Bill 193 would allow parents to use 90 percent of the per - pupil grant the state gives to local public schools and instead put it toward alternative educational expenses, including private school tuition or homeschooling.

Kathy Sher of the American Civil Liberties Union told lawmakers that while the bill is well - intentioned, putting guns in schools in the hands of school resource officers or anyone else will make schools less safe, not more so.