Sentences with phrase «school committees passed»

215 School Committees passed resolutions opposing question 2, highlighting the loss of funds to their district schools and thus reinforcing the No campaign's central argument.

More than 200 school committees passed resolutions against Question 2.

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I don't know how much of a delay «Top Chef» has between filming and broadcast, so even if they took up the school lunch challenge, Congress might have already acted * — Agweek says that Sen. Lincoln (D - AR) hopes to hold a markup session in the Senate Agriculture Committee on March 26 (via Slow Food USA) and it is not inconceivable that the new legislation could pass quickly.

By the time Senate Bill 474 passed, those provisions had been eliminated and the legislation simply called for the establishment of an interim committee to study school nutrition, said Lucio's press secretary, Doris Sanchez.

They have a high bar to reach considering the Senate plan was passed unanimously out of Committee and is supported by such a broad range of stakeholders — everyone ranging from retired military leaders to the public health community to anti-hunger groups to school food service directors.

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.

HB 2025, which establishes a composting grant pilot project in Hawaii Department of Education schools passed Committee on February 14th.

Arizona State University Conducting Survey on Vegetable Marketing Materials in Schools California Plant - Based Meal Options and Equipment Assistance Hawaii Onsite Composting and Farm to School Bills Pass Committee New Jersey Urges Passage of Child Nutrition Reauthorization Maryland Hearing on Nutrition Standards

HB 2156, which appropriates funds for a farm to school program and requires collaboration between the State Department of Agriculture and Department of Education, also passed committee on February 14th.

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.

Controversial federal legislation to limit funding for subsidized school lunches and change some of the program's nutritional standards passed a House committee on a 20 - 14 vote May 18, and the proposal is being hammered by critics who believe it would endanger the health of American school children.

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.»

The legislation, which passed a joint vote held by the Board of Legislators» committees on Public Safety, Legislation and Parks held this Tuesday would mark a return to a ban previously enacted by former County Executive Andrew Spano in 1999 following infamous shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado.

But the previously undisclosed internal report found the school's own investigators were alarmed that nearly three weeks had passed without the animal death being reported to a Harvard committee.

Further, the committee objects to state laws that require students to pass an examination for a high school diploma.

The Massachusetts Senate last week passed a bill to replace the elected, 13 - member Boston School Committee with a 7 - member body appointed by the city's mayor.

California may require its public schools to give up team names and mascots related to Native American culture, under legislation that passed in committee this month.

In Oregon, a bill that would begin a study of the feasibility of a special mathematics and science high school was sent to the ways and means committee of the state House without recommendation and will probably not pass, according to a spokesman for the House education committee.

Greening said in a letter to the education committee chair, Neil Carmichael, that she was «determined to continue to raise standards» and would include the new «strong pass» as an accountability measure for schools.

For example, as pointed out last year by Republican John Kline of Minnesota, an ESSA co-author and former chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, «Arizona and New Hampshire recently passed laws that violate ESSA by permitting individual school districts to choose which assessments to administer.»

The national discussion about improving school safety evolving from the shootings in Newtown, Conn., reached a pivotal moment last week, as the U.S. Senate began consideration of a measure to strengthen school building security, and a Senate committee passed a measure that would bolster school - based mental - health services.

The House Appropriations Committee last week passed a 1996 spending bill that would cut the District of Columbia's budget but does not include proposals to cut the Washington school board's salaries and...

Committee recommendation: Ought to pass (18 - 2) HB 1761, encouraging schools to participate in math learning communities.

In addition, 130 local school committees (district school boards) have now passed resolutions opposing the ballot measure.

Legislation to ensure California school buildings meet seismic safety standards - and that documentation certifying compliance is processed in a timely manner - passed out of the Senate Education Committee on Thursday.

Committee recommendation: Ought to pass with amendment (17 - 3) HB 1492 - LOCAL, relative to a course of action when a child's attendance at a school has resulted in a manifest educational hardship.

Committee recommendation: Ought to Pass (20 - 0) HB 1263, relative to educational evaluation of home schooled children.

Committee recommendation: Ought to pass with amendment (17 - 2) HB 1497, relative to accountability for school performance.

Committee recommendation: Ought to pass with amendment (20 - 0) O HB 1495, adds reporting indicators and establishes a rating scale for schools.

Last week, the U.S. Senate education committee passed a bill that would give states more latitude in how they use test scores to evaluate schools and teachers.

U.S. Senate Committee Passes Bill To Offer School Choice To Native American Students September 8, 2016 by Brett Kittredge The United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs approved legislation on Wednesday that would provide educational choice opportunities to Native American students.

Alexandria, VA (June 24, 2015)- The National School Boards Association (NSBA) is pleased that the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee passed an appropriations bill with targeted investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students and special education state grants under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSES BUDGET WITH STEEP CUTS: Doesn't include money for full - day pre-kindergarten, teacher incentive pay, arts education and numerous other school programs.

GEORGIA SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION LEGISLATIVE UPDATE — 2018 Day Thirty - seven, March 21, 2018 The first action of the day was for the Senate Appropriations Committee to give a «DO PASS» to the Senate version of the FY19 Budget.

When AB 1172 was heard in the Senate Education Committee in June 2012, CCSA and charter school advocates made their voices heard; thanks to your participation, AB 1172 failed to pass the Senate Education Committee!

The Joint Finance Committee took up K - 12 education this week, passing along party lines a Republican omnibus motion representing a mixed bag for public schools in the state budget.

(Calif.) School officials would be required to supervise parents or guardians registered as sex offenders when they are on campus, under a bill that passed the Senate education committee last week.

The version that passed out of committee includes a $ 200 increase in per - pupil funding for public school students in the first year of the budget and $ 204 in 2018 - 19 to $ 654 per student in the final year of the budget.

The California High School Exit Exam may be suspended immediately, possibly letting off the hook thousands of seniors who need to pass it to graduate this year, under a bill passed today by a legislative committee.

An expansive 29 - page education proposal that passed the Wisconsin Legislature's budget committee early Wednesday morning would fill in cuts proposed by Gov. Scott Walker while expanding the private school voucher program.

It is exactly this kind of public oversight and accountability that Milwaukee parents would lose if MPS schools are handed over to private third party operators in the current state budget bill passed last week by the Joint Finance Committee.

Yesterday, both the House and Senate Education Committees passed legislation to expand charter school opportunities for students in Mississippi.

If the measure passes, the school board selects an oversight committee to support with implementation regulations.

Tom Ash, BASA director of governmental relations, said, «The committee's passing of HB 597 is particularly troubling in light of the many school leaders from across the state who testified in favor of «staying the course» with the Common Core State Standards.

Our High School Success Committee chose Chronic Absence and students passing at least four years of high school mathematics (Pre-CalcSchool Success Committee chose Chronic Absence and students passing at least four years of high school mathematics (Pre-Calcschool mathematics (Pre-Calculus).

The Milwaukee Common Council recently passed an ordinance that requires the city's Charter School Review Committee (CSRC) to produce an Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) financial impact statement for any new charter school they authorize for appSchool Review Committee (CSRC) to produce an Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) financial impact statement for any new charter school they authorize for appschool they authorize for approval.

The prayer in school bill passed out of the Senate education committee and goes to the full Senate.

Along with the budgeting process, HB 313 Charter School Funding Amendments passed out of House Education Committee this week.

The Legislative session continues to move along, and this week, the Assembly Education Committee passed a bill that would give county offices of education the authority to loan money to charter schools, giving them options to weather tough budgetary times.

The Senate Education Committee also unanimously passed a bill authored by Sen. Karen Carter Peterson (D - New Orleans) and other members of the New Orleans delegation that transfers certain charter schools from the Recovery School District back to the Orleans Parish School Board (SB 432).