Sentences with phrase «school conversion bill»
The Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to vote on Senate Bill 6, a bill that purports to help the lowest performing schools in the Commonwealth, but is really little more than a state takeover and charter school conversion bill all rolled into one.
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An LED conversion will reduce a school's carbon footprint and substantially reduce energy bills, meaning the initial investment is invariably returned within a few months.
The recent draft Education Bill has implied that the conversion to an academy is the preferred route by the Coalition Government for schools and will be the chosen route for new schools launched during their term in office.
The conversion of the comprehensive high school was among the first financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Over five years have passed since the Academies Bill passed through Parliament with the speed usually reserved for national emergency followed by unrelenting propaganda pushing academy conversion yet still 74 % of schools in England are not academies.
DeBerry's bill would have lowered the threshold of petition support from 60 to 51 percent, and extended the outcome beyond charter conversions, to include options such as replacing the principal or closing the school and sending its students to a higher - achieving one.
Other pending bills in the lower house would create new rights and benefits for classified employees that work for charter schools and require charter conversions to be approved by 50 percent of classified staff in addition to half the teachers.
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.
The bill exempts «college and career academies that are charter schools; conversion charter schools whose charter is not held by a non-profit corporation; or system charter schools.»
But last month, the General Assembly passed a bill banning education - reform - focused solutions for turning around low - performing schools, including charter school conversions, vouchers, and a «recovery» school district.