Sentences with phrase «voted last»

The Marshall school board voted last night to open its high school to Albion's students.

A leadership team at Nathan Hale voted last monthnot to give the exams to juniors, saying those students have been tested enough already.

This is the Legislature that voted last year to expand Medicaid and end then - Gov.

The SBOE and Department of Education voted last year to update the system so student growth on ISTEP + factors more heavily into the calculation.

In Illinois, the State Board of Education voted last week to approve a higher threshold for proficiency on the state's Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers exams.

Rich points out not one Democrat in the GOP - controlled U.S. House voted last week for a re-write of federal education laws known as No Child Left Behind.

The board voted last year to force the charters into participating when their licenses come up for renewal, which for some is as long as a decade away.

When the California State Board of Education voted last week to once again delay holding schools accountable for their students» performance on new Common Core - aligned assessments, they had one thing right: Schools still haven't effectively transitioned to the new standards and are not prepared to help all children meet them.

When the LAUSD Board voted last week to approve 12 new «pilot schools,» it was a small but positive sign of change in a school district long troubled by battles among key stakeholders about to how to best improve LA's many underperforming schools and create successful new options.

College and university presidents were given more control over the National Collegiate Athletic Association after the organization voted last week to restructure.

Acting on a committee recommendation and a poll of students, the board of education voted last week to rename their school in honor of Ray Kroc, the late founder of the McDonald's hamburger chain3and owner of the San Diego Padres baseball club.

The Baltimore County school board voted last month to make Verletta White the school system's permanent superintendent.

Washington — The House of Representatives voted last week to extend the fiscal 1982 continuing resolution, which expires today, to Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.

The school board voted last month to buy out Superintendent Henry Williams» contract after a report by a court - appointed committee that monitors desegregation efforts concluded that the district lacked leadership.

The school board voted last week to pay elementary principals an extra $ 515 for administering a new state proficiency test for 4th graders.

The board of trustees at City University, which oversees the City College campus, voted last week to replace Mr. Jeffries with Edmund W. Gordon, the former chairman of the African - American studies department at Yale University and a professor emeritus of psychology.

Alarmed by the high dropout and failure rates for college students who start out in remedial classes, Florida lawmakers voted last year to make such courses, and even the related placement tests, optional for anyone who... earned a [high school] diploma....

When the Oakland, Calif., school board voted last spring to reject a set of social studies textbooks sanctioned by the state of California, most members probably knew they were taking a «road less traveled.»

High school principals in Philadelphia voted last week to eliminate interscholastic sports and other extracurricular activities for next school year to meet budget cuts imposed on them.

The Los Angeles Board of Education voted last week to enter a consent decree that would require the district to equalize funding for its schools, as demanded by black and Hispanic groups.

The Senate voted last week to add $ 29 million in funding for the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act to an appropriations bill that had contained no money for the program.

In a dramatic turnaround from its previous strong support for charter schools, the Buffalo, N.Y., school board voted last week to impose a one - year moratorium on allowing more of the independently operated public schools.

The state's School Budget Review Committee voted last month to give the 11,000 - student district authority to spend an additional $ 7.5 million in state education funds this school year — the state's largest school bailout ever.

Montgomery, Ala. — The Alabama board of education voted last week to use teacher - certification - test results as a basis for identifying teacher - training programs in the state's colleges that could be disapproved upon the recommendation of a special review team.

Minneapolis - based EAI lost its contract with the Baltimore district last year in a conflict over finances, while the Hartford, Conn., school board voted last month to drop its partnership with the company.

A federal commission voted last week to spare two military facilities in New England that the Pentagon had recommended closing, a move that relieved local school officials who would have faced a loss of students and federal impact aid had the bases closed.

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«But the parameters on the ground were fundamentally different in that the kinds of people who voted this time were not a mirror of who voted last time.

The U.S. Senate voted last week to allow internet service providers to sell data about their customers» online activities to advertisers.

The European Southern Observatory, a pan-European organisation which operates an observatory in La Silla, Chile, voted last week to earmark # 200 000 for each of the next three years to support threatened projects in the East.

When the House Natural Resources Committee voted last week to overhaul the Magnuson - Stevens Act for the first time since 2006, Chairman Rob Bishop (R - Utah) said fishery management decisions in the U.S. have become «notably worse» over the last 10 years, resulting in too many restrictions on fishermen (Greenwire, Dec. 13).

The Securities and Exchange Commission, for instance, voted last month to require publicly traded companies to disclose to investors the potential economic impact of new greenhouse gas regulations (E&EN ews PM, Jan. 27).

The House voted last September to reauthorize the act with spending boosted to that level, but the Senate cut the authorization to just two years at $ 54 million apiece, an annual increase of $ 4 million from past years.

Another bill in New York's Legislature would remove sales taxes on pet food, and lawmakers here voted last year to allow dogs to join their human companions on the patios of restaurants.

The Onondaga County Legislature voted last week to allow the first two payments to go toward the project.

Sheldon Silver, the Speaker of the Assembly, which voted last November to ban hydrofracking, also praised the compromise, and said he will work to ensure no permits are issued «anywhere in the state where there are any possible dangers identified by the federal EPA study.»

The Village of Hoosick Falls voted last night to table a settlement agreement with the two companies deemed responsible for contaminating water sources with the chemical PFOA.

Derrick said Stefanik voted last year for Speaker Paul Ryan's budget, «which would have slashed Pell grants by billions.»

The board voted last month to allow a casino in the Catskills, one in the Capital Region and another in the Finger Lakes, the latter appearing to come at the expense of the Southern Tier.

The Common Council voted last week to rescind a contract with the town of Oswego to handle its sewage.

How people voted last year is an imperfect guide, however.

The Council's finance committee voted last week to approve a $ 17.3 million increase in the Council's own budget, which it can insert into Mayor Bill de Blasio's yet - to - be-released executive budget, due in the next few months.

That number was more than double the amount of people who voted last year, according to Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez.

«This isn't about ignoring how people voted last year - quite the opposite, it's about ensuring that the deal we get in negotiations works for everyone in the UK, not just hard - line Tory backbenchers.

More than 2,200 residents from District 10 — which covers Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill in The Bronx — voted last month for the five winning projects last month out of 13 ideas submitted by the public.

Three Erie County legislators with the Republican - supported majority voted last week against extending Erie County's additional 1.75 percent additional sales tax, part of the 8.75 percent sales tax all county residents pay that must be reauthorized every two years.

The state district attorneys association had criticized and internally debated the constitutionality of Cuomo's 2015 order, but voted last year not to file a motion in support of a court petition s filed by Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove challenging Cuomo's action.

Labour MPs Ronnie Campbell and Grahame Morris both voted last night despite recently undergoing treatment for cancer.

(The WFP voted last week to endorse Amodeo and put him on Row D by nominating Davis for a judgeship, but it remains unclear if that will happen, thanks to some legal technicalities).

New York City's Rent Guidelines Board voted last night to recommend an unusually low range of possible rent increases for the coming year, even raising the possibility of a rent freeze for one - year leases.