Sentences with phrase «assembly education panel»

(Calif.) In a major effort to crack down on K - 12 truancy, key parts of a package of bills — brought forward by Attorney General Kamala Harris — won passage Wednesday from an Assembly education panel.

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* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Joining Parsons on the new task force are several members who also served with him on the earlier panel, including American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, State University of New York chancellor Nancy Zimpher, Parent Power Project founder and Rochester - area parent, Carrie Remis and the State Assembly's education committee chair Cathy Nolan, a Queens Democrat.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said state leaders might leave any concerns about teacher evaluations to the State Board of Regents, an education policymaking panel.

Her bill, which won unanimous approval of the Assembly's education panel last month, would make it a crime for «teaching staff» to instruct students on how to make explosive devices.

First, I'd like to thank the Assembly and Senate Education Committees and especially Assemblywoman Lampitt for inviting me here today to participate in this panel.

AB 830 is set for a vote by the full Assembly, after being approved by the panel's Education Committee.

An Assembly budget panel decided to keep funds for agriculture education and career technical training for high school students separate from LCFF, for fear that the increased flexibility would lead to less funding for such programs

The vote came as part of an overview hearing that the Assembly's education finance panel held focusing on a variety of challenges that the Commission on Teacher Credentialing has faced over the past year, including resolution of a critical audit that found deeply flawed practices and policies within the agency's educator disciplinary unit.

But a panel of three teachers and a school district administrator told the Assembly Education Committee at a hearing in Sacramento earlier this month that they couldn't get a clear picture of students» progress because the reports they received on how students did on the interim assessments lacked enough detail to be useful.

The Senate plan would also dish out cuts to the State Board of Education, a panel of gubernatorial appointees charged with overseeing and administering the state's public schools, eliminating multiple staff positions that report to the board, including two positions directed at negotiating legislative affairs with the General Assembly.