Interestingly, the testimony and questions during the hearing veered several times from accountability to teacher effectiveness (another pending House Education
Committee reauthorization bill), suggesting that lawmakers see a direct link between the two issues.
Not exact matches
Florida senator
Bill Nelson, the highest - ranking democrat on the committee overseeing the F.A.A. reauthorization bill, is calling in the big guns to coordinate drone safety regulat
Bill Nelson, the highest - ranking democrat on the
committee overseeing the F.A.A.
reauthorization bill, is calling in the big guns to coordinate drone safety regulat
bill, is calling in the big guns to coordinate drone safety regulation.
Back in 2005, language that would have required Section 215 business record orders to pertain to terror suspects, or their associates, or the «activities» of a terror group won the unanimous support of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, though was not ultimately included in the final
reauthorization bill.
The Senate Agriculture
Committee and House Education and Workforce
Committee are hoping to attach the Child Nutrition
Reauthorization (CNR) to the pending omnibus spending
bill, negotiations over which are likely to be extended (via a pending continuing resolution) at least until December 16th, if not later.
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.
Last week, as part of the Child Nutrition
Reauthorization, the Senate Agriculture
Committee approved a
bill that does include some changes — but also keeps most of the healthy standards in place.
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
Senate Agriculture
Committee staff are seeking a bipartisan, middle ground on
reauthorization and aiming to mark up a
bill mid-September.
As reported here back in May, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce
Committee's Child Nutrition
Reauthorization (CNR)
bill, to block grant school food in three states.
In its proposed 2015 Child Nutrition
Reauthorization (CNR)
bill, the Senate Agriculture
Committee managed to hammer out a bipartisan compromise that seemed to reasonably satisfy both health advocates and the School Nutrition Association (SNA)-- no easy feat, given how heated the controversy had become.
In two recent Civil Eats articles I've discussed serious concerns about the draft Child Nutrition
Reauthorization (CNR)
bill authored by the House Education and the Workforce
Committee.
House Republicans made clear they wanted no part of the bipartisan school food compromise brokered in the Senate Agriculture
Committee, instead offering up their own Child Nutrition
Reauthorization (CNR)
bill, one that would gut many key provisions of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA).
The House Education and the Workforce
Committee's draft Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill has yet to make it out of committee, but its proposals are so controversial that the committee is already feeling the need to respond to
Committee's draft Child Nutrition
Reauthorization (CNR)
bill has yet to make it out of
committee, but its proposals are so controversial that the committee is already feeling the need to respond to
committee, but its proposals are so controversial that the
committee is already feeling the need to respond to
committee is already feeling the need to respond to critics.
In the last Congressional session, industry lobbying succeeded in getting language into the House Education and the Workforce
Committee's draft Child Nutrition
Reauthorization (CNR)
bill that would have allowed all FFVP schools to serve «all forms» of produce, expressly stating that the program is «no longer limited to only fresh fruits and vegetables.»
The chair of the House judiciary
committee, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, introduced his own
reauthorization bill several weeks ago that has been roundly criticized by members of the New York delegation.
Miner shared her concerns about Syracuse's «infrastructure crisis» in written testimony she submitted to a U.S. Senate
committee considering the
reauthorization of a multibillion dollar
bill to help maintain and rebuild transportation infrastructure.
At 1:40 p.m., NYC Mayor
Bill de Blasio will deliver remarks at a meeting of the WTC Health Program Steering
Committee, pushing for the
reauthorization of a fully - funded Zadroga Act, FDNY Headquarters, 9 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn.
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That staggering imbalance prompted the chair of the science
committee, Representative Bart Gordon (D - TN), to take the unusual step of paring 10 % from spending levels he had spelled out in his version of the
reauthorization bill introduced only last week and revised on Monday.
In the midst of a protracted fight with NSF officials over giving
committee staff access to confidential supporting materials on a handful of specific grants that shows no signs of easing, Smith last fall inserted a watered - down version of those provisions into a draft of his
reauthorization bill.
Next action: The
bill will go to a conference
committee with the Senate, which passed a Head Start
reauthorization bill in July.
All that changed when the GOP took over Congress in November's elections,
committee chairs Senator Alexander and Representative Kline made clear ESEA
reauthorization was a priority, and vote counters deduced that the right
bill could attract widespread support.
The magazine recognized Mr. Goodling, who chairs the Education and the Workforce
Committee, for his skillful maneuvering of several major
bills — including the
reauthorizations of the Higher Education Act and the Head Start and child - nutrition programs — through the legislative thicket.
Program consolidation is a key component of simplification, and moving to «one grant, one loan» was included in House Republicans» HEA
reauthorization bill and has also received support from Senator Lamar Alexander, who chairs the Senate
committee responsible for HEA.
HR 4471, introduced last week by Representative William D. Ford, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the House
committee, replaces HR 3553, the original
reauthorization bill.
The Senate HELP
Committee will begin marking up an ESEA
reauthorization bill tomorrow at 10 a.m..
Late last week, two
bills related to the
reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) were introduced by Republican members of the House Education and the Workforce
Committee.
The
reauthorization bill approved by the
committee contained a slight modification in the measure as reported last month by the education subcommittee, which mandated that states channel 70 percent of federal vocational - education funds to secondary schools and 30 percent to postsecondary institutions.
The ESEA -
reauthorization bill released by Senate HELP
committee Chairman Tom Harkin this week is advertised as getting «the federal government out of the business of «micromanaging» schools»» and offering states significant «flexibility.»
Two weeks ago, when the House Education and the Workforce
committee marked - up two major ESEA
reauthorization bills, Democrats and their allies screamed bloody murder.
, Chairman, Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
Committee, urged his colleagues to support Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
reauthorization, calling for a clear and compelling result in the form of ``... a
bill that crosses the President's desk.»
The Education and the Workforce
Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives voted out of committee its version of an ESEA reauthorization bill (H.R. 5) on June
Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives voted out of
committee its version of an ESEA reauthorization bill (H.R. 5) on June
committee its version of an ESEA
reauthorization bill (H.R. 5) on June 19, 2013.
Why else would he follow up on the moves made by Senate colleagues Tom Harkin and Lamar Alexander by dusting off the Student Success Act (one of the No Child
reauthorization bills his
committee passed last year) and offer it up again?
September 29, 2015: NSBA and National Education Groups Urge Congress to Finish the Job on ESEA
Reauthorization NSBA and nine other national education organizations sent this letter to Chairman John Kline (R - MN) and Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D - VA) of the House
Committee on Education and the Workforce and Chairman Lamar Alexendar (R - TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D - WA) of the Senate Education committee urging them to finish work on ESEA and deliver a bipartisan bill to the President's desk t
Committee on Education and the Workforce and Chairman Lamar Alexendar (R - TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D - WA) of the Senate Education
committee urging them to finish work on ESEA and deliver a bipartisan bill to the President's desk t
committee urging them to finish work on ESEA and deliver a bipartisan
bill to the President's desk this fall.
This statement was issued upon the release of Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander's draft
reauthorization bill and in advance of congressional hearings on ESEA
reauthorization.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R - Utah), the chairman of the
committee who authored the
reauthorization bill, said 89 percent of high school seniors who participated in the program in 2014 graduated.
With a vote of 221 to 207 on July 19, 2013 — with only House Republicans in favor — the U.S. House approved the Student Success Act, the ESEA (NCLB)
reauthorization bill that passed out of the House
Committee on Education and the Workforce in June.
The administration's waiver package and an NCLB
reauthorization bill that passed out of the Senate education
committee last year essentially scrap AYP as it's used now.
He joined with Republican Senators Richard Burr (NC), Johnny Isakson (GA), and Mark Kirk this fall to introduce his own series of ESEA
reauthorization bills, which closely align with the House Education
Committee's ESEA efforts to date.
If passed, the Senate
bill and the House
bill would have to go to conference
committee so that lawmakers could hammer out any differences and pass one ESEA
reauthorization bill.
Committee members want their proposals debated and conference on the House and Senate floors to emerge with an improved ESEA
reauthorization bill.
As of June 19, 2013, both the U.S. House and Senate have passed competing and largely partisan ESEA (NCLB)
reauthorization bills in their respective education
committees.
BS: I believe the Alexander - Murray compromise on No Child Left Behind
reauthorization represents a step in the right direction, and voted for the
bill in
Committee.
Meanwhile, both the U.S. House and Senate have passed competing and largely partisan ESEA
reauthorization bills in their respective education
committees.
The letter commends the
committee for providing states with the flexibility to use additional indicators of student proficiency in H.R. 5, its ESEA
reauthorization bill, but asks to add language to the
bill that will take into account the broad array of measures beyond standardized test scores.
The Education Sciences Reform Act
reauthorization bill, which was just approved by the Senate Education
Committee, would make federal education research more relevant and timely for educators.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Committee already included social and emotional learning in its version of the ESEA
reauthorization bill late last year.
Reauthorization bills have been passed by the House and Senate and a conference
committee will soon begin work to reconcile the differences between them.
The House's timing is key because Senate Education Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA) says that further progress on a comprehensive bipartisan
reauthorization bill that passed out of his
committee last month and is awaiting full Senate action is unlikely if the House doesn't produce its own bipartisan rewrite of the federal education law.
The day before the briefing Davis introduced a new
bill, HR 4509, the Supporting Emotional Learning Act, to support SEL as part of the
reauthorization of the Education Sciences Reform Act and the Higher Education Act, both
bills before the House Education and the Workforce
Committee.