Sentences with phrase «education chairman bill»

Meanwhile, State Board of Education Chairman Bill Cobey told Policy Watch this week that locals in struggling districts should be open to new ideas.

State Board of Education Chairman Bill Cobey is urging lawmakers to extend the hold harmless provision.

Still, on Wednesday, State Board of Education Chairman Bill Cobey, a McCrory appointee, told leaders that he was «encouraged» by the governor's statements.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson and State Board of Education Chairman Bill Cobey.

Not exact matches

City Councilmember Mark Treyger (D - Coney Island - Gravesend - Bensonhurst), chairman of the Council's Education Committee, said he is pleased with Mayor Bill de Blasio's choice for New York City schools chancellor, Richard Carranza.

Marcellino's introduction of these bills could give those in the education reform movement some pause: Flanagan, as education committee chairman, was seen as generally supportive of Common Core - based standards.

Cahill has strong support from the Alliance for Quality Education and former Metro - North chairman Joe Lhota, last year's Republican mayoral candidate in New York City, who was handed a landslide defeat by Bill de Blasio.

Earlier in the day, Senate Education Committee Chairman John Flanagan said disagreements remain over the level of disclosure the bill allows for, specifically whether non-parents can figure out who teachers are even under a limited disclosure provision in the bill.

The Wyoming Constitution Party, under the leadership of state party chairman Jennifer Young, is moving forward on a huge referendum drive to repeal SF 104, the «Education / Superintendent of Public Instruction bill.»

According to the bill, which is sponsored by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Education Committee Chairman Carl Marcellino, the education inspector would provide «oversight, guidance, and technical assistance related to the educational and fiscal policies, practices, programs, and decisions of the city district, city board, chancellor, and mayoEducation Committee Chairman Carl Marcellino, the education inspector would provide «oversight, guidance, and technical assistance related to the educational and fiscal policies, practices, programs, and decisions of the city district, city board, chancellor, and mayoeducation inspector would provide «oversight, guidance, and technical assistance related to the educational and fiscal policies, practices, programs, and decisions of the city district, city board, chancellor, and mayor.»

Senate Education Chairman John Flanagan has proposed several bills, including a ban on testing children in the second grade and younger, and a reduction of testing used to evaluate teachers.

The bill is sponsored by the chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee, Kenneth LaValle, a Republican from Suffolk County.

When I served as Chairman of the House Education & Workforce Committee, I worked to craft an education bill that reflected the principles of accountability, local control, funding for what works, and expanded parentalEducation & Workforce Committee, I worked to craft an education bill that reflected the principles of accountability, local control, funding for what works, and expanded parentaleducation bill that reflected the principles of accountability, local control, funding for what works, and expanded parental options.

But, come this summer, Gates will step down from his post as Microsoft chairman to work at his and his wife's philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which focuses on improving the health and education of the world's very poorest populations.

As chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Alexander was also a key negotiator in hammering out agreements between the Senate and the House of Representatives on the Cures bill unveiled last Friday.

As a result, Senator Neil Abercrombie, chairman of the Senate education committee, and four other lawmakers have introduced a bill that...

No, that bill, authored by education - committee chairman Tom Harkin and ranking member Mike Enzi, is a hodgepodge of half - baked ideas that should alarm folks on the right and the left.

And, this week, there's the (bipartisan) Harkin - Enzi bill, authored by the chairman and ranking member (respectively) of the Senate education committee, which, well, it's hard to tell exactly what it does, but it surely reduces the federal footprint around accountability.

Sen. Bill Frist, R - Tenn., the chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Disability Policy, introduced a bill last week that would extend for one year special - education programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that are to expire in October, including a number of training and research programs and the program that aids disabled infants and toddlBill Frist, R - Tenn., the chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Disability Policy, introduced a bill last week that would extend for one year special - education programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that are to expire in October, including a number of training and research programs and the program that aids disabled infants and toddlbill last week that would extend for one year special - education programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that are to expire in October, including a number of training and research programs and the program that aids disabled infants and education programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that are to expire in October, including a number of training and research programs and the program that aids disabled infants and Education Act that are to expire in October, including a number of training and research programs and the program that aids disabled infants and toddlers.

A top Education Department official last week clashed with the chairman of a key House subcommittee over the chairman's proposal to overhaul the department's research branch, as a more modest reauthorization bill advanced in the Senate.

Members of the State Assembly's education and higher - education committees roundly criticized Mr. Kean and Commissioner of Education Saul Cooperman during a joint public hearing on a pair of bills sponsored by the committees» education and higher - education committees roundly criticized Mr. Kean and Commissioner of Education Saul Cooperman during a joint public hearing on a pair of bills sponsored by the committees» education committees roundly criticized Mr. Kean and Commissioner of Education Saul Cooperman during a joint public hearing on a pair of bills sponsored by the committees» Education Saul Cooperman during a joint public hearing on a pair of bills sponsored by the committees» chairmen.

Washington — The chairman of the House Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights told members of a House education panel last week that he has «grave reservations» about a bill that would guarantee the right of student religious groups to hold meetings on school grounds.

that drew 45 of the nation's governors as well as a hefty sample of the nation's education policy elite, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates issued a jeremiad on the state of the American high school, arguing that this venerable institution is obsolete and a threat to the nation's economic and political well - being.

Last February, in a speech in Washington, D.C. that drew 45 of the nation's governors as well as a hefty sample of the nation's education policy elite, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates issued a jeremiad on the state of the American high school, arguing that this venerable institution is obsolete and a threat to the nation's economic and political well - being.

The new House bill would retain that requirement, and Senate Education Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, though declaring himself open - minded on the subject, seems to be moving closer toward keeping it.

The charter - schools bills were unveiled this month by Senator Gary K. Hart and Assemblywoman Delaine Eastin, the chairmen of the education committees in the two legislative chambers.

Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate HELP committee, put forth a bill that leaves open the possibility of removing the federal requirement that states test students annually in reading and math from grades three through eight — a possibility that has thoroughly freaked out much of the education - reform community.

Bill McDermott is the new vice chairman of the Business Roundtable's Education and the Workforce Task Force.

Last month, Rep. Bill Goodling (R - Pennsylvania), chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, along with five other Republicans, proposed a $ 1.5 billion Classroom Modernization Act that would provide limited federal funding for new schools and renovations.

When Rep. Bill Goodling, R - Pa., announced his agenda at an organizational meeting of the House education committee on Jan. 4, he outlined a plan of action that had been in the works since the midterm elections that made him the chairman.

Lewis M. Branscomb, chief scientist of the International Business Machines Corporation, chairman; Alan K. Campbell, executive vice president of ara Inc., Philadelphia; Mary Hatwood Futrell, president, National Education Association; John W. Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and founder of the Independent Sector; Fred M. Hechinger, president of the New York Times Company Foundation Inc.; Bill Honig, California's superintendent of public instruction; James B. Hunt, former governor...

A series of bipartisan negotiations between Reps. Miller and John Boehner, R - Ohio, chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, produced a bill that was similar to the Senate's, but without the block - grant provisions.

And that undercurrent has grown stronger in recent weeks as reports have surfaced that the new chairman of the Senate education committee, Lamar Alexander (R - TN), seems ready to introduce a bill to reauthorize NCLB that would eliminate the annual testing requirement in grades 3 - 8.

Senator Lamar Alexander, the Tennessee Republican who is chairman of the Education Committee, said the bill would usher in a new period of experimentation in schools as communities are released from federal control.

Senate Bill 2623, authored by Senate Education Committee Chairman Gray Tollison (R - Oxford), will expand the current Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program to most students in Mississippi.

When the Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Lamar Alexander (R - TN), recently released a draft bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (otherwise known as the No Child Left Behind Act), reaction was swift.

, 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.»

Lawmakers remain optimistic about the legislation's progress, although the Senate bill must be reconciled with piecemeal measures shepherded through the House by its education committee chairman, Rep. John Kline (R - Minn.).

On Wednesday morning, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will begin its markup of the 860 - page bill, Chairman Tom Harkin (D - Iowa) wrote in negotiations with Ranking Member Mike Enzi (R - Wyo.).

Legislation to add a year to the two - year probationary period for California teachers passed the Assembly Education Committee, its first test, on Wednesday after contentious exchanges between the bill's author, Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D - San Diego, and committee Chairman Patrick O'Donnell, D - Long Beach.

The Senate Education Committee unanimously voted out SB 1658, by Chairman Larry Taylor, the disposition of property bill.

The chairman of the Indiana Senate's Appropriations Committee says state education officials are out of bounds in using a bill he sponsored in 2010 as the legal basis for a controversial statewide reading test, the IREAD - 3.

She said a big obstacle was that Sen. Mike Hall, R - Putnam and chairman of the Finance Committee, likely was concerned about the expense the Department of Education estimated for repealing and replacing the standards and other related costs — originally at $ 168 million, despite confusion on the part of department officials and others over exactly what standards the bill would require to be ditched.

Yesterday evening, I testified on behalf of the Texas Charter Schools Association (TCSA) before the Senate Education Committee in support of SB 1658, the bill proposed by Chairman Larry Taylor (District 11) to address the disposition of charter property when a -LSB-...]

With ousted Democratic Board of Education chairman Kenneth Moales, Jr. at his side, Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch gave Paul Vallas Bridgeport's «Key to the City» for his «service to students.»

Senate Bill 1, sponsored by Senate Republican Education Chairman Jeffrey Piccola and Senate Democratic Whip Anthony Williams, would greatly increase school choice options for families by creating school choice opportunity scholarships for low and middle income families across Pennsylvania and increase funding for the EITC program.

Thiesfeldt, the chairman of the Assembly Education Committee and author of the Assembly version of the bill, said the Senate version was «a status quo bill with accountability in name only.»

Legislators speaking included: Senator Jeffrey E. Piccola, Senate Education Committee Chairman and co-sponsor of Senate Bill 1; Senator Dominic Pileggi, Senate Majority Leader; Senator Mike Folmer, Vice-Chair of the Senate Education Committee; Representative Tom Quigley, Chair of the House Subcommittee on Basic Education and prime sponsor of HB 1330, legislation that would increase funding for the EITC program; Senator Jane Clare Orie, and Representative Tony Payton.

On September 10th, the Democratic Party's endorsed slate of candidates for the Bridgeport Board of Education, candidates loyal to Mayor Bill Finch, Board of Education Chairman Kenneth Moales Jr. and Bridgeport's faux superintendent of schools, Paul Vallas, went down in a stunning defeat against a challenge slate made up of candidates opposed to Governor Malloy, Mayor Finch and Paul Vallas» education reform iniEducation, candidates loyal to Mayor Bill Finch, Board of Education Chairman Kenneth Moales Jr. and Bridgeport's faux superintendent of schools, Paul Vallas, went down in a stunning defeat against a challenge slate made up of candidates opposed to Governor Malloy, Mayor Finch and Paul Vallas» education reform iniEducation Chairman Kenneth Moales Jr. and Bridgeport's faux superintendent of schools, Paul Vallas, went down in a stunning defeat against a challenge slate made up of candidates opposed to Governor Malloy, Mayor Finch and Paul Vallas» education reform inieducation reform initiatives.

House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline didn't even attend, though he was originally listed to be there: He was on Capitol Hill whipping votes for his bill.