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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.

Senate Education Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA) said he's not going to move the Senate's Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) legislation to the Senate floor until the House passes a bipartisan ESEA bill.

Top committee Democrat George Miller (CA), Senate Education Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA), and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan all have expressed dismay at the exclusion of Democratic input on the legislation.

Such is the case in Wake County, where county Board of Education Chairman Tom Benton says charters are hopelessly split along racial lines.

Not exact matches

* 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

Sen. Tom Harkin, Democratic chairman of the committee that oversees federal education programs, agreed to the deal, one of those sources close to the negotiations told CNN.

Backed by county Democratic Chairman Frank Cardinale, Common Council Majority Leader Tom Hoffay, Board of Education Trustee the Rev. James Childs and former alderman Charlie Landi and others, Cecilia Tkaczyk announces her run for state Senate on the county courthouse steps Tuesday.

She was the 2012 - 13 American Physical Society Congressional Fellow for the Senate Majority Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee under Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA).

«We thought the fight was over,» Tom Harkin (D — Iowa) and chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies said at a hearing on embryonic stem cell research on Thursday.

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.

The motto of leaders like Tom Harkin (D., Iowa), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, could be «Spend more, reform less» — hardly a winning formula for our beleaguered education system and the kids stuEducation, Labor, and Pensions, could be «Spend more, reform less» — hardly a winning formula for our beleaguered education system and the kids stueducation system and the kids stuck in it.

This divide is unlikely to be bridged any time soon, particularly as two of the four leading congressional players in this realm — Democratic senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and Republican congressman John Kline of Minnesota, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate and House education committees — have made clear their dislike of NCLB and all that it stands for.

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.).

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.

Tom Bennett, Founder of ResearchEd and Chair of the Department for Education Behaviour Group John Blake, History Consultant & Leading Practitioner at Harris Federation Christine Counsell, Director of Education, Inspiration Trust Anthony Denny, Parent & Governor, Jane Austen College Rachel De Souza, CEO, Inspiration Trust Toby French, Lead Practitioner, Torquay Academy Claire Heald, Executive Principal, Jane Austen College Karl Hoods, Chairman of Governors, Harris Academy Beckenham Hywel Jones, Head Teacher, West London Free School Michaela Khatib, Executive Head, Cobham Free School Mark Lehain, Principal, Bedford Free School Stuart Lock, Head Teacher, Cottenham Village College Helena Mills, CEO, Burnt Mills Academy Trust Munira Mirza, Former Deputy Mayor of Education and Culture for London Dan Moynihan, CEO, Harris Federation Libby Nicholas, CEO, Reach 4 Academy Trust Sara Noel, Parent and Governor, Cottenham Village College Martyn Oliver, CEO, Outwood Grange Academies Trust James O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Floreat Education Academies Trust Bruno Reddy, Maths Social Entrepreneur & former Head of Maths at King Solomon Academy Martin Robinson, Educationalist & author of Trivium21c Mark Rose, Governor, Great Yarmouth Primary Academy Jo Saxton, CEO, Turner Schools Multi-Academy Trust Tony Sewell, Founder of Generating Genius Jonathan Simons, Head of Education at Policy Exchange & Chairman of Governors, Greenwich Free School Luke Sparkes, Principal, Trinity Academy Alex Wade, Parent and Chairman of Governors, Fulham Boys School Claire Ward, Parent, Cobham Free School Rachel Wolf, Founder of The New Schools Network & Former Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for Education

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D - Iowa, the chairman of the Senate education committee, is set to unveil a bill to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act that would require states to set achievement and growth targets for students, including subgroup students.

During last week's hearing on the Senate bill to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), Education Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA) said, «This bill is not Mr. Enzi's bill.

Despite their significant ideological differences on many education reform issues, Senate Education Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA) and top committee Republican Lamar Alexander (TN) introduced a bipartisan bill to improve mental health services for education reform issues, Senate Education Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA) and top committee Republican Lamar Alexander (TN) introduced a bipartisan bill to improve mental health services for Education Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA) and top committee Republican Lamar Alexander (TN) introduced a bipartisan bill to improve mental health services for children.

The lack of increases for key formula programs hasn't made U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D - Iowa, the chairman of the Senate education committee, too happy.

Senate Education Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA) has unveiled his comprehensive rewrite of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), kick - starting a flurry of congressional activity to update and improve the nation's main federal educaEducation Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA) has unveiled his comprehensive rewrite of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), kick - starting a flurry of congressional activity to update and improve the nation's main federal educationeducation law.

WASHINGTON, DC — In advance of this morning's major announcement from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler on the federal E-rate program, a new report released today by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, and authored by Dr. John B. Horrigan, a leading authority on broadband adoption and use, shows that African American, Latino, low - income, and rural students are more likely to be in schools with slow internet access (10 Mbps or less) than their peers and less likely to be in schools with high - speed broadband internet (100 Mbps or more) needed for digital learning.

Sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin (D - Iowa), chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, the bill has passed out of committee and must now be heard by the full Senate.

In a letter from May 25, 2017, thirty members of the U.S. Senate, led by Senator Al Franken (D-MN) with Senator Tom Carper (D - DE), asked Chairman Roy Blunt (R - MO) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D - WA) of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies to fund Title II, Part A at $ 2.295 billion and SLRSP at $ 30 million in the FY 2018 appropriations bill.

Lately, our organization has been engaged in a spirited debate with former Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken, who has been conducting a vigorous campaign against what he perceives as an onerous high stakes assessment system in public education and in the service of the promotion of a less rigorous vocational pathway to high school graduation.

Tom Harkin (D - Iowa), chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, sponsored the Senate bill.

Then there are proposals for reauthorizing No Child that have been floated by congressional leaders such as House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline, Senate counterpart Tom Harkin, and his likely successor, Lamar Alexander.

Senator Tom Harkin (D - IA), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor and Health and Human Services, released a new report (PDF) in conjunction with the hearing that underscores how sequestration could unravel federal efforts to protect the middle class and have more destructive consequences for domestic programs like education than for defense.

The Senate's version of the bill takes a similar approach, but Senator Tom Harkin (D - IA), chairman of the Senate Education Appropriations Subcommittee, plans to offer an amendment to the bill that will add back more than $ 200 million to the Title I and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act programs.

Legislation to help schools establish a safe learning culture for teachers and students (PDF)-- especially students with individual education plans (IEPs)-- as well as the findings from an investigation on the use of seclusion and restraints in schools (PDF), were unveiled by Senate Education Committee Chairman Tom Harkin education plans (IEPs)-- as well as the findings from an investigation on the use of seclusion and restraints in schools (PDF), were unveiled by Senate Education Committee Chairman Tom Harkin Education Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA).

House Education Committee Chairman Tom McMillin (R - Rochester Hills) released a Wednesday night statement praising the legislation.

In a letter from March 19, 2018, Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Congresswoman Susan Davis (D - CA), asked Chairman Tom Cole (R - OK) and Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D - CT) of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies to fund SLRSP at $ 14.5 million in the FY 2019 appropriations bill.

Last week Senator Blanche Lincoln (D - AR) became chairman of the Agriculture Committee, after Senator Tom Harkin (D - IA), the previous chair, accepted the gavel at the Health, Labor, Education and Pension Committee (vacated by the passing of Ted Kennedy).