Sentences with phrase «education committee chairman»

Pennsylvania State Senate Education Committee Chairman Jeffrey Piccola has already promised Penn State that if its investigation is a whitewash, he will do one that isn't.

Rita Laventhall - Sacks PHCA Judge's Education Committee Chairman * Approved by the Board of Directors Pharaoh Hound Club of America April 1993

Assembly Education Committee chairman Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, said in theory, the accounts provide parents with more flexibility because the money doesn't just have to be spent on private school tuition like in the state's taxpayer - funded school voucher program.

The bill from Haslam's fellow Republicans, Senate Education Committee Chairman Dolores Gresham and Government Operations Committee Chairman Mike Bell, comes in the midst of the governor's own recently announced public review of Common Core standards for math and English.

«There are some problems, but... the fact is we are the only country who ask kids, very, very early on, at 16, to concentrate on just three subjects and then they go on to do a degree in one subject in depth,» said the former Commons education committee chairman.

Senate Education Committee Chairman Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, who was on the advisory panel, called the achievement gap goal ambitious but reasonable.

See previous interviews by The 74: Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, U.S. Senator and Education Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, University of Michigan economist Susan Dynarski, Harvard Education School Dean Jim Ryan.

House Education Committee Chairman Cecil Brown, D - Jackson, said the House will have a hearing on Senate Bill 2293 perhaps as early as next week.

But House Education Committee Chairman John Kline (R - MN) and two of his committee colleagues have taken issue with the law's set calorie limits based on student age.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Senate Education Committee Chairman Dolores Gresham (R - Somerville) said today she has requested an attorney general's opinion on whether Tennessee's teacher employment laws are constitutional.

It's that part that had Sen. Luke Kenley, R - Noblesville, questioning whether House Education Committee Chairman Bob Behning's proposal oversteps the intention of the voucher law as originally written.

She spoke as the California Teachers Association and dozens of teachers lined up to oppose her bill and as she exchanged sharp words with the Assembly Education Committee chairman, former teacher Patrick O'Donnell, who at one point cut off her microphone.

Panelists were Linda Clark, Meridian School District superintendent; Rep. Reed DeMordaunt, House Education Committee chairman; and Boise parent Mike Lanza.

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

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 (D - IA).

Will House Education Committee Chairman John Kline (R - MN) move forward with his plan to introduce two final bills addressing accountability and teacher effectiveness to accompany the existing three small - scale bills that comprise his piecemeal approach to rewriting ESEA?

Finally, congressional Republicans were angered by what they perceived as an end run around Congress, and House Education Committee Chairman John Kline (R - MN) questioned the secretary's legal basis for the waiver commitments» quid pro quo.

Former teacher, Democrat Assemblyman, and Assembly Education Committee Chairman Patrick O'Donnell of Long Beach joins Tim Anaya at the State Capitol to talk about the state of California education, including STEM education, career...

The pre-K proposal is the brainchild of House Education Committee Chairman Bob Behning, R - Indianapolis, who has advanced legislation in each of the last two sessions to establish a pilot program.

Senate Education Committee chairman Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, on Wednesday pulled the bill from its scheduled Thursday vote, saying he didn't have the support to pass it.

But some prominent Republicans, namely Senate President Mike Ellis and Education Committee chairman Sen. Luther Olsen, balked at using the report cards as a trigger.

«By cutting the strings attaching the raise to voluntarily giving up tenure early, we've proven just how serious we are about giving teachers the largest pay raise in state history,» Sen. Education Committee Chairman Jerry Tillman, R - Randolph.

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 education law.

Former House Education Committee Chairman Paul Sadler has written that no tax, however fairly applied, perfectly matches the cost drivers in every school district or grows at the same or predictable rate, nor is there a formula that perfectly matches state funds to any given school district.

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 children.

He is backed by Assembly Education Committee chairman Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, and Rep. Jason Fields, D - Milwaukee.

The chief sponsor of the school accountability bill in the Assembly, Education Committee Chairman Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, told The Associated Press on Thursday that he's now looking at requiring failing schools to choose from a variety of sanctions.

«I thank Lt. Governor Tate Reeves and Senate Education Committee Chairman Gray Tollison for their steadfast support in providing new educational opportunities to Mississippi families trapped in failing schools,» said Empower Mississippi President Grant Callen.

House Education Committee Chairman John Kline (R - MN) was critical of last year's $ 10 billion Edujobs funding, arguing that a teacher bailout wouldn't create permanent jobs and that supplementing state budgets only postpones tough decisions while making states more dependent on the federal government.

The primary vehicle for these was House Education Committee Chairman Kent Grusendorf's HB 2, the «Roadmap to Results», a bill enhanced by recommendations of the Governor's Business Council.

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.

Rep. John Moore, R - Brandon, the House Education Committee chairman, encouraged Republicans to pass the special - education voucher legislation last year.

The evening's moderator will be Kevin Chavous, an Indianapolis native who went on to serve on the Washington D.C. City Council and as its Education Committee chairman.

Humphries was flanked by Assembly Education Committee chairman Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, and Rep. Jason Fields, D - Milwaukee.

Thiesfeldt, Assembly education committee chairman, scheduled a committee vote for Thursday.

House education committee chairman John Kline (R - MN) said he plans to review the recommendations carefully and indicated that his committee would soon hold a hearing to examine school safety.

«We all want to believe that [D.C. Public Schools] is getting stronger and has the capability to do this, but it's time for us to peek behind the curtain a little bit,» said Council member David A. Catania (I - At Large), education committee chairman, who called the recent reduction in private placements of public school students «a point of great suspicion for me.»

Assembly Education Committee chairman Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, called the decision to go with DRC «kind of an intriguing choice.»

«This data the commissioner outlined is going to spur some legislative action,» said Senate Education Committee chairman John Legg, who requested the information a month ago.

Senate Education Committee chairman John Legg has held symposiums and school tours, aimed at drumming up support for more money for digital instruction.

Public policy is a team sport and none of these reforms would have been possible without the leadership of Gov. Bryant, Lt. Governor Tate Reeves, Speaker Philip Gunn, Senate Education Committee Chairman Gray Tollison, and House Education Committee Chairman John Moore.

[Bender is president of School Choice Wisconsin and Olsen (R - Ripon) is the Senate Education Committee Chairman]

That is non-negotiable,» said Senate Education Committee chairman and Joint Finance Committee member, Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon.

He has a big heart, cares about children, and I have enjoyed working with him,» Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R - Tenn.)

Senate Education Committee chairman John Legg said in a telephone interview that he fully expected a class size bill to be filed.

Senate education committee chairman Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, said he expects any new legislation that would create standards to be successful.

Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, Assembly Education Committee chairman, said at a hearing this week that he thinks the costs are rising partially because some states are no longer using the test.

Assembly Education Committee chairman Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, said Evers» use of «inflammatory rhetoric» isn't helpful.

Arizona House Education Committee Chairman and Conservative Leaders for Education Member Representative Paul Boyer worked closely with Governor Doug Ducey and a broad coalition of education reformers to create a new Results - Based Fund in the state's school finance formula that focuses instead on top performing schools.

Kline has been coordinating his approach with Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, but the Senate leader is on a very different track than Kline.