Sentences with phrase «education committee chairmanship»

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A number of lawmakers with deep ties to the embattled incumbent speaker, Sheldon Silver, have key committee chairmanships: Denny Farrell at Ways and Means, for example; Joe Lentol at Codes and Deborah Glick at Higher Education — to name a few.

This strategy seems poised to be even more ineffective in the capital than it was in City Hall, where Mr. Barron's challenges to Ms. Quinn led to him being stripped of his chairmanship of the Higher Education Committee, and landed him near the bottom of the list of recipients of discretionary funds.

: A major fear among reformers is that the ascent of John Kline to the chairmanship of the House Education and Labor Committee will lead to the gutting of the Adequate Yearly Progress and other accountability provisions within the No Child Left Behind Act.