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Another tenure reform bill, sponsored by state Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan (D - Middlesex) advanced through the Assembly Education Committee last week.

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.

A bill to correct this was approved by the House Education Committee last week and is expected to pass the full House and Senate in the next couple of weeks.

Both AB 1747 and AB 2067 passed the Assembly Education committee last week.

(Calif.) School officials would be required to supervise parents or guardians registered as sex offenders when they are on campus, under a bill that passed the Senate education committee last week.

Three weeks into a special session of the Tennessee General Assembly called by Gov. Lamar Alexander to consider education reforms, the House Education Committee last week approved the Comprehensive Education Reform Act by an 11 - to - 3 vote.

The bill passed the Assembly Education Committee last week and must clear the Assembly Appropriations Committee before it goes to the full Assembly.

The Senate education committee last week approved a bipartisan bill to reauthorize Head Start that would expand eligibility for the federal preschool program, tighten accountability for local grantees, and abolish the National Reporting System, a federal test given to all 4 - and 5 - year - old Head Start pupils.

While pointing out that she was passed over to lead the Human Services and Education Committee last year, Harrington said her decision to raise the issue publicly was not personal.

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Gottlieb made the statements at a confirmation hearing last Wednesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Last Thursday, Politico Pro obtained an exclusive copy of the House Education and the Workforce Committee's discussion draft of its child nutrition bill, a bill poised to upset the Senate's carefully brokered truce in the school food wars.

The House version of the bill, the «Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act,» was approved last month by the Education and Labor Committee but the full House has yet to take it up.

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.»

I spent a couple of hours last week watching Thomas James (Tom) Vilsack wrap the House Education and Workforce Committee around his little finger.

The highlight of the select committees sees the chairs of the country's top exam marking boards face the education committee to answer for the English GCSE shambles last year that saw pupils taking the exam in the summer marked differently to those in January.

Last week, the New York State Assembly Higher Education committee held a public hearing to review the performance of the new Excelsior Scholarship program.

As the former Chairman of the Education Committee for the last five years, I have a deep understanding and am acutely aware of the importance of a first - class, quality education for our younEducation Committee for the last five years, I have a deep understanding and am acutely aware of the importance of a first - class, quality education for our youneducation for our young people.

«Last year was kind of a unique and challenging year on a lot of different levels including looking at and reviewing the Regents,» said Senate education committee chair John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican and prominent member of his conference.

Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, a Democrat from Yonkers who is on the education committee, said the Assembly's passage last week of a bill that delays certain aspects of Common Core implementation «sent a strong signal» to the incumbents and «will go a long way to waking them up.»

In 2011, Watch ran for state Committee member against Councilman Halloran — who withdrew at the last minute — and was substituted by Dr. Anthony Daddiego, a special education teacher who won the state committeeman position outright.

Led by Senate and Assembly higher education committee leaders, Ken LaValle and Deborah Glick, a group of students, along with UUP and PSC members, are making a last - minute push to extend a «maintenance of effort» law that will expire at the end of this month unless it is renewed.

Here's Sen. John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, explaining his bill that would essentially do away with the last in, first out requirement for firing public school teachers approved by the Senate Education Committee this morning and could come up for a vote by the full Senate this afternoon.

Incoming Senate Education Committee Chairman Carl Marcellino said in an interview last week that mayoral control as well as the charter cap expansion would ultimately be a «conference decision.»

Senate Education Committee Chairman John Flanagan said during a CapTon interview last night that while ethics reform is important, it shouldn't distract lawmakers from the rest of the budget — and education in paEducation Committee Chairman John Flanagan said during a CapTon interview last night that while ethics reform is important, it shouldn't distract lawmakers from the rest of the budget — and education in paeducation in particular.

During a CapTon interview last night, Senate Education Committee Chairman John Flanagan said state lawmakers are willing to work with Gov. Andrew Cuomo on education reform, but warned the governor not to propose anything too «draconian» when it comes to overhauling thEducation Committee Chairman John Flanagan said state lawmakers are willing to work with Gov. Andrew Cuomo on education reform, but warned the governor not to propose anything too «draconian» when it comes to overhauling theducation reform, but warned the governor not to propose anything too «draconian» when it comes to overhauling the system.

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, for her part, pointed out that State Senator Toby Stavisky, a Queens Democrat and high - ranking member of the Higher Education Committee, had introduced a bill last year to provide free tuition for New York State residents to SUNY, CUNY and community colleges — a sign, she said, of the importance of having a unified Democratic Albany.

A bill introduced last year gained little traction in the Legislature's higher education committees, Ferrara said.

The Democratic moves, including boycotting committee room votes on nominees last week and a round - the - clock debate Monday night before Tuesday's confirmation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, reached a boiling point during the debate over Sessions — which Democrats continued overnight.

ALBANY — Senate higher education committee chair Ken LaValle released a report Wednesday detailing legislative recommendations for combating sexual assaults on college campuses, some of which overlap with changes Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed last week for SUNY.

During a Capital Tonight interview last night, Assembly Education Committee Chair Cathy Nolan recognized the «triple threat» faced by the state, financially speaking, at the moment: Lower than expected PIT revenues, a $ 4 billion deficit and the feds planning to do «who knows what» when it comes to health care reform.

The Ways and Means Committee wanted more discussion last week and on Wednesday, the Education and Economic Development Committee did the same.

Senate education committee chair John Flanagan told Capital last week that the receivership plan would be a «lighting rod,» particularly because he expected pushback from other unions that would see the proposal as a threat to collective bargaining rights writ large.

Millennium Principal Robert Rhodes is spearheading the effort to expand his school, and Community Board 1's Youth and Education Committee voted unanimously in support of the expansion last week.

Council members and Education Committee Chair Robert Jackson told Mulgrew that they appreciated his leadership in identifying the DOE's huge failure to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursement for special education services over the last tEducation Committee Chair Robert Jackson told Mulgrew that they appreciated his leadership in identifying the DOE's huge failure to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursement for special education services over the last teducation services over the last two years.

Torturing de Blasio over mayoral control has been a somewhat lonely quest for Flanagan, a Long Island senator who led the chamber's education committee before becoming majority leader last year.

Councilman Daniel Dromm, who heads the Education Committee, discussed an experience he had when he went to visit a school in his district last April.

Last week, at the unveiling of the Jobs Task Force — a new ministerial level committee set up to address the urgent tasks of saving jobs and helping the unemployed with training and job - matching — the Minister of State for Education and Manpower, Mr. Ng Eng Hen, warned that many more professional, executive, and managerial positions may face the axe in the year ahead.

Instead, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) may send Collin's nomination — apparently unopposed — to the full Senate for an all - or - nothing «unanimous consent» vote sometime next week — the last chance before the Senate goes on August recess.

Lawmakers on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee held the last of three meetings to approve bills that, once bundled together, will form a companion to the House of Representatives's mammoth 21st Century Cures bill.

In a bid to bypass the ruling, the Oklahoma House of Representatives last week tacked wording onto an education bill that not only authorizes the committee to add antievolution disclaimers to textbooks but also requires the «one God» statement.

Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last time biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution; by which they may enlist creationists and their claims, was taken out by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually by the school board members.

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.

But the dropout rate, last estimated at 29 percent statewide, remains a «critical problem and challenge to us all,» Mr. Honig said in testimony before the Assembly's education committee.

At separate news conferences last week, both the Committee for Education Funding, an umbrella group in the field, and Representative Augustus F. Hawkins, the California Democrat who chairs the House Education and Labor Committee, unveiled proposals that would double the department's budget in fiscal 1991.

WASHINGTON — The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week approved the Clinton Administration's education - reform legislation by a 14 - to - 3 vote, with four Republicans joining all of the panel's Democrats in supporting the bill.

Last week, the cross-party committee made 39 recommendations to improve the treatment and supervision of children under the care of the state, including those under supervision of the Department of Education.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, announced the idea in a speech delivered here last month to the Center for National Policy.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts and chairman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee, last week told members of the Committee for Economic Development that the Congress may need to protect education funding through innovative means.

President Bush included business leaders, university presidents, union and association leaders, policy analysts, and a public - school teacher, among others, on his 24 - member education - policy advisory committee, established last fall to provide him with innovative ideas.