Sentences with phrase «education committee passed»

Worth noting: Before the Senate Education Committee passed HB 97, they amended the bill to make it even more favorable to the charter industry by stripping out $ 27 million in savings that school districts would have received this year and next year as a result of changes in cyber charter school tuition payments.

The House Education Committee passed a GOP bill on a party - line vote, but it was yanked from floor debate in February after conservative GOP lawmakers said it didn't go far enough to shrink the federal role in education.

This year a group of Republican legislators in the Connecticut General Assembly introduced H.B. No. 7017, an Act Concerning Student Data Privacy, but following a public hearing, the Education Committee passed an extremely weak version of what might be called an attempt at beginning to address the student privacy problem.

Lawmakers in Louisiana's House Education Committee passed legislation earlier this week that also contains provisions based on our model.

On Tuesday this week, members of the House Education Committee passed HB 97 out of committee on a vote of 17 to 10.

The Senate Education Committee passed Senate Bill 2, legislation that will create education savings accounts, a new and costly government entitlement program that will give a pot of taxpayer dollars to families that meet certain criteria and chose to educate their children in a private setting.

The Legislative session continues to move along, and this week, the Assembly Education Committee passed a bill that would give county offices of education the authority to loan money to charter schools, giving them options to weather tough budgetary times.

Last week, the U.S. Senate education committee passed a bill that would give states more latitude in how they use test scores to evaluate schools and teachers.

House Education Committee Passes Special Needs ESA Bill February 26, 2015 by Grant Callen Today, the Education Committee in the House of Representatives passed The Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act (SB 2695) on a voice vote.

Last year, the House and Senate education committees passed legislation to update the law, but the bills — approved with bipartisan support in the Senate but by only Republicans in the House — clashed in terms of the federal role in education.

Yesterday, both the House and Senate Education Committees passed legislation to expand charter school opportunities for students in Mississippi.

Driven by their voices, the State Senate and Assembly Education Committees passed bills to reduce excessive expulsions, reduce suspensions for «willful defiant» infractions, create suspension / expulsion alternatives, establish re-admission programs for juvenile hall youth and more.

Not exact matches

Rep. Ann Wagner, R - Mo., who sponsored the Retail Investor Protection Act, bipartisan legislation passed in the House that would require the Securities and Exchange Commission, not DOL, to take the lead on crafting a fiduciary rule, said Wednesday that she was «working closely with House leadership and members of the Education and Workforce Committee on using the Congressional Review Act to stop [DOL's] ill - advised rule.»

Regular TLT readers know all about the (misguided) Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill passed by the House Education & the Workforce Committee, a bill which would roll back key school food reforms and put economically disadvantaged kids at risk.

But now the House Education and the Workforce Committee has passed a CNR bill that's so wrongheaded, even the SNA is taken aback and urging its members to speak out against it.

HB 2025, which establishes a composting grant pilot project in Hawaii Department of Education schools passed Committee on February 14th.

HB 2156, which appropriates funds for a farm to school program and requires collaboration between the State Department of Agriculture and Department of Education, also passed committee on February 14th.

Nolan's bill passed the Education Committee today and is being fast tracked for passage in the Assembly despite the fact that it currently has no chance of becoming law.

They are in the process of going through the state Assembly education committee, and if they pass, will be voted on the respective house floors.

Speaking during the inaugural meeting of the committee in Ado - Ekiti, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the State, Prof. Abdul - Ganiyu Olayinka Raji, stressed the importance of passing accurate information on guidelines for the on - going voters» registration and other relevant voter education.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

The Senate's Higher Education committee advanced a bill that if passed would impose a fine of up to $ 1,000 for the sale or purchase of term papers, dissertations or other academic assignments over the Internet.

If passed, that provision would be a win both for teachers» unions and for Flanagan's — and Senate education committee Carl Marcellino's — constituents on Long Island, where evaluations are particularly contentious.

SB70 failed to pass on a 1 - 5 vote by the Senate Education committee after an hour - long hearing.

It was the Republican Senate — spearheaded by Senator Marty Golden — who took the bill and quickly passed it through the Senate Education Committee to get it to the Senate Floor, today Monday, February 6, 2012 in order to give all 62 Senators the opportunity to vote yes or no.

Stefanik: «We passed K - 12 reauthorization in the Education Committee, which is the first time since No Child Left Behind.

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.

The bill is now under debate in the Senate after passing the Senate education committee 22 - to - 0.

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David Johnson, a postdoctoral research associate with Rice's Religion and Public Life Program and the lead author of «Conservative Protestantism and Anti-Evolution Curricular Challenges Across States,» studied the relationship between religious characteristics of states and anti-evolution bills passing through state education committees across the country.

Meg Hiller, chair of the committee, insists that closing the «attainment gap» for disadvantaged pupils should be «a cornerstone of education policy» and that a failure to close the attainment gap would continue to «pass down through generations».

In Oregon, a bill that would begin a study of the feasibility of a special mathematics and science high school was sent to the ways and means committee of the state House without recommendation and will probably not pass, according to a spokesman for the House education committee.

Greening said in a letter to the education committee chair, Neil Carmichael, that she was «determined to continue to raise standards» and would include the new «strong pass» as an accountability measure for schools.

Lawmakers on the U.S. Senate education committee and more than a dozen House members met in a conference committee Wednesday to begin reconciling two bills — one a Republican - only measure that barely passed the U.S. House of Representatives in July, and the other a Senate version that cleared the U.S Senate with big, bipartisan support a few days later.

XXThe Senate Appropriations Committee approved its version of an education, labor, and health and human services spending bill on Sept. 3, while its counterpart in the House passed its version of the funding measure in July.

• The bill passed by the House education committee • One of the two options offered by Senator Alexander • Senator Murray's ESEA floor speech • The president's radio address and Secretary Duncan's speech • CCSSO • The George W. Bush Institute • The diverse groups organized by Ed Trust, the Business Roundtable, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights • The Foundation for Excellence in Education • The official policies of both NCLB and the Obama administration's ESEA - waiver ieducation committee • One of the two options offered by Senator Alexander • Senator Murray's ESEA floor speech • The president's radio address and Secretary Duncan's speech • CCSSO • The George W. Bush Institute • The diverse groups organized by Ed Trust, the Business Roundtable, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights • The Foundation for Excellence in Education • The official policies of both NCLB and the Obama administration's ESEA - waiver iEducation • The official policies of both NCLB and the Obama administration's ESEA - waiver initiative

For example, as pointed out last year by Republican John Kline of Minnesota, an ESSA co-author and former chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, «Arizona and New Hampshire recently passed laws that violate ESSA by permitting individual school districts to choose which assessments to administer.»

In 2005, a voucher proposal survived a hearing in the House Education Committee and passed the entire House.

Kline and Alexander, who was ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee at the time, each had draft bills that stood in opposition to Senate Democrats» proposals, and the House passed Kline's bill in the summer of 2013 along party lines.

Bill status: Passed Senate (23 - 16), Not Heard in Assembly Education Committee — Died Students Matter's position: OPPOSE

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

While 45 states have voluntarily adopted the English and math standards, designed to foster career - and college - readiness, the Republican National Committee last month passed a resolution condemning Common Core as «an inappropriate overreach to standardize control and education of our children.»

Amid heavy criticism, a Senate - passed anti-bullying bill was killed Tuesday in the House Education Committee.

To the surprise of almost no one, a bill that sought to make changes to California rules on how to evaluate teachers failed to pass the Senate Committee on Education during its second - chance hearing Wednesday.

UPDATE: CSHB515 passed the Senate Education Committee unanimously and was recommended for the Local Calendar (uncontested bills that are fast - tracked for approval).

The bill passed the Senate Education Committee with a 5 - 2 vote but still needs approval from the Appropriations Committee before it can be considered by the whole Senate.

Committee recommendation: Ought to pass with amendment (19 - 0) HB 1496, relative to requirements for performance based accountability for an adequate education.

Harkin and Enzi's bill passed through the Senate Health, Labor, Education, & Pensions Committee one week ago today, garnering three Republican votes.

Legislation to ensure California school buildings meet seismic safety standards - and that documentation certifying compliance is processed in a timely manner - passed out of the Senate Education Committee on Thursday.

After a Senate bill he penned stalled in the House Education Committee, Schneider attached anti-Common Core language to legislation that had already passed the House.