Sentences with phrase «education chair bill»

Board of Education Chair Bill Cobey responded to Pruden's pleas late last month, telling him to resolve the conflict of interest issue at the local level.

«The kids don't physically show up [to school], so we needed a different way to account for how students are learning,» said State Board of Education chair Bill Cobey on Tuesday of the new policy.

In a statement made yesterday following the release of the Kinston audit, State Board of Education chair Bill Cobey said the board would pursue legislation that would better equip them to deal with financially troubled charter schools.

Not exact matches

Just one day before the scheduled markup of the House Education and the Workforce Committee «s «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016» (an Orwellian name if there ever was one, given how the bill would gut child nutrition), Congressman Todd Rokita (IN - R), chair of the subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, introduced a substitute amendment which, among other things, proposes a three - state block grant pilot for school breakfasts and lunches.

Deborah Glick, chair of the Assembly's Higher Education committee, says the hold - up is over the bill's language.

The bill, sponsored by Senate higher education committee chair Kenneth LaValle, addresses Republicans» complaints that Democrats, who control the Assembly, have too much control over appointments to the Board of Regents.

Senate higher education committee chair Kenneth LaValle, a Long Island Republican, ushered a bill through his chamber during the 2014 session that would change how the Regents are selected, giving the governor and legislative conferences appointment power.

Senate higher education committee chair Kenneth LaValle, a Long Island Republican, said the most difficult aspect of the bill to negotiate was the exact definition of «affirmative consent,» a new «yes means yes» standard.

The bills were approved this week in the state Senate education committee, which Mr. Flanagan chairs.

Senator John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican who chairs his chamber's education committee, said «there was a lot of intervening time» between Cuomo's introduction of the bill and his impending decision to veto it.

Senator John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican and chair of his chamber's education committee, argued that the bill shields teachers from consequences of the rough transition to the Common Core in the same way that provisions in the state budget hold students harmless.

Senate Education Chair John Flanagan calls it a «work in progress», and says the message of intent accompanying the bill will attempt to make clear the need to protect teacher privacy.

«Limiting ICE's access to detainees at Riker's Island is a very important step in the right direction toward protecting our immigrant communities,» said City Council Education Committee Chair and Bills Co-Sponsor Daniel Dromm.

John lobbying firm and a vice chair of the State Democratic Party, Peter Ajemian, who is State Senator Brad Hoylman's chief of staff, Brian Ellner, who was a Bloomberg appointee at the Department of Education and later played a leading role in the marriage equality fight in Albany, Matthew McMorrow, who is an aide to Mayor Bill de Blasio on gay issues, and Dirk McCall, who works for Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr..

Flanagan, who was formerly the chamber's Education Committee chair, defended the bill on the floor.

The bill was sponsored by Councilman Danny Dromm, chair of the education committee, who said the measure will help the Council learn how long it takes from the time students receives a special education referral to the time they actually receive it.

AFTER THE Bloomberg administration repeatedly shifted the Department of Education deck chairs, 120 principals have signed a public letter calling on Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio not to completely upend the bureaucracy again.

The Assembly has already passed a bill to essentially impose a two - year moratorium on the impact of the new testing associated with Common Core, on both teachers and students, and Senate Education Chair Flanagan says he expects full agreement on a new law by the end of March.

«It is a much, much, much improved product, something that I think we can all be proud of,» said Assembly higher education committee chair Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat who sponsored the bill.

Responding to the Government statement that the Education for All Bill, announced in the Queen's Speech, will not be introduced in Parliament, Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: «We are pleased that the Secretary of State is acting on the strong concerns from councils about the Government's planned educationEducation for All Bill, announced in the Queen's Speech, will not be introduced in Parliament, Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: «We are pleased that the Secretary of State is acting on the strong concerns from councils about the Government's planned educationeducation reforms.

Also in 2010, Representative Phillip Owens, the chair of the House Education and Public Works Committee introduced a bill aimed at establishing a more sustainable funding policy for CSD, and despite being stalled by opponents representing traditional districts, the 2011 - 12 state budget included a funding increase for CSD schools.

The one - day meeting, billed as a «bipartisan national education summit,» was organized by Sen. James M. Jeffords, R - Vt., who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, and former Secretary Terreleducation summit,» was organized by Sen. James M. Jeffords, R - Vt., who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, and former Secretary TerrelEducation, Arts, and Humanities, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, and former Secretary TerrelEducation Richard W. Riley, and former Secretary Terrel H. Bell.

The magazine recognized Mr. Goodling, who chairs the Education and the Workforce Committee, for his skillful maneuvering of several major bills — including the reauthorizations of the Higher Education Act and the Head Start and child - nutrition programs — through the legislative thicket.

«I hope all in all it's going to be smooth sailing,» said Tom Wolanin, an aide to Representative William D. Ford, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the House Education and Labor Committee, and a key architect of the House bill.

Republican Congressman Bill Goodling, chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee, spoke out against the testing program on the floor of the House, calling it «Smith's Folly.»

Responding to the Government statement that the Education for All Bill, announced in the Queen's Speech, will not be introduced in Parliament, Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said:

Sen. Sonia Chang - Diaz, the Senate chair of the Legislature's Joint Committee on Education, says the bill meets the «moral standard» she has tried to follow of equally supporting families in her Boston district with children in both district and charter schools.

After hearing from education and civil rights groups, school administrators and teachers, the Education Committee Chairs pulled the bills from further consieducation and civil rights groups, school administrators and teachers, the Education Committee Chairs pulled the bills from further consiEducation Committee Chairs pulled the bills from further consideration.

Support ultimately coalesced around the bill introduced by Republican Nancy Spence, chair of the house education committee.

For another, a Lansing fundraiser was at least scheduled to take place for Rep. Daniela Garcia (R - Holland), the House Education Committee vice chair and the primary sponsor of two bills in the House DPS package, on the evening of May 4 — what turned out to be the night the House considered the bills.

Cafero said the chairs of the Education Committee had indicated they did not plan to hold any public hearings this year on bills pertaining to the Common Core and instead had opted to have an informational hearing on the subject.

Sen. Tom Harkin (D - Iowa), who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is expected to publicize the committee's finished draft of the bill on Tuesday.

The Republican senate bills resemble ones that the House Education committee, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R - Minn.)

readers know from earlier posts, Governor Malloy, Democratic Party Chair Nancy DiNardo and the Democratic State Central Committee syphoned over more than $ 37,000 in a failed attempt to beat back a Democratic challenge slate in Bridgeport that did not support Paul Vallas or Governor Malloy and Mayor Bill Finch's corporate education reform agenda.

Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, chair of the education committee, said the Senate bill lets chronically underperforming schools continue without dramatic changes.

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.

(Calif.) Programs aimed at keeping kids in school and out of the so - called «prison pipeline» would receive a big boost under a bill being carried by the chair of the Senate Education Committee that lays groundwork for the use of millions of dollars in prisoner - release savings.

When Rep. Bob Behning, R - Indianapolis, refused to hear the bill in the House Education Committee he chairs, Schneider worked to amend House Bill 1427 to include Common Core «pause» langubill in the House Education Committee he chairs, Schneider worked to amend House Bill 1427 to include Common Core «pause» languBill 1427 to include Common Core «pause» language.

With the recent passage of Senate Bill 1, drafted by State Education Committee Chair and CL4E Member Mike Wilson, Kentucky became one of the first states to legislatively respond to ESSA with comprehensive standards and a strong accountability plan.

Ruiz, who chairs the Senate education committee, yesterday said she would not comment on any competing proposals, maintaining only that she continues to meet with various stakeholders to come up with a consensus bill.

PLEASE NOTE: The House version has been sent to the RULES COMMITTEE - a standard ploy to prevent a piece of legislation from being debated and called for a Vote.State Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia, Chair of the House Elementary / Secondary Education Committee joined her Latino Caucus coleagues at Monday's Press Conference, but needs to be supported and encouraged to work with Rep. Sims to get his bill sent to her Committee.

Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell, D - Long Beach and chair of the education committee, said he thought AB 2067 was a good bill, and that especially in larger schools, having a school resource officer is vital to ensuring a safe school environment.

Indiana House Education Committee Chair Bob Behning, R - Indianapolis, will push a bill in the upcoming session to create a «data backpack,» based on a new Utah law the American Legislative Exchange Council recently highlighted as model legislation.

House Education Committee Chair Bob Behning, R - Indianapolis, who killed a Senate bill halting the standards» rollout earlier this year, told Smith he believes the state will ultimately decide to keep the Common Core largely in place.

However, the candidate did note his support of public school choice (via charter schools): «As chair of the House Education Committee, David introduced an omnibus education bill that gave schools more authority and autonomy by emphasizing ChildrEducation Committee, David introduced an omnibus education bill that gave schools more authority and autonomy by emphasizing Childreducation bill that gave schools more authority and autonomy by emphasizing Children First.

Indiana House Education Committee Chair Bob Behning, R - Indianapolis, blocked Schneider's bill from a hearing on his panel.

The latest legislation comes from state Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D - Essex), the influential chair of the state Senate's education committee, who has long talked about a new bill and now has actually filed one.

Meanwhile, state Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan Jr. (D - Middlesex) is proceeding with a hearing on a separate bill on Thursday before the Assembly education committee, which he chairs.

Bill Cobey, Gov. Pat McCrory's recently appointed chair of the State Board of Education, previously expressed his view that the version SB 337 approved by the Senate was unconstitutional.

The Chair of the Senate Education Committee Carol Liu (D - Glendale)-- the only LA - area lawmaker on the committee — decided not to vote for or against the bill...