Sentences with phrase «education committee voted»

The Senate Education Committee voted Tuesday to include the requirement in a sweeping education bill that is now moving through the legislature.

A years - long battle over whether Idaho would require its science teachers to teach about global warming was resolved Thursday when the State Senate education committee voted to adopt standards that included sections on human - caused climate change.

New Hampshire Close to Adopting Education Savings Accounts The House Education Committee voted to endorse SB 193, which already passed the state's Senate and will now be taken up by the House in January.

The Indiana Senate Education Committee voted 7 - 4 to HALT implementation of the Common Core in Indiana.

The Illinois Senate Education Committee voted to send several bills to the full Senate that will rein charters in and hold them accountable for their discipline policies, spending, and other problems.

Just yesterday in the Indiana legislature, the House Education committee voted along party lines to expand pre-school education opportunities but also forwarded language in the same bill to allow for the largest expansion of vouchers in the USA beginning with pre-school students and their siblings.

Baton Rouge, La. — Yesterday, the House Education Committee voted down bills that would restrict school choice across Louisiana.

Today, the Senate Education Committee voted on similar measures that would affect Louisiana's public schoolchildren, including:

The Senate Education Committee voted 8 - 0 Wednesday to set up an advisory committee that will oversee a review of Common Core that Gov. Bill Haslam's administration launched last fall.

Last week, the Education Committee voted unanimously to send SB 455 to the Senate Floor — and hopefully it's headed to the House Floor next.

The House Education Committee voted on Tuesday in favor of a bill that would come up with new Math and English standards.

A Louisiana State Board of Education committee voted to close troubled Lagniappe, and Thomas resigned after Polite's investigation.

Bill Restricting «Willful Defiance» for Suspending Students Moves Ahead With new data showing that more than half of all suspensions and a quarter of expulsions in California schools are for «willful defiance» of school authorities, the Assembly Education Committee voted 6 - 0 on Wednesday to move forward a bill that would restrict the use of the vague category by school administrators.

The House Education Committee voted in favor of a proposal to increase the number of students eligible to receive state vouchers to attend private school.

The Florida Constitution Revision Commission Education Committee voted down the highly unpopular proposal by Erika Donalds to strip school boards of their salaries.

Reflecting bipartisan consternation over the rising price of a college education and other postsecondary issues, the House education committee voted unanimously today to send its version of a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act to the full House.

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.

After a heated debate, where in response to being presented the Nobel laureate letter, Senator Julie Quinn declared she was «tired of seeing little letters behind everyone's names,» [58] the Senate Education Committee voted 5 - 1 to defer action on SB 70, in effect killing it.

[31] The third attempt to repeal the measure met again with failure when the Senate Education Committee voted 3 - 2 to defer the bill on May 1, 2013.

When the Assembly Education Committee voted yesterday not to advance a bill that would withdraw the state from the Common Core standards, the decision drew an emotional response from a dozen or so protesters who gathered to show their opposition to the controversial curriculum guidelines.

The Senate Education Committee voted Tuesday to include the requirement in a sweeping education bill that is now moving through the legislature.

Bill status: Failed Assembly Education Committee vote (3 -2-2)-- Died Students Matter's position: SUPPORT

Leading up to the Senate Education Committee vote on April 28, the following groups turned in support for Click to add MIRS Bill Hound SB 0103 — the Michigan Association of School Administrators, Grand Rapids Public Schools, West Michigan Talent Triangle, the Michigan Association of School Boards, the National Heritage Academies, the South Central Education Policy Consortium, Michigan Association of Public School Academies, Great Lakes Education Project, Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency, then - Dearborn Schools Superintendent Brian WHISTON and around 40 southeast Michigan school superintendents and Zimco and K - 12 Evaluation Solutions.

* Senate Education Committee Votes on Charter School Bills * Several Charter Schools Receive Charter School Facilities Incentive Grants * The November Ballot Gets Longer

Educators for Excellence - New York Releases Statement on NYS Assembly Education Committee Vote to Advance School Restorative Justice Bill

Senate Education Committee votes to create education savings accounts, a new and costly government entitlement program to give taxpayer dollars to well - off families that educate their kids in private schools

The Senate Education Committee vote was 9 - 3, with Sens. Neal, Thomas, and Johnny Ray Turner, D - Prestonsburg, voting no.

Not exact matches

For the first time in 11 years, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted 15 - 7 in favor of a bipartisan bill that would prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

At The Business Council's Annual Meeting at The Sagamore Resort in Bolton Landing, the Board of Directors voted to create a board - level education policy committee that will focus on educational issues including secondary and post-secondary education and workforce development.

The ad, which you can watch below, attacks Walberg for voting against the reauthorization of Head Start — the only member of the House Education and Labor Committee to do so.

State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia and Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa condemned the vote, saying they «strongly disapprove» of the committee's actions.

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.

He has his own education committee studying potential changes to the evaluation system, which is expected to release a separate set of proposals to be voted on this legislative session.

I urge you to act on that support by bring H.R. 3017, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to an up - or - down vote in the House Committee on Education and Labor.

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.

New York, NY — After the U.S. Senate HELP Committee voted on Tuesday to approve the nomination of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary, Eva Moskowitz, Founder and CEO of Success Academy released the following statement.

On the other side of the aisle, Assemblyman Ed Ra, a Long Island Republican who is the ranking minority member on the chamber's education committee, explained his «no» vote by arguing the legislation was too controversial to bring peace to the community.

The bill is expected to come for a vote in the Senate Education Committee tomorrow and it's a top priority of Mayor Bloomberg, who is scheduled to make a special trip to Albany to lobby on its behalf.

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.

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

The 17 Democrats who voted to override Malloy's education commissioner bill veto included Deputy Speaker Linda Orange of Colchester, Deputy Majority Leader Michelle Cook of Torrington, and Roberta Willis of Salisbury, co-chairwoman of the higher education committee.

As House Speaker Richard Corcoran's priority education bill is pushed through the Senate committee process, some watching this week were perplexed by the vote of one sometimes perplexing Republican lawmaker.

BY MICHAEL CAHILL Budget Talks, and officially closing three schools The North Rockland Central School met for a Committee of the Whole Board Workshop Session of the Board of Education Tuesday night in the North Rockland Administration Building to discuss next year's budget and vote to officially close several schools.

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.

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However, only 25 percent of this legislation made it through the respective state education committees for a vote by a state legislative chamber, and the only states where bills were enacted into law were Louisiana and Tennessee.

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.

An identical Tennessee Senate bill, SB 893, is up for a vote by the Senate Education Committee at the end of the month.

The appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education approved a 2.6 % raise for NIH; more details are likely to come out next week when the full appropriations committee is expected to vote on the bill.

Washington — The House Appropriations Committee was scheduled to vote this week on a $ 59.3 - billion social - services spending bill that includes a $ 2.47 - billion increase in discretionary spending for Education Department programs in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.