Sentences with phrase «house education chair»

House education chair John Moore (R - Brandon) said the motion likely will not affect the bill's passage, but some amendments may be added before it goes back to the Senate.

Now, getting from this point to a signed law remains a hell of a lift — but the fact that things have gotten so far is a credit to Alexander, House education chair John Kline, Democrats like Senators Patty Murray and Michael Bennet, and the bipartisan fury at Secretary Arne Duncan's imperious reign.

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State Rep. Jenifer Loon, R - Eden Prairie, who chairs the House Education Finance Committee, say schools need a long - term solution to their perennial budget problems.

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.

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Also at 12:30 p.m., Assembly Education Chair Cathy Nolan and Sen. Kevin Parker will release letters signed by more than 70 legislators in both houses calling for $ 2.4 billion in new school aid with an emphasis on Foundation Aid, Million Dollar Staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Rosenthal was elected to the Council in 2013, chairs the Contracts Committee, and serves on the Finance; Housing and Buildings; Education; Cultural Affairs, Libraries, and Intergroup Relations; and Oversight and Investigations Committees.

Among those elected as committee chairs were Ian Austin (education), Mike Gapes (foreign affairs), Julie Elliott (housing and planning) and Chris Leslie (Treasury).

Little chairs the Housing, Construction and Community Development Committee and sits on numerous others, including Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation; Education, Environmental Conservation, and Energy and Telecommunications.

He was appointed Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis and Investigation in February 2011, after previously serving as the chair of the Committee on Libraries and Education Technology, the Legislative Task Force on People with Disabilities and the Subcommittee on Mitchell - Lama Housing.

Yesterday also saw APPHG Vice Chair Baroness Massey of Darwen ask an oral question in the House of Lords, «To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the report by Ofsted Not Yet Good Enough: Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education in Schools, published on 1 May.»

As if to illustrate that point, Representative George Miller (D — CA), who chaired the 30 April hearing and represents the congressional district just north of Berkeley, commented that «as chairman of the [House] Education [and Labor] Committee and chair of the Democratic Policy Committee, I meet all of the time with leaders from the research - university community.»

In response to the agreement, Representative George Miller (D — CA), chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee who held a hearing in April on the then - stalled talks, issued a statement criticizing the «unnecessary delays that blocked a first contract for far too long,» adding that those delays were «outrageous and needed to end,» and that «it was clear that [UC] caused» the delays.

The offices of U.S. Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D — Ill.), chair of the House Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, and Rep. Rush Holt (D — N.J.), a former physics professor, also turned down requests for comment.

Education chairman Representative George Miller (D - CA) spoke after a 2 - hour forum arranged by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that brought together the chairs of eight House committees responsible for cobbling together the recovery plan.

The chair of a different House committee, one that oversees education and authorizes new programs, is a fierce opponent of the Administration's attempt to spend more money on targeted new programs.

In June, the chair of the House appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee, Representative Denny Rehberg (R - MT), said that his subcommittee could not act on the changes until it received an official budget request directly from the White House.

Price, who serves as chair of the U.S. House Budget Committee, came to campus to speak to a town hall meeting on NIH and NSF funding presented by the Emory Science Advocacy Network, a graduate student group that seeks to promote biomedical research funding through advocacy and education.

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.

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.

This got much easier recently when House Education Committee Chair John Kline and K - 12 Subcomittee Chair Todd Rokita introduced the Student Success Act, which bars the feds from offering grants or policy waivers contingent on a state» s use of certain curricula or adoption of certain assessment policies.

To bypass the Education Committee, chaired by Cunningham, the coalition held hearings for the proposal in Hoskins's Special Committee on Urban Issues, the only House committee chaired by a Democrat.

Even Capitol Hill's Democratic education kingpin, House Education and Labor Committee Chair George Miller, is now taking shots at the adminieducation kingpin, House Education and Labor Committee Chair George Miller, is now taking shots at the adminiEducation and Labor Committee Chair George Miller, is now taking shots at the administration.

Consider the recent comments, in an Education Week interview, of Representative John Kline of Minnesota, an intelligent, patriotic and hard - working lawmaker who would likely chair the education committee in a RepublicEducation Week interview, of Representative John Kline of Minnesota, an intelligent, patriotic and hard - working lawmaker who would likely chair the education committee in a Republiceducation committee in a Republican House.

«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.

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.»

Goodling, who chairs the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, remarked that «we already have plenty of testing... why another measurement instrument to tell us what we already know?»

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.»

In 2014, House education committee chair John Kline and Senator Lamar Alexander asked the GAO to study the waiver process, dryly observing, «The department has provided no justifications for these seemingly contradictory decisions.»

In a letter last month to Representative Virginia Foxx, the chair of the House education committee, 13 House Republicans urged that the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program be preserved.

Mr. Goodling praised the House GOP and the panel he chairs for emphasizing efforts to improve the quality of federal education programs and for beginning a drive to move more decisionmaking to the local level.

Not exactly stories you'd expect about some of our more famous presidents and first ladies, which is exactly why James Longo, C.A.S.» 90, Ed.D.» 94, professor of education and chair of the education department at Washington and Jefferson College, decided to write his new book, From Classroom to White House.

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

For one thing, the Democratic side is losing a ton of institutional memory and expertise with the retirements of Senator Tom Harkin (chair of the Senate education committee) and Congressman George Miller (ranking Democrat on the House education committee).

White House Council on Environmental Quality Acting Chair Mike Boots and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Mark Schaefer joined U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today to congratulate the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools and District Sustainability Awardees on their achievements at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

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.

As a result, House Education Committee chair in Rep. Amanda PRICE (R - Park Twp.)

Woodson is a former member of the Tennessee General Assembly, first serving in the House, then moving on to the Senate, where she served as Chair of the Education Committee and later as Speaker Pro Tem, the number two job in that body.

In illustrating how important definitions are, many states, special education advocacy groups, and even U.S. Rep. George Miller, the California Democrat who chairs the House education committee, object to proposed language about how states should measure achievement for special education students.

Now Congress is finally moving, thanks to Senator Lamar Alexander and Congressman John Kline, the chairs of the Senate and House education committees.

So far, Kline, who chairs the House Committee on Education & the Workforce, and Rep. George Miller (D - Calif.)

State Rep. John Forgety, who chairs a House education committee and supported the legislation, told The Tennessean the intent was not to create a law that allowed districts to market to each other's students.

Robert Halfon, a former education minister and staunch critic of the prime minister, has been elected as chair of the House of Commons education committee.

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

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.

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» language.

18 Rep. Virginia Foxx (R - NC), the current chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, which oversees AmeriCorps, has called the program a «government - authorized charity» because of the modest living allowance that volunteers receive in exchange for devoting a year or more to full - time service.19

State Rep. Jenifer Loon, R - Eden Prairie, who chairs the House Education Finance Committee, say schools need a long - term solution to their perennial budget problems.

Hopefully they will do better than they did two years ago when Todd Rokita, who chairs a key subcommittee of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, engaged in scaremongering against undocumented immigrant children coming from Central America.

«Myself included, there are members of the House that very much want to take this issue up,» said House education committee chair Representative Craig Horn (R - Union).