Sentences with phrase «house education committee»

Commissioner Pruitt was joined in celebrating the recipients» accomplishment by House Education Committee Chair Representative Derrick Graham, Senate Education Committee Member Senator Max Wise, state education leaders, and Tom Shelton, the Executive Director of Kentucky Association of School Superintendents (KASS).

January 9, 2017 For Immediate Release Contact: Kaylee Carnahan, 832-878-2904 Kentucky State Sen. Ralph Alvarado & State Rep. Bam Carney File Scholarship Tax Credit Legislation House Education Committee Chair presents school choice...

Before the bill was voted out of the House Education Committee on Nov. 30, House Republicans shuffled committee members, replacing Rep. Rep. Holly Hughes (R - White River Township) with Rep. Lisa Posthumus Lyons (R - Alto).

«This law is fundamentally broken, and we need to fix it this year,» he told the House education committee at the time.

Attendees at the meeting with President Bush and Education Secreatary Margaret Spellings were Sen. Ted Kennedy (D - MA), Chair of the Senate Education Committee; Sen. Mike Enzi (R - WY), ranking Republican on that committee; Rep. George Miller (D - CA), Chair of the House Education Committee; and Rep. Howard McKeon (R - CA), ranking Republican on that committee.

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.

House Education Committee Chair Bob Behning, the bill's author, says while some positive aspects of the bill remain, there are issues that need to be worked out.

House Education Committee Chairman Tom McMillin (R - Rochester Hills) released a Wednesday night statement praising the legislation.

Here's the letter MecklenburgACTS co-chair Pamela Grundy sent to the members of the N.C. House Education Committee, requesting that they support a moratorium on high - stakes testing.

In the meantime, the leading Republican senators» series of four bills to rewrite NCLB are almost in lockstep with a series of education bills introduced by their colleagues on the House Education Committee:

4.23.12 Association of American Educators» Colorado Chapter Testifies Before Colorado House Education Committee in Support of House Bill 1333

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.

George Miller (CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Education Committee, wrote a letter (PDF) to Chairman John Kline (R - MN) requesting that he schedule a similar hearing in the House to examine sequestration's effect on families and children.

The first time, I met with members of the House Education Committee and described my last book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System.

Good Morning It was a great day for school choice, as the House Education Committee rejected three anti-charter school bills on Wednesday, with three others shelved by sponsors.

Sponsored by State Rep. Tom McMillin, the amendment is similar to House Bill 4276 which is currently before the House Education Committee.

Kentucky State Sen. Ralph Alvarado & State Rep. Bam Carney File Scholarship Tax Credit Legislation House Education Committee Chair presents school choice legislation

It's no shock that the House Education Committee chose to eliminate NCLB's highly qualified teacher requirements (bachelor's degree, full - state licensure, and demonstrated competence in the subject areas they teach).

Teachers in Indiana may very well get that choice if key lawmaker and chairman of the House Education Committee Rep. Bob Behning has anything to say about it.

A new blog post from chair of the House education committee John Kline (R - MN) underscores the benefits of the Head Start program, highlights the House's plans to improve the program, and calls for educators to submit concerns and recommendations regarding the program.

Reaction to the House Education Committee's final two bills to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is beginning to trickle in and, as expected, it's very mixed.

Will House Education Committee Chairman John Kline (R - MN) move forward with his plan to introduce two final bills addressing accountability and teacher effectiveness to accompany the existing three small - scale bills that comprise his piecemeal approach to rewriting ESEA?

The House education committee is also in on the ESSA action.

ASCD recently provided the House education committee with a letter (PDF) including its recommendations for accountability systems that are based on more than just standardized test scores.

Finally, congressional Republicans were angered by what they perceived as an end run around Congress, and House Education Committee Chairman John Kline (R - MN) questioned the secretary's legal basis for the waiver commitments» quid pro quo.

Several prominent Republicans oppose the idea of district waivers, including Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Rep. John Kline of Minnesota, who chairs the House education committee.

A report created from the House Education Committee's Summer Learning Work Group.

The House Education Committee's Student Success Act (PDF), which rewrites NCLB's testing and accountability provisions, maintains the current testing regimen in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school.

(Frankfort)-- House Education Committee Chair Representative Bam Carney (R - Campbellsville) and Kentucky State Senator Ralph Alvarado (R - Winchester) filed legislation (SB 102 & HB 162) today that would create a scholarship tax credit program.

Of the three bills advanced by the House Education Committee to reauthorize the federal education law, it's the only one so far to receive bipartisan backing.

The Republican - controlled House Education Committee has proposed a series of bills to rewrite the most burdensome parts of NCLB, but only one of its three bills to date has received bipartisan support and none of them have tackled the contentious issues of accountability or teacher effectiveness.

The House Education Committee held a hearing on February 16 to solicit input on new Republican legislation that would make sweeping changes to the accountability and teacher requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

«As House Education Committee Chair, I am proud to sponsor this important bill to help our students,» said Representative Carney.

At the House Education Committee's recent hearing on school safety, expert witnesses testified that schools are inadequately equipped to deal with tragedies like the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn..

Taxpayers ultimately fund all of it, including millions of dollars in consulting and legal fees and questionable building costs,» said Roebuck, Democratic chairman of the House Education Committee.

«You don't take a principal who has been successful with students in one school, ask him or her to go to a lower performing, troubled school with the idea of turning it around, and then say «and by the way, if you agree to take this on, you could end up taking a pay cut if you don't make it work in a time frame that we would like to have it work in,»» said Rep. Hugh Blackwell (R - Burke), a former member of the Burke County school board and a member of the House education committee in an interview with the Public School Forum.

Interestingly, the testimony and questions during the hearing veered several times from accountability to teacher effectiveness (another pending House Education Committee reauthorization bill), suggesting that lawmakers see a direct link between the two issues.

It's unclear when the House Education Committee will consider the bill or whether the bill will influence the committee's final two pieces of ESEA legislation related to teacher effectiveness and accountability, which it plans to tackle this fall.

The House Education Committee didn't take immediate action on the proposal.

On April 10, hundreds of people on both sides of the charter - school question gathered outside the second - floor committee room where the House Education Committee was set to vote on whether to send the Senate's charter - school bill to the House floor for debate and, ultimately, the first vote to ever take place on charter school legislation in the chamber.

In April, the House Education Committee approved a bill supporters say would would reduce the money school districts send to cyber charter schools.

He is the chairman of the House Education Committee's Choice and Innovation Subcommittee, and has sponsored legislation making it easier for charter schools to open and operate in Florida.

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

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.

This morning, members of the House Education Committee heard public comments only for HB 944, Opportunity Scholarship Act, also known as the school voucher bill.

A divided House Education Committee gave their approval Monday to a pair of controversial charter school bills, one of which will allow charters to expand student enrollment by up to 30 percent with no additional state review of their performance and finances.

It is expected that next week House Education Committee members will debate and vote on the bill.

His position on the House Education Committee requires him to debate and vote on school bills, she said, but she doesn't lobby him on issues that specifically affect her charter.

And when he served on the House Education Committee, he was a vehement opponent of the state's voucher program; he filed several bills to restrict it.