Sentences with phrase «house education panel»

The Obama administration on Friday said legislation passed this week by Republicans on the House education panel would rob vital federal dollars from the nation's poorest schools and redirect them to wealthier schools.

Rep. John A. Boehner, R - Ohio, the chairman of the House education panel, called Splash, a Portuguese water dog, a «bright light» during the difficult ESEA deliberations.

Washington — The chairman of the House Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights told members of a House education panel last week that he has «grave reservations» about a bill that would guarantee the right of student religious groups to hold meetings on school grounds.

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And in 2015, Duncan, Obama's secretary of education, pointed to his old friend's district as a national role model and invited Runcie to speak at a White House panel called «Rethink School Discipline.»

However, a major Bronx disability activist who has worked closely with Assemblyman Benjamin on housing and education issues but was not able to participate in the panel strongly disputes this.

«We have more faith in the Regents and [the State Education Department] to come up with the system than a panel of experts appointed by each house and the governor,» Brindisi said, referencing the previous plan.

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However, the panel rejected the White House's plan to eliminate NASA's education programs, voting instead to maintain its current level of $ 100 million.

A House panel has unanimously endorsed a major bipartisan initiative to improve math and science education in U.S. elementary and secondary schools.

A blue - ribbon panel has recommended creating a secure, digital portal for researchers to study the impact of U.S. government spending on health care, education, housing, labor markets, and other sectors of the economy.

Lawmakers on the House panel that oversees the Department of Education's budget criticized President Bush's fiscal 2007 education spending plan at a hearing lEducation's budget criticized President Bush's fiscal 2007 education spending plan at a hearing leducation spending plan at a hearing last week.

Washington — The outlook for a bill that would allow parents to collect legal fees in special - education lawsuits has been clouded by provisions added by a Democrat - controlled House panel but opposed by the Administration and House Republicans.

The panel was «never intended to be in place forever,» said Rep. Alex Diaz de la Portilla, the Republican chairman of the House K - 12 education committee and the prime sponsor of the GOP governor's...

The federal government funds just one $ 7 million program in gifted education, and appropriations panels in both the Senate and House voted preliminarily this past summer to eliminate even that.

The Justice and Education departments still have not determined how to address existing desegregation cases — and whether or where to bring new ones — and have received little guidance from the White House in crafting civil - rights policy, the Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan panel of former federal civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last week.

Advocates for education redesign are encouraged by a U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations panel's decision to extend the Race to the Top program for an additional year.

Only the federal government can eliminate funding disparities among school districts, school - finance experts and education advocates told a House panel last week.

The compromise measure, developed by Representative ErnestineGlossbrenner, chairman of the House education committee, and Senator Carl A. Parker, chairman ofthe Senate education panel, was 3passed out of a House - Senate conference committee by an 8 - to - 2 vote last Thursday and was expected to be taken up by the House this week.

«I urge the Congress not to be modest in rethinking how we can reform and improve [the Elementary and Secondary Education Act's] many fine programs,» Secretary Riley told the House panel.

The panel does not plan to hold further hearings on bilingual education, according to a subcommittee aide, but will «almost certainly» address it in the Senate counterpart of HR 5, the omnibus education bill passed by the House in April.

The Education Department's series of «What Works» booklets has cost the taxpayers $ 3.7 million to produce, an E.D. official told a House appropriations panel last week.

Members of the National Education Association circulated in the halls of Congress on Sept. 10 while the House Education and Labor Committee held a six - hour hearing on the panel's draft of a bill to reauthorize the 5 1/2 - year - old educaEducation Association circulated in the halls of Congress on Sept. 10 while the House Education and Labor Committee held a six - hour hearing on the panel's draft of a bill to reauthorize the 5 1/2 - year - old educaEducation and Labor Committee held a six - hour hearing on the panel's draft of a bill to reauthorize the 5 1/2 - year - old educationeducation law.

«Jeb Bush gives voice to those who want to change the system,» said State Representative Pat Garofalo, a Republican who is chairman of the Minnesota House education finance panel.

Traveling in two separate vans, the 30 - member legislative panel will visit 15 cities over a three - month period, conducting public hearings in each city, according to Roger L. Noe, chairman of the House education committee.

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.

The House Education and Labor Committee may consider modifications in the «family and medical leave act» to address concerns raised by the National School Boards Association, a panel member said last week.

Washington — Representative William D. Ford, the Michigan Democrat who will take over as chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee in the upcoming 102nd Congress, has announced that he will also head the panel's Postsecondary Education Subcommittee.

A House panel crafting the education budget for the next fiscal year voted unanimously to require that teachers statewide take a five - day furlough and that administrators take 10 days, saving roughly $ 100 million in salaries.

WASHINGTON — Little has changed for hearing - impaired schoolchildren in the four years since a federal commission concluded that the education of deaf students was «unacceptably unsatisfactory,» witnesses last week told a House panel beginning work on extension of federal deaf - education programs.

But unlike the House, the Senate panel is writing a bipartisan education bill, and it is unclear whether the Title I proposal will be in the final version.

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In a little less than two months, the Minnesota Republican will pick up the gavel of the House Education and Labor Committee, one of the most powerful policy panels in Congress.

A key House panel is set today to consider some 76 amendments to a Republican bill reauthorizing the nation's top education law - activity that might otherwise suggest that Congress is finally serious about updating the 12 - year - old legislation.

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

Members of the Expert Panel on Assessment and leaders of the FEA will deliver copies of Assessment and Accountability for Improving Schools and Learning to members of the Senate and House education committees at briefings scheduled for later this week.

The chief operating officer of the Federal Student Aid office resigned Tuesday after being directed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to testify before the House oversight panel.

But it's getting really irritating to see the Deseret News and other Utah outlets insist on describing Common Core education standards as «voluntary» («Full house hears panel's criticism of Common Core,» July 10).

Fostering trusting relationships between adults and students is the most effective way to improve school safety, a panel of experts told members of Congress during a recent House Education Committee hearing convened in the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn..

Under the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding establishing the panel, Indiana's Department of Education, Governor, House and Senate will each appoint one teacher, one principal, one superintendent and one «technical advisor» to the panel by next Wednesday, September 4.

Attendees also gained insight into a range of legislative initiatives affecting concurrent and dual enrollment during a breakout session featuring a panel of Congressional staff from the House and Senate education committees.

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Adding a mandate for an annual survey of «intellectual freedom» on state university campuses, a House panel Wednesday approved a wide - ranging higher education package that would expand Bright Futures merit scholarships.