Alexander Russo is a former teacher, researcher, and U.S.
Senate education aide.
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She was a special assistant to the Board of
Education's Center for Career and Occupational
Education from 1975 - 1976, a legislative
aide for the New York State Assembly's Committee on Housing in 1977, a senior program analyst for the New York State Assembly's Committee on Cities from 1977 - 1979, Executive Director of the advisory council of the office of the New York State
Senate minority leader from 1979 - 1982, Director of Special Projects in the office of the New York State
Senate minority leader from 1980 - 1982 and a member of the New York City Council from 1982 - 1992.
Aides to
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who has virtually secured the 1996 GOP presidential nomination, are preparing new proposals on
education, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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.
«It doesn't take a genius to say this — on school - health and sex -
education issues, we are going to move to the right,» said one Democratic
Senate aide.
The absence of proposed amendments will almost surely mean that changes in the law, P.L. 94 - 142, the
Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, will not be included in House and
Senate bills authorizing funds for the programs funded under the law next year, according to Congressional staff
aides.
But Republicans are concerned the system has changed from what a bipartisan committee agreed to earlier this year, said Sarah Archibald, an
aide to Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, chairman of the
Senate Education Committee.
Politico reports that Sen. Lamar Alexander, the Republican Chairman of the
Senate Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, was «furious» that a top
aide to
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was «circumventing» ESSA, contending the federal agency was «out of bounds» in challenging state officials on issues such as...
Alexander, fresh off a successful reelection bid and expected chairman of the
Senate HELP Committee with Republicans now in control, gathered
aides to tell them his top priority would be replacing the dated
education law.
Education Week recently reported that some Republican
Senate aides are doing more than dreaming — they're drafting a bill that would eliminate the federal mandate on standardized testing.
She began her career on Capitol Hill as an
aide to a U.S. Senator and on the staff of the
Senate Subcommittee on
Education.