Sentences with phrase «senate education subcommittee»

Members of a Senate education subcommittee, at a hearing on the issue the previous week, indicated that they were willing to explore...

Washington — The Senate education subcommittee plans to include reauthorization of the federal bilingual - education program in an omnibus bill that will be drafted this fall.

Hearing The Senate education subcommittee opened hearings last week on reauthorization of the Education Department's office for educational research and improvement.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year David Van Essen, president of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), strongly urged the US House and Senate appropriations subcommittees on labor, health and human services as well as on education to increase NIH funding by 6.7 percent per year for each of the next three fiscal years, stating that this is needed «to ensure that our best and brightest young people will enter the field and continue to make neuroscience research advances.»

At the 3 - hour - long Senate hearing — which, in an unusual move, was jointly held by an appropriations subcommittee and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions — topics ranged from financing the effort to the need for a greater sense of urgency, public health and scientific issues, and personal experiences.

Senator Tom Harkin (D — IA) called the hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education in the wake of the 23 August ruling by Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., that hESC research violates a law barring federal funds for research that harms human embryos.

Washington — A Senate subcommittee last week adopted a bill that would revamp the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act to channel a larger portion of federal funds directly to local school districts.

A top Education Department official last week clashed with the chairman of a key House subcommittee over the chairman's proposal to overhaul the department's research branch, as a more modest reauthorization bill advanced in the Senate.

A Senate subcommittee last week unanimously approved legislation to reorganize and expand the Education Department's office of educational research and improvement, although less dramatically than would a comparable House measure.

Just last week, the House and Senate appropriations subcommittees with jurisdiction over education spending canceled planned «markup» hearings for their respective budget bills.

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.

During a Senate subcommittee hearing last week on research in vocational education, Marla Peterson, dean for research at the University of Tennessee, claimed that last year's bidding process on the national center's contract was unfairly affected by «the direct political action» of the American...

S 2412, the «Bilingual Education Improvements Act of 1982,» was introduced April 21 by Senator S.I. Hayakawa, Republican of California, and was expected to be the subject of discussions at a Senate subcommittee hearing April 23 and 26.

The legislation, dubbed the «Even Start Act» — HR 2535 in the House and S 1723 in the Senate — is «based on the belief that illiteracy, like many of our society's worst problems, begins in the home,» Senator Chafee told the House elementary, secondary, and vocational education subcommittee last week.

Following this adventure in vouchers, the Senate Education Committee and a House subcommittee approved a voucher plan that would allow any Tennessee student with an IEP — Individualized Education Plan — to receive vouchers.

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) joined more than 660 organizations in a letter to the U.S. House and Senate Appropriations Committees voicing support for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Education and related agencies, and urging the lawmakers to allocate as high a funding level as possible to these programs and services in the fiscal year 2017 subcommittee allocations.

New York, NY — Today, a diverse set of 38 organizations from across the country urged the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, HHS, Education & Related Agencies to provide strong funding for the School Leader Recruitment and Support Program (SLRSP)-- an updated version of the School Leadership Program (SLP) reauthorized in the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

When Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos testified before a Senate appropriations subcommittee Tuesday regarding the president's budget proposal, her remarks that private schools must follow federal law if they receive federal funding received the lion's share of attention.

New Leaders joined 20 organizations and nearly 100 educators from across the country in submitting a letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, HHS, Education & Related Agencies to provide meaningful investments in programs that will support teachers and principals in creating schools where all students can succeed.

The Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee on Friday postponed a vote until at least next week after Sen. Paul Pinsky, a Democrat who chairs the education subcommittee, suggested striking language from the bill that would reduce the state board of education's ability to weigh in on the denial of a charter school application at the locEducation, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee on Friday postponed a vote until at least next week after Sen. Paul Pinsky, a Democrat who chairs the education subcommittee, suggested striking language from the bill that would reduce the state board of education's ability to weigh in on the denial of a charter school application at the loceducation subcommittee, suggested striking language from the bill that would reduce the state board of education's ability to weigh in on the denial of a charter school application at the loceducation's ability to weigh in on the denial of a charter school application at the local level.

The House education subcommittee is holding a hearing today on the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act — which expired in 2012 — and the Senate education committee has called for stakeholder input on current career and technical educatioeducation subcommittee is holding a hearing today on the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act — which expired in 2012 — and the Senate education committee has called for stakeholder input on current career and technical educatioEducation Act — which expired in 2012 — and the Senate education committee has called for stakeholder input on current career and technical educatioeducation committee has called for stakeholder input on current career and technical educationeducation issues.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan faced many questions from members of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on education, where concerns about spending were heightened by the prolonged negotiations over the debtEducation Arne Duncan faced many questions from members of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on education, where concerns about spending were heightened by the prolonged negotiations over the debteducation, where concerns about spending were heightened by the prolonged negotiations over the debt ceiling.

The base budget for public education spending approved yesterday morning by an appropriations subcommittee is now headed to the Utah Senate and House floors, after receiving a nod of approval from the Executive Appropriations Committee yesterday evening.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made it clear, appearing before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday, that she sees no connection between school funding and school performance.

The federal Race to the Top program would be renewed for another year under a spending bill approved today by the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that deals with education spending — but wouldn't receive nearly as much money as President Barack Obama has sought.

The federal Race to the Top program would be renewed for another year under a spending bill approved today by the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that deals with education spending - but wouldn't receive nearly as much money as President Barack Obama has sought...

«Our proposal has enough resources to assure a 100 percent eligibility for all low - income kids to have a full - day pre-kindergarten when at least one parent works,» Steinberg told members of the Senate's subcommittee on education finance.