Sentences with phrase «education committee members last»

Washington — House and Senate education committee members last week sharply criticized the Reagan Administration's proposed changes in regulations governing programs for handicapped schoolchildren, and both chambers set legislative actions in motion that signaled their displeasure.

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«Last year was kind of a unique and challenging year on a lot of different levels including looking at and reviewing the Regents,» said Senate education committee chair John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican and prominent member of his conference.

In 2011, Watch ran for state Committee member against Councilman Halloran — who withdrew at the last minute — and was substituted by Dr. Anthony Daddiego, a special education teacher who won the state committeeman position outright.

Led by Senate and Assembly higher education committee leaders, Ken LaValle and Deborah Glick, a group of students, along with UUP and PSC members, are making a last - minute push to extend a «maintenance of effort» law that will expire at the end of this month unless it is renewed.

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, for her part, pointed out that State Senator Toby Stavisky, a Queens Democrat and high - ranking member of the Higher Education Committee, had introduced a bill last year to provide free tuition for New York State residents to SUNY, CUNY and community colleges — a sign, she said, of the importance of having a unified Democratic Albany.

Council members and Education Committee Chair Robert Jackson told Mulgrew that they appreciated his leadership in identifying the DOE's huge failure to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursement for special education services over the last tEducation Committee Chair Robert Jackson told Mulgrew that they appreciated his leadership in identifying the DOE's huge failure to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursement for special education services over the last teducation services over the last two years.

Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last time biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution; by which they may enlist creationists and their claims, was taken out by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually by the school board members.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts and chairman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee, last week told members of the Committee for Economic Development that the Congress may need to protect education funding through innovative means.

President Bush included business leaders, university presidents, union and association leaders, policy analysts, and a public - school teacher, among others, on his 24 - member education - policy advisory committee, established last fall to provide him with innovative ideas.

Washington — The Congressional battle over the President's fiscal 1983 budget officially began last week, as members of education - related committees of both the House and the Senate debated among themselves the appropriate budget levels for education programs.

The House Education and Labor Committee last week approved by voice vote legislation to reauthorize — and reorganize — the Education Department's research branch, after rejecting a Republican effort to give the President authority to appoint the members of a new board that would set research policy.

Members of the House and Senate education committees began negotiations last week to reconcile the bills.

Released last month by the 25 - member committee, which included top state and local education officials...

School resource officers, additional guidance counselors, and professional development for educators can help schools head off tragedies such as the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last December, witnesses told members of the House Education and the Workforce Committee at a recent hearing last week on school safety issues.

A member of HGSE's Dean's Council, a former member of the Visiting Committee, and cochair of the last capital campaign, Hobbs, with his late wife Elisabeth, dedicated more than 20 years of service to the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Late last week, two bills related to the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) were introduced by Republican members of the House Education and the Workforce Committee.

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 — The nation must move quickly to eliminate gaps between members of minority groups and the rest of the population in education, employment, health, and other areas, the head of a commission on minority opportunity told the House Education and Labor Committee leducation, employment, health, and other areas, the head of a commission on minority opportunity told the House Education and Labor Committee lEducation and Labor Committee last week.

His wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D - N.Y., was one of two Democrats named last week as new members of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.

WASHINGTON — Several members of the Congressional committees that oversee social - service spending last week criticized education lobbyists here for using what one member termed «pressure tactics» to protect education funding increases.

Members of the Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance (MEJA) celebrated huge victories last week as the Senate Ways and Means Committee passed an annual budget bill that increases education Education Justice Alliance (MEJA) celebrated huge victories last week as the Senate Ways and Means Committee passed an annual budget bill that increases education education spending.

Two new, similar bills have been introduced this year, and in this session's first policy hearing on the subject held last week, members of the Assembly's Committee on Education expressed opposition to dismantling the existing program.

A former member of the education select committee, Glass briefly became a member of the shadow education team last September when she was given the childcare and early years brief, but was replaced by Jenny Chapman when she was promoted in January.

For the last few weeks, Education Committee Chairs Rep. Paul Boyer and Sen. Sylvia Allen have invited teachers to share their experiences in Arizona's public education system with committeeEducation Committee Chairs Rep. Paul Boyer and Sen. Sylvia Allen have invited teachers to share their experiences in Arizona's public education system with committeeCommittee Chairs Rep. Paul Boyer and Sen. Sylvia Allen have invited teachers to share their experiences in Arizona's public education system with committeeeducation system with committeecommittee members.

Local MP and education select committee member Trudy Harrison was physically escorted offsite by trust staff last week when she arrived to check on the flood damage.

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.

Pay, teacher support and rewarding quality teachers can all be blamed for the state's teaching crisis, superintendents of various ailing school systems told members of the House Select committee on Education Strategy and Practices last month.

This was the last meeting for board members Judy Gibbons who is not seeking another term and Brigitte Ramsey who is stepping down to take the Associate Executive Director position at the Prichard Committee for Education Excellence.

Over the last four years, she has been an active volunteer member in the Tam Unified High School District community developing parent education programs and is currently a board member on their Wellness Advisory Committee.