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Her bill, which won unanimous approval of the Assembly's education panel last month, would make it a crime for «teaching staff» to instruct students on how to make explosive devices.

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.

Marcellino was named the top lawmaker on the Senate's education panel last year when John Flanagan was elected majority leader.

Not exact matches

Cuomo borrowed heavily from the panel's recommendations for his education agendas last year and this year, outlining the group's «final action plan» in his State of the State address last week, although he had not yet released the report to the public.

The Board of Regents that will choose the state's next education commissioner is a lot different than the panel that was in place when the previous leader left last year.

A New York City education panel voted to close 10 of 13 struggling public schools that the education department sought to close despite last - minute pleas from parents and students.

HARLEM — Despite being given a last - minute reprieve, dozens of parents and teachers from Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Arts attended the Panel for Education Policy meeting Thursday night where 23 schools were shut down.

The de Blasio administration has approved about 500 contracts for pre-K instruction at C.B.O.s in the last several months through the Department of Education's Panel for Educational Policy.

ALBANY — The Board of Regents that will choose the state's next education commissioner is a lot different than the panel that was in place when the previous leader left last year.

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 — Members of President Bush's education - policy advisory panel last week endorsed the creation of a national «readiness examination» to determine if children are educationally and medically prepared to enter kindergarten.

The panel members, who gathered to offer advice on the Education Department's research priorities, touched on a broad range of issues in an all - day meeting last Thursday.

At the first official meeting of the Department of Education's Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, held here in Atlanta last week, the 15 - member panel heard from wrestlers, rowers, gymnasts, coaches, policy experts, players, and parents — most intensely passionate about the effect that Title IX...

WASHINGTON — The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week approved the Clinton Administration's education - reform legislation by a 14 - to - 3 vote, with four Republicans joining all of the panel's Democrats in supporting the bill.

The Education Writers Association «s national seminar last month included a panel on charter authorizers.

Ed Next's Mike Petrilli participated in a panel discussion at the Education Writers Association National Seminar last month on «Accountability and ESSA: Where Are States Headed?»

But when the board of trustees of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation met last month to choose some of the shooting stars of the next generation, the session took place amid the dark wood paneling, plush couches, and crystal chandeliers of the private Cosmos Club in Washington.

Washington — The National Institute of Education ought to devote a greater percentage of its dollars to efforts to define a common core of knowledge for American students, a panel of nine prominent educators told Secretary of Education William J. Bennett last week.

The seven - member panel expected to be named late last week to assist the New York City Board of Education's search for a new chancellor will face a difficult mandate: recruiting a visionary leader who can correct the failures of the country's largest school system and shape it into «a model for the nation.»

This panel discussion on politics attracted a standing - room - only crowd at last week's national summit on education reform organized by the Foundation for Excellence in Eeducation reform organized by the Foundation for Excellence in EducationEducation.

Washington — Eileen M. Gardner and Lawrence A. Uzzell, senior advisers to Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, resigned without comment last Thursday following a clash with the chairman of a key Senate panel, who called their views on laws for the education of the handicapped «offensivEducation William J. Bennett, resigned without comment last Thursday following a clash with the chairman of a key Senate panel, who called their views on laws for the education of the handicapped «offensiveducation of the handicapped «offensive.»

Last month I talked about teacher pensions on a panel at the annual summit of the Policy Innovators in Education (PIE - Network).

Washington — Some of the leading proponents of «choice» in education told a Senate panel last week that increased competition in the educational marketplace would result in better schools and more satisfied parents, students, and teachers.

The No Child Left Behind Act imposes the wrong kind of testing on schools, educators need better systems to interpret the test data they get, and the federal government should help pay for the mandates it imposes, according to several advocates who last week addressed a private panel studying the education law and how to improve it.

WASHINGTON — Asserting that the current education system has produced expectations for student performance that are «simply too low,» a Congressionally mandated panel last week called for high national standards for student achievement and a national system of assessments to gauge their attainment.

Charging that America is «moving backward» in its efforts to ensure full participation by minority citizens in the nation's life and prosperity, a panel of leaders from education, business, and government last week urged all segments of the society to work toward boosting opportunities for minorities.

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.

HR 5194, which would also reauthorize the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, moved easily last week through both the Subcommittee on Human Resources and the full Education and Labor panel.

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

WASHINGTON — The second annual report on the national education goals for 2000 shows that the nation has made «modest progress» toward achieving the targets, members of the National Education Goals Panel said here leducation goals for 2000 shows that the nation has made «modest progress» toward achieving the targets, members of the National Education Goals Panel said here lEducation Goals Panel said here 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.

WASHINGTON — Despite the lack of a Congressional go - ahead, the National Education Goals Panel plans next month to establish a council to oversee the development of national subject - area standards and a related system of assessments, panel officials said last Panel plans next month to establish a council to oversee the development of national subject - area standards and a related system of assessments, panel officials said last panel officials said last week.

WASHINGTON — A federal advisory panel last week called for continued federal recognition for the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools» Commission on Higher Education, despite that regional accrediting agency's controversial policy of requiring colleges and universities to meet a cultural - diversity standard.

They do not expect algebra to be taught in grade 8 and instead defer it to high school, reversing the most significant change in mathematics education in America in the last decade, supported by the 2008 recommendations of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, and contrary to the practice of our international competitors.

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.

Last Thursday, a panel of student activists from Harvard Law School (HLS) and the Heller School for Social Policy and Management (Heller) at Brandeis University gathered at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to discuss that question and describe the recent the movements for inclusion on their respective campuses.

WASHINGTON — The National Education Goals Panel last week recommended the development of a national assessment to test the skills of college graduates.

Getting better - qualified teachers into California's classrooms will require improved teacher education, higher salaries for public school teachers and administrators, and elimination of emergency permits over the next five years, a state panel argues in a report issued last week.

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.

The appointment of publishing executive Cathleen P. Black to be the new chancellor of New York City's schools was in jeopardy last week after an advisory panel and the state commissioner of education made it clear they would like to see someone with education experience serving in the district's top job.

WASHINGTON — A Senate panel last week dipped its toe in the politically treacherous waters of state school - finance equity, an issue that could make waves during the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

To begin sketching out the task at hand, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) held a special Askwith Forum panel last Thursday hosted by Fernando Reimers, Ed.M.»

Note: These were my opening comments during last week's Fordham Institute panel, «Is it Time to Turn the Page on Federal Accountability in Education?»

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.

«Technology offers tremendous potential for improving the delivery of education, and we should not squander this opportunity,» Sen. Bob Kerrey, D - Neb., the chairman of the Web - based Education Commission, said as the panel's report was released here laeducation, and we should not squander this opportunity,» Sen. Bob Kerrey, D - Neb., the chairman of the Web - based Education Commission, said as the panel's report was released here laEducation Commission, said as the panel's report was released here last month.

Washington — The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week approved legislation that would create an independent panel to measure progress toward national education goals and issue an annual «national report card.»

Last year, he dissented from a circuit panel ruling in A.M. v. Holmes, a case where a New Mexico seventh - grader was handcuffed for disrupting class, as Education Week reported.

Education Pioneers, a national non-profit, hosted a panel discussion in Newark, New Jersey last Thursday on the critical need for more black men in eEducation Pioneers, a national non-profit, hosted a panel discussion in Newark, New Jersey last Thursday on the critical need for more black men in educationeducation.

In this, the last in a series of free discussions about key education issues, our panel will address which arrangements best support innovation in education and whether the focus should be on saying which schools and colleges are effective or if we should concentrate more on helping every institution improve what it does for young people.

As a participant vendor in the Competency - Based Education Network's TIP (Technology Interoperability Project) last year, I had the pleasure of serving on a panel at the 2015 CBExchange in Phoenix, Ar... Read More...