Sentences with phrase «education subcommittee»

The lack of any mention of ESEA was what irked Rep. Todd Rokita, the Indiana Republican who chairs the House education subcommittee on K - 12 policy.

Washington — The Congress must contend with a difficult dilemma as it works on extending federal student - aid programs, Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander told members of the Senate education subcommittee last week.

Based on testimony Tuesday before the Assembly's education subcommittee on school finance, all four of the governor's proposals appear to have strong support among K - 12 schools and the community college system.

Rep. Glazier tried to remove funds for the voucher program with an amendment yesterday during the House Appropriations Education subcommittee meeting, but his attempt failed.

The importance of parental engagement and the ways in which states encourage parents to play an active role in their children's education was the focus of a House education subcommittee hearing last week.

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.

The $ 300 million charter school measure, sponsored by K — 12 education subcommittee chairman Duncan Hunter (R - CA)

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

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.

Republicans on a House education subcommittee quashed an effort last week by Democrats to guarantee «full funding» for special education as part of Congress» overhaul of the main special education law this year.

The House education subcommittee held a hearing to examine ways to improve career and technical education (CTE).

Sharon P. Robinson, the president of the Washington - based American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, said at a House education subcommittee hearing that teacher education has changed dramatically over the past several years as a result of reforms launched by the states, universities, and the federal government.

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

In a letter to the House education subcommittee, Alan I. Leshner, the chief executive officer of AAAS (which publishes ScienceInsider), said, «There is virtually no scientific controversy among the overwhelming majority of researchers on the core facts of global warming and evolution.

In an item ScienceInsider ran yesterday, freshman Representative Mo Brooks (R - AL), the newly named chair of the House of Representatives science panel's basic research and education subcommittee, was asked by Jeffrey Mervis if human activity was causing global warming.

The Appropriations Committee is scheduled to act on recommendations of its education subcommittee this week.

In testimony before a joint hearing of two education subcommittees of the U.S. House of Representatives, newly - appointed ets President Gregory R. Anrig said the nonprofit testing organization will:

The reauthorization bill approved by the committee contained a slight modification in the measure as reported last month by the education subcommittee, which mandated that states channel 70 percent of federal vocational - education funds to secondary schools and 30 percent to postsecondary institutions.

As CCSA prepared for the education subcommittees to vote on the charter school items, it became clear that these proposals would face an uphill battle in their subcommittee hearings.

, chairman of the education subcommittee, questioned the proposal to dramatically cut college financial aid programs such as work - study and college - access programs for low - income students.

Rep. Todd Rokita, an Indiana Republican who chairs the U.S. House's K - 12 education subcommittee, cited the waivers as a reason to pass their rewrite plan.

Even so, the education subcommittee voted to send the bill to the full House education committee.

The letter went to leaders of the education subcommittees working on appropriations in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives for Fiscal Year 2018, in light of the recommendation in the president's request to eliminate this $ 2.295 billion program (see the «skinny budget» released in March, and I'll have another article soon about the full proposal being issued today).

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 local level.

Two clear themes emerged during the House K — 12 education subcommittee's recent hearing on improving NCLB's failing accountability system:

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 education issues.

Last week, House proponents and the lone opponent on the education subcommittee, Rep. Kevin Dunlap, D - Rock Island, a school teacher, clashed on the measure.

Alexandria, VA (05/16/11)-- Representative Duncan Hunter (R - CA), chairman of the K — 12 education subcommittee, introduced the first in a series of House bills to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

ASCD shared (PDF) the publication with Rep. Todd Rokita (R - IN), chairman of the House's K — 12 education subcommittee, as well as with other subcommittee members in advance of their recent hearing on measuring teacher performance.

Representative Womack is a part of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education subcommittee.

Perhaps no one will hire you because you were the chair of the education subcommittee of your local bar association, but they will hire you because you speak with confidence.

The second day would consist of attending an education subcommittee meeting, meetings with individual legislators, and a full legislative session.