Sentences with phrase «education subcommittee last»

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.

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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 House measure, approved by an appropriations subcommittee last week, would inch up the current discretionary budget for the Department of Education by $ 118 million, to a total of $ 56.7 billion, or by less than 1 percent, in fiscal 2006.

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«It allows us to spotlight the integrated approach that blends strong academics with expanded vocational and technical education,» said Rep. Frank Riggs, R - Calif., the chairman of the House subcommittee that held a hearing last week at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science...

Rep. John Edward Porter, R - Ill., and Sen. Arlen Specter, R - Pa., the chairmen of their respective chambers» appropriations subcommittees with jurisdiction over education, met late last week in an effort to settle differences over programs under their purview.

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...

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.

Washington — Members of a House subcommittee on education were advised last week to reject a measure that would deny federal financial aid to schools and colleges that prohibit student and faculty religious groups from meeting on school grounds.

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.

Last month, a House subcommittee again passed a measure that would allow states to determine whether they will offer special education services to some inmates.

Foxx, chairwoman of the House Education Committee's subcommittee on higher education and workforce training, received campaign contributions from Corinthian Colleges during her last reelection campaign in 2014 — nearly Education Committee's subcommittee on higher education and workforce training, received campaign contributions from Corinthian Colleges during her last reelection campaign in 2014 — nearly education and workforce training, received campaign contributions from Corinthian Colleges during her last reelection campaign in 2014 — nearly $ 20,000.