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.
Not exact matches
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.
A
plan to cut $ 10 million and eliminate 150 positions at the California Department of
Education drew skepticism but no action Tuesday from an Assembly budget
subcommittee.
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 vouch
plan that would allow any Tennessee student with an IEP — Individualized
Education Plan — to receive vouch
Plan — to receive vouchers.
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.
In August, the Minnesota Department of
Education approved a new definition of gifted and talented, developed by a
subcommittee of the Gifted
Education Strategic
Planning group.
WASHINGTON — Ignoring the outsized need for family
planning resources and turning a blind eye to the looming and near - immediate threat of the Zika virus, a House
subcommittee passed a bill that prohibits funding for the nation's only dedicated source of federal funding for family
planning services, eliminates the evidence - based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, and proposes wasting millions in taxpayer dollars by funding ineffective abstinence - only
education.