Sentences with phrase «hearing last»

In a hearing last week, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, a Democrat from Connecticut, expressed his frustration more directly.

In a pretrial hearing last month, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote said she believed the government has a strong case.

It's a good thing we'll be hearing the last of whether Apple is going to host a new iPad 3, an iPad Mini or an iPad HD launch event on March 7.

Federal judge Denise Cote, who is overseeing the case, indicated in a pretrial hearing last week that she is «leaning toward» the DOJ's version of events, based on all of the evidence that she has seen already.

on hearing his last opera.

The Legislature held a public hearing last week on the Common Core.

During a hearing last week, Godley said Clark County schools would take a $ 17.5 million budget hit based on early applications and the amount will grow as more parents opt into the program and more students become eligible.

At an Assembly Education Committee hearing last week, for example, a bill Walker backs that would allow parents of special education students to use state tax dollars to pay for private school tuition hit significant roadblocks.

At a joint legislative budget hearing last week, Elia defended herself, saying she is a «trustworthy» person: «When I say I'm going to do something, we're going to do it.»

The Senate Education Committee examined effective strategies for accelerated learning, including the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) Program, dual - credit programs, and early college schools at a hearing last week.

At a public hearing last week, members of the public spoke for and against chartering the schools.

Good Morning A spirited public hearing last night as the Orleans Parish School Board considers chartering New Orleans» five remaining traditional public schools.

MORE candidates, such as Jia Lee, who testified against high - stakes testing in a U.S. senate hearing last year, are running in this year's UFT election.

At a hearing last week that put a temporary halt to the new Opportunity Scholarships program, Judge Robert Hobgood learned some new facts about the most popular private schools that school voucher applicants were hoping to use taxpayer funds to attend.

Like much in Washington these days, there were two completely different and contrary narratives following Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos» confirmation hearing last week.

At a hearing last week that put a temporary halt to the new Opportunity Scholarships program, Judge Robert Hobgood learned some new facts about the most popular private schools that school voucher applicants were hoping to use taxpayer...

Student leaders from around the state attended the State Board of Education hearing last week to express their demand that students» input as stakeholder be valued in the LCAP development and LCFF implementation processes.

Her dismal performance Sunday night on 60 Minutes (including an inability to articulate the case for expanding public charter schools and other forms of family choice in education) demonstrates that she remains as willfully ignorant about education policy issues as she was during her confirmation hearing last year.

The parliamentary education committee wrote to Damian Hinds after a hearing last week with former chancellor George Osborne and other representatives of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership highlighted a «stark educational attainment gap between the north and other parts of England, particularly for disadvantaged pupils».

, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, told Education Secretary Arne Duncan in a hearing last month.

Deaf Education The House Subcommittee on Select Education held a hearing last week on the Education of the Deaf Act.

Computer Network The House Science Subcommittee held a hearing last week on plans for a computer network that would include education data.

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...

Washington — The Reagan Administration's promise to keep the Head Start program in its «social safety net» was nothing more than a «charade,» according to one Democratic congressman, who joined other members of the House Subcommittee on Human Resources in sharply attacking proposed policy changes for the program during a routine «oversight» hearing last week.

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.

If a Senate committee hearing last week was any indication, the congressional authors of the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001 will be keeping close tabs on the Department of Education's efforts to translate the law into practice.

«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...

Advocates of the new federal direct - lending program for college students praised its savings and simplicity at a Senate hearing last week, while three agencies reported that their studies found no major flaws in the program.

The Senate Juvenile Justice Subcommittee held a hearing last week on gang intervention and prevention strategies included in pending crime legislation.

James Alan Kearbey, a student at Goddard Junior High School, has been charged with homicide in the Jan. 21 shooting death of James McGee, said Larry K. Vardaman, director of the state detention facility in Wichita where Mr. Kearbey was ordered held in a hearing last week.

Alexander indicated that he was strongly influenced by the recommendation made at a hearing last week by Professor Marty West of Harvard University that the federal government continue to require annual tests but that it leave the design of accountability systems up to the states.

At a hearing last month, more than 100 people weighed in on the debate over what middle and high school students should be taught about human sexuality.

The Senate Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs, and Alcoholism held a hearing last week on support programs for troubled families.

At a hearing last week on legislation to reauthorize child - nutrition programs, officials from the Agriculture Department, the agency that administers the school - lunch program, said that such overcounts could cost the government as much as $ 200 million each year.

The Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management held a hearing last week on the efficacy of health - education programs.

A hearing last week on Harris Wofford's nomination to head the Corporation for National and Community Service focused more on its beleaguered programs than on his qualifications, which committee members praised.

The board unanimously decided at its May meeting to delay action on the state education department's proposal, after receiving testimony from more than 100 individuals and representatives of statewide education lobbies during a two - day public hearing last month.

The Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on immigration held a hearing last week on proposals to reform and reduce legal immigration.

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 last week.

Not hearing the last part, the boy naturally assumed he was destined for greatness, only to find that fate awaited another baby whose parents had the same idea.

Although sequestration «has already dealt a devastating blow,» said NIH Director Francis Collins at a Senate hearing last week, it turns out it's not that easy to spell out the damage.

At a hearing last week, supporters of lifting the ban said the move is needed to help Libya rebuild global ties after decades of international sanctions during the dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi.

At a hearing last year before the science committee he chairs, Representative Lamar Smith (R — TX) warned that «if NSF is not capable of handling this type of program, then maybe we should consider legislation that limits the use of rotators.»

In a court hearing last Wednesday in San Diego, California, district judge Larry Burns ruled that doctors in Springfield, Missouri, could continue to forcibly dispense antipsychotic medicines to Jared Lee Loughner, who on 8 January shot and killed six people and injured 13, including Democrat congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

At a September hearing last year before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that the agency would ask the academies to vet the science behind the conclusion.

There's still no sign of the published report even though its conclusions were referred to at Senate hearing last September.

In the wake of a hearing last week, the US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology has asked NASA to consider a crewed fly - by of the Red Planet in 2021.

Cauley told the House hearing last month that NERC's current «bottoms - up» process for developing grid security standards that begins with its power company stakeholders is the right approach in this case.

And in a pre-trial hearing last week for an employer retaliation case, a judge in New York rejected an attempt to introduce fMRI lie detection evidence from Cephos, the same Massachusetts - based company involved in the Tennessee case.

At a House of Representatives hearing last week, one Democrat said the cuts would mean 5000 to 8000 fewer research grants in 2018.