Sentences with phrase «senate education committee»

September 29, 2015: NSBA and National Education Groups Urge Congress to Finish the Job on ESEA Reauthorization NSBA and nine other national education organizations sent this letter to Chairman John Kline (R - MN) and Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D - VA) of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and Chairman Lamar Alexendar (R - TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D - WA) of the Senate Education committee urging them to finish work on ESEA and deliver a bipartisan bill to the President's desk this fall.

«DPI was never in love... with charter schools,» Sen. Tillman (R - Randolph) said in a Senate Education Committee hearing on Tuesday as he introduced to fellow lawmakers a gutted version of House Bill 334, which would transfer the Office of Charter Schools out of the Department of Public Instruction, placing it under the State Board of Education.

Last year, California's State Senate Education Committee held a hearing about charter oversight.

A critical vote is scheduled in the Senate Education Committee Wednesday, March 6, at 8:30 AM.

He has a big heart, cares about children, and I have enjoyed working with him,» Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R - Tenn.)

If approved, the amended bill could go back to the State Senate education committee early next week.

Farrow, vice chairman of the Senate Education Committee, and Steineke, Assembly assistant majority leader, brokered the deal.

In response to the Dept. of Education's announcement of proposed ESSA accountability regulations, the Rep. John Kline and Sen. Lamar Alexander, chairmen of the House and Senate Education Committee, threatened to block the rules under the Congressional Review Act.

-- The Senate Education Committee today approved SB 645, a bill sponsored by the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) that calls for the increase of accountability criteria for charter schools at the time of their renewal.

But lawmakers on the Senate education committee expressed enthusiasm Monday when discussing raises tied to teacher performance, opposed to the number of years spent in the classroom.

Coming up in the Legislature The Senate Education Committee will hold public hearings Thursday on bills relating to professional development in character education (SB 329), tuberculosis screening for school employees (SB 382) and changing the payment schedules for public, voucher and independently run charter schools (SB 383).

In addition, the analysis found ten senators on the Senate education committee have received donations from a political action committee controlled by the DeVos family, including Sen. Lamar Alexander, R - Tenn., the committee chairman.

Members of the State Senate Education Committee examined current local and state compensation strategies for classroom teachers, noting that recruitment and retention of high quality educators hinges at least in part on the pay teachers receive.

Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, said he was glad the Assembly agreed to adopt the Senate bill.

(Calif.) School officials would be required to supervise parents or guardians registered as sex offenders when they are on campus, under a bill that passed the Senate education committee last week.

Senate Education Committee chairman John Legg said in a telephone interview that he fully expected a class size bill to be filed.

Senate education committee chairman Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, said he expects any new legislation that would create standards to be successful.

Please call and / or email your Senator and the Senators on the Senate Education Committee to vote for SB190.

While no plans are ever completely solid in Springfield, a State Senate Education Committee hearing has been called for Fri, 02/24, at 9:30 AM in Springfield, with Sen. Martinez» school closing and turnaround moratorium bill (SB 3239) on the agenda.

Education Week has released a list of notable comments made by both House and Senate Education Committee members on ESSA.

I ran into Amy in Springfield at a Senate Education Committee meeting the day that HB 628 and HB 363 were being considered.

The Senate Education Committee on Wednesday unanimously recommended SB235, which attempts to bring a greater measure of accountability despite the controversy surrounding Utah's school grading system.

Ruiz, who chairs the Senate education committee, yesterday said she would not comment on any competing proposals, maintaining only that she continues to meet with various stakeholders to come up with a consensus bill.

The bill passed out of the Assembly in January and is waiting to be heard by the Senate Education Committee.

Take the time to thank the members of the Senate Education Committee, especially Sen. Lee and Sen. Simmons.

We used our voices this week and sent nearly 45,000 letters telling the Senate Education Committee that the FSA should not be used to grade anyone.

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R - TN), chairman of the Senate Education Committee, argues that the proposed rules would «unlawfully regulate» state spending and school allocation agreements among unions and districts.

Chairman of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Larry Taylor, filed SB 2 which was heard and voted out of committee by a vote of 9 - 2 last week and this week the Senate passed the bill on a vote of 19 - 12.

When AB 1172 was heard in the Senate Education Committee in June 2012, CCSA and charter school advocates made their voices heard; thanks to your participation, AB 1172 failed to pass the Senate Education Committee!

The Senate Education Committee approved Tillman's proposal Wednesday.

However, giving unions more negotiating power over evaluations would be a problem said Nancy Espinoza, a legislative advocate for the California School Boards Association in testimony before the Senate Education Committee a couple of weeks ago.

* Senate Education Committee Votes on Charter School Bills * Several Charter Schools Receive Charter School Facilities Incentive Grants * The November Ballot Gets Longer

Earlier, the Senate Education Committee considered a bill that would allow siblings of current Choice Scholarship recipients to qualify for a voucher without first attending public school.

Kline has been coordinating his approach with Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, but the Senate leader is on a very different track than Kline.

Early in the session, Kenley and fellow Senate Education Committee member Carlin Yoder, R - Middlebury, publicly debated the so - called «public school attendance requirement,» as the Evansville Courier & Press «Eric Bradner recalls.

On the Senate side, Chairman Lamar Alexander from Tennessee leads the Senate Education committee.

This gathering — the largest in the 20 - plus year history of charter schools — also featured significant speeches by Senate President Steve Sweeney, Senate Education Committee Chair Theresa Ruiz, Assembly Education Committee Chair Pamela Lampitt, Senator Declan O'Scanlon, Assembly Budget Committee Chair Eliana Pintor, and Deputy Speaker Gary Schaer.

Derek Olson, a Doctor of Education (EdD) student, was part of a group of Minnesota Teacher of the Year award winners invited to come to the state capitol to offer insights on teaching to members of the Senate Education Committee.

IDRA Testifies Before the Texas Senate Education Committee About ELL Education IDRA's Dr. Albert Cortez presented testimony state policies affecting the education of English language learners, particularly at the secondary level.

WASHINGTON — DURING a recent hearing by the Senate Education Committee, its Republican chair, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, questioned whether the federal government's annual standardized testing requirement, embodied in the No Child Left Behind law of 2001, may be too much.

Keeping the Public in Public Education, testimony presented for the Senate Education Committee (San Antonio, Texas: Intercultural Development Research Association).

Then, members of the Senate Education Committee became badly spilt over legislation that would have imposed new requirements of how and when teachers are evaluated - but in the end killed that bill too.

The irascible Lynn piped up, reminding Thrasher, a former House speaker close to Bush, of a questionable 4 - 3 committee vote she intended to challenge because she believed the vote came after another «time certain» vote by the Senate Education Committee this week.

(Calif.) Programs aimed at keeping kids in school and out of the so - called «prison pipeline» would receive a big boost under a bill being carried by the chair of the Senate Education Committee that lays groundwork for the use of millions of dollars in prisoner - release savings.

Julia Meyerson, founder and executive director of Vista College Prep, speaks to the Senate Education Committee on March 8.

Legislators speaking included: Senator Jeffrey E. Piccola, Senate Education Committee Chairman and co-sponsor of Senate Bill 1; Senator Dominic Pileggi, Senate Majority Leader; Senator Mike Folmer, Vice-Chair of the Senate Education Committee; Representative Tom Quigley, Chair of the House Subcommittee on Basic Education and prime sponsor of HB 1330, legislation that would increase funding for the EITC program; Senator Jane Clare Orie, and Representative Tony Payton.

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 vouchers.

Senate Education Committee members voted 7 - 4 to send a bill to the full Senate that would block further implementation of the standards until the State Board of Education conducts a review of the standards and holds public hearings in each of Indiana's nine congressional districts.

If granted by Ramsey and Harwell, the joint committee of the legislature would be composed of members of the Senate Education Committee and the House Education Administration and Planning Committee and would be convened as soon as possible.

The Minnesota Senate Education Committee has approved a bill that would require school districts planning new classroom construction or renovation to follow guidelines set by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for classroom acoustics.