Sentences with phrase «version of an education bill»

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The House version of the bill, the «Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act,» was approved last month by the Education and Labor Committee but the full House has yet to take it up.

The House's version of the tax reform bill passed last week, and the Senate's version — which notably lacks those education cuts — passed Saturday.

Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, criticized the Senate version of the bill for cutting about $ 40 billion from money «targeted to help states avoid drastic education cuts and teacher layoffs,» as well as $ 20 billion from construction aid to schools and colleges and $ 1 billion from new aid for Head Start and other early childhood education programs.

ALBANY — The final budget bill containing education funding and policy, introduced on Tuesday afternoon, included modified versions of many of Governor Andrew Cuomo's original reform proposals, including an overhauled teacher evaluation system.

Sharpton — who will meet with US Education Secretary Arne Duncan today — told The Post he supports an Assembly version of the bill.

«Among other items, the agenda will include a revised version of the Education, Labor and Family Assistance Article VII bill that I was forced to veto earlier this year to prevent an unaffordable increase in school aid, an appropriation bill to authorize distribution of $ 607 million in federal Education Jobs Fund money to school districts, and necessary legislation to reorganize the New York City Off - Track Betting Corporation.»

Proposed in 2007 and enacted in 2008, the newest version of the U.S. military's veterans education program — variously known as the Post-9 / 11 GI Bill, the Webb GI Bill, or the New GI Bill — aims to provide returning servicemen and servicewomen with the opportunity to begin or continue higher education at colleges, universities, and professional training programs.

The lame - duck House of Representatives today accepted a stripped - down Senate version of the America COMPETES Act, a bill to strengthen research, education, and innovation at several federal agencies.

The Senate late last week was poised to approve its version of the Clinton Administration's education - reform bill.

In a strong bipartisan showing, the Senate last week approved its version of the Clinton Administration's education - reform bill, the proposed «goals 2000: educate America act.»

Also last week, the Congress cleared and President Bush signed a final version of HR 3566, an appropriations bill that provides the Education Department with $ 24.15 billion for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.

Last Tuesday, House and Senate conferees, considering each chamber's version of the fiscal 1984 education appropriations bill, agreed to cut nie's fiscal 1983 budget of $ 55.6 million by 13 percent, to $ 48.2 million.

Lawmakers on the U.S. Senate education committee and more than a dozen House members met in a conference committee Wednesday to begin reconciling two bills — one a Republican - only measure that barely passed the U.S. House of Representatives in July, and the other a Senate version that cleared the U.S Senate with big, bipartisan support a few days later.

As debate over the reauthorization of federal vocational - education programs began in the Senate last month, groups representing state education agencies were lobbying to preserve a strong state role they say is threatened in the House version of the bill.

Although, the bill is not perfect, admits Associate Professor Martin West — who helped formulate versions of the bill while working with Senator Lamar Alexander on the Senate Education Committee — it is a step in the right direction.

Reflecting bipartisan consternation over the rising price of a college education and other postsecondary issues, the House education committee voted unanimously today to send its version of a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act to the fueducation and other postsecondary issues, the House education committee voted unanimously today to send its version of a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act to the fueducation committee voted unanimously today to send its version of a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act to the fuEducation Act to the full House.

XXThe Senate Appropriations Committee approved its version of an education, labor, and health and human services spending bill on Sept. 3, while its counterpart in the House passed its version of the funding measure in July.

The House and the Senate plan to vote this week on a quickly crafted compromise version of the «education savings account» bill that Republicans hope will force President Clinton to reverse his opposition to it.

But Charles Barone, who directs federal policy for Democrats for Education Reform, said that the initial version of the bill squared with the evaluation proposal Van Roekel referenced.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article initially characterized the requirement in the bill for «highly qualified» special education teachers as a new one.

The Education and the Workforce Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives voted out of committee its version of an ESEA reauthorization bill (H.R. 5) on June 19, 2013.

Thiesfeldt, the chairman of the Assembly Education Committee and author of the Assembly version of the bill, said the Senate version was «a status quo bill with accountability in name only.»

From left, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R - Juneau, and Sens. Paul Farrow, R - Pewaukee, and Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, answer questions about the Senate's version of an education accountability bill during a press conference in the Senate Parlor on Tuesday.

Sen. Kaine introduced Career Technical Education provisions in the senate version of the bill, which later went on to list CTE as one of 17...

The legislation is still being discussed in the state House and education advocates believe a forthcoming House - backed version of the bill may shift the power to local boards, although the legislation's fate is unclear at this point.

PLEASE NOTE: The House version has been sent to the RULES COMMITTEE - a standard ploy to prevent a piece of legislation from being debated and called for a Vote.State Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia, Chair of the House Elementary / Secondary Education Committee joined her Latino Caucus coleagues at Monday's Press Conference, but needs to be supported and encouraged to work with Rep. Sims to get his bill sent to her Committee.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke at an on - the - record breakfast with reporters Monday morning to further detail his concerns with the bill, which would rewrite No Child Left Behind, the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

«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.

Bill Cobey, Gov. Pat McCrory's recently appointed chair of the State Board of Education, previously expressed his view that the version SB 337 approved by the Senate was unconstitutional.

The state Assembly could vote as early as next week on the latest version of a school accountability bill that outlines a series of sanctions for persistently low - performing public schools, including converting them into charter schools or allowing the school board to hire an education management agency that would have the power to fire principals.

One story in today's Hartford Courant is about Governor Malloy's visit last night to the Faith Congregational Church where he explained that if the 81 state representatives and 27 or 28 senators from the poorest (and most minority) districts voted for his version of the «Education Reform» bill — it would pass.

Governor Malloy suggested that his version of the «Education Reform» bill was the only way to improve educational opportunity for Connecticut's minority students and that anyone who opposed his bill was dedicated to preventing minority students from achieving.

The proposal is an updated version of bills introduced last September by Olsen and Rep. Steve Kestell, R - Elkhart Lake, chairman of the Assembly Education Committee.

The New Hampshire House Education Committee, however, recommended a considerably scaled - down version of the bill, which the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed last month by a vote on 184 - 162.

«In 2004 when the «model» bill was drafted and approved, both K12 Inc. and Connections Academy were part of the «School Choice Subcommittee of ALEC's Education Task Force, according to an archived version of ALEC's website from February 2005.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee already included social and emotional learning in its version of the ESEA reauthorization bill late last year.

The Senate's version of the bill takes a similar approach, but Senator Tom Harkin (D - IA), chairman of the Senate Education Appropriations Subcommittee, plans to offer an amendment to the bill that will add back more than $ 200 million to the Title I and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act programs.

Why Public School Parents Oppose H.R. 2218 and Our Recommendations for Improving the Charter School Bill A Parents Across America Position Paper on the «Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools Act» July 5, 2011 Parents Across America (PAA), a grassroots organization representing public school parents from across the United States, opposes the current version of H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools Act, which was recently reported from the House Education and Workforce Committee.

Provisions of the bill were approved as an amendment to the House version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), HR 5, which passed the House last summer.

The Senate is moving ahead with deliberations on its version of a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act (HEA).

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee says that offering its own version of a reauthorization bill is its first priority in the new year.

The amended version of the bill requires education preparation faculty, including education deans, to have direct personal involvement in a school annually.

Earlier versions of the tax bill called for reducing or eliminating some education tax breaks, but the final version does not.

Titled, the «Scientific Education and Academic Freedom Act,» H.B. 1551 is also essentially a copycat of Tennessee's version of the ALEC model bill — it failed to pass.

Perkins Career and Technical Education Act (CTE)- A modernized and strengthened version of this bill could pass in 2017.

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