U.S. House markup of charter school and education research legislation
The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a meeting April 8 to mark up two pieces of legislation: House Resolution (HR) 4366, the “Strengthening Education through Research Act” and...
View ArticleArne Duncan testifies on Obama’s education budget request; distances himself...
Education Secretary Arne Duncan testified before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education on April 8 to discuss President Barack Obama’s proposed education budget. In another...
View ArticleSenate Congressional hearing on teacher preparation
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) held a hearing March 25 to discuss “Teacher Preparation: Ensuring a Quality Teacher in Every Classroom.” The hearing was the...
View ArticleCongressional committee to discuss federal education budget
The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce is scheduled to meet tomorrow, April 29, at 9 a.m. CST for a hearing entitled “Reviewing the President’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Proposal for the...
View ArticleU.S. House of Representatives debates charter school bill
The U.S. House of Representatives is debating House Resolution (HR) 10—the Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act—this morning on the House floor. The House will consider 12...
View ArticleU.S. House passes charter school legislation
The U.S. House of Representatives passed House Resolution (HR) 10 today in a 360-45 vote. Members considered 11 amendments to the bill and adopted eight, each with a significant number of members...
View ArticleU.S. Senate committee holds mark up on pre-k legislation
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) held a mark up yesterday, May 14, on S.1697, the Strong Start for America’s Children Act. The committee passed the bill on a...
View ArticleATPE officers make the rounds in D.C.
Things were certainly heated in Washington, D.C. last week—June 16–19—as ATPE State President Ginger Franks, Vice President Richard Wiggins, Executive Director Gary G. Godsey and Governmental Relations...
View ArticleAt ATPE’s request, Texas congressmen ask U.S. DOE for NCLB waiver extension
As previously reported on Teach the Vote, members of the ATPE staff and state officers recently met with several members of the Texas congressional delegation in Washington and asked them to support...
View ArticleGOP members of Congress request GAO study of USDE waivers
Senator Lamar Alexander, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education Labor and Pensions, and Representative John Kline, Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the...
View ArticleGeneral Election Results: Education impact beyond Texas’ borders
Changes in Congress The Republican gains seen in Texas after this Tuesday’s general election were not exclusive; the party also gained substantial ground in the U.S. Congress, and the changes are...
View ArticleTexas Congressman files new bill, with ATPE support, to help educators with...
Last week, ATPE lobbyists held several meetings with members of the Texas Congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., to discuss proposed changes to Social Security laws, specifically, the...
View ArticleCongress passes government spending bill
Over the weekend, Congress passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill* that will fund most of the federal government through September 2015. The bill, which President Obama is expected to sign, funds the...
View ArticlePredictions on No Child Left Behind in the 114th Congress
United States Senator Lamar Alexander, a Republican from Tennessee who is set to take over as chair of the Senate committee that oversees education when Congress convenes the 114th Congress this month,...
View ArticleMore on Sen. Alexander’s draft bill to reauthorize ESEA/NCLB
As we reported last week, U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), released his version of a bill to reauthorize the...
View ArticleLegislative Update: Washington looks at ESEA and teacher evaluation, Texas...
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) conducted another hearing this morning on issues surrounding reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act...
View ArticleU.S. House education committee passes ESEA reauthorization bill
As we reported last week, Congressman John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, filed his version of legislation to reauthorize the Elementary and...
View ArticleU.S. House to debate ESEA reauthorization starting today, White House...
The US House of Representatives is scheduled to begin debate of H.R. 5, The Student Success Act, this afternoon. The Student Success Act, a Republican-backed bill to reauthorize the Elementary and...
View ArticleU.S. House delays vote on ESEA reauthorization bill
A final vote in the US House of Representatives on a bill to rewrite the federal education law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), or No Child Left Behind (NCLB), has been postponed....
View ArticleU.S. Senate education leaders release bipartisan bill to rewrite ESEA
This week the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released their highly anticipated bipartisan...
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