3-15-14 Open Congress : Major Bill Actions Education This Week - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

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Bill Introduced: H.R. 4136: IDEA Full Funding Act

To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide full Federal funding of such part.

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YESTERDAY

Bill Introduced: S.Res. 379: A resolution congratulating the Pennsylvania State University IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon ("THON") on its continued success in support of the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital.

A resolution congratulating the Pennsylvania State University IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon ("THON") on its continued success in support of the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital.

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MAR 12

Bill Introduced: S. 2060: Technology, Equality and Accessibility in College and Higher Education Act

A bill to direct the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board to develop accessibility guidelines for electronic instructional materials and related information technologies in institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.

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MAR 11

Bill Introduced: S.Res. 372: A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of the Secondary School Student Athletes' Bill of Rights.

A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of the Secondary School Student Athletes' Bill of Rights.

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Bill Introduced: H.R. 4108: Breath of Fresh Air Act

To establish a grant program for nebulizers in elementary and secondary schools.

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MAR 08

Bill Introduced: H.Res. 498: Expressing support for designation of the week of March 2, 2014, through March 8, 2014, as "School Social Work Week".

Expressing support for designation of the week of March 2, 2014, through March 8, 2014, as "School Social Work Week".

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Bill Introduced: H.Res. 495: Encouraging people in the United States to recognize March 3, 2014, as Read Across America Day.

Encouraging people in the United States to recognize March 3, 2014, as Read Across America Day.

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Bill Introduced: H.R. 4136: IDEA Full Funding Act

To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide full Federal funding of such part.

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YESTERDAY

Bill Introduced: S. 2074: Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2014

A bill to promote energy savings in residential buildings and industry, and for other purposes.

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MAR 11

Bill Introduced: H.R. 4108: Breath of Fresh Air Act

To establish a grant program for nebulizers in elementary and secondary schools.

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Bill Introduced: S. 2038: Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills Act

A bill to provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits, and for other purposes.

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MAR 06

Bill Introduced: H.R. 4081: To prohibit funds made available to the Department of Education or the Department of Justice from being used to provide postsecondary courses in prisons.

To prohibit funds made available to the Department of Education or the Department of Justice from being used to provide postsecondary courses in prisons.

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MAR 05

Bill Introduced: S. 2030: National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 2014

A bill to reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College Program Act, and for other purposes.

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MAR 01

Bill Introduced: H.R. 4086: Afterschool for America's Children Act

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

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3-15-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida ALL Week

Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education:

Scathing Purple Musings 

 Color me purple in Florida ALL Week

What Charter Schools USA CEO Jonathan Hage Knows That Floridians Don’t

From Orlando Sentinel reporter Lauren Roth: Charter Schools USA isn’t waiting for a judge to decide if it can open a disputed school in Orange County. Construction already has begun. “They have already invested in some construction of a facility,” somewhere on or south of Narcoossee Road, district counsel Woody Rodriguez told the Orange school board this week. The district plans to appeal a state

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YESTERDAY

Florida Voucher Expansion Cost “$1 Billion Over Next Five Years”

My recent Twitter duels with voucher advocates have revealed a change in their own talking points. Out of one side of their mouth, they vigorously insist that its perfectly OK for state voucher schools to take different tests than public school kids as proof of accountability. Out of the other side of their mouth, they say that they will trade accountability for universal school choice. Paid for b

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About Those Faux “Uniform” School Choice Schemes From Florida Republicans

Author and radio talk show host Dr. Stephen Goldstein offers another blistering review of Florida’s republican-dominated school choice apparatus in the Sun-Sentinel: And yet, in recent years, a succession of governors and members of the legislature haven’t “gotten it.” They have understood “uniform” to mean “variable,” even “competing”; and, for a variety of reasons — some of them crass and profit

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Rick Scott Targeted by Common Core Opponents in Florida

You knew wouldn’t go away after being dismissed by Rick Scott’s cronies on the state board of education. Miami Herald reporter Kathleen McGrory has this in Naked Politics: TALLAHASSEE — With their bill to suspend Florida’s new education benchmarks stalled in the Legislature, opponents of the Common Core State Standards are pursuing a new strategy. They are turning the heat up on Gov. Rick Scott. L

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MAR 13

Not a Three-Year “Pause,” But a One-Year “Delay” in Florida School Accountability

Lloyd Dunkelberger of Halifax Media Services reports in the Daytona Beach News-Journal: TALLAHASSEE — Local school districts likely will not get a three-year delay they want in moving to new school standards, a new statewide assessment test and other accountability measures. Instead, state lawmakers on Wednesday backed legislation to essentially provide a one-year delay, meaning public schools wil

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MAR 12

VAM Margin for Error Exceeds 50%; Meanwhile, Florida GOP Senate Wants to Give BOE More Control Over School Grades

The editors of the Bradenton Herald pointed out just how flawed that teacher Value Added Metrics (VAM)  based on test scores have proved to be: Florida’s teacher evaluation system bears too many flaws to be worthy of setting standards for performance pay. But the fact that the Florida Department of Education intended to seal those teacher rating scores away from the public only adds to the train w

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Uh-Oh, Broward Public Schools Outperform Charter Schools

“Jonathan Hage: Please call your office.” Writing in Tamarac Talk, Sharon Aron Baron explains: Each year hundreds of parents enter their children’s names into lotteries and wait lists in hopes that their children will be one of the lucky few to be enrolled in Broward County’s charter schools. It is widely regarded that these schools offer a better education than what their children would normally

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Do I Belong in the Network for Public Education?

Its called the race card. And it was dropped on me in a place I never expected, but in sad retrospection, should have. It was flattered to be asked to present at the first annual Network for Public Education conference 10 days ago in Austin, Texas. This little blog has developed quite a following for people interested in the politics behind Florida education policy. The weekend was a wonderful exp

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MAR 09

Stealth Florida Charter School Ammendment Cuts Out Local School Board Control

The zealots who carry the water for Florida’s for-profit charter schools never met an unseemly expansion of charter schools they didn’t like. Just remember their efforts the past two sessions to pass parent trigger legislation. One of this year’s payoffs to the charter school industry is slipped into “military-friendly” Florida GI Bill. Writes News Service of Florida reporter Jim Turner for the La

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MAR 08

Charter Schools USA Blinks, Pulls Appeal for Controversial MacDill AFB School

Fresh off the denial of their appeal by the state Charter School Appeals Commission, Charter Schools USA through it’s Florida Charter Educational Foundation, decided to pull their flawed application for a facility on MacDill AFB. From redefinED: The Florida Charter Educational Foundation, Inc. met today to discuss the best course of action in serving the needs of military families at MacDill Air F

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The Failure of Test-Based Accountability

is the title of this blog at Education Week by Marc Tucker.  Diane Ravitch calls it the best thing she has ever read by Tucker, who is  the president and CEO of the National Center on Education and the Economy and an internationally recognized expert on education reform and a leader in benchmarking the policies and practices of the countries with the best education systems in the world. (backgroun

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MAR 11

Ras Baraka - educator, progressive, candidate for mayor

Sometimes we encounter a unique voice, even in politics, one which we might not be expecting, but to which we should pay attention, and even more, give our support. On Saturday I was one of a small group of DC-area education bloggers who had a unique experience.  We were invited guests for a political fundraiser in the Langston Hughes room of the original Busboys and Poets, at 14th and V Streets N

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MAR 07

"Slavery’s story is America’s story."

That is the final line of Eugene Robinson's powerful Washington Post column, THe American Story of Slavery. I will offer blockquotes without hotlinks because you should read the entire column. Robinson begins by noting Hollywood has finally taken an unflinching look at slavery. It’s past time for the rest of the country to do the same.    He goes on to write We tell ourselves that we know all abou

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