And any education legislation including school vouchers would be likely to draw much fiercer opposition from Democrats than the less contentious measures on testing.
Jeffords is chairman of the committee that has jurisdiction over health and education legislation, and holds a seat on the Senate Finance Committee, with jurisdiction over tax and trade matters.
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Like the other three states, Illinois has just passed major new education reform legislation.
But he sought and received GOP congressional support for Medicare, Medicaid, civil rights, education and other Great Society legislation.
July is the 150th anniversary of one of the most influential pieces of legislation in American education history, the Morrill Act.
His campaign platform includes expanding mass transit, opposing hydraulic fracturing, increasing funding of education and passing gay-marriage legislation.
Jeffords votes more often for environmental legislation and favors more education spending than many other Republicans, including President Bush.
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But does anyone think that the GOP is ready to bar any legislation funding the Departments of Education, Energy, Agriculture, and Housing and Urban Development?
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Judd Gregg, a Republican, is the ranking Republican on the Senate Education Committee, a key architect of this legislation.
The government has issued 250 specific measures for its various governmental agencies in areas including legislation, enforcement, trials and education, and it promises infrastructure for quicker patent filing, examining and granting of patents.
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The provision, included in the new budget legislation, will also make annual state education aid increases contingent on having an evaluation system.
The legislation would also allow the Department of Education to buy up some student loans made under the Federal Family Education Loan program.
Both the House bill and health care legislation passed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Wednesday contain these provisions.
The state Supreme Court lawsuit challenging the 2011 tax cap legislation names Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Education Commissioner John King Jr. and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
Islamabad, 26 April 2012: Federal and Provincial Ministers, and senior officials from all the provinces agreed to expedite coordinated action towards achievement of Education For All Goals, and formulate necessary provincial legislation for enforcement of Article 25-A of the 18th Amendment of Constitution in the country.
Mr Blair sometimes relied on Conservative votes to pass legislation loosening the state's grip on education.
She represented NCLR and its network of affiliates in the Texas State Legislature, testifying before legislative committees to advocate for education, immigrant access to benefits, and hate crimes legislation.
They further centralized education with the no-bureaucrat-left-behind legislation.
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In 1998, the new Labour government passed legislation giving parents the opportunity to end selective education in their own local areas, thus in effect allowing the end of the state grammar school system.
The students had claimed that the scale of such an increase in the upper level of fees was in breach of part of human rights legislation, which sets out a right to education and a right to education without discrimination on any grounds.
Indiana's Republican-controlled legislature passed legislation Friday that calls for the state board of education to hold hearings on the standards and reconsider its 2010 decision to adopt them.
Initially, the Teaching Respect for All initiative will review curricula, legislation and policies that already include a component on education for tolerance, and identify best practices in this field.
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In terms of education, as you know, the last Conservative government introduced legislation which meant that the Welsh language was a core subject in the National Curriculum - that was supported by all political parties.
So the government was right to put forward "pragmatic and workable" solutions to what is known as the West Lothian question - where Scottish MPs are able to vote on legislation affecting England in areas such as health and education but not vice versa - rather than talk about an English Parliament.
Introducing free secondary education for all, the 1944 Education Act was by any standards a ground-breaking piece of legislation.
President Enrique Pena Nieto signed the education law in February, but parliamentarians need to draw up separate legislation to implement it.
In legislation drawing on his proposals, the government gave higher education funders power to take money away, pound for pound, from universities which charged higher fees.
Critics go further, pointing to the Lib Dems' silence over the government's emergency anti-terrorist legislation and to their muted calls for more health and education spending.
The coalition government had been embroiled in a two-year dispute with Information Commissioner Christopher Graham over whether e-mails relating to government business but sent from Education Secretary Michael Gove's personal account were accessible under the legislation.
Democratic Senate leaders have not yet indicated whether they will include the option when they combine the Finance Committee's legislation with a separate measure advanced by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
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