Update
In a speech last week to the National Education Association, Education Secretary Arne Duncan challenged the organization's members to embrace the idea of linking teacher pay to student achievement. The speech was part of a series of speeches in which Duncan has challenged education groups to support President Obama's education reform priorities. (For more information, click here).
The full House Appropriations Committee is expecetd to mark-up the Fiscal Year 2010 Labor, Health and Human Services & Education bill on July 14, following approval of the package at the subcommittee level today.
Federal Register Announcements
Overview Information; Office of Innovation and Improvement; DC School Choice Incentive Program; Notice Reopening Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 Competition for the DC School Choice Incentive Program, CFDA Number 84.370A [OII]
New Legislation
H.R.3130/S.1410 : To establish expanded learning time initiatives, and for other purposes.
Sponsors: Rep Payne, Donald M. [NJ-10], Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] (introduced 7/8/2009)
S.1403: A bill to amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to ensure that social work students or social work schools are eligible for support under certain programs that would assist individuals in pursuing health careers or for grants for training projects in geriatrics, and to establish a social work training program.
Sponsor: Sen Inouye, Daniel K. [HI] (introduced 7/7/2009)
S.1411 : A bill to amend title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to encourage and support parent, family, and community involvement in schools, to provide needed integrated services and comprehensive supports to children, and to ensure that schools are centers of communities, for the ultimate goal of assisting students to stay in school, become successful learners, and improve academic achievement.
Sponsor: Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] (introduced 7/8/2009)
