Joint Education Committee

• $28.5m Research Project Presented to Joint Education Committee of La Legislature

A $28.5-million plan to invest in the research at universities hit by hurricanes Rita and Katrina is being presented today to the Joint Education Committee of the Louisiana Legislature. Officials from the Louisiana Recovery Authority and the state Board of Regents say the program would attract research talent and help transfer the resulting technology to Louisiana businesses in the affected areas.

• New Orleans City Business
• September 20, 2006

• School Funding Changes Approved ; a Bill Outlining Changes in the State's School Funding Formula Received Approval From the Joint Education Interim Committee.

By Ilene Olson rep3@wyomingnews.com

• Wyoming Tribune - Eagle
• September 09, 2006

• Chalk Talks - Kentucky and Education Reform: The Issue of Pay-for-Performance

KENTUCKY'S EFFORTS TO CHANGE TEACHER PAY STRUCTURE A. Current and Pilot Program Pay Structure Kentucky, like 21 other states,8 has a statewide salary schedule that bases teacher pay standards on a teacher's level of education and years of experience.9 In 2002, following a failed and union-opposed initiative for a state differentiated pay scale,10 Kentucky adopted a voluntary differentiated compensation plan under KRS 157.075.11 Under this statutory plan, school districts may submit a proposal, which if granted would allow teachers to receive bonuses based upon various factors including: recruitment and retention in "critical shortage areas;" increased knowledge or skill; training; and working in hard-to-fill positions.12 KRS 157.075 also mandated the Kentucky Department of Education (DO...

... providing recommendations to the Interim Joint Committee on Education (IJCE) as to the feasibilit...

• Journal of Law and Education
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 1, January 2010

• Legislators Miss Point On Standards

Apparently members of the Joint Interim Education Committee are spoiling for a fight with the federal government. But they are missing the point, and they should back off of their efforts to overturn a decision by the State Board of Education to adopt Common Core State Standards in language arts and math. At a mid-September meeting in Casper, legislators on the committee fretted that this effort at national education standards was being driven by the federal government and that it would somehow harm Wyoming's public schools.

• Wyoming Tribune - Eagle
• September 30, 2011

• System in Arizona

A legislative committee on Wednesday debated changing the way student success is measured in Arizona schools, which would also change the structure of education funding. Members of the Joint Legislative Study Committee on Outcome- Based Education Funding came to a general consensus that the current funding system encourages schools to move all students up at the same time regardless of individual ability, which may not be the best method.

• Arizona Capitol Times
• July 21, 2011

• Bill Looks to Streamline Charter-School Process ; Proposed Legislation Sponsored by the Legislature's Joint Education Interim Committee Would Authorize the State Board of Education to Create Through Rulemaking a Phased Application Process for Establishing Charter Schools.

The Legislature will consider more than one option in this session. By Bill McCarthy

• Wyoming Tribune - Eagle
• December 21, 2008

• Bill Calls for Higher Education Funding Formula

After a session that saw debate over a $2 million budget line for Southeast Missouri State University, lawmakers have given themselves the task of writing what would be the state's first funding formula for higher education. Gov. Jay Nixon yesterday signed a bill giving the Joint Committee on Education until Dec. 31, 2013, to come up with "a comprehensive funding formula" for distributing state aid to higher education.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• June 01, 2012

• Marple Details Educational Goals for State Lawmakers

West Virginia's public education system has boiled down its goals to what it wants children to learn, how they should behave and what they need to achieve by the time they graduate from high school, the state's new schools chief told lawmakers Monday. Superintendent Jorea Marple also highlighted the state's highly ranked pre-Kindergarten program, touted evolving federal policy and announced a review of home schooling standards during her first presentation to the Joint Standing Committee on Education since taking up her new post Feb. 28.

• Charleston Gazette
• May 18, 2011

• Schools Refine Vision for Public Education

West Virginia's public education system has boiled down its goals to what it wants children to learn, how they should behave and what they need to achieve by the time they graduate from high school, the state's new schools chief told lawmakers Monday. Superintendent Jorea Marple also highlighted the state's highly ranked pre-kindergarten program, touted evolving federal policy and announced a review of home schooling standards during her first presentation to the Joint Standing Committee on Education since taking up her new post Feb. 28.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• May 18, 2011

• Education Asks Increase -- Says Achievement Slowed

JACKSON - The state education superintendent asked legislators Thursday for a $300 million increase in spending, which would raise the state's education budget to $3.44 billion in the 2013 fiscal year that begins July 1. The 13 percent spending increase would fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, state Superintendent of Education Dr. Tom Burnham said during his presentation to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• September 23, 2011