Senate Passes Extension of Freeway Funding Program to December four

The final agreement approved Thursday will be brought to the House for a vote by December 2, said Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, before it goes to the Senate.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) echoed Shuster’s sentiments and said Washington lawmakers are finally going to do the right thing when it comes to highway funding.

But necessary to Democrats, the convention invoice consists of accountability measures that may require states to intervene within the nation’s lowest-performing 5 % of faculties, highschool dropout factories and faculties with persistent achievement gaps.

Meanwhile, people who leave pets unattended inside vehicles could be charged with endangering the health or well-being of the animals under a separate bill that cleared its first House panel.

The House and the Senate of the MA Legislature failed to agree on a final bill that would lift the cap on net metering before they departed for winter recess, leaving the bill still in the hands of a committeee of House-Senate negotiators, MassLive reports.

President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference with Philippines’ President Benigno Aquino III in Manila, Philippines, Wednesday, November 18, 2015.

The bill would let states decide whether or how to use student test performance to assess teachers and students, ending federal efforts to tie the scores to teacher evaluations, something teachers’ unions have railed against.

Under the invoice, the Education Department might not mandate or give states incentives to undertake or keep any specific set of requirements, corresponding to the school and profession-prepared curriculum tips often known as Common Core.

Although Democrats and Republicans agreed that the law – passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in 2001 – had become an albatross on schools that led to overly punitive stakes for standardized testing, Congress has for eight years been unable to come to an accord on replacing it. The House measure was more conservative, and narrowly passed.

The House version of the bill includes an amendment to ease weight restrictions on logging trucks using the 20-mile stretch of Interstate 35 between Duluth and Scanlon in winter.

-“Today’s conference committee vote is another encouraging step in the process to update the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and on behalf of state chiefs, I applaud the work of the committee”, said Chris Minnich, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers.

Numerous lawmakers at the conference committee meeting said the compromise framework isn’t ideal, but is still a way forward. Patty Murray, D-Wash., to write the Senate’s bill.