Federal Update for November 12, 2010
Congress to Reconvene in Lame-Duck Session
The Senate and the House plan to reconvene at 2pm on Monday , November 15th .
Congressional Quarterly is reporting that the first piece of business next week will be to boost Social Security benefits for recipients. Other priorities include bills to expand nutrition programs and to offer conditional legal status to the children of illegal immigrants who go to college or join the military.
The nutrition program legislation would reauthorize programs including school lunches, school breakfasts, after-school meals and summer feeding activities through 2015. It would make it easier for eligible low-income children to qualify for meal programs and improve nutrition standards for school meals. It also would give the Agriculture Department power to set nutrition rules for food sold in school vending machines and a la carte lines.
Further, Democratic House leaders, watching signals in the Senate from Majority Leader Harry Reid, are considering a vote in the lame-duck session on a limited immigration bill that conservative GOP members have pledged to block. Discussions are taking place with members about the immigration bill (American DREAM Act: HR 1751, S 3827). The bill, which offers conditional legal status to illegal immigrants' children if they go to college or join the military for two years, stalled in the Senate before the election recess. Reid pledged to revive it in the interim session before the holidays. How the bill fares in the Senate will determine whether the House will take up the measure in the lame-duck session. Passage of the bill is viewed as remote, at best.
National Board for Education Sciences Grants
On November 1, the National Board for Education Sciences unanimously approved new research priorities for the Department's Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Proposed by Director John Easton and submitted for public comment this summer, these new priorities are intended to make education studies more relevant to educators and help practitioners become more involved in developing and using research. IES's topics of study will remain much the same under the new On November 1, the National Board for Education Sciences unanimously approved new research priorities for the Department's Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Proposed by Director John Easton and submitted for public comment this summer, these new priorities are intended to make education studies more relevant to educators and help practitioners become more involved in developing and using research. IES's topics of study will remain much the same under the new priorities. Yet, these new priorities place greater emphasis on putting research findings into context, "to identify education policies, programs, and practices that improve education outcomes, and to determine how, why, for whom, and under what conditions they are effective." IES has also set as a priority identifying new and rigorous methods to measure outcomes in education research and building partnerships with educators and the community to develop greater "analytic capacity" at the local level. For further information, go to: http://ies.ed.gov/director/board/priorities.asp.
The Senate and the House plan to reconvene at 2pm on Monday , November 15th .
Congressional Quarterly is reporting that the first piece of business next week will be to boost Social Security benefits for recipients. Other priorities include bills to expand nutrition programs and to offer conditional legal status to the children of illegal immigrants who go to college or join the military.
The nutrition program legislation would reauthorize programs including school lunches, school breakfasts, after-school meals and summer feeding activities through 2015. It would make it easier for eligible low-income children to qualify for meal programs and improve nutrition standards for school meals. It also would give the Agriculture Department power to set nutrition rules for food sold in school vending machines and a la carte lines.
Further, Democratic House leaders, watching signals in the Senate from Majority Leader Harry Reid, are considering a vote in the lame-duck session on a limited immigration bill that conservative GOP members have pledged to block. Discussions are taking place with members about the immigration bill (American DREAM Act: HR 1751, S 3827). The bill, which offers conditional legal status to illegal immigrants' children if they go to college or join the military for two years, stalled in the Senate before the election recess. Reid pledged to revive it in the interim session before the holidays. How the bill fares in the Senate will determine whether the House will take up the measure in the lame-duck session. Passage of the bill is viewed as remote, at best.
National Board for Education Sciences Grants
On November 1, the National Board for Education Sciences unanimously approved new research priorities for the Department's Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Proposed by Director John Easton and submitted for public comment this summer, these new priorities are intended to make education studies more relevant to educators and help practitioners become more involved in developing and using research. IES's topics of study will remain much the same under the new On November 1, the National Board for Education Sciences unanimously approved new research priorities for the Department's Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Proposed by Director John Easton and submitted for public comment this summer, these new priorities are intended to make education studies more relevant to educators and help practitioners become more involved in developing and using research. IES's topics of study will remain much the same under the new priorities. Yet, these new priorities place greater emphasis on putting research findings into context, "to identify education policies, programs, and practices that improve education outcomes, and to determine how, why, for whom, and under what conditions they are effective." IES has also set as a priority identifying new and rigorous methods to measure outcomes in education research and building partnerships with educators and the community to develop greater "analytic capacity" at the local level. For further information, go to: http://ies.ed.gov/director/board/priorities.asp.
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