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Lawmakers advance teacher residency program
Texas lawmakers are advancing a plan to create a residency training program for school teachers. In a 28-2 vote on Friday, the Senate approved a program similar to medical residencies for doctors. The bill goes to the House, which has passed a similar version. Arlington Republican Rep. Diane Patrick has ...
Senate Democrats want more school money, not cuts
Illinois Senate Democrats want to boost general education funding by $156 million next year, not cut it, key budget negotiators said Friday, but acknowledged the increase would only keep per-student funding level. Gov. Pat Quinn has proposed a $150 million reduction in general state aid for primary and secondary schools ...
Budget deals keeps steroid testing program
Texas will keep testing public high school athletes for another two years under the state budget deal agreed to on Friday. The 5-year-old program began as one of the largest testing programs in the country, but has been gradually scaled down as testing of tens of thousands of athletes has ...
House OKs major changes to state cancer institute
The Texas House has approved a dramatic overhaul of the state's troubled $3 billion cancer-fighting agency, including replacing its entire, 11-member board. The lower chamber used a simple voice vote Friday to give preliminary approval to one of the most-watched bills in the Texas Legislature. It mandates sweeping changes to ...
Minn. Senate backs U of M, MNSCU tuition freezes
The Legislature has sent Gov. Mark Dayton a bill that freezes tuition rates at the state's public colleges and universities for the next two years. The Senate and House passed the higher education budget Friday with bipartisan support. It includes a $250 million spending increase, with more than half the ...
Legislature approves South Texas medical school
The Legislature has approved opening a medical school in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley. The House on Friday passed a constitutional amendment already approved by the Senate which seeks to open, as early as 2016, a medical school along the underserved Texas border with Mexico. Lawmakers also passed a funding ...
Analyst says funding gap for LSU hospital deals
The first three LSU hospital privatization deals appear to use up 94 percent of the funding Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration set aside for eight such arrangements, budget analysts told senators Friday. The assessment of the Legislative Fiscal Office, a nonpartisan office that evaluates budget proposals for lawmakers, worried several members ...
Mass. US Senate hopefuls spar over gun control ad
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Gabriel Gomez defended his stance on gun control Friday and lashed out at Democratic nominee and veteran Congressman Edward Markey for alluding to the Connecticut school massacre in a TV campaign ad that criticized Gomez on the gun issue. The Markey ad uses excerpts of Gomez ...
Wind energy permitting process among new NC laws
Gov. Pat McCrory says a new law laying out rules for building wind farms in North Carolina will help create a diverse supply of energy for the state and boost the economy. McCrory announced he signed five bills into law Friday, among them the measure creating a framework for a ...
Money panels close major K-12 budgets
Legislative money committees Friday endorsed major components of Gov. Brian Sandoval's funding plan for public schools, setting a benchmark of $2.8 billion in general fund support for the upcoming two years. The actions by the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means committees largely follow what the first-term Republican recommended ...
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