the ability to make great strides to improve safety and health Since passage of the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act and Occupational Safety and Health Act four decades ago countless lives have been saved...long past time to strengthen the critical laws that keep Americans safe on the job One area in our health and safety laws that needs particular...

this challenge various efforts to turn around our lowest performing schools and how to recruit and develop talented educators and school leaders This afternoon we will hear from experts who specialize in...One of the most stinging criticisms leveled at the No Child Left Behind Act is that it has caused schools especially those serving disadvantaged...

Washington D C U S Senator Mike Enzi R Wyo Ranking Member of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions HELP Committee made the following statement today at the fourth in a series of hearings on the...This reauthorization shouldn t be a top down directive solely from Washington far removed from local school districts teachers and students said...

WASHINGTON D C Senator Tom Harkin D IA Chairman of the Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee and of the Senate Appropriations panel that funds education initiatives introduced the Keep Our Educators...will create a 23 billion Education Jobs Fund to help keep teachers principals librarians and other school personnel on the job as states face...

Witnesses Timothy Mitchell Superintendent of Schools Chamberlain School District 7 1 Chamberlain SD Download Testimony Joel Klein Chancellor York City Public Schools New York NY Download Testimony Robert Balfanz...Associate Research Scientist Center for Social Organization of Schools Associate Director of the Talent Development Middle and High...

Washington D C Senator Tom Harkin D IA Chairman of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee today delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor on the importance of extending unemployment...they get are the lifeline that helps them pay the rent put food on the table and keep their kids in school And yet in the face of this...

Affordable Care Act the Senate passed comprehensive health reform measure approved by the House earlier this week Harkin as Chairman of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee was on hand...struggle to provide affordable quality health care coverage is over In signing this bill into law President Obama today rewrote history and in...

Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools Arne brought to Washington an enormous amount of experience and credibility along with a strong vision for public school reform We share the same goals educational...educational equity success for all students regardless of background or disability and world class public schools that prepare our young...

Washington D C At a U S Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions HELP Committee hearing today Ranking Member Mike Enzi R Wyo continued to champion greater flexibility for rural schools and better balancing of...appreciate that the Administration s initial blueprint for reform acknowledges the unique nature of rural school districts However...

burdening employers with new unfunded mandates U S Senator Mike Enzi R Wyo Ranking Member of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions HELP Committee said today We should reauthorize the Workforce Investment...are enrolling in many graduate degree programs in equal numbers At some of the nation s top law schools today women students outnumber...