NEWS from the North Dakota Department of Human Services 600 E Boulevard Ave, Bismarck ND 58505-0250 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 28, 2009 Contacts: Nancy McKenzie, Vocational Rehabilitation Division Director, 701-328-8926; Cheryl Wescott Wetsch, Program Administrator, Vocational Rehabilitation Division, 701-328-8959; or Heather Steffl, Public Information Officer, N.D. Department of Human Services, 701-328-4933 State seeks information about […]
AACTE Weekly News Briefs | January 27, 2009_____________ . . . delivered to your inbox so you can enjoy up-to-date news on Colleges of Education, Teaching and the Classroom, Campaigns, Legislation, STEM Teacher Issues, International Teacher Issues, Grants, and Upcoming Events. Please click on linked headlines for full story. AACTE ANNOUNCEMENTS AACTE 61st ANNUAL MEETING
Dear Tom, The U.S. Senate will soon vote on expanding health coverage for children, but amendments may be offered to deny coverage to legal immigrant children and pregnant women for 5 years. Please contact your Senators toll-free: 1-800-828-0498* and tell them: Support expanding SCHIP so millions of uninsured children can get health coverage, and remove
NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 23, 2009 Contact: Don Canton or Brandi Pelham701.328.2200 HOEVEN PRESENTS HALF MILLION DOLLAR CHECK TO NDSCS FOR DIESEL TECHNOLOGY AND MACHINE TOOLING PROGRAMSTotal private, public funds exceed $1 million BISMARCK, ND – Gov. Hoeven today presented North Dakota State College of Science with two Workforce Enhancement Grants totaling $520,000. The grants
Key Hearings Held Jan. 19-23 SB 2019 – Support SB 2019 was heard before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Jan. 22. This bill is the Department of Career and Technical Education appropriation. It provides a $1.2 million increase (of which the Governor recommended $800,000) for the virtual area career and technical education centers. These centers
Hello Everyone, Please enjoy the information contained in this edition of Frontier Focus. Please be sure to share it with your members, colleagues, providers and office billing staff. Thank you for your continued efforts to broadcast Medicare information to the providers in Region VIII. Table of Contents 1. New From the Medicare Learning Network 2.
Appropriations (Sen. R. Holmberg) Harvest Room Hearing Date Time Bill/Res.No Sub-Comm Description/Note ——————————————————————————– 1/23 8:30 AM SB 2001 Legislative Assembly 9:15 AM SB 2001 Legislative Council 9:45 AM SB 2010 Council on the Arts 10:30 AM SB 2009 State Fair 11:15 AM Committee Work ——————————————————————————– 1/26 8:30 AM SB 2015 A BILL for an ACT
Weekly News Briefs | January 22, 2009_____________ . . . delivered to your inbox so you can enjoy up-to-date news on Colleges of Education, Teaching and the Classroom, Campaigns, Legislation, STEM Teacher Issues, International Teacher Issues, Grants, and Upcoming Events. Please click on linked headlines for full story. AACTE ANNOUNCEMENTS You Spoke…and AACTE Listened! In
Week of January 16, 2009 to January 23, 2009 Appropriations (Rep. K. Svedjan) Roughrider Room (EE) Approp – Education & Environment (Rep. B. Skarphol) Sakakawea (GO) Approp – Governmnt Operations Div (Rep. J. Delzer) Medora Room (HR) Approp – Human Resources Division (Rep. C. Pollert) Roughrider Room Hearing Date Time Bill/Res.No Sub-Comm Description/Note ——————————————————————————– 1/16
House Leadership Unveils Economic Stimulus Package On Thursday, January 15, the House Democratic leadership unveiled their proposals for an economic stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, H.R. 1). The package would provide $550 billion in new domestic spending and $275 billion in tax relief. The package covers many NACo priorities, including $43
Stimulus could create thousands of IT jobs: A federal economic stimulus package expected early this year from the Obama administration should boost the job prospects of IT professionals. Katherine McGuire, vice president of government relations at the Business Software Alliance, said Obama’s “pro-tech agenda” could increase the number of technology jobs in the U.S. by
North Dakota Senators Tom Seymour, Mac Schneider, and Robert Horned met with Pam Sharp, Governor John Hoeven and Staff to discuss some North Dakota issues in thisLegislative Session…………. Biography for John Hoeven JOHN HOEVEN was born in Bismarck, North Dakota. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in 1979 and a master’s degree in