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1. Update on Claims Processing for Ordering/Referring Providers

2. CMS Invites You to HITECH Teleconference on Medicare & Medicaid Incentives Program ...

ED REVIEW

February 19, 2010

…a bi-weekly update on U.S. Department of Education activities relevant to the Intergovernmental and Corporate community and other stakeholders

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TO SUPERINTENDENTS

In a wide-ranging speech to superintendents at the American Association of School Administrators’ National Conference on Education, Secretary Duncan addressed reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the Administration’s recent budget proposal, and rethinking policies that are not serving the best interests of students and teachers in the classroom. “An opportunity like this — the ...

NORTH DAKOTA LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT
Tentative Agenda
HIGHER EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Roughrider Room, State Capitol
Bismarck, North Dakota
9:00 a.m. Call to order
Roll call
Consideration of the minutes from the January 19-20, 2010, meeting
HIGHER EDUCATION STUDY
9:05 a.m. Comments by the chairman regarding the committee meeting
9:10 a.m. Presentations by representatives of the North Dakota University System regarding:
• The University System’s long-term finance plan and potential changes to the plan
• An overview of the ...

TR, A Cowboy on His Way to the White House

A presentation by humanities scholar, D. Jerome Tweton and the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame

Wednesday, February 17
Valley City State University
Science Center Auditorium
7:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 18
The Hjemkomst Center, Moorhead
7:00 p.m.

Monday, March 1
Dickinson State University
Beck Auditorium
7:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 2
Outlaw’s Banquet Room, Watford City
7:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 17
Lake Region State College, Devils Lake
7:00 ...

Two incumbent legislators in Minot’s District 5 will not be seeking re-election this fall.

Sen. Tom Seymour and Rep. Elwood Thorpe, both D-Minot, are not running. District 5 Democrats have endorsed Rep. Louis Pinkerton to seek re-election to a second term.

Thorpe, a long-time legislator, said he feels the time has come to step aside and bring in someone new.

Thorpe served in the North Dakota House from 1991 to 1993 and again since 1997. He has served on the Industry, Business and ...

2010 priorities set:
The ITCND board of directors has approved the 2010 work plan, which serves as the organization’s road map for the upcoming year.

Identified by the board as 2010 priorities were:

– Continuing implementation of the IT Career Awareness Program with the objective of informing 7-12th graders, their parents and educators, of North Dakota IT career opportunities

– Publishing the 2011 State of the IT Industry Guide, which will be used to demonstrate the importance of ...

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Week in Review
U.S. illegal immigrant population declines
The population of illegal immigrants in the United States has declined by 7 percent from an estimated 11.6 million to 10.8 million for the year ending January 2009, compared to the previous year; about 37 percent are believed to have entered the country in the last decade; 44 percent entered the United States during the 1990s and 19 percent during the 1980s
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Revolutionary water treatment system may ...

Dear Senator Seymour:

Below is a link to the new report from the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), Poised to Run: Women’s Pathways to the State Legislatures, with findings from the most comprehensive study ever conducted on this subject. Many thanks to all the state legislators who, by responding to our survey, made this project possible.

The report offers a fresh look at how women reach the legislatures and how their pathways to public office have changed over ...

Volume XVIII, No. 5
In our latest one-on-one
conversation, SNCJ talks
with MASSACHUSETTS
Sen. Richard Moore
(D) about his state’s
historic health care
reform program and the
surprising election of
Scott Brown.
A few words with: MASSACHUSETTS Sen. Richard Moore MASSCHUSETTS Sen. Richard Moore (D) was one of the principal
architects of the historic legislation that gave his state near
universal health care coverage. With health care reform at the
forefront of much of today’s political discourse, we spent some ...

NORTH DAKOTA LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT
Tentative Agenda
BUDGET SECTION
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Senate Chamber, State Capitol
Bismarck, North Dakota
9:00 a.m. Call to order
Roll call
Consideration of the minutes of the December 15, 2009, meeting
9:05 a.m. Presentation by representatives of the Office of Management and Budget regarding:
• Status of the general fund
• Irregularities in the fiscal practices of the state pursuant to North Dakota Century
Code Section 54-14-03.1
• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of ...

NORTH DAKOTA LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT
Minutes of the
HIGHER EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Tuesday and Wednesday, January 19-20, 2010
Roughrider Room, State Capitol
Bismarck, North Dakota
Representative Bob Skarphol, Chairman, called
the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday,
January 19, 2010.
Members present: Representatives Bob
Skarphol, Lois Delmore, Mark A. Dosch, Kathy
Hawken, Brenda Heller, Dennis Johnson, Nancy
Johnson, RaeAnn G. Kelsch, Joe Kroeber, Bob
Martinson, Darrell D. Nottestad, Kenton Onstad, Clark
Williams; Senators John M. Andrist, Tim Flakoll,
Tony S. ...