The Recognizing Achievement in Classified School Employees Act (H.R. 276) was a piece of legislature, sponsored by Representative Dina Titus of Nevada, that passed through Congress and was signed into law in April of 2019. The bill instructs the Secretary of Education to create an annual Recognizing Inspiring School Employees, or RISE, award to celebrate the service of non-educators in public schools throughout the country. This award is presented to a multitude of specialties within educational institutions including clerical, nutrition, transportation, and custodial fields. Commendation of public education is largely, and understandably, focused on teachers. This bill aimed to hold up those in education that serve the students in other ways. Each employee in public education has a role in the growth and success of the next generation and the RISE award seeks to highlight those that are often overlooked.
Legislation, Education, House of Representatives, Congress, Act, Bill, Law
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United States
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The act compels the NASA director to encourage women and girls to pursue STEM fields in many ways. It created both NASA Girls and NASA Boys, virtual mentorship programs where prospective students are paired with a NASA employee to help guide them through their education. Another new program introduced is Aspire to Inspire which is focused on highlighting the early and recent careers of women in NASA and sharing that information with young girls. Through these programs, and the overall directive, H.R. 321 is designed to bring more women into service in fields that they are drastically underrepresented in.
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The Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers Act (H.R. 321), or INSPIRE Women Act, was introduced by Representative Barbara Comstock of Virginia before passing through Congress and being signed into law in February of 2017. The law is focused on increasing the representation of women in STEM careers.
The act compels the NASA director to encourage women and girls to pursue STEM fields in many ways. It created both NASA Girls and NASA Boys, virtual mentorship programs where prospective students are paired with a NASA employee to help guide them through their education. Another new program introduced is Aspire to Inspire which is focused on highlighting the early and recent careers of women in NASA and sharing that information with young girls. Through these programs, and the overall directive, H.R. 321 is designed to bring more women into service in fields that they are drastically underrepresented in.
Law, STEM, Women, US Congress, NASA, Mentorship, Education, Science
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United States
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This award is presented to a multitude of specialties within educational institutions including clerical, nutrition, transportation, and custodial fields. Commendation of public education is largely, and understandably, focused on teachers. This bill aimed to hold up those in education that serve the students in other ways. Each employee in public education has a role in the growth and success of the next generation and the RISE award seeks to highlight those that are often overlooked.
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Title
Recognizing Achievement in Classified School Employees Act
The Recognizing Achievement in Classified School Employees Act (H.R. 276) was a piece of legislature, sponsored by Representative Dina Titus of Nevada, that passed through Congress and was signed into law in April of 2019. The bill instructs the Secretary of Education to create an annual Recognizing Inspiring School Employees, or RISE, award to celebrate the service of non-educators in public schools throughout the country.
This award is presented to a multitude of specialties within educational institutions including clerical, nutrition, transportation, and custodial fields. Commendation of public education is largely, and understandably, focused on teachers. This bill aimed to hold up those in education that serve the students in other ways. Each employee in public education has a role in the growth and success of the next generation and the RISE award seeks to highlight those that are often overlooked.
Obama signs FSMA into Law. The law grants the FDA a number of new powers, including mandatory recall authority, which the agency has sought for many years. The FSMA requires the FDA to undertake more than a dozen rulemakings and issue at least 10 guidance documents, as well as a host of reports, plans, strategies, standards, notices, and other tasks. The new law allows for administrative detention based on reason to believe that the food item has been misbranded or adulterated and thus violates a legal standard for the product.
From Wikipedia: Haben Girma is an American disability rights advocate, and the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School. Girma was born in Oakland, California in 1988, after her mother fled Eritrea in 1983 during the Eritrean War of Independence and met her father, an Eritrean, in California. She lost her vision and hearing as a result of an unknown progressive condition beginning in early childhood In 2013, Girma joined Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) in Berkeley, California as a Skadden Fellow. She worked there from 2015 to 2016 as a staff attorney, working on behalf of people with disabilities. Girma says she became a lawyer in part to help increase access to books and other digital information for persons with disabilities. She now works to change attitudes about disability around the world, including the development of accessible digital services. While working for DRA in July 2014, Haben represented the National Federation of the Blind and a blind Vermont resident in a lawsuit against Scribd for allegedly failing to provide access to blind readers, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Scribd moved to dismiss, arguing that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) only applied to physical locations. In March 2015, the U.S. District Court of Vermont ruled that the ADA covered online businesses as well. A settlement agreement was reached, with Scribd agreeing to provide content accessible to blind readers by the end of 2017
]]>https://vmps.omeka.net/items/show/348 Charles McCarthy was appointed to be the chief document clerk for the Wisconsin Free Library Commission in 1901. As McCarthy adjusted to his position, he realized that the there was a potential to improve lawmaking and legislation from the references all around him. He came up with the idea for a legislative library that legislators could use to form their ideas, learn about other ideas from other states and countries, and after forming a solid definition of what they wanted to achieve, they would have a team of draftsmen to help it come to life. With McCarthy’s effort, the library was created, and repeated throughout the country. Because of how he had changed and improved legislation, he was offered many jobs throughout the country, but rejected them in order to stay with the Wisconsin Library.]]>2023-02-24T18:30:59-05:00
Title
Charles McCarthy, Creator of First Legislative Library
A black and white photograph of Charles McCarthy, who created the first legislative library in the United States.
Charles McCarthy was appointed to be the chief document clerk for the Wisconsin Free Library Commission in 1901. As McCarthy adjusted to his position, he realized that the there was a potential to improve lawmaking and legislation from the references all around him. He came up with the idea for a legislative library that legislators could use to form their ideas, learn about other ideas from other states and countries, and after forming a solid definition of what they wanted to achieve, they would have a team of draftsmen to help it come to life. With McCarthy’s effort, the library was created, and repeated throughout the country. Because of how he had changed and improved legislation, he was offered many jobs throughout the country, but rejected them in order to stay with the Wisconsin Library.
Source: Charles McCarthy (American football). (2012, August 26). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:51, October 12, 2012, from http://bit.ly/UVDinm
Publisher
Wisconsin Historical Society
Contributor
Wisconsin Historical Society
Format
Medium: Photograph.
Language
English
Type
Figures
Identifier
Charles McCarthy, Legislative Library, United States, Wisconsin, Law