She pointedly refused to resign from the policy panel (the city's board of education) until the negotiations regarding her new job were cemented.

Ms. Dyson is also on the board of numerous companies and nonprofit groups around the world and has become a mainstay at Internet conferences and policy panels.

Appendix two represents of the agreed that policy panel considered that we should submit to the public enquiry.

At the national level, a policy panel of the 97,000-member Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development recently concluded that "schools have an obligation to teach values to students."

Mr. Spratt said he believed that the policy panels tended to give such requests a "closer scrub" than the appropriations panels.

In February 2010, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama named Yamamoto to a policy panel on defense issues.

The policy panel's meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Newtown High School, 48-01 90th Street, Queens.

Looking ahead, the Fed's monetary policy panel, the Federal Open Market Committee, will meet on Tuesday to consider another cut in the Federal funds rate.

A court order requiring the medical policy panel led by Hillary Rodham Clinton to open many of its meetings also helped, he said.

The policy panel, which helped get RU-486 approved, will lead the study on the hot issue of hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women.