Sentences with phrase «education department official acknowledged»

The problem, one city Education Department official acknowledged, is that districts did not want to lose the Title I money they would have to give to parents to obtain the after - school tutoring — and so did little to make parents aware of the opportunity.

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The state Education Department dropped the number of raw points needed to hit proficiency levels in six of the 12 English and math exams given to students in grades 3 to 8, officials acknowledged.

Acknowledging that the Goals 2000: Educate America Act «has some political baggage,» a senior Education Department official last week urged state officials and members of the business community to redouble their efforts on behalf of the standards - based school - reform strategy and of school reform in general.

The State Education Department on Tuesday would not release statistics showing passing rates by ethnicity, but officials have acknowledged that minority teaching candidates have not done as well as white candidates on the new test.

Education Department officials last week acknowledged shortcomings in their past efforts to ensure that schools receiving magnet school grants spelled out...

Recently, the expert who conducted the audit, Thomas Hehir, a Harvard University professor and former U.S. Department of Education official, acknowledged in an interview that high - poverty school districts «should probably have higher special ed rates.»

Meanwhile, a grassroots parent movement opposed to PARCC is demanding its voice be heard, and the state's Department of Education says it's trying to communicate its own message, though officials acknowledge they may be drowned out by the noise.