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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.

A top Education Department official last week clashed with the chairman of a key House subcommittee over the chairman's proposal to overhaul the department's research branch, as a more modest reauthorization bill advanced in the Senate.

WASHINGTON — Researchers and Education Department officials last week lamented that the death of legislation to reauthorize the department's office of educational research and improvement may put off for two years any substantial reorganization of the agency.

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

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Talks over the evaluations broke down in the city last month when Department of Education officials refused to consider the UFT's insistence that teachers who receive poor ratings be allowed to appeal them to an independent arbitrator.

City Hall officials admitted Friday that they didn't include 99 complaints of sexual harassment at the Department of Education in a tally released last week reporting 471 cases at the...

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — The city has made a final decision not to expand Millennium High School into nearby space at 26 Broadway, Department of Education officials said last week.

And last month department officials announced they were setting aside $ 100 million within TIF for districts that want to focus on STEM education.

At the first official meeting of the Department of Education's Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, held here in Atlanta last week, the 15 - member panel heard from wrestlers, rowers, gymnasts, coaches, policy experts, players, and parents — most intensely passionate about the effect that Title IX...

Last week, officials from the U.S. Department of Education met with critics of school discipline policies that were put in place under the Obama administration.

Washington — State education officials in New York announced last week that they will seek a federal court order to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (ED) from using 12 - year - old census data as the basis for distributing federal aid for disadvantaged children to theducation officials in New York announced last week that they will seek a federal court order to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (ED) from using 12 - year - old census data as the basis for distributing federal aid for disadvantaged children to thEducation (ED) from using 12 - year - old census data as the basis for distributing federal aid for disadvantaged children to the states.

Washington — U.S. Solicitor General Rex E. Lee is expected within the next few days to ask the Supreme Court to rule on the Education Department's (ED) legal authority to require states to reimburse it for Title I funds that were allegedly misspent prior to 1978, Justice Department officials said last week.

The Pike County, Ky., school system's use of more than $ 9 million in federal flood - relief funds is being investigated by officials of the U.S. Education Department, a county school system official said last week.

That is a shift in attitude for Mr. Darman, who essentially adopted the position Education Department officials have maintained since President Bush submitted his budget last month.

Rhodes Boyson, a Conservative Member of Parliament and an official in the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, made these and other observations during a public address sponsored here last week by the Education Department's office for intergovernmental and interagency affairs.

Rep. Annette «Polly» Williams is backing a proposal by state education officials to bar private schools in the program from charging voucher students registration and book fees that public schools do not impose, according to Greg Doyle, the spokesman for the state education department, which proposed the rule last month.

The Education Department's 1994 budget proposes to spend $ 15 million in discretionary funds under the Secretary's Fund for Innovation on an «urban - rural initiative,» which Administration officials said last week would be spent on the «enterprise schools.»

San Diego — Federal Education and Interior department officials warned Indian educators meeting here last week that plans to reform Indian education must be implemented soon while policymakers» interest in the topic remaEducation and Interior department officials warned Indian educators meeting here last week that plans to reform Indian education must be implemented soon while policymakers» interest in the topic remaeducation must be implemented soon while policymakers» interest in the topic remains high.

Washington — Secretary of Ed ucation Lauro F. Cavazos last week named Gilbert D. Roman, an official in the department's office for civil rights, to head the Bush Administration's Hispanic - education initiative.

The Justice and Education departments still have not determined how to address existing desegregation cases — and whether or where to bring new ones — and have received little guidance from the White House in crafting civil - rights policy, the Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan panel of former federal civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last week.

Digger Phelps, the former basketball coach at the University of Notre Dame, apparently was seeking a job in the Education Department last year, and officials confirmed he was being considered for an advisory post.

The Education Department's series of «What Works» booklets has cost the taxpayers $ 3.7 million to produce, an E.D. official told a House appropriations panel last week.

Last July, the Department of Education proposed a controversial new policy to further slash suspensions of students in kindergarten to second grade at all schools.The rules have not yet taken effect, officials said, but instead of being suspended unruly kids would face «positive» and «age - appropriate» discipline methods.

Milton Goldberg, the key Education Department official coordinating the new study, offered a similar preview last week at the annual meeting of the National Catholic Educational Association in New York.

Washington — Secretary of Education William J. Bennett plans to team up with Allan Bloom, the University of Chicago scholar, to form a research center to study liberal - arts education and other public - Education Department officials said lEducation William J. Bennett plans to team up with Allan Bloom, the University of Chicago scholar, to form a research center to study liberal - arts education and other public - Education Department officials said leducation and other public - Education Department officials said lEducation Department officials said last week.

The late filings by districts can be traced back to budget cuts to the California Department of Education last fall that prompted department officials to discontinue the practice of generating data files needed by districts to fill out the accountabilitDepartment of Education last fall that prompted department officials to discontinue the practice of generating data files needed by districts to fill out the accountabilitdepartment officials to discontinue the practice of generating data files needed by districts to fill out the accountability reports.

Ritz told the State Board of Education she won't release this year's school grades until Department of Education officials and state lawmakers complete their separate investigations into how former state superintendent Tony Bennett and his staff calculated last year's school grades.

At last week's Department of Education financial emergency board meeting, officials said an estimated $ 555,000 in terminal leave pay will go to school district staff no longer employed after June 30.

But Rivera and other Ohio Department of Education officials say the July 1 deadline - a deadline announced last month and shown on the department's website - was just a draft and the worst - caseDepartment of Education officials say the July 1 deadline - a deadline announced last month and shown on the department's website - was just a draft and the worst - casedepartment's website - was just a draft and the worst - case scenario.

Finally, after speaking with many local school superintendents and reviewing the correspondence that they sent out to teachers and parents last spring, it is clear that Malloy's Department of Education also tried to scare local officials into believing that any widespread opt - out or boycott of the Common Core SBAC test would jeopardize funding for the local school district.

While the election of Donald Trump raises many questions about the future of public education, state Department of Education officials remained cautiously optimistic yesterday that the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) signed into law last year will allow Connecticut schools to move in a positive deducation, state Department of Education officials remained cautiously optimistic yesterday that the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) signed into law last year will allow Connecticut schools to move in a positive dEducation officials remained cautiously optimistic yesterday that the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) signed into law last year will allow Connecticut schools to move in a positive direction.

In a letter last year, a U.S. Department of Education official told Deasy the federal waiver did not exempt L.A. Unified from identifying schools for improvement, corrective action or restructuring, and did not affect any related state laws.

Negotiations with federal education officials continued Tuesday after the state bolstered its plan late last week to meet some of the demands of the U.S. Department of Education, which has already granted waiversto 41 other states and Washingeducation officials continued Tuesday after the state bolstered its plan late last week to meet some of the demands of the U.S. Department of Education, which has already granted waiversto 41 other states and WashingEducation, which has already granted waiversto 41 other states and Washington, D.C.

State Department of Education officials blamed testing problems last Thursday on a fiber optic cable that had been severed by a dump truck in East Tennessee.

Fewer Indiana schools received the state's highest performance rating this year compared to last year, according to letter grades Indiana Department of Education officials released Wednesday.