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«My hope is that she has a very open mind... and doesn't think the Michigan approach is the right one,» said Peter Cunningham, a former Obama Education Department official who is now executive director of the Education Post, a nonprofit group that supports charter schools.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R - Tenn., one of the main architects of the Every Student Succeeds Act, does not think at least one Education Department official who has not read the new law very well.

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This is all quite routine for this time of year, college officials having a fond place in their hearts and their physical education departments for All - Americas and kids who can do 9.6.

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.

If a school official in the state of New York is aware of a pattern of racial or religious discrimination or harassment that state official is under an affirmative duty to notify the State Education Department and the police, or that state official is no longer a state official, because that's not who we are and that's not how we perform.

NEW YORK CITY — City officials voted Wednesday to close five of its struggling schools in The Bronx and Brooklyn despite strong opposition from elected officials, parents, teachers and students who called on the Department of Education to reconsider.

«For quite some time, Education Commissioner John King has closed off all meaningful conversation with parents, educators, administrators, and elected officials who have highlighted serious deficiencies in State Education Department policies,» Abinanti said.

Senior Department of Education officials said they expected most who reapply to be rehired after a selection process that includes interviews, essays and references.

Those accounts are handed off to Department of Education officials who then categorize them according to state guidelines.

Cherry Lane Elementary has even been recognized by the US Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School in 2013, an award «reserved for schools that boast students who meet and maintain high educational goals,» according to the department's officiaDepartment of Education as a Blue Ribbon School in 2013, an award «reserved for schools that boast students who meet and maintain high educational goals,» according to the department's officiadepartment's official website.

Wiggins, who now works as a part - time public education assistant in the university's Department of Physics and Astronomy, had submitted the naming request in July as «Univ of Utah» but the naming agency changed it to Univofutah — much to the dismay of university marketing officials, who would have preferred «U of Utah.»

Michael J. Petrilli, the vice president for national programs and policy at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and a former education department official under Spellings, takes this view: «Nothing was happening on the Highly Qualified Teacher provision years ago and she's finally enforcing it, so she's built up credibility with people who care about that provision.

CCSSO is a nonprofit organization whose membership comprises public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the United States.

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.

The witness list included a top Education Department official, Chester E. Finn Jr.; a consultant to the National Governors Association's task force on choice, Joseph Nathan; school officials who are overseeing «open - enrollment» plans;...

Graduation Rates - When asked to estimate the percent of ninth - graders who graduate within four years of entering ninth grade, Americans on average offer a pessimistic guess of 66 percent, 9 percent below the U.S. Department of Education's official national estimate.

A former Department of Education official who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unlawful conflict of interest was sentenced July 29.

The final inspection report by the U.S. Department of Education's inspector general's office concluded that department officials may have intended to «stack» the panels of grant reviewers with those who favored a particular teaching meDepartment of Education's inspector general's office concluded that department officials may have intended to «stack» the panels of grant reviewers with those who favored a particular teaching medepartment officials may have intended to «stack» the panels of grant reviewers with those who favored a particular teaching methodology.

Kimberly Friedman, a spokeswoman for the Arkansas education department, said that officials are «preparing follow - up information to parents and the state» that clarifies that students who score a 3 have only «approached academic expectations,» according to PARCC.

But a ranking official in the Louisiana Department of Education, who asked that his name not be used, said that the existing cut - off scores, in place since 1978, «are already ridiculously low.»

Stephen Willoughby, who is also chairman of New York University's department of mathematics education and a longtime leader in the field, urged the nctm to take steps to see that standards are maintained and said members should approach their congressmen and their state and local officials to draw attention to the problem of poor teacher - training.

Former Edina teacher Debbie York and former St. Paul teacher John Ekblad were among a group of Minnesota teachers and parents who met with officials from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights and other departments, according to Thomas B. Fordham Institute president Michael Petrilli.

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.»

While President Bush met with congressional leaders this week about the upcoming reauthorization, there was some rumbling in education circles about an article written by Michael Petrilli, a former U.S. Department of Education official who helped promeducation circles about an article written by Michael Petrilli, a former U.S. Department of Education official who helped promEducation official who helped promote NCLB.

Mulgrew noted that the union contract already allows Department of Education officials to do exactly what Walcott's two plans announced today would do — incentivize teachers without permanent jobs to take buyouts, and require schools to remove teachers who receive consecutive unsatisfactory ratings.

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is asking school officials to tell their students and families about a federal program that grants deportation deferrals to «low priority cases,» including individuals who came to the U.S. as children.

State officials have suspended a third year of grant funding for four Pueblo middle schools — Freed, Pitts, Risley and Roncalli — and one Denver school, Gilpin Elementary, after the schools posted declines in overall results on this year's state School Performance Framework, according to Patrick Chapman, who oversees federal grants for the Colorado Department of Education.

New York City's Department of Education officials, who originally told union representatives that they intended to keep the sensitive information private, said they could not find an exemption to state records laws that would preclude disclosure.

CEL faculty were willing to work closely with Florida officials to make sure that common perspective was one that fit the state's unique needs, said Jason Graham, the senior educational program director for the Bureau of Educator Recruitment, Development and Retention at the state education department, who is now overseeing the Commissioner's Leadership Academy.

Oklahoma will not lose control over a portion of its federal funding next year, according to state officials, who announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Education has restored the state's waiver from the 2001 accountability law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

«If you create a system that doesn't have maximum teacher input, it doesn't matter how technically sound it is,» said Dan Cruce, a former official in the Delaware Department of Education who now works for the nonprofit policy organization Hope Street Group.

But the New York City system applied for the 2012 grant, which allows districts to differentiate pay for teachers who take on new responsibilities, and Ms. Feinberg, the district spokeswoman, said officials believe their proposal would pass muster with the Education Department's 2012 rules for the competition.

While any grade above «Needs Improvement» is sufficient to pass the grade, officials with the state Department of Education look at the proportion who score «Good» or «Excellent» to evaluate student achievement.

The general election pits Douglas, a social conservative and a former school board member in the Phoenix area whose campaign focuses on her opposition to the Common Core, against David Garcia, a former state department of education official and current faculty member at Arizona State University who supports the Common Core.

Department of Education officials attribute the gains to two main factors: 1) a dynamic school leader who is deeply committed to the school and surrounding community, and 2) teachers and other school professionals who share a relentless focus on improving instruction through both increased collaboration and better use of data.

The Council of Chief State School Officers is a nonpartisan, nationwide, nonprofit organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, and five U.S. extra-state juriseducation in the states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, and five U.S. extra-state jurisEducation Activity, and five U.S. extra-state jurisdictions.

This particular provision was expanded in 2008 when the US Department of Education approved new regulations clarifying that third - party vendors (such as those who help manage school databases or provide digital curriculum) can be included within the school official exception.

These actions have led education advocate and activist Jonathan Pelto to ask the state's Commissioner of the Department of Children and Families to investigate «the abusive bullying and punishment that is being perpetrated by some local school superintendents and local school officials against those who have been opted out of the SBAC testing.»

For Item 7, in order to give an opportunity for everyone who has signed up to speak and provide their input to the board, rather than allotting a certain amount of time to a specific side or to official proponents and opponents, the board will move right into the one minute public comment, pursuant to Title 5 Code of Regulations, Section 9522 and 18463, following a presentation by staff of the California Department of Education.

School officials in at least three towns reported that when they called the State Department of Education for guidance about the sit and stay policy they were told that the mandatory SBAC Test Administration Manual was a set of guidelines and it was up to the town to decide whether to require children who have been opted out of the SBAC test to sit and stay in the classroom or whether to relocate students to the library or some other safe location where they could read or do homework.

Amounts for years two and three have not yet been disclosed by the federal government, said officials at the Rhode Island Department of Education, who are keeping their fingers crossed that the state will receive the full amount requested, $ 9.4 million.

CCSSO is a nonpartisan, nationwide, nonprofit organization that represents the public officials who lead departments of elementary and secondary education in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, the Bureau of Indian Education and the five U.S. extra-state juriseducation in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, the Bureau of Indian Education and the five U.S. extra-state jurisEducation Activity, the Bureau of Indian Education and the five U.S. extra-state jurisEducation and the five U.S. extra-state jurisdictions.

MIAMI — The largest operator of online schools in the United States is being investigated by the Florida Department of Education over allegations the company may employ teachers who are not properly certified, a state official said on Tuesday.

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CCSSO is a nonpartisan, nationwide, nonprofit organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, and five U.S. extra-state juriseducation in the states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, and five U.S. extra-state jurisEducation Activity, and five U.S. extra-state jurisdictions.