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Washington — Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos has told lawmakers that Education Department officials acted unfairly in denying funding for dissemination of a curriculum on the Holocaust.

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In a strongly worded letter, Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, has accused officials at the Department for Education, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, of breaking the Coalition Agreement, by intervening in a High Court case over inclusive admissions in religious schools.

Officials at the Department of Education have requested public comments by January 21 about areas in the new Every Student Succeeds Act where regulation might be «helpful or necessary.»

U.S. Department of Education officials say that four «town hall» meetings held in the state were part of their efforts to explain the No Child Left Behind Act.

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.

Department of Education officials set a challenging goal for themselves soon after the revised Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act was signed into law in late 2004: complete the regulations in a year's time to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the law.

A decade after Massachusetts passed its charter school law as part of the Education Reform Act of 1993, city officials in North Adams, Massachusetts, sued the state Department of Education, challenging the constitutionality of charter schools.

Department of Education officials scrapped rules that interpreted certain provisions in the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001 as trumping future collective bargaining agreements and other employee protections.

The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday denied a request by the state's top education official to extend a flexibility waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, a decision that will place restrictions on nearly $ 30 million in annual federal funding for local school districts beginning with the 2015 - 2016 schEducation on Thursday denied a request by the state's top education official to extend a flexibility waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, a decision that will place restrictions on nearly $ 30 million in annual federal funding for local school districts beginning with the 2015 - 2016 scheducation official to extend a flexibility waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, a decision that will place restrictions on nearly $ 30 million in annual federal funding for local school districts beginning with the 2015 - 2016 school year.

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.

Instead, as Peter Cunningham, a former official in the U.S. Department of Education points out, «the new law that the senator from Tennessee is so proud of, the Every Student Succeeds Act, now mandates the very thing he rails against.

This week, three states — Delaware, Nevada, and New Mexico — received official feedback from the U.S. Department of Education on their plans for implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act.

Yesterday, the State Department of Education provided town - specific results to each local superintendent of schools but refused to release the statewide results and threatened local officials that they could not publicly discuss the results — in direct violation of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act — because the results were «embargoed» — a concept that is not allowed under Connecticut's open record law.

Today, in partnership with school and CMO leaders, community stakeholders, elected officials, the state Department of Education, and the Orleans Parish school's superintendent, together, we created Act 91, which outlines the requirements for local responsibility that compromises none of the progress achieved to date.

encouraging elected officials, Department of Education officials and the leadership of the ultra-Orthodox world to act responsibly in preparing their youth for economic sufficiency and for broad access to the resources of the modern world.»

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.