Sentences with phrase «education department officials pointed»

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Representatives of the 600,000 - member union, in response, pointed out that Education Department officials responsible for supervising teacher evaluations had themselves cited the union - endorsed scoring system as one that districts could adopt.

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.

Officials of the U.S. Department of Education had pointed out the potential for conflicts of interest, given that Ms. Keegan worked as the chief executive officer of the Washington - based organization as a hired contractor, while at the same time sitting on the council's board of directors.

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.

While the fear is that 2012 will bring about a massive wave of state takeovers, Indiana Department of Education officials say that would be logistically impractical, pointing to Marion as an example of something closer to what state intervention will look like in underperforming schools.

At that point, the State Department of Education employees and the local officials turned their backs on the parents in the room and, what could only be described as «scurrying,» exited the room as if fire and smoke was about to consume them.

Officials at FES and Success pointed to statistics from a set of state data data known as VADIR (Violent and Disruptive Incident Reporting), which is compiled by the State Education Department.

As former U.S. Department of Education official John Bailey pointed out when the first round of Investing in Innovation (i3) grantees was announced, «Innovation investments, while needed, are insufficient by themselves.