Sentences with phrase «education department officials say»

State Education Department officials say that some students with disabilities are unable to demonstrate proficiency on standardized tests even with certain accommodations.

Education department officials say they want principals to decide which providers work best for them.

According to Chalkbeat, «state education department officials say this will provide schools with more useful information about what students have actually learned, while other supporters say it will spare those students from taking tests they have no chance of passing.»

state education department officials say this will provide schools with more useful information about what students have actually learned, while other supporters say it will spare those students from taking tests they have no chance of passing.»

Most districts already have state - approved SLOs and other measures in place, so no new testing would be required, an Education Department official said.

And although the original NCLB waiver doesn't expire until August, a state Education Department official said federal education officials have given states guidance essentially saying they won't be held accountable for parts of the law that are sunsetting.

Alhough students» scores on the Common Core - aligned state tests won't be used for teacher and principal evaluations, the growth scores will still be calculated and used for school accountability to comply with federal law, a state Education Department official said.

On Wednesday, Education Department officials said 42 city schools are using admissions targets to integrate their classrooms.

Elia was initially scheduled to visit a Success school in New York City next week, but education department officials said Tuesday that Elia had to skip the trip and visit the troubled East Ramapo school district instead.

The New York Times says so, but a high ranking Education Department official says that according to the prevailing rumor at 400 Maryland Ave. S.W., the answer is «no.»

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 last week.

As New York lawmakers hammered out the state budget Monday, state education department officials said the latest proposal would require many school districts to quickly revise their evaluation agreements with teachers unions in order to get increased school aid.

Not exact matches

In Australia, a state education department recently banned a passion play — a ruling, an official said, which showed that the state «will not tolerate violence in the schools.»

Officials with the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Department of Public Health said they received subpoenas on Thursday.

The Task Force will include educators, teachers, parents, officials from the State Education Department and the teacher's unions,» Cuomo said in the pre recorded message.

ALBANY — School funding and teacher evaluations are linked after all, a top official with the state education department said late Monday.

«He's someone that I think really wants to stay,» said a former Department of Education official, noting Polakow - Suransky's role in implementing the new federally - imposed Common Core testing requirements.

Teachers unions «are some of the largest players in politics,» said Lara Brown, director of the Graduate School of Political Management at the George Washington University and a former Education Department official during the Clinton administration.

State education department officials will launch an online survey for public input as part of the agency's review of its controversial Common Core academic standards, state education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said.

«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.

The state Education Department has since issued guidance to districts on how the evaluation system will run without the exam scores, and will keep working with districts on implementing the moratorium, an agency official 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.

Department of Education officials have proposed that an additional 456 - seat school be added Downtown, but parents have long said another 1,000 seats are needed.

Azzopardi also attacked DiNapoli over the arrest this week of an official in his office, and further called out the state Education Department saying there is «no real oversight function and handles more than one third of the entire state budget.»

Hoping to wean city kids off meat, the Department of Education is introducing a once - a-week, vegetarian - only breakfast and lunch menu at 15 Brooklyn schools next spring, officials said.

Hoping to wean city kids off meat, the NYC Department of Education is introducing a once - a-week, vegetarian - only breakfast and lunch menu at 15 Brooklyn schools next spring, officials said.

The funding provisions will create reams of new paperwork for the Department of Education, and city officials said the new rules would disrupt the city's current school budgeting process.

A state education department spokesman says officials will reply to the assemblymembers» letter.

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.

A spokesman for the city law department said the settlement expands on anti-violence initiatives already undertaken by city education officials.

Officials from the Department of Education said they immediately responded to the incident and were working closely with National Grid to swiftly address it.

Moskowitz's lawyers have informed city officials they will not sign a mandatory contract allowing the Education Department to oversee the charter's pre-K program, officials said — even though her privately run Success Academy network seeks thousands of dollars in public funds for each student.

An official in the Department of Education, which has supported Gross's project, says, «We're not in a position to say that this works.

A spokesman said the department had sent names of proposed nominees to the White House for every position but that of assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, and officials are anxiously awaiting further action.

Six high - ranking positions in the Education Department remain vacant, and department officials say the White House isDepartment remain vacant, and department officials say the White House isdepartment officials say the White House is to blame.

DTA official Nerida O'Loughlin said the program was an Education Department matter and that responsibility for IT projects remained with government agencies implementing them.

New York State's education department is studying a proposal that would bring children to school at age 4 and gradually phase out the 12th grade — a plan that officials say would adjust the schools to modern demands as well as address teacher shortages.

After listening to Blaydes, James Watler, an official with the Cayman Islands» Department of Education, said he wants to start keeping a journal of humorous incidents that happen at work.

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.

Idaho is «definitely» suffering a shortage of mathematics and science teachers, according to various officials in the state education department, but because of the state's tight education budget, they said, there are as yet no programs to deal with it.

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.»

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.

A recent Center on Education Policy at George Washington University survey of state department of education officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K &mdashEducation Policy at George Washington University survey of state department of education officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K &mdasheducation officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K — 12 law.

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.

Eliminating funding for 13 Education Department programs this fiscal year was a political success that freed up $ 77 million — and is part of a trend that is likely to continue, one of the department's top budget officDepartment programs this fiscal year was a political success that freed up $ 77 million — and is part of a trend that is likely to continue, one of the department's top budget officdepartment's top budget officials says.

Washington — Although the official position of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is one of strong support for retaining the cabinet - level Department of Education, an informal poll conducted by the association's monthly journal says that the publication's readers are — by a 2 - to - 1 margin — in favor of dismantling the dDepartment of Education, an informal poll conducted by the association's monthly journal says that the publication's readers are — by a 2 - to - 1 margin — in favor of dismantling the departmentdepartment.

As the U.S. Department of Education prepares to throw $ 3 billion in one - time money on the table to improve perennially foundering schools, a gulf is emerging between what federal officials would like to see done with the funds and what many districts say is their capacity — and inclination — to deliver.

In fact, a Center on Education Policy at George Washington University survey of state department of education officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K &mdashEducation Policy at George Washington University survey of state department of education officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K &mdasheducation officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K — 12 law.

Education officials in several states with large English - language - learner populations are bristling at a proposal by the U.S. Department of Education that they say would curb their flexibility in deciding when children are fluent in English and if they still need special services for ells.