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Earth Day Network continues to work with education officials in the Nicaraguan government, non-profit, and private sector to develop a plan for Nicaragua to move forward with a comprehensive environmental and climate education programs in all K - 12 schools.

The most senior education officials in America backed the pro-charter narrative, with Secretary of Education John King, Arne Duncan, as well as Congressman Stephen Lynch, and Speaker DeLeo in MA.

Education officials in Mississippi said they were thankful that had not been the case with the Questar breach, because the education department doesn't share addresses or Social Security numbers with the company.

That's because education officials in Kingsport and a smattering of other school districts in Tennessee proactively embraced the state's education overhauls and have worked double time to start using the standards, which they see as key to graduating students ready for college or a career.

Currently, the president's administration is squaring off against education officials in his home state of Illinois.

Education officials in several states and districts have been remarkably secretive about their plans to share substantial amounts of students» personal information with a corporation called inBloom Inc., and through inBloom, with for - profit vendors.

... education officials in L.A. — and even unoffcials, like Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa — are on the opposite end of the spectrum, pushing harder than ever for radical changes to the failing K - 12 system.

But education officials in New York, and many other states, were coming to the conclusion that some measurement system, no matter how limited, was necessary.

Education officials in Massachusetts deny any plan to scrap the test, but this week the state senate approved an amendment affirming the current policy requiring students to pass the tenth - grade MCAS to graduate.

The push to create national standards gained momentum in March of 2009 when a coalition led by the National Governors Association and the National Council of Chief State School Officers got education officials in 49 states on board and drafted standards for what U.S. high school graduates should be capable of in math and science.

The Colorado study comes as education officials in Los Angeles and across the country are moving to incorporate more objective measures of performance into teacher evaluations.

Education officials in other states and districts have made the same argument to justify the use of similar «collective measures» in their teacher evaluations.

Within the past year, Common Core opponents have managed to keep states such as Texas and Virginia from embracing the curricula reform effort, and have managed to lead nearly - successful efforts to overturn decisions by state education officials in South Carolina to enact them.

She and others are heartened by a public push from senior education officials in India on the potential of technology - aided solutions, and by the «e-India,» strategy led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

R. Herbert met with federal education officials in Washington to urge passage of the waiver.

Findings are based on interviews with state education officials in all states and surveys of nationally - representative samples of districts, principals, and teachers conducted in 2004 - 05 and 2006 - 07, as well as surveys of parents in eight large urban school districts in those same years.

Education officials in Texas «put a lot of work into» their ESSA plan writes Lynette Monroe, a Program Assistant at the NNPA ESSA Media Campaign, in the Milwaukee Courier.

The report includes findings from interviews with state education officials in all states, surveys of nationally representative samples of districts, principals, and teachers, data from consolidated state performance reports, and analyses of student achievement trends on state assessments and NAEP.

However, CEI will also be engaging with districts and state education officials in planning and conducting its initiatives.

(Wash.) Education officials in Washington State released a new framework that will be used to identify schools in need of support — and one of the new indicators, attendance, will likely be an early stumbling block for schools in a region known for high rates of chronic absenteeism.

Unfortunate too was that by that time, we had already conducted eight telephone interviews with senior education officials in the state.

Education officials in Oregon and Idaho seem a bit more optimistic.

Thomas P. DiNapoli, the state comptroller, had given the green light to state education officials in June to pursue a no - bid contract with Wireless Generation, an education technology company based in Brooklyn in which News Corporation had acquired a 90 percent stake last November for more than $ 360 million.

Kentucky, New York and Minnesota are already using Common Core - aligned assessments, and state education officials in Georgia and Oklahoma also say they'll build new tests.

Education officials in cities across the country have shuttered hundreds of schools in recent years — a phenomenon that's been criticized for displacing students and doing away with the very buildings that often serve as the heart of a community.

Public - education officials in Ohio were pleased two weeks ago when Gov. James A. Rhodes proposed that a temporary 40 - percent surcharge be tacked onto the state income tax instead of the 25 - percent surcharge approved by the state Senate.

Education officials in Colorado, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming, have recommended that local school officials decide on a case - by - case basis whether to allow pupils with the disease to attend classes.

Students in the state increasingly confer with school boards, district administrators, and state education officials in a drive to become players in their own educations.

Georgia will offer assessments developed by education officials in this state, who will continue working with their counterparts in the region toward the goal of offering a regional test.

The Denver - based ECS is made up of governors and top education officials in 49 states and seeks to help states shape education policy.

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.

Next month, education officials in Massachusetts will decide whether to abandon the state's much - praised MCAS test and adopt the Common Core - aligned PARCC test.

A continuing dispute between the local teachers» union and school administrators has some education officials in Detroit worried that several alternative schools that opened in August to lure high school dropouts back to the classroom will be forced to close.

State education officials in Kentucky, Texas, and New Mexico have moved to intervene in the affairs of school districts charged with financial mismanagement or inadequate educational performance.

The top education officials in Georgia and Pennsylvania have announced that neither state will renew membership in the Council of Chief State School Officers, a lobbying and support group for state schools superintendents.

Nearly everyone in America recites the pledge of allegiance incorrectly, according to state education officials in Louisiana.

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 the states.

Public - education officials in three states expressed relief last week over the resounding defeat of tax - limitation measures they said posed a dire threat to local schools.

As concern over America's competitiveness abroad intensifies, education officials in the U.S. are beginning to consider using individual states and districts — not just the nation as a whole — as the units against which to measure their international peers.

State education officials in Idaho say they hope their pledge to report on how districts use a proposed $ 20 - million school - improvement fund will help boost total education funding during the next legislative session.

Top education officials in New York on Tuesday called for the passage of the Dream Act in the state Senate after the Assembly approved the legislation a day earlier.

Local government advocates and education officials in New York have urged state lawmakers to make changes to the cap to allow for more levy growth and discard the provision that limits increases to the rate of inflation.

Also, the governor and lawmakers are responsible for crafting the state budget, a process that gives them great control over which programs to fund and leaves education officials in an advisory role.

In the 1990s, education officials in the Catalonian government launched a programme to develop healthy eating habits among youngsters and improve school canteen services.

As federal officials worked with education officials in crafting new school safety rules, they also consulted clergy, Biden told a White House auditorium filled with federal officials who have worked on the issue.

The vote in Congress represents a referendum of sorts on the work of U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who has wielded more power than any other federal education official in the nation's history.

In addition, Ms. Aikele was a district education official in Idaho, not a state education official.

She was named the state's top public education official in May 2016...

Panelist Andy Smarick, a partner at Bellwether Education Partners and former education official in the Bush administration, argued the interpretation of...

Thirteen states choose their top education official in a partisan campaign.