Sentences with phrase «education oversight for»
Increase the accountability provisions to ensure weighted funds are used for the pupils that generate the weights, and increase County Office of Education oversight for school districts.
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«This analysis rocked me to the core,» says dietitian Tricia Thompson, who founded Gluten Free Watchdog, a site that offers education and gluten - free food testing and sometimes wrangles with the FDA or corporations to press for stricter oversight.
The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.
Education in school and for parents is crucial but this has to be complimented by better tools and services from industry players as well as appropriate government oversight.»
The budget is due Sunday, but already lawmakers are putting the finishing touches on a deal that includes plans to merge gambling oversight, a new infrastructure improvement plan for the state and a 4 percent boost in education spending through competitive grants.
One said the community is «beyond pissed» with the governor for calling for more oversight of the troubled East Ramapo School district, leading to the appointment by the state Education Department of a fiscal monitor.
«Ministers will need to address the need for better strategic oversight and leverage in the system to ensure it operates in the public interest, is democratically accountable, encourages and promotes genuine teacher autonomy, secures entitlement for all learners and achieves an end to the postcode lottery in education.»
Its practical application, and that of the Coalition's Localism Bill, can be seen to have shifted responsibility for delivering services and managing budgets onto the local and community level, while effectively withholding power through enforcing cuts and strengthening government oversight, as with Gove's current dominion over education provision.
Senate Republicans have two bills for extending mayoral control — a 12 - month extension, plus oversight from the governor's office and a three - year measure that includes a range of education issues deemed non-starters from Democratic lawmakers.
The lack of oversight, the lack of capacity within the governance structures and failure to deliver improvements are all issues we have been raising for months,» said Lucy Powell, the shadow education secretary.
Mr. Flanagan (R - East Northport), who chairs the senate's Standing Committee on Education, is also sponsoring legislation to create independent oversight, as well as establishing civil and criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure of personal information stored on the state's student data portal received from public schools.
Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»
Independent Democrat David Carlucci, who introduced the bill in the Senate, says the legislation will allow for public feedback in future funding projects, budgetary oversight provided by the Commissioner of Education and the continuation of appointed monitors on the ground in the district.
It establishes civil and criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure information stored on the statewide database «inBloom,» and creates independent oversight within the New York State Education Department on matters related to privacy.
«This legislation strikes the right balance that allows this activity to continue with oversight from state regulators, new consumer protections, and more funding for education.»
The groups called for a return to higher rates for top income earners, more spending on education and municipal aid — which they said would keep locally imposed property taxes in check — as well as increased oversight of several business tax credit programs.
The Committee on Education will meet at 1 p.m. for oversight on bullying, harassment, and discrimination in the public schools; there will be a particular focus on LGBT students and other vulnerable students.
UFT Vice President for Education Evelyn DeJesus testified before the New York City Council Committee on Education regarding the FY 2016 preliminary budget, mayor's FY ’15 preliminary management report and agency oversight hearings.
The recognition that some local oversight is needed might be at the heart of the decision by Michael Gove, the former education secretary, to appoint eight regional school commissioners responsible for oversight of academies and free schools in England.
As parliament's public accounts committee pointed out in January 2015: «The DfE [Department for Education] presides over a complex and confused system of external oversight.»
At 1 p.m. the Committee on Education will meet for oversight on Department of Education's efforts to help struggling schools.
The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.
«As parents, we are outraged that Success Academy charter schools can enter a New York City public school building, and without any oversight or approval, rip out potentially dangerous PCB - containing fixtures without taking any environmental precautions,» says the formal complaint to the state by the parents, who are backed by two nonprofit organizations, New Yorkers for Great Public Schools and the Alliance for Quality Education.
Education and regulatory oversight for sex enhancement devices are in short supply.
«To ensure that researchers and research facilities funded through the DHS [Center of Excellence] award meet the highest safety standards possible,» the UCCLS report states, «DHS requires every recipient to develop a Research Safety Plan» showing, among other things, that the researcher has identified the potential hazards in the research and will use accepted and appropriate protocols and practices; that the institution provides faculty oversight for students and education and training to develop a culture of safety; and that subject matter experts not involved in the research review protocols and practices.
Although the commission saw no need to call for a moratorium on synthetic biology, it asked for careful risk monitoring, government oversight, public dialogue, ethics education, and «a continued culture of individual and corporate responsibility and self - regulation by the research community.»
Within 18 months, a White House - level coordinating committee should publish reviews looking at funding, licensing policies, gaps in risk assessment, ethics education, and oversight rules for researchers.
Dr. Karen Margolis, an internist and director of clinical research at HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research in Minneapolis, would also like to see more oversight.
In addition, she will provide oversight of continuing medical education, the office for diversity, the office of global health, the clinical simulation center, the George T. Harrell Health Sciences Library, and the office of medical education research.
This committee, informally called the Fink Committee, prepared a report entitled «Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism» that made sweeping recommendations to enact regular risk assessments of biotechnology, enhance education, strengthen international oversight, and establish the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) to carry out reviews and advise the government.
The American Medical Association called for improved oversight (2009), the American Public Health Association called for «a precautionary approach to reducing American exposure,» (2010) and the American Chemical Society recommended expanded education and research, updated testing protocols, and the development of safer EDC alternatives (2012 — 2015).
Assuming that ESA administrators can successfully develop oversight techniques, ESAs could become the most powerful and flexible mechanism we have for customizing education to individual student needs.
Under the board's oversight, the Department of Early Education and Care provides services including licensing and regulating child care programs, residential programs, and adoption / foster care placement agencies; offering financial assistance for children to attend programs supporting their growth, development, and learning; providing resources and services for families; and supporting the professional development of educators in the early education and caEducation and Care provides services including licensing and regulating child care programs, residential programs, and adoption / foster care placement agencies; offering financial assistance for children to attend programs supporting their growth, development, and learning; providing resources and services for families; and supporting the professional development of educators in the early education and caeducation and care field.
Reform's Academy chains unlocked report brings together results from the first survey of academy chain chief executives and recommends reforms to the funding and oversight of academy chains to raise standards and achieve the original goal of improving education for all children.
It occupies a large geographic and administrative footprint, it incorporates Learning Services South (which is the south of Tasmania), the largest school farm, which is located a short drive away, and we also have direct oversight over a Trade Training Centre, which provides really first class training facilities for vocational education and training (VET) for our students and the broader community.
The hearing scheduled for May 10 will focus on the Department of Education's oversight of the $ 1 billion - a-year initiative to improve reading achievement in disadvantaged schools, and the steps being taken to prevent conflicts of interest in Reading First and other federal programs, according to a letter to Ms. Spellings from Education and Labor...
Charter history is rife with stories about small - time crooks taking advantage of lax public oversight to steal dollars meant for education to enrich friends and family.
But while some witnesses at a two - day oversight hearing told the House Subcommittee on Select Education that research efforts can be improved without changing the structure of the office of educational research and improvement, others called for an overhaul.
As legal scholar Richard Epstein noted in a thorough and scathing Education Next review of the dear - colleague letter, «[T] he guidance offers no safe harbor for conducting routine discipline, free of constant federal oversight.
Rather than mandating direct federal oversight of schools — telling states what to do — ESEA offered states funding for education programs on a conditional basis.
As the authorizer of all schools, City Schools was solely responsible for the oversight of public education in Baltimore.
This adverse effect is especially pronounced in five areas: oversight of federal education law; enforcement of federal guarantees of educational equity; budget and tax policy; the rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy; and Trump's embrace of bigoted rhetoric and action that challenges the identities of students who are racial, ethnic, or religious minorities.
RSCs were introduce by the Department for Education (DfE) in 2014 to monitor new academies that lacked local oversight.
Recommendation: To help charter schools recognize practices that may affect enrollment of students with disabilities and improve the information available for monitoring and oversight, the Secretary of Education should update existing guidance to ensure that charter schools have better information about their obligations related to the enrollment of students with disabilities.
Charles Barone, chief of federal policy at Democrats for Education Reform, said federal and state oversight of the program has been «too loose.»
The Secretary of Education approves plans, ensures state implementation through oversight and enforcement, and takes action when states fail to meet their obligations to close achievement gaps and provide equal educational opportunity for all students.
Recommendation: To help charter schools recognize practices that may affect enrollment of students with disabilities and improve the information available for monitoring and oversight, the Secretary of Education should conduct additional fact finding and research to understand the factors affecting enrollment of students with disabilities in charter schools and act upon that information, as appropriate.
The Department of Education has responsibility for fiduciary and programmatic oversight of the grant.
About PCSB: The DC Public Charter School Board (PCSB) is setting a national model for creating quality public school options through its rigorous review of new charter applications and effective oversight of charter school performance that is leading the transformation of public education in Washington, DC.
While touching lightly on all, this article focuses mainly on state reforms that take over schools, rather than districts, and that assume «LEA» functions for those schools — the mundane routines of oversight, administration, and finance that a local education agency (aka a conventional school district) ordinarily performs.