Sentences with phrase «local agency systems»

«It marks an outwardly visible shift to capacity building rather than sanction and intervention alone,» Christine Swenson, director of the Local Agency Systems Support Division for the state education department, told the board.

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the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.

The Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state school system and placed them into independent schools; the trade union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced City Technology Colleges, which took states schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.

At 10 a.m., Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle holds a press conference on the local impact of the proposed state budget for health programs, Finger Lakes Health System Agency, 1150 University Ave., Building 5, Rochester.

CSEA / VOICE Local 100A successfully partnered with the Office of Children and Family Services and DSS agencies across the state to make the child care subsidy system work better in several counties.

He brings with him extensive knowledge of the local juvenile justice system, and good working relationships with community organizations and state oversight agencies,» said Poloncarz.

State and local agencies plan to drastically overhaul the city's bus system.

- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owLocal Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful oSystem for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful osystem and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owlocal governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;

The job of the State and Local Government Reform Group is to avoid addressing The Spoils System in the Agencies and Authorities as THE source of the problem (or rather, THE PROBLEM)... like The Plague!

New York's extensive system of Industrial Development Agencies and Local Development Corporations is rife with overlapping boundaries and a lack of transparency that is crying for an overhaul, according to a study to be released today by the Citizens Budget Commission spending watchdog group.

Organizer Sean Collins is with Capital Area Against Mass Incarceration: «And in the resolution it talks about, it calls on local law enforcement officials and agencies to utilize their discretion they have, use greater discretion to provide more leniency and more compassion in the system, and do what they can now, even though there isn't a law on the books to divert 16 - and 17 - year - olds away from prisons.»

Other attendees included Erie County Legislator Peter J. Savage; Kimberly Trent, representing the City of Buffalo's Commission on Citizens» Rights and Community Relations; a dozen local human service agency partners; students from Bennett Park Montessori School, singer Kevin McCarthy, young entrepreneur Daniel Gibbs; and the Library System's new owl mascot «Reada Book.»

- This team «will serve as a go - to resource for non-Executive agencies, local governments, and public authorities in how to better protect their information technology assets, critical operating systems and data from cyber-attacks, malware and ransomware.»

The swap would open up efficiencies and relieve regular assessments by local officials, said the state agency, and payments on the state - owned land would likely increase under the new system.

Whether this effluent should be processed is contentious; the Supreme Court is set to hear a consolidation of cases about the Environmental Protection Agency's requirements that power plants retrofit their systems to minimize impact on local water supplies and aquatic life.

Government careers range from federal agencies concerned with regulatory issues, like the FDA and the US Environmental Protection Agency, to the municipality level, for example, a county interested in using geographical information systems to plot local resources.

This effort builds on previous investigations, such as the USGS Central Valley Regional Aquifer System and Analysis (CV - RASA) project and several other groundwater studies in the Valley completed by Federal, State and local agencies at differing scales.

To be able to do that she went to her local agency in Colombia providing all her personal information to have the opportunity to become a member of free dating system I chose and successfully found her afterward.

GenerationLove works closely with local dating agencies in the Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Armenia to ensure their customers have a support system in place throughout the matching process.

The AIM Center provides technical assistance to state educational agencies, local education agencies, and other stakeholders to develop effective systems for the timely delivery of high - quality accessible instructional materials to all students with disabilities who need them.

Providing a non-arbitrary comparison of schools on even one criterion will be nearly impossible...» He says that the agency's subjective measures of equity grant almost complete control to federal regulators over a district's administration, something that is at odds with the very structure of the American educational system and will surely damage local control.

To make that shift, Kane envisions creating a system of efficacy networks: groups of local agencies working together to test solutions to shared problems — such as chronic absenteeism and elementary literacy.

Funds and property seized by the state from convicted drug dealers must go to local school systems rather than law - enforcement agencies, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled.

Ironically, at a time when the system was winning praise, DoDEA officials planned to hire a consultant to spend 18 months studying the costs to maintain each U.S. school in each community, and the estimated cost of having a local education agency take over a school.

The product of a collaboration involving the local school system, a federal agency, a professional association, and private foundations and universities, the pilot effort is designed to both encourage young people to stay in school and gently nudge them toward careers in public service.

California is committed to providing one system of connected resources supporting Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) Priorities to support local educational agencies and schools achieve the goals of the LCFF priorities and serve the needs of California's diverse student populaLocal Control Funding Formula (LCFF) Priorities to support local educational agencies and schools achieve the goals of the LCFF priorities and serve the needs of California's diverse student populalocal educational agencies and schools achieve the goals of the LCFF priorities and serve the needs of California's diverse student population.

Although states bear formal responsibility for educating their citizens — the wording varies, but a typical example is Ohio's constitutional charge to its legislature to «secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state» — all but Hawaii have opted to deliver schooling through «local education agencies,» also known as school districts.

Register today for a free CDE summit that aims to help California schools make research - aligned decisions to improve professional learning systems at their local educational agency.

Washington's high - risk designation specified that the State must submit, by May 1, 2014, final guidelines for teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that meet the requirements of ESEA flexibility, including requiring local educational agencies (LEAs) to use student achievement on CCR State assessments to measure student learning growth in those systems for teachers of tested grades and subjects.

This policy report focuses on the state education agency (SEA) role in supporting P - 3 system building at the state and local levels.

Instead, districts act within the policy system, vying with state actors at all stages of policy making to ensure that policy actions will be acceptable.291 And, after state policies have been enacted, they must still be implemented; in matters of implementation, too, local districts and state agencies use personal contacts to negotiate how both parties can best respond.292 Thus, even though states have legitimate authority, it is exercised through informal and formal networks that help to shape local responses to state policy.

The CAASPP Institute provides local educational agency (LEA) teams with information and strategies for using the CAASPP System to improve teaching and learning.

(Calif.) Confronted with a host of new policies and conditions created by a wholesale restructuring of the school testing and accountability system, local educational agencies submitted 416 waiver applications last year — a 30 percent increase over 2016.

«Until some agency at the local or regional level has the information and the authority to prioritise school places where they are most needed, parents and children will always be unsure that the system will give them what they want.»

From an experience perspective, I thought it was important to bring experience growing up in public schools on Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, serving as a senior leader in the central office of a large, complex public school system in Chicago — with over 600 schools serving almost 400,000 students — and as an executive at a nationwide nonprofit working through state agencies and local districts to support public education.

Instead, they are the result of system - level changes that require support and cooperation from state and local education agencies.

Our work is aimed not only at developing new and more targeted tools and approaches for addressing the region's priority needs, but also building the capacity of state and local education agencies to use evidence in making decisions that move us toward a more efficient, effective, and equitable education system.

3: Help State Education Agencies (SEAs) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs) develop and improve data systems to track students at risk of dropping out.

We work with SEAs, local education agencies (LEAs), and Regional Comprehensive Centers to identify, adopt, and sustain research - based practices and emerging promising practices that ensure equity and drive system change to rapidly improve the lowest - performing schools.

Graduates of our programs become engaged in academic and research careers in university programs, research organizations, or public agencies; or in administrative positions in school systems, educational centers, or national, regional, and state agencies; or in teacher education, professional development and curriculum positions in local and state systems and educational companies and organizations.

We need to move beyond the current practice of blaming teachers to a system of shared accountability so that donors, ministries of education, local education agencies, implementing agencies, directors and teachers are all responsible for producing measurable improvements in teaching quality.

One of the key conditions of the waiver, however, is that states as well as local educational agencies covered by the agreement develop and implement new evaluation systems for school leaders that take into account student achievement growth and the quality of principals» leadership practices.

Lawmakers are proposing expanding the entities that can authorize charter schools — beyond local school boards, UW - Milwaukee, UW - Parkside and the city of Milwaukee — to include all UW System campuses, state technical colleges and state Cooperative Educational Service Agencies, or CESAs.

«Any changes that have occurred in practice and policy are occurring at the local school system or classroom - based level or by happenstance at the state education agency level,» remarks Albert Wat, a senior policy director at the Alliance for Early Success.

AHERA requires school divisions to designate a «local education agency designee,» to ensure implementation within the school system.

States and local governments should facilitate community partnerships among families, students, law enforcement agencies, education systems, mental health and substance abuse service systems, family - based mental health service systems, government agencies, health care service systems, and other community - based systems.

Obama - Care Supporting Quiet Boom In New School - Based Health Centers Typically established as a partnership between a local educational agency and a health care provider, school - based health care centers have become an increasingly important part of the medical system nationally as well as in California.

«Confusion about the roles and responsibilities of the Department, the Education Funding Agency, local authorities and academy sponsors has allowed some schools to fall through gaps in the system, meaning failure can go unnoticed.»

He works with state and local school systems, higher education institutions, corporations, government agencies, and community - based organizations to integrate and improve education, training, and career - related systems.

APR — Annual Performance Report CEIS — Coordinated Early Intervening Services DCV — Discipline, Crime and Violence EOY — End of Year FFY — Federal Fiscal Year IDEA — Individuals with Disabilities Education Act IPAL — Instructional Personnel and Licensure LEA — Local Education Agency MOE — Maintenance of Effort OSEP — U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs PSA — Proportionate Set - Aside SFY — State Fiscal Year SOP — State Operated Programs SPP — State Performance Plan SRC — Student Record Collection SSEAC — State Special Education Advisory Committee SSWS — Single Sign - on for Web Systems VDOE — Virginia Department of Education