Sentences with phrase «state educational authorities»

Some of the funds are released to the state educational authorities, who then distribute them to local districts and consortiums.

In a voucher plan, state educational authorities will define minimum requirements for schools eligible to receive vouchers.

Not exact matches

In September last year, it went into partnership with educational authorities in Ceará state, in Brazil's north - east, to deliver educational content to 300,000 high school students.

With state authorities making ever increasing attempts to encroach on the primary educational responsibilities of parents, the Church must always proclaim the primary rights of parents and families.

Worked with the Legislature and Governor to approve legislation that continues the appointment of monitors in East Ramapo, provides new oversight authority for the monitors and the Department over the school district's budget, and provides $ 3 million in state funds to restore and expand educational programming for the public schools within the district;

· Allow charities to set to up new state schools; set up a new independent educational standards authority; and abolish testing at key stages 1 and 3, and allow more in - school testing at key stage 2.

Naturopathic medicine has an independent accrediting agency, the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education (CNME), which is the only federally recognized authority for establishing and maintaining the educational standards for the naturopathic medicine profession in the United States.

So while state governments wield de jure educational authority via constitutional obligations and statutory and regulatory powers, districts have substantial de facto control.

It requires state and district policies aimed at providing the conditions, the authority and the incentives leaders and their teams need to be successful in lifting the educational fortunes of all children.

The parental - choice aspect of chartering counters these tendencies by drawing educational authority away from a single state body and redistributing it to families.

a minimum suspension period, for any student who repeatedly is substantially disruptive of the educational process or substantially interferes with the teacher's authority over the classroom, provided that the suspending authority may reduce such period on a case - by - case basis to be consistent with any other State and Federal Law.

State boards of education were elected or appointed to govern state education policy, not to surrender educational authority to a centralization moveState boards of education were elected or appointed to govern state education policy, not to surrender educational authority to a centralization movestate education policy, not to surrender educational authority to a centralization movement.

The Act provides for technical assistance and information from the Secretary of Agriculture to aid state and local educational agencies and school food authorities in establishing healthy school nutrition environments, reducing childhood obesity, and preventing diet - related chronic diseases.]

State authority and the politics of educational change.

School districts matter: Local educational authorities and state instructional policy.

While not yet acknowledging how holding teachers accountable for their students» test scores, while ideal, simply does not work (see the «Top Ten» reasons why this does not work here), at least the federal government has given back to the states the authority to devise, hopefully, some more research - informed educational policies in these regards (I know....).

The chartering authority, also known as the authorizing local educational agency (LEA), can be a school district, county office of education, or the State Board of Education (SBE).

The decision also rejected an attempt by the lower court judge to usurp the authority of the governor, legislature, and state department of education in setting educational policy and mandates on a variety issues.

In an article released last week written by «New Mexico Senate Democrats [about] PED Bullying [in] Las Cruces Public Schools,» democratic senators are arguing that the PED is «overstepp [ing] its legal authority» in a state in which such «bullying tactics» have no place in educational policy.

At the same time, the centers should resist the temptation to veer too far from state authority and become «clients» of the schools and districts they serve, cautioned Sam Redding, the director of the Center on Innovation and Improvement, a federally funded organization based in Lincoln, Ill., that helps regional educational centers work with states.

(c) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, and each fiscal year thereafter, the governing authority for each state charter school shall annually make available on the Internet web site of such governing authority the aggregate spending on salaries, employee benefits, instructional supplies, educational media supplies, instructional equipment, regular education tuition, special education tuition, purchased services and all other expenditure items, excluding debt service, for each state charter school under the jurisdiction of such governing authority.

«The court cites no legal authority for any of its breathtakingly sweeping orders requiring the State to, in effect, change numerous key educational policies so that they will be, in the trial court's judgment, «rationally, substantially, and verifiably» connected with educational need,» it says.

It was also considered in the Gobitis case that functions of educational officers in States, counties and school districts were such that to interfere with their authority «would in effect make us the school board for the country.»

By transferring educational decision - making authority back to the state and local levels, ESSA provides a great opportunity to reverse the decline in arts education that occurred under NCLB.

So far, his tenure has entailed cutting salaries across the board by 10 percent; imposing $ 81 million in wage concessions; and announcing a new state - run educational authority to oversee Michigan's lowest - performing schools that will pilot in Detroit next year.

Recognizing this, our federal legislators overwhelming passed a new bi-partisan education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, that gave decision - making authority back to the states signaling that individual states could better determine how to address their own educational needs.

A handful of conservative Republicans in Congress have denounced the Department of Education, positioning states and local governments to be the authority over educational systems.

«Moving the authority to a state agency with no educational abilities nor mandate will make it harder, not easier to improve educational outcomes for children in chronically failing schools, and undermines our ability to work together — governor, state board and our new superintendent to improve education in Michigan.»

This bill would have eliminated the State Board of Education authority to adopt and prescribe certain K - 12 educational functions by requiring each district board and each charter school governing body to, among other provisions, adopt academic standards that meet or exceed the standards adopted by the SBE during or after the 1998 - 1999 school year.

Districts matter: Local educational authorities and state instructional policy.

The responsibility for education resides with the states which, in turn, have delegated substantial authority to local educational agencies, which are governed by local school boards.

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Though, Buck cosponsored the A PLUS Act which would have put more educational accountability on state authority.

In order to provide the necessary support for military students who have contracted a loan prior to joining the army, the federal and state authorities have come up with a number of programs meant to offer military student loan forgiveness and / or financial facilities for their educational debts.

As the leading authority on Golden Retrievers in the United States, GRCA and its member clubs nationwide continue to promote the health and welfare of the breed and the educational efforts by AKC and other AKC parent breed clubs.

Recommended by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners as a leading junior in Education law, Holly regularly advises on the full range of public and private education law matters, including special educational needs / disability discrimination, educational negligence, Academies, further and higher education issues, local authority policy matters, claims by and against state and independent school, regulatory matters, Ofsted and the OIA.

The Task Force also recommends, correspondingly: (a) that the Section of Legal Education, in collaboration with state regulators, develop standards for accrediting these educational programs or else expressly defer to other bodies to do so; and (b) that state authorities regulating the practice of law develop licensing or other regulatory systems for the delivery of limited legal services, which assure quality but do not limit access or unduly raise the price of services.

With education reform dominating the nation's headlines, Al Lindseth has built a national reputation representing state and local school authorities in disputes over school finance and educational adequacy obligations outlined in both state and federal constitutions.