Sentences with phrase «align state efforts»
Although their plans differ, each state is responsible for organizing a small group of local leaders who will form a backbone agency to align state efforts.
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The Vatican - Portuguese Missionary Accord has aligned the Roman Catholic Church and its local hierarchy with the colonial regime in that country, and when all positive efforts of the White Fathers failed to end the flagrant injustices visited on blacks in Mozambique, they decided, according to one report, that «they had to withdraw so as not to allow themselves to be considered partners of the church - state collusion.»
Engaging efforts with experts from 47 IDFA member companies and cooperation from other parts of the dairy industry, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and state regulators, IDFA advocated for, among other things: reasonable regulations in the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO) that align the Interstate Milk Shippers program with the requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act's (FSMA) Preventive Controls for Human Food (PCHF) rule; harmonizing the PMO with an FDA rule on higher fortification levels of vitamin D3 and requiring FDA to be more transparent in the determination of foreign country regulatory equivalence with the U.S. Grade «A» program.
A Democratic - aligned super PAC that is trying to make a difference in several key House races and one state Senate campaign is increasing its efforts in the NY - 24 House race between Republican Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, Democrat Dan Maffei and Green Party candidate Ursula Rozum.
Nigeria's President expressed readiness to align with United States» efforts in the global war against terrorism.
Democratic elected officials aligned with the city and state teachers unions see charters as a thinly - veiled, well - moneyed effort to erode job protections for teachers.
Other school - reform advocates accused bureaucrats of caving to political pressure as union - aligned Assembly Democrats vowed to block efforts to raise or repeal the cap on the number of charters the state allows.
He proposed the CORe initiative to better align State support with local needs while supporting successful community - based efforts, allowing the State to better allocate resources to make measurable and sustained progress in improving high - need communities.
Similar and complimentary programs are aligned and working together, reducing costs, red tape and duplicative efforts while increasing the effectiveness of the state's housing and community renewal programs.
The two - year funding package, which aligns with state and federal efforts to deploy resources to local communities, contains funds to hire a part - time staffer.
That discomfort left some uncertainty as to how closely the new White House - aligned mobilization in the states would coordinate its grass - roots efforts with those of unions and other liberal groups that are planning to mobilize their forces ahead of the negotiations.
Experienced political operatives have been brought into the fray, including some with connections to Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz and State Sen. Marc C. Panepinto, D - Buffalo, both of whom have been involved in the effort to disqualify candidates aligned with the current reform majority.
Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.
For example, what Kepler scientists are learning about potentially habitable planets, she says, can be easily turned it into a lesson that's aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, a state - led, voluntary effort to improve science instruction in elementary and secondary schools across the country.
Running through this depiction of personal and professional lives are the campaigning efforts of one unseen Hal Phillip Walker, a candidate who's running for President of the United States on «the Replacement Party» ticket, evidently aware of Tennessee's history of aligning with the nation's victor.
In one notable effort, a group of universities, community colleges, and school districts in 30 states have formed the Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership to redesign teacher - preparation programs aligned with the common core standards.
Though the standards remain on the books in most states, roughly half of participating states have withdrawn from efforts to develop common tests aligned to the Common Core.
• Ensure that competency - based education efforts are aligned to the state's challenging academic state standards and their education goals for all students and subgroups.
When those efforts failed, largely due to the state's powerful business lobby, the governor issued an executive order to pull the state out of a consortium of states using a Common Core - aligned test.
CCSSO's effort aims to «significantly increase» the percentage of school districts in targeted states in which curriculum and materials adoptions are of high quality and aligned to state standards; and to increase the percentage of professional - development and teacher - prep programs that include training on those curricula.
Efforts to align curriculum, instruction, and assessments with Common Core State Standards have intensified as the pressure escalates for states and districts that will administer the new summative tests to students this spring.
Leveraging the federal role by using the Higher Education Act to offer students incentives to graduate ready for college and the workplace, support state efforts to raise high school exit standards and strengthen postsecondary accountability, and by aligning the 12th grade National Assessment of Educational Progress to ADP's benchmarks; and,
Perhaps the two most obvious reasons are: 1) public opinion drives political actions in state legislatures, such as repeal efforts and efforts to adopt new assessments outside the Common Core - aligned consortia, and 2) public opinion likely affects schools» implementation, as politically active groups involve themselves in school board meetings, contact teachers directly to express their concerns, and «educate» parents with information or misinformation.
Notable, too, is the positive attention paid to — and adoption elsewhere of — New York State's pioneering efforts to supply its teachers with curricula aligned to the Empire State's (Common Core) academic standards.
What to know: The Mississippi Department of Education's (MDE) plan stands out for aligning its teacher recruitment and retention efforts with its ambitious goals for increasing student academic achievement by 2025 and clearly stating its role in supporting districts to address equity concerns.10 The MDE recognizes that in order to reach its stated goals — which include a proposed graduation rate of 90 percent for all students by 2025 — they must also support districts in recruiting and retaining teachers of color who are prepared to improve student outcomes.
Most notably, the commitment and actions of Superintendent Leslie to align district efforts to state curriculum standards determined how state policies were «felt» within schools.
In August, Pence announced the creation of a new education agency, the Center for Education and Career Innovation, to align the state's workforce development efforts.
To inform those efforts, the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University surveyed a representative sample of teachers in five states (Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Nevada) as they prepared their students to take the new Common Core - aligned assessments in the spring of 2015.
Download policy recommendations that align with ASCD's Legislative Agenda and provide suggestions for federal, state, and district advocacy efforts (PDF files).
Duncan said the Education Department will help states pay for the development of assessments aligned to those standards because that will ensure the success of the effort.
Among the states that have struggled with the NCTQ ranking is California, where efforts to align teaching and college and career ready standards have improved.
The increased price tag comes at a time when states are preparing their students for new tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards and an effort by local GOP lawmakers to diminish the standards and offer schools a way to opt out of taking the tests picked by the sState Standards and an effort by local GOP lawmakers to diminish the standards and offer schools a way to opt out of taking the tests picked by the statestate.
«Through this innovative partnership, we will integrate and align the efforts of Tempe Union, ASU Prep and Arizona State University to increase college - access and career opportunities for all students, making Tempe a pioneer in the education space,» said Beatriz Rendon, CEO of ASU Prep.
More recent education policy efforts, including the Common Core State Standards and their aligned assessments, have tried to address — but have not solved — these issues.
It's unclear whether the adopting states will join together to develop shared science assessments that align with the standards and how such an effort would be funded.
Our «credit recovery» efforts in my district also do not align completely with state statute because our district is taking advantage of the statute's ambiguity.
Last year, new high school equivalency exams were introduced nationwide in an effort to update the decade - old General Educational Development (GED) test and align it with new high school standards, known as the Common Core, adopted by a majority of states.
In St. John the Baptist Parish Public Schools — a district just outside of New Orleans where 85 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch — the state's efforts to prioritize aligned instructional materials are having a big impact.
The Southern Regional Education Board created a brief that provides a descriptive overview of each state's efforts to train and support educators when preparing for and implementing the standards and aligned assessments through professional learning.
Several years ago, a small group of governors joined together in an effort to align their states» standards and assessments.
From high standards to aligned assessments, data transparency to school accountability, advocates for reform are championing efforts in their states to ensure that kids get the great educations they deserve.
The webinar, hosted by EdSource and Partners for Each and Every Child, brought together education leaders in the state to discuss the implications of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in California, with particular attention to if and how ESSA aligns with policy efforts California is already pursuing.
In 2009, she joined an effort funded by the Gates Foundation to develop tools that would help teachers align their practices to the new Common Core State Standards.
ESSA provides state higher education leaders a critical opportunity to partner with their K — 12 colleagues to align efforts and create mutually reinforcing goals.
He describes the nation's main education law as an «impediment to reform,» citing ESEA's outdated testing regimen, accountability measures, and teacher quality determinations, all of which fail to align with the widely adopted Common Core State Standards as well as recent state efforts to overhaul their teacher evaluation sysState Standards as well as recent state efforts to overhaul their teacher evaluation sysstate efforts to overhaul their teacher evaluation systems.
Previously, she served as Chief of Staff for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, informing the Administration's P - 20 policy and programmatic efforts on behalf of the nation's Latino students and families, including helping to secure over 150 private - and - public sector commitments with a collective investment of over $ 335 million to build on and accelerate federal, state, and local investments in high - quality education for the nation's Hispanic community, and launching the Federal Interagency Working Group to strengthen and align federal policy efforts with local initiatives.
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One vision is that afterschool and summer learning programs should be aligned with current education reform efforts — high - stakes testing, narrow accountability, and the Common Core State Standards that are directed at just two subjects.
The Colorado Department of Education (CDE), in conjunction with the New Teacher Project, has announced new efforts to align the state's educator licensing statutes, rules, and content assessments.
There are many dimensions of action affecting this moment in time — a renewed focus and emerging consensus regarding the kinds of learning outcomes essential for success in today's globally connected world; significant efforts to promote innovation affecting all facets of education, particularly regarding new teaching and learning strategies and opportunities; and a renewed focus on key elements of necessary systemic change, in which the roles of the federal government, the states, school systems and schools are better aligned and more coherently understood.