Sentences with phrase «allow state education»

Data from the exams also allow state education leaders to look across all their districts, compare results, and apply resources to struggling schools.

Dade County officials said the new plan unveiled by Superintendent of Schools Joseph Fernandez is patterned after the academic - bankruptcy laws in New Jersey and five other states that allow the state education agency to assume control over failing school districts.

They will allow the state education department to conduct fine - grained analyses, such as comparing the characteristics of students who took the tests to those who did not.

«I really wish that the Governor's office would allow the state Education Department to do their job,» said Moritz.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have agreed on a framework for the state budget with at least a $ 1.4 billion increase in school aid, a plan to allow the state education department to develop the new teacher evaluation system and tighter disclosure requirements for lawmakers.

The Ramapo Central School District will now be known as the Suffern Central School District, after the governor signed a bill into law that allows the state education commissioner to change the school district's name.

The Buffalo Teachers Federation and its parent union, the New York State United Teachers, filed the complaint in February, arguing the receivership law denies teachers their collective bargaining rights by allowing the state education commissioner to impose reforms that override contract terms.

The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in David D. v. Dartmouth School Committee also allows state education officials to be challenged in federal court on the basis of state standard and law.

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

While many states such as Texas have an authorization process that allows state education agency authorization and to a lesser extent local districts, other states such as Ohio allow a broad mix of authorizers to approve charters, including local districts, higher education institutions, and non-profit agencies.

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo is threatening to both the Big Apple and the AFT to propose a law allowing the state education department unilaterally put the new evaluations in place, the fact that the AFT's Big Apple and Empire State affiliates are among the most - influential donors to state legislators (including Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos) makes Cuomo's threat a rather empty one.

The same is true for how the Department of Education provided guidelines on evidence - based interventions and programs and allowed each State Education Agency (SEA) to interpret the guidance for their specific requirements around rigor and study design.

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Also, greater flexibility in the use of Title V «Well - Rounded» funds would allow state and local educators to better support entrepreneurship education.

Indeed, by allowing parents to meet the compulsory school attendance requirement by sending their children to private institutions that espouse the second approach, the State tacitly acknowledges that its «compelling interest» in education is adequately served in such schools.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

My concern is that in this era of draconian state education budget cuts (here in Texas, we rank second to last in per - student spending), state agencies, under pressure from cash - strapped districts, might be far too liberal in allowing these exempt — but often quite lucrative — fundraisers.

Since 2009, the league, to its credit, has also been lobbying hard in favor of laws - now in place in 31 states and the District of Columbia, and with more sure to follow this year - requiring concussion education of parents and athletes, banning same - day return - to - play after a suspected concussion, and requiring medical clearance before a concussed athlete is allowed back on the playing field, diamond or ice.

Students who received inferior degrees from Governors State University would be allowed to get temporary social work licenses, but ultimately should go back to school and retake classes, the Illinois Board of Higher Education said Thursday.

Section 41 of the Act allows the Secretary of State, by order, to publish a list of approved independent special institutions (Independent Special Schools — England and Wales and Special Post-16 institutions) for the purposes of satisfying Section 38 (Preparation of an Education, Health and Care plan by local authorities) of the Act.

Yesterday, the state Georgia State Board of Education voted 9 - 1 to allow Georgia schools exemptions to the federal Smart Snack state Georgia State Board of Education voted 9 - 1 to allow Georgia schools exemptions to the federal Smart Snack State Board of Education voted 9 - 1 to allow Georgia schools exemptions to the federal Smart Snack rule.

For example, although it was in 1918 that compulsory education became law in every state, many states now allow private or home school education to substitute for public education, though the presumption in the United States is that the responsibility for schooling lies with the states now allow private or home school education to substitute for public education, though the presumption in the United States is that the responsibility for schooling lies with the States is that the responsibility for schooling lies with the state.

In the last Congressional session, industry lobbying succeeded in getting language into the House Education and the Workforce Committee's draft Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill that would have allowed all FFVP schools to serve «all forms» of produce, expressly stating that the program is «no longer limited to only fresh fruits and vegetables.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo disagreed and kept member items out of the state's $ 132.6 billion budget (though so - called «bullet aid» for education was allowed and allocated by Senate Republicans).

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has decided to allow new evidence in regards to a petition calling for the removal of Carl Paladino from his position on the Buffalo Public School Board.

As for my education I am currently working on my Ph.D in Behavioral Ecology and I work for an advocacy group in Albany that allows me full access to the NYS LRS, keeps me in constant face - to - face contact with State Senators, Assembly members, U.S. Congressmen, and our two U.S. Senators.

The Governor prioritized education spending in his budget proposal, including growth that is twice what would be allowed under the cap.9 To truly prioritize education the State should reform the Foundation Aid formula to ensure the highest needs districts are properly funded without unnecessarily sending aid to the wealthiest districts.

allow non-residents, including undocumented aliens, who graduate from New York State high schools to receive State funds in the higher education opportunity programs; and

Conservative columnist Kyle O'Connor takes on a recent measure by the New York State Education Department's Board of Regents that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain professional licenses, including certification to teach in public schools.

With a background in education, John will also work closely with eligible Western regional schools and communities to promote and encourage all to take advantage of the various opportunities that allow free access and enrollment to state parks, historic sites and its programs.»

Cuomo criticized inequalities in education in New York state, and he announced that he's signing an executive order to allow people on parole to vote.

The resolution allows the board to file a petition with the State Education Department to remove Paladino from the school board.

It is amazing to me, in this great State of New York, with all the financial resources we have, that the Senate and Assembly can not get together, as well as the Governor, to see what needs to be done to provide balance of education and the needed funds to allow students, parents and families more of an opportunity to attend parochial schools.

Reinstating this tax on buybacks would allow Governor Cuomo and the State Legislature to tax some of the windfall profits companies are making off the tax bill and protect New Yorkers from devastating federal cuts to health care and education.»

We can not allow a system to continue where we spend the most of any state on education, but rank only 38th in results.

Colleagues, state education in any form we know potentially could have ended on November 22nd and I will have that date in my Diary every year, not to celebrate but to mark as the date on which everyone will all look back and say «why was this ever allowed to happen?»

You have to ask yourself whether you are prepared to watch our state education system being wrecked (and part - privatised under the guise of academies), whether you will allow the death - by - a-thousand-cuts of our NHS, whether you are prepared to accept the stripping away of workers» rights as we plough towards Brexit and a zero - hours economy.

Board President Barbara Seals Nevergold, who signed the resolution, said she does not believe the district's bylaws allow it, and any action would have to come through the state Education Department.

I am calling on Governor Cuomo to include language within his 2012 - 2013 State Budget allowing the Babylon United Free School District to be fully reimbursed for a project already approved by the Department of Education and included in a prior State Budget.»

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

The Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act, which would allow campuses to set their own tuition and increase public and private partnerships with SUNY, had held up the state budget for weeks.

Cuomo administration officials said the governor's plan does not take dollars away from low - income students and will allow even more low - income families to take advantage of state and federal financial aid that's available for higher education.

The State Constitution is the bedrock for the legal protections and rights that the State provides, and conducting a convention would allow for haphazard changes which could potentially alter working conditions, access to education, and retirement security for New York State citizens.

No waivers for chancellor: State Education Law should be revised so that waivers can no longer be granted by the State Education Department to allow non-educators to serve as chancellor.

As is standard practice at the State Education Building, no signs or placards will be allowed in the viewing room.

Sponsored by Assemblymember Carmen De La Rosa of Manhattan, the measure would allow students brought into the country as children to seek state financial aid for higher education, including the Excelsior Scholarship program that makes tuition at state colleges free for low - income and middle - class students.

Education analysts at both the state and local levels asserted Wednesday that more than $ 2 billion in added funding will be needed in 2016 - 17 just to allow the state's 700 - plus school districts to continue offering student services at current levels.

But he predicts that the continued Wall Street boom, and the increased tax revenues that brings to the state, could allow the governor and legislature to continue «investment» in the two biggest parts of the budget, education and health care.

In a letter sent to SUNY Board of Trustees Chairman H. Carl McCall on Oct. 14, officials and education advocates criticized the state's decision to allow Success Academy to change its application to site a school in District 2 — which covers Lower Manhattan, much of the west side and the Upper East Side — so that it could open in Districts 1 or 6.

Mayor Bill de Blasio flunked two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top education proposals that would weaken his say over school policy — including one that would allow the state to put failing city public schools into receivership.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Last week, the attorney for Buffalo Public School Board Member Carl Paladino filed a request with the state education commissioner to allow new evidence in three appeals for his removal from office.