Sentences with phrase «among education contracting»

The U.S. Department of Education looks at data security among education contracting firms.

Not exact matches

There's no doubt that public education is among the most unionized industries in the United States, with more than 60 percent of teachers working under a union contract.

Despite its origins within the Reagan administration, the National Commission on Excellence in Education didn't even regard market - based reforms as sufficiently important to include them among the scores of topics on which it contracted for background research.

Commonly known as the «Anti-Affirmative Action Proposition,» among other things, it prohibited ``... the state, local governments, districts, public universities, colleges, and schools, and other government instrumentalities from discriminating against or giving preferential treatment to any individual or group in public employment, public education, or public contracting on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.»

E4E members see issues of teacher quality, evaluations, pay and incentives, pensions and tenure to be top - of - mind among teachers nationwide, with those issues and others including the expired teachers contract taking center stage in the complex Los Angeles education debate.

In the event an agreement can not be reached among special education teachers / clinicians or between teachers and the principal, the choices shall be put to a secret ballot vote by special education teachers and clinicians only, which shall be conducted in the same manner as a contract waiver vote (i.e., conducted by the Union delegate and certified by the delegate and principal).

The ERIC / OSEP Special Project was funded under a three - party contract among The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.