Sentences with phrase «basic education mandate»

The lawyers are asking for a hearing in August and a written plan from the state as to how it intends to meet the basic education mandate outlined in the decades - old landmark lawsuit, known as the Leandro case.

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There are two basic types of sex education classes, and which is taught depends on what your state or local school district mandates.

Full funding for a sound basic education is a CFE mandate, not a bargaining chip.»

The rally, organized by the Rise and Resist and the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioEducation (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioeducation funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educationeducation.»

Such education should involve mandating pain - related education for all health professionals who provide care to people with pain, requiring and providing basic training in the treatment of opioid use disorder for health care providers, and training prescribers and pharmacists to recognize and counsel patients who are at risk for opioid use disorder or overdose.

The Mississippi Board of Education has voted to discontinue the Basic Skills Assessment Program, which was mandated in the state's landmark 1982 education - reEducation has voted to discontinue the Basic Skills Assessment Program, which was mandated in the state's landmark 1982 education - reeducation - reform act.

He points out that the $ 4.3 billion the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provides for basic education statewide is «a general grant, not earmarked and [it] can be used as they see fit to meet these supposedly excessive mandates.»

This is more than a call for respecting diversity; it is an attack on the teaching of fundamentals, as Giroux opposes schools of education training teachers in «the implementation of mandated basics,» which he contends only results in masses of students participating in their own oppression.

With another billion in new basic education spending for teacher salaries included in the 2018 supplemental budget by the state legislature this session, lawmakers say they're meeting the State Supreme Court's mandate to fully fund K - 12 education as part of its 2012 McCleary decision.

In 2001, No Child Left Behind, the last major federal education reform, mandated yearly testing in the basics of reading and math for children in third through eighth grades.

We've experienced the systematic underfunding of our schools to the tune of $ 4.2 billion and the disappearance of: veteran, experienced educators; state mandated programming for physical education, arts and libraries, special education, English as a New Language services; custodial staff and basic supplies; and being left with crumbling infrastructures.

«This decision would wrest educational policy from the representative branches of state government, limit public education for some students with special needs, create additional municipal mandates concerning graduation and other standards, and alter the basic terms of educators» employment — and entrust all of those matters to the discretion of a single, unelected judge,» Jepsen said.

Turning around these schools would not fully address the constitution's educational opportunity mandate (some students in higher - performing schools are also not being provided the opportunity to receive a sound basic education), but it would be a great start.

In his ruling today Hobgood recognized the state's obligation to provide a «sound basic education» to the children attending public schools in North Carolina as mandated by the Supreme Court in its Leandro decision.

«It appears to this court that the General Assembly is seeking to push at - risk students from low income families into non-public schools in order to avoid the cost of providing them a sound basic education in public school as mandated by the Leandro decision,» he said.

Spokane Public Schools Superintendent Shelley Redinger said the change came after state leaders approved appropriations last year to comply with orders by the Washington Supreme Court as part of the McCleary decision, which mandated that the state fully fund basic education.

During her Senate confirmation hearing in January, DeVos struggled to grasp some of the most basic fundamentals of education terminology, student - loan policy and federal provisions mandating public schools provide free and appropriate education to people with disabilities.

He's considering whether they meet the constitutional mandate of a «sound, basic education.»

As education reform leaders and unions fight over policies that mandate rigorous teacher evaluations and encourage the growth of charter schools, poor kids are losing out in the most basic of ways — a situation that embeds them deeper in the cycle of poverty.