Sentences with phrase «challenging an education department»

The charter school's board protested the ban, and filed a grievance with the N.C. Office of Administrative Hearings challenging the education department's decision.

Federal Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler disqualified Pillsbury from representing Continental Service Group Inc., also known as ConServe, in litigation challenging an Education Department contract decision.

Not exact matches

The problem is that no such programs yet exist (although this is going to be a key objective of our SmartTeams program, and our pilot program for the NCAA and Department of Defense under our Mind Matters Challenge grant), and even if were implemented on a widespread basis (which, once again, I hope will happen once we launch the full SmartTeams program in 2016), it is unclear whether such a shift in emphasis in concussion education will achieve any meaningful increase in rates of self - reporting, at least in the short term.

During an educational session titled «Shake It Up School Nutrition,» GA Department of Education guest speakers Sarah Combs and Paige Holland spoke about the challenges that face school nutrition professionals when it comes to providing healthier foods that still appeal to children.

Yehuda Weissmandl, President of the East Ramapo School Board, says in a statement he welcomes the designation of Szuberla and Sipple as monitors for the district and that over the last 18 months, state education department monitors have been invaluable in helping the district meet difficult challenges and make significant improvements.

Despite the tremendous challenges he would face, several political realities will create opportunities for Cuomo in the upcoming legislative session: Education commissioner John King is leaving the department for a federal post.

Across the Southern Tier 32 school buildings under the Rock on Café program have been awarded HealthierUS Scholol Challenge Awards from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for their achievement in creating a healthier school environment through nutritious meals, nutrition education, and physical activity.

At the same time, Paladino vowed in an interview on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom to file a legal challenge if he's removed by the state Education Department from the school board.

At 8:30 a.m., Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, NYC Councilman Antonio Reynoso, parents and advocates challenge the NYC Department of Education for giving public school classroom space to charter schools, School Building K111, 35 Starr St., Brooklyn.

On this episode, the guests discuss their goal to challenge the Department of Education's new sex educationEducation's new sex educationeducation mandate.

Later the Department for International Development said that the Girls Education Challenge was «a new project that will call on NGOs, charities and the private sector to find better ways of getting girls into school in the poorest countries in Africa and Asia which the UK has identified as a priority, including Bangladesh, South Sudan and Nigeria.»

Kathryn S. Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, a business group, said she had often had dealings with Mr. Klein and that his experience at the Education Department «established his ability to take on a difficult challenge in a straightforward, honest way, and enhanced the credibility that he established during his years in Washington as a defender of the public interest.

They also pushed for the full restoration of Teacher Center funding and more state aid to allow for the expansion of the UFT's Community Learning School Initiative and the Positive Learning Collaborative, a joint UFT - Department of Education program to create safe and supportive learning environments by providing educators with strategies to respond to challenging student behavior.

The Success Academy charter school network is challenging a recent blow to its pre-Kindergarten program - and its political standing - by filing an appeal to a State Education Department ruling that the network must sign a mandated contract in order to receive public dollars for its pre-K programs.

Data from U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, Office of Policy Planning and Innovation, Meeting the Highly Qualified Teachers Challenge: The Secretary?s Annual Report on Teacher Quality, Washington, D.C., 2002.

2006 Eugenie Scott, the Dover High School Science Department, and R. Wesley McCoy: These dedicated individuals are honored for their determination to defend sound education in U.S. public schools by vigorously challenging attempts to introduce intelligent design into science classes.

[Box 13] Department of Defense University, Working Group on Export Controls, 1982 - 1985 (3 Folders) Carnegie Corporation of New York (3 Folders) Exxon Education Foundation The Ford Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation Miscellaneous foundations Belyaev, L. S. Boulding, Kenneth, «The Challenge of Methuselah» Bromley, Allan Brown, Harrison Calhoun, John C. Gottstein, Klaus Harrison, Anna MacKay, Buddy Ott, Marvin Pfeiffer, Heinrich Sawyer, William Wakefield, Dean Weiner, Denise - Memorial Fund Wight, William

The two departments are expected shortly to lay down the rules for the Early Learning Challenge, a new $ 500 million competition that is intended to improve the current patchwork of early education services across the country.

There is no other free reading challenge that involves so many children, introduces families to their library, encourages children to choose books freely and independently and is endorsed by parents, teachers and the Department for Education.

As charities and companies, academies face the challenges of the interaction of company and charity legislation and the Charities SORP together with fulfilling the requirements of the Department for Education Funding Agreement.

«In 1996, District 108 in Pekin, Illinois, received a $ 5 million Technology Innovation Challenge Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, because of the district's vision and groundwork in the area of technology,» teacher and school webmaster Madeleine Decker told Education World.

TES has reported that Tony Foot, director of the Department for Education's funding group, is under «no illusion» about the financial challenges schools are due to face as a result of rising costs and real terms budget cuts.

Jennifer Lehe Arts in Education Current city: Columbus, Ohio Current job: Manager of Strategic Partnerships, Learning Department, Columbus Museum of Art Career highlights: Building a collection of really touching notes from her kindergarten students; facilitating a discussion on challenges and opportunities to promoting human rights in journalism at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva

Addressing these challenges is the focus of three new white papers a Public Impact team led by Lucy Steiner recently produced with the support of the National Charter School Resource Center and the U.S. Department of Education's Charter Schools Program.

Jason Glass, director of the Department of Education for the state of Iowa, reminded the audience that «we can not take the challenges one at a time if they refuse to stay in line.»

To bring this same innovation to school report cards, the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), in partnership with Getting Smart, has launched the My School Information Design Challenge (#schoolinfo)-- a national competition to rethink and redesign the way in which key data is presented on school report cards so that they can drive decisions, spark discussions and support the efforts of state departments of eEducation (ExcelinEd), in partnership with Getting Smart, has launched the My School Information Design Challenge (#schoolinfo)-- a national competition to rethink and redesign the way in which key data is presented on school report cards so that they can drive decisions, spark discussions and support the efforts of state departments of educationeducation.

While working at the New Jersey Department of Education, I found our work on improving educator evaluations to be our most technically and politically challenging initiative.

Wood, who began his career as a social studies and history teacher in South Carolina, says he didn't really understand the impact of policy on what he did in the classroom until U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley invited him to Washington in 1993 to write the guidelines and serve as chief reviewer for the department's new Technology Innovation Challenge Grants program.

A recent book by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge of American Education, for example, describes what the authors call «high schools that improve life chances,» pointing in particular to small, nonselective high schools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public Schools.

Usually appointed by a state department of education or a court, hearing officers represent the first layer of appeals for parents challenging...

However, as a paper from the Department of Education outlines, there can be a number of challenges in making parental involvement and engagement successful.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «The number and quality of teachers in our classrooms is at an all - time high but as the economy strengthens we recognise that recruitment can be challenging — particularly in some areas of the country.

The platform was selected as one of five winners in the U.S. Department of Education's EdSim Challenge for «immersive simulations that will prepare students for the globally competitive workforce of the 21st century.»

This month Arts Council England launched the Cultural Education Challenge with the joint support of the Department for Education and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

A federal judge in Washington heard arguments last week on a Department of Education bid to dismiss a challenge of Title IX rules, but delayed issuing a ruling.

That year the Department of Education established the «Partnerships in Character Education» program to support the president's challenge.

A recent Center on Education Policy at George Washington University survey of state department of education officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K &mdashEducation Policy at George Washington University survey of state department of education officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K &mdasheducation officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K — 12 law.

The 2012 National STEM Video Game Challenge is launched in partnership with Digital Promise, a new initiative created by the President and Congress, supported through the Department of Education.

The key players in the state's education department, including its commissioner, had all been replaced; the new administrators were issuing challenging curriculum standards, requiring new statewide tests, and demanding more accountability.

The National Wrestling Coaches Association and other plaintiffs early this year filed suit, challenging rules written in 1979 and 1996 by the Education Department on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

Department of Education officials set a challenging goal for themselves soon after the revised Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act was signed into law in late 2004: complete the regulations in a year's time to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the law.

In fact, a Center on Education Policy at George Washington University survey of state department of education officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K &mdashEducation Policy at George Washington University survey of state department of education officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K &mdasheducation officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K — 12 law.

A decade after Massachusetts passed its charter school law as part of the Education Reform Act of 1993, city officials in North Adams, Massachusetts, sued the state Department of Education, challenging the constitutionality of charter schools.

However, the Department for Education was not sufficiently prepared for the financial implications of such a rapid expansion, or for the challenge of overseeing and monitoring such a large number of new academies,» stated Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office.

Neil Carmichael, chair of the Education Select Committee, has challenged the Department for Education (DfE) to improve the financial management of academies.

Despite the challenges of working with nontraditionalstudents, Alverno's education department has an impressiverecord.

He has led three - year initiatives with the Florida Department of Education and with Florida Atlantic University, the latter supported by an Annenberg Challenge Grant Award.

Evaluating ELLs for Special Needs a Challenge Education Week, August 29, 2012 «Faced with a class action five years ago over the poor quality of its special education services, the San Diego school district hired Thomas Hehir, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were farinEducation Week, August 29, 2012 «Faced with a class action five years ago over the poor quality of its special education services, the San Diego school district hired Thomas Hehir, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were farineducation services, the San Diego school district hired Thomas Hehir, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were farinEducation professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were farineducation chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were farinEducation Department, to take a hard look at how students were faring.»

As head of the Science Education Department at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Dr. Sadler also leads teams conducting research on preparing students for success in college, teaching science through engineering challenges, and the use of the Internet to provide research opportunities to students through the use of remote telescopes.

The program's aim is to teach awareness of the skills needed to form respectful relationships and more specifically to challenge gender stereotypes that can lead to gender - based violence and disrespectful attitudes to women.The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) states that, «Early interventions with children and young people can have a lasting effect on their relationships in the future... On the basis of current evidence, violence prevention and respectful relationships initiatives among young people can make a real difference, producing lasting change in attitudes and behaviours.»