Sentences with phrase «dear colleague»

Representative Miller has sent a «Dear Colleague» letter asking other Members of Congress to cosponsor the resolution.

Dear Colleague letter describing schools legal obligations.

Dear Colleague Letter from OSEP Behavior supports in the IEP.

In December 2016, the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education released a suite of resources on the use of restraint and seclusion in public schools, including a Dear Colleague letter and a fact sheet.

We are saddened by the recent loss of our dear colleague Marsha Robertson, a member of our executive team.

Dear colleague: Please fill in your LinkedIn profile.

They certainly exist when the university is public, but frankly I don't know enough about the Dear Colleague letter in question to say if / how it has been challenged by accused students at public universities.

the Obama administration, which in 2011 issued a «Dear Colleague» letter that detailed certain disciplinary processes universities must use to adjudicate sexual assault complaints.

An alternative is Dear Colleague / s which is slightly nauseous but gets over the «problem» which Freshfields has dealt with rather clumsily.

The Hill reports that in a «Dear Colleague» letter on Tuesday, Rep. Dan Lungren (R - Calif.)

What stands out the most in my memory of our work on the JLWI, however, is that Volume 8 begins with tributes to Tom Blackwell, our dear colleague at Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia.

In a «Dear Colleague» letter last week, Representatives George Miller (D - CA) and Ron Paul (R - TX), sent along an «AlpSnack,» an energy bar that contains hemp seed, to remind members that hemp seed consumption does not interfere with drug - testing (see http://www.testpledge.com) and that sterilized hemp seed and oil are exempted from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) under the statutory definition of marijuana (just as poppy seeds, commonly consumed on bagels, are exempted under the statutory definition of the opium poppy).

It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we share the news that our dear colleague Ebony McKinney passed...

This encoded previous subregulatory guidance published by the US Department of Education in Dear Colleague Letter DCL - GEN -06-10.

They also contain all Dear Colleague Letters and relevant Federal Registers and Policy Memorandums.

These claims prompted a June 29, 2010, Joint Dear Colleague Letter from the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice warning educational institutions not to purchase inaccessible technology.

In March 2016, Secretary Foxx issued a Dear Colleague letter to transit agencies, requesting their participation in an effort to build a National Transit Map.

Guidance reminding school leaders of their responsibility to keep students safe from bullying is now available in a «Dear Colleague» letter, which includes recommendations to assist with this task.

creates the potential for significant, negative educational and long - term outcomes, and can contribute to what has been termed the «school to prison pipeline»» (Joint «Dear Colleague Letter», 2014).

In January 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights issued a joint federal guidance stating that school discipline was discriminatory based on race and ethnicity and that exclusionary discipline «creates the potential for significant, negative educational and long - term outcomes, and can contribute to what has been termed the «school to prison pipeline»» (Joint «Dear Colleague Letter», 2014).

The guidance reminded schools of their obligation to serve students in a non-discriminatory manner and offered recommendations for making discipline more equitable (Joint «Dear Colleague Letter», 2014).

We specifically thank our dear colleague Cecilia Yauger for her steadfast dedication to making a difference in the lives of children, Virginia Kerr for a lifetime of crucial conversations, and Cathleen Cubelic for her support.

In December 2014, the Department of Education issued a Dear Colleague letter in an effort to clarify what constitutes «regular and substantive interaction» within the context of competency - based education.

The same Dear Colleague letter went on to list several different types of educational activities, that at least within the context of competency - based education, might constitute «engagement» including:

Catherine E. Lhamon, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Dept. of Ed., Dear Colleague Letter: Ensuring that students of all races and national origin backgrounds have equal access to effective teaching, adequate facilities, and quality instructional programs and support including off - campus Internet Connectivity.

Dear Colleague: Thank you for your interest in this important seminar about effective engagement strategies for beginning teachers.

The Department of Education recently released an extensive Dear Colleague letter (Download Colleague - bullying -201410-1) detailing past guidance on the obligations of schools when students with disabilities are bullied either because of their disability or for any reason.

Under former President Barack Obama, the Department of Education in 2014 issued a 7,500 - word «Dear Colleague» letter which made available a range of school climate and discipline resources.

King has gone on record defending the department's use of Dear Colleague letters, which could well mean that future use of such letters would enable him to insert his policies.

The Department also sent a «Dear Colleague» letter to states addressing pending transitions, including from current NCLB waivers to the new law.

In the wake of the disciplinary policies set out in the Dear Colleague letter, the violence against teachers, administrators, and other students is almost beyond one's imagination.

A 2013 Dear Colleague letter and enclosure by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) clarified that when the bullying of a student with a disability results in the student not receiving meaningful educational benefit under IDEA, the school must remedy the problem, regardless of whether the bullying was based on the student's disability.

«High - quality correctional education is thus one of the most effective crime - prevention tools we have,» Duncan and Holder wrote in a dear colleague letter to chief state school officers and state attorneys general.

On December 18, 2015 the US Department of Education issued a «Dear Colleague Letter On the Transition to ESSA».

In early 2014, the Departments of Education and Justice issued yet another Dear Colleague letter to local school districts.

«No matter what one thinks of the agency's recent «Dear Colleague» letters, it is hard to argue that the agency should stop investigating these complaints and seeking redress for those that have merit,» wrote Melnick.

Melnick doesn't see that kind of work changing much under the new administration; instead, he thinks the big change will involve the practice of issuing «Dear Colleague» letters, which lay out the OCR's position on civil rights issues, to school districts and institutions of higher education.

Check out our additional commentary post on the Why and What of the 12-18-15 Dear Colleague Letter.

The U.S. Department of Education's Ann Whalen wrote this dear colleague letter to states to outline the process of transition throughout the United States to the Every Student Succeeds Act.

Dear Colleague Letter: Access by Students with Disabilities to Accelerated Programs, in Twice Exceptional

The federal guidance from 2014's «Dear colleague» letter was formulated in response to our students» struggles for equitable disciplinary practices and path to academic success.

The three proceeded to engage in a heated debate, concluding with Harper urging the audience to review the 2014 Dear Colleague letter themselves (my review suggests that Jimenez and Harper's interpretation was the correct one).

As reported in several news outlets, we understand that this meeting was part of a broader review of 2014's «Dear colleague» letter and other civil rights protections.

District Title IX monitoring officers and USOE Educational Equity, school law, pupil transportation and Career and Technical Education staff will receive updated training on a recent «Dear Colleague» letter from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which set out new guidelines relating to harassment and bullying.

Many of our recommendations echo the 2014 «Dear Colleague» federal guidance protecting the civil rights of students of color, and we strongly advocate for its preservation.

1/28/16 Dear Colleague Letter, 2/26/16 FAQs Last week, the US Department of Education issued a new Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) document concerning the transition to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

If you want to get a better sense of the shoddiness of the arguments of opponents of school discipline reform, especially when it comes to the Department of Education's guidance on reducing the overuse of harsh school discipline, simply look at the traditional districts represented in Congress by Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, who this morning, complained that the four - year - old Dear Colleague letter made school leaders «afraid» to discipline children in their care.

Read the «Dear Colleague» letter from four cabinet secretaries — Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Justice.

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) today released a «Dear Colleague» letter to state leaders throughout the United States regarding implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Will the Dear Colleague Letter lead to a more coordinated effort on behalf of education, housing, and transportation agencies to promote diverse schools and communities?