Sentences with phrase «different federal child»
The committee also finalized its proposal to replace the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC) with a Family Nutrition Block Grant, as well as its proposed Child Care Block Grant, which would consolidate nine different federal child - care programs.
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He had already received a sentence of up to 175 years in a different jurisdiction, and was sentenced to a 60 - year federal term for child pornography convictions.
At minimum — in the one - size - fits - all No Child Left Behind era — her tenure reminds us of the real genius of the federal system, the opportunity to try many different approaches to a shared objective: increased academic achievement for all students.
Under a provision in the federal No Child Left Behind Act called «safe harbor,» states must set different standards for different groups.
The six states that now have federal approval to change the way they hold schools accountable under the No Child Left Behind Act will use six different ways to distinguish between schools with minor problems and those that need total overhauls.
Four in 10 Michigan high schools fail federal standards related to the No Child Left Behind Act, for many different reasons.
Asked whether DeVos believes that private schools taking federal funds should be exempt from IDEA requirements, the transition spokesperson said DeVos «believes that IDEA should be implemented as enacted, which includes an opportunity for parents to seek a different option if their local assigned school is not serving their children's needs.»
The Gordon commission also urges that the next iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — the federal government's centerpiece education law, currently called the No Child Left Behind Act — encourage states and districts to experiment with new, even «radically different» forms of assessments.
The bill, first introduced last week by Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), would set up education savings accounts for parents in the armed forces who could divert a portion of funds that would have been sent to a public school on their child's behalf under the federal Impact Aid program to different schooling options.
Oregon won federal approval Wednesday for its plan to judge schools differently — and mete out different consequences to the lowest performers — than has been required under the No Child Left Behind law.
What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.
For this reason, the district has chosen the lesser of two evils: a federal waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act that allows the setting of different proficiency targets in exchange for promising to several overhaul measures.
Rather than applying for and accepting a waiver from some of the more onerous provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act in exchange for adopting a series of education reforms as 33 other states have done, Texas submitted a notice of intent to apply for a waiver via a different mechanism on the last day of the most recent application period, Sept. 13, 2012.
As White points out: «School choice» means something different to everyone but usually encompasses the idea that a benevolent federal agency «allows» low - income parents to move from one education facility to another (charter schools), with public money (vouchers), «in order to provide their children with what the bureaucrats or philanthropists think will be a better education for them.»
If this is called «state - led» under the dictates of the new federal education law (Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA), it is no different from the fed - led dictates of No Child Left Behind.
President Obama's and Governor Romney's approaches to the federal education policy that has been governed by No Child Left Behind (NCLB) since 2002 are significantly different (PDF).
For example, some states have stricter laws on child labor than the federal laws, and some states have different minimum wage laws.
If you are getting separated or divorced in Ontario, there are at least three different legislative acts that may govern your case: the Divorce Act (federal), the Family Law Act (provincial), and the Children's Law Reform Act (provincial).
(But this principle comes with a caveat, because the standards and thresholds for what makes a child eligible for support are slightly different under the provincial Family Law Act versus the federal Divorce Act.
Legally, child support must be paid pursuant to the Federal Child Support Guidelines, and you can not simply agree to a different amount without considering the follochild support must be paid pursuant to the Federal Child Support Guidelines, and you can not simply agree to a different amount without considering the folloChild Support Guidelines, and you can not simply agree to a different amount without considering the following:
The program originally developed in Elmira served primarily white, rural adolescent mothers (400 mothers, divided into four different treatment groups) for whom data are available through the child's fifteenth birthday.27 It was replicated in Memphis with an urban sample of 1,139 predominantly African American adolescent mothers and their children who have been followed through age nine28 and in Denver with an ethnically diverse sample of 735 low - income mothers and their children who have been followed through age four.29 Beginning in 1996, NFP programs began expanding to other states using a mix of private, local, and federal funds.
The rules in provincial and territorial child support guidelines may be a bit different from those in the Federal Guidelines.
The new federal government is currently developing a national framework for child protection that consolidates the different state and territory child protection systems, to ensure an integrated response across all government and non-Government organisations.