Sentences with phrase «direct state education»

The measure would direct state education officials to give priority to applications in the lowest - performing 25 percent of school districts and those with long waiting lists for charter seats.

Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Jan. 30 that if the city won't get to a teacher evaluation agreement with the UFT by a set date, he will direct the State Education Department to set up a binding arbitration process that will get the two sides to an agreement.

Sen. John Flanagan proposed education reform legislation that would address some privacy concerns, ban standardized testing in prekindergarten through second - grade and direct the state Education Commissioner to make sure local school districts aren't over-testing students.

Directs the State Education Commissioner to update the drug abuse curriculum every three years so that students have the most current and up - to - date information on coping with drug abuse and other substance abuse problems.

In order to better prepare its incoming teachers, the state board of regents recently directed the state education agency to use new teacher certification exams.

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His advocacy work includes direct communications with company leadership, investor education and awareness, filing shareholder proposals, and public policy advocacy at the municipal, state and federal levels.

The primacy of the family in education rests upon the spontaneous devotion of parents to their children — a devotion that supplies a model for the relation between teacher and pupil and that is undermined when education is regarded as a direct responsibility of the state.

Much as the Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formulation.

For half of the intervening 30 years I have also directed one of the most active state civil rights programs in education.

Direct entry midwifery programs increasingly are being accredited by the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC) a federally recognized accrediting agency, which as of January 2004 has accredited or pre-accredited nine programs located in 11 states (Arkansas, Florida, Maine, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Washington).

A coalition led by the New York State United Teachers and the Alliance for Quality Education is launching a direct mail campaign today slamming Democratic senators who voted «yes» on a budget resolution that included Gov. David Paterson's proposed education spendEducation is launching a direct mail campaign today slamming Democratic senators who voted «yes» on a budget resolution that included Gov. David Paterson's proposed education spendeducation spending cuts.

Unlike other state operations like transportation, health and motor vehicles, Governors of New York do not have direct control over the state's education department.

The state Department of Education would be directed to enhance communication and development for teachers when it comes to the standards.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing to shift payment responsibility to New York City for higher education and health care, is asking state legislators to adopt a congressional model limiting their outside income, will direct $ 2.6 billion to address homelessness in New York State and will push for a system of paid family lstate legislators to adopt a congressional model limiting their outside income, will direct $ 2.6 billion to address homelessness in New York State and will push for a system of paid family lState and will push for a system of paid family leave.

Only midday today State Education Department (which, we should say, is technically not under the direct ageis of the governor's office) spokesman Jonathan Burman released a statement saying the boxes are indeed at the archives, but were never filed.

Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.

The money gets pumped back into the state's economy through tuition dollars to public schools — and there's a direct connection between education and workforce development, he said.

The program has been promoted at college affordability events, in the state's high schools, in television advertisements, to various school boards and education groups and through direct mailings to high school seniors.

Assembly Education Committee Chair Cathy Nolan agrees there is a «severe» need for more resources for the state's financially stressed schools, but was not ready to endorse the amount of spending directed by the court order.

years; exempts vehicles owned by firefighter first responders used in the performance of duty from motor vehicle registration fees and vehicle use taxes; authorizes local volunteer fire companies and ambulance companies to offset the cost of health insurance for their volunteers through the use of funds collected from a 2 percent fire insurance premium tax from out - of - state insurers; allows fire companies to select up to three candidates to participate in the state's college tuition assistance program, known as Volunteer Recruitment Service Scholarships; and directs the state Higher Education Services Corp. to create a volunteer recruitment service college loan forgiveness program.

«In order to establish the tax cap calculation as of March 1, state Education Department guidance directs school districts to use «applicable executive budget computer runs» to estimate anticipated building aid and transportation aid.

He stated that the week - long direct payment was to off - set the October, November and December arrears owed to more than 2,000 former agitators, drawn from several ex-agitators» camps in the state and environ, adding that out of the 30,000 beneficiaries under the Amnesty Programme, only 13,000 had received either formal education or vocational training before the present team came onboard.

The advisory group is the direct result of a Jan. 23 meeting, organized by UFT Vice President for Education Evelyn DeJesus, which gathered together 40 teachers from the UFT's English language learner focus group to discuss their concerns with top city and state officials.

The state education department is one of the only state agencies over which the governor does not have direct control, he said.

The State Education Commissioner is directing the implementation of school receivership to begin for struggling and persistently struggling.

Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara has directed the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) to release all outstanding promotion letters to primary and junior...

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara discusses the challenges of funding education, infrastructure and direct care professional wages as state lawmakers debate how they are going to balance the budget while facing such a large deficit.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has no direct influence over the state education department, initially supported fast tracking Common Core.

Restore the right of parents to direct their children's education, and Keep control of schools with the local school board, not with state or federal agencies.

Providing training for early childhood education teachers, embedding direct instruction and practice of targeted skills into daily practice and engaging families in these efforts help to boost the success of these kinds of interventions, Oregon State University researchers suggest in a new paper.

America COMPETES Act or America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act - Division A: Commerce and Science - American Innovation and Competitiveness Act - Title I: Office of Science and Technology Policy; Government - Wide Science -(Sec. 1101) Directs the President to: (1) convene a National Science and Technology Summit to examine the health and direction of the United States» science, technology, engineering, and mathematics enterprises; and (2) issue a report on Summit results.

After seven years of teaching K - 12 Health Education in Rochester, NY, Mr. Zeman earned his school district administrative degree (SDA) from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and worked as an assistant principal in Greece Central School District, NY, before returning to State College with his family to direct Science Outreach.

In an attempt to raise its academic profile, Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, commissioned an in - state firm to create a direct - mail campaign highlighting the many benefits of a Drake education.

Increasingly, the big decisions on education are being made by state and (to a lesser extent) national governments, and many of these decisions have a direct bearing on union interests.

However, rather than starting the URL with ISBE (an acronym for Illinois State Board of Education), the URL read, «ISBEL...» That link directed parents to ISBEL.com, a site that touts «Sex and Sensuality Illuminated.»

In 2011 - 12, a series of student - led protests arose around Chile demanding major reforms to the country's education system, including the end of the Chilean school voucher system and more direct state involvement in secondary education.

In addition to Title I, four sections of ESEA directed funds to school libraries, supplemental services, research, and state departments of education.

When they go to the polls in November, Texas voters may have the option of choosing a state treasurer with an unusually direct perspective on precollegiate education.

Rather than mandating direct federal oversight of schools — telling states what to do — ESEA offered states funding for education programs on a conditional basis.

In 2011 - 12, a series of student - led protests arose around Chile demanding major reforms to the country's education system, including the end of the Chilean school voucher system and more direct state involvement in secondary education.In this edition of the EdCast, Camila Vallejo and Noam Titelman...

Now, educators and policymakers in that state are scrambling to determine whether and how to enforce the new law, a direct challenge to Plyler v. Doe, a 1982 Supreme Court ruling that asserts that public schools must provide all students an education, regardless of their immigration status.

It claimed that the state Department of Education had «failed to provide adequate technical assistance, including direct financial assistance»; nor did the state provide a standardized test in Spanish to allow for mandated subgroup testing.

In giving feedback to the states a year ago, for example, Melody Musgrove (who directs the Office of Special Education Programs at ED) forewarned chiefs that ED was redesigning their monitoring system into «a more balanced approach that considers results as well as compliance.

Recently, for the first time in 35 years, the president of the United States emphasized the importance of international education and directed the federal government to strengthen its role in the field.

The Council on Foreign Relations report says — in direct contradiction to America's federal system and the primary responsibility of the states for public education — that «clearly» there can not be «can not be different standards and expectations» in «a single country.»

Though these «Anabaptists of American education,» as I called parents who have opted for home - based schooling in The Dissenting Tradition in American Education, are certainly an increasingly diverse lot, they are united by a common commitment to the proposition that parents, not the state, have the primary right and responsibility to direct the upbringing and education of their education,» as I called parents who have opted for home - based schooling in The Dissenting Tradition in American Education, are certainly an increasingly diverse lot, they are united by a common commitment to the proposition that parents, not the state, have the primary right and responsibility to direct the upbringing and education of their Education, are certainly an increasingly diverse lot, they are united by a common commitment to the proposition that parents, not the state, have the primary right and responsibility to direct the upbringing and education of their education of their children.

Such an agency would provide separation from the State Education Agency (SEA), which operates under direct oversight of elected public officials and typically is focused on compliance and regulations.

ESSA offers a few highly promising starting points for states to pursue potentially disruptive innovations, such as grants for education innovation and research, direct student services, and teacher and school leader academies.

Recriminations will be directed at state departments of education for not providing sufficient curriculum materials, at district leaders for not preparing students and teachers adequately, at testing contractors for logistical snafus and at federal bureaucrats for interfering with state standard - setting.

Any questions about the inclusion or omission of a particular school must be directed to the state education agency contact in the state where the school is located and not to ED.