Sentences with phrase «education department official called»

The plan, which one state education department official called «the most comprehensive teacher - accountability plan in the country,» is the result of an 18 - month study conducted by the state education department with $ 35,000 appropriated by the state legislature in 1980.

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U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for the ouster of the U.S. Department of Education's top official on civil rights after comments she made about campus sexual assault and rape.

NEW YORK CITY — City officials voted Wednesday to close five of its struggling schools in The Bronx and Brooklyn despite strong opposition from elected officials, parents, teachers and students who called on the Department of Education to reconsider.

Azzopardi also attacked DiNapoli over the arrest this week of an official in his office, and further called out the state Education Department saying there is «no real oversight function and handles more than one third of the entire state budget.»

The New York State Education Department needs to provide answers, and to ensure that it does, I call on the New York State Inspector General to open an official inquiry into this.»

The lawsuit calls on city schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza (pictured) and Education Department officials to decrease public school class sizes.

Advocates and city parents have filed a lawsuit calling on state Education Department officials and city schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to reduce class sizes in the public schools.

Ritz said after phone calls with the U.S. Department of Education regarding getting the state in compliance to extend its No Child Left Behind waiver, U.S. Department of Education officials said a spring test in 2015 must be fully operational in order for the state to keep the waiver.

They want district - level officials to have the power to make that call, Indiana Department of Education spokesperson Stephanie Sample says.

Specifically, we call upon State officials — most notably, the Governor, Secretary of Education, state legislators, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE), Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), Secretary of Health and Human Services, and leaders of other key State agencies — to do the following:

A senior Education Department official told reporters on a conference call Monday evening that «personalized learning» would revolve around college and career readiness for each student.

Officials from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction will present an alarming report on the educational performance of students with disabilities at today's State Board of Education meeting that calls into question the quality of education the state's most vulnerable childrenEducation meeting that calls into question the quality of education the state's most vulnerable childreneducation the state's most vulnerable children receive.

That Polis considers himself a fellow - traveler of Rhee explains why he called Ravitch, a plain - spoken grandma, education historian and former senior official at the Department of Education under two presidents, is an «evil womaeducation historian and former senior official at the Department of Education under two presidents, is an «evil womaEducation under two presidents, is an «evil woman.»

School officials in at least three towns reported that when they called the State Department of Education for guidance about the sit and stay policy they were told that the mandatory SBAC Test Administration Manual was a set of guidelines and it was up to the town to decide whether to require children who have been opted out of the SBAC test to sit and stay in the classroom or whether to relocate students to the library or some other safe location where they could read or do homework.

But Jon Gubera, Chief Accountability Officer at the Indiana Department of Education, also says the unpopularity of the so - called «AYP cap» isn't at the heart of why state education officials want to drop the cap as part of an overhaul Indiana's system for ratingEducation, also says the unpopularity of the so - called «AYP cap» isn't at the heart of why state education officials want to drop the cap as part of an overhaul Indiana's system for ratingeducation officials want to drop the cap as part of an overhaul Indiana's system for rating schools.