Sentences with phrase «education department officials»

Education department officials say they want principals to decide which providers work best for them.

It took about a year, and the group had city education department officials review their curriculum to make sure their work was accurately linked.

And although the original NCLB waiver doesn't expire until August, a state Education Department official said federal education officials have given states guidance essentially saying they won't be held accountable for parts of the law that are sunsetting.

Michael J. Petrilli, the vice president for national programs and policy at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and a former education department official under Spellings, takes this view: «Nothing was happening on the Highly Qualified Teacher provision years ago and she's finally enforcing it, so she's built up credibility with people who care about that provision.

A top Education Department official last week clashed with the chairman of a key House subcommittee over the chairman's proposal to overhaul the department's research branch, as a more modest reauthorization bill advanced in the Senate.

In a bizarre case of possible test - tampering, federal prosecutors allege that a top state education department official in South Carolina conspired to switch the results of two General Educational Development exams to help a magistrate who had never earned a high school diploma keep his position.

Washington — Two more top Education Department officials will vacate their posts this month, but neither plans to leave Washington.

Acknowledging that the Goals 2000: Educate America Act «has some political baggage,» a senior Education Department official last week urged state officials and members of the business community to redouble their efforts on behalf of the standards - based school - reform strategy and of school reform in general.

Washington — Education advocates, often accused by Education Department officials of voicing unrealistic expectations, are really thinking big this year.

However, Dr. Grover J. Whitehurst, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former Education Department official under President George W. Bush, said the Trump administration hasn't established that it would in fact institute a voucher program and may opt for another system to promote school choice.

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.

State Education Department officials declined to comment on the suit, citing a policy against speaking about active litigation.

The report is based on a 1987 «summit meeting» of English educators, which was criticized by one U.S. Education Department official as representing «part of the problem» in the field.

«My hope is that she has a very open mind... and doesn't think the Michigan approach is the right one,» said Peter Cunningham, a former Obama Education Department official who is now executive director of the Education Post, a nonprofit group that supports charter schools.

WASHINGTON — A group of prominent educators and researchers last week agreed with Education Department officials that the department should have a larger research budget and more flexibility in deciding how to spend it.

Common Core - backer Bill Gates and former federal education department official Joanne Weiss have promoted national standards and tests by touting that they «will unleash powerful market forces» and create a national market for vendors.

Representatives of the 600,000 - member union, in response, pointed out that Education Department officials responsible for supervising teacher evaluations had themselves cited the union - endorsed scoring system as one that districts could adopt.

Teachers unions «are some of the largest players in politics,» said Lara Brown, director of the Graduate School of Political Management at the George Washington University and a former Education Department official during the Clinton administration.

NYC education department officials are tackling segregated schools with a new citywide classroom diversity program.

In November, Education Department officials approved a plan to rezone 11 District 3 public schools in Manhattan's Upper West Side, including PS 191.

Nearly two dozen teachers at Brooklyn's New American Academy took pay cuts of up to $ 50,000 — or more — after Education Department officials killed an experimental pay program at the school.

The Government Accountability Office highlighted three cases in which Education Department officials skirted normal grant procedures, and it found several more in which the rules were bent.

Apparently concerned that their bid for public awareness could prove a little too successful, Education Department officials published guidelines in the Dec. 16 Federal Register for the use of the America 2000 insignia.

The problem, one city Education Department official acknowledged, is that districts did not want to lose the Title I money they would have to give to parents to obtain the after - school tutoring — and so did little to make parents aware of the opportunity.

That is a shift in attitude for Mr. Darman, who essentially adopted the position Education Department officials have maintained since President Bush submitted his budget last month.

The New York Times says so, but a high ranking Education Department official says that according to the prevailing rumor at 400 Maryland Ave. S.W., the answer is «no.»

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.

The agreement was reached last week after many days of negotiations between Education Department officials and House Democrats.

Washington — Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos has told lawmakers that Education Department officials acted unfairly in denying funding for dissemination of a curriculum on the Holocaust.

Legislators representing the region served by the school district introduced bills last week to expedite the takeover process, and state auditors and education department officials spent the week in Sardis scrutinizing the district's books.

At the most recent summit, held in San Francisco in mid-October, a group of more than 200 state legislators and state education department officials huddled in a ballroom over education - technology strategy.

Milton Goldberg, the key Education Department official coordinating the new study, offered a similar preview last week at the annual meeting of the National Catholic Educational Association in New York.

Washington — Although more than three months have passed since Education Department officials announced their intention to seek major changes in the federal law governing the education of handicapped children, the Administration has thus far failed to send to the Congress specific proposals to amend the law.

City Education Department officials pointed out that several of the schools on the failing list serve a high number of over-age students, or kids for whom English is a second language — both groups that struggle with state tests.

Despite the low absolute ranking, «The scholarship program's increases in student achievement outpaced the majority» of public school systems,» Education Department officials wrote in a fact sheet.

Duncan will be returning to Chicago and Obama has appointed senior Education Department official King to oversee the Education Department.

«Thousands of struggling borrowers are falling out of income - driven student - loan repayment plans because they're not filing their annual income documentation on time, Education Department officials revealed on Wednesday.

State Education Department officials said Thursday it could potentially cost the state $ 3.8 million to hire about four dozen staff members to help districts and schools implement the federal regulations.

WASHINGTON — Researchers and Education Department officials last week lamented that the death of legislation to reauthorize the department's office of educational research and improvement may put off for two years any substantial reorganization of the agency.

Reviewers selected by Education Department officials have been ceaselessly bombarded through the media with clear signals as to which states those same officials think should win.

As education department officials tell it, numbers dipped in those schools less because of the burgeoning opt - out movement than from other factors such as English learners not being able to complete TCAP because of language barriers.

U.S. Education Department officials declined to comment on the specifics of state applications.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R - Tenn., one of the main architects of the Every Student Succeeds Act, does not think at least one Education Department official who has not read the new law very well.

A former Education Department official under the first George Bush who has come to consider the reform movement misguided, she recently wrote a book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, that offers an astringent critique of the proposition — voiced most zealously by Rhee — that teachers are the root cause of, and solution to, all of the system's problems.

Alhough students» scores on the Common Core - aligned state tests won't be used for teacher and principal evaluations, the growth scores will still be calculated and used for school accountability to comply with federal law, a state Education Department official said.

The questions raised by the new study were on the agenda Monday as the Center on Education Policy, which issued the report, hosted a forum on its findings that included a top Education Department official.

Washington — The Reagan Administration is preparing a fiscal 1987 budget that would substantially reduce vocational - education spending but generally freeze other school - aid programs, according to senior Education Department officials.

And Diane Ravitch — a long - time advocate for the law and former Education Department official — abruptly flipped sides, saying NCLB had been a mistake, and subsequently rose to prominence on the left as an advocate for teachers and overturning the law.

Education department officials would not name the groups, and they also refused to share emails King referred to in which he claimed the groups stated their intention to «dominate» the dialogue.

Iannuzzi said Duncan chose the location because of the union's work on school reform, including a compromise with state Education Department officials to use student test scores in teacher evaluations.