Sentences with phrase «education department officials tell»

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.

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.

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An official from the U.S. Department of Education told Chalkbeat on Tuesday that $ 292 million of New York's $ 700 million Race To The Top grant was on the line.

Illinois education officials initially told the Chicago schools they would not have to offer the tutoring services in failing schools until September 2003 — which left district officials scrambling when the federal Department of Education decreed that they would have to begin offering the services this paseducation officials initially told the Chicago schools they would not have to offer the tutoring services in failing schools until September 2003 — which left district officials scrambling when the federal Department of Education decreed that they would have to begin offering the services this pasEducation decreed that they would have to begin offering the services this past winter.

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.

The Education Department's series of «What Works» booklets has cost the taxpayers $ 3.7 million to produce, an E.D. official told a House appropriations panel last week.

Before the housing was approved, former West Tallahatchie Superintendent Reggie Barnes, an outspoken advocate for the state's most impoverished schools, told Mississippi Department of Education officials that districts like his struggled to help teachers find housing.

Ritz told the State Board of Education she won't release this year's school grades until Department of Education officials and state lawmakers complete their separate investigations into how former state superintendent Tony Bennett and his staff calculated last year's school grades.

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is asking school officials to tell their students and families about a federal program that grants deportation deferrals to «low priority cases,» including individuals who came to the U.S. as children.

New York City's Department of Education officials, who originally told union representatives that they intended to keep the sensitive information private, said they could not find an exemption to state records laws that would preclude disclosure.

In 2013, DOJ officials told Wisconsin's state education department that the state's decision to pay for children's private - school education does not place those children «beyond the reach of the federal laws» governing non-discrimination.

As news reports indicate that officials in the Department of Education are considering rescinding the guidance, we urge members and allies to tell the Department of Education to keep the important 2014 federal school discipline guidance in place.

In a letter last year, a U.S. Department of Education official told Deasy the federal waiver did not exempt L.A. Unified from identifying schools for improvement, corrective action or restructuring, and did not affect any related state laws.

The agency has sent a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking to OMB that would allow them to collect more public comments, specifically on the distance education portion of the proposed teacher prep regulation, a department official told Morning Eeducation portion of the proposed teacher prep regulation, a department official told Morning EducationEducation.

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.

The Department of Education has told me, «There are no specific regulations or other official written policies explicitly stating that one of the borrowers of a FFEL joint consolidation loan may not individually re-consolidate that loan into a new Direct Consolidation Loan for which he or she would be solely responsible.»