Sentences with phrase «education department says»

The state Education Department says taxpayers are taking on $ 53 million in tuition costs that they were not bearing before, although it is unclear how many of those students would otherwise attend public schools — with state funding — if there were no vouchers.

The state education department says that number dropped slightly this year, to 19 percent, but the backlash against testing hasn't gone away.

The Education Department says districts will be allowed to request extra funding, if district enrollment surpasses 5 percent of its projected student count or if a school's enrollment tops 25 percent of projections.

The education department says that «hundreds» of schools will have to raise their results to meet these higher expectations.

Obama is encouraging states to get their support; the Education Department says a state can win extra points in the «Race to the Top» if unions support their efforts.

The education department says it is still committed to the principle of baseline testing and «will continue to look at the best way to assess pupils in the early years».

Students from all three are on the football team, and the Education Department says all three principals took part in making the call to let Ashby talke the field.

The Education Department says it approved six of seven school improvement grants, but only if the district is able to reach agreement with on a teacher evolution plan with the Buffalo Teachers Federation by July 1.

The Education Department says while the hearing is open to the public, there is «extremely limited seating available in the hearing room due to space limitations.»

The justice and education departments said in a joint statement late on Wednesday that they «withdrew guidance for educational institutions, issued in 2015 and 2016, that took the position that the prohibitions in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and implementing regulations against discrimination on the basis of sex require access to sex - segregated facilities on the basis of gender identity rather than biological sex.»

The state Education Department said it would not take control of Hempstead School District on Long Island, which has been troubled for decades by abysmal graduation rates, crumbling school buildings, violence and corruption.

A statement from the New York State Education Department said Eastwood could not come to an agreement with the school board regarding his contract.

The Division of Budget in April froze $ 69 million of the $ 75 million in reimbursable turnaround funds that were allocated for the persistently struggling schools to use during he 2015 - 16 and 2016 - 17 school year, an attorney for the Education Department said.

A spokeswoman for the State Education Department said it would monitor the situation in Buffalo.

ALBANY — School funding and teacher evaluations are linked after all, a top official with the state education department said late Monday.

On Thursday afternoon, shortly after the rally, a spokeswoman for the Education Department said that the department would not meet the Friday deadline, but that it would «continue to assess space requests within a timeline that makes sense for all impacted students and families.»

More than 196,700 testing sessions by computer were completed through the end of day Wednesday, the state Education Department said.

In a review of Buffalo Public schools in receivership, the New York State Education Department said some of the city's most troubled schools are meeting their own goals for improvement.

A spokesman for the Education Department said the office was working on a response.

The education department said it has consulted with several education groups.

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 State Education Department said civil rights law prevents it from streaming or broadcasting the hearing.

Wednesday's visit will be to Yeshiva Darchei Torah Boys School in Far Rockaway, the Education Department said.

The district had a 61.7 percent graduation rate through June 2016, the state Education Department said Friday.

A spokeswoman for the State Education Department said Pearson's reputation was not a factor in the contract process; Questar was simply the victor of standard bidding procedures.

Questar Assessments, a company based in Minneapolis, received a five - year, $ 44 million deal, the State Education Department said on Thursday.

In response to the breach, the State Education Department said that it had required Questar to reset passwords on all user accounts and close accounts of former employees, which the department said the company had done.

A data breach at the company that develops New York State's third - through - eighth grade reading and math tests allowed an unauthorized user to access information about 52 students who took the tests by computer last spring, the state's Education Department said on Thursday.

«Due to very limited seats available in the hearing room, these seats will be granted through a lottery,» the State Education Department said Wednesday in a prepared statement.

Edward R. «Ted» McPherson, the chief financial officer for the Department of Agriculture, will be nominated to the job of undersecretary of education, the White House and the Education Department said on Oct. 28.

Only 28 percent of the more than 3,500 districts that responded to a nationwide survey last spring said they had completed the renovation and testing of their «mission critical» computer systems to make them «Y2K compliant,» the Education Department said in releasing the results on Aug. 27.

The Tasmanian Education Department said it wants students to familiarise themselves with online NAPLAN before having to officially undergo the examination.

The Education Department said government funding would go towards 10 digital coding specific teachers to assist other teachers.

The Education Department said that about 900,000 of the 1.1 million eligible test - takers took the exams, while the rest skipped without a «known valid reason,» such as an illness.

(The school has changed its practices and is now acting with integrity, a spokesman for the city's education department said.)

The NCLB waivers for Kansas, Oregon and Washington are now considered «high - risk» because each state has work to do in tying student growth to teacher and principal evaluations, the Education Department said Thursday.

The Education Department said it was addressing the issue by appointing a deputy chancellor in charge of equity and access and offering tutoring for students from low - income families studying for the exam for specialized high schools.

DeCarolis of the state education department said the state just released a survey to hear from schools how they are doing with their efforts.

The education department said that an opportunity to apply for the 2019 - 2020 Grow Your Own grant program will come later this year.

Officials from the federal Education Department said that many districts had successfully implemented their TIF grants, and anticipated that no other grantees would choose to terminate their agreements.

That guidance was, the Obama Education Department said, a clarification of the obligations that schools already had under federal law, known as Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination at schools that receive federal funds.

A spokeswoman for the state education department said her agency is awaiting approval of its plan from the federal agency.

Now, the National Science Teachers Association and the STEM Education Coalition have sent a letter to the Education Department saying it is misinterpreting the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the federal K - 12 education law that replaced No Child Left Behind, in regard to science and school accountability plans.

Officials from the city education department say the sheer number of vendors — about 900 — makes it difficult for the central office to vet them all.

After some parents raised concerns, including the question of what happens if a child's secret has to do with a crime; the state's Education Department said they were reviewing what had occurred and would then make a decision about whether to keep the question as part of the test.

But since she didn't ask for a waiver in advance, the Education Department said it could condition her state's federal education funding.

More than 196,700 testing sessions by computer were completed through the end of day Wednesday, the state Education Department said.

So when Tennessee's education department said, «Jump,» Kingsport asked how high — and then jumped higher.

A spokeswoman for the Education Department said the city considered this kind of socioeconomic integration to be a potential advantage of the expansion.

«Citing testing provider American Institutes for Research, the [Florida] state education department said the hack, which is being investigated by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, «will not compromise student performance on the test or any personal student data.»