Sentences with phrase «education mandated by»

The legal theory underlying school finance reform is predicated to a significant degree on the principle that local school districts are essentially agencies of the states, charged with providing the education mandated by the state's constitution.

In addition, teachers felt strained by the limited resources for ELL education mandated by Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

The social vision of John A. Ryan failed to penetrate the institutions of theological education, and the Protestant split between theology and «application» was mirrored in the cleavage between the Thomistic education mandated by Leo XIII and the televised pastoral assurances of Fulton J. Sheen.

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Before filing bankruptcy, you must complete a pre-filing credit counseling session; also you must complete a Debtor Education course before your bankruptcy case is discharged (both are mandated by U.S. bankruptcy code).

There are two caveats about rates on government student loans to keep in mind: First, the formula mandated by the Higher Education Act imposes an 8.25 percent cap for federal direct loans to undergraduates, and 9.5 percent for direct loans to grad student loans.

When free education was mandated around 70BCE by the Jewish royalty, (Can't think of the Queens name offhand), it was the Pharisees that handled literacy in the synagogues of each town.

In their filing attorney's wrote the mandate, «runs roughshod over Wheaton's religious beliefs, and the beliefs of millions of other Americans, by forcing it to provide health insurance coverage for abortifacient drugs and related education and counseling.»

Special education services for school - age children with disabilities that attend public schools or are homeschooled are mandated by federal law.

In addition, participants at the IOC conference learned about a community - based program the Institute first developed in 2005 called «The Power of The Permit,» which is being utilized by municipalities around the country in adopting concussion risk management programs for all athletes using public fields, rinks, courts, and diamonds, not just those covered by existing state concussion education, removal from and return to play mandates.

Contact your state's department of education, either through the state website or by phone or mail in order to learn what guidance they might have for homeschoolers as well as any mandates that might shape your curriculum.

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

The Team, chaired by Senior Advisor to the Governor Larry Schwartz, includes representatives from private industry, education, labor, and government and look for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

The Team, chaired by Senior Advisor to the Governor Larry Schwartz, will include representatives from private industry, education, labor, and government and look for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

City Hall says Cuomo's plan would simply expedite an already - underway process by the state Education Department to create guidelines for evaluating teachers but leave intact the legal language mandating layoffs be implemented based on seniority.

Aside from lowering the voting age by a year, the bill would also require all pupils in the ninth grade or higher to receive at least eight full class periods of civics education and mandate that every New York high school provide each student with a voter registration form the year they turn 17.

The rally, organized by the Rise and Resist and the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioEducation (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioeducation funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educationeducation.»

The Senate Republicans» budget restores $ 280 million worth of education cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, eliminates $ 296 million in unfunded mandates for local governments and spend slightly less overall than the governor ($ 132.5 billion, to $ 132.9 billion)-- all without any new revenue generators (AKA taxes).

The Communications Minister was speaking on Metro TV's Good Evening Ghana program where he indicated that due to the heavy investment by President Mahama's in infrastructure, health, education etc Ghanaians would give him the mandate for the next four years.

Health minister Dr Dan Poulter, a qualified doctor, commented: «Today's mandate to Health Education England, backed by a # 5 billion budget, will help our many dedicated frontline staff to further improve their ability to care for patients as well as enabling our NHS to train the next generation of doctors, nurses and healthcare assistants.»

The measures are contained in a # 5 billion budget plan mandated by the Department of Health (DoH) to Health Education England «to improve training, values and education of all NHS staff over the next two years and beyonEducation England «to improve training, values and education of all NHS staff over the next two years and beyoneducation of all NHS staff over the next two years and beyond».

He seemed to touch a nerve with the audience when he criticized the «pressure testing» mandated by the Common Core education standards, which he said that he would try to overturn.

Black, who was selected by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to succeed Klein, needs the waiver because she does not have the education experience the state mandates for the job.

On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

The Success Academy charter school network is challenging a recent blow to its pre-Kindergarten program - and its political standing - by filing an appeal to a State Education Department ruling that the network must sign a mandated contract in order to receive public dollars for its pre-K programs.

Pandemic preparedness is not only critical because of the threat of a future pandemic or an outbreak of an emerging infectious disease, but also because school preparedness for all types of disasters, including biological events, is mandated by the U.S. Department of Education.

The dispute involves a mandate announced in January 2014 by Sander Dekker, state secretary at the Ministry for Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands..

State - mandated diagnosis of autism by a clinician for consideration in special education was linked with around a whopping 99 percent decrease in the rate of incidence for autism and ID.

The bill also creates new programs aimed at enhancing science and math education, advanced manufacturing research, and regional innovation and mandates better coordination of them by the White House.

In BC, naturopathic doctors are regulated by the College of Naturopathic Physicians of BC (CNPBC), which oversees standards and conditions, acts on complaints regarding patient care and mandates continuing education policies.

Thomas Lickona, the head of the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs (the fourth and fifth being respect and responsibility) at the State University of New York at Cortland and a leading figure in the field, says that two - thirds of the states» schools are now required either by legislative mandate or by administrative regulation to implement programs in character education.

While the situation described by Ann Christy Dybvik («Autism and the Inclusion Mandate,» Feature, Winter 2004) can and does occur, it is not the norm in special education.

Educators across the state, including state Commissioner of Education Richard P. Mills, had been alarmed by the new mandate, which they said risked making stringent new requirements in other core subjects impossible to meet.

Above all, he was the senior author of «Equality of Educational Opportunity» (EEO), the report mandated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education.

In the final report of a three - part national assessment of Chapter 1, mandated by the Congress in 1983, an independent research team says that, despite an overhaul of the program's authorizing legislation in 1981, the services it funds and the kinds of students it serves have remained relatively stable since the federal government began financing compensatory education in 1965.

These Principles of Procedure may be instructive to providers of professional development and training across all sectors of education and further, they are principles that are congruent with the mandated frameworks of professional standards published by AITSL.

To meet these objectives, the curriculum was mandated to be transdisciplinary — meaning across academic subjects as well as across school and nonschool settings (e.g., internships (PDF)-RRB--- and was developed by work groups that included representatives from STEM - related industries, postsecondary education, and preK - 12 education.

The report, released last week by the U.S. Department of Education, is based on 4th grade scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a set of federally mandated tests given periodically to nationally representative samples of students.

But as the organization responsible for putting the «scientifically based» in the scientifically based research mandated by NCLB — not to mention the home of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- IES deserves attention in its own right.

These are the most important, but by far not the only, mandates of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the federal statute that, under various names, has guided special education policy siEducation Act (IDEA), the federal statute that, under various names, has guided special education policy sieducation policy since 1975.

The experience of the Abbott Districts, which have been mandated to begin public education by the age of three, has made a difference in the community and learning.

Additionally, Jewell - Sherman feels a kinship to the chair's namesake, Gregory R. Anrig, a former Massachusetts Education Commissioner during the court - mandated integration of Boston and other state public school districts, and described by Jewell - Sherman as an «equity warrior,» who led with wisdom, compassion, and courage.

Kentucky Gov. Paul E. Patton's call for mandated pay raises for teachers threatens to do what months of scheming by opponents of the Kentucky education - reform law has not managed — hobble the state's open - ended testing and performance bonus programs.

At a hearing on the issue last week, Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), was clearly sympathetic to arguments by several witnesses that Congress should keep the testing mandate but dump the rules that prescribe how states must hold schools accountable for test results.

Importantly, the new law also removes the federal mandate — pushed by former Education Secretary Arne Duncan — that states deploy test - based teacher evaluations.

Rather than wait for the regulators to have their say — and, as former deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Education Jim Shelton has observed, when regulators weigh in, they almost always do so in a way that overreacts and far overshoots their mandate — those bootcamps that were concerned about maintaining high quality and not conning students, got together to ensure that bootcamps would keep a good name and a positive image by, in essence, self - regulating.

If our major policy focus is to improve student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness — accounting for 30 per cent of the variance in student achievement — we must attract higher - quality applicants to the teaching profession, improve our teacher education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate teacher development programs for less effective teachers.

Private - school students should be able to receive summer - school services mandated by Kentucky's education - reform law without having to pay tuition, a new lawsuit contends.

As a parent, it's critical that you know about alternative types of classroom - based assessments, in addition to traditional tests and the standardized tests mandated by your school district or state department of education.

During the Obama administration, this office charged full speed ahead into the nation's culture wars by imposing on every educational institution in the country novel and detailed mandates based on very broad interpretations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and national origin) and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex).