Sentences with phrase «education mandates fail»

Voice of Experience: Finding «New Cheese» Requires Adjustment To Change So many education mandates fail because they lack the teeth to move teachers» «cheese.»

So many education mandates fail because teachers are the most important — but often least consulted — stakeholders in their success.

Finding «New Cheese» Requires Adjustment To Change So many education mandates fail because they lack the teeth to move teachers» «cheese.»

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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.

Instead of mandating it or proposing legislation, which former Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried and failed to do, Oddo said his office is focused on increasing education on health issues.

Under then - Education Commissioner John B. King Jr., the district regularly failed to comply with state mandates and develop plans for turning around its struggling schools.

The New York Civil Liberties Union says transgender students are often harassed in public schools across the state and education officials have failed to carry out a legislative mandate to protect them.

In a March 7 ruling, Judge William J. Groff of Hillsborough County Superior Court said the 2005 law fails to meet its constitutional mandate to define an «adequate education.»

The federally mandated education teams that are supposed to ensure special education students get individualized instruction are failing those students in Baltimore, a recent study involving the city's school district concludes.

Among Judge Lewis» findings was that state officials had failed to present evidence of a net increase in state education funding for fiscal 1999, once new legislative mandates for schools were factored in.

The U.S. Department of Education is seeking to debunk widely circulated e-mails that erroneously say the No Child Left Behind Act mandates that students who fail their 10th grade reading and math tests must accept an inferior high school completion certificate that would prohibit them from attending college or vocational school.

It claimed that the state Department of Education had «failed to provide adequate technical assistance, including direct financial assistance»; nor did the state provide a standardized test in Spanish to allow for mandated subgroup testing.

While liberals got some «guardrails» around state accountability systems, they failed to get a federal mandate on equalizing school funding — though Obama education secretary John King is now doing his utmost to devise one via executive branch regulations.

The system of government - controlled public education has failed in its mandated task to prepare America's youth for adulthood.

School districts are statutorily and constitutionally limited in their ability to generate revenues from local resources, but are dependent upon the state, which has consistently failed to provide sufficient funds to meet the qualitative mandate of the Education Clause and the requirements of education reform legislation and the Consolidated StEducation Clause and the requirements of education reform legislation and the Consolidated Steducation reform legislation and the Consolidated State Plan.

So, in the minds of the education reformers, the definition of «rather than focusing on mandates from bureaucrats,» is to mandate yet another set of standardized tests that will be given to all students, starting in middle school and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are failing.

The eight Republican members who attended the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing chastised King, saying he'd failed to follow numerous provisions, including mandates to reduce the size of the Department of Education, allow states to set rules for measuring performance and avoid complex reporting requirements for academic achievement.

The resolution, SR 133, stands as a mandate to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) to include this evidence - based framework as a reform strategy for failing schools.

«In my view, historians will look on this era as a period of failed mandates, of willful and ignorant attacks on public education and the education profession, and as a time in which entrepreneurs sought to turn education into a marketplace for profit.»

Instead of continuing to throw millions of precious tax dollars into the proverbial, but very real, pit of failed education reforms; instead of continuing to enrich test corporations and educational entrepreneurs who game the system; instead of maintaining the false and demoralizing narrative that our students and teachers are failures, our state legislators need to take this opportunity to tell the CSDE and CSBE that it will no longer support expensive mandates that unnecessarily impact our budget health when a re-design of state assessment practices has been encouraged by recent federal legislation.

«Moving the authority to a state agency with no educational abilities nor mandate will make it harder, not easier to improve educational outcomes for children in chronically failing schools, and undermines our ability to work together — governor, state board and our new superintendent to improve education in Michigan.»

To that end, if the Department of Education wishes to punish schools whose students fail to meet some loan - repayment benchmark, it should apply this mandate to every type of higher - education insEducation wishes to punish schools whose students fail to meet some loan - repayment benchmark, it should apply this mandate to every type of higher - education inseducation institution.

Then Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan used this non-sense provision of the failed law in legally suspect ways — waivers — to bribe schools into accepting several federal mandates.

Obama's rollback comes in the form of a waiver package: States that seek relief from NCLB's provisions — including the 100 percent proficiency requirement in reading and math by 2014, increasingly harsh sanctions against schools deemed as «failing» or the strictly dictated use of federal education money — will have to adapt certain administration - mandated reforms.

Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted by politicians and corporate education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to privatize education and undermine the public trust.

To the dismay of Gov. David A. Paterson, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and various lawmakers, the Legislature failed to pass education reform legislation prior to the Race to the Top application deadline, to lift or increase the state's cap on charter schools and mandate the use of student standardized testing scores to evaluate teachers.