Sentences with phrase «education officials acted»

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REAL Change is a star - studded, emotional TV special (airing onCBS 4/23) featuring top musical acts, highlighting the heroic role of education and teachers and I am sure Office Depot is proud to admit that they are a «presenting sponsor» of the REAL Change broadcast and official retail partner, I mean who would not be?

We have asked Wendy Charles - Warner, an EO member in Wales and author of the briefing paper, to act as the official representative of Education Otherwise the charity.

And the act would create an advisory committee made up of education and health officials, consumer groups and industry representatives to recommend ways of sharing additional information on school lunch suppliers.

In a strongly worded letter, Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, has accused officials at the Department for Education, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, of breaking the Coalition Agreement, by intervening in a High Court case over inclusive admissions in religious schools.

Former state education commissioner John King must recuse himself from decisions directly related to New York, even when he takes over as acting US secretary of education after Arne Duncan steps down, according to a federal official.

An administration official said it came as no surprise that higher education for prisoners didn't get traction in a body that previously had nixed the DREAM Act.

L - R: Deputy Director, Training, Mr Ifenayi Agoha, Los Angeles County's Chief Election Official, Dean Logan, External Member, The Electoral Institute (TEI), Dr Kole Shettima, Acting Director General, TEI, Dr Sa'ad Idris, Lead Facilitator, Conny McCormack, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), Prince Adedeji Soyebi and Deputy Director, Research and Documentation, Mr Emeka Nwachukwu take time off for a group photo at a professional training in Elections, Electoral Data Management, Storage and Analysis, which began on 14th December in California, United States.

Top education officials in New York on Tuesday called for the passage of the Dream Act in the state Senate after the Assembly approved the legislation a day earlier.

They say the comments interfere with the board's ability to conduct official business and violate the state Dignity for All Students Act, which requires the district to provide students with an education environment free of harassment and discrimination.

PLATTSBURGH — State education officials visited SUNY Plattsburgh last week to hear comments on the latest draft of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

In June, the chair of the House appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee, Representative Denny Rehberg (R - MT), said that his subcommittee could not act on the changes until it received an official budget request directly from the White House.

The culprit was indeed a doctor, Dr. Edwin J. Goodman and he hoped to profit from his brainchild as follows, from the preamble to the bill» A bill for an act introducing a new mathematical truth and offered as a contribution to education to be used only by the State of Indiana free of cost by paying any royalties whatever on the same, provided it is accepted and adopted by the official action of the legislature in 1897.»

The initial ruling — which still must be reviewed by the Secretary of Education and could eventually be contested in court — addresses a longstanding dispute between federal and state education officials over the interpretation of the Individuals with Disabilities EducaEducation and could eventually be contested in court — addresses a longstanding dispute between federal and state education officials over the interpretation of the Individuals with Disabilities Educaeducation officials over the interpretation of the Individuals with Disabilities EducationEducation Act.

Our elected officials are understandably making education decisions based on the conditions of 2013, and we're acting like it's 1963.

Under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, P.L. 94 - 142, students must remain in a placement made by school officials until all due - process procedures have been exhausted, David Berman, a lawyer for the Burlington, Mass.,...

State officials later accused the Washington Education Association, an affiliate of the National Education Association, of circumventing the law by setting up a fund that acted as a political...

Washington — By 1978, three years after the enactment of P.L. 94 - 142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, school officials had successfully adopted most of the law's procedural safeguards, according to a federally - supported study of several school districts over a period of four years.

Education officials are already experimenting with new systems, and hopefully by the time Congress decides to move forward with a reauthorized ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act), there will be strong competency - based accountability systems to incorporate, particularly at the high school level.

That was before government officials and various education groups got into the act and diluted nearly every reform, rendering the changes impotent.

Many educators and elected officials, including more than a few members of Congress, regard «No Child Left Behind,» the well - known moniker of George W. Bush's 2001 education act, as a discredited «brand.»

Gov. Mark White of Texas is likely to declare education an emergency subject when the legislature convenes in January so that certain elements of the Educational Opportunity Act of 1984 can be fine - tuned, according to a state official.

Officials at the Department of Education have requested public comments by January 21 about areas in the new Every Student Succeeds Act where regulation might be «helpful or necessary.»

Her day began with a speech from a top federal education official; it will end with a tutorial on the No Child Left Behind Act.

State education officials initially insisted, unlike their counterparts elsewhere, that teachers already in the classroom when the federal No Child Left Behind Act took effect in 2002 should win highly qualified status the same way that new teachers...

U.S. Department of Education officials say that four «town hall» meetings held in the state were part of their efforts to explain the No Child Left Behind Act.

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.

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.

Department of Education officials set a challenging goal for themselves soon after the revised Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act was signed into law in late 2004: complete the regulations in a year's time to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the law.

A decade after Massachusetts passed its charter school law as part of the Education Reform Act of 1993, city officials in North Adams, Massachusetts, sued the state Department of Education, challenging the constitutionality of charter schools.

Yet federal appellate judges resisted intervention, and instead showed that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), when followed to the letter, may protect school officials from liability.

Pursuant to Education Law section 16, any person having reasonable cause to suspect that a student has been subjected to harassment, bullying, and / or discrimination by an employee or student, on school grounds or at a school function, who acting reasonably and in good faith, either reports such information to school officials, to the commissioner, or to law enforcement authorities or otherwise initiates, testifies, participates or assists in any formal or informal proceedings under this subdivision, shall have immunity from any civil liability that may arise from the making of such report or from initiating, testifying, participating or assisting in such formal or informal proceedings.

Federal officials promised states would have more flexibility under the latest version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

The draft proposal to amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act would also give officials more authority to discipline special - education Education Act would also give officials more authority to discipline special - education education students.

Department of Education officials scrapped rules that interpreted certain provisions in the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001 as trumping future collective bargaining agreements and other employee protections.

The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday denied a request by the state's top education official to extend a flexibility waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, a decision that will place restrictions on nearly $ 30 million in annual federal funding for local school districts beginning with the 2015 - 2016 schEducation on Thursday denied a request by the state's top education official to extend a flexibility waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, a decision that will place restrictions on nearly $ 30 million in annual federal funding for local school districts beginning with the 2015 - 2016 scheducation official to extend a flexibility waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, a decision that will place restrictions on nearly $ 30 million in annual federal funding for local school districts beginning with the 2015 - 2016 school year.

Critics of the campaigns against testing, including many state and local education officials, say the unions are not acting out of concern for children but are trying to undercut efforts to institute tougher evaluations.

Conservative Leaders for Education (CL4E) released a video series outlining key principles that lawmakers, education officials and engaged stakeholders should use to help drive key state policy decisions that have now been properly returned to the states under the Every Student Succeeds AcEducation (CL4E) released a video series outlining key principles that lawmakers, education officials and engaged stakeholders should use to help drive key state policy decisions that have now been properly returned to the states under the Every Student Succeeds Aceducation officials and engaged stakeholders should use to help drive key state policy decisions that have now been properly returned to the states under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

The National School Boards Association is organizing a national call - in day for school board members and other local officials to call their Congressional representatives and urge them to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

EdWeek Market Brief reports that the U.S. Dept. of Education has given states an official heads - up to get ready to apply to pilot «innovative assessments» under the Every Student Succeeds Act,» writes Senior Editor Sean Cavanagh.

$ 430,000 from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, the California - based organization that has helped train and support three of the administration's top education officials, including acting Commissioner Chris Cerf.

Other problematic requirements, from the perspective of the officials interviewed, related to civil rights data collection, (Education Week reported extensively on that data) the Federal Funding and Transparency Act, and federal time distribution reports (the report noted that «in order for state and local federal grant recipients to use federal funds to pay salaries for their employees, they must document the employees» time spent on federally funded activities.)

WHEREAS, the members of the Utah State Board of Education, acting in their constitutionally defined official capacities, voted unanimously on August 6, 2010 to adopt the Common Core State Standards as the Utah Core Standards for mathematics and English / language arts; and

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.

On Friday, state officials said those findings constituted a series of violations of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act.

Sentance told board members he and other state education staffers held a phone conference last week with Acting Assistant Secretary of Education, Jason Botel, and other federal education officials to ask for permission to stop using the ACeducation staffers held a phone conference last week with Acting Assistant Secretary of Education, Jason Botel, and other federal education officials to ask for permission to stop using the ACEducation, Jason Botel, and other federal education officials to ask for permission to stop using the ACeducation officials to ask for permission to stop using the ACT Aspire.

Instead, as Peter Cunningham, a former official in the U.S. Department of Education points out, «the new law that the senator from Tennessee is so proud of, the Every Student Succeeds Act, now mandates the very thing he rails against.

«if a board of education adopts a policy and its agents act contrary to it, such action will likely be considered per se unreasonable, with the result that school officials may be liable for negligence or even violation of constitutional rights.

It was 25 years ago that Massachusetts officials came together to pass the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993.

This week, three states — Delaware, Nevada, and New Mexico — received official feedback from the U.S. Department of Education on their plans for implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act.

These resources describe opportunities in federal K - 12 education law — the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- and state plans for officials and advocates to strengthen school leadership.