Sentences with phrase «education officials began»

To get more high school students onto the college track, state education officials began to focus on early outreach.

Beginning in March 2012, state education officials began administering a 40 - question, 72 - minute reading skills exam — the IREAD - 3 — to all Indiana third graders.

Not exact matches

NYSUT had never been big fans of King to begin with, having passed a vote of no - confidence in his tenure as commissioner, including knocking the roll out of the Common Core education standards, which education observers and elected officials had said was was flawed.

(WBEN) When State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia begins to weigh whether or not to remove Buffalo School Board Member Carl Paladino from that body, she will hear from 7 of his 10 colleagues, and several administration officials during as many as five days of hearings in Albany.

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.

The nearing, convened by state Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia, began with the attorney for the Buffalo school board explaining why the board is asking state officials to remove Paladino.

In January 2005, a federal judge ordered officials in Cobb County, Georgia, to remove stickers questioning Darwinism from textbooks; in May, the Kansas board of education began deliberating on whether to include the «controversy» in state science curricula.

As concern over America's competitiveness abroad intensifies, education officials in the U.S. are beginning to consider using individual states and districts — not just the nation as a whole — as the units against which to measure their international peers.

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.

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.

The department was sued in both state and federal court by the Institute for Creation Research after state education officials sought to bar the school from awarding master's degrees in science beginning in 1988.

A team of congressional appropriators offered to raise Department of Education spending $ 3.5 billion — $ 673 million more than Mr. Clinton requested — for the fiscal year that begins this week, according to officials familiar with the proposal.

Since Congress began work on revamping the compensatory - education program in 1993, federal officials have promoted local decisionmaking and flexibility.

The New York City Department of Education took a step in the right direction in February 2003, when officials announced plans to open 17 «New Beginnings» centers for students with the most serious behavior problems.

«School officials around the U.S. began to say that an outright ban was not realistic,» Mustaro told Education World.

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) begins its letter by denying that school officials blame special education and private placement for draining resources from general education and then proceed to repeat the very argument that they deny making.

Educrats all over the country have begun to persuade federal education officials to grant waivers from NCLB, adopting the position that it is unfair to label schools as failing when the performance gaps between ethnic groups are so wide and when minority children lag so far behind their White, more affluent peers.

Maryland education officials, with the assistance of the International Business Machines Corporation, will begin installing an experimental computer networking system in five schools next month.

The six booklets — on the arts, English, foreign language, mathematics, science, and social studies — are part of the board's ongoing «Educational EQuality Project,» a 10 - year program begun in 1981 with the aim of both strengthening the academic quality of secondary education and ensuring that all high - school students have «equality of opportunity» for higher education, College Board officials say.

Officials in the Education Department's office of special education and rehabilitative services said Mr. Bennett has invited experts on special education to gather this week to begin developing a policy statement on theEducation Department's office of special education and rehabilitative services said Mr. Bennett has invited experts on special education to gather this week to begin developing a policy statement on theeducation and rehabilitative services said Mr. Bennett has invited experts on special education to gather this week to begin developing a policy statement on theeducation to gather this week to begin developing a policy statement on the subject.

Federal education officials have begun announcing a new round of grants from the Teacher Incentive Fund.

Future Is Now Schools has already begun discussions with community leaders in some of America's largest cities, bringing together all education stakeholders, including parents, teacher unions and district education officials.

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.

Privately, some school officials say the requirements for physical education were too robust to begin with.

Troy Albert, David Freitas, Andrea Neal and Brad Oliver begin their four - year terms on the State Board of Education as state officials tackle issues of central importance to parents and teachers — from how to handle the ISTEP + testing debacle to how to meet state lawmakers» request to rewrite the state's A-F grading system.

In recent months, as schools began teaching and testing students on the new standards — and telling families about their plans — what started as an effort by officials to remake American education has become a favored punching bag of pundits and parents alike.

District and school officials can begin looking at the scores and use them to make decisions about instruction, class placements and parent discussions, said Keric Ashley, deputy superintendent of the District, School, and Innovation branch of the California Department of Education.

Beginning in the 2011 - 2012 school year, the U.S. Department of Education will recognize schools where staff, students, officials and communities have worked together to produce energy efficient, sustainable and healthy school environments and to ensure the sustainability and environmental literacy of graduates.

When I began my career in education, school business officials did not have to address many of the issues covered in this year's annual meeting sessions.

A commission formed by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R - Rochester, headed by two GOP lawmakers with a longstanding interest in K - 12 education and composed of Democrats, Republicans, school officials, advocates and educators met for the first time Thursday to begin the first serious review in 20 years.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to have state education officials impose teacher evaluations on New York City would begin in just three months, he announced today in Albany.

«People were very nervous to begin with, and through our partners with the Education Testing Service, county offices and everyone else involved, things went remarkably well,» said Sue Burr, a member of the State Board of Education, at its meeting in Sacramento on Sept. 3, in response to a presentation by California Department of Education officials.

And officials, including U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, have begun to listen as the grassroots movement engineers a series of high - profile rebuffs:

Posted on December 23, 2016 · A new Texas education commissioner vowed to crack down on district and campus accountability, a drawn - out court case over school finance ended and federal officials began investigating an alleged cap on special education services in Texas school districts — those are among the highlights of the year 2016 in Texas public education.

(Texas)-- Directed by a vote of the State Board of Education late last month, Texas education officials posted Friday proposed rules governing high school graduation beginning nEducation late last month, Texas education officials posted Friday proposed rules governing high school graduation beginning neducation officials posted Friday proposed rules governing high school graduation beginning next year.

But even as education advocates began thanking the state officials for redrawing the plan, discussion turned to control of the buildings themselves.

As New Hampshire teachers begin to assign homework to students, state education officials are also facing an important deadline: New Hampshire is finalizing efforts to reshape the state's education system under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

State officials are banking that their aggressive approach will turn around the state's dismal education record, but, as the third - through eleventh - graders there began testing last month, the immense challenges the state will face in meeting its goals are already apparent.

In the eighties he began working as a graffiti artist but he never finished an official art education.

And so, as this is my last official function here, and as I happen to be at the podium, I thought I would share with you, the class of 2012, my unfiltered thoughts about the legal education you've signed up for and the legal profession you've begun the process of entering.

As author Evie Blad points out, this isn't an all or nothing proposition: even if it is not an official part of the new ESSA - mandated system, SEL assessment can still be implemented by states and districts for many valuable ends: «[S] ome states may begin collecting data in those social and emotional areas to get baseline information, to gauge its reliability, and to explore the possibility of incorporating it into accountability systems in the future, [Kristen Amundson, executive director of the National Association of State Boards of Education] said.»