Sentences with phrase «education officials believe»

Indiana Department of Education officials believe they've done that.

The legal challenge comes as state education officials believe the implementation of Common Core will be rolled out much more smoothly this school year.

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Most of the time, these companies want consumers to believe they are legitimate, and they'll use official - sounding words, so students will believe they're affiliated with the government or the Department of Education.

One need not be a historian of education or a theologian to assess the damage done to public education and then to society in general by how these cases were decided and what public school officials were empowered to do (or so they believed) despite the clearly given cautions from the Supreme Court itself.

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

The DOE's school closure policy has come under intense fire from education advocates and elected officials who believe the city should be investing more to turn failing schools around instead of shutting them down.

Norman Fruchter, a former director of NYU's Institute for Education and Social Policy who served two years on the PEP, believes he got adequate training from procurement officials, but still «felt a bit foolish» that he voted for the $ 1.1 billion computer contract at the DOE's urging.

Mary Burgan, the A.A.U.P.'s general secretary, believes that the trend is evidence that college officials are increasingly treating higher education as a business.

New Jersey education officials, seeking to recover as much as $ 10 million, are cracking down on school districts they believe inflated enrollment figures to get more state aid.

But for those who believe that higher - education improvement is more likely to result from the efforts of educators, communities, and entrepreneurs than from the dictates of officials in Washington, NCLB's legacy should serve as a cautionary tale.

The theme, «Catholic Schools: Schools You Can Believe In,» is intended to underscore both the values and the academic excellence of Catholic education, officials said.

According to an annual admissions survey, launched at a Higher Education (HE) advisors» conference, many officials believed students are not being prepared enough for higher eEducation (HE) advisors» conference, many officials believed students are not being prepared enough for higher educationeducation.

• Who has right ideas for public education: 81 percent of parents said they believe teachers have the right ideas for their public schools; 77 percent said principals have the right ideas; 70 percent gave the nod to parent organizations; 39 percent said their governor has the right ideas; 37 percent had confidence in mayors / local officials; and 33 percent said business owners / corporate executives have the right ideas.

Leaked emails from within the Department for Education suggested some senior officials believed the policy had not been properly costed.

When it comes to reforming American education, school officials have far more freedom to transform, reimagine, and invigorate teaching, learning, and schooling than is widely believed.

As we contemplate how it is possible that elected officials like Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy remain steadfastly committed to his anti-teacher, anti-public education, pro-Common Core testing and pro-charter school corporate education reform initiatives we might do well to remember the words of the great Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard, who observed that fools are those who «believe what isn't true [and / or] refuse to believe what is true.»

«Believe me, I relate to test anxiety,» she said during a visit last week to the Academy of Arts and Letters in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, one of several schools that city and state education officials visited to express support for the new tests.

Education advocates, though, say they have noted the concerns about teacher background checks and, for the most part, they believe educators» right to protest will continue unabated, particularly if hiring decisions are left to local school boards and administrators, rather than state officials.

Because last year's test takers knew the results didn't count for them, education officials say they believe pass rates will go up as students view the tests more seriously.

An official at the U.S. Department of Education said she «believed Ohio has improved its oversight of charter schools,» The Post said.

LOS ANGELES, CA - On Saturday, Feb. 4, well over 5,000 parents, students and teachers from across Los Angeles joined education officials and leaders for the «Schools We Can Believe In» rally at Exposition Park, to demand high - quality public schools in every neighborhood, quality space and equal funding for all public school students.

But the New York City system applied for the 2012 grant, which allows districts to differentiate pay for teachers who take on new responsibilities, and Ms. Feinberg, the district spokeswoman, said officials believe their proposal would pass muster with the Education Department's 2012 rules for the competition.

Eventually, many California politicians and education officials came to believe that the protections provided made it nearly impossible to fire poor performers.

Officials on his education team say they believe an individualized approach to students — a central component of the small - schools movement — is key to a school's success, but that those relationships can be built within a variety of school configurations.

U.S. Department of Education official Ruthanne Buck believes that society has to «dramatically redefine opportunities for educators - particularly teachers.»

According to the law and to the rules proposed by the U.S. Department of Education, the fifth indicator must reflect some element of student or educator engagement such as school climate and safety, student access to advanced coursework or postsecondary readiness, or some other indicator state officials believe will satisfy the mandate.

In Connecticut, the SBAC disaster was slowed by a handful of dedicated and committed public school superintendents who recognized that parents had the fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the destructive SBAC test, but the majority of local education leaders (and elected officials) kowtowed to the Malloy administration and engaged in an immoral and unethical effort to mislead parents into believing that schools had «no degrees of freedom» on the SBAC testing issue.

We believe that the failure was not on the part of our children, but rather with the officials of the New York State Education Department.

Finally, after speaking with many local school superintendents and reviewing the correspondence that they sent out to teachers and parents last spring, it is clear that Malloy's Department of Education also tried to scare local officials into believing that any widespread opt - out or boycott of the Common Core SBAC test would jeopardize funding for the local school district.

Megan Whittemore, Cantor's press secretary, said that although the congressman believes education decisions are best left to local officials, he has no qualms about challenging New York City policies if he thinks they threaten school choice.

The fact is Connecticut's elected officials; the teacher unions and all who believe in public education should be doing far more to support parents who are opting their children out of the Common Core testing.

A leaked memo this week revealed the government plans to open new grammars, although education officials say they believe the policy will be blocked in the House of Lords.

Last year, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, provided school superintendents with a step - by - step guide on how local school officials should go about misleading parents into believing that they did not have the right to opt their children out of these tests.

D.C. schools officials said they do not believe that they need permission for the one - year pause and did not formally seek a delay from the federal government, but they did notify the Education Department of their intent.

And for the third consecutive year, district officials have steered more special education students to Quitman because they believe they will get good services there.

To help school officials gain such skills, the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN), a nonprofit organization that helps schools integrate technology, came up with a certification exam based off a framework of 10 essential skills it believes education technology leaders need to have, which include business management and understanding how teaching works.

(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged in such complaint, to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.

He deeply believed in the connection between Christian virtue and education, but he refused to make that the official doctrine of his school.

«That's a real competitive advantage that we believe the Canadian government and provinces need to leverage,» said Brown, adding that an education effort is underway to make state officials more aware of the import option.