Sentences with phrase «education officials did»

Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, said Wednesday that state lawmakers and education officials did not take seriously the charge of the 2001 federal law known as No Child Left Behind.

In more than half a dozen states, education officials did not return phone calls seeking interviews about the applications.

State education officials did not offer an estimate.

The school's principal and Department of Education officials did not respond to a request for comment regarding the school workers» actions.

The education committee leaders in both the House and the Senate have repeatedly expressed a desire to be kept abreast of implementation, and they have consistently stated their intention to make sure state and local education officials do what the new law requires of them.

Now Schneider wants to make absolutely certain state education officials don't return to the Common Core.

It's a tall task considering state education officials don't know what test Indiana students will take 2015 - 16.

U.S. Department of Education officials don't want to grant that exemption, saying California can't ignore the federal requirement to measure students» progress in science annually.

Not exact matches

The systematic gutting of publicly funded education — be it in elementary schools or in colleges — was done by officials we've elected, many of whom have received strong support from members of the business community who regularly complain about the lack of a prepared workforce.

Plus school officials often don't have the money to devote to anti-drug education or the knowledge to tell the good programs from the bad.

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.

The greatest present bar to a mature religious orientation in public education is the assumption that the church and the synagogue are the only appropriate channels for religion, and that anything done about religion in the schools must be accomplished through these channels or at least with the official approval and sanction of the recognized religious officials.

What is being done is evidently a very complex thing for these many rooms of the parish house or religious education building, are designed for a great number of meetings besides those of Sunday School classes and official boards.

This is all quite routine for this time of year, college officials having a fond place in their hearts and their physical education departments for All - Americas and kids who can do 9.6.

(1) Education of students, student athletes, parents, sports officials, school faculty and staff, and school administrators on the signs and symptoms of a concussion and what to do if someone demonstrates any of them.

But Missouri and St. Louis officials said they did not hear about it until Nov. 28, after Illinois education officials raised red flags.

Officials with the Milk Processor Education Program, a trade group for the dairy industry, said they did not know how many school districts pulled flavored milk from their cafeterias.

While home education is legal throughout the UK, some LEA officials want to monitor or advise, even if you don't want them to.

Illinois education officials knew a plan to treat ammonia - tainted school lunch food did not work, fouling thousands of meals, but they never notified the schools that had the food in their freezers, according to state documents.

«Shanghai does not need so - called # 1 schools,» said Yi Hougin, a high level official of Shanghai Education Commission.

Flanagan is specifically taking issue with city Department of Education officials submitting a report on school finances that doesn't adhere to state law.

Other education officials who testified did not agree with Duffy's assertions that the cuts can be absorbed without effecting school children.

Don't lower expectations for ELA, math tests, say Education Trust and Urban League officials.

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.

Let's admit what we have now isn't working and that all of the arguing and fighting we do on every issue — from gun control to climate change to education to immigration to health care and beyond — won't accomplish much unless we change the way we choose our elected officials.

City Hall officials admitted Friday that they didn't include 99 complaints of sexual harassment at the Department of Education in a tally released last week reporting 471 cases at the...

Stringer is demanding answers from NYC education officials on nearly 2,000 computers that have gone missing — and threatening to hit them with subpoenas if they don't cooperate.

Prof Jane Naana Opoku - Agyemang, Education Minister, said the government recognized the important role the West Africa Regional Training Centre, which embodies the shared bond between the two countries, was doing in the training of security officials, judges, prosecutors and drug enforcement agencies.

Cuomo administration officials said the governor's plan does not take dollars away from low - income students and will allow even more low - income families to take advantage of state and federal financial aid that's available for higher education.

The result won't do much to allay the fears of New York teachers» unions that Cuomo's real aim is to transform traditional public schools into charter schools, since charter groups were among those chosen by Massachusetts education officials to implement turnaround plans in chronically underperforming districts.

Nor does it appear that the state official who appointed Ms. Mirrer to the panel, David M. Steiner, the state education commissioner, asked members of the panel to disclose any ties to Mr. Bloomberg.

New York state education officials say School 91, the B.U.I.L.D Academy, didn't make enough progress last year to continue efforts to turn around under local leadership.

«A lot of parents are waiting to see what New York state, the education officials, the Legislature will do to address their concerns,» Pallotta said.

Some of the last issues to be decided had to do with education, including a push by state Sen. Simcha Felder — a Democrat from Brooklyn who conferences with Republicans to give them a critical 32nd vote — to protect ultra-Orthodox yeshivas from official reviews that might find they do not provide substantially equivalent instruction to public schools.

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.

What to do with New York state's controversial teacher evaluation program is going to be one of the top education issues facing state officials in 2015.

City Controller Scott Stringer is demanding answers from city education officials on nearly 2,000 computers that have gone missing — and threatening to hit them with subpoenas if they don't cooperate.

And although the original NCLB waiver doesn't expire until August, a state Education Department official said federal education officials have given states guidance essentially saying they won't be held accountable for parts of the law that are suEducation Department official said federal education officials have given states guidance essentially saying they won't be held accountable for parts of the law that are sueducation officials have given states guidance essentially saying they won't be held accountable for parts of the law that are sunsetting.

New York Education Officials say the state's third through eighth - grade students did slightly better

State officials also are requiring the District to come up with a backup plan to phase out East High School in case Education Commissioner John King doesn't approve the takeover plan by the University of Rochester.

State officials also are requiring the city to come up with a backup plan to phase out East High School in case the education commissioner doesn't approve the takeover plan by the U of R.

The New York State Education Department needs to provide answers, and to ensure that it does, I call on the New York State Inspector General to open an official inquiry into this.»

While the commissioner is not telling parents what to do, she said she hopes the effort by education officials to make the changes will influence their actions.

Out Councilmember Corey Johnson of Chelsea also voted against it as did Inez Barron of Brooklyn, a staunch advocate for public education, but it passed 43 - 4 with the support of all three citywide elected officials — Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott Stringer, and Public Advocate Letitia James — as well as otherwise liberal officials such as Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.

At recent public meetings, the DOE did not give parents and leaders enough assurances that construction of the Beacon School's new Hell's Kitchen campus is on schedule, Community Education Council 3 members said in a Dec. 9 letter to DOE officials.

Meanwhile, the counsel for Governor Cuomo is warning education officials that their authority to delay the implementation of a new teacher evaluation system should be done so sparingly.

Did the Tully Board of Education and district officials effectively manage the district's finances by ensuring that budget estimates and fund balances were reasonable?

And while the Commissioner is not telling parents what to do, she said she hopes the effort by education officials to make the changes will influence their actions.

«The statewide program doesn't even cover the needs for New York City,» a source said, adding that officials fear the funding stream for universal pre-K will ultimately come out of other education funding from the state.

The Clinton administration official told E&E News that, while he doesn't know Sam Clovis — reported to be Trump's pick for undersecretary for research, education and economics — scientific knowledge is especially useful in a position that requires coordination with scientific agencies within the government.