Sentences with phrase «education officials let»

If policymakers and education officials let content standards slip, low standards will damage the state's reputation for having a trained workforce.

If state policymakers and education officials let content standards slip, low standards will damage a state's reputation for having a trained workforce.

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New York's top education officials sued the State University of New York to block new rules that would let many charter schools certify their own teachers, claiming the new rules would erode teacher quality.

New York's top education officials have sued the State University of New York to block new rules that would let many charter schools certify their own teachers, court papers released Friday show.

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.

A sharply worded report released June 23 takes states to task for calculating graduation rates in ways that it contends yield artificially low estimates of the nation's dropout problem — and it upbraids federal education officials for letting them do it.

The fallout from that searing 2006 review, during which New York officials opted not to close or suspend the college's education division and instead let it commit to fixes over time, shines a light on...

A major extra-legal policy of the Obama administration has been its decision to let states ignore the nation's largest federal education law, duly passed by elected representatives in Congress, in exchange for submitting themselves directly to the whims of unelected federal education officials.

But Department of Education officials haven't let Smarter Balanced use the full potential of its platform to test students using above -(or below --RRB- grade - level items.

City Department of Education officials think they'll be able to train 1,600 principals and 80,000 teachers to use new a evaluation system by the end of the year, and they plan to let the state know before a deadline next week.

Making sure that all children have a high - quality education that prepares them for the future is a responsibility that we all share — parents, grandparents, teachers, neighbors, and state officials — but too many states have let schools and districts off the hook for their vital roles in ensuring all children can succeed.

«Although the resolution has not passed through the Education Committee, parents will continue to advocate for free, high - quality, public schools and let Chicago's elected officials know that families deserve quality options for their children.»

Splitting off control of facilities would let public officials responsible for education focus on the one task that should concern them — making sure that every child in the district has the best schooling options that can be obtained from any provider.

In August, a New York State Supreme Court judge invalidated a vote by state education officials that would have let districts base 40 % of teacher evaluations on state test scores, after the state teachers unions sued saying the law allowed for only 20 %.

Let me tell you how seriously this administration is taking international education — the summit (arranged by Fran Holuba of the Global Engagement / NSC Press, National Security Council) was packed with senior officials speaking on the importance of study abroad, international education, student mobility, and more.