Sentences with phrase «education watchdogs say»

Higher education watchdogs say they are hoping the momentum to ease student debt - loads remains strong.

The education watchdog says it will also publish surveys of the views of parents and teachers on children's behaviour in school.

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«This analysis rocked me to the core,» says dietitian Tricia Thompson, who founded Gluten Free Watchdog, a site that offers education and gluten - free food testing and sometimes wrangles with the FDA or corporations to press for stricter oversight.

Janet Palmer, national lead for personal, social, health and economic education at Ofsted, said the watchdog had not encountered inappropriate materials.

Members of several good government, fiscal watchdog and education advocacy groups Wednesday took issue with the bill, saying it benefits mainly rich donors, and violates the separation of church and state.

The way progress of the government's extended schools programme is assessed needs improving, education watchdog Ofsted says.

«As the state's top fiscal watchdog, Comptroller DiNapoli is expected to make the case for Danks Burke as the best choice in November to help local farms, encourage small business growth, and ensure quality, affordable education for all families,» the Danks Burke campaign said in a statement.

«It puts the taxpayers» money at risk and it puts vulnerable children at risk,» said Leonie Haimson, an education advocate with Class Size Matters and a DOE budget watchdog.

Education groups are lukewarm, and fiscal watchdog groups say it doesn't make good economic sense to issue long term bonds to for items like I - Pads, which will be outdated long before the debt is repaid.

The Manhattan - based fiscal watchdog group said state spending on two major programs — public education and Medicaid — is due to rise more than double the overall 2 percent government spending increase cap.

The education watchdog's report says good quality provision coupled with effective identification of children with special educational needs is «not common».

In so doing, it partakes of the central assumptions of the education profession itself and risks sliding over the edge into being a professional trade journal for educators, like, say, Phi Delta Kappan or Educational Leadership, rather than a watchdog on behalf of the broader American public.

Robert A. Schaeffer, the public education director for FairTest, a standardized - test watchdog organization, said, «The numbers and consequences of these tests have driven public opinion over the edge, and politicians are scrambling to figure out how to deal with that.»

And the schools they are most likely to attend are in villages and seaside towns rather than crime - hit inner cities, the education watchdog will say.

Chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw, delivering the education watchdog's annual report, said secondary schools had «stalled».

Education watchdog Ofsted said it was concerned about 17 of 28 schools in the county visited by inspectors during snap visits in March.

The gap between education establishments which are doing well and those that are not is still too wide, the watchdog said.

Standards at Welsh primary schools have slipped over the past year, says the Welsh education watchdog Estyn.

The «battle against mediocrity» must be fought to improve school standards across all parts of England, says the head of education watchdog Ofsted.

Standards at Welsh primary schools have slipped over the last year, says the Welsh education watchdog Estyn.

In response to a question from the Liberal Democrat's education spokesperson John Pugh, minister Edward Timpson said education watchdog Ofsted has been asked to inspect the schools and prosecute, where necessary.

The Local Government Association says 91 % of council maintained schools are rated good or outstanding by education watchdog Ofsted - so they should be allowed «to play a direct role in raising education standards and improving life chances, including taking on the running of failing academies».

«Bradford's social composition and challenges aren't that different to London's East End, which in the main performs very well,» said the head of the education watchdog.

«There needs to be a further de-linking of test scores from educational high - stakes decisions about students, teachers and schools,» says Robert Schaeffer, the public education director of the watchdog group Fair Test.

The Boston Municipal Research Bureau, a nonprofit watchdog that tracks city finances, said that if Baker's budget is approved, the amount of money the city receives in education aid would have risen by 5.5 percent going back to fiscal year 2013.

The analysis, done by the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit liberal watchdog and advocacy agency based in Wisconsin that tracks corporate influence on public policy, says that four companies — Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw - Hill — collectively spent more than $ 20 million lobbying in states and on Capitol Hill from 2009 to 2014.»

England's schools watchdog should carry out more no - notice inspections to stop schools hiding bad behaviour, the Education Secretary has said.

Last year, Mr Gove signalled his intention to end modularisation, and the education White Paper published in November said the government would consult the exams watchdog Ofqual on how GCSEs could be changed.