Sentences with phrase «federal education department»

Common Core - backer Bill Gates and former federal education department official Joanne Weiss have promoted national standards and tests by touting that they «will unleash powerful market forces» and create a national market for vendors.
Federal education department secretary Arne Duncan joined the debate recently, advocating for an extension of mayoral control.
--- Puerto Rico, in the midst of the chaos and instability following Hurricane Maria, is moving quickly forward with plans to institute a wide swath of education reforms, with the help of the aggressively ideological federal education department, helmed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
-- Roughly two - thirds of public schools across the country already have either a law enforcement officer or a guard on campus, according to recently published federal Education Department data from 2016.
The article, by the paper's chess columnist, Dylan McClain, pointed out that IS 318 was in the federal education department's Title I program, meaning that more than 60 percent of the students at the school were from low - income families, and yet at the tournament in question, Spiegel's students had beaten wealthy kids from private schools and magnet schools.
The federal Education Department's proposed slashing of student mental - health and school - safety funds could lead to catastrophe, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned.
The federal Education Department's proposed slashing of student mental - health and school - safety funds could lead to catastrophe, US Sen. Chuck Schumer warned Sunday.
When asked if the pilot would be for one school district or for the entire state, Elia said they would wait to see what guidance the the federal education department issues.
Elia told lawmakers that she takes very seriously a letter from the federal education department, which is now headed by former State Education Commissioner John King.
A spokesperson for the federal Education Department said the agency is continuing to work with states on interpreting the new law.
She said she thinks the federal Education Department's letter should be taken seriously, and it's one more motivation in her effort to win over parents and educators on the benefits of testing.
The federal education department has already issued draft regulations, but Elia expects that a new administration will tweak the regulations, most likely to give states more local control, particularly when it comes to testing and learning standards.
Elia, along with other heads of state education departments that saw a high number of «opt - outs» last spring, received a letter in December from the federal education department.
In 1989, the federal education department carried out a review of teacher education in mathematics and science.
The federal education department wants to increase the number of students who graduate from college.
Their intent was to offer a counterpoint to Congressional Republicans who question the need for a federal Education Department and are seeking cuts in federal education...
While the federal education department was pressuring states to adopt new standards and test - based teacher evaluations, Fagen wanted to go above and beyond in Douglas County.
The more useful example for us among those he has examined is Ontario, for Canada has no federal education department nor (to my knowledge) any involvement by the national government in the delivery or financing or even policy - setting for primary - secondary education.
Q: At the time the commission was appointed, the Reagan administration was proposing to slash spending on education and dismantle the federal Education Department.
The states must then submit reports on the programs to the federal Education Department.
Evaluating ELLs for Special Needs a Challenge Education Week, August 29, 2012 «Faced with a class action five years ago over the poor quality of its special education services, the San Diego school district hired Thomas Hehir, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were faring.»
Figures released by the Federal Education Department shows that 1062 students were admitted to teaching courses with ATARs under 50, up from 894 in 2015 and in 2016 over half of all teaching students admitted with an ATAR in 2016 had one of less than 70.
In his time working at the federal Education Department, Culatta made strong arguments for the development and sharing of open educational resources, and he encouraged districts to share information about ed - tech policies.
Federal law requires 95 percent participation in the annual assessment of third through eighth graders, and districts that fall below that threshold can face sanctions from their state and the federal Education Department.
On several occasions, Trump has said the federal Education Department should be either seriously cut back or completely eliminated.
King is remembered less kindly in many education circles in New York, where he spent four and a half years as commissioner of education before joining the federal Education Department in early 2015.
Another long - running testing effort is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a project of the federal Education Department.
More than 80 percent of public - school teachers in the country are white, according to the federal Education Department, while a majority of public school students are not.
A better course for states is to defy the federal Education Department's push for a single rating for schools and give every school at least two grades, one for proficiency and one for growth.
In addition to phase one winners Tennessee and Delaware, the federal Education Department will awards grants to Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia.
A report by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, criticized the federal Education Department for taking too long to process applications, which did not give districts and schools enough time to figure out the program's tricky framework.
The 1.5 million - member American Federation of Teachers, meanwhile, blasted the federal Education Department for picking the District of Columbia as a finalist in the wake of news this week that schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee plans to dismiss 302 teachers and school staff, mostly for poor performance, as part of a new teacher - evaluation system that the union says was developed without input from frontline educators.
By selecting two states that have near - universal support from school districts and state and local teachers» unions, and in touting that achievement in press briefings, the federal Education Department is telegraphing the importance of stakeholder buy - in.
On tests administered by the federal Education Department, Massachusetts, which had been above average, rose to No. 1 among the 50 states in math.
The federal Education Department wanted the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to decide whether the old PASS standards were high enough.
The task has proven so difficult that last August, the federal Education Department gave states and districts until the start of the 2013 - 14 school year to have the systems fully implemented for use in teacher compensation and retention decisions.
While states would not be required to prove to the federal Education Department that they are meeting those standards, the Education Department would look at evidence behind the standards themselves.
The new report, by the Institute of Education Sciences (the federal education department's main research arm), mentions the staggering implications of letting the nation's worst high schools continue to fail: Half of all dropouts in the country come from 15 percent of American high schools.
«Each of these represent schools that don't exist today,» said Russlynn H. Ali, chief executive of the XQ Institute and a former assistant secretary for civil rights at the federal Education Department.
In a radio interview, E4E co-founder Evan Stone discusses measures that the federal education department should consider to help bridge the gap between teacher...
The state will still have to report those scores to the federal education department.
The federal education department takes West Virginia to task for not identifying the most common language spoken in the state, other than English.
An effort by the Los Angeles Unified School District to win a high - profile $ 40 - million grant has unraveled after the L.A. teachers union declined to sign the application, a condition for the competition imposed by the federal education department.
The federal Education Department distributes $ 11.5 billion annually to states to help pay for special education and monitors their performance.
In January, the federal Education Department warned New York that it could lose its share of the money if it did not comply.
Since 1991, 4,600 charter schools have opened, educating 1.4 million of the nation's 50 million public - school students, according to the federal Education Department.
Sandy Theis, executive director of ProgressOhio, said of the federal Education Department on Tuesday.
With Republicans controlling the House and Senate, a politically savvy conservative ideologue leading the federal education department, a vice president who earned notoriety in his home state for expanding vouchers, charters, and battling teacher unions, not to mention a president - elect who initially asked creationist Jerry Falwell Jr. to head up his Department of Education, the stars have aligned for market - driven education advocates.
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