Sentences with phrase «federal education initiatives such»
driven by local educator needs, including implementation support for NYS and federal education initiatives such as: APPR, CCSS and Data - driven instruction.
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Key members of the House education committee are drafting legislation that would fold 11 federal education programs, including major initiatives such as Goals 2000, into a $ 1.4 billion block grant designed to spur reforms.
Noting the multitude of players and government agencies involved, Crow described current federal teacher recruitment initiatives in place, such as federal scholarships and loans, as well as programs ensuring accountability, such as the Higher Education Act Title II Report Card.
But the federal initiatives around education seldom take such a holistic approach; instead, competing departments engage in bureaucratic turf wars that, while fun within the Beltway, are tragic for children in our neighborhoods.
On higher education, California and the administration found much more common ground with initiatives such as the expansion of Pell grants, simplifying the federal application for student financial aid, and its crackdown on for - profit colleges that did not deliver on their promises.
Such a revamped ESEA should fix the current law's flaws; align with state and local education initiatives; and guide subsequent revisions to other federal programs that support students, such as special education and career - technical educatSuch a revamped ESEA should fix the current law's flaws; align with state and local education initiatives; and guide subsequent revisions to other federal programs that support students, such as special education and career - technical educatsuch as special education and career - technical education.
The push, heavily motivated by federal funding initiatives such as the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top program, and major education reform philanthropies, seeks to accelerate the rate of improvements in education and the number of United States students succeeding in school, career and life.
After interest has been expressed in seeing this policy spread to other areas of federal research funding, such as education, it appears that Elsevier, the leading corporate publisher of scholarly journals, and other publishers have pushed for the Research Works Act to put an end to such initiatives (judging by Elsevier's campaign support for the bipartisan sponsors of the bill, as Peter Suber documents in a website devoted to the bill).