Sentences with phrase «federal education law since»

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The Department of Education has seen the surge in waiver applications because its Office for Civil Rights has «exceeded its legal authority» by taking the position since 2013 that the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination applies to transgender students, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory Baylor said.

Since the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the first law that articulated a federal role in enforcing the rights of disabled people, the laws surrounding the education of children with special needs have evolved.

Since Bolling v. Sharpe, a Supreme Court decisions that came out the same day as Brown v. Board of Education, the 5th amendment's Due Process clause has been interpreted by the courts to also imply a guarantee of equal protection under federal law.

For almost the first time since the passage in 1975 of a landmark federal law entitling all disabled children to an education, educators and lawmakers in a number of states are looking for ways to control rising special - education costs.

(The New York Times called the state waiver strategy «the most sweeping use of executive authority to rewrite federal education law» since the 1960s.)

Although the claim of «unfunded mandate» has been asserted almost since the day NCLB was signed into law, School District of the City of Pontiac et al. v. Spellings constitutes the first major legal challenge to the historic education law to be filed in federal court.

Caught in the maelstrom, the Obama administration was unable to defend against a bipartisan move on Capitol Hill to end waivers altogether by enacting, for the first time since 2002, a new federal education law, ESSA.

Despite statutory and regulatory tweaks from time to time, our approach hasn't really changed since the federal law was passed more than thirty - five years ago, even as so much else in K — 12 education has changed in important ways.

Though many states have special education laws of their own — a few of them as innovative as Florida's McKay Scholarship Program --- and multiple federal statutes influence how society does (and doesn't) treat disabled individuals, both in school and beyond, the principal policy engine in the K — 12 realm remains the federal IDEA statute, which has not been reauthorized since 2004 and — as many others have noted — is due for a top - to - bottom review.

The long - term study on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, released last week by the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency, looks at the law's implementation since its passage in November 1975.

Washington — Although more than three months have passed since Education Department officials announced their intention to seek major changes in the federal law governing the education of handicapped children, the Administration has thus far failed to send to the Congress specific proposals to amendEducation Department officials announced their intention to seek major changes in the federal law governing the education of handicapped children, the Administration has thus far failed to send to the Congress specific proposals to amendeducation of handicapped children, the Administration has thus far failed to send to the Congress specific proposals to amend the law.

In the two - and - a-half weeks since President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced ways in which states could overhaul No Child Left Behind without Congress's consent, lawmakers have introduced several bills that would alter the sweeping federal educaEducation Arne Duncan announced ways in which states could overhaul No Child Left Behind without Congress's consent, lawmakers have introduced several bills that would alter the sweeping federal educationeducation law.

Not only will that help the state improve its performance in the teachers» scoring category, but it will help improve its scores related to buy - in since the law doesn't just apply to those districts choosing to participate in the state's Race to the Top plan, said Nina Lopez, the state education department's director for the federal recovery act.

The latest results on the most important nationwide math test show that student achievement grew faster during the years before the Bush - era No Child Left Behind law, when states were dominant in education policy, than over the years since, when the federal law has become a powerful force in classrooms.

This is the final year of the awards since the funding for this grant program is not included in the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 education law.

That harmony has since ended and reauthorization of the federal education law is now seven years overdue.

It is possible that since the start of major federal involvement in the mid 1960s, no one person or law — not even George W. Bush or the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)-- has centralized education power as much as Obama has.

I draw on quantitative and qualitative data, including an original data set of all federal Title IX complaints filed with the Department of Education since 1994, lawsuits that transformed the meaning of Title IX, and in - depth case studies of the law's application at Yale University and the University of California - Berkeley.

Since I spent much of my career seeing how the sausage gets made in the education sector, I try to keep a watchful eye on Tennessee's efforts to provide equitable education and accountability to low - income kids and students of color, especially as the state complies with the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Especially since the 2002 enactment of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the subsequent release of regulations implementing that federal law, officials in state departments of education have been scrambling to come up with NCLB - required evidence that their accountability tests are suitably aligned with their state's content standards — that is, with their state's curricular aims.

Just as importantly, the college - and career - ready standards requirements could be considered a violation of federal law banning the Department of Education from creating national curricula — especially since the requirements essentially endorse the newly - developed Common Core State Standards.