Sentences with phrase «federal education mandate»

Whoever wins the 2012 presidential election will set the federal education mandate for states, districts and schools, but the true test will be whether America can successfully close the domestic and international achievement gaps facing U.S. students.

Another five states will receive waivers from federal education mandates under No Child Left Behind, the U.S. Department of Education announced Friday, bringing the total number of waiver states to 24.

So much for the bi-partisan propaganda that ESSA ended federal education mandates.

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There are two caveats about rates on government student loans to keep in mind: First, the formula mandated by the Higher Education Act imposes an 8.25 percent cap for federal direct loans to undergraduates, and 9.5 percent for direct loans to grad student loans.

Special education services for school - age children with disabilities that attend public schools or are homeschooled are mandated by federal law.

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

Launched in September 2013, through a three - year cooperative agreement with Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), the Home Visiting CoIIN works to achieve breakthrough improvements in select process and outcome measures, including benchmark areas legislatively mandated for the Federal Home Visiting program, while reducing or maintaining program costs.

In a decision released Tuesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that competitive cheerleading does not yet meet the standards of a varsity sport under Title IX, the 1972 federal law that mandates equal opportunities for men and women in education and athletics.

The U.S. Department of Education warned states this week that federal school aid may be withheld withheld next year if less than 95 percent of students take government - mandated exams.

MaryEllen Elia, tapped seven months ago to lead New York's education department, now finds herself wedged between a federal mandate to test students and a groundswell of parents in this state who refuse to let their kids take the tests.

Offering some alternatives Cuomo might pursue, Steinberg called for mandate relief, a cap on district pension contributions and rolling back state special education requirements that go beyond federal requirements.

Despite the lack of facts about successfully promoting research integrity, IOM and the meeting participants were certain of one thing — the federal government should not mandate RCR education.

According to Education Week, the NEA released a list of its priorities for improving the law, including support for the teaching profession, sustained federal funding for mandates, and promotion of innovation and best practices.

In the final report of a three - part national assessment of Chapter 1, mandated by the Congress in 1983, an independent research team says that, despite an overhaul of the program's authorizing legislation in 1981, the services it funds and the kinds of students it serves have remained relatively stable since the federal government began financing compensatory education in 1965.

In state after state, ballooning deficits that already have forced layoffs and other belt - tightening across state governments are hitting an education bureaucracy charged with carrying out a growing list of state and federal mandates.

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced this deal for states last week: Prove your student achievement is rising, and I'll give you new flexibility in meeting federal mandates.

Illinois education officials have approved a new set of rules that all teachers must meet, and which the state hopes will bring it into line with new federal mandates aimed at raising teacher quality.

Yet his administration also issued the most influential education report of the past two decades, which ultimately helped pave the way for today's federal mandates aimed at improving the nation's schools.

One telling sign is that the federal government does not impose minimum standards for gifted education, even though the No Child Left Behind law imposes all sorts of mandates to bring up the bottom.

These are the most important, but by far not the only, mandates of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the federal statute that, under various names, has guided special education policy siEducation Act (IDEA), the federal statute that, under various names, has guided special education policy sieducation policy since 1975.

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.

And even though few voters outside education circles know who they are or what they do, the state schools chiefs have increasingly important roles as new federal mandates take hold.

The federal government mandates certain levels of special education services.

A story in the March 31, 2004, issue of Education Week about efforts to meet the test - participation mandate in the federal No Child Left Behind Act included an incorrect statistic («Schools Seek Participation on Test Days»).

Rather than mandating direct federal oversight of schools — telling states what to do — ESEA offered states funding for education programs on a conditional basis.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different incomEducation decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different incomeducation for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

The No Child Left Behind Act imposes the wrong kind of testing on schools, educators need better systems to interpret the test data they get, and the federal government should help pay for the mandates it imposes, according to several advocates who last week addressed a private panel studying the education law and how to improve it.

On top of the daily challenges of education, which include standards - based reform, pressing state and federal mandates, and high stakes accountability, the Meridian educators were facing a year of unfamiliarity in leadership considering a newly - hired superintendent and an administration that is approximately one - third new.

Within the past 6 months, two large federal mandates in education have taken schools in contradictory directions — and both in the name of poor children.

Are state education officials focused on their own state's needs or are they preoccupied with federal mandates?

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says that federal mandates are squeezing some subjects out of the curriculum, and she is working on a project that has a goal of restoring one of them: civics education.

Importantly, the new law also removes the federal mandate — pushed by former Education Secretary Arne Duncan — that states deploy test - based teacher evaluations.

Concerns about burdensome federal regulations, heavy - handed mandates, and the problem with one - size - fits - all education directives were aired and given a respectful hearing.

In her May 12, 2004, legal analysis of the federal No Child Left Behind law, a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Wisconsin Attorney General Peggy A. Lautenschlager raises questions about whether the law and its mandates are adequately funded.

Without these dollars, school districts could have to dip into general education funds to meet federal mandates to provide special education services.

Over half these complaints involve the treatment of children with disabilities; often these involve disagreements over the details of the individualized education plans mandated by federal law.

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Others include the 1975 civil rights law mandating public education for special needs children, the bilingual education act of 1968, and the original civil rights education law, which passed in 1965 as part of President Johnson's war on poverty and mandated federal funding to states, equal access for all children, and higher standards.

A chief concern among the negotiators was to walk a line between those constituencies that wanted to continue a federal mandate on standardized testing for «accountability» purposes and those that didn't want any federal involvement in local education decisions.

While liberals got some «guardrails» around state accountability systems, they failed to get a federal mandate on equalizing school funding — though Obama education secretary John King is now doing his utmost to devise one via executive branch regulations.

The passage of the NCLB is a landmark moment for federal control in education, as, for the first time, Washington was to dictate state standards, while mandating state testing and yearly progress goals — even the breaking down of scores by sub-groups of students.

That's in keeping with the mandate from Congress, which just over a year ago updated the major K - 12 law to expressly limit the federal role in education.

After more than a decade of strict federal mandates and measures of school success, a new education law is inviting...

A look at a forthcoming study by researchers at Western Michigan University and the National Education Policy Center shows that only a third of K12's schools achieved adequate yearly progress, the measurement mandated by federal No Child Left Behind legislation.

Federal and state law mandates that students with disabilities be educated in the «least restrictive environment,» ideally within general education classes with appropriate modifications and support, but half of New Jersey's special - needs children are isolated from their typical peers.

Largely because of the increasing costs of meeting federal mandates on environmental quality, Medicaid, welfare, and other programs, the presidents argued, states have slashed their higher - education budgets.

The agreement to toss whole chunks of the landmark law reflects a rare political convergence, uniting liberals who decried rote testing regimes, conservatives who wanted the federal government out of education, state officials angry about unfunded mandates and powerful teachers unions who said NCLB punished them, rather than giving them needed assistance.

The reauthorization bill approved by the committee contained a slight modification in the measure as reported last month by the education subcommittee, which mandated that states channel 70 percent of federal vocational - education funds to secondary schools and 30 percent to postsecondary institutions.

After more than a decade of strict federal mandates and measures of school success, a new education law is inviting policymakers across the country to rethink «accountability.»

The congressionally mandated report on Title I, the $ 12.7 billion federal program designed to improve education for disadvantaged students, was released April 5.