Sentences with phrase «federal education officials»

«Everyone has had their spots where having problems meeting their aims with this,» said Ferguson, a former federal education official under former President Clinton.

And although the original NCLB waiver doesn't expire until August, a state Education Department official said federal education officials have given states guidance essentially saying they won't be held accountable for parts of the law that are sunsetting.

R. Herbert met with federal education officials in Washington to urge passage of the waiver.

In her 2013 book, Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch — an education historian and former federal education official who originally supported but later became a critic of reforms like No Child Left Behind — cites surprising evidence that a nation's higher position on an international ranking of test scores actually predicted lower per capita GDP decades later, compared with countries whose test scores ranked worse.

The vote in Congress represents a referendum of sorts on the work of U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who has wielded more power than any other federal education official in the nation's history.

Sentance told board members he and other state education staffers held a phone conference last week with Acting Assistant Secretary of Education, Jason Botel, and other federal education officials to ask for permission to stop using the ACT Aspire.

A sharply worded report released June 23 takes states to task for calculating graduation rates in ways that it contends yield artificially low estimates of the nation's dropout problem — and it upbraids federal education officials for letting them do it.

Reading scores for the United States on an international assessment of student skills have been invalidated because of major errors in the printing of the test, in what a top federal education official called an «embarrassment» for government officials and the private contractor responsible for administering the exam.

Reform efforts went into overdrive after federal education officials added T.C. Williams to a list of «persistently lowest achieving» schools in March 2010.

But Bennett told the board he felt, given federal education officials» feedback on the application, the changes were appropriate.

Elia said she's talking to federal education officials about whether there will be sanctions against school districts where a large number of students skipped the tests.

Federal education officials made the list of schools under investigation public for the first time after the White House promised on Tuesday to offer more transparency on the issue.

Student achievement gains in the United States have been substantial and promising, but more work needs to be done, writes former federal education official Marshall S. Smith.

Weaver: Although federal education officials claim that NCLB is necessary to close the achievement gaps, the reality is that the law is not doing what it's supposed to do.

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A major extra-legal policy of the Obama administration has been its decision to let states ignore the nation's largest federal education law, duly passed by elected representatives in Congress, in exchange for submitting themselves directly to the whims of unelected federal education officials.

Educrats all over the country have begun to persuade federal education officials to grant waivers from NCLB, adopting the position that it is unfair to label schools as failing when the performance gaps between ethnic groups are so wide and when minority children lag so far behind their White, more affluent peers.

Less than a month after federal education officials affirmed the legality of single - sex education in public schools, a report says that proof of the benefits of single - sex classes is insubstantial.

ESSA pushes decision - making power about most aspects of accountability from federal education officials to the states and localities.

Education Minnesota has offered its own slate of reforms, which differ from those sought by federal education officials.

Federal education officials cautioned that they can not say the scores in Maryland are significantly different from those in 2011.

But in a letter to the Indiana Department of Education, federal education officials expressed concern that the «super-subgroup» approach might leave behind some poor and minority students.

Before federal education officials exempted Indiana from the national accountability law, schools tracked the performance of students in every socioeconomic and ethnic «subgroup» in their building.

But in subsequent weeks, federal education officials found a loophole for the state, allowing Montana to reset its testing targets and help 155 schools avoid being designated as low - performing schools.

When state officials moved forward anyway, Barnes says she filed a complaint this month with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, asking federal education officials to bar North Carolina's reforms.

Four Democratic senators are sharply criticizing a conservative think tank's efforts to bring climate change skepticism into the nation's public schools as «industry funded» and «possibly fraudulent» and demanding to know whether federal education officials have been in contact with the group.

Federal education officials tour successful turnaround schools in Memphis» iZone, including New Leader - led Cherokee Elementary, reports the Commercial Appeal.

While federal education officials played no role in developing the proposed standards, the Obama administration has been quick to offer inducements for participation.

In Massachusetts, a years - long battle over eliminating a cap on expanding public charter schools will become even more heated thanks to incoming Gov. Charlie Baker, who has signaled that he will support reformers on this issue through his appointment of former New Schools Venture Fund boss - turned - federal education official Jim Peyser as the state's new superintendent.

In addition to Indiana's waiver, federal education officials approved applications from Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

As we've reported, federal education officials echoed the concerns of civil rights groups who felt the «No Child» waivers undercut the intent of the original law — to close the socio - economic achievement gap.

Federal education officials planned a second meeting Wednesday to hear from opponents of the guidance.

Although a final state plan for ESSA isn't due to federal education officials until the fall, she said early proposals are «definitely looking to be a strong and bold change for the state.»

Negotiations with federal education officials continued Tuesday after the state bolstered its plan late last week to meet some of the demands of the U.S. Department of Education, which has already granted waiversto 41 other states and Washington, D.C.

A different group of Minnesota teachers and parents argued for rescinding it at a meeting with federal education officials last November.

Congressional Democrats and civil rights groups have been waving red flags over the Obama administration's plans to waive key requirements of the No Child Left Behind act for states, and it looks like federal education officials have noticed.

«It's bait and switch,» said Diane Ravitch, a historian, author and former federal education official who is also an active member of the state's left - leaning Working Families Party.

«I'm concerned that states, with a combination of state politics and inertia, will not... do aggressive interventions for students in struggling schools,» said Chad Aldeman, a former federal education official who is now with Bellwether Education Partners, a Boston - based consulting firm.

The Superintendent says federal education officials have already indicated that they're pleased with Indiana's progress.

Ms. Lowery said Maryland plans to apply to federal education officials for a waiver that would allow it to postpone — she stressed the word postpone — use of the tests on educator evaluations for one year.

Her day began with a speech from a top federal education official; it will end with a tutorial on the No Child Left Behind Act.

Supporters of the new policy can play all the semantic games they want (and they are apparently playing them quite successfully and persuasively with federal education officials), the new standards will slow progress towards closing the achievement gap.

That may change, however: Under President Donald Trump, federal education officials are looking at dropping the watch list as part of its move toward a more free - market approach to education, said Tyler.

President Clinton has appointed Mary Frances Berry, a former federal education official, to chair the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Native American leaders pressed members of Congress and federal education officials this week to provide relief from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act that they see as obstacles to running the language - immersion schools they need to keep their languages from disappearing.

A long - awaited inspection of the federal Reading First program found today that federal education officials may have steered the grant - application process for the $ 1 billion - a-year initiative to ensure that particular reading programs and instructional approaches were widely used by participating schools, and that others were essentially shut out.

EW: Federal education officials say NCLB is a necessary tool to help close the achievement gaps.