Sentences with phrase «federal education officials continued»

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.

Not exact matches

At the end of the day, no matter what 50 state departments of education discover in the many complex pages of federal legislation and then promulgate as official policy to local districts and schools, teachers may continue as they please.

[12] State education officials may have modestly more flexibility in some areas, but the federal government continues to set the agenda.

Washington — Continuing a trend documented in 1987, the number of federal awards for independent research in education declined in the past two years, as did the amount of federal resources devoted to evaluating education programs, a General Accounting Office official reported last week.

In a local education stakeholder discussion on state assessment plans, Sen. Jon Tester (D - MT) was «hopeful federal officials will continue to have a local dialog as required by his amendment» under ESSA.

Although four years have passed since Congress approved the last major rewrite of the Americans with Disabilities Act, federal education officials are continuing their efforts to further clarify the 2008 Amendments Act» legislation for local school districts.»

Even as political leaders in both red and blue states continue to back away from the standards — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the latest example — the hottest battles have shifted to the local level, where education officials are staging public revolts against state and federal mandates to administer Common Core exams.