Sentences with phrase «federal education policy»

Can it return to favor in federal education policy in 2013?

She regularly speaks on federal education policy to school leaders across the country.

I've already explained what last night's election results will mean for federal education policy.

Have questions about federal education policy in the new administration?

In this new year, there's a lot to know about what's happening with federal education policy and how it affects your state, your classroom, and you.

It is not a requirement for states to follow federal education policies.

But her intended target appeared to be the role that current federal education policy plays in the classroom.

It makes an important point: Those who have sat at a school board table and addressed real - world issues are especially well qualified to shape rational, workable federal education policy.

You can take action now to support federal education policies that improve public education and support school principals.

The financial incentives for states to implement federal education policies have been scaled back, leaving education policy decisions to be made by the state, and at times, local policymakers.

Yet federal education policy seems blind to all this.

It creates a long - term federal education policy that gives states more flexibility, encourages innovation, and requires accountability.

Thankfully, school library programs and school librarian positions are now part of federal education policy and law.

That's a shame, because there is a small - c conservative vision for federal education policy that has real merit.

And the law does make some significant changes in federal education policy.

by Jack Jennings Jan 23, 2013 federal education policy, private schools / vouchers, Race to the Top, school reform 0 Comments

From where this publication sits, the gambit, as much driven by the arrogant desire of President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary Arne Duncan to put their full stamp on federal education policy as the lack of movement by Congress on its reauthorization, is absolutely counterproductive to reform.

In many respects, the debate over federal education policy is a question of trust, and the Republicans now running Congress trust the states.

A lot is up in the air for the future of teacher evaluation as members of the U.S. House and Senate hash out new federal education policy this fall.

Duncan's tenure so far is a referendum on how federal education policy is made, and the goals it serves.

What does the appointment of Betsy DeVos mean for future federal education policy and initiatives?

Veteran Washington education operative Christopher Cross chronicles the making of federal education policy from the Truman administration to the present.

As Senators of the Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee debated federal education policy at an abbreviated hearing Wednesday morning, two coalitions of education and civil rights groups released letters poking holes in the bill while the nation's two largest teachers» unions released notes containing partial endorsements.

In this letter, Holcombe explained that Vermont disagrees with federal education policy around standardized testing.

And since most education policy doesn't impact the children of Congresspersons (they are much more likely to attend private schools or public schools who haven't been sanctioned under Federal education policy than the children of the average voting American) it's a place where Congress can show America that they know how to work together without being held accountable for anything.

Unfortunately, he failed to highlight the largest shortcoming in federal education policy today, and that is the need to reform and reauthorize No Child Left Behind.

That's true even when federal education policies have demonstrably failed to produce «equal outcomes» across different student groups and seem, instead, to be widening the gaps.

Still, there's a lot that's not clear, so it's going to be important for the press, and for the Senate HELP committee, to ask a lot of questions to understand where she and the President who chose her plan to take federal education policy.

If those in our nation's capital want to modify federal education policy along lines preferred by the public at large, they will enact a law that resembles the bipartisan bill passed by the Senate.

As the education blogosphere turns its attention from Secretary Duncan's Race to the Top fund to his Investing in Innovation fund, economist Eric Hanushek offers his take on what federal education policy can and can not accomplish (and what NCLB got right and how it could be improved) in an interview on John Merrow's blog.

One area where Trump's administration could significantly impact federal education policy is through the remaining vacancy on the Supreme Court.

The DC Learning Lab opened with a panel discussion that examined the strengths and challenges of federal education policy implementation.

Closing the achievement gap between the United States» disadvantaged students and the rest of our students has been the major focus of federal education policy since 1965, when the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed.

But as with so many of Kline's proposals for scaling back federal education policy, much of what his No Child reauthorization plan is not worth the paper it is written upon.

None of this, by the way, includes her general unwillingness to embrace the civil rights mission of the Department of Education as laid out in the Every Student Succeeds Act and other federal education policies.

The Principal Ambassador Fellowship program was launched by USED in 2013 to forge deeper connections between federal officials and school practitioners, to provide excellent principals with opportunities to learn about the federal policymaking process, and, ultimately, to strengthen federal education policies and programs to better reflect the experience and expertise of great school leaders.

New Talk could have put together a truly valuable forum on federal education policy if it had included all perspectives.

Elia said the only thing she knows for sure is that state's now will have to enact what she called a substantially different federal education policy, approved a little over a year ago.

Congress, not the White House, will be the place to look for leadership on major federal education policies in 2017.

In other words, Common Core is not the first federal education policy that has been demonized by the political opposition.

Where Secretary Duncan's waivers get complicated is the hodgepodge of laws, regulations, and initiatives that comprise federal education policy today, again because of congressional inaction.

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Federal education policy plays into the egalitarian sentiment by prodding the states to narrow the achievement gap between their lowest and highest performers.