Sentences with phrase «federal education programs»

The initiative's detailed prescription also represents a sea change for federal education programs.

With $ 12.3 billion in federal funds authorized for fiscal year 2004, it is the largest federal education program for elementary and secondary schools.

Sadly, this proposal eliminates several important Federal education programs.

However, we remain disappointed to see such deep cuts proposed to key federal education programs, such as the elimination of Title II funding.

This bill would help ensure federal education programs focused on teacher training and public reporting also apply to these learners.

The bill funds federal education programs at $ 2.9 billion below President Obama's FY13 budget request and $ 1.8 billion above the FY12 education budget; it is a marked departure from the Senate's recently approved appropriations bill, which maintains the aforementioned grant competitions.

He was eighty - eight... He wrote scores of articles on education law and served as the president of the National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators.»

In addition, the legislation caps funding for federal education programs at FY12 levels and limits future funding increases to the rate of inflation.

The first proposal would reinstitute provisions of the Emergency School Aid Act (esaa), which the Reagan Administration last year combined with other federal education programs into block grants to the states.

One of the sole pillars of the public education plan from President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos is to divert $ 20 billion from existing federal education programs to create a nationwide school voucher program.

Washington — The deficit - reduction measure approved by the Senate last week could threaten the future of many federal education programs, according to education lobbyists and opponents of the bill.

The automatic cuts, which are set to take effect January 2, 2013, will slash federal education programs by 8.2 percent, or more than $ 4 billion.

Burke blames the national trend of lower scores on «increasing federal intervention over the past half - century... the resulting burden of complying with federal programs, rules, and regulations, have created a parasitic relationship with federal education programs and states, and is straining the time and resources of local schools.

As currently proposed, most federal education programs would not be impacted by the spending reductions until after the 2012 - 13 school year, according to a memo to state school chiefs from Anthony Miller, a deputy secretary of education.

Sen. Tom Harkin, Democratic chairman of the committee that oversees federal education programs, agreed to the deal, one of those sources close to the negotiations told CNN.

Another unintended effect of Risk was the proliferation of federal education programs shortly after its publication, as policymakers struggled mightily to respond to the report and its recommendations.

In some ways, the XQ competition resembled Race to the Top (RttT), the $ 4.3 billion federal education program tucked into Barack Obama's 2009 economic stimulus package.

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D - Conn., and other self - styled New Democrats released a legislative blueprint last week that would scale back the number of federal education programs while raising overall spending for them.

Likewise, the department's Planning and Evaluation Service (PES), tasked with evaluating the performance of federal education programs like Title I, has a mixed record of developing sound and timely information on program quality.

As policymakers look to redesign or replace many of the basic federal education programs established during the 1960s, they face mounds of Department - produced research to guide them, but much of it is of limited value.

Another independent agency needs to be created to initiate and oversee serious efforts to develop effective educational strategies and evaluate federal education programs - a National Center for Development and Evaluation, overseen by a commissioner appointed for a six - year term.

Washington — In response to strong criticism from Republicans and Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee last week, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell admitted that «when you reduce funding [for federal education programs], you sacrifice as far as quality is concerned.»

Peter Muirhead, a former education official who played a key role in creating federal education programs, died of cancer Feb. 12 in Stuart, Fla..

Yet the Administration has succeeded in persuading the allegedly skeptical, tough - minded reporters in Washington that RttT is the biggest federal education program ever mounted.

Illich even took on Lyndon Johnson's new federal education program, Title I, then the new cure for education woes.

Thanks in large measure to a funding formula that pumps some money into the vast majority of school districts, the 30 - year - old effort to improve the education of disadvantaged students is one of the most popular federal education programs.

Federal education programs rebounded from two lean years when President Clinton signed a fiscal 1997 spending bill on Sept. 30.

«As Congress now moves forward with the remaining work of the FY14 appropriations process, we urge the Appropriations Committees to write funding bills that prioritize federal education programs that are crucial to helping our most disadvantaged students, specifically Title I and grants for students with disabilities.

The President's budget would cut federal education programs across the board and use the money to spend about $ 400 million to expand charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools, and offer another $ 1 billion to push public schools to favor charter and private schools.

As one of the first federal education programs, Impact Aid was created in 1950 to address the absence of a local property tax base to fund the education of military - connected students on installations.

In 2009, federal education programs received an unprecedented $ 100 billion in economic stimulus funds to help states address their budget deficits, forestall teacher layoffs, and promote education reform.

A more visible presence in Congress and in the federal courts produced tangible results in strengthening the federal E-rate program, winning school boards relief from onerous federal mandates in school meal programs, and reversing some of the across - the - board budget cuts that hurt federal education programs.

It authorized a federally funded educational program, which is the single largest precollege federal education program of its kind.

We have a president who, for political reasons, can not throw his full support behind the only federal education program in the nation's history that is constitutional, successful, and cost - effective.

Catapult Learning is looking forward to sponsoring this year's Florida Association of Federal Education Program Administrator's Fall 2015 Forum on September 16th through September 18th, 2015 at the Omni Jacksonville Hotel.

It will cause strict adherence to the dumbed down federal education program.

Their bills would «fix» NCLB by strengthening state accountability systems, improving teacher and principal professional development programs, combining federal education programs and increasing the number of charter schools, they said on a conference call with reporters on Wednesday.

The House bill — H. R. 5, the «Student Success Act» — would streamline federal education programs and includes language that would allow Title I dollars to follow students to public schools of their choice — a deal - breaker for House Democrats.

He does support cutting down on the federal budget (meaning federal education programs); for instance, he once complained, «An increasing deficit and an ever - growing 19 trillion dollar national debt, despite a volley of tax increases, prove this administration is committed to spending us into oblivion.»

One might be able to infer he plans on applying this tendency federal education programs, but this is not confirmed explicitly on his site.

Moreover, the House's three ESEA bills don't address the topic at all, and in fact, threaten support for a comprehensive education by eliminating several federal education programs focused on subjects beyond reading and math.

The omnibus bill also includes funding increases for other federal education programs important to principals, as well as additional resources for training to address school violence and for improving mental health services in schools.

He recently proposed a plan to, as he put it, reprioritize $ 20 billion from existing federal education programs to a voucher - like school choice effort.

Knowledge Alliance thus supports the following appropriations levels for these programs that are not only evidence - based, but drive the continued growth of an evidence base for many federal education programs.