Sentences with phrase «federal education programs focused»

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.

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While the federal immigration system has been criticized for putting emphasis on post-secondary education when judging candidates as economic immigrants, Manitoba has designed its nominee program to focus on skill shortages in its own labour market.

Numerous federal agencies that historically have focused their minority recruitment and retention efforts on universities, including NSF, NIH, and the Department of Education, are now implementing or expanding programs to fortify science education at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advancedEducation, are now implementing or expanding programs to fortify science education at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advancededucation at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advanced degrees.

The hearing scheduled for May 10 will focus on the Department of Education's oversight of the $ 1 billion - a-year initiative to improve reading achievement in disadvantaged schools, and the steps being taken to prevent conflicts of interest in Reading First and other federal programs, according to a letter to Ms. Spellings from Education and Labor...

At a time when federal education policy is focused on getting all students to proficiency, and budget shortfalls have led to cutbacks in all sorts of special programs, the best and the brightest are mostly left to fend for themselves.

At a time when other federal and state policies are focused on achievement, school results, and the narrowing of learning gaps, why do we carve out a huge subpart of K — 12 education for a program that's still centered on inputs and services?

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Teles cited a paper by Sheara Krvaric and Melissa Junge, in which they argued that «the multiplicity of overlapping and bewildering federal programs for K - 12 education creates a compliance mentality among school leaders, making them wary of new ideas and pushing them to focus on staying on the right side of the rules rather than on improving their schools.»

Finding that «local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs,» Smarick urges policymakers to heed the lessons learned from that experience and to focus on reducing the gulf between reforms promised and reforms delivered when it comes to the Department of Education's $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top fund.

Students would be much better off if policymakers and education leaders were to focus on student achievement results as a way to assess teacher quality overall, and to assess the quality of teacher preparation programs supported by federal and state dollars.

Unlike previous federal programs, which tended to focus on particular problems, they noted, the Bush proposal offers a comprehensive strategy for achieving the national education goals set last year.

Rubinstein and McCarthy write in the Working Paper that «over the past 16 years, federal efforts to improve public education have focused on market reforms like charter schools and voucher programs.

The primary focus of ESSA is the shift from federal oversight of education initiatives (think Common Core, Race to the Top, etc.) back to state - level programs.

A great deal of focus, both at the federal and state level, has been placed on expanding access to early education programs — including preschool and kindergarten — as a way to close achievement gaps between student subgroups.

In the next 60 days, the Indiana Department of Education must prove to the federal government the new standards passed at the end of April meet their «college and career ready» requirements and that the monitor program is properly intervening with Focus and Priority schools.

It will also share information about the Teacher Incentive Fund, a federal program that helps high - need schools develop and implement performance - based teacher and principal compensation systems, and Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which focuses on preparing, training, and recruiting high - quality teachers and principals.

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NCTR bridges the gap between practice and policy by focusing on state and federal level education reform initiatives, financial sustainability, and program scale.

-- On the higher education front, the blueprint calls for deep cuts to federal student aid programs, which the administration describes as part of a «focus on streamlining and simplifying funding for college.»

New York, NY — The Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor - H) appropriations bill could provide critical funding and much - needed stability for federal programs that focus on improving leading, teaching, and learning in our nation's public schools.

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These programs, funded with state and federal resources, focus on several critical areas: reducing child abuse and neglect and improving family health, education and economic security.

EHS is the only federal program specifically focused on the early education experiences of low - income babies and toddlers.