Sentences with phrase «federal programs align»

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The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Education and Communications portfolio includes products, events, and programs aligned with priority areas identified by the federal Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education (CoSTEM).

• State and federal programs like CCSS, RTTT, and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia (groups of states who had adopted CCSS and agreed to work together on developing aligned, shared assessments) slowed down the market for content, assessments, and platforms in some ways.

SEAs had little choice but to align their organizational charts to federal programs.

Initially funded at $ 650 million, i3 allowed school districts, charter schools, and non-profit organizations working in partnership with one of those entities to apply for grants to support innovative programs aligned with one of four broadly defined federal priorities (e.g., supporting effective teachers and principals or improving the use of data).

As Congress prepares the FY 2017 budget priorities and begins to align education funding to ESSA programs, principals also urged Congress to fund federal education programs so that schools have the ability to improve instruction and meet the learning needs of every student.

Second, we have identified our monitoring of state and federal programs such as IDEA, Title I, and civil rights as a body of work that can become more aligned to the turnaround practices as well.

Steve oversees the development, support, and implementation of programs and services designed to support our primary member groups (chiefs, deputies, federal liaisons, communications directors and public information officers) and ensures all membership events and services are aligned with state priorities.

The Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) includes a variety of tests aligned to Kansas» content standards, which help educators and policymakers evaluate student learning and meet the requirements for federal and state accountability.

This fact sheet describes a joint commitment from multiple federal departments to align supports and program delivery to promote college access and completion.

Rest assured that, should policy proposals be brought forward at the federal level that would attempt to undermine the rights of students - be they proposals to end protections for students created under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, eliminate protections for LGBT youth, or the creation of a registry targeted at the families of Muslim students, to name but three possible proposals aligning with statements made during the presidential campaign - CCSA and our hundreds of member schools across the state stand ready to partner with legislators in California to prevent any such threatening proposals from being enacted or enforced.

Such a revamped ESEA should fix the current law's flaws; align with state and local education initiatives; and guide subsequent revisions to other federal programs that support students, such as special education and career - technical education.

The federal government should restructure current Title V block grant funds instead as matching grants to states to expand access to high - quality PK programs and aligned PK teacher and curricular standards with elementary grades.

First established as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (otherwise known as the «stimulus» legislation), and now continued as a regular Department program in the fiscal 2012 year, i3 was intended to shift the innovation ecosystem toward greater quantity, rigor and diffusion of innovation, to thread innovation into the way the Department itself works (including the use of a «field scan» mechanism) and to align funding for the «supply» of innovation with the «demand» the U.S. Department of Education had created through other federal programs.

At the state policy level, 46 states have adopted leadership standards for principals, and many have begun aligning them to all components of a school leader's career continuum.125 In addition, recently more than half of states, through a mix of state and federal initiatives, have passed laws to strengthen the evaluation process for principals.3 AAnd under the federal Race to the Top grant, states such as Louisiana and Rhode Island implemented new requirements for principal preparation programs.

* Se habla español [divider style =» 0 ″][headline style =» 1 ″ align =» left»] TEACHER CANCELLATION [/ headline] If you have a loan from the Federal Perkins Loan Program you might be eligible for loan cancellation for full - time teaching at a low - income school, or for teaching in certain subject areas.

Parental leave has been increased to 62 consecutive weeks within the 78 ‑ week period after the child's birth or, in the case of an adoptive parent, after the child is placed with the parent — to align with the extended federal parental Employment Insurance program (i.e. up to 18 months of leave for a birth mother)

The programs align with the Federal Organizational Sentencing Guidelines» criteria on what constitutes an effective compliance program as well as adhere to the corporate governance requirements of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002.

This would align with the federal Employment Insurance program;

Developed MSA's first school - wide Title 1 program by authoring curriculum requirements, compliance controls, and standards aligned with federal Title I program regulations

• Competent and self - reliant early childhood educator with exceptional skills in providing safe and developmentally appropriate programs that are aligned with the school's directives, and those of federal and state initiatives.

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The Second Step SEL Program aligns with several federal funding sources.

Aligning early childhood programs to create a seamless trajectory of high - quality, well - funded child care, Head Start, and preschool programs for children from birth to age 5 should be a federal and state policy goal.

In our program and policy work, NBCDI supports federal, state and local efforts to provide increasing numbers of low - income children with access to quality early education and care; efforts to create a strong and supported early childhood workforce; and efforts to promote developmentally and culturally - appropriate standards, curriculum, instruction and assessment that are aligned within and across the early childhood to early grades continuum.

States and the federal government should make it easier for parents to navigate the array of programs that can help families by aligning and streamlining services.

Policy makers should both mandate and provide necessary resources and training to enable local and state programs to coordinate services, monitor performance measures and track participant outcomes using criteria aligned with federal benchmarks.

Recent federal grant programs have required or emphasized the development of kindergarten entry assessments: the Race To the Top Early Learning Challenge Act, the Preschool Development and Expansion grants, and a research grant to three consortia of states to develop appropriate, valid kindergarten readiness assessments.Children who transition to kindergarten from Head Start will be assessed in kindergarten, and how Head Start programs align to the state's definition of kindergarten readiness will impact choices of curricula and teaching practices, formative assessments, and other supports for children in the preschool years.

In addition, these policy changes will help align Maryland's investment criteria with requirements for the federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, which makes an unprecedented $ 1.5 billion available to support states» home visiting systems.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — the government - sponsored enterprises (GSEs)-- are issuing new, clear guidelines to their mortgage servicers that will align and consolidate existing short sales programs into one standard short sale program.