Sentences with phrase «federal sanctions»

There are no specific state or federal sanctions for opening or not opening charters which have received grant funds.

But that high road is a risky one, since their schools would face federal sanctions should they fail to make the grade.

If states and localities are competing to receive federal funds and / or avoid federal sanctions, as Glazer describes states seeking to make AYP, then competition will produce a race to the bottom.

His plan to «grow industrial manufacturing and high - tech jobs through enforcement of intellectual property and enforcement of the is standing order for compliance with federal sanctions against products from other countries like China,» can potentially end poverty, crime, the heroin epidemic, and even the Syrian refugee crisis, Kravtsov said.

This crisis has been ignited by the deaths of research subjects at two prestigious academic medical centers and by federal sanctions levied against a host of excellent academic institutions.

Governor doesn't expect federal sanctions for school districts with high levels of students opting out of standardized tests.

An Iranian - Turkish gold dealer hired two Trump confidants — former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former U.S. AG Michael Mukasey — to help defend him against U.S. charges of using his network of companies to circumvent federal sanctions on Iran.

Brownstein also fails to point out that districts that repeatedly circumvent the letter of the law will eventually come under more rigorous state sanctions and possibly federal sanctions.

This exacerbated the inherent risk - aversion and «box - checking» request for proposal processes in state education offices and school districts by adding federal sanctions to the list of risks they already faced in their procurement processes.

Lawmakers in both parties hope that this time a combination of tough federal sanctions, more public reporting of student performance, and an aggressive White House will be enough to prompt change in the schoolhouse.

As time goes on and the better schools are pulled more and more into federal sanctions - we're going to look to deemphasize the notion that these schools are failing,» said Rich Zeiger, chief deputy to state schools chief Tom Torlakson.

Three Seattle schools that were on the earlier federal sanctions list — Concord and T.T. Minor Elementary and Madrona K - 8 school — apparently have moved off it based on their improving WASL scores, Seattle administrators said.

Torlakson, a strong critic of NCLB, has asked Duncan to freeze federal sanctions that soon would cover 80 percent of California schools for failing to meet requirements that all students become proficient in reading and math by 2014.

After asserting that «there is little to commend NCLB,» she made clear that any national standards would have to be disconnected from federal sanctions because «states and localities» — not Washington — «are closer to the schools and likelier to come up with workable reforms.»

And schools would no longer face federal sanctions if they fail to make what was called «adequate yearly progress» — a benchmark that critics have long called unrealistic and onerous.

And they will give school systems the opportunity to collect data that they can use to guide improvement in areas such as parental engagement and special education, secure in the knowledge that the data will not be used to label school performance and trigger federal sanctions.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he doubts that there will be federal sanctions for schools that have high rates of students who boycotted standardized tests this spring.

The law's overly prescriptive approach created a perverse incentive for states to lower academic expectations in order to avoid federal sanctions.

Kremer says if even a small percentage of children, such as 5 percent, boycott the English and math exams, then schools could risk federal sanctions or funding penalties.

Mr. Martin and the executives on the Civic Committee of the Chicago Commercial Club, who blame the teachers union for contributing to academic failure by imposing restrictions on teachers and administrators alike, used the threat of federal sanctions to pressure the city to put many schools into private hands, outside union jurisdiction.

Governor Cuomo says he doubts that there will be federal sanctions for schools that have high rates of students who boycotted standardized tests this spring.

Kremer says if even a small percentage of children, 5 percent, boycott the English and math exams, then schools could risk federal sanctions or funding penalties.

Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch last week told the New York Times that there will not be federal sanctions, but did not rule out withholding money in the future if the state found district officials were encouraging opt outs.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he doubts that there will be federal sanctions for schools that have high rates of students who boycotted standardized tests this spring.

The PLCs call themselves an alternative to traditional schools and distance themselves from the credit - recovery factories that many districts have opened to boost their graduation rates ahead of state and federal sanctions.

The stimulus money ran out and, as 2014 drew closer, more and more schools became subject to federal sanctions for failing to meet NCLB's goal of 100 percent proficiency.

Those that consistently fail to improve could face state and federal sanctions.

In a letter sent to superintendents and heads of charter schools on Friday, they implied that California will take the path of least resistance to federal sanctions, focusing instead on the state's effort to revise its own accountability system, using the Academic Performance Index.

California's long - shot NCLB waiver is all but dead, but state officials are moving to soften the impacts of federal sanctions that are set to hit more and better performing districts.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) strips the power of rewards and sanctions from the U.S. Department of Education in implementing Title I. Gone are any federal sanctions or rewards intended to influence states» decisions about their content standards, assessments, and teacher - evaluation systems.