Sentences with phrase «first federal education programs»

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.

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(The rest of this story is based on the first few hours of today's markup of the bill, which covers NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the science programs at the Department of Energy, and federal science education policy.

The $ 6 billion funding for the federal Reading First program has helped more students «crack the code» to identify letters and words, but it has not had an impact on reading comprehension among 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in participating schools, according to one of the largest and most rigorous studies ever undertaken by the U.S. Department of Education.

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...

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has agreed to testify before the House education committee about charges of mismanagement and conflict of interest in the Reading First program, in a follow - up to a contentious April 20 hearing featuring several former and current federal officials and conEducation Margaret Spellings has agreed to testify before the House education committee about charges of mismanagement and conflict of interest in the Reading First program, in a follow - up to a contentious April 20 hearing featuring several former and current federal officials and coneducation committee about charges of mismanagement and conflict of interest in the Reading First program, in a follow - up to a contentious April 20 hearing featuring several former and current federal officials and consultants.

A former adviser to the federal Reading First program will leave his current position at the U.S. Department of Education at the end of next month, the agency announced one week after a congressional report questioned whether he had gained financially in that previous job by promoting certain commercial products.

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.

When Mr. Obama first moved to phase out the D.C. voucher program in 2009, his Education Department was in possession of a federal study showing that voucher recipients, who number more than 3,300, made gains in reading scores and didn't decline in math.

Congress officially resumed work on education last week when members of a House - Senate conference ratified some of the less controversial elements of a bill to overhaul the federal role in K - 12 schools, including President Bush's prized Reading First program.

A long - awaited inspection of the federal Reading First program found today that federal education officials may have steered the grant - application process for the $ 1 billion - a-year initiative to ensure that particular reading programs and instructional approaches were widely used by participating schools, and that others were essentially shut out.

Republicans expressed concern about expanding federally regulated and subsidized preschool programs: Congressman John Kline, the chairman of the House education committee, suggested that better utilizing the billions Washington spends on early - childhood education «should be our first priority, not rubber - stamping a 46th federal program.»

First, as local, state and federal government agencies try to balance their budgets, it is easier to eliminate gifted classes than other special education programs.

In fact, President Lyndon B. Johnson's support for, and the subsequent enactment of, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965 — the first significant federal intervention into education, which continues to authorize the bulk of federal K — 12 spending today — was born out of a belief that existing education programs and spending were not adequate for poor Education Act (ESEA) in 1965 — the first significant federal intervention into education, which continues to authorize the bulk of federal K — 12 spending today — was born out of a belief that existing education programs and spending were not adequate for poor education, which continues to authorize the bulk of federal K — 12 spending today — was born out of a belief that existing education programs and spending were not adequate for poor education programs and spending were not adequate for poor children.

The concept was recently acknowledged in federal legislation for the first time, and the U.S. Education Department is exploring the use of Pell grants, federal funds low - income students use to pay for college, for such programs.

The bill, first introduced last week by Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), would set up education savings accounts for parents in the armed forces who could divert a portion of funds that would have been sent to a public school on their child's behalf under the federal Impact Aid program to different schooling options.

The report covers six federal programs: Title I, Part A; Reading First; Comprehensive School Reform (CSR); Title II, Part A; Title III, Part A; and Perkins Vocational Education State Grants.

Through their education nonprofit, Mississippi First, the pair has succeeded in increasing access to sex education in the state, winning federal funding for low - income schools, helping develop and pass legislation to legalize new charter schools and, crafting the legislation that created the state's first - ever state - funded pre-kindergarten program, which debuted at the start of the school year in AuFirst, the pair has succeeded in increasing access to sex education in the state, winning federal funding for low - income schools, helping develop and pass legislation to legalize new charter schools and, crafting the legislation that created the state's first - ever state - funded pre-kindergarten program, which debuted at the start of the school year in Aufirst - ever state - funded pre-kindergarten program, which debuted at the start of the school year in August.

In 1965, Oregon received a federal grant to expand the program under the first Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which allocates federal funding to schools for categories ranging from teacher education to supplementing local schools serving low - income students to innovative school Education Act, which allocates federal funding to schools for categories ranging from teacher education to supplementing local schools serving low - income students to innovative school education to supplementing local schools serving low - income students to innovative school programs.

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Of students entering the scholarship program from public school for the first time, 70.7 percent previously attended a D or F public school, 92.6 % qualified for federal free and reduced - price lunch, and 5.2 % had an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).

First, it conducts independent evaluations of education programs supported with Federal funds, helping to ensure that Federal funding supports better outcomes for students, families and educators, and that programs struggling to achieve intended outcomes are improved or replaced.

For the study, we first interviewed three Oregon Department of Education (ODE) officials about expanded learning time through statewide federal grant programs.

First, the U.S. Constitution does not authorize the federal government to enact national education programs.

This is the first budget since Congress enacted a series of sweeping, across - the - board cuts to just about every federal program, including many in the U.S. Department of Education.

In the1960's, Kirst worked in the Federal office of Budget and Management in Washington, D.C. where he helped to develop the budget for the first Title 1 program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

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.

ear after Maryland lawmakers created the state's first private school voucher program, indications are that the state is gearing up for big changes to address low - performing schools as education officials work to draft a plan to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.

With regard to student aid, Congress's first priority should be to increase funding for the Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant program.

In this paper, education entrepreneur Kim Smith and innovation writer Julie Petersen assess the initial effect of the program's first round on specific elements of the innovation ecosystem in education, including innovators, philanthropic donors, and the federal education agency itself.

First and foremost, the Department of Education, and subsequently the Federal government, profits off of the federal loan program as aFederal government, profits off of the federal loan program as afederal loan program as a whole.

First and foremost, they must have benefited from the Stafford federal financing program, or have borrowed from a Federal Family Education Loan federal financing program, or have borrowed from a Federal Family Education Loan Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL).

PREP is the first state - grant program from the federal government that funds comprehensive sex education that will teach teens how to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV / AIDS, protect their health, make responsible decisions, and learn critical skills needed to form healthy relationships with parents, peers and partners.