Sentences with phrase «gave state education chiefs»
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan last year gave state education chiefs the power to delay using teacher evaluations based on test scores for personnel decisions until the 2016 - 17 school year.
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Last week, Gates Foundation education chief Vicki Phillips wrote a «letter to our partners» urging that states give students and teachers time to adjust to the new Common Core standards before using those standards as factors «in high - stakes decisions on teacher evaluation or student promotion for the next two years, during this transition.»
In giving feedback to the states a year ago, for example, Melody Musgrove (who directs the Office of Special Education Programs at ED) forewarned chiefs that ED was redesigning their monitoring system into «a more balanced approach that considers results as well as compliance.
Chicago schools chief Paul G. Vallas said he «gave a little, and got a lot» from a compromise he made with state education officials after threatening not to administer state tests that the district's 430,000 students ended up taking last week.
«Our goal in conducting the state surveys was to give relevant, actionable information on public views of public education to policymakers at the state and local levels,» said Joshua P. Starr, chief executive officer of PDK.
The award will be given annually to an outstanding arts educator by the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. Department of Education, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.