Sentences with phrase «guidance package»
A comprehensive choice and ESSA guidance package could connect the dots for SEAs and LEAs on all the authorities in the statute that could be integrated into a comprehensive vision for school choice, and describe how they can work together: Title I, DSS, Equitable Student Funding Pilot, Magnet Schools Assistance Program, Charter Schools Grants, and the Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) grant.
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Features the launch of the White House Asian American and Pacific Islander Bullying Prevention Task Force; Departments of Justice and Education release of a correctional education guidance package to improve the quality of educational services for confined youth; Justice Department partnership with Facebook and Bing to expand the reach of AMBER Alerts; and more.
In 2014 the Department of Education and Department of Justice jointly released an extremely helpful school discipline guidance package to address these kinds of inequities in school discipline and reinforce the meaning of the non-discrimination requirements under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
In a January 2014 school guidance package, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan stated, «The need to rethink and redesign school discipline practices is long overdue.»
The point here is bitterly ironic because U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan has claimed that the guidance package is needed because it «provides resources for creating safe and positive school climates, which are essential for boosting student academic success and closing achievement gaps.»
The Children's Defense Fund strongly supports the 2014 guidance package and the GAO report's findings help reconfirm why it must remain in place for our nation's children.
The guidance package also results from President Obama's Now is the Time proposal to reduce gun violence.
The U.S. Department of Education (ED), in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), today released a school discipline guidance package that will assist states, districts and schools in developing practices and strategies to enhance school climate, and ensure those policies and practices comply with federal law.
To both continue ED / DOJ efforts in connection with SSDI and fulfill the administration's commitment to «Now is the Time,» the guidance package was developed with additional input from civil rights advocates, major education organizations and philanthropic partners.
In early January, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice released a school discipline guidance package to help states, districts, and...
The guidance package is a resource resulting from a collaborative project — the Supportive School Discipline Initiative (SSDI)-- between ED and DOJ.
A school discipline guidance package is now available to help districts and schools that enhance school climate and ensure that their discipline policies and practices are nondiscriminatory and comply with federal law.
On January 8, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Education jointly released a school discipline guidance package.