Sentences with phrase «largest federal education»

To see what's in this overhaul of nation's largest federal education law, principals can review a summary of the 1,000 + page bill prepared by NAESP.

Leaders in the House and Senate education committees are holding oversight hearings with the U.S. Department of Education (USED), state and local leaders, and other stakeholders to discuss how states and districts will tackle adjustments to state accountability systems, educator support initiatives, and implementation of other programs now offered through the largest federal education law.

A major extra-legal policy of the Obama administration has been its decision to let states ignore the nation's largest federal education law, duly passed by elected representatives in Congress, in exchange for submitting themselves directly to the whims of unelected federal education officials.

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The federal government accused ITT Educational Services, one of the largest for - profit post-secondary education chains, of making predatory loans.

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State education commissioner MaryEllen Elia warned that while there would be no penalties this year for districts with large opt - out movements, such as the withholding of federal funding, districts could be sanctioned if the movement continues.

Federal funders that have made significant investments include the National Science Foundation, through its Science of Learning Centers program, which offers awards for large - scale centers dedicated to the science of learning, and the Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences, which funds neuroscience projects related to eEducation's Institute for Education Sciences, which funds neuroscience projects related to eEducation Sciences, which funds neuroscience projects related to educationeducation.

Together with industry partners in the M — era.Net project BIOGRAPHY, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), they have developed a printing process which makes it possible to produce large numbers of graphene biosensors in a cost - effective roll - to - roll process.

In planning for the 1988 survey — which provides the only federal data on civil - rights compliance in education — O.C.R. has quietly inched back toward its old method, rescinding a change that allowed large districts to sample only certain schools and designing the sample to include more districts that have not been surveyed recently.

Compared with 2015, the public prefers a smaller role in education for the federal government and a larger role for local governments in three policy areas: setting standards, identifying failing schools, and fixing failing school.

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.

Since the mid-1970s a few members of Congress from both parties have allied themselves with the largest beneficiaries of federal research contracts (the labs and centers) and ensured that these organizations receive a substantial portion of federal education funding for R&D.

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

With the largest single pool of federal education dollars in history flowing to states and school districts, education - related companies have been looking to gain a share of the cash, marketing themselves as uniquely equipped to help with improvement efforts.

The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a small federal agency with large ambitions.

If enacted, the fiscal 1985 budget would be the largest federal appropriation for education ever, notes Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell in draft remarks accompanying theducation ever, notes Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell in draft remarks accompanying thEducation Terrel H. Bell in draft remarks accompanying the budget.

The 2,308 students in the OSP study make it the largest school voucher evaluation in the U.S., making the achievement results even more compelling when compared to results from other, similar experimental evaluations of education policies undertaken by the federal government.

Washington — A Senate subcommittee last week adopted a bill that would revamp the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act to channel a larger portion of federal funds directly to local school districts.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Even as it faces a multimillion - dollar financial crisis and scrambles to meet new federal education requirements, the nation's second largest district is taking on a new challenge: restroom reform.

To realize that goal, the commission urged the Department of Education to reduce its focus on monitoring a large number of postdiagnosis procedural requirements and instead concentrate on «a much smaller number of substantive measures guided by broad federal standards that focus on performance and results.»

[ii] The question facing policymakers and the public is not whether eliminating tuition at public colleges for most families will have a positive effect, but whether it is the best use of a large new federal investment in higher education.

Bill Gates, the co-founder of the world's largest philanthropy, last week called on President - elect Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to expand support for education and make the federal government «a dynamic agent of school reform,» even as the nation struggles through grim economic times.

However, while observers praised the $ 1.6 - billion increase proposed for discretionary education programs - the largest such rise for any federal agency — they...

The US Department of Education's decision to revisit the gainful employment regulations that would cut off federal aid to career training programs where students take on large debts relative to their income has been generally cheered by the right and criticized by the left.

Within the past 6 months, two large federal mandates in education have taken schools in contradictory directions — and both in the name of poor children.

Ninety - three percent of American Indian students, totaling more than 624,000, attend nontribal public schools, while the remaining 7 percent go to schools that are overseen by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, according to a policy handbook co-produced by the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers» union, and the National Indian...

With a relatively small (by federal standards) amount of money, he has catalyzed a large amount of worthwhile education - reform activity in a great many places.

Peterson: Since John Dewey, school reformers have tried to customize education to the needs of each child, but each step towards customization has required a big step toward centralization (bigger schools, larger school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability works.

Once past the long, agonizing upheaval of school desegregation, the states and their education departments by and large have bent to the federal will.

The accountability provisions of the law bedevil the unions to this day, but the large increase in federal education spending ended up helping the unions» bottom line, as still more teachers and support workers were hired.

States with the largest populations of American Indians and Alaska Natives collectively: California, Oklahoma, and Arizona Public school enrollment: Just over 600,000 Native students, or 1.1 percent of the nation's total pre-K-12 enrollment, attend public schools nationwide; that includes nearly 42,000 students in federal Bureau of Indian Education, or BIE, schools.

While eliminating applications raises questions for important aspects of the largest federal K - 12 education aid program, the ESEA Title I program, the policy guidance published by USED in March 2015 provides a wide range of options for states and LEAs to implement CEP with minimal interference with Title I funding allocations or accountability measures.

«The Bennett Hypothesis Turns 30,» a research paper by Jenna A. Robinson, merges findings from 25 empirical studies on the «Bennett Hypothesis»: Reagan - era Education Secretary William J. Bennett's theory that large amounts of federal student aid drive up the cost of tuition.

Phillip Lovell, vice president of federal advocacy at the nonprofit Alliance for Excellent Education, which focuses on high school reform, says that there are simply not enough good charter school providers to take the place of all the low - performing, large urban high schools.

Implementation of CEP by LEAs and schools has important implications for the largest federal K - 12 education program — Education for the Disadvantaged under Title I, Part A, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Aceducation program — Education for the Disadvantaged under Title I, Part A, of the Elementary and Secondary Education AcEducation for the Disadvantaged under Title I, Part A, of the Elementary and Secondary Education AcEducation Act (ESEA).

The death of a small federal school - integration initiative is connected to a much larger concern that DeVos's primary education - reform idea — using public money for private school vouchers — will produce poor academic results for students, and Balkanize students by religion, race, and class.

As education leaders who have implemented successful education reforms around the country, we believe that Title II - A, the largest Federal resource dedicated specifically for the development of teachers and school leaders, is vital to our efforts.

Indeed, less than a year before the Coleman Report's release, President Lyndon Johnson had signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act into law, dedicating federal funds to disadvantaged students through a Title 1 program that still remains the single largest investment in K — 12 education, currently reaching approximately 21 million students at an annual cost of about $ 14.4Education Act into law, dedicating federal funds to disadvantaged students through a Title 1 program that still remains the single largest investment in K — 12 education, currently reaching approximately 21 million students at an annual cost of about $ 14.4education, currently reaching approximately 21 million students at an annual cost of about $ 14.4 billion.

This has led to a range of proposals for dramatic changes in how we finance and govern higher education, which is an area where the federal government does play a large role through Pell grants and student loans.

In short, if those in our nation's capital want to modify federal education policy along lines preferred by the public at large, they will enact a law that resembles the bipartisan bill passed by the Senate.

The largest federal expenditures on children and families, ignoring Medicaid, CHIP and the education system, are through provisions of the tax code that are tied to a taxpayer's income, number of dependents, and the amount parents spent on the care of their children.

There is growing policy; fiscal and practical support for prosocial educational and school climate improvement efforts from federal agencies, state departments of education and large and small districts across America.

As Senators of the Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee debated federal education policy at an abbreviated hearing Wednesday morning, two coalitions of education and civil rights groups released letters poking holes in the bill while the nation's two largest teachers» unions released notes containing partial endoEducation, Labor, & Pensions Committee debated federal education policy at an abbreviated hearing Wednesday morning, two coalitions of education and civil rights groups released letters poking holes in the bill while the nation's two largest teachers» unions released notes containing partial endoeducation policy at an abbreviated hearing Wednesday morning, two coalitions of education and civil rights groups released letters poking holes in the bill while the nation's two largest teachers» unions released notes containing partial endoeducation and civil rights groups released letters poking holes in the bill while the nation's two largest teachers» unions released notes containing partial endorsements.

Every decade the federal government issues a large report on arts education throughout the country, Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, and the most recent data from 2010 confirms that low - income schools don't offer music and visual art as much as high - income sceducation throughout the country, Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, and the most recent data from 2010 confirms that low - income schools don't offer music and visual art as much as high - income scEducation in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, and the most recent data from 2010 confirms that low - income schools don't offer music and visual art as much as high - income schools do.

There is growing policy; fiscal and practical support for prosocial educational and school climate improvement efforts from federal agencies, state departments of education and large and small distri... Read More...

In fact, a growing number of Federal agencies (U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - 12Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - 12education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - 12 schools.

The federal government's largest investment in postsecondary education and training is through the federal Pell Grant program, which supplies more than $ 6 billion to help needy students pay for college tuition.

Mr. Taylor has overseen a large team at the California Department of Education of educational experts who calculated and reported various state and federal and alternative accountability systems.