Sentences with phrase «local flexibility needed»

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This means regional offices need to have enough expertise and flexibility to serve their local clients.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today provided local food service professionals the flexibility they need to serve wholesome, nutritious, and tasty meals in schools across the nation.

The flexibility outlined above does not affect local authority statutory duties in respect of EHC needs assessments and plans, and must not be used to circumvent the need for an EHC plan where one is needed.

Taxpayers in New York will get the two things they need most — lower taxes and the continuation of essential and high quality municipal services — only if Albany finally demonstrates the will to reform state mandates, giving local officials the tools and flexibility to implement real and sustainable property tax relief.

To live within the cap without disrupting public services, local governments and school districts need greater flexibility to restrain automatic pay increases and to restructure the most costly aspects of their collective bargaining agreements.

«Since taking office, Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Bratton have focused on rebuilding the bonds between police officers and the neighborhoods they serve — and giving officers the tools and flexibility they need to connect with communities and local leaders,» spokesman Austin Finan said.

To meet this we will also need flexibility in how local authorities leverage their land assets and local developments to create new places.»

State and local leaders need some flexibility to make the right choice.

However, the consultation suggests that this flexibility will no longer be available to local authorities, making it even more difficult to provide children with the support they need.

So, I would ask them to support my constitutional amendment because that allows the state of California to do the things it needs to do to deal with the state's share of problems as well as local governments having the flexibility to negotiate changes to future contracts.

Given more flexibility to determine the content, length, and administration of assessments, states could still achieve some of the benefits of collaboration while preserving the ability to respond to local needs and priorities.

On the other hand, my experience also shows that in order to make use of the power of collaboration as a means of achieving both excellence and equity in schools, governments need to foster greater flexibility at the local level.

Moreover, we propose to eliminate requirements for written plans, increase our focus on outcomes, and increase local flexibility to better match resources with family needs.

Over a year ago, legislators from both sides of the aisle came together to pass the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), in part to provide state and district leaders with new opportunities and flexibility to support innovative, results - driven practices that address their local needs and ensure all students have the opportunity to attend great schools that will prepare them for college and careers.

The idea was to drive budget authority and decision - making power down to the school level, allowing those in the trenches to respond to local needs and promoting diversity and flexibility within the system.

NSBA looks forward to working with Congress and the Administration in addressing the flexibility states and local school districts need to ensure equity and excellence in public education; such as the development of innovative programs that address the unique needs of each school district and respective community, programmatic flexibility and compliance for rural districts, and recruitment and retention of highly effective teachers and leaders.

The reform strategy must be one that was devised at the school level — by the PTA, the local school council, Title One committee, or local governing group made up of parents at the school level — and they must have flexibility in developing the strategy that best suits the needs of their school.

«We should have local flexibility that will allow us to use resources and target those who need assistance.»

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) clearly defines parameters that inform how States and local school districts should demonstrate that Federal funds are used in a supplemental, additive manner — equipping local education leaders with the flexibility necessary to better educate and meet the needs of their students.

The program «gives districts the flexibility, through a rigorous screening process, to seek outside help that will meet their local needs,» Snyder said.

Challenged by deep funding cuts and the need to keep pace with requirements that the Legislature was not prepared to relax, local educational agencies were actually encouraged by the Schwarzenegger administration to seek flexibility through the wavier process beginning in 2008.

Federal law in postsecondary education must also be a robust source of support for local innovation, research, and implementation of strategies designed to improve teacher and principal effectiveness and include: Evidence - based preparation and professional development; Evidence - based evaluation systems that include, in part, student performance; Alternative certification programs that meet workforce needs; State and school district flexibility regarding credentials for small and / or rural schools, special education programs, English learners and specialized programs such as science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics; and Locally - determined compensation and teacher and principal assignment policies.

The bill, expected to be taken up by the U.S. Senate as early as next week, contains specific legislative language on local governance that restores the balance between federal and local government and provides states and school districts the flexibility needed to support student learning and achievement.

The ESSA strikes a balance between accountability for closing achievement gaps and educating all students with flexibility to allow state and local actors to meet local student needs.

«America's 90,000 school board members seek a modernized ESEA that supports strong local governance and provides states, school districts and local communities with the flexibility needed to equip public school students with the tools they need to success succeed in both local and global economies.»

Local school systems need more flexibility to design a schedule that works for their students.

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) issued a letter of support to Reps. Davis and Ashford thanking them for their efforts to provide highly nutritious meals to students and the flexibility needed to meet local needs.

With the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), local schools are likely to have some flexibility to develop comprehensive plans to better address the holistic needs of their students.

The intent of California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) is to give districts more flexibility with their state funding but at the same time to create a new school finance system that recognizes that students with specific demographic factors need greater support to address their academic needs and improve educational outcomes: English Learners, low income students and foster youth.

In light of this historic milestone, NSBA will continue to work with Congress and the Administration in addressing the flexibility states and local school districts need to ensure equity and excellence in public education; such as the development of innovative programs that address the unique needs of each school district and respective community, programmatic flexibility for school districts, and recruitment and retention of highly effective teachers and leaders.

Because of this, I have given local schools the flexibility they need to minimize the effect these tests have on various matters, such as teacher evaluation and compensation.

NSBA advocates for a comprehensive, strategic reauthorization of ESEA that provides school districts the flexibility and resources they need to respond to the educational challenges in their local communities.

Others praised the bill as a landmark step that would set minimum state standards for a performance review system for the first time but give districts the flexibility to tailor it to local needs.

Particularly in the context of ESSA, which has returned significant flexibility to States and local districts, programs like the RELs are critical to ensuring that States and districts have the resources to design and implement evidence - based practices and interventions responsive to student needs that the law calls for.

• Ensuring that local charter schools have sufficient flexibility and autonomy from local collective bargaining agreements to meet the needs of students

The education department has already taken several steps to address local challenges, adding some flexibility as to when and how districts need to have the systems in place.

Under the Curriculum for Excellence, local authorities and schools are given flexibility to tailor the curriculum to local needs, officials say.

We need to give our local districts and schools much more flexibility.

If the costs in 2018/19 are greater than the baseline year of 2017/18, local authorities will need some flexibility to manage these pressures within the overall formula, otherwise schools with these characteristics will be put at a disadvantage.

At the same time, he maintains that proposed revisions preserve LCFF's commitment to local flexibility by allowing local districts to choose programs, strategies, and services they see fit to serve the various needs of their students.

Not only would the LCFF allocate dollars in a more equitable way (with no district receiving less than it received in the 2012 - 13 school year) and allow districts the flexibility to address local needs, but Carranza argues that the LCFF is an important step toward raising the overall level of funding that California directs toward education.

While the article characterizes the LCFF as a strong improvement over the state's previous convoluted system of school funding, disputes remain about the state's role in the money's use and the balance between preserving local flexibility and ensuring that resources go to meet the needs of the students who generate them.

The bottom line is that a virtual education allows me to tailor that classroom experience to the student in front of me — the advanced learner, the child who needs more attention than what's received in a local classroom, the child who needs flexibility to fit a professional sports or entertainment schedule, and the child who simply needs a quiet place to work without the distractions of a classroom.

«SWSS contracts are intended to provide local school districts with the flexibility they need to increase student achievement,» the Georgia Department of Education website says.

In a recent interview with New America Media, Mike Kirst discussed the legal and political history of California's current education finance system and how Governor Jerry Brown's proposed Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) can more equitably allocate state funding to districts and allow them the flexibility they need to meet rising expectations of college - readiness.

NSBA's Deputy Associate Executive Director Lucy Gettman added, «We appreciate that Rep. Noem's legislation includes recommendations from NSBA and school boards across the nation that will continue to support efforts to provide highly nutritious meals to students — but provides schools with more flexibility to meet local needs.»

CEA President Sheila Cohen told PEAC members that more flexibility and autonomy is needed for local districts.

NCLB architect and ranking Democratic committee member George Miller (CA) agreed with «the need to balance the accountability we worked so hard to implement in NCLB with greater flexibility at the local level and less prescription at the federal level,» but cautioned that some sort of federal oversight was needed lest schools return to a time when group averages obscured individual student performance in schools.

And Greening confirmed local areas will have flexibility to move cash from their school and high needs budget — aslong as they get agreement from the majority of schools and school forums.

That is why we have begun to consider how to exercise our authority, if Congress does not reauthorize the ESEA soon, to invite requests for flexibility to support State and local reforms under section 9401 of the law, which authorizes the Department to waive most statutory and regulatory requirements if needed to «increase the quality of instruction for students; and improve the academic achievement of students.»