Sentences with phrase «local school officials»

Once a «frustrated school board member,» she wanted to provide a direct contact to the state for local school officials.

Both the child and the parents must also meet with local school officials.

Many local school officials have complained that the budget delays have made it difficult for them to properly plan for the upcoming year.

According to the comptroller's office, the system used to measure fiscal stress recently was revised to include «direct input» from local school officials.

Massive resistance might be too strong a term to describe the way in which local school officials are implementing these new options for parents.

The audit review covered a period running from 2013 - 14 through 2015 - 16, and its finding touched off an often - testy exchange with local school officials who defended their financial stewardship.

Duncan, who has led the administration's effort to get states and schools on the common core standards and to link teacher test scores to student growth, has also developed a reputation for weakening the role of local school officials with a strategy the offers big federal grants conditioned on significant policy changes.

Legislative proposals: A Florida Senate committee approves two bills that would, if passed, have an impact on local school officials.

Local school officials held a special board meeting on July 29th where parents expressed outrage at the sympathetic teachers.

If your child or a child that you know is being forced to remain in the testing room during the SBAC testing, you are asked to provide that information, as soon as possible, so that appropriate action can be taken to prevent the continuation of the child abuse and to hold local school officials accountable for their reprehensible actions.

A federal proposal to tighten eligibility for free school lunches could force large numbers of low - income children out of a program that feeds more than 800,000 students in Illinois, local school officials say.

Last year, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, provided school superintendents with a step - by - step guide on how local school officials should go about misleading parents into believing that they did not have the right to opt their children out of these tests.

A federal commission voted last week to spare two military facilities in New England that the Pentagon had recommended closing, a move that relieved local school officials who would have faced a loss of students and federal impact aid had the bases closed.

But when the building started taking shape, parents and local school officials mobilized to stop the project.

When a federal court declared the Denver public schools desegregated, local school officials hailed the decision as the dawning of a bright new day.

Education lobbyists based here, fearful of the bill's potential impact, are trying to promote opposition to the legislation and are exhorting local school officials to convey their concerns to their Congressional representatives.

It was not surprising, then, that 13 of the district's 19 schools were classified «in need of improvement» under the NCLB rubric; nor was the ensuing howl of «unfunded mandate» from local school officials unexpected.

Notably, both the GAO and AASA studies reported that local school officials felt compelled to disregard the calls for reform given «the realities of strained federal, state, and local budgets,» and the resulting likelihood of layoffs and other cuts.

The Ohio Supreme Court recently declined to review a lower court's order that local school officials submit student information to a state database.

Demographic projections for the next 20 years may indicate to state and local school officials not only how many children they will be expected to serve, but also how much political and financial support they can expect for education, a federal researcher says.

Education officials in Colorado, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming, have recommended that local school officials decide on a case - by - case basis whether to allow pupils with the disease to attend classes.

The average New York State school district will have to increase property taxes by almost one - fourth and lay off 7 percent of its certified work force if budget cuts proposed by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo are enacted, a survey of local school officials indicates.

Local school officials became accustomed to paying the piper and doing what was expected in order to qualify for the money.

A majority of likely voters say they support the governor's tax measure headed for the fall ballot, but most also said they favor two major proposals in his budget - giving local school officials more say over spending and restructuring state school funding to favor disadvantaged students.

The budget delay is causing local school officials serious problems as they aren't sure how many teachers and teacher assistants to hire or even how many classrooms they will need for the early grades.

Local school officials report growth of about 600 new students every year in Johnston County Schools.

That situation happened this year to Endeavor students because the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) rescinded an offer of additional classrooms to Endeavor after facing pressure from the local district public school principal and other local school officials, thereby leaving Endeavor with woefully inadequate class space to meet its growth needs.

While local school officials believe the state has been clear regarding the centers, in spite of Mr. Sciarra's complaints, their main concern is that they be involved in the turnaround plans, said Frank Belluscio, a spokesman for the New Jersey School Boards Association.

President Obama, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the Congress, governors, state legislators, and local school officials need to heed these voices and stop imposing unnecessary and educational harmful testing.»

After hearing parents desperately pleading for better schools and local school officials begging for more time, the Santa Clara County Board of Education voted to approve Rocketship's petitions to open more K - 5 schools in areas currently served by low - performing schools.

State and local school officials continue to tell parents that their child's data is safe as a result of the federal government's Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) which was originally designed to protect students and ensure that parents knew what data was being collected on their children and how that data was being used.

The emails showing former state superintendent Tony Bennett «s staff made last - minute changes to the grading criteria in 2012 has generated increased ill will toward the grading system among local school officials.

If the state board of education and local school officials support this policy, I will no longer have to refer to the Pentagon Papers case to explain prior restraint; I will merely have to read students the SBAC test rules.

Their failure to reveal the truth about a parent's right to opt their children out of the Common Core tests is leaving local school officials and parents twisting slowly in the wind as the multi-billion dollar Common Core SBAC testing scam continues to suck up scarce public funds.

Local school officials in the handful of states where most of the immigrants have settled are trying to set up adult - education classes for thousands more than they coped with last year, and have waiting lists of thousands more.

Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency, by failing to place a high priority on the problem of asbestos in schools, is to blame for the low level of public awareness of the hazards of the substance and the consequent failure of many local school officials to act promptly upon identifying problems, an agency management team has concluded.

These actions have led education advocate and activist Jonathan Pelto to ask the state's Commissioner of the Department of Children and Families to investigate «the abusive bullying and punishment that is being perpetrated by some local school superintendents and local school officials against those who have been opted out of the SBAC testing.»

But finding a place to give the troublemakers a second chance is proving to be a tough job for local school officials.

I missed experiencing the greatest awe - inspiring wonder that nature has to offer because our local school officials — who felt eclipse watching was too dangerous for children and did not want to be held liable in the event of an injury — had issued overly cautious warnings.

Gov. Tom Vilsack urged Iowa lawmakers and local school officials to take bold steps to improve education at the preschool and at high school levels in his annual Condition of the State Address.