Sentences with phrase «many educational mandates»

An Orthodox Jewish leader in the Senate, Simcha Felder (D - Brooklyn), a hypocritical Democrat who keeps the Republicans in power by voting with them, demanded that Orthodox parochial schools not have the same educational mandates as everyone else.

Immediately, she declared a moratorium on any unfunded educational mandates.

Nevada school superintendents pleaded with state lawmakers Thursday for flexibility from educational mandates to try to meet a 10 percent budget reduction that could mean thousands of teacher layoffs statewide.

Budget, politics, educational mandates, and even personalities all play a role in how a program will be introduced and implemented.

He aggressively organized an exhibition schedule and arts instruction program with a clear educational mandate.

«This is the best way that I believe is both fiscally responsible, fulfills our educational mandate to our kids, and simultaneously gives our kids a Washington state that is not ravaged by climate change,» Inslee said.

Accordingly to Moore, «Arguing that supervising law students working in a storefront legal clinic was part of the law school's educational mandate, Dean Gerald LeDain took the position that seeking permission from (or even informing) the Law Society was unnecessary».

Several other bills in the last 4 years have sought to restructure the entire town / village court system and each included similar educational mandates.

For all of these settings, school counselors should make strides to be informed on legal concerns that affect their students and profession to include educational mandates and legislature.

However, training about fiscal autonomy is also a developmental and educational mandate.

This often coincides with both experience and initially educational mandates.

Not exact matches

These highly self - conscious groups have deliberately, and on the basis of well - articulated evangelical mandates, provided the means for motivational and educational upbuilding.

The Chair of the Federal Communications Commission called for legislation to mandate increased children's educational programming.

While the study found that high schools in the state were meeting the law's minimum guidelines - likely left purposefully vague as a necessary legislative compromise for an unfunded mandate - Chrisman and her co-authors thus expressed the hope that further revisions of the law would beef up the educational requirements for athletes and parents.

Probably more important is the fact that the DOE does not set mandated unified educational standards, so it would be difficult to claim it's a centralized control of anything.

The Foundation, which has the main mandate of attending to the welfare and prosperity of Nigerian students in all facets of their educational endeavours, was opened to the general public at an event attended by dignitaries from all walks of life on Saturday in Lagos.

Legislators have proposed a bill that would mandate «educational reform» for teens who get in trouble for sexting.

The bill requires priority be given to public libraries and educational opportunity centers, and mandate a report on where investments have fallen or are being planned by June of 2016.

The lower court's 2016 ruling had mandated a sweeping overhaul of the state's education system, including changes to teacher evaluations, educational standards and special education services.

The state Supreme Court has overturned a Superior Court judge's controversial ruling that would have upended the state's educational - funding scheme and mandated a vast overhaul of teacher evaluations, educational standards and special - education...

The state Supreme Court has overturned a Superior Court judge's controversial ruling that would have upended the state's educational - funding scheme and mandated a vast overhaul of teacher evaluations, educational standards and special - education services.

«Ultimately it's become an unfunded mandate for our counties so this would really create a win - win - win by offering much better programs for the kids who need the special needs programming at that age and support our counties and allow the school system to do what the school system does, which is provide educational programs,» says Barrett.

They keep alive or develop instructional approaches and educational philosophies that may not have an opportunity to thrive in public schools, which are often governed by outside professional dictates and state mandates.

Other laws impose new restrictions on participating private schools as a condition of participation, including eligibility requirements, testing mandates, and educational content or course requirements.

We need educational programs in glocality for women who will become mothers and for men and women who will become teachers, to reverse the miseducation of young children and more precisely address the original 1945 UNESCO mandate, namely, «since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.»

Therein lies the importance of laws such as the parent trigger, which give parents a government - sanctioned mandate to organize and take control of the educational destiny of their children.

This set him apart from his more - liberal colleagues, who viewed Brown v. Board of Education (1954) not as a prohibition on the use of racial classifications in education, but rather as a mandate for judges to do whatever they could to promote «equal educational opportunity.»

Lobbyists, Administration officials, and Congressional aides said they expect the most contentious issue in the conference committee to be how strong the measure's provisions requiring states and districts to set educational standards should be, especially any mandate on «opportunity to learn» standards.

In Chingos's words, «the study strongly suggests that monies restricted for the purpose of funding class - size reduction mandates are not a productive use of limited educational resources.»

The current signals mandate a union interest in the economics of teaching, but they do not say that educational quality is the union's responsibility.

After reviewing the programmatic changes made for ELL students in Nogales, the Court reached the conclusion that «the weight of research suggests these types of local reforms, much more than court imposed funding mandates, lead to improved educational opportunities.»

You'd imagine educational entities would mandate standards for their school «air - traffic controllers», in training, in software, in timetabling best practice — as published policy — and with organised conventions to bring school knowledge and industry together.

Some of these Brown trustees have even begun to take steps to eradicate the Court's Brown mandate, pushing instead for initiatives, like vouchers, which use public dollars to, at best, extend educational opportunities to a select few.

In two separate lawsuits, opponents of educational choice alleged that Nevada's ESA violated the state constitution's mandate that the state provide a «uniform system of common schools» (Article 11, Section 2), its prohibition against using public funds for sectarian purposes (Article 11, Section 6), and a clause requiring the state to appropriate funds to operate the district schools before any other appropriation is enacted for the biennium (Article 11, Section 10).

The state - mandated tests now being used are so insufficient they «are causing educational harm, perhaps irreparable harm, to thousands of American children,» W. James Popham, an emeritus professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the chairman of the Commission on Instructionally Supportive Assessment, argued at a press conference here.

Some have argued that the legal basis for this mandate can be found in section 1111 (a)(8), the so - called «equitable teacher distribution» requirement, which asks states to submit plans to the Secretary that describe «steps that the State educational agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers, and the measures that the State educational agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress of the State educational agency with respect to such steps.»

As a general rule, however, the less centralized Protestant denominations lacked formal doctrines mandating that schooling be under their exclusive control and were more willing to pursue their educational goals within the framework created by state - run systems.

During the Obama administration, this office charged full speed ahead into the nation's culture wars by imposing on every educational institution in the country novel and detailed mandates based on very broad interpretations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and national origin) and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex).

The authors argue that these developments face a difficulty operating a collaborative strategy in today's educational landscape without a strong sense of cohesive mandate.

Instead of states mandating a single curricular approach within their geographic boundaries — much less a single national approach such as Common Core — states should empower local school systems and other educational providers to select quality standards and aligned tests that fit their instructional philosophy, while also empowering parents to choose from among different schools the one which best meets the needs of their children.

In addition, the bill would mandate that two - thirds of all workforce investment board (WIB) members be employers, and would eliminate representation requirements for WIA partner programs, local educational entities and labor organizations.

The Court found that the «weight of the research» indicated that structural, curricular and accountability - based reforms, «much more than court - imposed funding mandates, lead to improved educational opportunities.»

«Utah has mandated the review of educational curriculum since 1907, and has recently formed a Digital Teaching and Learning Team to support the integration of technology into our schools,» stated Dr. Sydnee Dickson, Utah State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

That is, they are mandating educational growth that can not be achieved within the one or two years allotted.

On the unrelenting pressure to improve schools without corresponding improvement in teachers» skills: «In its least desirable face, educational reform can become a kind of conspiracy of ignorance: policymakers mandating results they do not themselves know how to achieve, and educators pretending they do know what to do but revealing through their actions that they don't.»

Moreover, the goals — and effectiveness — of inclusion must be determined by each child's individual education plan, or IEP, the outline of their educational program that schools are mandated to create.

Citing research evidence about the lack of a relationship between spending and educational outcomes and about the ineffectiveness of previous court - mandated funding, the Supreme Court said that the lower court should also consider other school programs.

Pondiscio generally favors educational choice, agreeing that «markets have proven more effective than mandates in improving outcomes for low - income children.»

Fullan is a worldwide authority on educational reform with a mandate of helping to achieve the moral purpose of all children learning.

Linn (1998) has suggested that policy - makers have placed enormous emphasis on assessment reform because it is relatively inexpensive and easy to mandate, can be implemented rapidly, and is easily reported by the press, when compared to the type professional development and restructuring / reculturing of schools required to affect deep, second - order educational change (Fullan & Miles, 1992).