Sentences with phrase «many federal education programs»

Encourage the increased involvement of the public, parents, and students in Federal education programs;

(7) to increase the accountability of Federal education programs to the President, the Congress, and the public.

Increase the accountability of Federal education programs to the President, the Congress, and the public.

(3) to encourage the increased involvement of the public, parents, and students in Federal education programs;

Sen. Tom Harkin, Democratic chairman of the committee that oversees federal education programs, agreed to the deal, one of those sources close to the negotiations told CNN.

They had made a results - based approach to federal education programs a major component of their «Three R's» proposal — on which much of the Bush plan and the final ESEA legislation were based.

Another unintended effect of Risk was the proliferation of federal education programs shortly after its publication, as policymakers struggled mightily to respond to the report and its recommendations.

In about 120 seconds, Benjamin set the stage for 120 minutes of heartfelt denunciations of outcomes - based education, federal education programs, and school bureaucracies.

In some ways, the XQ competition resembled Race to the Top (RttT), the $ 4.3 billion federal education program tucked into Barack Obama's 2009 economic stimulus package.

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D - Conn., and other self - styled New Democrats released a legislative blueprint last week that would scale back the number of federal education programs while raising overall spending for them.

As policymakers look to redesign or replace many of the basic federal education programs established during the 1960s, they face mounds of Department - produced research to guide them, but much of it is of limited value.

Specifically, members of the National Association of Administrators of State and Federal Education Programs (naasfep) lobbied their Congressional delegations to vote against the consolidation of existing categorical education programs into new block grants to the states, to maintain those programs at their current levels of funding, and to work actively against the passage of President...

Washington — The deficit - reduction measure approved by the Senate last week could threaten the future of many federal education programs, according to education lobbyists and opponents of the bill.

The first proposal would reinstitute provisions of the Emergency School Aid Act (esaa), which the Reagan Administration last year combined with other federal education programs into block grants to the states.

Washington — The Education Department's failure to provide uniform guidance to states and localities participating in federal education programs has resulted in confusion and inequities, the General Accounting Office says in a new report.

In 35 U.S. states and at sites around the world, Dr. Wilson has led professional development for more than 60,000 educators and has presented at conferences with the Singapore Teachers» Union, Jamaica Teachers» Union, The Feuerstein Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, Hawker Brownlow Education (Australia), University of Cambridge (Implementation Science Conference), Leiden University, United Arab Emirates, American Educational Research Association, International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators, Title I, Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, Nova Southeastern University Conference on Global Leadership, Learning, and Research, ASCD, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Learning Forward, and many others.

Peter Muirhead, a former education official who played a key role in creating federal education programs, died of cancer Feb. 12 in Stuart, Fla..

The initiative's detailed prescription also represents a sea change for federal education programs.

Key members of the House education committee are drafting legislation that would fold 11 federal education programs, including major initiatives such as Goals 2000, into a $ 1.4 billion block grant designed to spur reforms.

We can learn that federal education programs that look mighty and inevitable can collapse quickly and largely disappear in a few years.

Illich even took on Lyndon Johnson's new federal education program, Title I, then the new cure for education woes.

Less than a week after that, while having coffee and reading the news, I came across a short article on the San Francisco Chronicle Web site: «Daniel A. Foster, a longtime... educator and expert on federal education programs, has died.

In the letter to appropriators, NAESP and NASSP stated that «school principals, education stakeholders and the public deserve to know how the Committee would fund federal education programs,» and urged the Subcommittee to have an «open debate about deep cuts in education funding by holding a Subcommittee markup.»

Sadly, this proposal eliminates several important Federal education programs.

Mr. Goodling praised the House GOP and the panel he chairs for emphasizing efforts to improve the quality of federal education programs and for beginning a drive to move more decisionmaking to the local level.

President Reagan has appointed 18 people to the Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Education, a committee charged with monitoring the effects of federal education programs on states and school systems.

Federal education programs rebounded from two lean years when President Clinton signed a fiscal 1997 spending bill on Sept. 30.

Lawmakers brushed aside Mr. Bush's call to eliminate a slew of federal education programs he...

Other Kline bills would remove some federal controls from education spending and slash federal education programs.

In addition, the legislation caps funding for federal education programs at FY12 levels and limits future funding increases to the rate of inflation.

The House has passed a bill on charter school oversight, and Kline has also put forward bills that increase funding flexibility and slash half of all federal education programs.

As Congress prepares the FY 2017 budget priorities and begins to align education funding to ESSA programs, principals also urged Congress to fund federal education programs so that schools have the ability to improve instruction and meet the learning needs of every student.

«As Congress now moves forward with the remaining work of the FY14 appropriations process, we urge the Appropriations Committees to write funding bills that prioritize federal education programs that are crucial to helping our most disadvantaged students, specifically Title I and grants for students with disabilities.

The President's budget would cut federal education programs across the board and use the money to spend about $ 400 million to expand charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools, and offer another $ 1 billion to push public schools to favor charter and private schools.

Regardless, all of these direct cuts to federal education programs are just the beginning.

One of the sole pillars of the public education plan from President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos is to divert $ 20 billion from existing federal education programs to create a nationwide school voucher program.

EdLoC acknowledges the ample room for improvement in a number of federal education programs and recognizes that consolidating some of them could streamline administration and enable greater coordination of services to children.

It is incumbent upon your committee and the full Senate to be confident that DeVos has the necessary understanding of federal education programs, policies, and procedures to lead the U.S. Department of Education before voting to confirm her.

Burke blames the national trend of lower scores on «increasing federal intervention over the past half - century... the resulting burden of complying with federal programs, rules, and regulations, have created a parasitic relationship with federal education programs and states, and is straining the time and resources of local schools.

Private School Participants in Programs under the No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Private School and Public School District Perspectives (2007) describes participation of private school participants in federal education programs, the consultation process between private schools and public school districts, and public school district allocation of federal funds for services for private school participants.

As one of the first federal education programs, Impact Aid was created in 1950 to address the absence of a local property tax base to fund the education of military - connected students on installations.

In 2009, federal education programs received an unprecedented $ 100 billion in economic stimulus funds to help states address their budget deficits, forestall teacher layoffs, and promote education reform.

Cultivating A Guide to Federal Education Programs that Can Fund K - 12 Universal Prevention and Social and Emotional Learning Activities

The bill repeals certain aspects of ESEA, such as requirements for how much states and school districts must spend before receiving federal funding, and eliminating more than 65 federal education programs.

A more visible presence in Congress and in the federal courts produced tangible results in strengthening the federal E-rate program, winning school boards relief from onerous federal mandates in school meal programs, and reversing some of the across - the - board budget cuts that hurt federal education programs.

CEF's FY13 Budget Response (PDF) provides a succinct analysis of the effects of both the president's budget proposal and sequestration on each federal education program.

The omnibus bill also includes funding increases for other federal education programs important to principals, as well as additional resources for training to address school violence and for improving mental health services in schools.

We are pleased that Congress has increased funding by almost $ 4 billion for the federal education programs that support student success, an educated workforce, and a vibrant economy.

It authorized a federally funded educational program, which is the single largest precollege federal education program of its kind.

Whether it be ESEA reauthorization, funding for Federal education programs, charter schools and vouchers, standards, technology and e-rate, health, child nutrition and school safety, or many others, there is no shortage of education issues being debated in the halls of Congress or among major decision - makers in Washington, DC.