Sentences with phrase «of education mandates»

The Virginia Department of Education mandates that third - graders should be able to read and write legibly in cursive.

Many of the «solutions» the Department of Education mandates for chronically low performing schools require at least half of the staff to be fired or transferred.

At least one South Dakota lawmaker wants to make sure the state's drastic repeal of hundreds of education mandates was not in vain.

Starting school later than normal to enable collaboration is a concept school systems in Indiana have implemented within the last couple of years as a result of the Indiana Department of Education mandating all students attend school a full 180 days per year.

The Delaware Department of Education mandated that all teachers have at least 90 minutes a week of collaboration time in addition to their individual prep time, but an average of 18 minutes a day for collaboration still pales in comparison to many of the East Asian education systems we often envy.

Not exact matches

Rather than mandating burdensome education and compliance costs for advisors, the SEC should focus on establishing standards for research that ensure all advisors have the information and analysis they need to fulfill the Duty of Care.

And, who knows, it may even include things like improved labour laws, improvements to public health care and education that actually mean it about the public part, requiring the Workers Compensation Board to get serious about the compensation part of its mandate and, yeah, an effort to get off the energy price rollercoaster.

Finra's study also found that personal finance education lowers the probability of falling 90 or more days behind on future credit accounts, especially for students who took required classes in economics or personal finance after the first - year mandates were adopted.

The number of states that require high school students to complete a course in economics has dropped over the last two years, and mandates for personal finance education in the upper grades remain stagnant, a new survey shows.

When free education was mandated around 70BCE by the Jewish royalty, (Can't think of the Queens name offhand), it was the Pharisees that handled literacy in the synagogues of each town.

It is best to see this conflict over the mandate in the larger historical context of Catholic higher education, both here and abroad.

Having universities that are sensitive to such non «burdensome religious requirements as this mandate adds to the wealth and diversity of American higher education.

Yes, some presidents are reluctant to implement the mandate because, they say, it signals to other universities that Catholic institutions of higher education are beholden to Rome.

After receiving the letter I mandated that Theology of the Body for Teens be taught and promoted in Fargo's Catholic high school and in all religious education programmes.

The social vision of John A. Ryan failed to penetrate the institutions of theological education, and the Protestant split between theology and «application» was mirrored in the cleavage between the Thomistic education mandated by Leo XIII and the televised pastoral assurances of Fulton J. Sheen.

Further, the draft document mandated states to override parental prerogatives (known, in UN-speak, as «social barriers to sexual and reproductive health information and care») in the matter of adolescent sexual education.

In effect they agreed that there is no clearer mandate than the demand for a new and innovative program of Christian education.

In their filing attorney's wrote the mandate, «runs roughshod over Wheaton's religious beliefs, and the beliefs of millions of other Americans, by forcing it to provide health insurance coverage for abortifacient drugs and related education and counseling.»

In addition to calling for state laws mandating the use of helmets in alpine activities, the study also recommends such prevention strategies as securing and padding soccer goal posts, as well as enhanced education for coaches, trainers, parents, and the athletes themselves to promote increased reporting and proper management of sport - related concussion.

In March, the Boards of Directors of the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education and the Association of Waldorf School of North America signed a letter renewing the mandate of the Joint Venture Committee, formed one year ago, to implement... more

The Department has also published guidance materials, including Alternatives to Using Food as Reward and a Guidance Memorandum on the Kentucky Board of Education's Guidelines for Competitive Food and Beverage Sales and on state mandated assessment and reporting on the school nutrition and physical activity environment.

They force women to undergo mandated «education»; they limit women's feeding choices within the hospital; and they interfere with the free speech rights of medical professionals who believe that aggressive breastfeeding promotion is harmful to mothers and potentially deadly to babies.

In addition, participants at the IOC conference learned about a community - based program the Institute first developed in 2005 called «The Power of The Permit,» which is being utilized by municipalities around the country in adopting concussion risk management programs for all athletes using public fields, rinks, courts, and diamonds, not just those covered by existing state concussion education, removal from and return to play mandates.

Food waste and decreased program participation were entirely predictable consequences of imposing healthier school food on children long accustomed to school meals laden with sugar, fat and salt, especially without mandated nutrition education to support the meal changes.

Contact your state's department of education, either through the state website or by phone or mail in order to learn what guidance they might have for homeschoolers as well as any mandates that might shape your curriculum.

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

In an e-mail she sent to Heaps on April 28, 2009, she said, «My job is to provide each student with a healthy meal that adheres exactly to CDE [Colorado Department of Education] mandated nutrition guidelines.

There are two basic types of sex education classes, and which is taught depends on what your state or local school district mandates.

The bipartisan Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 mandated that the USDA set guidelines for what needed to be included in local school wellness policies in areas such as setting goals for nutrition education and physical activity, informing parents about content of the policy and implementation, and periodically assessing progress and sharing updates as appropriate.

In my own state of Texas, our state legislature mandated that the Texas Education Agency promulgate regulations requiring the formation of a Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) in each district, and our SHAC drafted our district's wellness policy.

The adoption of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Section 2952: Support, Education, and Research for Postpartum Depression mandated ongoing research to better understand the frequency and course of postpartum depression, address differences in treatment needs among racial and ethnic groups, and develop culturally competent evidence - based treatment approaches (U.S. Department of Labor, 2012).

UPDATE: The property tax cap (Sens. Brian Foley, Jeff Klein, Dave Valesky (added) and Craig Johnson — although the chapter amendment to mandate restored education aid be used for property tax relief might ameliorate their concerns), the SUNY tuition plan (Sen. Bill Stachowski and Antoine Thompson (added)-RRB-, the same - sex marriage language (Diaz Sr.) and the counting of prisoners in the Census and home health care differentials.

What kind of arrogance would make a trainee - Minister who is still struggling to understand the mandate of his office, declare that a world - renowned and experienced educationist does not know anything about education?

In line with this mandate, the management of the scheme has over the years deployed service persons to areas such as agriculture, education, health, local government and rural development.

«She will be an invaluable member of the Senate Democratic Conference and with her support we will be able to finally take action on ensuring New Yorkers have access to good paying jobs, real mandate and tax relief, high - quality public education, and affordable health care,» Stewart - Cousins said.

The Team, chaired by Senior Advisor to the Governor Larry Schwartz, includes representatives from private industry, education, labor, and government and look for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

This team, made up of representatives of the Legislature, local government, education and private industry, will conduct a rigorous and comprehensive review of mandates imposed on school districts and other local taxing districts to identify mandates that are ineffective, unnecessary, outdated and duplicative in order to develop the best and most cost - effective ways to deliver mandated programs and services.

«I am told that the University of Education, Winneba, currently serves as the only university in the West African sub region which has the mandate and capacity to train teachers in technical and vocational education through competency - based trainiEducation, Winneba, currently serves as the only university in the West African sub region which has the mandate and capacity to train teachers in technical and vocational education through competency - based trainieducation through competency - based training (CBT).

For example, Dwight Eisenhower sent military troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce Brown v. Board of Education, which was a legal decision mandating desegregation nationally (although it was determined based on conditions in Topeka, Kansas).

The Team, chaired by Senior Advisor to the Governor Larry Schwartz, will include representatives from private industry, education, labor, and government and look for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

«The old committee on education had a mandate to oversee the budget and policy issues of the following institutions.»

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Aside from lowering the voting age by a year, the bill would also require all pupils in the ninth grade or higher to receive at least eight full class periods of civics education and mandate that every New York high school provide each student with a voter registration form the year they turn 17.

Local government - mandate relief, reform of government pensions and benefits, job - creating tax reform and education reform are only some of the politically difficult matters requiring Albany's attention.

With 31 days left until the budget deadline, the overall level of funding, how it is disbursed and what mandate the state Education Department might receive from lawmakers is uncertain.

The rally, organized by the Rise and Resist and the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioEducation (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioeducation funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educationeducation.»

The Senate Republicans» budget restores $ 280 million worth of education cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, eliminates $ 296 million in unfunded mandates for local governments and spend slightly less overall than the governor ($ 132.5 billion, to $ 132.9 billion)-- all without any new revenue generators (AKA taxes).

In a decision released Tuesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that competitive cheerleading does not yet meet the standards of a varsity sport under Title IX, the 1972 federal law that mandates equal opportunities for men and women in education and athletics.

The U.S. Department of Education warned states this week that federal school aid may be withheld withheld next year if less than 95 percent of students take government - mandated exams.

Health minister Dr Dan Poulter, a qualified doctor, commented: «Today's mandate to Health Education England, backed by a # 5 billion budget, will help our many dedicated frontline staff to further improve their ability to care for patients as well as enabling our NHS to train the next generation of doctors, nurses and healthcare assistants.»