Sentences with phrase «of education statutes»

It is important to note that although current Department of Education statutes and regulations do not mention information literacy, the regulations by the Secretary of NJ Higher Education do.

Edley has complained, according to the San Francisco Chronicle (February 14, 2007), that parents and the public can not get in the courthouse door to argue that officials are failing to live up to the obligations of education statutes: «If the state fails to enforce environmental regulations against a polluter, members of the public can not only go to the ballot box, they can also go to court.

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Title 22, Colorado Revised Statutes: Education Article 33: School Attendance Law of 1963 Section 104.5, as amended states that Colorado's general assembly has declared that «it is the primary right and obligation of the parent to choose the proper education and training for children under his care and supervisioEducation Article 33: School Attendance Law of 1963 Section 104.5, as amended states that Colorado's general assembly has declared that «it is the primary right and obligation of the parent to choose the proper education and training for children under his care and supervisioeducation and training for children under his care and supervision.»

The Colorado Department of Education «Home Schooling in Colorado: Title 22, Colorado Revised Statutes: Education Article 33: School Attendance Law of 1963» - cde.state.co.us

An education act was on the statute book within seven weeks of the coalition coming to power.

But due to various historical accidents, lost parliamentary seats and early retirements, the current parliamentary Labour Party lacks figures of this statute — with the possible exception of Harriet Harman, a former deputy party leader, and Alan Johnson, who has held previous roles as home secretary and security of state for health and education to his name.

The education commissioner's authority is based in statute, which establishes the commissioner as the principal executive officer of the Department of Education & Early Deveducation commissioner's authority is based in statute, which establishes the commissioner as the principal executive officer of the Department of Education & Early DevEducation & Early Development.

To applause from delegates, he described this as «hasty and misguided», adding: «The substance of the act we now have on the statute book is potentially a very significance threat to the stability, fairness and viability of our education system.»

(Buffalo School Board Attorney Frank Miller) is talking about 50 years of decision from the state education department and we're talking about the statute, the committee on open government, their interpretation of the statue, and legislative intent.

«Having concluded that the Commissioner's implementation and usage of Education Law... is not unconstitutional under either Due Process Clause, the Court obviously must conclude that the statute is not unconstitutional on its face,» Acting Supreme Court Justice Roger D. McDonough wrote in his ruling.

But special education, which is protected by a complex web of state and federal statutes, has been less vulnerable to reductions.

The statute that created the Excellence Commission allowed local school boards to petition the state board of education to retain exclusive authority to sanction charter schools within their districts.

«Notwithstanding intense judicial and Congressional scrutiny since 1981, ocr's leadership has relentlessly undermined the civil - rights statutes entrusted to it,» the majority staff of the House Education and Labor...

The bill, HR 1523, enjoyed bipartisan support until last week, when the House Subcommittee on Select Education approved an amendment that would incorporate federal regulations protecting the rights of all handicapped individuals into the statute — thus barring changes in the rules without Congressional approval.

These are the most important, but by far not the only, mandates of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the federal statute that, under various names, has guided special education policy siEducation Act (IDEA), the federal statute that, under various names, has guided special education policy sieducation policy since 1975.

Similarly, the Utah Supreme Court rejected the claim brought by the state school boards association that the statute authorizing the state board of education to approve and supervise charter schools represented an unconstitutional expansion of the state board's authority into the area of local schools.

The Colorado charter statute enables aspirants whose applications are denied by local school boards to appeal to the state board of education.

The board asserted that the statute gives the state board of education more powers than the Colorado state constitution permits and infringes on the state constitution's provision that the local school board «shall have control of instruction in the public schools of their respective districts.»

Ohio statute empowers the Ohio Department of Education to address quality concerns with authorizers.

«Plaintiffs still could have demonstrated a facial equal protection violation, however, by showing that the challenged statutes, regardless of how they are implemented, inevitably cause poor and minority students to be provided with an education that is not «basically equivalent to» their more affluent and / or white peers.»

Authorization mechanism: Council was established via governor's executive order, legislative statute, and / or state board of education resolution.

The plaintiffs, a group of students and school districts, sued, arguing that several state statutes stood in the way of all students receiving the education guaranteed to them under the state constitution.

Plaintiffs» equal protection claims assert that the Challenged Statutes violate their fundamental rights to equality of education by adversely affecting the quality of the education they are afforded by the state.»

The protestations, complaints, and handwringing that swiftly followed were to be expected — Matt Ladner weighed in (on Jay Greene's blog) within hours, for example, terming Texas «nothing short of disgraceful» and urging that it try Florida - style special - ed vouchers — and the feds will inevitably look into whether Texas has violated the well - known Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), versions of which have been on the statute books since Gerald Ford (with misgivings) signed the first such measure in 1975.

In the current issue of its membership newspaper, NEA Today, the union notes that four years after the first statewide teacher - competency law was passed, «politicians are no longer promoting such statutes as a cure - all for education problems.»

The motion attacks the lawsuit's central claim that the U.S. Department of Education's implementation of the sweeping education law violates that staEducation's implementation of the sweeping education law violates that staeducation law violates that statute's...

With one notable exception (spurring long overdue changes in some state laws), the implementation of this mammoth statute has confirmed several humbling, hoary lessons of federal policymaking, including the limited ability of Uncle Sam to drive education reform.

Though many states have special education laws of their own — a few of them as innovative as Florida's McKay Scholarship Program --- and multiple federal statutes influence how society does (and doesn't) treat disabled individuals, both in school and beyond, the principal policy engine in the K — 12 realm remains the federal IDEA statute, which has not been reauthorized since 2004 and — as many others have noted — is due for a top - to - bottom review.

It found «that the Challenged Statutes impose a real and appreciable impact on students» fundamental right to equality of education and that they impose a disproportionate burden on poor and minority students.»

This case is different because a court has decided that it's not only unfair funding statutes that can render a public education system unconstitutionally discriminatory and unjust: unfair education statutes of other types, including employment laws, can be overturned for the same reason.

Not only does the law require that districts use curricula that rely on «scientifically - based reading research,» a phrase, defined at length that appears 25 times in the statute; it further instructs the Department of Education to assist and hold states accountable in meeting this rigorous requirement.

Case law and statutes involving the right of English - learners to a public education — and the responsibilities of state and local governments to provide it — stretch back decades and continue to evolve.

The survey targeted state - level government actors who have the formal authority to review, accept, amend, and reject binding education statutes and administrative rules — namely, state legislators serving on an education committee and state board of education (SBE) members.

The trial court judge held that the statutes unconstitutionally impact students» constitutional right to equality of education and disproportionately burden poor and minority students.

Owing to this ambiguity, I penned a letter [vi] to the Department of Education during the comment period on draft regulations arguing that they should broadly interpret the ESSA statute to allow states to use status measures of performance other than percent proficient.

Plaintiffs failed to establish that the challenged statutes violate equal protection, primarily because they did not show that the statutes inevitably cause a certain group of students to receive an education inferior to the education received by other students.

The Maryland State Board of Education last week conducted hearings on a proposed bylaw to state education statutes that would allow school superintendents to waive college - graduation and teacher - certification requirements for parents who wish to teach their childrenEducation last week conducted hearings on a proposed bylaw to state education statutes that would allow school superintendents to waive college - graduation and teacher - certification requirements for parents who wish to teach their childreneducation statutes that would allow school superintendents to waive college - graduation and teacher - certification requirements for parents who wish to teach their children at home.

Benson said Hawkinson, a person with strong opinions and commitments, was recognized because of his significant contributions to the design of Wisconsin's revised special education statute and the development of revised teacher education licensing rules.

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

Section 1002.01, Florida Statutes (F.S.), defines home education as the sequentially progressive instruction of a student directed by his or her parent or guardian in order to satisfy Florida's compulsory education requirements.

The right to mediation through state statute and / or state board of education policy is available to those involved with gifted education in approximately 10 states (Karnes & Marquardt, 1991).

The existing language of subdivision (26) of section 10 - 183b of the Connecticut General Statutes outlined who qualified for a teacher pension by defining the word teacher as «any teacher, permanent substitute teacher, principal, assistant principal, supervisor, assistant superintendent or superintendent employed by the public schools in a professional capacity while possessing a certificate or permit issued by the State Board of Education...»

The amended federal statute is clear: «No parentally placed private school child with a disability has an individual right to receive some or all of the special education and related services that the child would receive if enrolled in a public school.»

Under a New Jersey statute that allowed local school districts to fund the transportation of children to and from schools, the Board of Education of Ewing Township authorized reimbursement to parents forced to bus their children to school using regular public transportation.

If successful, this lawsuit will remove the tenure, seniority and arcane dismissal statutes from the California education code and render them unconstitutional, thus making it easier to get rid of incompetent and criminal teachers while outlawing seniority as a method of teacher - retention.

«The 20 - year extension of Prop 301, which otherwise would have expired in June 2021, cements into statute a vital funding stream that drives more than $ 640 million into public education every year — with the lion's share going directly into Arizona K - 12 schools to support teachers» salaries and classroom operations.

Filed last November, the parents» lawsuit asserts that the LIFO statute violates students» right to an education by unjustly requiring school districts to retain ineffective teachers while cutting other areas of education spending or laying off more effective teachers when faced with funding deficits.

In oral arguments before the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, the pro bono attorneys from Arnold & Porter and Tompkins, McGuire, Wachenfeld & Barry who represent the parent - plaintiffs argued that New Jersey's LIFO statutes violate students» constitutional rights to an education.

The media have generally been either neutral or supportive of the case, which claims that the tenure, seniority and dismissal statutes enshrined in the state Ed Code hurt the education process in the Golden State, especially for minority and poor kids.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals, which was then the state's highest court, held that a statute authorizing public aid to private schools for exceptional children did not violate, among other Constitutional Provisions on Education, Kentucky's Blaine Amendment because the funds were for children's «welfare» rather than «educatioEducation, Kentucky's Blaine Amendment because the funds were for children's «welfare» rather than «educationeducation.»