Sentences with phrase «of education disputes»

In addition, several members of the firm litigate all types of education disputes on a routine basis.

The Department of Education disputes claims that it is not careful or candid in its contracting processes.

Not exact matches

I don't think anyone really disputes this — youth 13 and older obviously also have needs for care and education but they're not the focus of this post.

As James expected the camping party to get back to the useful business of chopping firewood and cooking supper once he had «assuaged the dispute» by his pragmatic observations, so the application of process thinking in reference to the canonical wars now ravaging American higher education should be the means by which faculty might be led back from endless idle arguments to their real and proper work of designing good courses and teaching them well.

Disputed policies ranging from parental choice in education, to a tax break for married couples, to opposing the legalization of gay rights are all included in the «pro-family» package.

Fact is Utah is a in a huge dispute with the Federal Government over Federal Land 65 % of the state and Education.

It included not only different views on emotion and education but also disputes concerning the true interpretation of the Christian faith.

He administered relief of the poor, worked for conciliation in labor disputes, emphasized frequent Communion, established homes for beggars, and did much for the education of the clergy.

What would have happened, they ask, had the political branches felt themselves free to dispute Brown v. Board of Education?

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Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, told Fred Dicker in a radio interview this morning that he hoped Gov. Andrew Cuomo would intercede in the ongoing dispute between the New York City education department and United Federation of Teachers over school improvement grant funding.

Tens of thousands of teachers across the north - west will be taking strike action today (Thursday 27 June) as a further step in the NASUWT and NUT teacher unions» dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over pay, pensions, working conditions and jobs.

The key issues include tax; nuclear power; the living wage (vociferously opposed by economic Liberals, who dispute the Resolution Foundation's work to demonstrate the economic benefits and savings to the exchequer); Trident replacement; and higher education where the party may struggle to avoid reopening the self - inflicted wounds of late 2010.

He added: «This dispute could seriously worsen if employers do not take account of the mood of lecturers who have seen promise after promise to improve their pay broken - even despite the billions of pounds of new money entering higher education this year.»

In January 2013 Loughton was involved in a political dispute involving his earlier work as a minister in the Department of Education when he compared the role of Education Secretary Michael Gove to «Young Mr Grace» from the British sitcom Are You Being Served?

We remain in dispute over the direction of Government policy, which we believe is undermining the education service.

The New York City Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers reached a deal that ended one of the longest labor disputes in the City's history.

The result is challenged based on disputed absentee ballots and allegations of voter coercion, and an appeal is filed with the state education commissioner.

Problems with the NHS and disputes over education reform have also led to major clashes between the leadership and the left of the party, while disputes over pensions have also soured relationships with many unions.

The main areas for consideration under the Open component are: Peace and security; Voter education; Electoral reform; Adjudication of disputes; Observation and monitoring of elections; and Inclusiveness and participation.

Should they form part of the next coalition, the Liberal Democrats have already stated their intention to fight for a Lib Dem education secretary and to get rid of unelected school commissioners who are in charge of overseeing academies — moves that will be bitterly disputed should they enter into another coalition with the Conservatives.

Two weeks after he signaled his intention to focus on education, Gov. Andrew Cuomo today filled in some of the details and inserted himself squarely in the dispute over teacher evaluation.

Takes issue with Phil Rumore's characterization of the dispute between the Buffalo Teachers Federation and the state Department of Education over teacher evaluations.

Bennett in the interview: Takes issue with Phil Rumore's characterization of the dispute between the Buffalo Teachers Federation and the state Department of Education over teacher evaluations.

The New York State Public Employment Relations Board has appointed a three - member fact - finding panel that will take testimony, hold hearings and issue a report and recommendations in an effort to resolve the contract dispute between the New York City Department of Education and the UFT.

The dispute involves a mandate announced in January 2014 by Sander Dekker, state secretary at the Ministry for Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands..

According to the NSB report, «It is beyond dispute that society is — and will become even more — dependent on science and technology,» and therefore must «depend on a cadre of individuals with a high level of scientific training and education.»

Sheen — along with actress Carey Mulligan — is a supporter of Into Film, an education charity that promotes the use of movies in school and has disputed Bennett's suggestion that films should be the sole preserve of media courses.

Key Measures Special educational needs key measures include a single assessment process (0 - 25) which is more streamlined, better involves children, young people and families and is completed quickly; An Education Health and Care Plan (replacing the statement) which brings services together and is focused on improving outcomes; An offer of a personal budget for families with an Education, Health and Care Plan; A requirement for local authorities and health services to jointly plan and commission services that children, young people and their families need; A requirement on local authorities to publish a local offer indicating the support available to those with special educational needs and disabilities and their families, and; The introduction of mediation opportunities for disputes and a trial giving children the right to appeal if they are unhappy with their support.

The initial ruling — which still must be reviewed by the Secretary of Education and could eventually be contested in court — addresses a longstanding dispute between federal and state education officials over the interpretation of the Individuals with Disabilities EducaEducation and could eventually be contested in court — addresses a longstanding dispute between federal and state education officials over the interpretation of the Individuals with Disabilities Educaeducation officials over the interpretation of the Individuals with Disabilities EducationEducation Act.

In a case that could shape the outcome of special education disputes across the country, the Supreme Court will decide in Schaffer v. Weast (Case No. 04 - 698) which side bears the burden of proof in disputes over children's individualized education programs, or IEPs.

In addition to hearing a major case involving public - employee unions, the U.S. Supreme Court may face a wide range of disputes of keen interest to the education community.

The Chicago school board has agreed to hire hundreds of additional teachers and other employees in order to end a four - year dispute with the U.S. Education Department over the quality of the school system's services for handicapped pupils.

A Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has ordered the state's department of education to pay the financially troubled Philadelphia School District about $ 50 million in disputed reimbursements for special - education.

But the impact - aid rules at the center of the dispute could cause similar disruption in other states and plunge the federal government into local controversies over education finance.

Despite the school's ongoing legal battle with the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and a bitter dispute over funding with the state education department, the president of Einstein's board of trustees vowed last week to fight the revocation.

The opinions of hearing officers who rule in special - education disputes between schools and parents should be given great weight, a federal appeals court has ruled.

The math wars revolve around a four - part problem: A disputed theory of education that informs NCTM's standards; state boards of education that base their standards of learning for mathematics on the NCTM standards; textbooks written to incorporate these standards; and teachers and others in the education establishment who are indoctrinated in the disputed education theory and who may not possess enough knowledge of mathematics to overcome the first three factors.

In an attempt to start on safely common ground, congressional sources say, both panels plan to omit the more disputed aspects of special education governance from the legislation.

Legislature spent much of session in dispute with Governor over its education budget, which was $ 5 million less than the Governor's proposal and did not include any funding for a school - reform committee and the pilot projects it supports.

The nation's most extensive experiment in private management of public schools sputtered to an end last week as the Hartford, Conn., school board said it would end its partnership with Education Alternatives Inc. in a dispute over finances.

Where I work in Florida, where essentially charter schools don't have the option of becoming their own LEAs (as is also the case in places like Virginia, Maryland and Kansas, and in New York for special education purposes), these special education disputes are problematic for many reasons.

Though no one disputes that disabilities are real and that disabled students are more expensive to educate, it is not true that vouchers will necessarily increase the identification of disabilities, thereby raising overall education costs.

Not surprisingly, both those disputes involved special education to some extent — probably the most complex, expensive and controversial area of teaching.

Much of that time, however, Mr. Cohen had been embroiled in a dispute with school officials over his special - education program.

Though the distinction between equity and adequacy would become more significant in later years, in 1993 few education observers would dispute CFE's list of the education crimes perpetrated on New York City's schoolchildren or the incoherency of the system that delivered them.

In an essay titled «School Choice through a Foucauldian Lens,» published last year, Stacy Smith, a professor of education at Bates College, seized on the ideas of Michel Foucault to dispute the notion that supporting charter schools means supporting market - based education reforms.

The three studies, submitted separately but published together in the December 1991 issue of the Journal of Educational Psychology, represent the latest salvo in one of the most hotly contested disputes in education.

The dispute between the reports» authors — which flared into the open on a national network news program Sept. 6 — pitted Lynne V. Cheney, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, against Diane Ravitch, a prominent education historian, and Chester E. Finn Jr., an assistant secretary of education.

The dispute over his actions rather reflects a deeper disagreement over the proper role of the federal government in education, an ambivalence well captured by the Reading First law itself, which embodies a contradiction.