Sentences with phrase «official system of education»

Under the current system, everyone is forced to pay for a single official system of education that can not possibly reflect the values of such a diverse nation.

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The Christian Post: Paganism and Witchcraft Placed Alongside Christian Studies in UK Schools A U.K. school system has included the study of witchcraft and druidry on its official religious education syllabus for the first time, meaning pagan practices will be taught alongside contemporary religions, such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

«The new pre-primary school facilities that Accolade helped fund enable township children of between five and six years of age to start their education prior to entering the official school system at seven.

During the weekend, Cuomo officials retracted his administration's effort to make the city pay for $ 485 million more for the City University of New York higher education system.

Representatives of the 600,000 - member union, in response, pointed out that Education Department officials responsible for supervising teacher evaluations had themselves cited the union - endorsed scoring system as one that districts could adopt.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)-- An unknown number of students taking the statewide English assessment by computer encountered delays when a security feature in the system «inadvertently activated» and prevented them from logging in, New York education officials said on Thursday.

Superintendent Richard Organisciak, New Rochelle Board of Education and Officials within the New Rochelle Educational System are allegedly involved in the Jose Martinez shell game more then they wants parents to know.

State education officials will soon release a plan for how they'll develop regulations to finalize a new teacher - evaluation system, Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch said.

Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor said that in examining options for Connecticut's tenure system, state officials looked at states where tenure had been abolished, at other states where old - fashioned versions of tenure remain and at the 31 states where tenure has been reformed since 2009.

Meanwhile, the counsel for Governor Cuomo is warning education officials that their authority to delay the implementation of a new teacher evaluation system should be done so sparingly.

Norman Seabrook, the president of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association and a nationally recognized labor official, civic leader and reformer, said to Feerick: «As a community district leader for many years, you have demonstrated a strong commitment to fighting for affordable housing, to creating a better education system, quality health care, and achieving economic stability.

In response to the mayor's most recent attempt to point the finger at the union for the breakdown of evaluation talks, UFT President Michael Mulgrew observed, «Most people would be embarrassed that the state's highest education official has directly contradicted their statements about a new teacher evaluation system, but not the mayor.»

Pan: Well, there hasn't been a lot of discussion of it really in the Chinese media, but this is another example of the weakness of the one - party political system, you know, they have shown that the one - party system can deliver economic growth, but it's an open question whether they can deliver other public goods for clean environment, as they discuss, has been a real challenge for them and because local officials are so addicted to economic growth, they are not willing to, addicted because they profit from it personally, they haven't been willing to really enforce environmental laws about, you know, good health care system, and education system.

Campus officials representing education, policy, treatment and intervention, and enforcement need to work together to ensure that all of these pieces of the system are available.»

Anyone who has a preschooler about to enter the official education system knows all too well the intelligent and questioning nature of this age.

Details of life in contemporary China are subtly accrued: the extensive and crippling unemployment, corrupt mine owners, embezzling party officials and anomalies in the education system all leak through the story like a bloodstain.

State officials and courts have already grappled with many of these issues, and creating a federal right to education would destabilize policies and decisions that have shaped local school systems for generations,» they say, noting that unlike the federal Constitution, all 50 state constitutions contain provisions that explicitly address education.

Texas education officials have announced a sweeping review of test security and a new monitoring plan for the state accountability system after a newspaper investigation alleged that assessment results for hundreds of schools throughout the state — including one celebrated elementary school in Houston — showed evidence of cheating and other irregularities.

The Pike County, Ky., school system's use of more than $ 9 million in federal flood - relief funds is being investigated by officials of the U.S. Education Department, a county school system official said last week.

Unlike some Bush administration officials and pundits in Washington who are trumpeting the progress made in rebuilding Iraq's primary and secondary education system since a U.S. - led war toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein, the new Iraqi minister of education is concentrating on the challenges ahead.

State officials said the reform bills were drafted in response to criticisms of the state's education system contained in reports by two study groups.

North Carolina education officials last week ordered a major audit of the state's testing and accountability program to determine the soundness of the system after problems emerged over interim scoring measures for the state's end - of - grade math exam.

Those groups hope to convince higher - education officials, members of Congress, and possibly the Administration that modifications in the current system can achieve the $ 4.2 billion in savings the Administration estimates would occur under a direct - loan system.

In Illinois and Massachusetts, state education officials are appealing to the U.S. Department of Education for exceptions to allow the Chicago and Boston school systems to provide free tutoring for their education officials are appealing to the U.S. Department of Education for exceptions to allow the Chicago and Boston school systems to provide free tutoring for their Education for exceptions to allow the Chicago and Boston school systems to provide free tutoring for their students.

WASHINGTON — The Education Department's «peer review» system for judging grant applications is under attack again, this time because of allegations that a top department official sought special consideration for a teacher - education center at Michigan State UnEducation Department's «peer review» system for judging grant applications is under attack again, this time because of allegations that a top department official sought special consideration for a teacher - education center at Michigan State Uneducation center at Michigan State University.

Ironically, at a time when the system was winning praise, DoDEA officials planned to hire a consultant to spend 18 months studying the costs to maintain each U.S. school in each community, and the estimated cost of having a local education agency take over a school.

Officials from the island nation are eager to find ways to improve their education system by observing schools in the United States — despite this country's mediocre finish in that study, the biggest and broadest ever conducted comparing the math and science performance of 7th and 8th graders around the globe.

State officials should design and implement systems to allow for easier and timelier sharing of data between the education system and the child welfare system.

The Vatican's formal pronouncements concerning education constituted binding mandates for Catholic officials at the national level, and the late - 19th - century historical record is accordingly filled with evidence of their efforts to construct and maintain independent school systems.

In harmony with the new educational agenda 2030, the Ministers of Education and Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean prepared an official statement in which they compromised to advance in quality education systems, reaffirming that education is a fundamental human right, the basis for ensuring the realization of other rights, and is essential for prosperity and peaceful, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth in thEducation and Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean prepared an official statement in which they compromised to advance in quality education systems, reaffirming that education is a fundamental human right, the basis for ensuring the realization of other rights, and is essential for prosperity and peaceful, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth in theducation systems, reaffirming that education is a fundamental human right, the basis for ensuring the realization of other rights, and is essential for prosperity and peaceful, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth in theducation is a fundamental human right, the basis for ensuring the realization of other rights, and is essential for prosperity and peaceful, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth in the region.

(As of April 2015, the U.S. Department of Education was still temporarily withholding a final $ 10 million earmarked for Georgia because officials had quibbles with elements of the state's performance - based compensation system.

WASHINGTON — Despite the lack of a Congressional go - ahead, the National Education Goals Panel plans next month to establish a council to oversee the development of national subject - area standards and a related system of assessments, panel officials said last week.

In Korea, the obsession with exams, and the more than full - time study regime, is a problem; national education officials are trying to reduce this preoccupation, limiting how much time can be spent in hagwons, possibly introducing a more American - style system of selecting students for elite colleges, thereby producing, they hope, a more well - rounded student.

Abuse of the system is an increasing concern at the highest levels of the state Education Department, even as officials defend it as a useful tool for helping at - risk students.

In an attempt to reverse the impact of years of budget cuts and a state and national emphasis on math and English test results, some 70 education officials, arts advocates, teachers and principals will unveil in June a blueprint designed to renew California's battered K - 12 arts education system.

Maryland education officials, with the assistance of the International Business Machines Corporation, will begin installing an experimental computer networking system in five schools next month.

The system will test an idea that state officials have been working on for the past year with the guidance of an outside developer who envisions that such networks could revolutionize the American education system.

Washington — The nation's chief state school officials, in a markedly emotional meeting last week, voiced extreme displeasure with the Reagan Administration's posture towards public education, particularly its intention to seek legislation that would introduce a system of tuition tax credits for families with children attending private schools.

Connecticut education officials last week outlined a far - reaching blueprint for resuscitating Hartfords ailing public schools, following a five - month study that laid bare severe problems in virtually all areas of the system.

It is the responsibility of elected officials to continuously pursue and support a world - class education system.

Michigan could lose its waiver from federal No Child Left Behind requirements if the state legislature does not adopt proposed changes to the state's teacher evaluation system, U.S. Department of Education officials said in a report.

Tony Bennett's emails instructing state education officials to reshape Indiana's A-F school rating system with one charter school in mind «reveal the sausage - making nature of the process,» blogs Greg Forster:

Indiana education officials disagree with Opt Out organizers» assessment, saying they've changed the guidelines of the state's school letter grading system to consider figures other than test scores alone.

Unlike many other states, advocates say, Massachusetts» governance system designates state education officials as sole authorizers of independently run charter schools, overruling local mayors and unions.

«I thought it was disgraceful,» said Diane Ravitch, a former federal education official and author of the bestselling book «The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Educatioeducation official and author of the bestselling book «The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining EducationEducation.»

State officials have aligned the remake of their letter grade system with Indiana's request for a waiver from requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law, which the state filed in November — about the same time the proposal first came before the State Board of Education.

Smarter Balanced works closely with state education chiefs and elected officials to ensure that the assessment system meets the needs of member states.

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Troy Albert, David Freitas, Andrea Neal and Brad Oliver begin their four - year terms on the State Board of Education as state officials tackle issues of central importance to parents and teachers — from how to handle the ISTEP + testing debacle to how to meet state lawmakers» request to rewrite the state's A-F grading system.

State education officials released the results of the second year of the troubling A-F school grading system Wednesday morning and just like the results last year, they are more of a statement about poverty than a meaningful measurement of how well students are doing at school.