Sentences with phrase «old federal school»

The pressure on Mr. Duncan to waive substantial parts of the 9 - year - old federal school - accountability law is only growing as Congress continues to drag its feet on reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, of which NCLB is the latest version.

Not exact matches

A school district in Virginia is being warned by a team of lawyers that the presentation of explicit sex videos to classes of 14 - year - old girls likely were felony violations of state and federal laws.

The federal government did nothing after 6 - and 7 - year - olds were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where a gunman killed 20 children, six adults, and himself in 2012.

After federal lawmakers failed to take any significant action following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut — in which 6 - and 7 - year - olds were killed — I saw little reason for hope.

For example, someone in HISD told me informally that one motivation for serving this bright blue and red concoction at our high schools is to help meet the old federal caloric requirements:

Though there is a nearly two - year - old state mandate that opens the free summer lunch program to all children in Illinois — whether or not they're in summer school — there has not been much improvement in participation, and officials say millions of federal dollars available for the meals are going untapped.

According to federal law enforcement officials, 17 - year - old Dimitrios Pagourtzis is suspected of being the shooter at Sante Fe High School in Texas on May 18, 2018.

Daniel Richman, a Columbia Law School professor and former federal prosecutor, said it's hard to tell just what impact the old deletion policy might have on Bharara's investigation.

With the help of a nearly $ 12 million federal grant, beginning January 4th, more than 650 three - year - olds begin pre-K at school classrooms and community organizations.

The family of a 12 - year - old Muslim middle school student has filed a $ 25 million federal lawsuit against the East Islip school district, claiming the seventh - grader's civil rights were violated when school officials forced him to sign a false confession saying he was a terrorist.

PARKLAND, Fla. — The 19 - year - old suspect in a deadly rampage at a Florida high school was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder Thursday after being questioned for hours by state and federal authorities.

Jordan Matsudaira, a management and policy professor at Cornell University, has helped resurrect an old research tool and has employed it to look at the usefulness of summer school and the effect of funding from Title I, a federal program targeted at schools with a certain percentage of low - income students.

In planning for the 1988 survey — which provides the only federal data on civil - rights compliance in education — O.C.R. has quietly inched back toward its old method, rescinding a change that allowed large districts to sample only certain schools and designing the sample to include more districts that have not been surveyed recently.

A federal judge has ended an 18 - year - old desegregation suit against the Lowndes County, Ala., schools, after declaring further efforts at integration pointless since the overwhelming majority of students in the district now are black.

Unlike the old centers, though, the new ones will be more tightly focused on schools» needs under the 3 - year - old federal law.

But the 82 - year - old retired school administrator — whose 1977 move to charge the families of undocumented children here $ 1,000 per student to attend public schools sparked a federal lawsuit — has more than made his peace with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against him and the school system in Plyler v. Doe.

A New Jersey judge has ruled that the Woodbury school district may continue its 22 - year - old policy of starting each school day with a moment of silence «for contemplation» pending a trial on that case and decisions in two related federal - court cases.

A federal judge overseeing a 26 - year - old school desegregation case in Chicago has indicated that as long as some details are added, he is inclined to approve a proposed final settlement between the school system and the U.S. Department of Justice that could end court supervision of the district by July of next year.

The conditions were ideal for this groundbreaking shift: a citywide consensus that the old system had failed; a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to build a new system from scratch; the availability of federal school start - up funds; and the keen interest of education entrepreneurs, foundations, and support organizations in seeing this bold reform succeed.

Concluding that the Charlotte - Mecklenburg district has fulfilled the purpose of its 30 - year - old desegregation order and eliminated all vestiges of a dual system of segregated schools, a federal judge has declared the North Carolina district unitary.

A 43 - year - old desegregation case involving the Hillsborough County, Fla., school system came to an end last week, as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to disturb a federal appeals court ruling that the district was no longer segregated.

Denver school officials said they planned to file a motion late last week seeking to end federal court supervision of the district's 22 - year old desegregation effort.

The program increased the percentage who received a federal grant by 33 percent for high school seniors with positive effects also for older adults.

The old system received $ 44 million in the fiscal 1994 federal budget, which paid for most center activities in the 1994 - 95 school year.

The federal appeals court in St. Louis — directly contradicting a two - year - old decision by its counterpart in Boston — has upheld a Minnesota law allowing parents of private - school students to take state income - tax deductions for tuition and other expenses.

The 12 - year - old program provides the federal government's only direct funding for school desegregation.

Amid fanfare around the billions of dollars being delivered to schools through the federal economic - stimulus package, members of the National Conference of State Legislatures are warning that the education agenda being pushed by the Obama administration is shaping up to be just as prescriptive and intrusive as the 8 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

Eighteen - year - old Sahmina Rahman, the U.S. - born daughter of immigrants from Bangladesh, is one of a small number of South Asian high school students here who have joined protests against federal proposals to crack down on illegal immigration.

«The whole purpose of federal law and state law should be to help schools improve, not to come in and close them down and say, «We're going to start with a clean slate,» because there's no guarantee that the clean slate's going to be better than the old slate,» says Ravitch.

Michigan is one of 42 states to receive a waiver from the 13 - year - old federal law in exchange for implementing requirements like career - and college - ready standards, stronger school accountability standards and a system to evaluate teachers and identify underperforming ones.

She previously served as Project Director at Worcester Community Action Council, Inc. where she developed and implemented a federal ARRA - funded program that provided employability skills, job development, and academic preparation for low - income out - of - school 16 - 24 year olds.

Where Democrats and Republicans tend to agree is that the current method for evaluating schools, under the 10 - year - old federal No Child Left Behind law, is fatally flawed.

have established a policy that urges the federal government to grant flexibility to school districts to establish preschool programs for all three - and four - year - olds through a separate funding stream that develops, coordinates, and enhances the quality and availability of preschool programs;

The average math and reading scores in high school have flat - lined with only marginal improvement among 9 and 13 year olds according to federal testing.

Virginia Preschool Initiative — Program providing state funds to schools and community organizations for quality preschool programs for at - risk four - year olds not served by federal programs such as Head Start or Title I.

And without major changes in how the state and federal government fund these needs, public schools in the state and nationwide are likely to become increasingly more stratified, with older, failing facilities chockablock in low - income and fast - growing school districts.

A coalition of education groups led by the National School Boards Association and its Ohio affiliate had urged the justices to review a federal appeals court opinion that denied qualified immunity to an administrator who had reported to state authorities her suspicions that a 17 - year - old girl with an intellectual disability was being sexually abused at home.

The Labor Day weekend is over but there's no sign that lawmakers are ready to deal on the budget impasse now two month old — but of more immediate concern to schools, there's evidence that $ 1.2 billion in federal jobs money might get caught up in the spending debate.

Applying a 30 - year - old Supreme Court ruling to a California case, a federal district court found that schools do not have to meet the top level when providing services for students with disabilities - only a basic floor of opportunity.»»

Like plans on paper that can falter in real life, the downfall of the old federal education law, called No Child Left Behind, came when thousands of schools in Illinois and elsewhere were considered failures because too many students flunked state exams.

The bottom line is that despite the billions of dollars from the federal government and foundations, firing of all those old bad teachers, no teacher union and no local elected school board the New Orleans reforms failed miserably.

«Unfortunately, we've been so busy with (responding to the new federal education law), we haven't really had a chance to look into the old data,» said Chris Janzer, who heads the school accountability office at the state education department.

One U. S. Senator's office intervened when a ten year old who otherwise qualified academically was denied federal financial aid for college simply because she lacked a high school diploma and was not old enough to take the GED exam.

According to memos sent to superintendents, but not yet released to the public, Malloy and Wyman's Education Department will be withholding what are called Title 1 Federal Funds — those are the dollars that come through a fifty year - old federal program that provides states with extra money to help poor children succeed in Federal Funds — those are the dollars that come through a fifty year - old federal program that provides states with extra money to help poor children succeed in federal program that provides states with extra money to help poor children succeed in school.

What they need, at minimum, is a one - year waiver from federal testing requirements so that instead of wasting this school year administering the same old damaging and worthless high - stakes tests, they start planning for the future.

The four - year - old guidance, a keystone of federal efforts to spur school discipline reform, has long been the bete noir of so - called conservative reformers everywhere.

A federal appeals court has upheld most of a jury verdict against two police officers and the city of Sonora, Calif., in the handcuffing and transport of an 11 - year - old student who was unresponsive to a school official at recess.

The Advocate: Federal judge is dismissing 47 - year - old desegregation lawsuit against St. Landry school system http://bit.ly/2bVz5A9

But just because the current law is a political loser doesn't mean its replacement — which reduces the federal role in education policy while eliminating the old law's unpopular performance targets for schools — is an automatic winner.

The Department of Public Instruction released a draft application to the U.S. Education Department for a waiver from the 10 - year - old federal No Child Left Behind Act, which State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers said «has shackled schools by being overly prescriptive and prohibiting creative reforms.»