Sentences with phrase «only federal education»

We have a president who, for political reasons, can not throw his full support behind the only federal education program in the nation's history that is constitutional, successful, and cost - effective.

We at Magnet Schools of America hope that when the Trump administration release a more detailed version of this budget, it will include critical $ 200 million in funding for the Magnet Schools Assistance Program — the only federal education grant designed specifically to promote innovation, choice and diversity in the classroom.

It is the only federal education choice program in the country.

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There are four income - driven plans plus an income - sensitive plan that is available only to low - income borrowers with Federal Family Education Loans.

But only 25 percent actually have the required donor identification papers that would allow a physician to take a needed organ in the event of a documented brain death, said Marita Völker - Albert, spokesperson for the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA), a government agency that is promoting organ donation.

In general, most student borrowers finance their education with federal loans, which only come with fixed rates.

«19 Vasconcelos never accepted his predecessors» positivism — wherein are studied only «phenomena,» he said, and not «noumena» — but he advanced their goal of an education with strong national flavor.20 Under his leadership the federal constitution was revised to permit greater federal participation and centralization.

Potawatomi Bingo Casino (Milwaukee, Wis.) An internal education and standards program for cook chill systems, the effectiveness of which has not only improved costs, safety and efficiency — but also led to on - site workshops for local, state and federal inspectors that support better food safety for the greater community.

Officials with the Illinois State Board of Education said they agreed to accept the fumigated food only after federal regulators assured them it was safe to eat.

The Equality Act seeks to prohibit anti-LGBT discrimination not only in employment, but public accommodations, education, housing, federal programs, jury service and credit.

He's not the only one eyeing the district's top education job, amid an ongoing federal probe.

The federal government spends $ 176 million a year on abstinence - only education, and millions more are spent every year in state and local matching grants.

Oliva, who stressed that he only found out about the federal proposal a couple days ago, claims that the U.S. Department of Education has kept it in secrecy.

Elia said the only thing she knows for sure is that state's now will have to enact what she called a substantially different federal education policy, approved a little over a year ago.

The prospect of eliminating state growth scores from teacher evaluation became a real possibility only after President Obama signed new federal education legislation on Dec. 10 to replace No Child Left Behind.

The prospect of eliminating the state ELA and math scores for grades 3 - 8 from teacher evaluation became a real possibility only after President Barack Obama signed new federal education legislation on Dec. 10 to replace the No Child Left Behind Act.

«It shows that complex research is only possible in teams, for instance with funding by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through the Mainz - MIT Seed Fund.»

According to the study, postsecondary institutions, STEM departments, accrediting entities, and state and federal education policies — grounded on the STEM pipeline metaphor that there is only one linear route to a bachelor's STEM degree — have largely ignored the various pathways taken by students today to earn a STEM degree.

Connecticut last week became the first and, so far, only state to sue over the federal No Child Left Behind Act, a move that some analysts say could embolden policymakers elsewhere to step up their varied challenges to the Bush administration's signature education law.

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.

But Federal Government Education Minister Simon Birmingham says the report only confirms the strength of Australia's educatioEducation Minister Simon Birmingham says the report only confirms the strength of Australia's educationeducation system.

Less than half of California school districts and only about a quarter of teacher unions have promised to make key education reforms required for the state to win $ 700 million in competitive federal grants, officials said Wednesday.

President Obama and Education Reform was written when there was really only half a presidential term to evaluate: after the midterm elections of 2010, there was nothing the administration could do that was in any way dependent on Congress, and even the long - delayed effort to reauthorize the primary basis of the federal role in education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it was clear, would have to be delayed further, perhaps to the next adminiEducation Reform was written when there was really only half a presidential term to evaluate: after the midterm elections of 2010, there was nothing the administration could do that was in any way dependent on Congress, and even the long - delayed effort to reauthorize the primary basis of the federal role in education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it was clear, would have to be delayed further, perhaps to the next adminieducation, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it was clear, would have to be delayed further, perhaps to the next adminiEducation Act, it was clear, would have to be delayed further, perhaps to the next administration.

Despite these economic challenges, only 22 percent of federal education funds are directed toward rural school districts.

Only eight programs have been researched rigorously enough to merit their inclusion in the federal What Works Clearinghouse, which was established in 2002 by the Institute of Education Sciences to provide a source of scientific evidence about what works in eEducation Sciences to provide a source of scientific evidence about what works in educationeducation.

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.

The termination of almost $ 1 billion in federal stimulus funding for education in Pennsylvania was to be offset by only a very modest replacement by the state.

For Philadelphia, the end of the stimulus and the state's decision to offset only a small share of the federal cuts meant a 14 percent drop in state and federal education funding between 2011 and 2012.

As Congress begins to scrutinize the details in President Clinton's new budget request, the Department of Education is not the only place to look for federal dollars that target precollegiate eEducation is not the only place to look for federal dollars that target precollegiate educationeducation.

A report out last week that found only a fraction of children in the United States meet all the federal guidelines for a healthy diet has disappointed some education leaders who have strived over the past decade to improve students» eating habits.

In May, a federal government body, the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership, released a report showing that only half of education graduates got full - time jobs.

Only about $ 770 million of that goes to education research, through the federal Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and the National Science Foundation (NSF)(see Feducation research, through the federal Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and the National Science Foundation (NSF)(see FEducation Sciences (IES) and the National Science Foundation (NSF)(see Figure 1).

The NPR piece drove home the point that standards themselves can only accomplish so much: «Even as Zimba and his colleagues defend the standards against cries of federal overreach,» Garland wrote, «they are helpless when it comes to making sure textbook publishers, test - makers, superintendents, principals and teachers interpret the standards in ways that will actually improve American public education.»

While the federal government pays for only a small fraction of public K — 12 education expenses around the country, new data reveal that federal funding pays for a significant portion of SEA salaries.

WASHINGTON — Seeking a political consensus on bilingual education, the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week tentatively voted to expand federal support for «English only» alternative programs and to limit the amount of time a child may receive native - language instruction.

Taxpayers pay for only about 10 percent of all K — 12 education spending nationwide, but lawmakers have argued for years that federal requirements are disproportionate to the federal contribution.

Not only did the Congress finish its most pressing education business — reauthorizing several key programs in its final days — but, observers say, it was able to fashion consensus bills that in effect reasserted a federal role in education.

Only the federal government can eliminate funding disparities among school districts, school - finance experts and education advocates told a House panel last week.

Although the federal government's main accountability lever — eligibility for federal grants and loans — is only implemented at the institution level for most of higher education, the GE data show the value of targeting individual programs, rather than entire institutions.

We failed to mobilize as a unified collective to help our state and federal lawmakers understand not only what society was getting for its investment, but why we should continue to invest in higher education.

The second option — devolving recently accumulated federal power to the states — underlies recent reauthorization proposals for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that allow each state to establish its own accountability system and that require teeth only for the very lowest - performing schools.

Although the changes were intended to hold school officials accountable for the educational experiences of disadvantaged children, Congress left intact a short clause in the main K - 12 education law that, in practice, has failed to ensure that money from the federal Title I program only supplements state and local money, researchers and advocates said at a conference here last week.

Federal President of the Australian Education Union (AEU), Correna Haythorpe, welcomed Labor's plan and said Gonski funding is the only way to ensure all children have a chance to make the most of their potential.

In the latter years of the 20th century, the federal government not only became far more involved in civil rights, surveillance of behavior and misbehavior on educational sites, and financing of education for the less wealthy; in conjunction with the governors of many states, the federal government also played a significant role in testing of students, evaluation of progress toward national educational goals, and even support for the creation and evaluation of curricula and pedagogical approaches, both live and online.

Worse has been Congress and the nation's governors letting it slide, and not only playing right along, but in education practically begging the feds to issue them more rules so they could keep their red lentil pots of federal cash.

Across Texas, a total of 880,636 K - 12 children participate in afterschool programs (about 18 percent of the total student population), including 106,207 students in programs supported by the U.S. Department of Education's 21st Century Community Learning Centers initiative, the only federal program dedicated to afterschool.

CORE is required to send its proposal to the State Board of Education for review, but under federal law the board can only comment, not block the application.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a prominent example of such an effort, but it is only the continuation of a steady trend toward greater test - based accountability in education that has been going on for decades.

This report, by Lauren Morando Rhim and Julie Kowal, describes how educating students with disabilities in virtual charter schools entails not only molding state charter school laws to fit a specialized type of charter school, but also adapting federal and state special education guidelines aimed at providing special education in traditional brick and mortar settings.

While the federal government spends nearly $ 12 billion a year on special education programs, only about $ 10 million has traditionally been set aside for gifted education.