Sentences with phrase «reauthorizing federal education laws»

Well, a few people found it remarkable to hear this strong anti-test rhetoric from a president whose Department of Education is prepared to expand standardized testing to unprecedented levels in its proposal for reauthorizing federal education laws.

Heath Morrison, Washoe County (Nev.) schools» leader, urges Congress to reauthorize the federal education law.

Of the three bills advanced by the House Education Committee to reauthorize the federal education law, it's the only one so far to receive bipartisan backing.

Not exact matches

In voting to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and the Humanities last month made several other changes in existing law that would limit students» access to federal loans and grants, but would increase the amounts students who qualify could receive.

As members of Congress returned to their home districts last week after wrapping up work on a new federal budget, they left behind an unfinished agenda for reauthorizing the nation's main K - 12 law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Congress is way behind on reauthorizing the basic federal aid to K - 12 education law.

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.

Making federal student aid programs simpler and easier for students to navigate is a key goal of efforts to reauthorize the Higher Education Act (HEA), the federal law that governs these programs.

Congress was poised late on Nov. 19 to reauthorize the main federal special education law, after a House - Senate conference committee hammered out a bipartisan compromise designed to improve the educational opportunities of some 6.7 million children with disabilities.

Even the nation's new federal education law — the reauthorized ESEA or the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- includes language that prioritizes and could be leveraged to incentivize school diversity.

Although previous efforts to reauthorize the education law collapsed under deep disagreements about funding and federal oversight, the latest iteration — called the «Every Student Succeeds Act» — appears to be zooming toward a final vote in the Senate as early as next week.

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), was previously reauthorized in 2002 as the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, as the main federal law supporting K — 12 public education in the UniteEducation Act (ESEA), was previously reauthorized in 2002 as the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, as the main federal law supporting K — 12 public education in the Uniteeducation in the United States.

According to Emily Wilkins at Bloomberg Government, concern regarding federal oversight of state ESSA accountability plans «is casting a shadow over Senate negotiations on reauthorizing a higher education law.»

ESSA was signed into law in late 2015, reauthorizing the 50 - year - old federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that was meant to provide equal opportunity for all students.

Today's speech by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act, along with the entire circus over the latest efforts to pass a new version of the federal education law, have certainly garnered plenty of attention from Beltway school reformers and other poliEducation Arne Duncan on reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act, along with the entire circus over the latest efforts to pass a new version of the federal education law, have certainly garnered plenty of attention from Beltway school reformers and other polieducation law, have certainly garnered plenty of attention from Beltway school reformers and other policy wonks.

The centerpiece federal law for K — 12 education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), set teacher quality as a major policy priority when it was reauthorized as No Child Left Behind (NCLB)education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), set teacher quality as a major policy priority when it was reauthorized as No Child Left Behind (NCLB)Education Act (ESEA), set teacher quality as a major policy priority when it was reauthorized as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2001.

In December 2015, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) into law, reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the most comprehensive federal education funding legislation, last passed in 2001 as No Child LefEducation Act (ESEA), the most comprehensive federal education funding legislation, last passed in 2001 as No Child Lefeducation funding legislation, last passed in 2001 as No Child Left Behind.

The Every Student Succeeds Act reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, also known as No Child Left Behind, and is the federal law for K - 12 public eEducation Act, also known as No Child Left Behind, and is the federal law for K - 12 public educationeducation.

Dropout Nation has long argued that the Obama administration's waiver gambit, as much driven by a desire to put its mark on federal education policy (and stamp out that of predecessor George W. Bush, upon which the administration's own reforms have been built) as by the lack of movement within Congress on reauthorizing the law, weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher.

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.

This bipartisan bill reauthorizes and modernizes the outdated law governing federal support of elementary and secondary education known as No Child Left Behind.