Sentences with phrase «since education department officials»

Washington — Although more than three months have passed since Education Department officials announced their intention to seek major changes in the federal law governing the education of handicapped children, the Administration has thus far failed to send to the Congress specific proposals to amend the law.

Not exact matches

The state Education Department has since issued guidance to districts on how the evaluation system will run without the exam scores, and will keep working with districts on implementing the moratorium, an agency official said.

Since its implementation, school officials across the state have heavily criticized the state Department of Education for pushing the new mandates before local districts were ready for them, among other complaints

Since the sketchy Bush budget plan was submitted on Feb. 9, Education Department officials have contended that the Reagan budget proposals should be treated as Bush...

That is a shift in attitude for Mr. Darman, who essentially adopted the position Education Department officials have maintained since President Bush submitted his budget last month.

If anyone wants the documentation, I will send it to them, since I am the author of «Back - to - Basics Reform or... Skinnerian International Curriculum,» which is based on official documents out of the U.S. Education Department's office of educational research and improvement,...

But a ranking official in the Louisiana Department of Education, who asked that his name not be used, said that the existing cut - off scores, in place since 1978, «are already ridiculously low.»

Officials in Compton, Calif., have asked a federal court to give the city control over the 30,000 - student local school system, which has been run by the California education department since 1993.

Montana is no longer in jeopardy of losing federal funding for its schools since the state has come to a compromise with the U.S. Education Department on setting student proficiency targets, according to a government official.

Especially since the 2002 enactment of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the subsequent release of regulations implementing that federal law, officials in state departments of education have been scrambling to come up with NCLB - required evidence that their accountability tests are suitably aligned with their state's content standards — that is, with their state's curricular aims.