Sentences with phrase «state education department officials»

State Education Department officials said Thursday it could potentially cost the state $ 3.8 million to hire about four dozen staff members to help districts and schools implement the federal regulations.

The plan, which one state education department official called «the most comprehensive teacher - accountability plan in the country,» is the result of an 18 - month study conducted by the state education department with $ 35,000 appropriated by the state legislature in 1980.

In a bizarre case of possible test - tampering, federal prosecutors allege that a top state education department official in South Carolina conspired to switch the results of two General Educational Development exams to help a magistrate who had never earned a high school diploma keep his position.

Iannuzzi said Duncan chose the location because of the union's work on school reform, including a compromise with state Education Department officials to use student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Advocates and city parents have filed a lawsuit calling on state Education Department officials and city schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to reduce class sizes in the public schools.

State Education Department officials declined to comment on the suit, citing a policy against speaking about active litigation.

At the most recent summit, held in San Francisco in mid-October, a group of more than 200 state legislators and state education department officials huddled in a ballroom over education - technology strategy.

More specifically, it seems that New York State Education Department officials are acknowledging «significant flaws» with their new system of rating more than 126,000 teachers statewide by their effectiveness, and these errors are causing the state to push back the public release of these data.

And despite threats of state takeover of struggling schools, state education department officials said no New York City schools will be put under receivership this year.

More than 90 percent of the school districts in New York (some 633 of the nearly 700) had submitted teacher evaluation plans to Albany as of Friday — the soft deadline that state Education Department officials had set if schools did not want to jeopardize any of their state aid.

And although the original NCLB waiver doesn't expire until August, a state Education Department official said federal education officials have given states guidance essentially saying they won't be held accountable for parts of the law that are sunsetting.

Alhough students» scores on the Common Core - aligned state tests won't be used for teacher and principal evaluations, the growth scores will still be calculated and used for school accountability to comply with federal law, a state Education Department official said.

State Education Department officials said those previous standards were not certified as college - and career - ready by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education by an Aug. 12 deadline to request the waiver.

Learning Sciences International is hosting a webinar for districts, educational services agencies (ESAs) and state education department officials to learn more about products and services provided to support the implementation of Dr. Marzano's evaluation model.

As New York lawmakers hammered out the state budget Monday, state education department officials said the latest proposal would require many school districts to quickly revise their evaluation agreements with teachers unions in order to get increased school aid.

state education department officials say this will provide schools with more useful information about what students have actually learned, while other supporters say it will spare those students from taking tests they have no chance of passing.»

According to Chalkbeat, «state education department officials say this will provide schools with more useful information about what students have actually learned, while other supporters say it will spare those students from taking tests they have no chance of passing.»

State Education Department officials are still working on the project.

State Education Department officials say that some students with disabilities are unable to demonstrate proficiency on standardized tests even with certain accommodations.