Sentences with phrase «state authority»

The Journal Times reports that on Tuesday, Mason, along with state Sen. Dave Hansen, introduced the «Higher Ed, Lower Debt» bill in Madison, which would create a state authority to help borrowers refinance their student loans at lower interest rates, extend an existing state tax deduction to include student loan payments, and provide additional information and loan counseling to borrowers.

State financial regulators previously objected to the U.S. Department of Education's attempt to preempt state authority over student loan servicers and debt collectors on similar grounds.

Bill Johnson (R) address education overall (not just higher education) by lending support to local and state authority over education.

Though, Buck cosponsored the A PLUS Act which would have put more educational accountability on state authority.

The object of coercion is state authority in the person of certain civil employees or the general public represented by separate residents (counting aliens or civil employees of some countries).

It he'd been a more intelligent man he would have stopped at the armband phase and used state authority to force Jews into a permanent role as virtual slave labor.

If any requirement for the commencement of such proceedings is imposed by a State authority other than a requirement of the filing of a written and signed statement of the facts upon which the proceeding is based, the proceeding shall be deemed to have been commenced for the purposed of this subsection at the time such statement is sent by registered mail to the appropriate State authority.

Alaska's Department of Education & Early Development (EED) is the state authority that regulates the process of becoming an Alaska certified teacher.

Additionally, an upcoming ASCD webinar — The Every Student Succeeds Act: What You Need to Know — will provide educators with details about what's in the new law (state authority and flexibility, and new state accountability requirements), what's out (federally prescribed school turnaround strategies and the Highly Qualified Teacher requirements), and other key issues.

Although the observations that follow are based mainly on UK experience, similar trends appear to be emerging across global education systems: increased public accountability in tandem with greater autonomy for schools; an urgent imperative to close the opportunity gap between affluent and poorer communities; national, public or state authority over schools being replaced by stakeholder communities or not - for - profit mission - driven organisations impatient with endemic failures of the status quo.

Despite or perhaps because of this reality, the DFER arm in a state where ads are run merely discloses to the state authority that it received contributions from ERNA, not the hedge funders.

It also potentially undermines state authority, creating confusion over who is ultimately responsible for school accountability and improvement, and unearths issues related to the department's capacity to oversee multiple district applications and reform plans on top of the dozens of state waiver plans that it has already approved.

However, both the CORE districts and other districts can continue to innovate locally without state authority by developing, testing, and reporting measures that the state does not use for school classifications.

This fall, tens of thousands of students are returning to schools that have been placed under state authority.

It was Congress» intent to allow the secretary to issue regulations and guidance to clarify the law, but the bill prohibits any regulation «that would create new requirements inconsistent with or outside the scope of the law, including regulations that would take from a state the authority to establish a statewide accountability system.»

At the same time, the centers should resist the temptation to veer too far from state authority and become «clients» of the schools and districts they serve, cautioned Sam Redding, the director of the Center on Innovation and Improvement, a federally funded organization based in Lincoln, Ill., that helps regional educational centers work with states.

We appreciate the leadership of Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray and Representatives John Kline and Bobby Scott in crafting a compromise that achieves an appropriate balance between federal and state authority for education.

And then there's Massachusetts, where on Election Day, Question 2 will ask voters if they support giving the state the authority to lift the cap on charter schools.

These facts, along with the reality that the federal government is barred from developing a national curricula and doesn't have much ability to force states to stick to any promises to enact college - preparatory curricula standards, belies Malkin's argument that Common Core is merely an Obama administration effort to «usurp state authority» over education policy.

Through information and outreach, our goal is to generate policy that prohibits any state authority from adopting education programs, standards, or assessments that are national in nature, that infringe upon local district authority, or which may be used to coerce the development of local curricula or instruction.

Our State Authority is the California Department of Education.

State authority and the politics of educational change.

Prior to Superintendent Leslie «s arrival, state authority was held in low regard by Middle Region educators.

But new state authority under the law allows states to choose whether or not they will take advantage of this new allowable use of funds.

Expanded state authority in this new era in federal policy, and the focus on the whole child within the federal legislation, make this the perfect moment to intentionally address the issue of childhood trauma in development and implementation of a comprehensive state plan.

If congressional Republicans and members of the Administration feel that some policies in the regulations go too far in limiting state authority, that's fair, and they have tools at their disposal to change those policies, such as issuing non-regulatory guidance or re-regulating under the standard notice - and - comment process.

We're talking about near - obsequious touting of state authority.

And if identified schools in an LEA don't make sufficient progress to meet state «exit» requirements, Section 1111 (b)(3)(B) broadens state authority to act directly — potentially without LEA approval — to «take additional improvement actions» to implement «alternative evidence - based State - determined strategies» for improving the district's comprehensive and targeted improvement schools.

An Arizona law concerning standardized testing may put Washington's promises of increased state authority over education to the test.

That appraisal resonates in Georgia, where black voters turned out in large numbers several years ago to help pass a constitutional amendment confirming state authority to grant charters, but played a crucial role in the November defeat of the constitutional amendment for an Opportunity School District.

All are legal extensions of state authority, and, at a high level, I support all four.

It didn't take state authority away.

Sisulu eventually withdrew from the PAL site, continued its expansion to 5th grade, and has been reauthorized by the state authority.

These allegiances — to friends, to state authority — are tested by the Pentagon Papers, if rather more tested, perhaps, for the purposes of this fiction.

Using a cross-national, within - country design, Lee examined the levels of state authority between provinces that border another state.

She controlled for such domestic factors that could affect state authority including terrain ruggedness, distance from the capitol, population density, whether ethnic groups are split across a border, and so forth.

In some countries, scholars are also subject to violence not specifically for their individual views or actions but simply because of their connection to a higher education institution, which may be viewed as an easy target with predictable schedules, «a proxy for state authority or... a symbol of a modern, education - based society,» the report says.

The interchangeability provisions give the state the authority to move certain funds between state agencies that will save money in back office functions such as business services, information technology and call centers.

It's a state authority even though it's the Erie County Water Authority.»

Michael McKeon, a NYCLASS spokesman, at first denied in a statement Thursday that the group had been contacted by any federal or state authority but later vowed to «answer any and all questions, and fully cooperate.»

Councilman Robert Doherty did not violate the city ethics code when he appeared on behalf of a local bar before a state authority, the city Ethics Commission has ruled.

Jacobs» bill — which would require the Thruway give a total of about $ 1 million a year to Grand Island and about $ 500,000 each each to the City of Niagara Falls and Town of Tonawanda — is the latest development in an effort to pressure the state authority to install high - speed cashless tolling on the bridge or remove the tolls entirely.

The next year, in Arizona Free Enterprise PAC v. Bennett (2011) the Court further restricted state authority to regulate campaign finance to achieve greater equality, striking down provisions of Arizona's public financing system that gave extra government money to candidates who faced high - spending opponents or high levels of independent expenditures.

(CUNY is currently in the middle of a fifth year of successive $ 300 tuition increases, and will request state authority for another five years of increases of up to $ 300.

Since the IDA is a state authority, it falls under state reporting rules that use the initial signing statement as conclusive, or so said IDA Chairman Dave O'Halloran in explaining the board's actions.

It has to come through relevant state authority, which is the state legislative arm.

Though they are a state authority, Erie County and Erie County residents fund the control board to the tune of almost $ 500,000 a year for staff and administrative costs.

The new federal highway bill passed late last week gives New York State authority to use more federal

In 2015, the IDA was informed by the New York State Authority Budget Office of the State Comptroller's Formal Opinion No.2014 - F1 which stated that Industrial Development Agency's did not have the legal authority to create subsidiaries for purposes outside of those specifically authorized in their enabling legislation and that IDA's are not authorized,» to make grants or loans of its money to any type of entity.»

Cuomo pushed a package of water quality measures last year, culminating in a budget appropriation of $ 2.5 billion for water infrastructure, new testing requirements for smaller water systems like the one serving Hoosick Falls and state authority to set new limits for toxic chemicals like the one found in the Rensselaer County village.