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- Special Olympics Received $4.4 Million in Funding From U.S Department of Education to Support Youth Initiatives
- Today, Special Olympics launched Project UNIFY, a new youth initiative which engages young people throughout the United States to serve as agents of change and advocates of respect in their schools. This initiative was made possible by $4.4 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Education pursuant to fiscal...
- Research articles 2008-09-18
- State hoping for OK to average test scores
- The option to average test scores to let schools pass No Child Left Behind is on top of the State Board of Education's wish list of changes to No Child Left Behind requirements that they will be submitting to federal officials. Each year the Utah State Board of...
- Research articles 2008-02-02
- Test-score option sought
- The option to average test scores to let schools pass No Child Left Behind is on top of the State Board of Education's wish list of changes to No Child Left Behind requirements that they will be submitting to federal officials. Each year the Utah State Board of...
- Research articles 2008-02-02
- Edvance Research to Provide Keynote at Public School Choice Conference
- SAN ANTONIO -- Kristin Mitchell, Vice President of Emerging Practices at Edvance Research, will provide a keynote address at the Public School Choice Conference on Thursday, December 6th in Columbia, South Carolina. The forum is being hosted by the South Carolina Department of Education. The conference is targeted to...
- Research articles 2007-12-04
- ENGAGING PARENTS IN EDUCATION: Lessons From Five Parental Information and Resource Centers
- ENGAGING PARENTS IN EDUCATION: Lessons From Five Parental Information and Resource Centers. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement, 2007. This text profiles five federally funded Parental Information and Resource Centers PIRC programs that successfully demonstrated how parents can become involved in their children's education. It...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Sorry tale of millions wasted
- THIS is a sorry tale best told in chronological fashion, if for no other reason than it is very complicated, and it begins in the early 1990s when California's Department of Education gave millions of dollars in federal funds to some so-called "community groups," ostensibly to underwrite citizenship and English...
- Research articles 2007-06-26
- Sorry tale of millions squandered
- THIS IS A sorry tale best told in chronological fashion, if for no other reason than it is very complicated, and it begins in the early 1990s when California's Department of Education gave millions of dollars in federal funds to some so-called "community groups," ostensibly to underwrite citizenship and English...
- Research articles 2007-06-26
- Whistleblowers enforce procurement ethics
- Two procurement professionals, Janet A. Garrison and Herb F. Hyman, share similar stories. During the course of their employment with public entities in Florida, they uncovered unethical procurement practices. They then became "whistleblowers," by which an individual reveals wrongdoing within an organization to those in positions of authority or to...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- CREW Asks for IG Investigation Into Dept. of Ed. Use of Private Email Accounts
- To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORSContact: Naomi Seligman Steiner of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, +1-202-408-5565 WASHINGTON, May 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREW asked the Department of Education Inspector General's office to initiate an investigation into employees who -- in violation of...
- Research articles 2007-05-16
- California Brady Campaign Meets With Sacramento Leaders May 23 to do Something About Rising Gun Violence
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Karen Arntzen, Vice President CA Chapters Brady CPGV, +1- 925-937-6360, cell: +1-925-381-7814, 1ofamillion@comcast.net, Hilary McLean, CA Department of Education Press Secretary, +1-916-319-0818, hmclean@cde.ca.gov SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The California Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence BCPGV will hold a Lobby Day at the State Capitol...
- Research articles 2007-05-10
- The metrics of success.
- Byline: Robert Muir Apr 18, 2007 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Robert Solow's thesis on the economic stimulation produced by innovation won him the 1987 Nobel Prize. Solow estimated that technical progress was responsible for about 80 per cent of increases in output...
- Research articles 2007-04-18
- Taking the lead in an emergency.(LEADERSHIP MATTERS)
- THE EVENTS OF RECENT YEARS--FROM THE TERRORIST attacks of 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina to school shootings--have taught us some hard lessons. We know we have to be better prepared in emergency situations. School administrators are faced with the extremely daunting responsibility of keeping their students and...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- AAC & U President serves on Department of Education steering committee
- Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings appointed AAC & U President Carol Geary Schneider to a twenty-four-member steering committee that is providing input to the secretary as she sets priorities for action following the March 22 National Summit on Higher Education. In inviting Schneider to participate, Secretary Spellings noted AAC &...
- Research articles 2007-03-22
- CTB/McGraw-Hill Awarded Missouri Department of Education Contract for Statewide Assessment Program
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Media Inquiries: Kelley Carpenter Director, Communications (831) 393 - 7196 kelley_carpenter@mcgraw-hill.com MONTEREY, Calif., Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CTB/McGraw- Hill, the nation's leader in K-12 and adult education assessment solutions, today announced an award from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education DESE to administer the statewide...
- Research articles 2007-02-28
- Inspector General Condemns Reading First Program
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Naomi Seligman Steiner of Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington, 202-408-5565 WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Department of Education Inspector General IG released another in a series of reports highly critical of the Reading First program, part of the Bush administration's signature "No Child...
- Research articles 2007-02-22
- Carpet Reward program accepting nominations.(news & views)
- For the fourth consecutive year, Shaw Contract Group will award free high-performance carpet to a Blue Ribbon or Title I Distinguished School through its Carpet Reward program. Schools that have earned 2006 Blue Ribbon of Distinguished School status from the U.S. Department of Education are eligible...
- Research articles 2007-02-01
- The votes are in, but the issues are unchanged
- The results of the midterm elections are now settled with both the House of Representatives and the Senate turning from Republican to Democratic. When either turns over, all the committee chairmanships and the leadership positions change parties as well, so George Miller of California will chair the House Committee on...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Review finds flaws in reading first program.(Department of Education's Office of Inspector General report)(Brief article)
- The U.S. Department of Education's ED Office of Inspector General released a report that found that the grant approval process for the Reading First program was fundamentally flawed because of ethics violations and favoritism. The report substantiates claims by publishers of reading...
- Research articles 2006-11-07
- Phyllis Lewis, Indianapolis, Coordinator for Health Programs, Indiana Department of Education, was awarded the Maynard K Hine Medal at the IUPUI Alumni Leadership Dinner earlier this year
- Phyllis Lewis, Indianapolis, Coordinator for Health Programs, Indiana Department of Education, was awarded the Maynard K Hine Medal at the IUPUI Alumni Leadership Dinner earlier this year. The award is given to alumni who have demonstrated unique and significant contributions to the IUPUI campus. Lewis represents the IU School of...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Summit to focus on afterschool programs.(National League of Cities's Institute for Youth, Education, and Families )
- On May 22-24, hundreds of city officials will convene in Washington, D.C., for what promises to be a pivotal event in the afterschool movement. The National City Afterschool Summit, sponsored by NLC's Institute for Youth, Education, and Families YEF Institute, will offer municipal...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
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