Sentence examples for education mandate from inspiring English sources

A STATE education mandate that will require all high school students to receive a Regents diploma in order to graduate has generated opposition since it was first proposed in 1995.

The bill, a bipartisan compromise reached even as Congress was consumed by the events of Sept. 11, is to greatly enlarge the federal role in public education, mandate annual testing of children in grades three to eight and provide tutoring for children in failing schools.

Mr. Bush said his major legislative accomplishments were a $1.3 trillion tax cut, passed in May, and an education bill, passed this month, that would greatly expand the federal role in public education, mandate annual testing of children in grades three to eight and provide tutoring for children in persistently failing schools.

To strengthen the power to lead a healthy eating lifestyle, the New Guidelines put more focus on food education Day nurseries' food education mandate aims to strengthen the power to lead a healthy eating lifestyle, a fundamental condition for healthy life generally.

On his website, Osmond highlights education issues and says that along with the compulsory education mandate, state government needs to provide necessary funding for schools.

New York City has stepped up to the plate in recent years with the morning-after pill program and a city-wide sex education mandate.

But in the past session, Congress passed new election and education mandates and then failed to finance the new polling equipment and the rigorous educational testing.

The bill greatly enlarges the federal role in public education, mandates annual testing of children in grades three to eight and provides tutoring for children in failing schools.

In districts where property taxpayers have refused to make up state shortfalls, administrators have had to slash student programs and focus efforts on new education mandates.

Jane Briggs, a spokeswoman for the State Education Department, noted that "the vast majority of education mandates are required by state or federal law" and can be undone only through legislative action.

The sensitivity of the issue was evident when Mr. Cuomo's mandate-relief committee released a report on March 1 that addressed specific education mandates only in a footnote saying the Board of Regents was reviewing 53 mandate relief options, as was the governor's team.