Sentence examples for education mandates from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

New York led the nation once again in overall spending, at $18,126 per student, with school officials pointing to high personnel costs and a large number of state education mandates, among other factors, that push up the cost of education in the state.

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.

This is not the "thorough and efficient" education mandated by the New Jersey courts for all of the state's children To provide a private school education, paid for by public money, to a privileged few is both undemocratic and unfair.

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.

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.

The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill today that would dramatically extend the federal role in public education, mandating annual testing of children in Grades 3 to 8, providing tutoring for children in persistently failing schools and setting a 12-year timetable for closing chronic gaps in student achievement.