Sentence examples for federal education programs from inspiring English sources

The city's Office of the State Superintendent of Education, which oversees federal education programs, and the D.C. attorney general's office, which is handling the case for the city, both said Friday they could not comment on an ongoing lawsuit.

In choosing among equally qualified candidates for such positions the Secretary shall give favorable consideration to the candidates' experience in State or local educational agencies and their knowledge of the workings of Federal education programs in such agencies.

Second, present federal education programs impede all school choice.

One goal, for example, was to consolidate the hundreds of existing federal education programs.

The measure is not what President Bush originally sought: there is no fundamental overhaul of federal education programs.

The candidate proposes transforming federal education programs into a kind of voucher system, giving parents and students funds to attend the school of their choosing.

The state received $700 million from Race to the Top, a federal education program, and the Board of Regents set aside some of it for the Natural History Museum's program.

Changing the rules would deprive the government of revenue, and legislators might try to take it from some other federal education program.

Mr. Bush called it "the boldest reform of the federal education program in nearly four decades," although he had to make major concessions to get the bill passed.

This may seem like a simple concept, but it was the first time Democrats had offered such a fundamental overhaul of a federal education program -- one that would shift the attention away from preserving programs to boosting academic achievement, especially among poor students.

TITLE I, a $7.2 billion federal education program, was created in 1965 to narrow the gap between disadvantaged children and their better-off peers.