Last April, the federal Department of Education announced it was investigating a complaint alleging the university discriminated against female students, faculty and staff by failing to address a sexually hostile environmental caused by its failure to appropriately respond to reports of sexual assault.
During the bipartisan meeting, the President discussed his desire to find common ground on the need to redefine the federal role in education so that it is more flexible and better focused on responsibility, reform, and results.
The federal government must get into the education innovation business in a way that it just has not done.
It is also arguably enshrined in federal law, as the Elementary Secondary Education Act requires that states implement yearly assessments, for example.
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It will also help ensure that Federal programs and initiatives administered by the Department of Education and other Federal agencies maintain a focus on serving and meeting the educational needs of African Americans.
It also found broad support for research and development programs and a stronger federal focus on STEM education.
Board of Education ordering schools to be desegregated, and it took another decade for the federal government to enforce it in earnest.
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Different government factions favour earmarking the revenue from these partnerships for education or infrastructure, whereas other officials want it to go into the general federal coffers.
The reason: If a college's federal student-loan default rate surpasses 25% for three consecutive years, or 40% in a single year, it could lose eligibility for federal student aid for all students, according to the Department of Education.
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It gathered 116 participants including senior government officials from the Federal Ministries and specialized agencies concerned with education, planning, youth, literacy, as well as the representatives of civil society, academia, profssional bodies and the Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS).
It also postpones by two months steep automatic spending cuts to federal government spending on things like defence and education.
The federal lending program designed to make college education available to everyone is creating a pile of debt so large it is fanning worries that it has become too easy to borrow too much.
Ms. JANE ROSEN: Why is the Department Of Education charging these young borrowers far more than banks and the Federal Reserve Bank charge their customers, so that the cost of higher education is even more prohibitive than it needs to be?
It announced at Tuesday's meeting that it is suing the state in federal court, seeking a judge's declaration that its methods for special education placement are legal.
The state education commissioner threatened Friday to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid unless New York City showed it was prepared to put a new teacher-evaluation system in place, ratcheting up pressure on the city a day after a deal on new evaluations fell apart.
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