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The ACT Government is served by a unified ACT Public Service agency, reporting to a single Head of Service. Administrative units, known as Directorates, are grouped under areas of portfolio responsibility. Each Directorate is led by a Director-General who reports to one or more Ministers. As of November 2020, there are nine Directorates: [8]
This is a list of schools in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), which houses Australia's capital city, Canberra.The Territory's education system consists of primary schools, which accommodate students from Kindergarten to Year 6, high schools, which accommodate students from Years 7 to 10, and secondary colleges, which are specialist Year 11–12 institutions.
Year 12 students wishing to pursue tertiary study must sit the ACT Scaling Test (AST) as part of a required Tertiary Entrance Statement. The ACT Scaling Test comprises three sections: multiple choice, short answer and essay. It used to scale the results of schools relative to each other rather than affecting the marks of individuals directly.
The ACT was co-founded by University of Iowa professor Everett Franklin Lindquist in 1959. Lindquist earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1927, and then immediately joined its College of Education faculty. In 1929, Lindquist constructed the tests used for the Iowa Academic Meet, a contest to identify Iowa's top high school scholars.
The problem emerged before the pandemic, according to data analyzed by the U.S. Education Department's National Center for Education. Yellow school bus service steadily declined from 2013 to 2019 ...
Schools can inspect a locker or backpack with ‘reasonable suspicion’ The mass shooting in Oxford, Michigan, prompted questions about whether schools can search a student’s backpack or locker.
Department of Education Organization Act: Created the United States Department of Education. Pub. L. 96–88: 1979 (No short title) Amended the Higher Education Act to allocate education funding reductions equally between the states. Pub. L. 96–96: 1980 Education Amendments of 1980 Pub. L. 96–374: 1980 (No short title)
Law enforcement found a black 3D-printed pistol and silencer in Mangione’s backpack, according to charging documents. Frye, six months on the job, said Mangione "was very cooperative."