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The Education Reform Act 1988 introduced a new compulsory subject of technology, but there were insufficient funds to equip all schools to teach the subject. A first attempt at developing specialist schools to solve this issue, the City Technology Colleges (CTC) programme between 1988 and 1993, had produced only 15 schools despite an initial aim of 200, [10] [11] and had to be suspended after ...
The next year's education white paper Choice and Diversity: a New Framework for Schools resulted in the policies implemented by the Education Act 1993. The act allowed secondary schools to specialise in non-core subjects, thus introducing the new Technology Colleges (later specialist schools) programme. [17]
Total federal education funding increased from $42.2 billion in 2001 (the fiscal year before the law's passage) up to $55.7 billion in 2004. [109] A new $1 billion Reading First program was created, distributing funds to local schools to improve the teaching of reading, and over $100 million for its companion, Early Reading First. [ 109 ]
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has stated that training is part of the prevention of sexual harassment in schools and in their 2001 publishing of Sexual Harassment Guidance: Harassment of Students by School Employees, Other Students or Third Parties, they have indicated that not only should academic institutions ...
A significant change to state NAEP occurred in 2001 with the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, also referred to as "No Child Left Behind" legislation. This legislation requires that states which receive Title I funding must participate in state NAEP assessments in mathematics and reading at grades 4 and 8 every two ...
White papers in 1995 and 2001 discuss special education in the country. Local schools are given some independent authority. [39] Both modifications and accommodations are recommended, depending on the student's individual needs.
President-elect Trump announced two new foreign ambassadors on Tuesday in a Truth Social post. “It is my great honor to announce that John Arrigo will serve as the next United States Ambassador ...
White papers have tried to perform the dual role of presenting firm government policies while at the same time inviting opinions upon them." [6] In Canada, a white paper is "a policy document, approved by Cabinet, tabled in the House of Commons and made available to the general public". [7]