Sentences with phrase «education coalition policy»

TweetOn May 10, the STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill.

TweetYesterday, the STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum co-hosted a briefing with Student Veterans of America.

The STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum joined the National Science Teachers Association, American Chemical Society, Afterschool Alliance, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Education Development Center, and the Association for Computing Machinery to host the another round of the Policy Forum's continued education briefing series on informal education.

TweetThe STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum was proud to collaborate with the Afterschool Alliance, the Association of Science — Technology Centers, the Education Development Center, and the National Science Teachers Association to host the first of a series of briefings on informal STEM education.

Yesterday, the STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum co-hosted a briefing with Student Veterans of America.

TweetThe STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum joined the National Science Teachers Association, American Chemical Society, Afterschool Alliance, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Education Development Center, and the Association for Computing Machinery to host the another round of the Policy Forum's continued education briefing series on informal education.

TweetOctober 26, 2016 The STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum and the Afterschool Alliance have collaborated to develop a toolkit of materials to help advocates make the case at the state and local level for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education to be a top priority and to integrate afterschool and informal learning strategies into overall plans -LSB-...]

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The Sikh Coalition, United Sikhs and the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund are lobbying members of Congress in an effort to pressure federal transportation authorities to re-examine a policy they say unfairly scrutinizes members of the Sikh community.

Responding to research from the Consumers Health Forum, the Heart Foundation, the Obesity Policy Coalition and the Public Health Association of Australia, the Council's CEO Geoff Parker said better education around diet and lifestyle, not taxes, is a far better and more commonsense approach for a healthier country.

We also helped develop the Men's Coalition — a partnership launched in November 2007 by a group of agencies (Men's Health Forum, Respect, Fatherhood Institute, Men's Advice Line, Relate, the Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at Bradford University, NCH and the White Ribbon Campaign) to ensure public policies take full account of the specific needs and experiences of men and boys (eg across health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and violence).

«The wheels are quite clearly coming off many of the Coalition Government's education policies.

To avoid a similar fiasco, the SPD has insisted this time on a number of social policies in the 2013 coalition treaty, such as the introduction of a minimum wage, more flexibility in the pension system, an increase in old - age pensions and benefits for the chronically ill as well as an increase in social expenditure on matters like education, health and family benefits.

The NASUWT has conducted an annual survey of teacher opinion since 2011 which highlights the growing concerns of the teacher profession about the impact of Coalition Government education policy.

Matthew Elliott Chairman, TaxPayers» Alliance Centralising education Neil O'Brien's uninformed dismissal of critics of government education policy, like myself, suggests that the Tory part of the coalition has no awareness of how divisive and unpopular its reforms have become (TP, February).

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The education secretary put a brave face on the announcement but it is one of the most significant U-turns in the coalition's already lengthy history of them and suggests a new fault - line between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives on education policy.

The coalition's efforts to clamp down on immigration have also been criticised for damaging the higher education sector, with figures from the industry saying government policy is robbing the UK of billions in investment.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «It is clear that on many of the key education policy issues the majority of parents do not share Coalition Ministers» views».

«The education policies of the previous Coalition Government, continued by this one, premised on extensive and excessive autonomy for schools and the obsessive pursuit of deregulation, have rapidly increased covert selection, often targeted at pupils from materially deprived backgrounds.

I have no doubt that this Coalition Government's greatest radicalism, and the one for which it will be most remembered for, relates to education policies and, in particular, the implementation of Free Schools.

«On the issues which parents value highly, the Coalition's core education policies have failed to deliver.»

Lib Dem delegates are expected to offload their frustrations over a series of coalition policies that they feel are being driven too much by Conservative dogma, including those on education and NHS reform.

«The Deputy Prime Minister's attempts to distance himself from the failed education policies of the Coalition fool no - one.

With the Liberal Democrat leader set on highlighting the impact his party has had on the coalition's education policies, Clegg said he is heartened that there are signs the attainment gap is narrowing.

The Coalition Government's education policies, which have allowed schools to charge for educational activities which were previously free and which have seen the abolition of the national guidance on school charging policies, have been instrumental in driving the increasing financial burdens that parents face for items such as school uniform and equipment.

«Classroom teachers will be bitterly disappointed that Nick Clegg deliberately avoided taking the opportunity to discuss the Coalition Government's policy on education and hear the concerns of frontline staff.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education (DfE) of «National Standards of Excellence for Headteachers», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «With increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leaders.

«Teachers and support staff are being left to pick up the pieces of this Coalition's failed education, social and economic policies.

The pupil premium of # 600 a year is widely seen as a cornerstone of the coalition's education policy in England.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

And again there's enough Tories with reservations to make the necessary numbers to ensure that policy is checked while plans to introduce compulsory sex and relationships education could be carried with the same coalition of support.

In his address to conference, after another hard - hitting attack on Michael Gove and Coalition education policy (it was, after all, the Education session), Ed Balls set out his economic alternative to their cuts agenda — «put growth and jobs firseducation policy (it was, after all, the Education session), Ed Balls set out his economic alternative to their cuts agenda — «put growth and jobs firsEducation session), Ed Balls set out his economic alternative to their cuts agenda — «put growth and jobs first».

The coalition government's approach was «incompatible with Liberal Democrat education policy,» said Mr Downes.

With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast - paced reforms made during the coalition's time in office.

Through lobbying, advocacy, coalition building, citizen education and policy development, EPL / Environmental Advocates has been New York's environmental conscience - ensuring that environmental laws are enforced; that new measures are enacted when necessary; and that the public is informed of, and participates in, important environmental policy debates.

Such issues came to mind during remarks by Daryl Chubin, senior vice president for policy and research at the National Action Coalition for Minorities in Engineering, and Shirley Malcom, director of the AAAS Directorate for Education and Human Resources.

Activities supported by the Fund include the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition's Student Essay, Poster, and Digital Media Competitions; efforts to promote the integration of human rights into STEM education; technical training of human rights practitioners in innovative applications of science and technology; collaborative partnerships between scientists, engineers and human rights organizations; and policy engagement on issues at the nexus of science and human rights.

He was a prominent critic of the past government's education policies and a supporter of the Coalition's plans.

Participating organizations are based in either Washington, DC, San Francisco, CA, Ottawa or Toronto, Canada and include: American Library Association, Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, Center for Democracy and Technology, Citizen Lab, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Future of Music Coalition, Internet Education Foundation, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Media Access Project, National Hispanic Media Coalition, New America Foundation, Progress and Freedom Foundation, Public Knowledge, TechFreedom, and Technology Policy Institute.

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Congress should set a national goal of immediately connecting every school to the developing «information highway» and insuring that every classroom has access to sophisticated data networks by the turn of the century, a policy statement released here by a new national coalition of education organizations urges.

Because the education - reform agenda has not focused on this type of policy to date, as Finn notes, there would not be a strong coalition in place to counter the opposition.

Still, Strauss does an absolutely superb job of introducing the co-chair of the Broader Bolder coalition as «Helen Ladd, the Edgar T. Thompson Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Duke University who has spent years researching school accountability, education finance, teacher labor markets, and school choice.»

The education coalition will not permit real policy change without a lot of new money.

The Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy has proposed language that would simply allow the Department of Education to reserve up to one percent of funding of all ESEA programs (except Title I) to award grants for innovation and research, with grant amounts based on the tiered evidence model used in i3.

Washington, D.C. (February 21, 2018)-- States are pursuing innovative policies and using best practices to improve the nation's schools, and a coalition of organizations representing America's chief state school officers, legislators, state board members and state education policy leaders today announced a campaign to highlight the progress underway in states across the country.

Elaine Weiss is the National Coordinator for the Broader Bolder Approach to Education, where she works with four co-chairs, a high - level Advisory Board, and multiple coalition partners to promote a comprehensive, evidence - based set of policies to allow... continued

Elaine Weiss is the National Coordinator for the Broader Bolder Approach to Education, where she works with four co-chairs, a high - level Advisory Board, and multiple coalition partners to promote a comprehensive, evidence - based set of policies to allow all children to thrive in school and life.

Changing governance arrangements clearly can make a difference in the way urban public school systems function, but such a strategy requires the right combination of ingredients - committed and skilled leadership by the mayor, willingness to use scarce resources, a stable coalition of supporters, appropriate education policies, and a cadre of competent, committed professionals to implement the reforms.