Sentences with phrase «education coalition for»

One's familial education choices don't have to equate to isolation from engagement in our public schools, says Andrea Reyes Ramirez, the executive director of the Faith and Education Coalition for the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

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BI: Yukong Zhao is the president of the Asian American Coalition for Education, a nonprofit organization fighting for Asian - American educational rights.

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 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 education to be a top priority and to integrate afterschool and informal learning strategies into overall plans -LSB-...]

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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 eEducation 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 eEducation Development Center, and the Association for Computing Machinery to host the another round of the Policy Forum's continued education briefing series on informal eeducation briefing series on informal educationeducation.

Coalitions build cities» capacity through an education program, providing cities with: tools; support by connecting them with organisations who can prepare them for green bonds issuance; and a platform for knowledge and best practice sharing between cities» treasuries.

«Accord [a coalition for inclusive education] hates us declaring mission to people, and they think we are using schools to proselytise, but it's not as explicit as that.

The disingenuity of, for instance, the American Psychological Association in claiming that it does not advocate the acceptance or legitimation of homosexuality is all too clear from its membership in the «Just the Facts Coalition,» along with the National Education Association and other groups.

It is likely that the coalition formed there failed to notice that their merger was never perfected, for they separately envisioned two very different foundations: «one fully under the control of the bishops and one committed, above all else, to theological education... [and] a church - sponsored university but otherwise one without religious tests or even theological schools, one open to the latest science and scholarship.»

Preemptive Love Coalition is a global community of peacemakers remaking the world by providing lifesaving heart surgeries for children, food and shelter for those persecuted by extremists, education for at - risk children and small - business empowerment grants so people can put their own lives back together.

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

Alcoholics Anonymous, drug rehabilitation centers, coalitions for social and political reforms, therapy clusters, the adult education movement — these and other activities provide opportunities for people to «get involved,» without the benefit of clergy.

Coalition for Marriage, a group which supports the traditional common - law definition of marriage, said the figures were regrettable and highlighted a need for the Government to better - support marriage via education and the tax system.

Preemptive Love Coalition — Helping provide clothing, housing, education and legal help for families suffering persecution.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Chair of the Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education, Rev Stephen Terry, said: «People are right to oppose school places being obtained through what is in effect cheating.

Stan serves as Treasurer for the Food Safety Services Providers (Coalition of Third - Party Certification Organizations) and sits on the board for the Partnership of Food Safety Education.

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.

It's a similar but slightly different reality than that of stay - at - home dads — the trail - blazing «feminist, father, and husband who doesn't care what the gender roles are,» is how Diane Sollee, director of the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education, sees them.

Visit helpful sites like one set up by the Military Child Education Coalition, a nonprofit that advocates for military kids in the school system, and the American Academy of Pediatrics Military Child Support site.

But you wouldn't know it by listening to an angry coalition of high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the food.

She is member of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) and works to provide physiologic birth options and education in her community.

After moving to Kansas City, KS in 2014, she returns to Nebraska monthly to see patients at MilkWorks, and has contracted with the Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition, the Kansas High Five for Mom and Baby hospital project, and the Kansas chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics to provide education to medical professionals in Kansas.

A coalition led by the New York State United Teachers and the Alliance for Quality Education is launching a direct mail campaign today slamming Democratic senators who voted «yes» on a budget resolution that included Gov. David Paterson's proposed education spendEducation is launching a direct mail campaign today slamming Democratic senators who voted «yes» on a budget resolution that included Gov. David Paterson's proposed education spendeducation spending cuts.

Sarah Brown established children's charity Theirworld and became the executive chairwoman of the Global Business Coalition for Education among other things.

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 coalition's junior party says # 400 million of funding for the Department for Education's «basic need budget», which provides cash helping areas where there is severe competition for limited school places, has been diverted.

Conservative plans to increase childcare ratios are conspicuously absent from today's final proposals from the Department for Education, handing Nick Clegg a sizeable coalition victory over Michael Gove.

Its practical application, and that of the Coalition's Localism Bill, can be seen to have shifted responsibility for delivering services and managing budgets onto the local and community level, while effectively withholding power through enforcing cuts and strengthening government oversight, as with Gove's current dominion over education provision.

Appointed parliamentary secretary for pensions by Winston Churchill, in the coalition government of 1940, she went on to become minister for Education in the landmark Attlee government of 1945, introducing free milk for schoolchildren and raising the school leaving age.

Education Reform Now, a coalition of groups pushing for changes that would improve New York's chances at landing «Race to the Top» funds, launched a statewide TV ad that blasts the teachers union for the state's Round I failure.

A year into the coalition and the Department for Education is forging ahead with far reaching reforms despite opposition and unprecedented reductions in spending.

In a strongly worded letter, Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, has accused officials at the Department for Education, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, of breaking the Coalition Agreement, by intervening in a High Court case over inclusive admissions in religious schools.

Among the signatories to the joint letter are former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson, President of the Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain OBE, former government integration tsar Ted Cantle CBE, the General Secretaries of the National Education Union Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, as well as a number of high - profile authors, academics, and entertainers.

This event is sponsored by the New York City Central Labor Council, the New York State AFL - CIO, the AFL - CIO, Organizing 2.0, the Consortium for Worker Education and the New York Paid Leave Coalition.

The Alliance for Quality Education, a statewide coalition of education groups including teacher unions, contends that all additional state financial assistance allotted to districts in 2016 - 17 should be distributed according to the state's «foundation» formula, which gives extra weight in funding distribution to districts with students who are poor or non-English Education, a statewide coalition of education groups including teacher unions, contends that all additional state financial assistance allotted to districts in 2016 - 17 should be distributed according to the state's «foundation» formula, which gives extra weight in funding distribution to districts with students who are poor or non-English education groups including teacher unions, contends that all additional state financial assistance allotted to districts in 2016 - 17 should be distributed according to the state's «foundation» formula, which gives extra weight in funding distribution to districts with students who are poor or non-English speaking.

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The Greens are currently claiming on ITV that the collapse in Lib Dem support and switch to them reflects the toxicity of their association with the Conservative Party: #BESFactCheck suggests that it is more likely reflect the fact that voters do not credit the Liberal Democrats with any of the major successes or the failures of the coalition government: fewer than one in five voters believe that the Lib Dems in government have been responsible for the upturn in the economy, changes in the NHS, changes in levels of crime, changes in levels of immigration and changes in the standards of education.

As Shadow Education Secretary, Burnham opposed the coalition government's plans for «free schools».

Also at 6:30 p.m., New York Says Yes, a coalition that lobbies for a state constitutional convention, hosts an empowerment and education event about this year's ballot referendum, Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse, the Bronx.

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.

«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.

In June 2010 he was appointed by David Cameron's coalition government to head an independent review into poverty, [14] which proposed adopting a new measure centred around life - chance indicators and increasing funding for early years education.

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.

The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has described as unreasonable a 48 - hour ultimatum given by the Ghana Education Service (GES), to some Basic Certificate Examination School (BECE) candidates for the selection of schools.

The Accabonac Protection Committee, Amagansett Springs Aquifer Protection, Concerned Citizens of Montauk, the New York chapter of the International Dark Sky Association, Long Island Businesses for Responsible Energy, the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, the Northwest Alliance, Renewable Energy Long Island, and the Quiet Skies Coalition contributed to and endorsed the guide.

The BHA is a member of the National Children's Bureau Sex Education Forum (SEF), the End Violence Against Women Coalition and the Children's Rights Alliance for England.

We have done many great things in coalition; raising the basic tax threshold; making university education funding cheaper for the poorest; creating the pupil premium scheme to replace EMA; scrapping ID cards; banning wheel clamping on private land; and increasing CGT for higher rate tax payers, to name just a few things.

Following the submission today of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions of millions of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing public sector workers who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retirement.

Meanwhile, students, parents and community members organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen Action of New York and the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice delivered valentines to state lawmakers» local offices in the Capital District Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island asking them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education Education, Citizen Action of New York and the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice delivered valentines to state lawmakers» local offices in the Capital District Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island asking them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education education aid cuts.