Sentences with phrase «education election time»

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«B.C. kids deserve a quality education all the time, not just every four years when an election is looming.

This meeting was held nearly two months after the election, by which time, I am not aware of any attempts by the Religious Education Council to approach me, as vice-chair, to help with these arrangements.»

Possible candidates at the time included Ronald Castorina Jr., a Republican commissioner for the City Board of Election; Lisa Grey, a lawyer; Janine Materna, president of the Pleasant Plains, Prince's Bay, Richmond Valley Civic Association; Carmine Morano, who ran as the Independence Party candidate for Congress in 2008; and Michael Reilly, a retired NYPD lieutenant and currently president of Community Education Council 31.

(CNN)-- All four Democrats vying for a spot on the ballot in New Jersey's special U.S. Senate election debated for the first time Monday, revealing similar stances on foreign policy but disputing Newark Mayor Cory Booker's record on education.

L - R: Deputy Director, Training, Mr Ifenayi Agoha, Los Angeles County's Chief Election Official, Dean Logan, External Member, The Electoral Institute (TEI), Dr Kole Shettima, Acting Director General, TEI, Dr Sa'ad Idris, Lead Facilitator, Conny McCormack, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), Prince Adedeji Soyebi and Deputy Director, Research and Documentation, Mr Emeka Nwachukwu take time off for a group photo at a professional training in Elections, Electoral Data Management, Storage and Analysis, which began on 14th December in California, United States.

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.

Moskowitz answered about a dozen questions, with topics including whether there is any potential mayoral candidate who embodies what she wants in a candidate, whether she plans on being involved in the 2017 election, why she is «such a lightning rod» for criticism, obstacles ahead, the City's pre-K program, whether she'll run for office at another time, whether she reflexively criticizes all education - related actions of Mayor de Blasio, whether she's concerned that her influence on state government will diminish because of her decision, discipline and suspension polices at Success Academy schools, her plans for other projects and her view on potential mayoral candidacies of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..

So people have a hard time connecting compelling current concerns — such as widespread corruption, or non-competitive elections, or a need for major improvements in such fundamental policy areas as education — with the possibility for reform through state constitutional change.

Paul Peterson interviews Robert Shapiro, an expert on public opinion, about how the partisan divide in education policy is shifting, as issues of school quality and accountability have produced «conflicted liberals,» at the same time that the presidential election is creating «conflicted conservatives.»

California Research Project Timed to Elevate Education in Fall Elections, Inform Next Governor (EdSource) Martin West and Eric Taylor have contributed to this forthcoming research.

Naturally, the discussion returned during the election campaign this year, with Labor promising $ 400 million for teaching scholarships aimed at encouraging recent STEM graduates to enter the education field.4 At the same time, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull floated the idea of making maths and science a requirement for finishing high school, stating it was a «big priority» for the Government.

«Time is short: a new education bill may be proposed soon after the election.

Everyone knows that teacher unions matter in education politics and policies, a reality that is never more evident than at election time.

With a general election set to occur sometime before May 2015, it was also a good time to remove this thorn in the side of England's teachers and teachers» unions (and the rest of what Gove, channeling Bill Bennett, called the education «blob») and to replace him with a woman.

At this General Election, it is time more than ever to vote for education.»

In the summer of 2000, perfectly timed to shape the election debate over education reform, came a new RAND study that claimed to contradict the conventional research wisdom on the connection between school expenditures and class size on the one hand and student achievement on the other.

Monica Duvall hasn't taken much time to consider the election of South Carolina's next state superintendent of education — she's been too busy keeping track of her 7 - year - old son's day - to - day schooling.

Framing this year's election of Indiana's top school official as a choice between maintaining the status quo or «rapid changes» to the state's education policy, The Times of Northwest Indiana says it chooses continuing change.

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The application comes at a critical time for both teacher recruitment and apprenticeship creation, with education ministers under pressure to boost the number of trainees entering the profession and meet a pledge made by the prime minister during the general election campaign to generate three million apprenticeship starts over the course of this parliament.

The time frame was tight, but it would keep them from running into any issues with the 2016 elections making it difficult or toxic to legislate on education.

Going into Tuesday's midterm elections, education reformers thought it was time to clean house.

The education secretary has a lot to do after wielding her «stick» during the election campaign: primary heads whose pupils can't do their times - tables to be removed; children retaking SATs at the beginning of secondary school; do the EBacc or forget ever being considered an outstanding school.

The state Public Education Department called it a «frivolous» challenge timed to the fall elections.

Austin, who has been working in education reform for two decades, said it is a unique time in LA Unified's history with the election of a pro-reform majority of the school board who won their seats without the support of an incumbent mayor.

For those who remember the expensive Ed in»08 project that was unable to promote education as a major election topic during the Obama / McCain campaign, it will be interesting to see whether the times have changed enough to make education a more talked about topic in 2012.

Education Week From the White House to Capitol Hill, the winners in this week's elections won't have much time to savor their victories.

On Thursday night at Madison West High School, Cap Times education reporter Amber C. Walker and Simpson Street Free Press editor Taylor Kilgore hosted a forum for the upcoming School Board election, asking questions about budgets, charter schools and recruiting teachers of color.

As I have touched upon repeatedly since last week's election, now is the time to launch a serious offensive against the U.S. Department of Education.

Of the many surprises this election season, one surely was the number of times the issue of «education» came up in President Obama and Governor Romney's third debate — a debate ostensibly about foreign policy.

The two men share vastly different backgrounds and overall educational beliefs, leading the LA Weekly to characterize the election as a reform vs. union battle for the heart of the Democratic Party and the Los Angeles Times to call it «a prime example of the strange rift in education, in which liberal Democrats are sharply divided on such issues as charter schools, job protections for teachers, the authority of the federal government in schools and the value of standardized test scores.»

Add in Malloy and Pryor's absurd teacher evaluation system, along with Malloy's failure to properly fund Connecticut's Education Cost Sharing school funding formula and you have a situation that could easily cost Malloy ten times the number of votes he won by in the 2010 election.

But Jonathan Simons, head of education at think tank Policy Exchange, told Schools Week: «It's the right thing to do, under the circumstances — the delay caused by various elections and the referendum and subsequent political changes meant that the timing would have been unreasonably tight.

Since his election to the Board of Education in July 2007, Dr. Vladovic has been a strong advocate for a number of important LAUSD issues including eliminating year - round calendars, ensuring health benefits for all employees, personalizing education, championing for the arts, fighting for more environmentally safe schools, supporting drop - out prevention and mentorship programs, and maintaining world class instruction through difficult budgEducation in July 2007, Dr. Vladovic has been a strong advocate for a number of important LAUSD issues including eliminating year - round calendars, ensuring health benefits for all employees, personalizing education, championing for the arts, fighting for more environmentally safe schools, supporting drop - out prevention and mentorship programs, and maintaining world class instruction through difficult budgeducation, championing for the arts, fighting for more environmentally safe schools, supporting drop - out prevention and mentorship programs, and maintaining world class instruction through difficult budget times.

Since then, he oversaw the implementation of one of the nation's most ambitious education overhauls, ran in perhaps the state's most memorable down - ballot election in recent memory — and lost — moved to Florida to take command of that state's Department of Education, and ultimately lost that job amid a controversy over emails he sent during his time as state superintendent ineducation overhauls, ran in perhaps the state's most memorable down - ballot election in recent memory — and lost — moved to Florida to take command of that state's Department of Education, and ultimately lost that job amid a controversy over emails he sent during his time as state superintendent inEducation, and ultimately lost that job amid a controversy over emails he sent during his time as state superintendent in Indiana.

While a formal civics course is not offered until high school, kindergarten students learn to «identify personal traits, such as courage, honesty, and responsibility» and third - graders learn to «explain how local government officials are chosen, e.g., election, appointment,» according to the Idaho State Department of Education's social studies standards.22 By the time students reach 12th grade, they are more prepared to learn civics - related topics, such as the electoral process and role of political parties; the methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, than students with no prior exposure to a civics curriculum.

Few people, in education or out of it, spend five years in public life as eventful as the time since Tony Bennett's election to the office of Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2008.

The Seattle Times ran an important front page article today on the current election in the Seattle Education Association (SEA), «Politics plays role in teachers union vote for president».

Despite Ofsted's Sir Michael Wilshaw urging that debate should move away from school structures, the first report from the House of Commons Education Select Committee since the general election focused on one of the key structural developments of recent times.

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«This radio advertising remains at the centre of the U of C audit because, as confirmed by Loughead, the funding for the project did come from the Science Education Fund, but Loughead, and Cooper at the time of the planning of the ads, according to Loughead, felt that the ads were an extension of the educational aspects of the video, not third - party election advertising.»

The case, Taypotat v. Taypotat, dealt with a challenge to a minimum education requirement in the Kahkewistahaw Election Act, and a long - time chief who became ineligible under the act having only obtained a grade ten education in a residential school.