In 2015, as part of the Victorian
Governments Education State Consultation, ECA Victoria Branch joined with other peak organisations in Victoria and this is what we did:
Not exact matches
The
state government has awarded Cockram Construction a $ 13.4 million contract to build a new primary school in Baldivis, adding to the builder's
education centres portfolio.
The Federal
Government's higher
education reform package is still being analysed by universities nationwide, and the reforms are yet to be passed by parliament, but benefits and concerns have already been identified by the
State's universities.
But eliminating that deduction is already opposed by Republican lawmakers from high - tax
states such as New York and California, who say it helps their
state governments pay for social programs, including public
education.
Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of
state and local
government spending is for
education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.
In response to these strains,
state and local
governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher
education, cut spending on K — 12
education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.
While property taxes in the
state serve as an important source of revenue for local
governments and public services (including public
education) the average Alabama homeowner pays just $ 550 per year in property taxes.
Pew said less money is being allocated to core
government services such as
education and public safety as
states try to prop up their funds.
While the Better
Government Association has claimed Illinois» budget contains no fat to trim, a deeper analysis reveals the state has many areas of expensive inefficiency to reform in state and local government costs, the Medicaid program and K - 12
Government Association has claimed Illinois» budget contains no fat to trim, a deeper analysis reveals the
state has many areas of expensive inefficiency to reform in
state and local
government costs, the Medicaid program and K - 12
government costs, the Medicaid program and K - 12
education.
Yet the draft describes wide - ranging protections, saying, «Persons and organizations do not forfeit their religious freedom when providing social services,
education, or healthcare; earning a living, seeking a job, or employing others; receiving
government grants or contracts; or otherwise participating in the marketplace, the public square, or interfacing with federal,
state, or local
governments.»
Ever since 1947, when the Supreme Court first applied the First Amendment's establishment clause to the
states in Everson v. Board of
Education, the court has held that
government must be neutral on matters of religion.
As
education is not among the matters specifically assigned by the Constitution to the Federal
Government, it is by implication delegated to the
states.
The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from
government, including
education, due to cut of the
state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.
Still, the predominance of
state and local responsibility for
education does not exclude the Federal
Government entirely from the sphere of
education.
ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based
governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are
governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and
state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and
state is for protection and
education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is
state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the
state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?
Most of our
state governments and the U.S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare follow an intentional program of deinstitutionalization.
Specifically, a very rapid expansion in higher
education in the United
States took place during the 1 960s, and it did so not by some strange magic in the modernization process itself but as a result of conscious planning and huge outlays by the federal
government.
Fact is Utah is a in a huge dispute with the Federal
Government over Federal Land 65 % of the
state and
Education.
She'll be joined in the department by Nick Gibb who returns to
Government as Minister of
State for Schools, «to ensure no let up in
education reforms», according to a tweet from the Prime Minister as David Cameron announced his appointment.
It presents the Kerala model as something from which the Union
Government and other Indian
states like UP and Bihar have to learn their lesson that without a basis in social development like literacy, health and women's
education and social security there can be no participatory economic expansion which is necessary if economic growth has to serve society.
Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in
government,
education, and the family by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal,
state and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.
About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five
states, «
education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into
government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.
They created a ruling institution for purposes of war and
government which was based on the division of the empire into military fiefs; a chancery for the preparation of
state documents and communication throughout the empire; and a religious institution which, in addition to maintaining the legal and cult services, was expected through the control of
education to be an instrument of social cohesion.
But after World War II, the Court began to insert itself into what James Madison called the «internal» objects of
state governments, particularly the culture - forming institutions, including
education, religion, marriage, and
government's domestic control over matters of life and death.
The Guardian: Louisiana
education case highlights Bobby Jindal's creationism
state Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is rapidly emerging as a new «moderate» Republican voice, but a court case beginning Wednesday is set to shine light on a controversial policy in his
state which sees
government funding given to schools that teach creationism.
Today, federal,
state and local
governments, land - grant universities and other organizations nationwide are pursuing organic agriculture research and
education programs.
A number of
state and territory
governments have invested in public
education campaigns to reduce food waste.
In the United
States, The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a
government program that provides breastfeeding information,
education, and resources to lower income women who qualify.
To me, one of the most significant planks in Obama's
education platform isn't in his
education platform at all - it's in his poverty platform: his pledge to replicate Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone in 20 cities across the United
States, as public / private partnerships, with the federal
government's share of the bill coming to as much as a few billion dollars.
JOLIET — After dozens of students and teachers were sickened by a contaminated school lunch two years ago, the Will County
state's attorney made headlines by charging two
state education employees with reckless conduct, apparently the first criminal charges against
government employees in a food - poisoning case.
Until the
government can solve the many problems within
state schools, they have no right to interfere in the home
education community.
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While the United
States government demands that every child receive an
education, it does not stipulate how or where this
education should be given.
In her plea agreement with the
government, Huntley agreed to make restitution of $ 87,700 to the
state Department of
Education for the funds she embezzled.
The Catholic
Education Service has today announced it is working with the
Government to draw up plans to have its schools take over the management of many English
state schools with a religious character, it has today been announced.
The Governor
stated that when he came to
government, the first task of his administration was to convene an
education summit which was chaired by Prof Wole Soyinka, adding that all intervention of
government in
education since inception came from the recommendations of the summit and nothing about religion.
«Our
government will spare no effort in its bid to reposition the
state most especially the
education sector as we are bent and irrevocably ready to provide necessary facilities and equipment to aide teaching and learning process through conducive atmosphere,» The governor pointed out at the site.
«
Governments at various capacities must come together to bailout the nation from the present deplorable
state of
education in the country».
I don't think that's a power the
government can be trusted with (and mind you, where I'm from,
education in
state curriculum is far harder to avoid than in the US - homeschooling etc. is mostly reserved to kids with «medical reasons»).
But at the same time, most voters list pocketbook - related matters as top issues for
state government: 44 percent believe
education should be the top issue, followed by taxes at 39 percent and jobs at 31 percent.
After a period on the back benchers Laws returned to
government in 2012 as Minister of
State for Schools in the Department of
Education and Minster of
State in the Cabinet Office.
He said at no time in the history of the
state has any
government been so determined to change the face of
education.
The
government should help ensure that the children in Lagos
State get access to free
education in public schools.»
Other demands included better funding of the
education sector and the need for the
state government to rescind the decision to privatise secondary
education.
«It is a fact that beyond Nkrumah this is the
government that has made the most investment in
education; that is the fact,» he
stated.
In Russia «liberal» means people who oppose welfare
state, free
education and medicine, support privatization and free markets, oppose protectionism and
government regulation, support the US and NATO on international issues (such as NATO bombings).
For an answer, I turned to a widely - quoted expert on the subject of
state government: My father, Dr. Gerald Benjamin, director of the Center for Research, Regional
Education and Outreach (CRREO) at SUNY New Paltz.
The United
States Christian right, according to Wikipedia, has views on
education, the role of the
government, family values, and other issues.
«Talk of «
state monopoly» shows that the
government fundamentally misunderstands the need for coherence in the
education service.
She demanded May «assure us she and the secretary of
state for
education won't put personal reputations and ambition above doing the right thing for the country» and branded the last week «shambolic for the
government but much worse for everyone else».