Sentences with phrase «head of the education funding»

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Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB773 (2013) authorizes the state department of education to use up to $ 1 million from its General Improvement Fund on a pilot project on concussion management.

It is up to parents, whether it be individually or as members of a booster club, «Friends of Football,» or PTA, to raise money to (a) fund the hiring of a certified athletic trainer (who, as we always say, should be the first hire after the head football coach); (b) consider equipping players with impact sensors (whether in or on helmets, in mouth guards, skullcaps, earbuds, or chinstraps); (c) purchase concussion education videos (which a new study shows players want and which they remember better); (d) to bring in speakers, including former athletes, to speak about concussion (another effective way to impress on young athletes the dangers of concussion); and (e) to pay for instructors to teach about proper tackling and neck strengthening;

With 96 percent of the votes tallied Tuesday night, Park Ridge District 64 looked like it was heading for victory on a $ 23 million bond issue to build a new middle school and to upgrade technology, and on an education fund property - tax increase of 59 cents per $ 100 of equalized assessed valuation to pay for operating expenses.

The Interfaith Community Housing of Delaware's HomeWorks program received more than $ 167,000 in state funds, state Labor Department education head Stacey Laing told the state Senate Labor Committee, with more...

The final paragraph, under the heading Education, reads: «If the response of the government to Lord Browne's report [the review into higher education funding] is one that Liberal Democrats can not accept, then arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any votEducation, reads: «If the response of the government to Lord Browne's report [the review into higher education funding] is one that Liberal Democrats can not accept, then arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any voteducation funding] is one that Liberal Democrats can not accept, then arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote.»

While de Blasio noted the increased funding heading toward the renewal schools that are the focus of much Department of Education effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education compliancEducation effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education complianceducation teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education complianceducation compliance.»

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

My tweet of Friday April 20, 2018 was typical of the reaction, «Actually Buhari was describing himself - he didn't get a good education and has no certificate; he's lived on the Nigerian state all his life; he doesn't like work; and he's fixated on Nigeria's oil...» In truth, Buhari has not presented evidence of completing secondary school - in all the elections he contested, including in 2015 he tendered affidavits to INEC and has declined to perform the simple task of providing his school certificate; since he joined the army in 1961, he has been a «ward» of the Nigerian state and served in multiple states as military governor, as Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC board under illegal military regimes; he was himself an unconstitutional military head of state; he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under the despotic and thieving dictator, Abacha; and is now back as civilian president.

«Education funding per head in Wales is hundreds of pounds behind that in England, and that's despite the Welsh Liberal Democrat pupil premium which provides extra support for the poorest schoolkids in Wales like its English equivalent.

As an example of one area where they've butted heads, he cited the state's refusal to increase education funding for the city after a landmark court ruling found the Big Apple has been consistently shortchanged.

Addressing the 55th National Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) in Ho on Wednesday, the Deputy Minister in charge of pre-tertiary education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum said «your money will soon hit your accounts» and further indicating that the funds would, by the end of the conference on Friday, be in their accounts.

The Ghana Education Service (GES), says it will sanction Heads of Senior High Schools who fail to submit returns on the funds released to their schools under the Free SHS programme by Friday.

... But a rule change introduced by Education Secretary Michael Gove now means schools can offer poor children places ahead of better - off youngsters who live nearer — with heads picking up hundreds of pounds in extra funding.»

Rangel's speech handed Republicans an unexpected political gift in a week in which the House was called back into session to pass $ 26 billion in spending for Medicaid and education funding in the states — a piece of legislation that was touted as a political winner by Democrats as they head into a six - week August recess.

to workshops on grant - writing and policy developments in Higher Education (for example, «this is where government thinking is headed... let's consider how to exploit your expertise in this area, in terms of securing funding for your research»).

John Andrews, head of the Welsh Funding Councils, which share out public money for higher and further education, says Hunt was «very concerned» with education and training, particularly their role in developing the economy.

Mentoring means more than supervising lab work, stated Convocation keynote speaker Shirley Malcolm, head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resource Training at AAAS (which also publishes Next Wave), who serves as PI on the Sloan Foundation grant that currently funds NPA.

A major survey, as seen and reported on by TES, reveals that two - thirds of secondary head teachers in the East of England believe that they of not have the sufficient funds necessary to «deliver high quality education» over the next year.

Around 1990, the Administration for Children and Families decided it would commit substantial funds to hold a biennial conference promoting research for the Head Start Program, and it recruited as organizers John Fantuzzo, professor of human relations at University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education; Catherine Tamis - LeMonda, a professor of applied psychology at New York University's Steinhardt School; and Faith Lamb - Parker, an assistant clinical professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia.

In my recent involvement with the six - nation * European Union - funded study of Science Education and Diversity, headed by Rupert Wegerif at the University of Exeter, I worked with the Dutch team (leader, Michiel van Eijck) using questionnaires, interviews and focus groups with 10 - 14 year olds in the six nations.

Tom Payzant, the veteran superintendent who heads up Boston Public Schools, says large school districts get funding from a variety of philanthropic organizations, but he has had to work hard to persuade these funders to align their efforts to support a system - wide vision of how to improve education and avoid contributing to what he calls «project-itis,» which is just a series of ad hoc donations that make givers feel good but have little impact on students.

So rather than abandon a modestly successful program in our attempt to promote equality of education, the best policy would be to let a few states have more control of Head Start funds, carefully study their subsequent reforms, and then determine future policy based on solid evidence.

For most of the year, head teachers and governors have been campaigning over funding shortages in schools, however, the Department for Education has said that school funding has been protected and is at record levels.

Written by then - Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, the platform section on education also cited Mr. Bush's «sweeping youth - apprenticeship strategy» and the fact that «Republican leadership has nearly doubled funds for Head StarEducation Lamar Alexander, the platform section on education also cited Mr. Bush's «sweeping youth - apprenticeship strategy» and the fact that «Republican leadership has nearly doubled funds for Head Stareducation also cited Mr. Bush's «sweeping youth - apprenticeship strategy» and the fact that «Republican leadership has nearly doubled funds for Head Start.»

National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) general secretary Russell Hobby wrote an open letter to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, expressing concern over funding cuts, ahead of the government's Spending Review.

The letter, also addressed to Education Secretary Justine Greening, says that heads in Surrey are strongly opposed to the idea of opening of new grammars, which they believe creates a «selective, segregated, two - tier state funded system of educatioEducation Secretary Justine Greening, says that heads in Surrey are strongly opposed to the idea of opening of new grammars, which they believe creates a «selective, segregated, two - tier state funded system of educationeducation.»

She has also directed the National Institute of Education and served as the head of the Spencer Foundation, the nation's leading funder of educational research.

Those following the education news back in the 1990s may still remember the head - teacher who used school funds for personal holidays, luxury cars, trips on the Orient Express and most famously «90 pairs of shoes; enough to make Imelda Marcos proud,» while the pupils were left without books or heat.

«If we went after FTE [regular school funding] we would be putting our head in the lion's cage,» says Frank Brogan, Florida's commissioner of education at the time of the school's founding and later, in 2000, lieutenant governor under Jeb Bush.

Early childhood experts and advocates have long called for increasing the education and training of U.S. early childhood workers, and over the past two decades, policymakers have gradually increased credentialing requirements for teachers in Head Start and state - funded pre-K programs.

Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, and one of the most published researchers on the topic, writes in recent letter to the editor of the Times that, «Publicly funded preschool, currently offered through Head Start, state programs or child care subsidies, returns modest benefits for low - income children.»

Tom Vander Ark, a former head of education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and now a partner in a private equity fund focused on education innovation, thinks so.

At a time when head teachers across England and Wales are crying out for sufficient funds to run their schools, provide pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum and retain teachers and support staff, the Government is proposing to lavish scarce education funding on a policy which all the evidence confirms will undermine the high standards of education that comprehensive schools have been able to achieve in the decades since selective education was ended in most parts of the country.

After I completed my undergraduate and was ready to head to George Washington University for my MBA, because of a federal budget freeze, my fellowship funding was cut and I had to figure out how I would pay for my education.

«Head teachers, Governors, MPs and parents have all made it quite clear to Government that the combination of the proposed National Funding Formula and the cash freeze on school budgets will have a negative impact on our children's education.

Backing calls from CPS leaders for a revamped state education funding formula is Ginger Ostro, the former chief financial officer of CPS who recently took over as head of the Advance Illinois think tank.

But I think these programs, which are largely based on administration proposals, give us an indication of the direction the administration and Congress are headed when it comes to education funding.

The letter sent to Theresa May and Education Secretary Justine Greening says that heads in Surrey are strongly opposed to creating a «selective, segregated, two - tier state funded system of educatioEducation Secretary Justine Greening says that heads in Surrey are strongly opposed to creating a «selective, segregated, two - tier state funded system of educationeducation».

There will also be funding for a northern branch of the New Schools Network, and Bradford head Sir Nick Weller will report on transforming education across the northern powerhouse.

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The new head of the Michigan Education Association says the union became involved in a recall effort against a sitting legislator because voters are frustrated with public school funding and taxes, while a teacher and former local union president says teachers are frustrated with union spending on recalls, according to separate media reports.

Eileen Milner, the new head of the Education and Skills Funding Agency, has written to academy trusts to warn them of strict new rules.

As the workforce in state - funded pre-kindergarten programs continues to grow in the United States, the promise of these and other early education opportunities (e.g., Head Start) depends in large

In that case Jepsen and Malloy used public funds to come to the defense of Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, when Pryor decided that while the law required that Paul Vallas could only stay on as the head of Bridgeport's school system if he completed a school leadership program at a Connecticut institution of higher education, Pryor would allow Vallas to stay if he only took a three - credit independent study classEducation, Stefan Pryor, when Pryor decided that while the law required that Paul Vallas could only stay on as the head of Bridgeport's school system if he completed a school leadership program at a Connecticut institution of higher education, Pryor would allow Vallas to stay if he only took a three - credit independent study classeducation, Pryor would allow Vallas to stay if he only took a three - credit independent study class instead.

This almost doubles the # 10,000 to # 30,000 per pupil annual cost of a SEND pupil attending a state - funded school place, as estimated by SEND consultant Barney Angliss and Laxmi Patel, senior associate solicitor and head of education at law firm Boyes Turner, though both stress costs can be more if a pupil's needs are severe.

The head of a the NEA, Reginald Weaver, recently spoke out in very strident terms against NCLB and President Bush's cuts to education funding to pay for the Iraq war.

Paul Hamilton, an actuary and head of higher education at consultancy Barnett Waddingham, said continuing poor economic conditions, including market uncertainty after Brexit, and people living for longer meant 20 years of investment returns on pension funds were currently «missing».

Casey, formerly head of ICT at the Education Funding Agency, was appointed as principal of the college, for 14 to 18 year olds interested in a career in the creative industry, in 2013.

Malcolm Trobe, leader of the ASCL head teachers» union, said that heads would be «extremely disappointed and angry» that the extra funding announced had not stayed in the education budget, when «schools are so hard pushed».

Three days after the Obama administration warned that thousands of low - income California children would be shut out of federally funded Head Start preschool programs, the California Department of Education announced today distribution of $ 25 million in state «restoration» funds.

Mr White, a West Sussex head teacher who has co-ordinated letters sent to 2.5 million parents over school funding concerns, says that whoever is education secretary needs to make a priority of teacher supply and funding.