Sentences with phrase «policies like school»

If voters get angry enough with federal education politics, national Democrats may start learning from their state - level colleagues who are starting to support effective policies like school choice.

Not exact matches

The University of Toronto Master's of Public Policy (MPP) program allows second - year students to spend a semester at leading partner schools, like the Paris School of International Affairs, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

A report issued by Deloitte in 2011 called for revamping the K - 12 curriculum to expose kids to entrepreneurial concepts, and Stuart says government officials and policy experts are even considering the possibility of specialized, innovation - focused schools.Programs like the lecture series currently offered at Toronto French School that brings in entrepreneurs to talk to students can make a difference, he says.

Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.

Be it resolved that the Legislative Assembly urge the Government to introduce legislation, like Manitoba's and Ontario's, requiring all school boards to develop policies to support students who want to lead and establish gay - straight alliance activities and organizations, using any name that is consistent with the promotion of a positive school environment that is inclusive, welcoming, and respectful for all students regardless of sexuality, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

So let me get this straight... religious organizations fight for their «right» to run schools like BYU that virtually write discrimination into their so - called «honor code», but when a school has a policy that forces them to NOT discriminate, that's when they have a problem?

Now that they're playing catchup, Biola and fellow CCCU schools like Azusa Pacific University (APU) realize the importance of such proactive policy discussions.

Last school year, 40 of the 321 colleges in California that were eligible for Cal Grants had policies the bill would prevent, like requiring biological bathroom use or preventing same - sex relationships.

Furthermore, the president is charged with administering the school according to broad policies established by the board and, in concert with the board, with fund - raising, maintaining the school's property, and the like.

If a school is mostly Christian, Jewish, or Muslim, then I have no problem with the holiday policies recognizing the cultural holidays their families would like to be able to observe.

Women, like blacks and members of other oppressed groups, must break their inner bondage and gain self - esteem if they are to use fully their potential in collective efforts to change the systems of injustice (discriminatory laws, pay scales, admissions policies to professional schools, among others).

We'll see it in «anti-bullying» policies that turn public schools into indoctrination centers on matters of human sexuality; centers that teach that there's no permanent truth involved in words like «male» and «female.»

The college will deny health care to students and faculty because these people will have a choice whether to use elements of the policy that the school does not like..

Like school officials, the majority of pastors in mainline denominations have done little apart from making general policy pronouncements.

I agree too that a lot comes from what friends do / say / wear / play with, which is why I am so grateful for my kids» school's policy on commercialism (they also emphasize no / minimal television at home and only realism in books / movies / tv); but, like you said, you can't shield them from the world.

It's eerily odd to me, however, that JO fails to address problems with school lunch that are created by U.S. food / farm policy at all in his show, choosing instead to blame the so - called «bad guys» like LAUSD Superintendent Ray Cortines.

Like any great change, helping teens feel good at school is going to take attitude shifts, policy changes, funding, and more.

First of all, the privileged kids that I wrote about first are, you know, sort of likely to go to schools like yours, to be in positions of authority as they grow up, policy, policy decisions.

Last year, thanks to our new district wellness policy, my kids» school parties looked like they'd been hacked from my Healthy School Party Food Pinterest school parties looked like they'd been hacked from my Healthy School Party Food Pinterest School Party Food Pinterest board.

If we want to give our children a fair shot to be healthy and successful then we must keep moving forward with smart nutrition policies — like the requirement that school meals include a half cup of fruit and vegetables.

Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proSchool District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool lunch, is procured.

Mr. Miller publicly derided the old Texas school nutrition policy as sounding «like something from the Obama administration» — despite the fact that it was championed by a fellow Republican, former Agricultural Commissioner Susan Combs.

Many schools are still focused primarily on punitive discipline policies, like «zero - tolerance,» which rely on suspending and expelling students for disruptive behavior.

Last year, with a new district wellness policy in place, my kids» school parties looked like they'd been hacked from my Healthy School Party Food Pinterest school parties looked like they'd been hacked from my Healthy School Party Food Pinterest School Party Food Pinterest board.

Since our school has no policy on food served in the classroom, celebrations tend to involve junky stuff like cupcakes and donuts.

Silver didn't address any of Cuomo's policy positions, some of which seem to be a direct hit on the speaker and his colleagues — like the one that would require full disclosure of lawmakers» outside income, for example, or the lifting of the charter school cap (not popular with the teachers unions, who are close allies of the Assembly Democrats).

The NDC, which like in the case of the Free SHS policy, did the donkey work of building all the school infrastructures that had enabled Akufo - Addo to start his government's flagship policy, did all the background work for the National ID project.

«Speaking more generally, this looks to us like a clear example of a wider policy by the Church of England to slowly gain influence and control over former community schools that are now Academies — initially by affiliating with them, before slowly increasing the religious nature of school life.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

«On mayoral control of schools,» Savino continued, «I think we should look at changes to make it better, like doing away with the Panel for Education Policy, which is essentially a staff meeting for the mayor's office.

Cuomo's budget includes unrelated topics like ethics reform, as well as numerous education policy changes that he's linked to school aid increases.

«It's time they be held accountable for their enrollment, discipline and special education policies like every public school is.»

One of my highlights of my time in coalition was... that the attainment gap, namely how well poor kids do in school as opposed to their wealthier classmates, was closing for the first time in a very long period of time and the reason why that appears to be the case, was because of the effect of policies like the pupil premium.

Stay loyal over policies like cuts to local school budgets and they risk losing next time around.

Michael Gove has been described as an education tourist, spending his time shopping around southeast Asian and Scandinavian countries looking for policies he can claim will raise standards and which fit with his own dogmatic perception of what schools should look like.

By the time he was replaced by Grayling, they seemed to have completely lost interest in it, or simply to have forsaken it in the name of other policy areas, like free school meals, where they thought there were more votes.

In the Daily Telegraph, Theresa May's former chief of staff Nick Timothy put the boot into Justine Greening, claiming that the former education secretary «put the brakes on policies that work, like free schools, and devised bureaucratic initiatives of little value».

Failing schools in the inner city are a major problem and frankly, I'd quite like someone who had direct experience of the issues in the system developing policy.

So why is the leadership so scared of progressive, equality based policies like funding parents not schools, patients not hospitals and welfare reforms which address people's needs, not their means?

«People like to give to a winner and one way to show you are a winner is the amount of money in your campaign account,» said Ian Vandewalker, senior counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute.

Oliver Letwin has said he'll be «astounded» if ideas like school vouchers survive the policy review.

Will they really abandon charter schools en masse, even as liberal policy shops like the Center for American Progress keep making the case for them?

Will they really abandon charter schools en masse, even as liberal policy shops like the Center for American Progress keep making

They might also ask if they want to appeal to a broader electorate with policies like free school meals, or a narrower but uncommitted electorate by standing up for civil liberties and an egalitarian system of law.

Cuomo's take - no - prisoners speech yesterday and policy positions like a freeze on public employee salaries, a property tax cap and support for lifting the charter school cap have made certain segments of the labor community wary of him.

Now there's a shocker,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded on Thursday to reporters who inquired about Mayor Bill de Blasio's concerns over Albany's reluctance to deliver more than simple extenders of policies like mayoral control of schools and rent regulations that impact

«Outstanding issues include under - investment in school technology infrastructure, significant inequities in allocation of Fair Student Funding dollars, disparities in gifted and talented education, resistance to training and support for new learning devices like tablets, inaction on liberalizing school space usage policy for community - based organizations, and poor community notification on significant changes to school utilization,» Adams said.

«Policies like this not only reflect the city's values of fairness and justice but they also underscore the importance of ensuring that our schools remain safe spaces for our children.»

Many of those companies and individuals have business before the Cuomo administration — and they aren't just interests like those of charter school supporters that have a clear policy alignment.