Sentences with phrase «program on citizenship»

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Clark has floated the idea of a «doctorate - for - citizenship» program, which would guarantee Canadian citizenship to individuals on the very day they receive a Ph.D..

Not surprisingly, the highest - ranked brands on our Canadian list fared well in these two categories — Canadian Tire, for instance, earned high marks for citizenship, likely because of community - focused initiatives like Jumpstart, its charitable - giving program.

Applicants must be without decent, safe and sanitary housing; Be unable to obtain a loan from other resources on terms and conditions that can reasonably be expected to meet; Agree to occupy the property as your primary residence; Have the legal capacity to incur a loan obligation; Meet citizenship or eligible noncitizen requirements; Not be suspended or debarred from participation in federal programs.

Translated into program, what Washington wanted to see was blacks concentrating in the main on developing their capacities to exploit such opportunity as already lay at hand, relying on the expectation that as such self - development proceeded, blacks would be in a stronger position to make a successful claim for the full rights of citizenship.

Character Education: The Policy on Quality Character Education (2004) recommends that schools adopt secular character education programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democratic society.

The University of Maine does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, including transgender status and gender expression, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information or veteran's status in employment, education, and all other programs and activities.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

Spurred by Trump's announcement in September that he planned to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, members of the chamber wrote a letter to the Florida congressional delegation urging them to «quickly find a legislative solution before the program expires»... «Without a legislative solution, 800,000 DACA recipients will lose their ability to work and legally study, and it will leave many Florida employers, workers and students without certainty,» the chamber's CEO Mark Wilson wrote in the letter... «The Florida Chamber supports an earned pathway to citizenship for immigrants that pass criminal background checks as well as supports policies that reduce illegal immigration and improve on border security.»

Michele Flournoy, Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group; Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, US Department of Defense Banning Garrett, Director, Strategic Foresight Initiative, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Stephen J. Hadley, Principal, RiceHadleyGates LLC Chuck Hagel, Chairman, Atlantic Council Mikael Hagstrom, Executive Vice President, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, SAS Annette Heuser, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment, US Department of State David Ignatius, Associate Editor, Washington Post James L. Jones, former National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution Hisham Kassem, Founding Publisher, Al - Masry Al - youm Newspaper Frederick Kempe, President & CEO, Atlantic Council Christopher A. Kojm, Chairman, US National Intelligence Council Marne Levine, Vice President of Global Public Policy, Facebook George Lund, Chairman, Torch Hill Investment Group H.E. Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Ambassador to the United States, Republic of Singapore Moises Naim, Senior Associate, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chief International Columnist, El Pais Barry Pavel, Director, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Paul Saffo, Managing Director of Foresight, Discern Analytics; Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush James Steinberg, Dean, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times Christopher Williams, President, Christopher A. Williams, LLC

He had applied for the space shuttle program before he got his citizenship and had been rejected; on this second round, he was summoned to Houston for a battery of interviews and tests.

He has studied the impact of entrepreneurship education with youth in the Middle East as well as the impact of citizenship education programs on youth in Latin America.

This research aims to provide results about the relevance that citizen participation programs have on students in order to foster the skills related to active citizenship.

In addition to the obvious need for increased teacher resources and teacher support in order to implement new programs, Reimers cited three additional factors: the lack of political will on the part of national and state governments; the resulting insufficient knowledge base to support effective citizenship and human rights education; and the limited ability of international institutions to implement educational change.

Anna Rosefsky Saavedra's dissertation includes research on Colombia's National Citizenship Competencies (CNCC) Program called Aulas de Paz or Classrooms for Peace.

Lazar says it is logistically difficult to measure outcomes beyond anecdotally but cites positive feedback from teachers and outreach from principals who want their schools to more deeply engage on digital citizenship as part of their wellbeing programs.

The conference instructs delegates on considerations for the development of a digital citizenship program.

Aliza Yair, a master's student in the International Education Policy Program and first - time participant, shared research on issues of culture and identity in the European Union and the struggle for Europeans to reconcile competing senses of national, regional, and global citizenship.

The JROTC House focuses on leadership and citizenship through the JROTC program.

KIDS VOTING MISSOURI... Kids Voting USA is a national non-partisan, non-profit program in which students in grades K - 12 study portions of special KVUSA grade specific citizenship activities and then go to special Kids Voting Missouri polls with their parents or other adults on or near Election Day to cast ballots for many of the same candidates and issues as the adult voters.

Eric Liu, of the Aspen Institute's Citizenship and American Identity Program and Citizen University, is calling on all of us...

On the other hand, «school - to - school, class - to - class, or row - to - row academic competitions» actually have been endorsed as part of a character education program, [32] along with contests that lead to awards for things like good citizenship.

Relay does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, citizenship status, veteran status, disability or any other criterion specified by federal, state or local laws, in the administration of its admissions, employment and educational policies or scholarship, loan, and other school - administered programs.

By teaching civics in tandem with experiential learning, YES Prep teachers, more often than traditional public or private school teachers, were «very confident» that their students learned «[t] o be tolerant of people and groups who are different from themselves,» «[t] o understand concepts such as federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances,» and «[t] o develop habits of community service such as volunteering and raising money for causes,» according to 2010 American Enterprise Institute Program on American Citizenship survey.30 As a charter network serving low - income students, its service - centered mission serves both the students and their communities.

Eisenmann speaks frequently on the importance of digital citizenship and his leadership has provided essential technology support to grow the district's Chinese and Spanish immersion programs.

Driving on the Right Side of the Road The DRSR program has created a series of lessons for social studies classes at the elementary and secondary levels that focus on citizenship education and traffic safety.

The DRSR program has created a series of lessons for social studies classes at the elementary and secondary levels that focus on citizenship education and traffic safety.

Additionally, public libraries are community centers, with programs for both children and adults; many libraries offer workshops on citizenship, English as a Second Language, computer skills, filing taxes, and resume writing.

We plan on taking our dog through the Canine Good Citizenship program sponsored by the AKC, and will definitely be asking Mike back to help us with it.

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On April 9, NEH announced $ 18.6 million in grants for a traveling exhibition and public programming exploring the role of blacks in American cinema from 1900 - 1970, a New York Historical Society touring exhibition on Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, development of undergraduate curriculum at the University of Dayton related to the life and work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, and research for a book on self - taught Louisiana painter Clementine Hunter (1887 - 1988On April 9, NEH announced $ 18.6 million in grants for a traveling exhibition and public programming exploring the role of blacks in American cinema from 1900 - 1970, a New York Historical Society touring exhibition on Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, development of undergraduate curriculum at the University of Dayton related to the life and work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, and research for a book on self - taught Louisiana painter Clementine Hunter (1887 - 1988on Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, development of undergraduate curriculum at the University of Dayton related to the life and work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, and research for a book on self - taught Louisiana painter Clementine Hunter (1887 - 1988on self - taught Louisiana painter Clementine Hunter (1887 - 1988).

From the renowned Performa Commissions program — with ambitious new work by Paweł Althamer, Rosa Barba, Boris Charmatz, Raqs Media Collective, Subodh Gupta, Florian Hecker, Rashid Johnson, Joan Jonas, Ryan McNamara, Eddie Peake, Alexandre Singh, Marianne Vitale, and Tori Wraanes — to the inaugural Pavilions Without Walls, in which the biennial explored the character of contemporary art in Norway and Poland, and including special thematic focuses on ideas of Citizenship, the Voice, and the historic anchor of Surrealism, Performa 13 is an exhilarating look at the state of artists» performance today.

In 2013, program participant Carl Andersen developed a curriculum on global citizenship for his eighth grade language arts class, using the work of ART21 featured - artists to explore what it means to be a responsible global citizen, and to exist responsibly in terms of self, community, and society.

It was, according to Christovale, an encouraging entry point into the contemporary art world, and so the graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts curates cinema programs and non-traditional exhibitions on the topics of race, identity, citizenship, and sexuality.

December 22, 2014, Citizenship and Immigration Canada launched a one - year pilot program to issue open work permits for eligible spouses or common - law partners who are applying for permanent residency from inside Canada, before the decision on their PR application is made.

The HRTO held that Mr. Peart had satisfied the first step of the Kapp test by demonstrating that s. 10 (5) of the Act has a disproportionate impact on foreign workers in Ontario under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP), who are identified by prohibited grounds of discrimination, specifically citizenship and race.

Henry J. Chang's Canada - US Immigration Blog Start - Up Visa Program to Include Business Incubator Stream As previously reported, on March 30, 2013, Citizenship and Immigration Canada («CIC») published Ministerial Instructions that established the Start - Up Visa Program («SUVP»).

The new age limit will take effect on October 24, 2017 and will apply to all new applications submitted on or after this date under the various immigration programs administered by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

On June 20, 2014, the Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development, and Chris Alexander, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, announced significant changes to Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

Gavica Perez regularly provides legal counsel to entrepreneurs and high - net - worth individuals regarding investment - based immigration, including the EB - 5 Immigrant Investor Program, and she advises clients on the full range of immigrant visas, labor certifications, and U.S. citizenship matters.

Demand for citizenship - by - investment programs is rapidly growing as talented individuals seek to transcend the limitations imposed on them by their passports.

Morshead points out that the countries that offer the most credible citizenship - by - investment programs in the world consistently outperform on the Henley Passport Index.

Henry J. Chang's Canada - US Immigration Blog Citizenship and Immigration Canada Announces Start - up Visa Program On January 24, 2013, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Citizen Jason Kenney (the «Immigration Minister») announced that Citizenship and Immigration Canada («CIC») would launch a Start - Up Visa Program to recruit innovative immigrant entrepreneurs who will create new jobs and spur economic growth.

Caribbean countries offering citizenship - by - investment programs have likewise performed very well on this year's index.

Streamlining the Business Skills and Regional Business programs into one Entrepreneur Immigration stream based on an expression of interest model similar to Citizenship and Immigration Canada's («CIC») Express Entry program;

On Dec. 1, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Employment and Social Development Canada will become the administrators of a new Administrative Monetary Penalty system meant to hold Canadian employers in check for compliance with Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of the Department of Homeland Security, on Monday said it was still conducting a thorough review of worker visa programs.

On February 7 2018 the EU Parliament voted to create a committee provisionally entitled Taxe 3, that will investigate for the first time tax privileges established under citizenship programs or non-dom regimes offered by Portugal, Italy, Malta, the United Kingdom, Cyprus as well as crown dependencies and overseas territories.

Ms. Senft served as Chair of the Governor's Task Force on Youth Citizenship and Violence Prevention's Out - of - Schools Committee in 1995 - 96, and provided technical assistance in programming, violence reduction education and evaluation for the Governor's office on Crime Control and Prevention's state and federal funded initiative for community after school programs for late elementary and middle school youth throughout Maryland, 1996 - 1999.

The Childhoods in Changing Contexts Research Group focuses on early childhood education and care workforce; evaluation of early childhood programs, policies and initiatives; cultural and multilingual contexts and childhoods; and young children's rights and citizenships.

To boost their economies through foreign investment, a number of countries offer various citizenship - by - investment programs, providing a direct route to citizenship based on investments in property.