Sentences with phrase «public education nation»

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Among the nation's top secondary schools, HCHS is uniquely governed, the only New York City public high school not under control of New York City's Department of Education.

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

If we do not get away from home schooling and lousy public education, this nation will someday spiral down into a theocracy.

Where are the articulate leaders in Catholic communications and Catholic education putting forth a practical and visionary plan that will help the church provide leadership in the public square as our nation staggers toward the millenium?

With libraries across the nation having public Internet access, this kind of free education is available to almost everyone.

Almost all nations have public education, although private educational systems are also common.

The designers of American public education were believers; schools were the nation's way to do God's will.

She has 3 children and is the founder of the Redefine Positive Project, an initiative that is working to reform HIV / AIDS education in public schools across the nation.

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.

As the AIDS crisis enveloped Africa, Western nations generously pressed the snappy acronym «ABC» — Abstinence, Be faithful, use a Condom — as a strategy for education and public health.

But the more commonly heard suggestion is that proceeds from the dividend should go to any of a wide variety of social programs: AIDS research, day care, education, drug control, medical care, public housing, environmental protection, repair of the nation's infrastructure.

Good to Know Colorado is the nation's first public education campaign regarding the legal, safe and responsible use of retail marijuana.

Lead author Sara Chrisman of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle, Washington, viewed the finding that concussion education requirements for coaches under the state's first - in - the - nation «Lystedt Law» were being closely followed by public high schools in Washington State as «very encouraging but not surprising,» noting that schools had an incentive to follow the law because it provides legal immunity from litigation for schools that follow it correctly.

The National WIC Association is the education arm and advocacy voice of the nation's 12,200 WIC public health service provider agencies and the 8 million WIC mothers and young children.

A percentage of proceeds will help in providing a well - rounded education that includes music to public school students across the nation.

You are also right that changing lunch culture is a a battle within a larger battle — the larger battle is about getting the public to truly value public education, understanding that it is the single-most important public program in our nation, the one that has the power to shape the future in our best (or worst) interests.

The Board of Education has agreed to move forward on a plan to eliminate sugary beverages and make Florida the first state in the nation to ban chocolate milk in public schools.

HUMAN Everywhere's mission is to leverage the power of social entrepreneurship to improve the nation's collective health by increasing access to nutrition education and healthful foods while advocating for public policy that contributes to these goals.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

CDC and ASCD developed this expanded model — in collaboration with key leaders from the fields of health, public health, education, and school health — to strengthen a unified and collaborative approach designed to improve learning and health in our nation's schools.

The government will today sign up to the United Nations Convention on Disability Rights, guaranteeing disabled people the right to education, employment and participation in political and public life.

Does the Secretary of Education have to support public education as part of their job or is their job simply to push for better education standards in the nation using whatever methods they thEducation have to support public education as part of their job or is their job simply to push for better education standards in the nation using whatever methods they theducation as part of their job or is their job simply to push for better education standards in the nation using whatever methods they theducation standards in the nation using whatever methods they think best?

He could have shown the nation that New York is willing to invest in the top - rate public college education that working people need in an economy that is being increasingly rigged for corporations and the ultra-rich.»

This is a plan that keeps spending under two percent, reforms New York's education bureaucracy, implements the nation's strongest and most comprehensive disclosure laws for public officials and makes the largest investment in the Upstate economy in a generation.

«One year ago, with the promise of Education Tax Credits on the horizon, thousands of tuition - paying families were left out in the cold — excluded from a state budget that provides the nation's highest level of spending per pupil in public schools,» he said.

Ms. Teachout blamed Mr. Cuomo for the «most segregated schools in the nation» and accused him of seeking to privatize education and take resources away from public classrooms.

Reforming the state's pension plan for new employees will put our costs in line with other states across the nation and preserve the invaluable services, like education and public safety, that make New York the best place to live, do business and raise a family.»

Officials from state - run colleges and universities across the nation will gather near Albany this weekend to discuss the issues facing public higher education.

The day Nixon actually announced her candidacy, he released a statement that put front and center his liberal accomplishments, which read like a progressive wish list: «Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking.»

The circular released the fee items the government has absorbed for all day public senior high school students in the country in line with its commitment to implement the progressively free secondary education policy as expressed in President John Mahama's State of the Nation Address last year.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Our public education system is a promise we make to the nation's children and young people that they will have opportunity, high quality, good outcomes and an expectation of success for all.

Furthermore at a time when both major parties have adopted very similar education policies, the quality of public debate would be diminished if no one in the House of Commons were able to bring forward evidence that may lead to better educational outcomes for the nation's children,» Mr Brady argued.

Charter school leader Eva Moskowitz threw her support behind Betsy DeVos, Trump's education secretary pick, arguing that the nation's foundering public school system requires a systemic overhaul.

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A plan to alleviate hunger among students from kindergarten through higher education has received some national attention, as one component would require every public college or university in the state to offer a food pantry on campus — a project that would be the first of its kind in the nation.

«Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking,» the spokesman said.

New Jersey's has one of the nation's premiere K - 12 public educations systems because of our unyielding commitment to investing in our children.

Cathie Black another example, a bachelor's degree in English, former advertising and media mogul, appointed to be the NYC Schools Chancellor lacks credits, coursework, relevant graduate degrees and professional experiences in public education yet she is suppose to lead the largest public school system in the nation.

Research!America is the nation's largest not - for - profit public education and advocacy alliance working to make research to improve health a higher national priority.

Superintendents and education representatives from all 133 school districts in Virginia told the state's elected officials that they can't have «best - in - the - nation public education and a best - in - the - world work force» while cutting the education budget for the third year in a row.

The nation's public colleges and universities were founded on the principle that everyone should be able to afford a higher education.

The policy was implemented at the behest of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who argued it made sense to give City Hall control over public education in the nation's largest city.

«I am concerned that it will affect the trust that we have from the public, for Sweden as a prominent research nation, and for the Karolinska Institute,» Sweden's minister for higher education and research, Helene Hellmark Knutsson, tells Science.

My 2 - year (2002 - 2004) postdoctoral fellowship in science education provides me the opportunity to gain experience with all aspects of the Learning Center's programs, introducing me to the culture and challenges of public education, both in Utah and across the nation.

The Morrill Act, which in 1862 created the mechanism that has funded many of the nation's great public universities, called for institutions that would «promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.»

As UN member nations have committed to implement the goals by 2030, the research suggests that far greater emphasis should be placed on considering cross-sectoral dynamics between energy, water, food, gender and education when considering wider public policy goals.

It was developed by a team of nutrition, public health, and medical experts after the 1990 Nutritional Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) failed to reduce the nation's obesity rate and is currently available in more than 1,600 stores in the US.

Bulky, hefty and downright expensive, conventional school textbooks may rank as the most outdated part of our nation's public education system.