Sentences with phrase «say school reform»

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Reform is needed, said Villanova School of Business Economist David Fiorenza, if only to keep state budgets out of the red if the economy hits another rough patch.

At the event, the 29 - year - old billionaire said he was compelled to push for immigration reform after volunteering with students at a Menlo Park school.

Ok, first off I'd like to say I'm relatively new to this entire topic of food reform and particularly school food reform — but since one of the things everyone seems to be trying to do is to attract / educate / interest more and more folks, maybe my newbie perspective could be important.

The Challenge Success team initially wrote «Overloaded and Underprepared» as a sort of «reform blueprint» for the school communities it couldn't reach for geographical or logistical reasons, said co-founder and Stanford senior lecturer Denise Pope.

Adamick's passion and dedication to the cause of school food reform really come through in these opening chapters, which will have every concerned parent nodding their heads and saying «Amen, sister!»

Sunny Young, Program Director for Good Food for Oxford Schools and founder of Edufood Consulting LLC, a school food reform consulting firm, can honestly say she learned from one of the best in her field.

While you know I'm passionate about seeing real reform come to school lunches, I have to say that my passion has nothing to do, in reality, with reducing childhood obesity.

That said, school lunch reform is still an important piece in the fight on childhood obesity since so many kids get breakfast and lunch at school.

As I say in my tagline, it's about «kids and food, in school and out,» and because of my own interest and involvement in school food reform on the ground, there's often a lot of talk about that here.

Dana: Yikes, no one said that people get into school food reform for the glory.

Nothing against Mr. Ferrell or Mr. Scott — I'm a fan of both — but I think a school food reform movie starring, say, Matt Damon and Paul Giamatti says one thing to potential audiences; a school food reform movie starring Will Ferrell and Sean William Scott says another thing entirely.

Republicans, farmers and school groups have long since lobbied for lunch reform, saying the current rules are overly restrictive and costly to implement.

(Click here to hear what school food reform pioneer Chef Ann Cooper has to say about it.).

Bettina Siegel said: A woman bikes cross-country to draw attention to school food reform!

As I've often said on TLT, when we debate the minutiae of school food reform it's easy to forget that, for some children, school food is the only food they get in the course of a day.

Though he never became a politician, he did later go to the John Marshall Law School at night — a move he said was prompted by fears that President Bill Clinton's health - care reform efforts would put home births out of business.

Silver has also taken issue with Cuomo's call for a new education reform commission, saying the Board of Regents — which the Legislature, not the governor, appoints — is already working to address myriad problems in the public school system.

«Shelley is a fighter who will stand up and champion our values: common - sense gun reform, protecting women's health and the environment and supporting our schools,» Biden says in the call.

«With the second consecutive on - time budget, major reforms to save taxpayer money, and a commitment to make New York's schools the best in the nation, Governor Cuomo is making New York's government work again, and making New York the comeback state,» Clinton said.

Commenting on the IPPR report Vocational Education in English Schools, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «What is becoming increasingly clear is that Michael Gove's reforms are plain wrong.»

Cuomo's Commission on education reform got an earful at a public hearing in Albany yesterday, as speaker after speaker complained about a statewide school system that they say is in disarray.

Previewing his Albany agenda at NYPD headquarters, de Blasio said he hopes Albany passes legislation to make cops» disciplinary records more accessible to the public, and listed reforms to voter registration, public works development, and more money for city schools.

Governor Cuomo's Commission on education reform got an earful at a public hearing held at the State Capitol today, as speaker after speaker complained about a statewide school system that they say is in disarray.

The Plain Dealer via Cleveland.com, «Gov. John Kasich, Ohio House and Senate Republicans reach deal on education policy,» June 12, 2012 Ohio House Republicans caucus blog, «Finance Chairman Ron Amstutz announces committee hearings on school funding,» April 30, 2012 The Columbus Dispatch, «Kasich says he would scrap Strickland «s schools plan,» Sept. 22, 2010 Ohio Office of Management and Budget, The Reforms Book, Executive budget — FY2012 - 13

She said the state could have tackled a range of issues, from fully funding public schools to fixing the beleaguered subway system and enacting campaign finance reform.

An aide to the schools minister has resigned after saying he could not support the government's education reforms.

«As I said during the campaign, I intend to focus on important fiscal and environmental issues, and to make sure we're doing all we can to have safer schools and sensible gun reform laws,» Clements added.

But public financing of elections, a system designed to take the big money out of politics, would be «key» to any ethical reforms of state government, he said Wednesday at a daylong symposium on ethics and government at Albany Law School.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said the chamber's majority Democrats take «major issue» with Cuomo's plan to withhold a boost in school funding until lawmakers agree to reforms to the state's education system.

Mayor Byron Brown says he is open to mayoral control if that's what it takes to improve Buffalo's schools, but feels a conversation is needed with parents and others in the city — and statewide — about how to reform public education.

The best that can be said of this White Paper is that it represents a veiled admission by the Government of the failure of its school reforms since 2010, with a raft of measures clearly intended to ensure that schools are no longer left to do their own thing.

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

«Elise Stefanik is a strong supporter of both the 2nd Amendment and of commonsense, bipartisan reforms to protect our children and prevent gun violence in schools,» said Lenny Alcivar, a campaign spokesman.

Cuomo «If the reforms aren't passed legislators will have to come back to their district and explain why the school aid is only 1.7 percent,» he said.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

«I'm here because I think it's really important for Asian Pacific Americans to show solidarity for immigrant communities to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation,» said law school graduate Michelle Lee, 25, who lives in Manhattan.

The city auditor said he recognized two «non-starters» in the Consensus proposal: Failure to mandate town and village inclusion and the lack of school district reform.

The true key to education reform is a teacher evaluation system, he said — noting New York's school districts have evaluation systems in place.

These reforms — accompanied by an unprecedented financial investment — will put students first by bringing accountability to the classroom, recruiting and rewarding our best teachers, further reducing over-testing, and finally confronting our chronically failing schools,» Mr. Cuomo said in a statement.

The money can be used, they say, to enact needed education reforms — ones that differ from those proposed by Cuomo, which includes state takeovers of chronically failing schools and an expansion of charter schools.

And, I am pleased that we are heading in the right direction in this much needed reform,» said Reverend Que English, Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association Diversity Committee and Co-Founder, Bronx Clergy Roundtable, Stuyvesant HS,» 81.

Speaking at the 68th Speech and Prize - giving day of the T. I Ahmadiyya Senior High School in Kumasi, the second lady, Samira Bawumia, said the government would put in place reforms to enhance the quality of...

Responding to reports that the Secretary of State for Education is planning to introduce an «Advanced Baccalaureate» as part of reforms to A-levels, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «This is another example of Michael Gove's ideological manipulation of the school curriculum.

Just two days after New York legislators passed first - in - the - nation gun law reforms in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, the state's chief financial officer says pension fund investments in firearm companies have been frozen.

Cuomo had angered local education officials by refusing to release school runs this year, saying the numbers would be vastly different depending on whether lawmakers accepted or rejected his reform proposals.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins on Thursday weighed in on the education funding discussions in the state budget, saying in a statement school aid should not be «held hostage» in the ongoing effort instill education reforms.

«Attacking our school districts, attacking our teachers is not real reform,» said Assemblyman Harry Bronson.

«We appreciate the important reforms lawmakers made to the property tax cap, such as excluding some BOCES capital costs and including PILOTs in the tax base growth factor,» The New York State School Boards Association said in a statement Friday.

Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.

«I trust this elected (school) board to work with the community for real reform much more than I trust a two - person junta of mayor and superintendent, with no checks and balances,» said Charlie Dee, a 34 - year Milwaukee resident and parent of a former MPS student.