Sentences with phrase «use education council»

Federal education minister Simon Birmingham will use the Education Council meeting to argue for a new post-2017 federal funding model to replace the current «Gonski model» established under Labor.

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«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education traEducation, a higher education traeducation trade group.

At this stage it would certainly be appropriate to use the groundbreaking inclusive Language Lectionary (Division of Education and Ministry, National Council of Churches, 1983) for the Scripture readings.

Quotations from the American Standard Version of the Revised Bible, copyrighted 1929, and the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1946 and 1952, are used by permission of the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. References to these versions are indicated in the footnotes by the initials A. S. V. and R. S. V. I have used these and also the King James Version, selecting in each instance the diction which seemed to me best to fit the point under discussion.

American Botanical Council Provide education using science - based and traditional information to promote responsible use of herbal medicine — serving the public, researchers, educators, healthcare professionals, industry and media.

President Mahama also used the occasion to commend the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) for clamping down on examination malpractices in the just ended Basic Education Certificate Examination.

This perception needs to be addressed and challenged in school physical education (PE) according to research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which shows how school provision could make use of visual approaches in developing young people's critical learning about the body.

Findings from a project led by London's Institute of Education and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID) show that using new ways of encouraging young children to stay in regular schooling cut drop - out rates by 42 per cent in just a year.

Pointing to more than $ 40 million owed to local schools in the 43rd Council District, including $ 4 million owed to his own alma maters P.S. 185 and J.H.S. 259, Brannan has mounted an online social media campaign calling on parents and educators to see education dollars owed to individual schools using a new database created by advocates.

«Realistically, it's not going to be used, or not all of it,» said Robert Jackson, who chairs the City Council's Education Committee.

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Daniel Dromm, a Queens Democrat who is chairman of the council's education committee, said he was disturbed by the use of what he called «gas» on students awaiting trial.

Speaking at the last public hearing before the City Council and City Hall finalize next year's budget by the June 30 deadline, Mulgrew said the UFT has repeatedly brought ideas to the table on how to close the city's projected budget gap without teacher layoffs, such as cutting back on outside contractors at the Department of Education or using a portion of the city's rainy - day fund.

For starters, the Mayor and the City Council have the power to use a portion of the city's estimated $ 3.5 billion surplus to offset reductions in state education funding.

Buffalo Common Council President Darius Pridgen said as a new appointee to the Niagara River Greenway Commission he will push for use of education to tell all residents of the value and opportunities of the local waterfront.

At a recent Community Education Council meeting, Jamie Smarr, executive director of the DOE's Educational Construction Fund, reassured parents that the sale of the schools would be subject to public review under the Uniform Land Use Review Process (ULURP), which requires a vote by the City Council.

If elected, Graziano said he was interested in chairing various committees in the Council, including Land Use, Education, Parks and Finance.

Since 2010 Pres. Barack Obama and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology have used the bully pulpit to encourage the proliferation of public high schools that focus on STEM education and target students from underrepresented groups.

The three main national compilers judge universities on the basis of different criteria, using publicly available data collected in surveys and assessments by organisations including the Higher Education Statistics Agency and the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

The Wellcome Trust and the Higher Education Funding Council for England are among the bodies calling for the use of the journal impact factor in funding, appointment and promotion decisions to be scrapped.

Using lesson plans devised by the G - 8 Host Committee and the Georgia Council on Economic Education, a nonprofit organization that provides resources for teachers, students have been learning parts of the languages of the countries that are represented, studying their monetary systems, and researching facts about British...

Pyne will use Friday's Education Council Meeting to push for mandatory STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects for all Year 11 and 12 students.

UNESCO's commitment to stand up for the protection of the right to education during conflict has been reaffirmed on several occasions recently, including through the recently released Guidance Note on the Implementation of the Security Council Resolution 1998 («attacks on schools and hospitals»), which calls on Member States to prevent attacks on schools and hospitals, as well as their military use.

The grant would have trained teachers to use a middle - school program called Connected Math, one of several, Hoven learned, that was funded by the Education and Human Resources Division of the NSF and based on standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).

Although panels of scholars warned against using VAMS to make high - stakes decisions because of their statistical limitations (American Statistical Association, 2014; National Research Council & National Academy of Education, 2010), policymakers in many states and districts moved quickly to do just that, requiring that VAMS scores be used as a substantial component in teacher evaluation...

The National School Improvement Tool (NSIT) was developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research and approved by the Council of Ministers of Education for use in Australian schools.

The Education and Adoption Act 2016 gave RSCs parallel powers with councils to intervene in council - maintained schools, with councils having to ask permission from RSCs before they use their powers to turn around failing schools.

Council education convener Councillor Paul O'Kane said a pilot project showed «a significant increase in engagement and knowledge retention» from pupils using the headsets.

Winner: Wolverhampton City Council Education eServices Team Break - ins at over 60 schools in Wolverhampton have plummeted following the use of DNA forensic marking kits to protect valuable ICT equipment from theft.

Both are still used as HGSE buildings; Read House, built in 1772 or 73, houses the International Education Office, and Nichols House, built in 1828, is home to the National Council for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy.

The Council's eighteen members from academia, industry, and policy assessed current practices in early education and elementary school teaching and have designed a professional development «blueprint» to advance the use of effective digital media in teaching and learning, with a special emphasis on instruction for underserved students.

Alexander Hamilton Middle School joined with the Mt. Pleasant Village Council to make better use of the school's facilities in a Family Education Center.

The powerful state teachers» union, Wisconsin Education Association Council, supported the bill as long as the scores couldn't be used to discipline teachers.

The standards for beginning special education professionals state that they should be able to «use technologies to support instructional assessment, planning, and delivery for individuals with exceptionality» (Council for Exceptional Children, 2012, p. 6).

complies with nonpublic school accreditation requirements as set forth in Section 22.1 - 19 of the Code of Virginia, and administered by the Virginia Council for Private Education (VCPE) or is a nonpublic school that maintains an assessment system that annually measures scholarship students» progress in reading and math using a national norm - referenced achievement test including, but not limited to, the Stanford Achievement Test, California Achievement Test, and Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

Built around the use of an embedded set of connected, web - based data tools, the OIP is being used by well over half of the 612 traditional public school districts and 100 + charter schools in the state to enact essential leadership practices as identified by the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council (OLAC), a broad - based stakeholder group jointly sponsored by the Ohio Department of Education and the Buckeye Association of School Administrators.1 It is also a key component of the state's Race to the Top (RttT) strategy.

The clause requires that councils get permission from the education secretary to use powers of intervention in schools where the government has already intervened.

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Moskowitz has long been a lightning rod in her hometown, ever since she used her post as chair of the City Council's education committee to antagonize the city's powerful teachers» union in the early 2000s.

In June 2015, Reading Horizons Discovery products received an official endorsement from The Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) for use in special education Education (CASE) for use in special education education settings.

Although the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC, 2009) quality principles do not make specific reference to a technology - based assessment system, programs are required to use multiple measures and assessment methods to demonstrate preservice teacher learning.

Accreditation agencies (e.g., National Council of Teachers of Mathematics & National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, 2005) have begun to ask for data about prospective teachers» abilities to utilize technology in mathematics instruction, and agencies that provide funds to purchase classroom technology often want assessment data on how teachers are using the technology purchased.

In the past, they have received # 25,000 conversion costs from the Department for Education, and have topped up their budgets by as much as 10 %, receiving funds for support services that used to go to the local council.

Other activities in which teacher candidates engaged have engaged in my courses are attending webinars hosted by the National Council of Geography Education on integrating online maps into pedagogical practice, using Google Earth ™ to create flyovers and virtual fieldtrips, retrieving and analyzing remotely sensed imagery of our town and university to visualize how these places had changed and developed over the years, using various functions in Google Maps ™, and reviewing school demographic and testing data in preparation for instructional planning.

But whether an education institution seeks LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, strives to meet criteria set forth by the Collaborative from High Performance Schools, or simply follows their own green design path, most schools and universities remain vigilant about finding ways to create facilities that provide a suitable learning environment while using less energy.

May used a report, commissioned by the Labour - run Knowsley borough council, to rebut concerns raised by former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell that the government's focus on grammar schools was hindering social mobility progress.

In a similar but broader reaching finding, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reported in the 2001 US history Nation's Report Card that «58 % of high school history students in public and private school rarely or never use computers» (National Council on Education Statistics, 2002, p. 2).

The clause also requires councils to get permission from the education secretary before using powers of intervention in schools where the government has already intervened.

Justine Greening, the education secretary, says councils will get almost # 1 billion in 2020 - 21 to create 60,000 of the 600,000 school places needed by 2021, while # 1.4 billion will be used to improve the condition of existing institutions.

Sir Michael called for an urgent review of safeguarding arrangements between the government and councils, as well as a review of home education — pointing to evidence that some schools were using the «freedoms afforded to genuine home educators as a cover for their activities».