Sentences with phrase «years of education included»

Years of education included the highest grade or year of college completed.

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In fact, last year the government added one such credit — for teachers» classroom supplies — while dropping four as of Jan. 1 2017, including the children's fitness and arts credits, as well as the education and textbook credits for students.

This year, those social issues included the obesity epidemic in the U.S., U.S. veterans» affairs and the rising popularity of technology - driven education.

The country was in the midst of a major push to deliver several core subjects — including math and science — in English instead of Arabic and the education ministry needed to recruit thousands of teachers on two - year contracts.

Dozens of local organizations have received financial support from the Diamond Foundation over the years, including the BC Cancer Foundation, BC Women's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, United Way of the Lower Mainland, King David High School, the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, and many more.

This year, Starbucks has expanded the focus of the grants program to include youth as well as veterans and military spouses, and refugees, with a focus on supporting organizations that are working to help connect those facing barriers to jobs and education to a pathway to long - term economic opportunity.

While property taxes in the state serve as an important source of revenue for local governments and public services (including public education) the average Alabama homeowner pays just $ 550 per year in property taxes.

The latest tax bill, enacted by Trump, greatly expanded the utility of 529 plans by expanding eligible withdrawals to include K - 12 ($ 10,000 per child, per year), in addition to post secondary education.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's whirlwind visit to Canada last week — the first bilateral visit by an Indian prime minister in 42 years — saw the completion of several memoranda of understanding in a range of areas, including civil aviation, rail regulation, space co-operation, education and health.

Name: Chris Fowler, MA Title: President and Chief Executive Officer Areas of responsibility: Executive management, strategy Years with CWB Financial Group: 27 Career history: Has served at CWB in roles with increasing responsibility since 1991, including, commercial account management (1991 - 1995), credit risk (1995 - 2008), and joined the executive team in 2008 as Executive Vice President, Banking, and then President and Chief Operating Officer Education: Master of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of British Columbia Community involvement: Trustee for the University Hospital Foundation (University of Alberta), Member of the Canadian Bankers Association's Executive Council, director with the Art Gallery of Alberta's board of directors, and campaign cabinet member with the United Way of Alberta Capital Region

«The Russian budget now is including $ 100 per barrel for the next three years and some more optimistic assumptions on economic growth, which are probably over-optimistic,» Guriev, who is currently a professor of Economics at Sciences Po, a French public research and higher education institution, told CNBC at the UBS European Conference in London.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

Other education related initiatives include resolving the issue of the Alberta teachers» pension plan shortfall and preventing a teachers» strike for five years; creating 1000 new spaces for post-secondary education students in energy, the environment, and economic studies; and creating 6000 new apprenticeship seats.

(3) Know more about national and Nebraska efforts to redefine «education» in the 21st Century to include the first five years of life and learning.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

The readers he has in mind include: perhaps a student starting her second year of study, or an academic who has just joined a theological school faculty and has never herself been previously involved in theological education, or a person newly appointed to the board of trustees of a theological school.

I would like to see some sort of equation that includes median income of area, number of years of education of pastor, number of years of experience, all in comparison with people in the area with similar numbers, and then base pastoral salary on that.

It is useful to recall a simple fact: in years past, much Christian education, including the teaching of the catechism, took place in a wide range of institutions: the home, common school, congregation and university.

For American Catholics, 1989 is a year crowded with anniversaries, including the centennial of the founding of the Catholic University of America and the bicentennial of both the establishment of Georgetown University (and, by extension, of Jesuit education) and the erection of the American hierarchy.

During ten years in high school and college ministry and education, including two years of ministry in a residence hall of undergraduates, I met very few students who wrestled with the claims of the New Atheists in any depth.

In Sweden, a worker who loses his or her job for economic reasons, including the introduction of new technology, is entitled to up to two years of government - paid education and retraining.

The group looked at a variety of factors to gauge equality including health, education, economic participation and political empowerment and found that gender equality is still 170 years away (that is, unless major changes are undertaken).

Americans, these days, give some $ 300 billion a year to charitable organizations, including religious institutions that fund vast networks of education, health care, and social service serving people in real need.

In his seven years as president, President Houshmand has implemented many programs and initiatives to decrease the cost of higher education, including creating a $ 25,000, four - year bachelor's degree program, awarding more than $ 27 million annually in scholarship funds and waivers, and committing to capping tuition and fee increases at or lower than the rate of inflation for his tenure.

Mark, a resident in Taiwan for five years, teaches the highest level of wine education available on the island, whilst also consulting with restaurants, hosting events, writing (including the illustrated wine blog Sniff) and, in conjunction with designer Michael O'Neill, providing marketing and promotional materials to wine estates and regions across the globe.

Chef Lawe possesses a significant amount of culinary experience including his education at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, as well as his many years of Director of Food and Beverage and Executive Chef at the Mission Inn Hotel and Spa, Executive Sous Chef at both the Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa, and The Ritz - Carlton Huntington Hotel and Spa.

In the past year, food manufacturers and retailers scaled up their ambitions and efforts to cut consumer food waste by standardizing food date labels, including The Consumer Goods Forum's Call to Action to standardize date labeling worldwide by 2020, complemented by enhanced consumer education of meaning of date labels.

This includes Corporate Social Investment, whereby the group promotes the development of learners through three academies which offer holistic, full - year programmes centred around sport, art and education; Entrepreneur Development which focuses on skills - based entrepreneurial development through its Tsogo Sun Book a Guesthouse and Supplier Development programmes; and Environmental Education, committed to initiatives that reduce the impact the business has on the enveducation; Entrepreneur Development which focuses on skills - based entrepreneurial development through its Tsogo Sun Book a Guesthouse and Supplier Development programmes; and Environmental Education, committed to initiatives that reduce the impact the business has on the envEducation, committed to initiatives that reduce the impact the business has on the environment.

In December 1991 Halberstam profiled Michael Jordan in SI's Sportsman of the Year issue, and two of his works — including his 2005 study of Bill Belichick, The Education of a Coach — were excerpted in the magazine.

Most of those years were with 7th graders, but at some point in her teaching she taught every grade except 11th in some capacity or another including German, social studies, multi-cultural education, ELD, adolescent skills and character education.

From a very early age (2 - 3 years), sex education for boys includes using the appropriate names for body parts, and a brief explanation of how girls are different — once the child asks, of course.

We used multivariable logistic - regression models to adjust for potential confounders, including maternal race or ethnic group (non-Hispanic white vs. other), parity (nulliparous vs. multiparous), insurance status (public or none vs. other), extent of prenatal care (≥ 5 visits vs. < 5 visits), advanced maternal age (≥ 35 years vs. < 35 years), maternal education (> 12 years vs. ≤ 12 years), history or no history of cesarean delivery, and a composite marker of conditions that confer increased medical risk.

Area and individual maternal characteristics included country of residence, ward type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity (defined by Office for National Statistics guidelines and classified for this analysis as British / Irish white3 or of other ethnic origin), maternal age in years at cohort child's birth, level of education (attainment of qualification at GCSE grade G or above), parity (whether cohort child is first live birth), and lone parent status.

The highest rates of breastfeeding are observed among higher - income, college - educated women > 30 years of age living in the Mountain and Pacific regions of the United States.60 Obstacles to the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding include physician apathy and misinformation,61 - 63 insufficient prenatal breastfeeding education, 64 disruptive hospital policies, 65 inappropriate interruption of breastfeeding, 62 early hospital discharge in some populations, 66 lack of timely routine follow - up care and postpartum home health visits, 67 maternal employment68, 69 (especially in the absence of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding), 70 lack of broad societal support, 71 media portrayal of bottle - feeding as normative, 72 and commercial promotion of infant formula through distribution of hospital discharge packs, coupons for free or discounted formula, and television and general magazine advertising.73, 74

Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants1, providing protection from morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases2 and chronic diseases later in life.3 Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding difficulties.

Mass Audubon President Henry Tepper, who provided an overview of the prominent conservation organization's accomplishments during the past year — including advances in nature - based education, land and species protection, and addressing climate change — noted those strategies echoed McCarthy's themes.

I pulled neonatal mortality rates from the Wonder Database, searching for criteria that matches the MANA study as closely as possible (White women, Singles and twins, 37 weeks and above, Birth weight of 2500 grams or more, Live birth through 27 days, Years 2004 - 2009; it includes everything else: all ages, all education levels, all marital statuses, etc).

In my years in education, I have seen serious instances of neglect (including medical), but only once instance of removal.

oh and I'm a highly qualified educator with experience of health and education from birth to adult including special needs, with 17 years full time experience, now at home on maternity leave and thinking of giving up my very well paid and highly skilled job to raise my 9 month old twins who are already starting to walk.

The state now spends a total of $ 74 billion on education every year, when higher education is included — more than the entire budget of 47 different states combined, the office said.

Pollsters telephoned voters Jan. 12 - 16, days after Cuomo sketched out an election - year agenda that included tax relief and higher education spending in his annual State of the State address.

The 2013 - 14 Executive Budget and Management Plan builds on two years of balanced, fiscally responsible budgeting and invests in economic development, education reform, rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy, provides support to local governments and school districts, and includes no new taxes or fees.

No one should have to tolerate workplace harassment or discrimination, which is why the UFT - Department of Education contracts have contained protections, for many years, against a wide range of discriminatory or harassing behaviors, including sexual harassment.

Senate Republicans have two bills for extending mayoral control — a 12 - month extension, plus oversight from the governor's office and a three - year measure that includes a range of education issues deemed non-starters from Democratic lawmakers.

Bloomberg has closed 140 struggling schools since taking charge of the education system in 2003, drawing the ire of critics including mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, the former City Comptroller, who called for a legal moratorium on closures this year.

Under the Tennessee Promise program, more than 16,200 students were enrolled in the 2015 - 16 school year at 41 institutions across the state, including at 13 community colleges, 27 colleges of applied technology and other eligible institutions offering an associate's degree program, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

The Teen Traffic Safety Education Program, which includes community and educational partners in conjunction with the STOP DWI Baseball Classic provides an opportunity to educate Teens and their families on the dangers of making destructive decisions, at a critical time of year.»

The bill comes as Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has proposed a trio of mayoral control legislation, including a measure that create an education tax credit along with a five - year expiration date.

The vote also comes as a number of high - profile education issues come to a head this year in Albany, including withering criticism of the state's rollout of the Common Core assessments.

Mr. Cuomo also proposed budgeting an extra $ 1 billion in education funding this year, a $ 2 billion investment in clean - water infrastructure and various other expensive projects, including hundreds of millions of dollars in economic - development for Buffalo ($ 500 million), a life sciences research and development cluster ($ 550 million) and new airports in Syracuse and Plattsburgh.