Sentences with phrase «about public school policies»

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«Health overwhelmed what I thought would have been financial problems» in terms of causes of stress, said Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health in a livestreamed discussion forum about stress at Harvard on July 9.

Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.

If Thor believers were rampant in the country and were trying to impose their myths into government, public policy, schools and science, and were continually promising dire eventualities for not believing in him, I'll just bet you would hit up a message board or two about it!

If Santa Clausism became the dominant «religion» of the country, tried to influence the government, inst / itute laws and public policies and demand that it be taught in public education - start every school day with a reading from «Twas the Night Before Christmas» and have «Ho Ho Ho» on your money - I'm just betting that you would have something to say about it on an internet forum and elsewhere!

I went to public policy school, not seminary, and although I loved Scripture and history and could write a bit, I was still learning more about Jesus every day.

It provides in - depth programming that helps grow local food procurement capacity; educates the public about the importance and impact of Good Food; engages local school districts; and illuminates local, statewide and national food policy.

To learn more about the impact LAC can have, check out our piece with Dr. Josephine Martin and Sandi Walters on the impact school nutrition professionals can make in shaping public policy.

Entitled «Healthy Food Fuels Hungry Minds: Serving Change in Public School Food,» the conference is cosponsored by Let's Talk About Food, the Massachusetts State Office of Nutrition and Health, the Harvard Food Law & Policy Clinic and the Harvard University Dining Services» Food Literacy Project.

In this role, she is responsible for leading the efforts to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition and increase the availability of healthy affordable food in low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutions.

Georgia Health News surveyed the state's 20 largest public school systems about their lead testing policies and found many differences in how school systems evaluated their water quality.

Ask your school district about their Wellness policy — each public school should have one.

The vote — an abrupt about - face in policies pushed by Cuomo and the Regents in recent years — was the latest in a series of state responses to rising public opposition against Albany's direction on school curricula, testing and educator evaluations.

The Chairman of the Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC), Joseph Winful, has expressed doubts about the capacity of the Heritage Fund in its present stage, to meet the needs of the Free Senior High School policy.

«Health experts, schools and even David Cameron's own MPs are raising the alarm bells about the direction this government has taken the country on public health, because David Cameron and Andrew Lansley have got drinks companies writing government policy for them.

While the annual spending document has long produced disagreements over taxes, school aid and hospital reimbursement rates, fights about other public policies — often with minimal fiscal impacts — have now become flash points and stumbling blocks.

It angers me — and my 600,000 members — that we have in Governor Cuomo someone who is sticking his nose into education policy — about which he knows nothing — in order to use our public schools as a political football.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

Ehringhaus, working with colleagues from the AAMC as well as Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, sent surveys to the deans of 125 medical schools, both public and private, questioning them about the scope and nature of their ICOI policies.

Scientific American spoke with Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center, and Daniel Webster, director of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Gun Policy and Research, about four feasible legal and policy changes that would be most effePolicy and Research, about four feasible legal and policy changes that would be most effepolicy changes that would be most effective.

«While both bills are improvements — and people may argue about that — it doesn't create a system where we're going to be able to efficiently get the answers about risks of all the chemicals out there,» says David Konisky, an associate professor of public policy at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Public and Environmental Afpublic policy at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Public and Environmental AfPublic and Environmental Affairs.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

She will join Professor Sonia Suter of the George Washington University Law School and Dr. Todd Kuiken and Eleonore Pauwels of the Synthetic Biology Project in a discussion and public Q&A about the bioethical, legal, and policy dimensions of the work.

«Our approach is a different way to think about cigarette taxes,» says senior author Matthew M. Davis, M.D., M.A.P.P., professor of Pediatrics at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and who is with U-M's schools of public health and public policy and the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovpolicy and the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and InnovPolicy and Innovation.

Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.

The Woodrow Wilson School has transformed the way I think about public policy.

Everyone at Smith is overjoyed about the upcoming Selina Meyer Presidential Library and School For Public Policy (and Women's Studies, or maybe not) until the politician's ex-husband ruins everything.

About Blog This blog is written by participants in The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Peru course, Sustainable Development, Environmental Policy, and Human Rights in Peru.

New York, NY About Blog This is a place for parents, teachers, students — and anyone who has a stake in the improvement of our public school system — to offer ideas, share experiences and advice, and weigh in on policies and educational politics.

As readers may recall, I'm in the middle of a series of posts about ways we can improve our schools beyond changing public policy.

At the beginning of the last decade, before concerns about the nation's graduation rate ascended to prominence on the policy agenda, only about two - thirds of U.S. public school students were finishing high school with a regular diploma.

After a discussion of opposition to Betsy DeVos, EdNext's Paul Peterson joined the conversation about school finance along with Linda Darling - Hammond of the Learning Policy Institute and Susan Ferriss of the Center for Public Integrity.

Paul Peterson interviews Robert Shapiro, an expert on public opinion, about how the partisan divide in education policy is shifting, as issues of school quality and accountability have produced «conflicted liberals,» at the same time that the presidential election is creating «conflicted conservatives.»

About the Author: David Osborne, co-author of Reinventing Government and other books on public sector reform, is director of the project on Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute.

About the Authors: Seth Gershenson is associate professor of public policy at the School of Public Affairs at American Univepublic policy at the School of Public Affairs at American UnivePublic Affairs at American University.

All you need to know about NEA's position on charter schools is actually contained in the original 2001 policy, which states that charters should not exist «simply to provide a «choice» for parents who may be dissatisfied with the education that their children are receiving in mainstream public schools.»

They haven't always agreed — especially on which levels of government should do what, how many forms of school choice warrant public funding, how best to evaluate teachers, and so on — but I'm not talking about consensus on the details of policy and implementation.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

High School Project — «Give Me Shelter»: Juniors at Casco Bay High School, in Portland, Maine, explore homelessness by working in teams to make audio slide - show portraits in a semester - long project about housing issues and public policy.

In a conversation that included representatives from KIPP, YES Prep, Cesar Chavez High School for Public Policy, UNO, High Tech High, Basis, National Heritage Academies, Basis, and Democracy Prep, among others, participants talked bluntly about the need to do far better when it comes to developing character, cultivating citizenship, and monitoring their performance in these areas.

An active volunteer in Brookline Public Schools and a nurse with over 25 years of experience, Mowschenson, 48, enrolled in the Ed School's Education Policy and Management Program on a quest to learn more about education pPolicy and Management Program on a quest to learn more about education policypolicy.

Designing an effective charter school policy therefore requires attention to details about accountability and other features, such as whether enrollment in charters is unified with traditional public school enrollment processes and whether charter schools provide transportation for students.

If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational alternatives for families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.

Taken as a whole, information about local school rankings has a less substantial impact on public thinking about teacher policy than it has on thinking about school choice policies.

Another key component is that we still have a massive hurdle in educating policy makers, the media, and the public at large about what's going on in today's after - school programs.

As a Catholic, a former seminarian, and a journalist who has written about Catholic schools (here, here, and here), I must admit to being of two minds on the question of whether Catholic schools can be saved and whether their fate should be a public - policy issue.

And substantial percentages remain undecided about charter schools and other reform initiatives, suggesting that the current national debate over school policy has the potential to sway public opinion in one direction or another.

How the public feels about the school choice setting in New Orleans can shape education policy, and education policy can shape the OneApp's role, now and in the future.

iCivics Politics and Public Policy Unit: From interactive games, to exciting print - and - go lessons, this collection is the perfect place to start learning about elections for elementary and middle school students.

Despite multiple rounds of budget cuts, which reduced Kettle Moraine's state aid by half in the decade between 2005 - 06 and 2015 - 16, the district has continued to innovate, says Alan Borsuk, a senior fellow in law and public policy at Marquette Law School who also writes about education for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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