Sentences with phrase «access to students from»

For example, a Century Foundation investigation of North Carolina voucher schools found that many of them explicitly bar access to students from families who are not of the same faith tradition as the school, as well as LGBT students.
In addition to the Teacher Summer Schools, the Sutton Trust runs a number of other programmes to improve access to students from non-privileged homes with Oxford and Cambridge universities.
One of former governor Angus King's reasons for supporting the initiative was to level the playing field by providing computers and Internet access to students from low - income families.

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«Imagine,» he remembers thinking, students being enabled to «access a central computer from their dorm.»
Swaminathan says that many students in China lacked access to cutting - edge management education after graduating from college.
Once in the program, students have access to a working space, a community of entrepreneurs, and monthly mentoring sessions and progress reports from professors.
The big difference, from an inequality perspective, is that educational institutions, albeit imperfectly, work to ensure equal access to low - income students through grants and loans.
• That's why today I am pleased to announce the Canada Apprentice Loan, which will give apprentices registered in Red Seal trades access to interest - free student loans millions of other Canadians have benefited from previously.
As of 2014, the average student graduating with debt had borrowed $ 28,950, up from $ 18,550 a decade earlier, according to The Institute for College Access and Success.
Its website was populated with reviews of colleges written by students from 280 U.S. universities, but College Prowler wasn't having much success getting high school seniors to shell out the $ 39.95 annual fee for unlimited access to the content.
Only a small minority of users — university students, scientists and select government officials — have access to Kwangmyong, a domestic intranet «that offers email and websites but is totally shut off from the rest of the world,» according to a Slate article.
As a Haskayne student, you'll have access to more than a dozen student clubs, a state - of - the - art business library, and an invaluable co-op program, mentorship program, and a dedicated Career Centre that will be available exclusively for you as a Haskayne student and will provide you with personalized one - on - one help from dedicated career consultants.
Access to a complimentary LOT Leadership Day to help you prepare for a successful year and build connections with over 100 LOT students from across the region.
FedLoan Servicing services FFELP loans that were sold and transferred as a result of legislation known as the Enduring Continued Access to Student Loans Act (ECASLA), under which the U.S. Department of Education offered to purchase FFELP loans from third - party lenders.
Students from other states who plan to attend a college or university in New Mexico may also use New Mexico Student Loans to gain access to financing.
On Tuesday night, the state legislature refused to debate an outright ban on assault weapons as students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas watched and cried, but the teenagers» push for change is still expected to bring Florida's first limit on gun access in over a decade, according to CNN.
Micro Focus offers customers the option of having an instructor provide training direct to their employees either onsite or online for students accessing training from multiple locations.
No Jewish organization supported the Equal Access Act, which wrote the equal time principle into law and allowed religious students a platform from which to inject religion into the public high school environment.
«The lack of access to nutritious food here has big consequences, from higher rates of diet - related illness to students who are less prepared to learn,» the Pillsbury United Communities (PUC) reports.
The novel NVC Live Online Ecourse Food Packaging removes the need to travel and facilitates global access for business students from any place with an adequate internet connection.
Taking effect from March 2015, this new sponsorship offers Master Sommeliers and student members access to education on wine faults, and the benefits of cork closures — as well as the opportunity for Diploma candidates to be awarded the Amorim «Taster of the Year» Trophy at the annual MS examinations in London.
The most recent statistics from the National Athletic Training Association suggest that almost 4 out of 10 U.S. high schools still do not have access to an athletic trainer (although this statistic may be somewhat misleading, as the percentage of high school students with AT coverage is higher, perhaps as high as 70 %, due to the fact that larger high schools in more densely populated states are much more likely to have one or mor athletic trainers on staff), and the likelihood that trained personnel will be present during games or practices at the youth level is low).
• The Rural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technology.
Held back - to - back, we were able to share our breakfast - in - the - classroom journey with many ANC attendees, and we also had the opportunity to hear from you — school nutrition professionals who are working to implement and expand access to school breakfast for students around the country.
With help from their teachers, the students in grades three through five constructed signs, highlighting their frustrations with their limited access to the salad bar.
By moving the time of service from before the first bell to after the first bell, more students have access to the morning meal.
According to this article from the Wall Street Journal, General Mills Foodservice has awarded $ 375,000 in Fuel Up ™ Grants since 2009; most grant recipients have used the awards to expand breakfast outside the cafeteria to improve student access to, and participation in, school breakfast.
It gives you direct access to teachers, other parents, and other students, and from them you get to hear a wide cross section of opinions about and experiences with school food.
Inequities between struggling students who have no access to help with homework and students from privileged families who perform better only because they have help from parents or tutors need to be addressed.
This can also become an equity issue since students from small, rural, or low - income schools tend to have less access to AP classes.
Information from the school districts indicate that only 4 - 6 % of local students have access to Summer Food Service Programming through the school districts to help respond to this seasonal nutritional deficit.
Thus, ensuring that all New York studentsfrom traditional to undocumented alike — can access financial aid to attend college not only helps those individuals, but the state as well.
Billed as the «People's Presidential Debate,» the three candidates fielded a wide range of questions, ranging from the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline to the recent document dumps by WikiLeaks to staggering student debt and the nation's burdensome and discriminatory ballot access laws, among other topics, and did so without interrupting or insulting their opponents as had happened frequently during the recent Clinton - Trump deAccess Pipeline to the recent document dumps by WikiLeaks to staggering student debt and the nation's burdensome and discriminatory ballot access laws, among other topics, and did so without interrupting or insulting their opponents as had happened frequently during the recent Clinton - Trump deaccess laws, among other topics, and did so without interrupting or insulting their opponents as had happened frequently during the recent Clinton - Trump debates.
He has helped students from the Northern region gain access to post-secondary education.
He meets monthly with superintendents from the Marlboro, Highland and Wallkill school districts to discuss how to expand college - course access to high - school students.
«The MBK Fellows and MBK Native American Programs will give more students access to mentors, resources, and experiences that will help them graduate from high school on the right track for a bright future.»
His proposal, which would need voter approval, stems from the panel's argument that students» access to high - tech devices is crucial for long - term success.
I hope that funds from the proposal are concentrated more in those districts where the fewest students have access to the type of gifted and talented programs that feed into the specialized high schools,» said Carole Brown, member of Stuyvesant Black Alumni Diversity Initiative, Stuyvesant High School Class of 1981, Fordham University» 85, Columbia University «90.
From pre-school storyhours to Live Homework Help for students to outreach for seniors to computer access for the unemployed, the Library provides a wide range of vital services.
In a series of cases called the Campaign for Fiscal Equality, which lasted from 1995 to 2006, the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, found that the state was not providing enough money for New York City, leaving students without access to a «sound basic education.»
New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today vehemently objected to the recent decision by the federal Department of Education to no longer investigate civil rights complaints from transgender students regarding access to bathroom facilities.
Through the Open Education Resources initiative, students have access to everything from classic literature to course textbooks.
Herzek's positive statements on the proposal and access to higher education generally, and his statistic about the percentage of low - income students attending his college, appear verbatim in his endorsement from the governor's press release.
Students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, on Monday morning has prevented candidates who were posted to the school to write the 2017 UTME from gain access to the examination centres in the school.
It is also to enable students dropping out at the SHS who otherwise would have continued to acquire functional skills, as well as increase the chances of students from poor background accessing high education to reduce the cost of education of many households.
And higher education minister Alan Johnson said the scheme would increase access for students from poorer backgrounds to the top universities.
Cuomo revealed his «No Student Goes Hungry» program on Wednesday and it has five ways that the Governor wants to help the nearly 1 million kids from kindergarten to college that the state says don't have consistent access to nutritious food.
They say the model will provide the kind of support - access to health care, after - school programs, educational opportunities for parents - that will enable students from low - income backgrounds to be more successful.
Statement from Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee «I commend the students of East Ramapo for their non-violent demonstration to bring attention to their concerns and frustrations regarding the poor building conditions and severe spending cuts, which have negatively impacted their access to classes and programs essential to the quality education our state constitution guarantees them.
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