Sentences with phrase «additional year of school»

Every additional year of school that a girl completes increases her future earnings, which is good for her family, her community and her country.

This is counterintuitive, since an additional year of schooling in a poorly educated country implies a much faster rate of growth of human capital.

Small gains in the education of teachers relative to other workers may not be evidence of declining quality, however; additional years of schooling may be more valuable for teachers because, as highly skilled workers, they face higher opportunity costs of staying out of the labor force.

That measure of human capital, however, implicitly assumes that each additional year of schooling translates into a comparable increment in the stock of relevant skills, totally ignoring any variations in the quality of the student's home, community, school, teachers, and other factors.

Proponents of test - based promotion argue that the threat of retention provides a powerful incentive for educators to help students become strong readers by 3rd grade, and that students who fall short could stand to benefit from an additional year of schooling.

Further, once the impact of higher levels of cognitive skills are taken into account, the significance for economic growth of school attainment, i.e., additional years of schooling, dwindles to nothing (see Figure 3).

Several studies find that that the labor - market payoff to adolescents completing an additional year of schooling as a result of being compelled to attend is as large as 10 percent.

This is the equivalent of an additional year of schooling;

If desired, students may then complete an additional year of schooling to earn the registered nurse designation (RN).

Not exact matches

For years, Jain believed that the best way for a school to globalize was through alliances with local partners across the world instead of setting up additional campuses.

During the 2015 - 2016 academic year, I chaired the Government of Alberta's Climate Change Leadership Panel, for which I was compensated by the government for 30 days of work with the balance of my time commitment (at least 34 additional days) being covered by a release from the Dean of the Alberta School of Business.

«It may help a few districts get through the year, but many reports I've seen of schools welcoming the additional money have said they're still going to move forward with cuts.»

To become a physician one studied for thirty - two months in the faculty of liberal arts and an additional five and a half years in the school of medicine.

The aforementioned dissertation on Tillich, supervised by John E. Smith, was completed in 1962, and a Danforth Fellowship afforded Lewis the opportunity of undertaking additional work in biblical studies at Yale Divinity School during the following academic year.

After graduating from medical school, completing a midwifery apprenticeship, and finishing a family practice residency, she then completed four additional years of post-doctoral training in pediatrics under the tutelage of Paul Thomas, MD, the author of the acclaimed book The Vaccine - Friendly Plan.

«The fresh pizza industry has fought for years for an exemption from statutes that require additional federal inspection of fresh meat pizzas if they are to be served in a school.

Rosenbaum also hides the ball from readers when he compares the cost of funding healthier school food (an additional $ 1.22 billion over pre-HHFKA reimbursements, according to the USDA) to the skyrocketing costs of obesity ($ 200 billion dollars per year).

Family physicians often have an additional 3 years of training beyond medical school with some family practice doctors choosing to specialize in obstetrics.

Each year the school raises the annual tuition to help fund cost of living raises, additional curriculum offered within the school, and overall growth.

District Supt. Rosemarie Carroll said Aramark expects to make an additional 2.5 percent from the total contract than it did during the last school year because it projects higher sales of a la carte items.

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) represents over 8,700 child and adolescent psychiatrists who are physicians with at least five years of additional training beyond medical school in general (adult) and child and adolescent psychiatry.

Parents will not be asked for additional fees throughout the school year to cover class experiences, including field trips, with the exception of the Grade 8 Class Trip.

We are supposed to believe that obstetricians (with 8 years of higher education, extensive study of science and statistics, and four additional years of hands on experience caring for pregnant women), the people who actually DO the research that represents the corpus of scientific evidence, are ignoring their own findings while NCB advocates (generally high school graduates with no background in college science or statistics, let alone advanced study of these subjects, and limited experience of caring for pregnant women), the people who NEVER do scientific research, are assiduously scouring the scientific literature, reading the main obstetric journals each month, and changing their practice based on the latest scientific evidence.

Congress has failed to pass Child Nutrition Reauthorization that is now over a year past due and even if it had passed, would only have allocated 4 1/2 to 6 cents additional funds per student, so even for the mere pennies per lunch that we could have added to the current $ 2.72 that we spend on school meals, our elected officials couldn't come together for the health of our children.

A cost analysis conducted by researchers from the Harvard Medical School calculated that if 90 percent of U.S. women would breastfeed exclusively for the first six months, up to 13 billion additional dollars a year could be saved.

It is recommended that young children see a pediatric dentist that has at least two additional years of training beyond dental school (according to Web MD).

Inclusion criteria: ≤ 25 years, low educational level (primary school or prevocational secondary school), maximum 28 weeks of gestation, no previous live birth, understood Dutch, and at least 1 of the following additional risk factors: no social support, previously or currently experiencing domestic violence, psychosocial symptoms, unwanted and / or unplanned pregnancy, financial problems, housing difficulties, no education and / or employment and alcohol and / or drug use

«The additional support, combined with State funded free early years education for younger children will enable parents of children of any age to bring together full time paid employment with parenting, and will ensure that those with school age children can meet their job search obligations.»

In an extraordinary session, the governor dictates the agenda, and Cuomo has listed just one explicit item: «Enacting legislation memorializing the agreement of the Senate and the Assembly that would extend mayoral control of the city school district of the city of New York for an additional year; specifically extending the effectiveness of chapters 91 of the laws of 2002 and 345 of the laws of 2009 relating to the organization of the city school district of the city of New York.»

The messy end of session also includes agreements on short extenders — one additional year for mayoral control of the New York City schools, and a six month extension of a tax break for real estate developers who build some affordable housing.

The Educational Conference Board, a coalition of school boards, teachers unions, and school administrators, say the state's schools need and additional $ 1.5 billion next year just to keep up with rising costs like health insurance premiums and pensions.

Earlier this year, and as part of Race to the Top requirements, the state did direct New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), lest the districts risk losing additional available state aid.

The Educational Conference Board, a coalition of school boards, teachers unions and school administrators, said the state's schools need an additional $ 1.5 billion next year just to keep up with rising costs like health insurance premiums and pensions.

He says even the State Board of Regents, which nearly always recommends at least a billion dollars more per year be spent on schools, only asked for $ 1 million dollars in additional money for technology for schools.

On Tuesday, Cuomo in his proposed budget called for additional statewide school aid of $ 1 billion, a 4 percent increase, for the 2017 - 18 school year.

Long Island public school districts would gain an additional $ 75.3 million in combined operating assistance, or a hike of more than 2.8 percent, under the state aid proposal for the 2017 - 18 academic year released by Cuomo's office.

The government has also announced an additional # 32 million funding to meet training costs, on top of the # 30 million the government invests each year in dental schools.

In 2006, the Court of Appeals revisited its earlier decision and recommended the state give the city an additional $ 2.2 billion a year in school funding, but ruled it could not order Albany to do so.

The board voted to ask the town to include in next year's budget one additional full - time police officer for each of the four elementary schools.

Throughout this time, she has been an honest public servant, representing the people of Yonkers by working through the Assembly to deliver additional education aid for the Yonkers Public Schools every year.

Ultimately, after final budget negotiations last year, Ossining received an additional $ 2.2 Million dollars in Foundation Aid, yet remained one of the most underfunded Foundation Aid school districts in the state.

Scott said a line - item veto of the provision would have eliminated funds available for the hiring additional school officers this year.

Still, he backed Mr. de Blasio's call for Albany to extend mayoral control of the city's schools for an additional year — though hinted that there might be some self - interest in it.

In the Board of Regents» budget request, state education officials requested an additional $ 125 million for next school year, with hopes for that investment to grow in out years.

He was considering a one - year bill that contained Republican - backed provisions to help charter schools and additional fiscal reporting requirements for the New York City Department of Education.

The proposal, for the final budget of Mr. de Blasio's first term, provided a blueprint of sorts for a potential second term with big - ticket investments — including an additional $ 1.9 billion in capital spending to create more apartments for some of the poorest New Yorkers — and long - term plans, like tens of millions of dollars to start a preschool program for 3 - year - olds in city public schools, and new spending on homeless shelters.

The Educational Conference Board, a coalition of school boards, teachers unions, and school administrators, say the state's schools need an additional $ 1.5 billion next year just to keep up with rising costs like health insurance premiums and pensions.

«Over the past two years, I, and members of my School Overcrowding Task Force, have made it clear to DOE staff that much of the 26 Broadway space should be used to address the need for additional school seats for this fast - growing community,» Silver wrote to School Overcrowding Task Force, have made it clear to DOE staff that much of the 26 Broadway space should be used to address the need for additional school seats for this fast - growing community,» Silver wrote to school seats for this fast - growing community,» Silver wrote to Klein.

This year's additional funds will go to 532 schools — including schools that the city wants to close or phase out — where two - thirds or more of students fell below the bar.

Under de Blasio's budget, the city would spend $ 868 million to add 11,800 additional seats in schools as part of its five - year capital plan.