Sentences with phrase «as control over education»

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As the architects of this secular society well knew, it could be built only by wresting from the Church control over two basic social institutions: marriage and the education of the young.

They gain control over education and the media as well.

While Kaminsky has been hammering Republicans over ethics as well as education issues, McGrath's campaign has framed the race over the impact of one - party control in Albany.

«I hope that the State Senate will listen to the voices of Republicans and Democrats, listen to my two predessesors, Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Guiliani who agree as I do that we need mayoral control of education, listen to over 100 prominent business leaders who yesterday signed onto a letter calling for renewal of mayoral control,» he said.

The only areas capital (vouchers) may be the more progressive option is adult education (where the individual has almost complete control over the demand factors for it), running alongside a state system as well to address market failures.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo seeks greater control over education policy in the state, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said on Tuesday he was opposed to altering how the Board of Regents is appointed to lead the state Department of Eeducation policy in the state, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said on Tuesday he was opposed to altering how the Board of Regents is appointed to lead the state Department of EducationEducation.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a Long Island Republican, said in an interview on Monday he would support greater gubernatorial control over education «were appropriate» as well as more influence over its members by his chamber.

That is an aim we're fulfilling through public service reform — as in schools, where parents are getting more control than ever before over their children's education.

For the last two years, Senate Republicans have used the debate over renewing mayoral control as a months - long — and largely unfavorable — referendum on de Blasio's education agenda.

Regaining mayoral control of schools was one Michael Bloomberg's greatest legislative achievements as mayor; it marked the first time City Hall gained discretion over education policy since the Lindsay administration, when those powers were decentralized and major decisions were made by an education board.

Physicist Peter Chen (also known as Chen - Yuan Chen) of Taiwan's National Pingtung University of Education reportedly constructed an elaborate web of over a hundred fake e-mail addresses and used it to get some 60 papers — all now retracted — into the Journal of Vibration and Control, which apparently did not have sufficient control of its own reviewing pControl, which apparently did not have sufficient control of its own reviewing pcontrol of its own reviewing process.

«Conversely, a spelling error, like substituting «hite» for «height,» might be attributed to a lack of education or to a cognitive challenge such as dyslexia, traits over which the writer has little control.»

The researchers found, after controlling for variables such as health, wealth, gender, ethnicity and education, that well - being increases over everyone's lifetime.

Out of 3,635 people surveyed about their health and reading habits, bookworms were 20 percent less likely to die over the next 12 years — even after researchers controlled for factors such as gender, education, and cognitive ability.

This upgrade option provides users with even greater control over the matching process including options such as income, religion, and education.

A talented California educator Catlin Tucker defines blended learning as «a formal education program in which a student is engaged in active learning at least in part online where they have some control over the time, place, and / or pace and in part at a brick and mortar location away from home.»

There are many definitions of blended learning to be sure, but for our purposes let's take the definition of blended learning from Innosight Institute which defines blended learning as: a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control over time, place, path, and / or pace and at least in part at a supervised brick - and - mortar location away from home.

Immigrant parents also face challenges such as language barriers, unfamiliarity with the U.S. school system, low education, difficulty assisting children with homework, and little control over work schedules.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

And as long as your students and you have Google Apps for Education accounts, you, as the teacher, have administrative control over who sees student sites and how they are used.

As the event page notes, ESAs give families almost unfettered control over the public funds allocated for their child's education.

In addition, we control for determinants of student achievement that may change over time, such as a teacher's experience level, as well as for student characteristics, such as prior - year test scores, gender, racial / ethnic subgroup, special education classification, gifted classification, English proficiency classification, and whether the student was retained in the same grade.

Michael J. Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative education policy research group, said the United States has a tradition of local control over education, «and as long as that's the case there's going to be disparities.»

If the game here is to codify one set of pedagogical beliefs in an effort to reassert control over a rapidly decentralizing field then, as is often our way in education, we're about to have a big debate about something that misses more fundamental problems.

So it is ironic that the left, which has made right - wing anti-government arguments, and made common cause with Republicans to scale back federal control over education, has settled on a public message of attacking liberal reformers as crypto - allies of the GOP.

The approval, along with the ouster last November of two of the Adelanto Unified School District board members who fought unsuccessfully to stop the families from taking over the school, completes the effort of the families to become the first in the nation to use a Parent Trigger law to take control of a school — and show other families how they can become lead decision - makers in education as they should be.

In ESSA, blended learning is defined as «a formal education program that leverages both technology - based and face - to - face instructional approaches that include an element of online or digital learning, combined with supervised learning time, and student - led learning, in which the elements are connected to provide an integrated learning experience; and in which students are provided some control over time, path, or pace.»

«Does he stand up for local control over education by stopping Common Core, as Jindal has done in Louisiana, or does Christie try to play both sides of the issue?»

However, it addresses so many of NSBA's objectives, such as requiring the U.S. Department of Education to collaborate with local school leaders and not simply impose its will on them, eliminating the existing one - size - fits - all approach to school accountability, providing more state and local opportunity to shape workable school improvement plans, and ensuring state control over academic standards, while excluding «portability» (i.e., vouchers).

Hasn't almost every government control over US Education, as suggested by Marc Tucker already happened?

The evil corporate education reformers target yet another local elementary school for closure and takeover through a bizarre scheme that would have allowed a public school principal to resign his position as a public servant, become president of his own private company and then take over control of both his old school and the new school.

Blended learning has been defined by Innosight Institute as «a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control over time, place, path or pace.»

Oklahoma will not lose control over a portion of its federal funding next year, according to state officials, who announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Education has restored the state's waiver from the 2001 accountability law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

This group sees the Common Core as federal intrusion into state and local control over education because of the Obama administration's support of the Common Core in Race to the Top.

Sweden adopted a nationwide universal voucher program in 1992 as part of a series of reforms designed to give more control over education to towns and schools.

Prior to 2013 - 2014, as a «school of the district» for special education, SDCCS had no control over the specialized staff provided to them by their authorizer, San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD).

He also defended the legislation as a strong stand for state control over education and said that the legislation would free Mississippi from unwanted federal control.

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.

They can exercise full control over the educational process, even providing their own teachers, or they can let Accelerate Education's own highly qualified staff teach the students as an extension of their own faculty.

Historically, the only way parents have retained control over their children's education in the long run has been for them to assume, as much as possible, the direct financial responsibility for it.

Tom Vander Ark, the education chief who had championed small schools, was out the door and replaced with Vicki Phillips, a superintendent whose claim to fame, such as it was, came from serving as Portland's superintendent where she consolidated schools (not breaking them into smaller ones) and centralized control over curriculum and instruction.

Sec. 1 - 225 and Sec. 1 - 200) states that «meetings of all public agencies shall be open to the public», and defines public agency as «including any committee of, or created by, any such office, subdivision, agency, department, institution, bureau, board, commission, authority or official», and defines «meeting» as «any hearing or other proceeding of a public agency... to discuss or act upon a matter over which the public agency has supervision control, jurisdiction or advisory power», nonetheless, the State Department of Education attempted to keep the «training session» for superintendents closed to the public, stating it «is not a venue for members of the general public to participate.»

Michael Kirst, president of the State Board of Education, noted in the briefing that the plan delegates a great deal of control to local districts to spend funds as they see fit, marking a decisive shift from the rigid top - down requirements imposed by Sacramento and Washington over the past decade.

Parent triggers are presented as a grassroots way to give parents control — and have been romanticized in the film Won't Back Down — but Diane Ravitch, an education historian and former U.S. assistant secretary of education in the first Bush Administration, characterizes parent trigger laws as a «clever way to trick parents into seizing control of their schools and handing them over to private corporations.»

The GSBA has a long standing legislative position supporting,» the constitutional authority vesting exclusive control over public schools to local boards of education as the level of government closest and most responsive to the taxpayers and parents of the children being educated.

The State School Board's recent decision to eliminate physical education, arts and health courses as core statewide requirements for middle - school students is seen as a way to give local districts more flexibility in designing curriculum, which is a positive development in the context of allowing more local control over education policy.

But, as Michael Rebell, a professor of law and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, convincingly shows in his new book, Courts and Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts, there is a pragmatic path to equality in the schools that avoids highly charged debates over racism and local control.

Severe storms at the USF Tampa campus pushed me off campus this afternoon, and I've used it in part to catch up on reading, such as Joy Ann Williamson - Lott's article «The Battle over Power, Control, and Academic Freedom at Southern Institutions of Higher Education, 1955 — 1965» ($ $) in last November's Journal of Southern History.

In the U.S., most significant education policy changes come at the state level, as states have direct control over the school districts within their borders.

The piece explains that it is «customary for federal agencies to issue detailed regulations on how new laws should be put into effect,» but notes that «some lawmakers from both parties saw» ED's regulations «as unusually aggressive and far - reaching, and said they could subvert ESSA's intent of re-establishing local control over education and decreasing the emphasis on testing.»