Sentences with phrase «as education consumers»
However, Obama wants to replace the federal adequate yearly progress system with state - developed accountability models, while Romney wants to arm parents with data and choices so that they, as education consumers, can hold schools accountable.
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They're about as close to commodities as consumer devices get,» Hal Friedlander, co-founder of the Technology for Education Consortium and former CIO for New York City schools, told Business Insider.
As economic satisfaction increases, «consumers are more comfortable spending and confident they can manage any new debt,» said Rod Griffin, Experian's director of public education.
The most common type of scam involves an online profile that projects a potential suitor as employed, affluent and trusting, according to Sandra Bernardo, the consumer education manager for Experian.
«We've never done as much work on consumer education as we have on virtual currency,» Giancarlo said.
Currently as Director — Brand Education for Patron Spirits Company, Chris develops and teaches Patron Master Classes to top Retailers, Distributors and Consumers around the world.
Given the severe impact to annuity consumers - higher costs for advice and shortage of annuity advisors to provide education and recommendations - that will result if the Department of Labor's Rule is issued as proposed, a clearer understanding of the IRA consumer is warranted.
About the Company: Apple Inc. is one of the world's largest makers of PCs and peripheral and consumer products, such as the iPod digital music player, the iPad tablet, the iPhone smartphone, and the Apple Watch, for sale primarily to the business, creative, education, government, and consumer markets.
Mr. Quaye also spent time with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he served as a Senior Transaction Advisory Associate performing buy - side mergers and acquisitions due diligence on companies in the healthcare, education, and consumer products spaces.
He focuses on inflation as year - over-year change in the U.S. Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers and all items, but considers also inflation rates for medical care and higher education.
The management team has implemented an effective hands - on investment approach to drive growth and efficiency in companies primarily in consumer sectors such as consumer staples, consumer discretionary, education and healthcare.
Last month, the company hosted another full day, live - streamed event during the Fourth of July holiday in the U.S., which mixed product placement and cultural education as a way to engage Chinese consumers.
We welcome this positive development, and see it as an important milestone in the journey to policy - clarity and consumer - education,» the statement said.
Investing in efficient, low - cost and sustainable processing technologies, adequate storage and packaging solutions, road infrastructure and market linkages as well as providing training and education to chain actors, including consumers, are among the tried and proven interventions which increase the efficiency of the chain and therefore lead to a reduction in food loss and waste.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) today announced that «Facts Up Front» will serve as the theme for the consumer education campaign in support of the food and beverage industry's fact - based front - of - pack nutrition labeling system that was launched in January as Nutrition Keys.
As we continue to focus our efforts on building brand awareness, education consumers about our source and the attributes of our water is crucial,» Olafsson said.
Joe Milner, Milestone Beverages» managing director, said: «We have agreed a clear strategy which is extensively focusing on distribution and education as a way to increase consumer awareness and appreciation of the brand.
We've partnered with Shping to give consumers the opportunity to find out the organic authenticity of a product, as well as certification details, and education around certified organic products.
However, Chuck Evans» MONTEZUMA Brand Sauces & Salsas believes that this novel method of public notification of trademark infringers addresses the legal difficulties of maintaining and protecting a registered trademark, as well as the goodwill associated with the trademark, and therefore is constructive for consumer education about the theft of intellectual property rights.
The Institute of Packaging Professionals provides education and training for consumer products companies as well as businesses providing packaging materials and services supporting the packaging industry.
The IoPP provides education and training for consumer products companies as well as businesses providing packaging materials and service supporting the packaging industry.
This meeting will be a chance for members to receive an update from the secretariat on recent ESSNA activity, including on our lobbying, non-compliance, PR and consumer education work, as well as ask question and provide feedback to the ESSNA secretariat and officers.
The consumer education brochure focuses on discretionary foods as this is the group that Australian's tend to over consume - providing a visual guide on the portion size of common discretionary foods.
Currently as Director — Brand Education for Patron Spirits Company, Chris develops and teaches Patron Master Classes to top Retailers, Distributors and Consumers around the world.
«In teaming with Coors Peak and with Jules, we feel that we are able to expand this education to a broader audience and help them to recognize the importance of products such as Coors Peak Copper & Golden and gfJules mixes in carrying the GFCO certified logo and what that really means to them, the consumer.»
As the education and aspiration of consumers continues to evolve, beverage (and food) will have to «up their game» to stay relevant and appreciated.
That means advocating for increased testing and consumer education, as well as changing federal regulations.
Pre-service Requirement: Act 1220 of 2003 and the resulting Arkansas Department of Education Rules Governing the Certification and Continuing Professional Development of Child Nutrition Directors, Managers, and Workers, codified as Code 20-7-134 and 20-7-135, requires that Directors (1) provide documentation of earning a high school diploma or GED, (2) provide documentation of successful completion of one or more of the required trainings (Manager Certification Training, Certification as a Dietetic Technician, Certified Dietary Manager, Registered Dietitian, Associates degree in Foods / Nutrition or Food Service Management) or that they hold a Bachelor's degree in related field, (i.e. Family & Consumer Sciences, Food Service Management, Hotel / Restaurant Management, or Nutrition).
As to LTFA and school lunches, I'd like to say that there really needs to be better education for the schools / nutrition services & personnel as to what is REALLY in the foods, what has / hasn't been disclosed by manufacturers (true grasp of the food labelling laws as currently written), and how to fully and accurately provide all students / parents / consumers with timely and accurate ingredient lists so that fully - informed and educated decisions can be made as to when / if student might eat the cafeteria (bfast or lunch) foodAs to LTFA and school lunches, I'd like to say that there really needs to be better education for the schools / nutrition services & personnel as to what is REALLY in the foods, what has / hasn't been disclosed by manufacturers (true grasp of the food labelling laws as currently written), and how to fully and accurately provide all students / parents / consumers with timely and accurate ingredient lists so that fully - informed and educated decisions can be made as to when / if student might eat the cafeteria (bfast or lunch) foodas to what is REALLY in the foods, what has / hasn't been disclosed by manufacturers (true grasp of the food labelling laws as currently written), and how to fully and accurately provide all students / parents / consumers with timely and accurate ingredient lists so that fully - informed and educated decisions can be made as to when / if student might eat the cafeteria (bfast or lunch) foodas currently written), and how to fully and accurately provide all students / parents / consumers with timely and accurate ingredient lists so that fully - informed and educated decisions can be made as to when / if student might eat the cafeteria (bfast or lunch) foodas to when / if student might eat the cafeteria (bfast or lunch) foods.
The CSPI, a Washington - based non-profit consumer advocacy and education group, is often derisively referred to as the «food police» for coming out against a range of foods, including fettuccine alfredo («heart attack on a plate») and ice cream («coronaries in cones»).
Licensing would give consumers more information about individual midwives» education and competence as well as establish standards for care, they say.
Goer has also written The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth, which gives pregnant women access to the research evidence, as well as consumer education pamphlets and articles for trade, consumer, and academic periodicals; and she guest posts on Lamaze International's Science & Sensibility.
«Working with organizations such as FOSI is part of our holistic approach to helping keep people safe online, which also includes technology solutions and education for consumers.»
Third, it provides for cooperation with the EU on such issues as consumer protection, the environment, research and education.
As such, the linguistic rights of consumers and users and its role as the primary language in the education system were limiteAs such, the linguistic rights of consumers and users and its role as the primary language in the education system were limiteas the primary language in the education system were limited.
New York regulators are seeking to ban education and occupation as factors in determining how much consumers pay for car insurance, tackling a long - controversial pricing practice across much of the U.S.
[1] Her professional experience includes working as an attorney for the New York City Board of Education, the consumer frauds bureau, the New York State Attorneys General Office, working as an executive director of New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus, working as an attorney for the Queens County District Attorneys Office and serving as the Chief of Staff for State Senator Ada Smith.
He said the theme of the programme «Information and Education as a Catalyst for Consumer Protection,» was chosen to reflect one of the cardinal objectives of the commission of ensuring that telecom consumers are protected from market exploitation.
«By further focusing consumer education on trust building as well as nutrition, farm practice, and animal welfare, the appeal of dairy milk could be broadened.»
Other sessions focused on electronic health records, reimbursement, education of patients and their care givers, and such ethical, legal, and policy issues as privacy, patients» responsibility for their own health, and direct to consumer testing, among others.
Domestically, our «corporate» presence serves the community as a platform for consumer education, empowerment, and engagement.
As dating sites work to combat the threat of scammers, there are also a number of consumer and regulatory bodies who are seeking to influence the issue, through both education and enforcement.
PLEASE ONLY CAUCASIAN WITH SUPERIOR EDUCATION NO - SMOKER AND NO - REGULAR ALCOHOL CONSUMER - THANKS I am looking for an man with an university degree who is broadly educated (as I offer the same).
The popular majorities — those who are forced to survive on wage labor, sometimes known as the 99 percent — are never able to win great substantial victories for democracy, but are forced to accept incremental steps towards achieving some small victories in the areas of progressive taxation, health care, universal education, retirement pensions, and environmental and consumer protections and civil rights.
As more companies spend meaninglessly huge amounts of money on corporate training and advertisements, a fictional company attempts to change the whole scene of consumer interaction and training with education and technology.
Global Education Magazine aims to disseminate creative, innovative and transversal educational experiences and ideas from the formal ambit, non formal and informal, to break with the existing positivist and technocratic paradigms of the past that reduce our students in passive citizens and a-critical consumers, because we have as educational horizon the freedom and the emancipation of human -LSB-...]
The economist Milton Friedman was the first to propose vouchers as a different way of distributing public funds for the education of all children, rich and poor - with the assumption that parents, as consumers, would act in ways that improved education for all students, not just their own children.
As education scholars Mark Schneider and Paul Teske have explained, «Competitive markets do not need all consumers to be informed — competitive pressures can result even if a relatively small subset of consumers engage in informed, self - interested search.»
(She lists five other «solutions» that simply amount to rolling back reforms: Ban for - profit charters and charter chains; eliminate high - stakes standardized testing; don't allow «non-educators» to be teachers, principals, or superintendents; don't allow mayoral control of the schools; don't view education as a «consumer good.»)
In the 1960s, renowned University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman forcefully argued that parents are educational consumers who, through taxes, pay for public education and, as a result, ought to be able to choose the schools their children attend.