Sentences with phrase «attention public education issues»

Interestingly, considering how much attention public education issues received during the recent gubernatorial campaign, this vital topic did not get much play in Malloy's speech, although the governor — who once said that he didn't mind schools teach to the test, «as long as test scores went up,» — did proudly proclaim that his first term accomplishments include that fact that his administration had «raised test scores» in Connecticut.

Not exact matches

One reason is that denominational and judicatory officials have shifted their attention away from such «private» issues as education and toward public policy and social change.

Pramilla has pledged to focus her attention on several major issues in the 42nd district: protecting our environment, transforming our energy infrastructure to renewable energy, transitioning our economy to support «green» job creation, education, public health, safety and welfare.

I'd like to begin by thanking Daniel Dromm and the Education Committee for holding this hearing and ensuring that important budget issues involving our neighborhood public schools get the attention they deserve.

In real life, Larsen also wanted to bring a key issue to the public's attention: reforming education at the local level.

In our own survey, 37 percent of the American public claims to pay either «a great deal» or «quite a bit» of attention to issues involving education, while 54 percent of the affluent and an overwhelming 84 percent of teachers do so.

A previous edition of «The Merrow Report,» a monthly Public Broadcasting Service series on young people and education issues, drew wide attention for its reporting on the links between an attention - deficit - disorder support group and the company that makes the most widely prescribed drug for the disorder.

As the charter sector has emerged as a durable element of American public education and grown large in some places, a handful of issues come into focus that previously got scant attention.

The report by the nonprofit Grantmakers for Education, issued last week, also notes a growing interest in collaboration among funders, as well as increased attention to fueling educational innovations and providing dollars to support advocacy and public - policy work.

This BBA blog highlights a comprehensive approach to early childhood education in the context of the national election, which in general is not paying much attention to public education issues.

It is past time to focus our attention on the real issues that confront public education in California and then work collaboratively on solutions that we know work.

This is what happens when the very vast majority of Realtors does not pay attention to what is going on within its sales culture, does not care about anything other than the next commission cheque, does not read REM regularly, does not concern itself with pursuing anything more than the bare minimum of ongoing education requirements, does not care enough about what the majority of the public thinks about them, does not heed the warnings of professionals within the culture, does not heed the warnings of commenters on REM about this issue (over the past five years or so) and too often crosses its fingers when conducting double - enders, hoping that neither opposing parties to the transactions find out what was or was not said or revealed that should have been said or revealed.