Sentences with phrase «better school funding»

State Senate President Stephen Sweeney and the New Jersey Democratic Party have advocated ideas like raising the minimum wage wage and better school funding.

Thousands of teachers and supporters are scheduled to rally Monday at the state Capitol calling for higher wages and better school funding.

PHOENIX (AP)-- Thousands of Arizona teachers wearing red shirts and carrying signs protested outside more than a thousand schools Wednesday, demanding higher salaries and better school funding.

On that score, Anoka - Hennepin Superintendent Dennis Carlson praised Dayton's decision to establish a Governor's Commission on Better School Funding and in particular word that the panel will involve financial analyst Tom Melcher, director of the Education Department's Program Finance Division.

I have seen the benefits of better school funding, especially related to special education.

This week, they'll be marching with future colleagues at the state capitol in Raleigh, asking for better pay and better school funding.

Teachers packed the lobby of the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix in the wee hours of Thursday morning, as lawmakers debated a budget that gives teachers big raises but falls short of their demands for better school funding.

Shelley Mayer is the Change We Need From Yonkers to Bedford, from White Plains to the Sound Shore, Shelley knows our communities and has always been willing to stand up against the status quo to protect Westchester, Her children all attended public schools here, so she's always been an advocate for better school funding and tuition relief, She fought the NRA to pass effective, common - sense gun laws, and defeated big pharma to give us better tools to fight opioid abuse.

Not exact matches

Parents are increasingly interested in providing private school funding for their children 1) because they see the value and importance of good education and 2) because of frequent public school closings.

Resource extraction companies are recognizing that helping people in local communities to become entrepreneurs is better than funding local schools or health centres.

Another possibility is expanding school choice by providing vouchers for poor families to attend better - funded schools in rich neighborhoods.

According to a recent publication for donors to Darden, Bruner invested the school's reserves to fund student fellowships during the economic downturn to maintain Darden's ability to attract the best possible applicants.

Nooyi previously contributed funding to other school projects as well.

Researchers funded by the American Heart Association and the University of Colorado School of Medicine say they've uncovered an association between increased coffee consumption and better heart health.

«The role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see what really works super well and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland schools conference, according to the Post.

«In an effort to continue his memory, this scholarship is being created to help other students experience the joys of music as well as fund increased security at schools.

The good news is that financial aid through federal and school grants is more widely available than ever, making it possible for many students in need of college funds to attend a postsecondary school.

An old school complaint pertaining to exchange traded funds, specifically the equity - based variety, is that ETFs are unlikely to outperform the best - performing stock in their respective lineups over a year or longer holding periods.

Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.

Building better communities Better communities come when governments work together to fund infrastructures such as roads, water, schools and transit that are the framework for a community's Quality ofbetter communities Better communities come when governments work together to fund infrastructures such as roads, water, schools and transit that are the framework for a community's Quality ofBetter communities come when governments work together to fund infrastructures such as roads, water, schools and transit that are the framework for a community's Quality of Life.

School funding's been decimated by the recession and by taxpayers who want the best education system in the world but don't want to pony up the taxes to pay for it.

When Santorum or Rick Perry was the nominee it was all about social issues and bringing us back to being a «Christian nation» in good standing with God for the Republicans, we heard a never ending drumbeat about abortion, prayer in schools, teaching creationism, and trying to end funding for planned parenthood, even stopping the funding of birth control.

Indeed, over the years, Georgetown has been perhaps the clearest example of what many such schools practice: the whipsaw of «Catholic tradition,» in which the strongest declarations of Catholic identity come from the fund - raisers, the alumni association, and the public - relations office ¯ all the people trying to sell the university in a tight economic situation that requires a good bit of niche marketing.

At the very least, therefore, schools for poor and minority children should have as much funding per student, as many qualified teachers and as good physical facilities as other schools.

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

Their initial letter called out the school for funding a portion of a new building being constructed in honor of alumnus Gary Chapman, as well as for freezing faculty pay yet not tightening salaries at the administrative level.

It is off - topic but there is a well - funded campaign to teach creationism as science — loading school boards, voucher systems, etc..

Gender activism moves fast, is well - funded, and directs a significant amount of resources at public schools.

, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.

Similarly, if teachers employed by the public are assigned to teach on parochial school premises, they tend to come under the administrative aegis of the parochial rather than the public school (not that they teach religion, but that they otherwise function to some degree as adjunct faculty, increasing with tax funds the staffing resources of the parochial school — a consideration apparently underlying two 1985 decisions but not well articulated by the Supreme Court)

The evil oligarchs who really run the town decided to consolidate the two football teams (of the two high schools) into one incredibly well - funded and talent - laden team.

It would fund campaigns to educate consumers about food waste, as well as promote efforts to teach kids in schools about waste.

George Peabody College was a normal school in Nashville that would very likely come into a million dollars with the dissolution of the Peabody Trust, and Kirkland was working energetically to persuade its trustees to move their college across Nashville next to Vanderbilt, thereby making a well - funded school of education available to the university at no cost to itself.

Good examples of topics where this tends to happen are abortion, school funding, pray at public events, and so on.

See how well these schools of «morality» fair without any public funding, tax breaks, etc....

Really, who is getting this funding are kids who are already going to private schools, or some of the most well - funded schools in our state.

The Lilly Foundation funded a gathering of a cross-section of theological teachers and administrators from seminaries, university divinity schools and colleges — Protestant and Catholic, mainline and evangelical, well - known schools and those in the outback — to explore the subject.

Worse yet... Saudi oil money is paying for that ISLAMIC madness to be taught in schools here in America as well as funding for their wahcked head banging mosques!

With the zeal of a reformer and the heart of a dreamer, she calls for turning off the television at home, providing better funding for public schools and public media, and enacting laws that forbid marketing to children altogether.

The Catholic population, which had been so enlarged by Irish immigrants, was now well served by a network of churches, religious houses and schools (which now received some state funding).

If the school wants a cross and funding well I'm sure the Holy See have enough money to fund the school.

It can take up to 12 months for your salad bar (s) to be fully funded depending on the number of schools waiting in the queue as well as the amount of direct donations made to your district.

The booklet I was sent to review consists of 31 baking recipes which would work well for coffee mornings, school fetes and other fund raisers.

From sourcing organic products, to obtaining fair trade certification, to greening our facilities and operations, to funding tree planting at schools in our local community, we are constantly seeking ways to better protect our environment and ensure a better quality of life for employees, customers, and the communities we serve.

More often than not, only programs that employ ATs, such as colleges, professional teams, and well - funded high schools, are able to collect this data.

It has been some time since I was at school, Arsenal fans, but I was pretty good at maths and I am sure my memory has not failed me to the point where I can not do a simple sum like adding and subtracting, but maybe it has because the numbers concerning the amount of money available to Arsene Wenger to fund the transfer deals he wanted this summer just does not add up.

Here is a video of Serena finishing the race, which raised money to provide assistance to families affected by violent crimes, as well helping to fund two schools in Kenya.

Mehta acknowledged in his essay that some of this inequity is on the supply side: Schools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboSchools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboschools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboschools in wealthy suburbs or neighborhoods.

As I described in the book, she turned the I.S. 318 chess team into a competitive powerhouse, one that regularly beats better - funded private - school teams and wins national championships.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.