Sentences with phrase «called by education officials»

Disagreements that have roiled the state's education community in the wake of new teacher evaluation laws approved by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature as part of the budget were highlighted at a day long summit called by education officials.

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We've seen tremendous improvement in the economy and at the social level since 1992, the Rawlings regime and that of Kufour all contributed immensely to the growth we seeing, the Mahama administration has added value to what he inherited.The infrastructure development recorded under this government is the highest after Nkrumah, the improvement in the health and education sector can not be downplayed.Policies rolled out by the regime to close the yawning gap between the toiling but highly productive rural folks and city officials is commendable.The IMF director Christie Lagarde was right when she described what we called economic success between 2005 - 2008 as mediocre growth.The base of the economy was still shattered and now being built to restore the confidence of the people.

A campaign about education in the northeastern U.S. targeting a specific elected official may not hold my attention with content that calls out a particular politician by name (they're not MY rep, after all), but if the content also contains stats that I find relevant to education discussions where I live, then suddenly even a regional campaign can be relevant on a national scale.

In the letter, Cuomo called on state education officials to circumvent the disciplinary measures meted by schools for those who participated in the demonstrations.

INWOOD — Several elected officials and uptown leaders came together Thursday to call for more domestic violence education and outreach programs after an Inwood woman was killed by her ex-boyfriend on New Year's Eve.

The fight over Cuomo's education agenda will resume Thursday morning with a rally attended by Mulgrew, other union advocates and elected officials who will call on the state to fulfill its Campaign for Fiscal Equity obligations.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration sent the state's top education officials a letter Thursday warning that he plans to use his influence over the budget to pursue an aggressive legislative agenda to fix what he calls an underperforming school system hobbled by bureaucracy.

Anti-public ed crowd's ideas hampering contract talks As contract mediation continues, UFT officials are fighting fire with fire by vigorously taking on what they call the counterproductive and potentially disastrous ideas being floated by the anti-public education crowd.

Today, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined in front of the Edward A. Rath county office building by Commissioner of Central Police Services James Jancewicz, elected officials and members of the law enforcement community, community members, and officials from the American Bikers Aimed Toward Education («ABATE») of NY Buffalo - Erie Chapter to start the motorcycle season with a call for increased safety and awareness.

Administration officials confirmed the school runs were being withheld because the governor's education reform agenda hasn't been met favorably by the state legislature, a move Kingston City School District Superintendent Paul Padalino called «a little childish.»

The plan, which one state education department official called «the most comprehensive teacher - accountability plan in the country,» is the result of an 18 - month study conducted by the state education department with $ 35,000 appropriated by the state legislature in 1980.

In what is called a «peer review process,» local and national educational consultants, together with state school officials, will analyze those plans, which then must be approved by U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige.

The head of the Education Trust, a former Obama official, denounced Trump's proposed budget (which called for trimming national K - 12 spending by something less than one percent) as «an assault on the American dream.»

In addition to a re-write of the process by which state education officials issue A-F ratings to Indiana schools — among other matters — House Bill 1427 calls for a legislative review, public hearings and a fiscal analysis of the Common Core.

Incredible in life, perhaps the most disturbing truth of all about Diane Kaplan Devries» work is the uncomfortable fact that so many elected officials, often led by so - called Democrats, immorally and unethically sought to throw up barriers to stop Diane's critical effort to make sure that Connecticut's children got the education they needed, while ensuring that Connecticut's middle income property taxpayers were treated more fairly.

Thomas J. Gentzel, executive director, National School Boards Association: «Our nation's 90,000 school board members stand together with educators, principals, superintendents, chief state school officers, parents and school business officials to call upon lawmakers to end years of uncertainty and send a final education bill that restores local governance and community ownership to the president's desk by the end of this year.

The state's political leaders and education officials acknowledge what they call the «achievement gap» and say they are working to close it, mostly by appropriating more money for instruction.

WASHINGTON, DC — On February 13, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) affiliates and their supporters will hold a nationwide Day of Action, calling on elected officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to pass legislation that helps women and couples prevent unintended pregnancy and plan healthy families by expanding access to birth control and real sex education.