Sentences with phrase «called on education funders»

Speaking to The Stage, Samuel West, National Campaign for the Arts chair, said that «Scotland is showing England the way forward» and called on education funders and policy makers to provide more opportunities for young people to experience live art.

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On Wednesday, Hawkins announced the release of an education - focused app through his new startup called If You Can, as well as a $ 6.5 million funding round from Greylock Partners and Almaz Capital.

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

They also called on the incoming administration to establish a $ 25 million fund over the course of five years for cyberbullying research and education.

«In the short term, I call on the State Department of Education, local school districts and the union leadership to expedite their negotiations on a teacher evaluation system to prevent the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.

At her first official campaign event, Nixon pledged to fix public education funding and the crumbling NYC subway system, and also teed off on Cuomo, calling him out on his progressive credentials.

Former teacher Linares said he also intends to focus on education, and called for more funding to help community schools and provide wrap - around services for public school students.

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Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

Labour is calling for cross-party talks on how religious education is conducted and monitored in the state sector as a special poll for the Observer shows widespread concerns about the use of taxpayers» money to fund faith schools in a multicultural Britain.

As this year's A-level students prepare to receive their results, the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, is calling on the Government not to squander their potential by further funding cuts to education and training.

He also called on university authorities to form joint ventures with the private sector through agribusiness and entreated traditional rulers to establish education endowment funds to support needy but brilliant students.

Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat AM for North Wales and the party's Spokesperson on Education, is today calling on the Welsh Government to provide certainty to schools in Wales by confirming how long it will continue to fund the Pupil Deprivation Grant.

A large coalition of early childhood education advocates and elected officials took to the City Hall steps on Wednesday to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio — again — to fund pay parity between teachers at all pre-Kindergarten and day care centers in New York City.

James held a rally at City Hall on Sunday to call on the State to fully fund city schools in line with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity and to criticize Gov. Cuomo's education reform policies.

At 1:30 p.m., parents, students, educators and advocates from the Alliance for Quality Education call on Sens. George Amedore and Jim Tedisco to to fund «real» Foundation Aid for public schools and not «need - neutral» aid, lobby outside state Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Education - focused rallies at the Capitol on Tuesday called for greater accountability and funding for schools and teachers in the new year.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins on Tuesday released a letter to Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia calling for a boost in funding for community schools in New York.

At 11:45 a.m., clergy members join students, parents and education advocates to rally for a Moral Monday event to call on the state to provide Schenectady City Schools with adequate funding, War Room, 2nd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Lobbying done by UFT members in Albany on March 9 helped boost state education funding, which UFT President Michael Mulgrew called «a down payment on the state's debt to public education.»

On Friday, Teachout, her voice still hoarse from Tuesday's election, urged voters to now focus on helping Democrats take control of the state Senate, calling it an «essential» step toward addressing income inequality and boosting funding for education and local communitieOn Friday, Teachout, her voice still hoarse from Tuesday's election, urged voters to now focus on helping Democrats take control of the state Senate, calling it an «essential» step toward addressing income inequality and boosting funding for education and local communitieon helping Democrats take control of the state Senate, calling it an «essential» step toward addressing income inequality and boosting funding for education and local communities.

In one mailer, the group calls on Diaz de la Portilla out for voting to raise taxes, cut funding to education, and cut funding for senior programs.

In a move widely seen as dismissive of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education initiatives, Miner and de Blasio on Monday called upon state officials to revise school aid based on the Citizens for Fiscal Equity court decision, which held that New York City schools were inadequately funded.

Commenting on Gordon Brown's call for a global education fund and a co-ordinated plan for universal primary education, Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, and a board member of Education Internationeducation fund and a co-ordinated plan for universal primary education, Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, and a board member of Education Internationeducation, Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, and a board member of Education InternationEducation International, said:

The protest, organised by the TUC, called for a higher minimum wage, a ban on zero - hours contracts and more funding for the NHS, education and other public services.

Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat Education spokesperson, has called on the Welsh Labour government to use the money which will come to Wales as a result of today's school meals announcement in England to be used to fund a similar scheme.

Instead of the privatization schemes pushed by Cuomo and Republican candidate Rob Astorino, Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones are calling for fully funded, quality public education, qualitative assessments instead of the punitive high stakes testing model, and an end to the attack on teacher's unions.»

Representatives from the Alliance for Quality Education, PUSH Buffalo and Citizen Action were among the group calling on New York State to provide the funding owed to area schools.

It also directed funds to an independent expenditure committee called the People for Quality Education, which spent just under $ 86,000 in the 2014 election cycle (most of it on a political consulting firm) and then fizzled away.

The Council is calling for a reassessment of spending on homeless shelters and for education spending to be increased to «Fair Student Funding» levels.

Second, he let Sen Landrieu take the heat and be called a whore by his GOP minions for aquiring additional funds for Medicade - althought it was at his bequest Third - he goes around galavanting around the country fundraising» instead of governing - He blasts government for all of the ills and blamed the BP oil mess on Washington - yet he went licking up to DC for funds so he could build berms that wold be mysterious for the coast and let BP off the hook Cut funding for education - although he was afforded a damn good one He sides with his GOP pals about health care reform - REMINDER his child has a pre existing condition - heart problem

PEF calls on the SUNY Board of Trustees to provide the funding necessary to allow Downstate to fulfill its mission to continue to provide top quality education to its students, and the best possible medical care to the more than two million people living in Brooklyn.

Meanwhile, education advocates on Tuesday began their lobbying efforts with a rally calling on more equitable funding for high - needs schools across the state.

On a day when budget negotiations are said to be winding down, Nixon came to Albany to join the Alliance for Quality Education in calling for $ 1.5 billion more in education funding, with most of that going to needyEducation in calling for $ 1.5 billion more in education funding, with most of that going to needyeducation funding, with most of that going to needy schools.

Cuomo is calling the crisis a health issue and said he agreed with a panel member who called on insurers to cover rehab for prescription pill addiction and said he would also like them to fund education efforts.

Nixon also called on the governor to increase education funding, and said she would «commit to ending racial and economic inequality in this state.»

Trained to do chemistry and atmospheric sciences research, Knighton weathered the 1999 recession by branching out from his lab to work part - time on a MSU program called «BOREALIS,» funded by NASA to promote science education.

The legislation, signed into law on Tuesday, restores funding for what NASA calls education and public outreach (E / PO) programs operated by SOFIA and dozens of other scientific missions.

Then, one day on Facebook, I discovered a U.S. funding program for hosting threatened scholars in safe academic institutions around the world called the Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF), from the Institute of International Education (IIE) in New York City.

Senator Tom Harkin (D — IA) called the hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education in the wake of the 23 August ruling by Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., that hESC research violates a law barring federal funds for research that harms human embryos.

But the terms of the agreement with the original trust required the society to honor the provisions in the fund's founding document, which called on the fund «to advance science education and research in the petroleum field.»

The NUT is calling for an increase in funding to schools and education, and to resume negotiations on teacher contracts to allow workload to be addressed.

The Education Funding Advisory Board, a task force that reports to the governor, called in an August report for the state to overhaul its tax structure to become less reliant on property taxes.

But, it's an unfortunate comment on today's education debate that my quest to align public funding with effectiveness is seen as a call for more bubble tests.

The report by the National Center for Improving Science Education, a research «mini-center» funded by the U.S. Education Department, calls for a bigger role by the government in conducting research on needed science knowledge and skills, developing new forms of assessment in the field, and training science educators.

Tom Payzant, the veteran superintendent who heads up Boston Public Schools, says large school districts get funding from a variety of philanthropic organizations, but he has had to work hard to persuade these funders to align their efforts to support a system - wide vision of how to improve education and avoid contributing to what he calls «project-itis,» which is just a series of ad hoc donations that make givers feel good but have little impact on students.

The grant would have trained teachers to use a middle - school program called Connected Math, one of several, Hoven learned, that was funded by the Education and Human Resources Division of the NSF and based on standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).

Chris Cook, education correspondent for the Financial Times, recently covered the issue, reporting that while conventional schools can call on their local authorities for help, academies do not have access to council funds and, in some cases, maybe denied access to advice and guidance.

As a result of the increasing funding constraints and the pressures on degree production, at the time of Pathways» inception some leaders were calling for significant change in higher education.

On April 16, Grassley was joined by seven other GOP senators (including major presidential contenders Ted Cruz and Rand Paul), who signed a letter calling on their colleagues to stop funding the implementation of Common Core, which, they point out, appears to violate federal laws that explicitly forbid the Education Department to influence curriculum or assemble a national databasOn April 16, Grassley was joined by seven other GOP senators (including major presidential contenders Ted Cruz and Rand Paul), who signed a letter calling on their colleagues to stop funding the implementation of Common Core, which, they point out, appears to violate federal laws that explicitly forbid the Education Department to influence curriculum or assemble a national databason their colleagues to stop funding the implementation of Common Core, which, they point out, appears to violate federal laws that explicitly forbid the Education Department to influence curriculum or assemble a national database.