Sentences with phrase «competing education priorities»
Meanwhile, a recent House Education Committee hearing with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about the president's FY14 budget proposal illuminated competing education priorities among national decision makers.
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A review of who is paying state education agency (SEA) salaries suggests that many employees within these bureaucracies have competing priorities — and may have to spend more time meeting federal requirements than serving the students in their states.
Nonetheless, established programs face competing demands from other conflicting priorities that they have developed through years of operation in the traditional system of higher education.
It is not enough to make education one of several competing priorities.
In five sessions, participants are asked to consider questions such as how to balance competing public education priorities, how to design a lesson plan that meets national, state, and local standards and grade level expectations, and how to recruit, mentor, and retain the best teachers.
Constraints on available funding include discretionary spending caps that limit available funds as well as competing priorities outside of the education arena in areas like infrastructure and health.
He said both education systems deserve more resources, but tying them together gave lawmakers the political cover to fund other priorities while schools competed for limited income tax resources.
Education is full of priorities: getting kids ready for kindergarten, getting children reading on grade level, developing students» STEM skills, building social - emotional skills, addressing nature deficit disorder (children spending too little time outdoors), developing thoughtful citizens, training future workers to compete in a global marketplace, and so on and so forth.
A long list of competing financial priorities — credit card or student loan debt, saving for a child's education or low wages — are cited as obstacles to saving for retirement, says Cameron Huddleston, Life + Money columnist for GOBankingRates.