Sentences with phrase «decisions about education funding»

Right now, Congress is making crucial decisions about education funding for next year, and this is our chance to tell Congress to increase funding for charter schools.

Right now, the U.S. Senate is making crucial decisions about education funding for next year, and this is our chance to tell our Senators to increase funding for charter public schools.

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The decision will cost the Chicago Board of Education about $ 4,000 in federal funds it expected to be reimbursed for the 2,938 meals served so far.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

I think there are some areas where clearly there is value and rationale in there being closer decision - making between Wales, Scotland and England, whether that's around higher education funding or about how we're going to fund social care in future [or] the nature of our education systems.

A massive education budget bill was passed, but before decisions were made about how it would be funded.

An education bill is sparking debate about how universities receive performance funding and lawmakers are facing an important decision about the future of the program.

Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on public attitudes about education suggest.

«Australia is investing record funding in education that will continue to grow, all targeted based on need, and the Turnbull Government is focused on improving student outcomes through measures we know are effective — teacher quality, a better curriculum, greater parental engagement and support for principals to make local decisions about their local school,» he said.

Helping citizens understand the tradeoffs involved in efforts to reduce class size may lead to better decisions about how to use the funds we invest in public education.

New Education Secretary Damian Hinds has made a priority of social mobility - but he will also have to make some big decisions about the pressure over school funding.

While the No Child Left Behind era saw a strengthened federal role and increased federal funding for education, 3 states and localities have always provided the vast majority of school funding and made the majority of important decisions about how schools operate.

The incoming education secretary will face pressures over school funding and decisions about university tuition fees.

The ones that are uplifted are generally satisfactory to adults who make decisions about funding, data usage in schools, and education leadership.

As governments make tough choices about where to spend their limited funding, and more investor attention is focused on filling the gap in government budgeting for early childhood education, Every Child Ready has the potential to be just the innovative, scalable approach needed when making these decisions and for investing in future Pay for Success models to make them successful.

In that same hearing, DeVos avoided a question about a religious school in Indiana that gets voucher funds but will not admit children of same sex couples, saying only «The bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children's schooling and education decisions... Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.

Northeast Charter Schools Network Connecticut State Director Jeremiah Grace responded by saying, «After three long years of advocacy and hard work, we are ecstatic about the State Department of Education's decision to release Request for Proposals (RFPs) both for new public charter schools and for facilities funding.

Laurel is one of 16,000 students whose schools» futures were imperiled by the May court decision reaffirmed Monday, throwing these students into the center of a national debate about the viability of charter schools — schools that are publicly funded but can be privately run — and the role they play in public education.

As more and more facts come out about Michael Sharpe, the CEO of the Jumoke / FUSE Charter School Management company, parents, public school advocates and the taxpayers of Bridgeport and Connecticut are turning their attention to the decision by Paul Vallas and former Bridgeport Board of Education, Chairman Kenneth Moales, Jr. to hand over Bridgeport's Dunbar School, its students, staff, parents and millions of dollars in public funds to the disgraced charter school fraud.

SPR's work in education research is intended to directly support funders, policy makers, and practitioners to make informed decisions about their investments.

Rather than making a series of empty, unfilled promises, these policies would actually improve teachers» working conditions, students» learning conditions, and school funding; would protect public schools from inequities of funding caused by the proliferation of charter schools; and would «encourage» the decision makers who currently establish public education policy to play within the rules, or forfeit the thing they are really most concerned about: those sweet, sweet campaign contributions.

Partnering with both the Ontario Securities Commission and the Investor Education Fund, the province wants to develop materials that will teach students the basics about money and will later help them make informed financial decisions.

To help make an informed decision about the options that may best help you work toward your education funding goals, you need to understand the often complex and subtle differences between the savings vehicles available today.

Funding your child's education or even your own higher education with an education loan is a wise decision, for it enables you to pursue learning without being worried about the expenses involved in achieving your dream qualifications.

The Americans for the Arts Action Fund will use the funds to educate the US Congress and other decision makers about the value of the arts and arts education to all Americans in every part of our nation and urge them to fully fund the NEA for fiscal year 2018, plus all the other federal cultural agencies and efforts such as the Artist Museum Partnership Act which would allow artists the same tax benefits for donations of their own art as a collector currently gets when gifting a similar work to a museum or educational institution.&raFund will use the funds to educate the US Congress and other decision makers about the value of the arts and arts education to all Americans in every part of our nation and urge them to fully fund the NEA for fiscal year 2018, plus all the other federal cultural agencies and efforts such as the Artist Museum Partnership Act which would allow artists the same tax benefits for donations of their own art as a collector currently gets when gifting a similar work to a museum or educational institution.&rafund the NEA for fiscal year 2018, plus all the other federal cultural agencies and efforts such as the Artist Museum Partnership Act which would allow artists the same tax benefits for donations of their own art as a collector currently gets when gifting a similar work to a museum or educational institution.»

The Common Sense column on Saturday, about how poor financial decisions involving its endowment forced the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science to stop offering education free of tuition, misstated the total value of assets that hedge funds manage.

FLEW is a public legal education project funded by Ontario to develop materials to inform women's decisions about family law issues.

Rochester private equity and investment funds partner Jeremy Wolk authored this column about the Department of Education's recent decision to withdraw of Obama - era Title IX guidance.

While the Labor - HHS - Education appropriations bill is good news for Title X funding, it is bad news for medically accurate comprehensive sex education that helps teens make responsible decisions about theiEducation appropriations bill is good news for Title X funding, it is bad news for medically accurate comprehensive sex education that helps teens make responsible decisions about theieducation that helps teens make responsible decisions about their health.

Federal funding should be directed toward comprehensive sex education programs that will keep teens healthy — by including information about abstinence as well as contraception, healthy communication, responsible decision making, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections.

This is positive news for America's teens, as federal funding should be directed toward comprehensive sex education programs that will keep teens healthy — by including information about abstinence as well as contraception, healthy communication, responsible decision making, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections.

WASHINGTON, DC — At a Congressional Briefing sponsored by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D - NJ), Rep. Barbara Lee (D - CA), and Rep. Lucille Roybal - Allard (D - CA), experts from Planned Parenthood and the Guttmacher Institute highlighted the need for increased federal funding of comprehensive sex education programs that provide young people with accurate information to make responsible decisions about their health.

Over the weekend, 15 editorials echoed Planned Parenthood's push to end dangerous «abstinence - only» programs that don't work and to instead invest funding in comprehensive sex education that teaches teens about abstinence as well as contraception, healthy communication, responsible decision making, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections.