Sentences with phrase «dire need of education»

««We're not only offering edu - tainment to a new industry in dire need of education and entertainment but we are also revolutionizing how innovative projects get vetted and funded.»

«We are deeply saddened by the Texas House for systematically shutting the door on thousands of special needs students in dire need of education options today.

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That said, I believe our country's education bureaucracy has become calcified and resistant to change — and we are in dire need of change.

Some parents will have a false - sense of security if nuts are banned, however these are the parents that are in dire need of food allergy education (education that is not as yet available when an adult, or child is first diagnosed).

Created as a companion text to Mr. Smiley's 2006 best seller, The Covenant, each chapter delineates Obama's campaign promises in terms of such areas in dire need of attention as health care, education, justice, the economy, and so forth.

Instead, like the civil rights movement itself, the education reform movement is in dire need of creative thinking, committed education leaders, and informed, involved parents — all united in our belief in the worth and value of every young life and each child's potential to learn and do great things.

Last fall she was tapped by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who studied at Harvard as an undergraduate, to head Startup: Education, a nonprofit established to aid the public schools of Newark, N.J., a system in dire need of reform.

Instead of keeping an unrelenting focus on students facing dire needs, however, Nevada is rolling the dice on another marquee program, a custom version of Education Savings Accounts (ESAs).

Abstract: America's higher education system is in dire need of reform.

To give an idea of the dire need for more charters beyond the current permissible amount, there are about 163,000 students presently on waiting lists all over the City whose parents are waiting for the opportunity to exercise a real choice about their education.

New York, NY — StudentsFirstNY today released an ad addressing the dire need for fundamental reform of the education system.

Labour's Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt said the report was «yet more evidence» that the free school programme was «diverting precious resources from areas in dire need of more school places, contributing to the primary places crisis this Tory - led government is overseeing».

Charter School Lenders» Coalition: Thank you for your leadership in promoting educational opportunities for disadvantaged communities through the replication of high - performing public charter schools... H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act, would provide essential tools and resources to address the dire need for quality education for low - income students.

Our country is in dire need of comprehensive education reform that embraces a new way of thinking — a shift from a world of schooling to a world of learning.

At a meeting Thursday, June 15, a group of Board of Education members and district administrators talked about whether to ask for a tax increase and which buildings have the most dire need for improvements.

Today's special education programs are in dire need of effective and visionary leaders to move programs from separate entities to ones more inclusive with the rest of the student population.

However, the lesson I learned from that experience gave me insight into the dire need for education of pet owners.

The truth is that these vendors are in the business of selling you the home - based medical billing business model, a few of the things you will need to run the business, a useless list of physicians that they claim are in dire need of your services, and, if you are lucky, they may provide you with some medical billing education so you feel you understand what you are doing.