Sentences with phrase «education a priority by»

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(Our survey results confirm these priorities: knowledge and learning, income improvement potential and prestige were identified by respondents as the three most critical factors in an MBA education.)

Explore how you can set your school apart and meet the needs of your parent community by making food education a priority.

At The Fatherhood Project, we believe that professionals working with fathers, children and families in healthcare, mental health, education and social service settings have an unprecedented opportunity to debunk this myth by making father engagement a priority.

A child care philosophy is typically a written statement developed by a child care provider or educator regarding its organization's values, priorities, values and beliefs regarding a child's development, care, and education.

Rebecah's work is strongly influenced by her training in Waldorf education, which places a priority on helping children of all temperaments develop self - management, social skills, and social responsibility.

We are confident that these priorities will not only deliver jobs, but will improve the security and wellbeing of Ghanaians and communities across the country by increasing agricultural growth and development, providing decent work through skill and entrepreneurship development and industrialization, as well as increasing opportunities for all through the provision of quality education and health delivery.

Remarks by MaryEllen Elia, New York State Education Commissioner on the 2018 budget and legislative priorities and state aid request for the 2018 - 2019 school year

Remarks by MaryEllen Elia, New York State Education Commissioner on the 2017 State Aid Request and Budget & Legislative Priorities.

The ICM survey, commissioned by the BBC, found the other key priorities for Scottish voters were protecting frontline policing and maintaining free university education for students.

The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»

Excerpt: «As your state legislator I will work to preserve education spending as a priority investment by cutting mismanagement, waste and squander.»

[3][7] In this capacity Cummings wrote a 240 - page essay, «Some thoughts on education and political priorities», [8] about transforming Britain into a «meritocratic technopolis», [5] described by Patrick Wintour as «either mad, bad or brilliant — and probably a bit of all three.»

By proposing such a large increase, Cuomo seems to be trying to fund both priorities, but this is public education: A funding plan that will please all stakeholders is not a possibility; it's a zero - sum game.

Cuomo, who supports a number of changes that are also backed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, has said he wants to tie rent regulations and one of his own priorities, an education tax credit.

Four leading candidates for New York City, who already are using technology to reach out to voters, recently outlined their technology policy priorities in interview sessions hosted by the New York Tech Meetup * at ThoughtWorks headquarters in late July, emphasizing the importance of education, accessibility, transparency, infrastructure, partnerships with the technology community and affordability.

As House Speaker Richard Corcoran's priority education bill is pushed through the Senate committee process, some watching this week were perplexed by the vote of one sometimes perplexing Republican lawmaker.

Education was listed as the top priority by 24 percent of voters, topping other leading issues such as jobs, 15 percent, and taxes, at 12 percent.

Few activists were mollified by ESPA's statement that a new directive from Governor Andrew Cuomo — interpreting existing state human rights law's sex discrimination and disability discrimination protections to cover transgender New Yorkers — amounted to «securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority, protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations.»

Mr Hunt also clashed with Mr Burnham by complaining that his former brief of education had been given a lower priority than «grab rails» for the elderly in the election manifesto.

The Observer has been told that the defence secretary, Philip Hammond, and the education secretary, Michael Gove, raised their concerns at last week's cabinet meeting, saying the changes, which are strongly backed by Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats, should not be a legislative priority.

Susan Sclafani, the Bush Administration?s assistant secretary of education for adult and vocational education, displayed the Bush Administration?s priorities in education and detailed several new initiatives in the vocational training arena, including greater involvement by the private sector.

It broadened science education across several agencies, launched the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy at DOE, and set government - wide science priorities to be managed by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Education and Communications portfolio includes products, events, and programs aligned with priority areas identified by the federal Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education (CoSTEM).

American voters say «reversing declining trends in children's health and education» should be the Clinton Administration's third - highest priority, according to a survey released by a national children's - advocacy coalition.

Lavery concluded the letter by calling on the education, housing and Home Office to look at this issue as a priority and ensure that schools and public spaces are made safe, through the introduction of mandatory sprinkler systems.

Washington — The Education Department's fiscal 1985 budget, scheduled to be released by the Administration in its overall budget package this week, calls for expenditures totaling $ 15.5 billion — an increase of $ 100 million over current levels — and a realignment of budget priorities to reflect the recommendations of the National Commission on Excellence in Education.

«This report raises serious questions about the priorities of the Camden city board of education,» said a statement issued by state Treasurer Brian W. Clymer with the report's release this month.

None of the education priorities and programs signaled by Trump and his campaign is unreasonable, many have a history and good research backing them.

Askwith Forums A public lecture series initiated by faculty, students, and alumni that aims to address the highest - priority challenges facing education.

The two top priorities are drawing together staff from both sectors to deal with Common Core challenges and boosting the number of special education students taken by charters.

First, education goals established by distant officials can not possibly capture the diverse spectrum of local priorities in our nation.

The failure by schools to meet the physical education mark is a factor of time, money and priorities, says Donna Anthony, OSSE's assistant superintendent of health and wellness.

More than that, it made us curious about the priorities of our readers — those most likely to be affected by the policies and actions of the Department of Education.

But by the late 1990s, at least a dozen state governors had built their education reform platforms around the idea, and it had become a federal priority under the Clinton administration.

The union believe that a top priority for the education sector should be to fund education fully and fairly, by reversing the # 3 billion real terms cuts that schools are facing and providing enough money to make the new national funding formula a success.

Making the situation more difficult, roughly three out of four New Leaders in Chicago come from outside education — reflecting a priority expressed by the Chicago board of education, says Schnur.

As Congress gears up for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, questions from key lawmakers last week at the first hearing on the subject by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee gave a sense of their priorities.

If you train a different lens upon all this, however, you realize that you're looking at a badly messed - up system, one that privileges some kids over others, that extends rights to some citizens that others don't have, that invites finagling by both seekers and suppliers of educational services (and countless intermediaries), and that ends up being costlier than it needs to be, not to mention sitting substantially beyond the reach of policymakers seeking to apportion scarce education dollars across multiple legitimate causes, needs, and priorities.

According to a recent survey of 10,000 middle and high school students published by the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Making Caring Common Project, caring for others isn't seen as a top priority.

GCED acquired momentum when the UN Secretary - General launched his Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) in 2012, recognizing the role of education in fostering global citizenship by making it one of GEFI priorities, next to access and quality of eEducation First Initiative (GEFI) in 2012, recognizing the role of education in fostering global citizenship by making it one of GEFI priorities, next to access and quality of eeducation in fostering global citizenship by making it one of GEFI priorities, next to access and quality of educationeducation.

In a recent survey carried out by the School Travel Forum (STF) and Jem Education Direct, a total of 994 secondary schools from across all regions in the UK were asked to rate their top priorities when organising school trips.

It advises the Scottish government on education priorities and ensure its plans are influenced by international best practice.

But the conference — organized by the Department of Education's National Educational Reseach Policy and Priorities Board and its office of bilingual educaton and minority - language affairs — also had another purpose.

They will advise on the Scottish Government's priorities for education and ensure the actions set out in its delivery plan are influenced by international best practice.

In fact, a recent report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that most states are spending less on K - 12 education than before the Great Recession.

Information destruction in the education sector can often fall by the wayside in favour of other security priorities in schools, such as the protection of valuable on - site equipment and the security of the staff and students themselves.

Security is often the number one priority at schools — even above education — it is a response to sensationalized fear generated by the media.

A task force of Ohio foundations and other grantmaking organizations is calling on state leaders to improve public education by adopting five broad, ambitious policy priorities.

Districts that do want to make food education a priority can consider adopting some of the programs highlighted here, including one developed by Demas and two others developed by educators «in - house.»