Sentences with phrase «education agenda which»

The Senate Education Committee rejected legislation in Gov. John Bel Edwards» education agenda which proposed restricting Kindergarten eligibility for students entering the LSP.

Nonetheless, Trump eventually overcame his reluctance and with characteristic bluster came to articulate his education agenda which is ultimately and mostly about school choice as the elixir required to make American public education «great again.»

StudentsFirstNY has led the push to support Cuomo's education agenda which, if implemented, would be disastrous for unions and beneficial to charters.

Not exact matches

While Ellis did not actually use the words «secret gay agenda» when suggesting GSAs could have a covert sexual education curriculum (which they do not), one of Kenney's prominent supporters is actually saying just that.

- The Department of Education, which has for years pushed an agenda that places paramount importance on schools» test scores, especially in reading and math, leaving no time for the nutrition education which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eatingEducation, which has for years pushed an agenda that places paramount importance on schools» test scores, especially in reading and math, leaving no time for the nutrition education which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eatingeducation which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eating choices.

I attended the hospital antenatal education classes, which are a crash course in the midwifery agenda: analgesia is BAD, and you are a BAD mother doing BAD things to your baby if you have any (except nitrous oxide / O2, which is acceptable somehow — because it is not particularly effective, perhaps?)

According to reports, NYIA's agenda is the enactment of the controversial Education Tax Credit which benefits private and parochial schools, potentially at the expense of public schools.

Last year, after de Blasio began the session calling on the Senate to make mayoral control permanent, the Republicans granted just a one - year extension, which was explicitly justified as a referendum on the mayor's education agenda.

The NCAFC campaign, which is organising the march, said on its website: «With enough of a presence on November 9th, we can force education back onto the agenda this autumn, in the midst of the biggest social movement Britain has seen in decades, and force a U-turn from the government.»

Charters are only one element of the governor's sweeping education agenda, which he's elevated by including in this year's state budget draft.

Ezeemo seized the opportunity to present his 5 - point agenda which he entitled «SHAPE - Security, Health, Agriculture, Power and Education, saying that he would abide by the contract he is entering with the people, and use the agenda to ensure development of the state.

The new leaders will play a key role in formulating and implementing the Democratic majority's agenda, which Looney said will focus on «supporting working families, fighting for seniors, promoting small businesses and continuing to improve our education system to maintain Connecticut's competitive position in a demanding economy.»

The unions are claiming that Cuomo's original 2015 legislative education agenda, which included a major cap lift, failed completely.

The rally is, in essence, to promote more more charter schools and criticize Mayor de Blasio's education agenda, which does not include more charters.

The stage was set for a serious interrogation of de Blasio's education agenda by the Senate Republicans who engineered the mayor's embarrassingly brief one - year extension last session, which guaranteed he would have to return to Albany frequently to defend his education policies.

The process of reform — known as the Bologna Process, which has since expanded to include the current 47 countries — has subsequently added to this agenda additional ideals such as equal access to higher education, student - centered learning, and student participation in quality assurance and governance within their institutions.

Is it a fundamental principle on which to base an entire education reform agenda?

Not to be outdone, a «platform» released by the Movement for Black Lives (a group of organizations organized by Black Lives Matter) issued a scorched - earth condemnation of every aspect of the reform agenda, which it characterized as «a systematic attack... coordinated by an international education privatization agenda, bankrolled by billionaire philanthropists... and aided by the departments of education at the federal, state, and local level.»

The overall agenda that I have been trying to develop since the mid-1990s is captured in the description of what István Mészáros calls socialist education: «the social organ through which the mutually beneficial reciprocity between the individuals and their society becomes real.»

Top of the agenda In April, the British Institute of Facilities Management's (BIFM) newly - revamped Education Special Interest Group (SIG) held a key event at the 128 - acre Cobham Campus of ACS International Schools, which is home to 1,500 children aged two to 18.

However, much of the education agenda depends upon which presidential nominee is elected.

Action on the other proposals — which make up the so - called «social issues» agenda of legislation promoting greater family choice in education and Christian values for youth — is being pushed by Congressional conservatives and pro-family...

He is the former executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a Harvard - based, national education policy «think tank» which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national «standards» agenda.

Now I serve as education strategist for the organization, which includes directing two key parts of their agenda: creating an app that will work for a teacher distribution channel like EdModo, and deepening the feedback model that is a core part of the application and platform.

The text, approved unanimously by participants, highlights the different ways in which technology can support the global agenda for education which was suggested at the World Education Forum for the next education which was suggested at the World Education Forum for the next Education Forum for the next 15 years.

This, however, is a topic where the White House is far from neutral, and one must conclude that its political and policy agendas have trickled down into the Institute for Education Sciences and National Center for Education Statistics, which is precisely what isn't supposed to happen.

All 46 state applicants and D.C. developed comprehensive education agendas to which their stakeholders were committed.

Except that, given that the report explicitly celebrates teacher «residencies,» flags only models like the Boston Teacher Residency, talks explicitly of «instructional rounds,» and so forth, the near - certainty is that higher education and state education agencies which run with the NCATE agenda will do so with BTR as the model.

A key purpose of the Oct. 11 - 13 conference, according to the preliminary agenda, is to improve the education of teachers by creating an organization of institutions «that will obligate themselves to standards and practices which promote excellence.»

Bersin is hopeful that the leadership fund in his and his wife's names will help address two key areas in the education sector with which he is deeply concerned: the equity agenda and the national competitiveness agenda.

Those findings, which echo the GOP education agenda, will be used to shape federal education spending this year, said Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia, and other Republicans who gathered in the Capitol late last week.

This is in line with the proposal of the EFA Steering Committee and that of the Open Working Group for Sustainable Development Goals for the post-2015 development agenda, in which GCED is proposed as one of the targets of the education goal.

In harmony with the new educational agenda 2030, the Ministers of Education and Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean prepared an official statement in which they compromised to advance in quality education systems, reaffirming that education is a fundamental human right, the basis for ensuring the realization of other rights, and is essential for prosperity and peaceful, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth in thEducation and Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean prepared an official statement in which they compromised to advance in quality education systems, reaffirming that education is a fundamental human right, the basis for ensuring the realization of other rights, and is essential for prosperity and peaceful, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth in theducation systems, reaffirming that education is a fundamental human right, the basis for ensuring the realization of other rights, and is essential for prosperity and peaceful, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth in theducation is a fundamental human right, the basis for ensuring the realization of other rights, and is essential for prosperity and peaceful, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth in the region.

UNESCO actively helped to frame the Education 2030 agenda which is encapsulated in SDG 4.

As Klein told me in an email last night, «This is the right time — it gives someone three years to move the agenda forward and I have been offered an opportunity at NewsCorp to have a big impact in the area of educational technology, which holds out enormous opportunity for transforming education.»

The richness of the Florida data — especially given that the Florida Departments of Education and Health merged birth and school records for the purpose of the research agenda in which this study is a part — allows us to investigate the effects of Haitian earthquake migrants on many different types of incumbent students.

With school choice likely to be a big focus of the new Administration's education agenda, these efforts will be undermined if parents lack the basic information they need to make an informed choice about other options, which the regulations provide.

Weingarten spins the numbers to suit that agenda, which is first and foremost about getting the taxpayers to fork over more and more bucks for education.

Michael W. Apple, a professor at University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Education, says that universal vouchers, or voucher programs for which all income levels are eligible, expose the privatization movement's hidden agenda.

The agenda seemed to include fighting for the expansion of voucher programs, and increased marketing of online education options (which many of them are no doubt invested in).

As members of the North Carolina General Assembly make their way back to Raleigh this week for the 2015 legislative session, many have education at the top of their agendas — which is no surprise given that the lion's share...

The action marks the latest setback for the governor's education agenda, which was battered last year and has made little headway in 2017, even with a modest list of bills.

ASCD's 2012 Legislative Agenda, which outlines the association's public policy priorities for the year, calls for whole child — based education reforms.

The sunshine state, which has basked in national attention for its progressive education agenda, was an early entry in the movement to fix teacher evaluations.

But when will the truth come out that high stakes testing, which is the core of Rhee and corporate education reforms agenda, is really a form of entrapment.

Prior to joining the Patrick Administration, Mr. Reville had chaired the Massachusetts State Board of Education, founded the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, co-founded the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE), chaired the Massachusetts Reform Review Commission, chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning, and served as executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a national think tank which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agenda.

The agenda, which was unveiled at ASCD's 2009 Annual Conference, is designed to help the Association, its members, and other educators influence policy discussions and decisions regarding federal education legislation as well as reforms at the state and local levels.

Park City Manger Diane Foster and Planning Director Bruce Erickson discuss some of the agenda items for Thursday's City Council meeting, including a new amended plat for the Alice Claim project, which puts the houses into the gully instead of the hillside and members of a new group Citizens for Better Education, Jim Tedford and Ali Zeisler talk about why they can't support the $ 56 million school bond.

As members of the North Carolina General Assembly make their way back to Raleigh this week for the 2015 legislative session, many have education at the top of their agendas — which is no surprise given that the lion's share of the state budget is devoted to public schools.

He described three matters policymakers must understand before taking action: principals» place on their state's policy agenda; six possible levers that could trigger change; and their state's unique context, including the ways in which key education - related institutions interact.