Sentences with phrase «education day spent»

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I spend at least an hour every day reading and engaging communities — I consider it part of my lifelong education.

The former blow billionaire saw himself as a modern day Robin Hood and spent his ill - gotten wealth on health / education services, soccer fields and an entire neighborhood for the poor called The Barrio Pablo Escobar.

I promise you if you spend a couple hours one day reading posts on this site, or if you want to support financial education and read my Best of Financial Samurai book, you will get super motivated to build your wealth and actually gain more wealth over time.

The revenue could have been spent on modernizing our infrastructure; on research and education; on affordable day are; on senior care; on better and more affordable support for Aboriginal communities; better support for our veterans; better support for science; and, for so many other projects.

All too many «pro-lifers» also have no problem being pro-war, for which our pockets seem to be bottomless, yet complain about every dime spent on programs for family planning, support for single mothers such as day care assistance, Head Start, WIC, education — things that help young single mothers and their children.

I recently spent several days with the cardinal archbishop of Sydney on his home turf, where I was giving a series of lectures in support of Campion College, a new Aussie adventure in Catholic liberal arts education of which Cardinal Pell has been a strong supporter.

At this camp, students who are already enrolled in the UC Graduate School of Education's Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP) spend a portion of their day participating in sports and recreation activities.

There is every reason in the world to not be physically active; reading to our children, providing quality meals, addressing their social needs, researching all medications / foods / education, shopping to have the «best» deals on the highest quality, spending quality play time with our children, limiting screen time, grooming them, keeping house, bonding, learning and executing proper child passenger safety (installing that perfect car seat that took 3 weeks of research and a small loan to purchase), and being sure every minute of their every day is filled with only the best developmentally appropriate activities.

But inclusion is so much more than following the letter of the law, or making sure your child spends at least 80 % of their day in the regular education classroom.

The federal definition of inclusion means that a student spends at least 80 % of their day in regular general education classes.

With home education, free from the artificial environment of spending several hours per day with the same people (of the same age) children learn rapidly to treat everyone else as an individual, irrelevant of looks.

The National Association for Sport and Physical Education states that toddlers should spend at least 30 minutes a day participating in physical activities.

The strength of the association varied depending on the child's weight, time spent at school, the mother's education and the time of day and week, according to the researchers.

Pollsters telephoned voters Jan. 12 - 16, days after Cuomo sketched out an election - year agenda that included tax relief and higher education spending in his annual State of the State address.

Add more money to overall education spending, call it a day.

Dennis Walcott spent his first day as chancellor - designee on a City Council hot seat on April 8, as members of the Education Committee grilled him on the mayor's plan to lay off thousands of teachers.

New York needs to submit a plan detailing how the education and Medicaid money it expects to receive will be spent within 30 days, Paterson told WOR's John Gambling.

We do know, however, that due to opposition in both houses, education spending in the budget is no longer linked to the reforms, and lawmakers expect to have a district - by - district breakdown of school aid — also known in Albany as «school runs» — in the coming days.

Education was a sticking point for the Legislature, which spent hours debating funding for statewide full - day pre-kindergarten, charter schools and the flawed rollout of the Common Core, a new testing standard.

The focus on higher education the first day is a break with tradition, as lawmakers have generally scheduled the first day of the joint legislative hearings on the budget to be «tin cup» day — when mayors and local government officials discuss the impact of the spending proposal on their municipality.

The contentiousness of the debate was on full display over the last two weeks, as a pro-charter school group filed its second lawsuit alleging a «crisis» of violence in the city's schools — after which leaders of the city's education and police departments spent consecutive days reassuring reporters that city schools are safer than ever.

Since 2009, the board has made major cuts to the public schools, eliminating over 400 positions and reducing kindergarten to a half day while increasing spending on special education and transportation for private school students.

ALBANY — In the final days of this year's legislative session, Governor Andrew Cuomo left the Capitol, boarded a state helicopter and flew to Manhattan, where he spent an hour talking about education policy with a room full of billionaires, schedule records show.

Dennis Walcott spent his first day as chancellor - designee on a City Council hot seat on April 8, as members of the Council's Education Committee grilled him on the mayor's plan to lay off thousands of teachers.

Now nearing 70, Goodall spends as many as 300 days a year crusading for conservation, research, and education and seeking funding for her Jane Goodall Institute.

The unemployed spend more time on education than workers do — about 1 hour a day versus 19 minutes.

Obama also gave a shout out to Subra Suresh, marking his first day as director of the National Science Foundation; plugged the Administration's spending on STEM education; and highlighted a private - sector initiative, called Changing the Equation, in which hundreds of companies and organizations are adding their dollars to public investments in science education.

«We are joining everyone who spends their days thinking about preventing cancer, about better understanding its biological basis, about bringing early detection and education to all communities, about developing new treatments and therapies and about caring for patients and their families through some of the hardest days anyone faces.»

In his most recent assignment, he spent nine days aboard the station and performed nearly two dozen science, engineering, and education experiments.

«Many of us spend the majority of our days sitting at our desks, typing away at our computers,» says Jeff Monaco, the national education manager for the Gold's Fitness Academy.

At first I was skeptical of the Guru idea, but in Eastern traditions, a person is so committed to devotion to God that she may obtain a tremendous amount of education, and spend many hours a day...

Congress opted last week not to pass a final fiscal 2001 education spending plan until after Election Day, leaving education groups fretting that proposed record - breaking funding increases for schools may slip through their hands.

The longer - term challenge we face is that the days of big spending in education may never come back.

Online and «blended» school models — where students spend all or part of the day learning online — are coming to K - 12 education.

The national initiative, started by PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning), encourages community members to spend a day with a school administrator and take it all in.

Signaling that schools will be a top priority during the upcoming legislative session, Ducey outlined plans for an education - heavy agenda, including statewide teacher pay raises, increased spending on all - day kindergarten, and a $ 1,000 signing bonus for new teachers who take jobs in low - income districts.

And at the end of the day, the federal government accounts for less than ten percent of total spending on education, so any changes would be relatively modest.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has suggested that teachers should not be expected to answer emails or spend hours marking schoolwork after 5 pm each day.

Even though he made an unusual prime - time television appeal for his education budget, Idaho's Democratic governor was dealt a heavy political blow last week when the Republican - controlled legislature again approved a spending plan identical to one he had vetoed only days earlier.

Between 1994 and 2004, the percentage of students with disabilities spending 80 percent or more of the school day in a regular classroom showed an overall increase of 5 percent, which shows that our nations schools are moving in the right direction but still have a long way to go to ensure a quality education for an increasingly diverse student population.

The Philadelphia School District now spends close to $ 100 million a year on instruction for more than 27,000 special - education students in full - day and part - time classes, more than the total number of students in any other school district in Pennsylvania except Pittsburgh.

Students spent two days in each city visiting various organizations in the education sector to network and learn more about the types of places they can work following graduation.

Occasionally, even ESL pullout programs, where students spend most of the day learning in English in a mainstream classroom, are mistakenly characterized as bilingual education when the children in the ESL pullout class are of the same ethnicity.

I spent a couple days throwing keywords into OER (open education resources are digital materials freely available through open licenses) search engines to assess the quality of secondary and higher education writing curricula.

With years in the making, this kit is the culmination of my days spent assisting special education teachers and with populations on the autism spectrum.

After three generations of steady growth in per pupil spending, education is going to have to face its day of reckoning and schools are going to have to start spending dollars smarter.

Fifty education analysts had a unique opportunity recently to bridge the gap between rigorous data analysis and key policy challenges faced by education agencies.As part of the Strategic Data Project's (SDP) first Institute for Leadership Analytics, participants spent four days examining student...

Although education was the focus of the 60 - day legislative session that ended May 2 — lawmakers boosted spending for public schools by $ 650 million and raised performance standards for students and teachers — it did not produce a solution to the classroom crunch.

«The average child 30 years ago was spending four to five hours a day outdoors, while the child today is spending almost all that time inside — including nearly six and a half hours a day with electronics,» says Kevin Coyle, vice president for education at the National Wildlife Federation.