Sentences with phrase «education for schoolchildren»

Education Secretary John B. King Jr. wants to see a return to a more well - rounded education for schoolchildren, one that spotlights the importance of science, social studies, world languages and the arts.

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Mr. Kenney, chanting the mantra of «choice,» appears to be committed to increasing that public subsidy while cutting education funding for most Alberta schoolchildren.

In a question to the Education Secretary, the MP for Enfield, Southgate, said: «There are reports that Ofsted is demanding that a Christian school invites an imam to take collective worship and that Jewish schoolchildren have been asked intrusive questions about their views on sexuality.

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

In our own time, for instance, this question is the intellectual shrug that lies behind the institution of multicultural education, the social shrug that lies behind a race - based double standard of conduct, and the moral shrug that lies behind the permission to teach techniques of anal and oral sex to schoolchildren.

The school meal recommendations are also meant as handbook for communication between stakeholders; providers of education and supporting activities, schools, persons in charge of school food services and pupil welfare, as well as for parents and carers, and the schoolchildren themselves.

Appointed parliamentary secretary for pensions by Winston Churchill, in the coalition government of 1940, she went on to become minister for Education in the landmark Attlee government of 1945, introducing free milk for schoolchildren and raising the school leaving age.

But don't look to the U.S. Secretary of Education for guidance on which candidate would be best for the city's 1.1 million public schoolchildren.

Simon Cowell has called education secretary Michael Gove «stupid» for not seeing the «positive side» of his suggestion that schoolchildren should be lazy.

The Rochester Education Foundation is an independent, not - for - profit organization dedicated to raising resources and offering programs to support the success of Rochester's city schoolchildren.

«Nothing is more important than protecting jobs and providing a quality education for all of New York's schoolchildren.

The JTU decided to self - distribute rather than cater to studio demands, and while many praised the film for its realism, the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture considered it too «anti-American» to show to schoolchildren.

RedSTART, the charity set up to improve financial education for children, has launched a learning portal for primary and secondary schoolchildren and teachers.

Washington — House and Senate education committee members last week sharply criticized the Reagan Administration's proposed changes in regulations governing programs for handicapped schoolchildren, and both chambers set legislative actions in motion that signaled their displeasure.

Mike serves or has served on various advisory boards: transition teams for the past two MA governors (Deval Patrick and Mitt Romney), the National Council for Teacher Quality, Harvard's Futures of School Reform, Boston Schoolchildren's Consortium, Education Sector, and others.

Groundwork has been working with schools to bring environmental education to schoolchildren in a way that complements the National Curriculum for the past 30 years, and we have found that nothing brings a subject to life more than giving pupils the opportunity to experience the environment first hand.

I had caught up with him for part two of our interview in his official Trenton office, 50 miles to the south and west, where the state's education department is headquartered and where he has lively paintings drawn by schoolchildren on the walls.

In 1999, the Thai government instituted the National Education Act, a radical redesign of a flailing, decentralized education system responsible for the country's 12 million schoolEducation Act, a radical redesign of a flailing, decentralized education system responsible for the country's 12 million schooleducation system responsible for the country's 12 million schoolchildren.

President Clinton told schoolchildren in his home state of Arkansas recently that he would go to bat for education as members of Congress and his Administration seek ways to cut taxes and spending.

What should we take away from News Corp.'s recent announcement that it is writing off losses stemming from its digital education wing Amplify, ceasing its production of tablets for schoolchildren, and selling off its educational software and assessment services?

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.

The School Sports Partnership — a scheme designed to increase sports and physical education opportunities for schoolchildren — plans to give 26 of St John's teachers and 36 Junior Sports Leaders the opportunity to gain FA Level One coaching qualifications.

Achieve serves as a significant national voice for quality in standards - based reform and regularly convenes governors, CEOs and other influential leaders at National Education Summits and other gatherings to sustain support for higher standards and achievement for all of America's schoolchildren.

The resolution underscores NYSUT's longstanding, strong opposition to corporate influence and privatization in public education and calls for an end to New York's participation in InBloom, a «cloud - based» system that would collect and store sensitive data on New York's schoolchildren.

Last year, Nevada's Legislature passed and Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a sweeping privatized education finance bill that would create Education Savings Accounts for all Nevada schoolchildren, regardless of their parents» income levels, allowing them to use the funds to send their kid to a private school or pay for tutoring or supplies in a home school or hybrid education finance bill that would create Education Savings Accounts for all Nevada schoolchildren, regardless of their parents» income levels, allowing them to use the funds to send their kid to a private school or pay for tutoring or supplies in a home school or hybrid Education Savings Accounts for all Nevada schoolchildren, regardless of their parents» income levels, allowing them to use the funds to send their kid to a private school or pay for tutoring or supplies in a home school or hybrid approach.

The Goldwater Institute, the Foundation for Excellence in Education, the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, and the American Federation for Children argue that the Blaine Amendments were «motivated by bigotry» and «present an obstacle to the provision of high - quality educational opportunities for millions of American schoolchildren» that must be removed in order «to vindicate our nation's sacred promise of equal educational opportunities.»

WASHINGTON — Little has changed for hearing - impaired schoolchildren in the four years since a federal commission concluded that the education of deaf students was «unacceptably unsatisfactory,» witnesses last week told a House panel beginning work on extension of federal deaf - education programs.

Another intervention, Cognitive Acceleration for Science Education (CASE), which targets «general thinking skills,» enabled British schoolchildren to outperform their peers even two years later on achievement tests in science, math, and English.

The Rochester Education Foundation is an independent, not - for - profit organization dedicated to raising resources and offering programs to support the success of Rochester's city schoolchildren.

After being handed the gavel at Annual Conference, Tuttle spoke of how he plans to focus his commitment on ensuring that public education remains vital and relevant for the success of all of our nation's public schoolchildren.

«Dianne Kaplan deVries was a tireless advocate for the rights of all Connecticut public schoolchildren — regardless of economic background, race or town of residence — to receive the quality education our state constitution promises and requires.

Earlier this month, Nick Clegg likened the Department for Education under Gove to political parody show The Thick of It, saying the former education secretary was known to keep a handwritten list of medieval monarchs that he believed schoolchildren should be required Education under Gove to political parody show The Thick of It, saying the former education secretary was known to keep a handwritten list of medieval monarchs that he believed schoolchildren should be required education secretary was known to keep a handwritten list of medieval monarchs that he believed schoolchildren should be required to learn.

The 71 - year - old has lost about 29 pounds, bringing the 5 - foot - 9 inch education activist to a mere 132 pounds — all for the sake of America's schoolchildren.

After citing the evidence of large gaps in achievement by low - income students and English learners, Liu wrote, «The schoolchildren who brought these actions (Robles - Wong and Campaign for Quality Education) do not claim they are entitled to a world - class eEducation) do not claim they are entitled to a world - class educationeducation.

A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: «We believe all schoolchildren should be taught about key events and figures in British history.

«It is crucial for a democratic society to provide all of its schoolchildren with fair access to an unsegregated education,» Ellen A. Peters, then chief justice of the state's High Court, wrote in the majority opinion in July 1996.

However, we have compiled here a collection of inspiring and heroic tales of school administrators, teachers, parents and students — all working together for a common goal: to ensure excellence in education for Texas schoolchildren.

Texas School Business magazine has chronicled the life of public education in our state for more than 60 years by focusing on best practices and on the people who serve Texas schoolchildren.

Kenney says it's time for the city to be accountable for the education of its 200,000 schoolchildren.

But the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding, a statewide coalition of municipalities, local boards of education, education associations, unions, pro-education advocacy organizations, parents, public schoolchildren and taxpayers, are working to change that once andEducation Funding, a statewide coalition of municipalities, local boards of education, education associations, unions, pro-education advocacy organizations, parents, public schoolchildren and taxpayers, are working to change that once andeducation, education associations, unions, pro-education advocacy organizations, parents, public schoolchildren and taxpayers, are working to change that once andeducation associations, unions, pro-education advocacy organizations, parents, public schoolchildren and taxpayers, are working to change that once andeducation advocacy organizations, parents, public schoolchildren and taxpayers, are working to change that once and for all.

For the second year, SPANA worked with CREW to deliver humane education lessons for primary schoolchildren in the Guaymi and Nabe indigenous reservFor the second year, SPANA worked with CREW to deliver humane education lessons for primary schoolchildren in the Guaymi and Nabe indigenous reservfor primary schoolchildren in the Guaymi and Nabe indigenous reserves.

Education campaigners have launched legal action against a government requirement for local authorities to share sensitive personal data on schoolchildren for its «Alternative Provision Census».

But when he decided to become executive director of the Center for FaithJustice, an organization that provides schoolchildren with community service opportunities and education about poverty, he turned to his team to fill the gaps in their business.