Sentences with phrase «education in the state targeted»

«The introduction of calisthenics to schools» scheme is not by chance, but an integral part of the total transformation of education in the state targeted at the eventual production of useful future citizens.

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In many European countries, home visiting is a routine part of maternal and child health care, although the practice is less established in Canada and the United States.7 Over the past 30 years, one of the most promising prevention strategies targeted at decreasing rates of child maltreatment has been to provide health services, parenting education, and social support to pregnant women and families with young children in their own homeIn many European countries, home visiting is a routine part of maternal and child health care, although the practice is less established in Canada and the United States.7 Over the past 30 years, one of the most promising prevention strategies targeted at decreasing rates of child maltreatment has been to provide health services, parenting education, and social support to pregnant women and families with young children in their own homein Canada and the United States.7 Over the past 30 years, one of the most promising prevention strategies targeted at decreasing rates of child maltreatment has been to provide health services, parenting education, and social support to pregnant women and families with young children in their own homein their own homes.

Nabozny, with the help of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, won a landmark federal lawsuit (and eventually settled for close to $ 1 million) against school administrators in his home state of Wisconsin who failed to a spate of stop brutal anti-gay bullying at his school of which he was the target.

Williams suggested a number of new taxes or fees targeting the state's wealthiest residents to generate an estimated $ 20 billion in new revenue to fund education, transportation, environmental remediation, public housing and health care.

Teachers, administrators and union leaders joined forces in what was termed the One Voice United rally, targeting the increasing reliance of the state's education system on standardized testing.

New York spent $ 21,206 per pupil compared to a national average of $ 11,392 in school year 2014 - 2015.38 Better targeting spending to the highest needs districts would contain costs while ensuring that all students have access to a sound basic education.39 The State wastes $ 1.2 billion annually on property tax rebates and allocates $ 4 billion annually on economic development spending with a sparse record of results.40 Curtailing spending in these areas would reduce pressure to increase taxes and lessen the tax differential with other states.

The State Education Department this month identified 144 struggling and persistently struggling schools statewide — 62 of them in New York City — that could be turned over to an outside administrator or «receiver» if they do not meet performance targets.

In his proposed state budget, Cuomo also has proposed $ 11 million in funding to hire additional health care workers at cancer treatment facilities for outreach work, $ 15 million for public education campaigns targeting underserved communities, and $ 5 million to support commercialization of cancer - related technologieIn his proposed state budget, Cuomo also has proposed $ 11 million in funding to hire additional health care workers at cancer treatment facilities for outreach work, $ 15 million for public education campaigns targeting underserved communities, and $ 5 million to support commercialization of cancer - related technologiein funding to hire additional health care workers at cancer treatment facilities for outreach work, $ 15 million for public education campaigns targeting underserved communities, and $ 5 million to support commercialization of cancer - related technologies.

Education groups control the state's biggest super PACs, and while reformers and unions will likely take sides along most partisan lines in November, supporters of charter schools and tax credits for donations to private schools have focused on targeting eight incumbent Democrats in the primaries, forcing the New York State United Teachers to play defense in support of alstate's biggest super PACs, and while reformers and unions will likely take sides along most partisan lines in November, supporters of charter schools and tax credits for donations to private schools have focused on targeting eight incumbent Democrats in the primaries, forcing the New York State United Teachers to play defense in support of alState United Teachers to play defense in support of allies.

MANHATTAN — Negotiations between the city and the teachers union on a new teacher evaluation system fell apart Friday, prompting the State Department of Education to suspend more than $ 60 million in federal funding that had been targeted at some of the city's worst - performing schools.

WHEREAS Victory Inc.'s union - busting campaigns have targeted charter school educators at Merrick Academy Charter School in Queens, Sisulu - Walker Charter School in Harlem and New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT); and

Under federal education policy, states must set, and try to meet, targets to ensure that students are becoming proficient in English.

In some countries, scholars are also subject to violence not specifically for their individual views or actions but simply because of their connection to a higher education institution, which may be viewed as an easy target with predictable schedules, «a proxy for state authority or... a symbol of a modern, education - based society,» the report says.

«This has very important implications for early education policy in the United States, where we are debating how early to start and whether preschool should be provided to all children or exclusively target low - income children,» said Dearing, a professor of applied developmental psychology who is also a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development at the University of Oslo.

The audience will learn about the current state of breast cancer research, how data generated by NGS gene panels target variants of interest and have been developed and used in routine laboratory research, and the broader issues of breast cancer education, awareness, and community services.

Outside the United States, the University of Toronto in Canada and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom have been working to solve protein structures to identify drug targets as part of the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), which is partly funded by GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Lilly, and Pfizer, writes Sarah Jones, education and skills manager at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry in London, in an e-mail to Science Careers.

Providing training for early childhood education teachers, embedding direct instruction and practice of targeted skills into daily practice and engaging families in these efforts help to boost the success of these kinds of interventions, Oregon State University researchers suggest in a new paper.

Beyond Sea Grant, the cuts would target grants and programs «supporting coastal and marine management, research, and education,» which are a lower priority, the budget request states, than functions maintained in the budget like «surveys, charting, and fisheries management.»

From 19 - 22 May 2015, the World Education Forum has took place in Incheon, Republic of Korea, where the world education community has been discussing about the education goal and targets in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda that is expected to be adopted by the UN Member States at the Special Summit on Sustainable Development of September 2015 in Education Forum has took place in Incheon, Republic of Korea, where the world education community has been discussing about the education goal and targets in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda that is expected to be adopted by the UN Member States at the Special Summit on Sustainable Development of September 2015 in education community has been discussing about the education goal and targets in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda that is expected to be adopted by the UN Member States at the Special Summit on Sustainable Development of September 2015 in education goal and targets in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda that is expected to be adopted by the UN Member States at the Special Summit on Sustainable Development of September 2015 in New York.

The Government says it has set targets to boost performance in STEM subjects as part of its plan to make Victoria the education state.

State aid in Massachusetts is targeted at districts that can not meet the foundation budget out of local funds, so the state's education dollar is concentrated on poor distrState aid in Massachusetts is targeted at districts that can not meet the foundation budget out of local funds, so the state's education dollar is concentrated on poor distrstate's education dollar is concentrated on poor districts.

Education and Child Development Minister Susan Close said the targeted funding — for students in public primary schools — is designed to lift achievement and modernise the state's public educatioEducation and Child Development Minister Susan Close said the targeted funding — for students in public primary schools — is designed to lift achievement and modernise the state's public educationeducation system.

The Department of Education is again inviting states to take part in a pilot initiative that would reverse the order of key consequences for schools that miss academic - performance targets under the No Child Left Behind Act.

There are no weights or adjustments made to the general - aid portion of state funding for education, but some of the 10 components of education aid in Rhode Island are targeted to specific student populations.

The standards for an adequate education in this study were that all students must achieve proficiency on the state assessment by 2014, and that all schools must meet «adequate yearly progress» targets.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had filed a suit against the state department of education and the district in late August to prevent the dispersal to several other schools of students from the James Lick Middle School, which was one of 18 schools targeted for increased funding and special academic...

«We're providing not only the academic skills — by meeting state standards, and through work in theater education, literacy, and public speaking — but we are also targeting anger management and social skills,» she explains.

In a bill sent to the legislature this month as part of his education - reform package, Mr. Ridge, a Republican who took office this year, aims to make the state's 53 «learning outcomes» voluntary learning targets.

In education, we never bother to calculate the thrust needed to carry our schools to our stated targets.

The primary target audience is deliberately broad, including, for example: state - and federal - policymakers; education leaders; early education center directors; practitioners serving in formal or informal leadership roles; funders and non-profit leaders working in the early education sector; faculty and graduate students.

The target audience for this project is deliberately broad, including, for example: state - and federal - policymakers; education leaders (e.g., superintendents, assistant superintendents, etc.); early education center directors; practitioners serving in formal or informal leadership roles (e.g., head teachers, pre-school teachers, department heads); funders and non-profit leaders working in the early education sector; faculty and graduate students.

Recommendation: To enhance state efforts to target improvement funds to schools most in need of assistance, the Secretary of Education should review the Title I monitoring process to ensure that steps are in place to ensure that states comply with NCLBA requirements for allocating school improvement funds to districts for district - level activities and prioritizing funds to the lowest performing schools.

The demographics of my survey respondents were relatively representative of all state education policy makers when it came to race / ethnicity, but women and Republicans were slightly more prevalent in my sample than in the target population (see Table 1).

Recommendation: To enhance state efforts to target improvement funds to schools most in need of assistance, the Secretary of Education should, to further support the department's proposal to eliminate the hold - harmless provision, develop an analysis comparing the characteristics of districts that contribute to the set - aside with those protected by the hold - harmless provision.

Recommendation: To enhance state efforts to target improvement funds to schools most in need of assistance, the Secretary of Education should ensure that states track which schools receive improvement funds and can comply with the requirement to make a list publicly available of all schools receiving Title I improvement funds by providing guidance to clarify when and how this information is to be made available and by monitoring state compliance.

It is important to understand how funds appropriated by Congress under NCLB actually flow to the targeted students, since significant discretion at both the state and local levels results in variations in amounts per student between the Local Education Associations (LEAs) and schools that have similar demographics.

As states continue to add public preschool programs — in the hope that greater access to early - childhood education will improve schools» chances of meeting the NCLB law's targets — it's not surprising that some organizations are pushing to increase the federal government's role in the...

There's been progress on several fronts — notably a big reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger — but none of these goals will have been achieved in full by next year, any more than the «goals 2000» project for American K — 12 education met its targets (e.g., «first in the world in math and science») by the stated end point.

However, states and the U.S. Department of Education must together confront substantial implementation problems in this area, because the new requirements are fraught with technical complications, will lead to dramatic increases in the number of schools identified as failing, set improvement targets that many see as unrealistic, and are no more grounded in research or experience than the standards set by most states under the old law.

The Education Trust, for example, is urging states to use caution in choosing «comparative» growth models, including growth percentiles and value - added measures, because they don't tell us whether students are making enough progress to hit the college - ready target by the end of high school, or whether low - performing subgroups are making fast enough gains to close achievement gaps.

The IDEA also requires reports on progress toward meeting state targets, as described in the state's Special Education State Performance state targets, as described in the state's Special Education State Performance state's Special Education State Performance State Performance Plan.

An increase of more than $ 800 million in education spending in the state budget will be targeted toward high needs school districts including Rochester.

For five years, the Center on Education Policy followed efforts in six states to improve schools repeatedly missing state test targets under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

That initiative seeks to put all early education teachers in the target states on a path to Board certification, beginning in pre-service teacher preparation.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said the Priority School Building Programme was «transforming run - down buildings to state - of - the - art facilities, targeting funding at those school buildings in the worst condition.»

Alexandria, VA (June 24, 2015)- The National School Boards Association (NSBA) is pleased that the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee passed an appropriations bill with targeted investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students and special education state grants under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Aceducation state grants under the Individuals with Disabilities Education AcEducation Act (IDEA).

But the fact that the administration has blessed moves by states such as Tennessee, Florida, and Virginia have enacted race - and class - based socioeconomic targets (including the so - called Cut the Gap in Half approach structured by the Education Trust) that define proficiency down as well as damn poor and minority kids to low expectations also proves lie to Duncan's statement.

Our work is aimed not only at developing new and more targeted tools and approaches for addressing the region's priority needs, but also building the capacity of state and local education agencies to use evidence in making decisions that move us toward a more efficient, effective, and equitable education system.

The report examines progress in the performance of students in high - poverty schools, the development of state standards and assessment systems, accountability systems and school improvement efforts, the targeting of Title I funds, Title I services at the school level, support for family involvement, services for students in private schools, and services provided under the Even Start, Migrant Education, and Neglected and Delinquent programs.

The CST offers a variety of technical assistance services to state education agencies and local education agencies, including direct and targeted support in any or all of the four domains for rapid school improvement: turnaround leadership, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shift.