Sentences with phrase «education issues spent»
In all, labor groups and their key allies on education issues spent $ 8.3 million on political activity in 2015.
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The Microsoft founder's organization focuses on addressing issues such as global health, poverty and education, and the new gift from Buffett will likely be spent on those causes.
What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.
It's about education, and if Hobby Lobby chose to spend that fine on educating its employees about proper contraception then the issue would be moot.
While counselors might have to spend a lot of time focusing on individual education plans, testing, and other educational issues, school personnel should also be available to talk with children about emotional issues that affect their performance and demeanor at school.
He would likely run to Cuomo's left on a variety of issues, including education spending.
The main issue: Cuomo's opposition to extending the millionaire's tax and his proposed education and health care spending cuts.
NYSUT often spends heavily on pushing education issues in the halls of the Capitol.
But the entity was just one of several education - oriented groups that spent heavily on trying to influence legislation as issues ranging from teacher evaluations to charter school expansion stoked debate at the Capitol.
Just spent the past three years at the Department of Education, working on important issues like Universal Pre-K.
Outstanding issues included education spending, charter schools and juvenile justice reform.
Nixon, an actress known for her role in the HBO series «Sex and the City» is a prominent advocate for public education funding and has often pushed Albany to spend more money on schools, criticizing Cuomo's stance on funding issues.
Jacobs point to the Common Core education standards being addressed in state spending plans — an issue where Democrats and Republicans have found common ground.
The final night of voting included some mini-drama — Democrats from Westchester fought for a sales tax increase in Yonkers as well as new hotel levies, and chamber leaders took the rare step of calling off a bill during voting because it lacked support — but was mostly spent approving an omnibus bill for outstanding housing and education issues.
The issue was, as it always is, the budget: a swollen $ 136 billion chimera that, $ 9.2 billion out of balance, would require massive cuts to education and health care spending and possible layoffs of state workers, to say nothing of some tax increases.
Tony's stance on key issues such as job creation (bringing jobs back to the New York State), access to affordable and quality health care for all, improving the quality of education for students, and holding state officials accountable for how they spend taxpayers» money is aligned with the Coalition's point of views.
The letter takes issue with Cuomo's deep health care and education spending cuts while giving wealthy New Yorkers a «massive tax break» by allowing the temporary three - year PIT increase to expire on schedule at the end of this year.
In the report, the group takes issue with how Cuomo interprets the decade - old ruling for education spending and the governor's rhetoric touting increases in education aid over the years.
NYSUT and Cuomo have been at odds on a variety of issues ranging from the tax cap, to the state's education spending formula and the ongoing debate over the state's teacher performance evaluation law.
Other issues still on the table include: education spending, college affordability, raise the age, water infrastructure spending, workers comp reform and subsidies for three upstate nuclear plants.
While they worked to resolve the impasse over the yeshiva issue, Cuomo and legislative leaders appeared to reach agreements on most other issues, including the crucial issue of education spending.
There will be no honeymoon period for the new government on education spending — particularly if the unions do vote to strike over the issue.
The budget itself includes a number of political trip wires, from criminal justice reform, to transit issues for New York City, education spending and gun control.
Our education shortcomings are not a revenue issue, it's how it's spent.
That being the case, isn't it only right and proper that the national audience know where smaller parties like my party stand on the issues of national defence, on the issue of the union, on the issue of grammar school education, on issues of healthcare, taxation, the cost of living and defence spending?
In the governor's statement issued Sunday, Mr. Cuomo kept up his strong words in trying to address what he described as «decades of leading the nation in education spending but lagging in results.»
The mayor has so far been muted in his criticism of the governor and his budget, declining to attack him in public, although he did issue a statement calling the zeroing out of NYC's revenue - sharing aid on top of the education spending cuts «unfair.»
Outlining the city's new spending initiatives, including investments in public safety, education, anti-homelessness services, transportation, infrastructure and the Board of Elections, Fuleihan said the executive budget, «makes investments that address longstanding structural issues that affect all New Yorkers.»
State legislators looking for the best returns on budget investments should focus their efforts on education spending, according to a new report issued by the Economic Policy Institute.
Word of the possible commission came as Cuomo conceded that the DREAM Act and an education investment tax credit — two other issues that he had included in his proposed budget — would likely not be included in the final spending plan.
«I worked hard and spent the campaign discussing the issues such as job creation, education and cleaning up Albany, and I appreciate the support the voters showed me.»
He also says Cuomo has tried to link too many unrelated and difficult issues, including ethics and education changes, to the state spending plan.
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Vern Ehlers [August 17, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt and 15 Other Science Society Leaders Request Climate Science Meeting with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt [July 31, 2017] AAAS Encourages Congressional Appropriators to Invest in Research and Innovation [July 25, 2017] AAAS CEO Urges Secretary of State to Fill Post of Science and Technology Adviser [July 13, 2017] AAAS and ESA Urge Trump Administration to Protect Monuments [July 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on House Appropriations Bill for the Department of Energy [June 28, 2017] Scientific Organizations Statement on Science and Government [June 27, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Executive Order on Cuba Relations [June 16, 2017] AAAS Statement on Paris Agreement on Climate Change [June 1, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal [May 23, 2017] AAAS thanks the Congress for prioritizing research and development funding in the FY 2017 omnibus appropriations [May 9, 2017] AAAS Statement on Dismissal of Scientists on EPA Scientific Advisory Board [May 8, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on FY 2017 Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [June education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [June 28, 2016]
But his statement issued immediately after the vote this morning by the Senate cautions Congress that the final agreement «should cut spending and reduce deficits without damaging economic growth or gutting investments in education, research, and development that will create jobs and secure our future.»
Among primary care physicians, the spending patterns in the regions in which their residency program was located were associated with expenditures for subsequent care they provided as practicing physicians, with those trained in lower - spending regions continuing to practice in a less costly manner, even when they moved to higher - spending regions, and vice versa, according to a study in the December 10 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education.
Teresa plans to spend her fellowship year working in the field of education in emergencies to identify and promote good practices in issue areas including conflict - sensitive education, psychosocial support and social - emotional learning, gender inclusivity, and early childhood development.
Features in the fall 2013 issue include a collection of some of the biggest ideas in education from some the field's biggest names — including a Muppet; a look at a unique school in Sikkim, India, run by an alum and his family; and a chronicle of Project Zero's collaboration with Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Paul Salopek as he spends the next seven years walking around the world.
The Obama administration has recently urged Congress to add the issue to its already crowded 2010 agenda, even going so far as to include an additional $ 1 billion for K — 12 education in its budget proposal if the law is reauthorized this year (a wholly symbolic gesture, given that it is Congress that sets spending levels, but one that indicates the administration's priorities).
«I'm often asked why I spend so much time on this issue,» says Tilson, in a recent post, writing about his education reform obsession.
President Barack Obama, balancing his blueprint to recalibrate the nation's economy against a looming confrontation with Republicans over federal spending, will use the issue of education to help frame the budget debate.
With just a couple of clicks, it is possible to explore key issues, such as completion rates from primary to tertiary education, the percentage of children out of school, the amount spent on each pupil's education, and the supply of qualified teachers.
Though she spent the last four years working in the White House on a variety of issues that included health care, immigration, welfare reform, and the environment, Ms. Spellings has long been the president's most relied - upon adviser on education.
I'm a product of the public school system, and I've spent most of my professional career working on education issues at the local, state, and national levels.
Several Web sites, geared toward parents, teachers, and even policy makers, offer the raw data on these and other issues — including how much a school spends on special education programs or what percentage of students graduate.
As part of the Programs in Professional Education (PPE) institute, Improving Quality in Education Systems: Building Quality Schools, participants spent two weeks tackling tough issues like how to build sustainable schools, design effective systems for monitoring and evaluating student and school performance, and define quality schools.
The U.S. Department of Education has identified four states that are at «high risk» for economic - stimulus spending problems, according to a report issued last week by the Government Accountability Office.
The case called for the Court to weigh in on several controversial issues, the most important of which is the extent to which the judiciary should be able to dictate education spending by state and local governments.
A team - oriented approach to teaching, one that encourages educators to think about the success of a student well beyond the year they spend in a particular classroom, is a vital part of education, agreed panelist Tim Daly, president of the education nonprofit TNTP, which addresses issues of teacher quality.
The blow to states - rights principles from national standards could be softened with pledges to block - grant federal education spending and encourage competition through charter schools or school vouchers, along the lines described in the contribution from Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli in this issue (see «A New New Federalism,» p. 48).
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