Sentences with phrase «education measure on»

I - 884 wasn't the only failed education measure on the ballot Tuesday.

In an AP article, US Education Chief Urges Calif. to Enact Reforms, it was reported that, «The Republican governor said he needs the education measures on his desk by early October so we can be totally in sync with the Obama administration and with the vision of our secretary of education.»

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He then gave a passionate victory speech that sketched out a stronger global role for France and promised to waste no time making the national economy a much more business - friendlyplace, with controversial labour - market, pension, education and constitutional reforms, not to mention tougher measures on crime and immigration.

The school is closely managed on student surveys that measure the impact of the education as well as the likelihood that a student would recommend the institute to a friend or colleague.

The education measures have been promised by the Liberals as part of the benefits of restraints on wage and benefits for 9,600 unionized teachers.

Thomas says educators should focus on a campaign for a November ballot measure that would raise education funding from an income tax increase on wealthy residents.

Because your ego is formed by external stuff — like validation, opinions, job, education — it focuses on eliminating external sins, the ones you can tangibly measure.

«Nationalism shows its character as a faith whenever national welfare or survival is regarded as the supreme end of life; whenever right and wrong are made dependent on the sovereign will of the nation, however determined; whenever religion and science, education and art, are valued by the measure of their contribution to national existence.»

If I had any influence on seminary education, I would like to see a course where students read some first - rate theology of creation» along with Attenborough and Eisner and Nasrecki, and maybe E.O. Wilson on ants thrown in for good measure.

Such curricular measures can also be seen as major efforts to stem the tide of technological and professional pressures on higher education.

On the basis of what evidence is at hand one can conclude that while there has been a gradual rise in the level of theological education in the last half century the training of a significant number of Protestant ministers is very inadequate, if adequacy is measured in terms of college and seminary training.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

«Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well - known standard effects: (1) escape — education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack — vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy — a sullen do - nothing withdrawal.

TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

«We can not measure the influence that one artist or another has on the child's sense of beauty, upon his power of seeing, as in a picture, the common sight of life...» ~ Charlotte Mason, Original Homeschooling Series, Volume 1, Home Education

(1) nutrition guidelines for all foods sold on school campus during the school day; (2) setting school goals for nutrition education and physical activity; (3) establishing community participation in creating local wellness policies; and (4) creating a plan for measuring implementation of these wellness policies.

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In our direct education work, FoodCorps currently concentrates on schools with high rates of students from low - income households, as measured by eligibility for free or reduced - price school lunch.

In fact, in his research summary for the National Home Education Research Institute, Dr. Brian Ray says, «The home - educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological development.

New York education policymakers will begin looking at ways to measure school success and failure based on factors other than test scores.

The party in calculating its ratings consider legislation on spending, crime, education, and abortion and pro-life related measures.

StudentsFirstNY, a group that has been aligned with Cuomo on his education reform measures, reported spending $ 30,000.

Measures on the table include beefed up role for online filters, security measures on public Wi - fi to make them «family friendly», a set of industry guidelines for businesses and a permanent body monitoring content and child internet education standards for Measures on the table include beefed up role for online filters, security measures on public Wi - fi to make them «family friendly», a set of industry guidelines for businesses and a permanent body monitoring content and child internet education standards for measures on public Wi - fi to make them «family friendly», a set of industry guidelines for businesses and a permanent body monitoring content and child internet education standards for parents.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a radio interview on Friday doubted whether there was enough support in the Democratic conference for the approval of the education - tax credit, a controversial measure opposed by the state's teachers unions.

But state lawmakers there, like in the Republican - controlled Senate, will likely consider measures designed to alter education policies approved in the 2015 - 16 state budget, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said on Wednesday.

Conservative columnist Kyle O'Connor takes on a recent measure by the New York State Education Department's Board of Regents that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain professional licenses, including certification to teach in public schools.

It's fair to say Michael Gove has emerged victorious on almost every measure in Education.

Senate Republicans are nudging de Blasio to release more information on how the city spends its education money; the Assembly on Monday passed an omnibus bill that packages a two - year extender with a continuation of local government tax measures.

In the absence of any public consultation on such a sweeping package of measures as TTIP represents, anyone concerned about the environment, the NHS, education, civil liberties, public safety or even just democracy in its widest sense, needs to make their voice heard.

Cuomo's proposed education measure focuses more on teacher evaluation and has little to do with eliminating the so - called last in, first out state law.

In the letter, Cuomo called on state education officials to circumvent the disciplinary measures meted by schools for those who participated in the demonstrations.

A pair of television ads is being released on Tuesday by supporters of the education investment tax credit, including a 30 - second spot that features Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushing the measure.

Delegates at the 600,000 - member union's New York City confab on Saturday had supported an Iannuzzi - backed measure that declared a vote of no - confidence in state Education Commissioner John King and called on him to resign.

The Board of Regents, which sets education policy, has also asked the Legislature for $ 2.1 million for other anticheating measures, including an analysis of erasures on answer sheets, and steps toward computer - based testing.

The State Education Department has yet to issue final regulations on how the Measures of Student Learning and Observations will be determined.

I'm going to explain why the focus has to be on what we're doing now, fixing the schools, because charters are, in large measure, addressing a crisis that is a crisis of traditional public education,» he told Politico's Mike Allen, at an event in Washington.

Lifton later said that there is also «clearly some strong support» for the education tax credit, and 50 Democrats are on record backing the measure.

The First Amendment Foundation is weighing in on a wide - sweeping education bill, asking Gov. Rick Scott to veto the measure when it gets to his desk.

The Governor's message was astutely deferential to Upstate's need for economic growth, meanwhile Cuomo also avoided triggering the tripwires of controversy on education and the environment (which provided Zephyr Teachout with opening to garner a third of the 2014 Democratic primary vote); Cuomo advanced strong measures around election law reform and on the criminal justice front vis a vis Bail reform, as well as the Dream Act and MWBE all of which registered positively with minority voters.

The Governor is insisting that we focus on student achievement rather than funding the education bureaucracy as a measure of success.

The Gianaris comment is the start of a renewed focus on education in the post-budget session for the conference as Democrats there are expected to roll out a series of what one official called «legislative fixes» to the measures included in the budget.

Supporters for both the DREAM Act and the education tax credit made their case at the Capitol on Monday — a push that comes as both measures are intertwined together in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's state budget proposal.

At the same time, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking the passage of the education investment tax credit as well as measures designed to curtail rape and sexual assault on college campuses and juvenile justice reform.

Queens Democratic Sen. Michael Gianaris in an interview on Monday compared Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education reform policies to anti-labor measures being enacted under Republican Scott Walker in Wisconsin.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos would rather spend money earmarked for the public financing of state political campaigns go to education, reiterating his opposition to a measure introduced by Speaker Sheldon Silver in the Assembly on Tuesday.

A flurry of calls for new measures from Nick Clegg and Tristram Hunt is welcome, but they are silent on the central issue — the vital need to treat education as...

Cuomo's campaign spokesperson, Abbey Fashouer, counters that he «has made education equity a central focus of his tenure, investing a record $ 27 billion with a focus on our neediest schools, while demanding accountability measures so that the door to opportunity is open for every child — regardless of income, zip code or ethnicity.

[31] The third attempt to repeal the measure met again with failure when the Senate Education Committee voted 3 - 2 to defer the bill on May 1, 2013.

SCSD Board of Education commissioners said the district currently spends $ 6.7 million on security measures, which include hall monitors and sentries.