Sentences with phrase «education over the last quarter»

Idaho lawmakers, policymakers, school leaders, and education stakeholders joined Bluum for a special dinner presentation about the improvements and ongoing challenges in education over the last quarter - century and what the future holds for students in Idaho and the nation.

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Other significant achievements of the Commission over the last quarter of a century include the establishment in 2000 of the Lodi Wine & Visitor Center — one of the industry's original regional wine education and tasting centers — and the creation of the Lodi Rules ™ for Sustainable Winegrowing Program in 2005.

Over the last quarter - century, these rules and other chapters of the public - education canon have been rewritten.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

Over the last quarter century, the teachers unions have clearly been the most powerful force in American education, and they have clearly been using their extraordinary power — in collective bargaining at the local level, in the political process at the state and national levels — to undermine major reform and to burden the schools (via seniority provisions, the protection of bad teachers, and all the rest) with ineffective forms of organization.

In addition, the Department of Education states that during the last quarter of 2015, over $ 176 million in wages were garnished from borrowers who had defaulted on their loan payment.