Sentences with phrase «education policies need»

Our public education policies need to embrace, not resist, school choice as a vehicle that promotes parent engagement and empowers parents to match their children with schools that best meet their needs.

Education policy needs to take account of the differing experiences that children have in their communities and at home, and not assume that schools alone can overcome the multiple and significant challenges posed by poverty and social disadvantage.

Understanding Federally Required Education Policy Needs Assessments and Maximizing Their Impact

c) Write your members of Congress or your legislature and tell them federal / state education policy needs to fundamentally change course and regain a sane and reasonable approach to assessment and accountability.

Prof. Kirst, Stanford policy academic and current California school board president, is a potent «influencer,» an insider despite his academic credentials, who thinks special education policy needs a remake.

Not exact matches

«Policy, education, funding and pipeline for women entrepreneurs — it's all something we need to rethink.»

«Among the characteristics needed to join the elite group are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.»

«The Liberals need to immediately scrap their policy of funneling scarce healthcare and education dollars into private sector projects and start using the Pacific Carbon Trust to lower the carbon footprint of schools and hospitals,» said Dix.

Yes, immigration policy is out of control; illegal immigration needs to be sharply stemmed, even if it can not be entirely stopped; and the effective assimilation of immigrants requires major changes in welfare and education policies in order to avoid the welfare dependency syndrome and the cultural balkanization of «multiculturalism.»

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

By advocating for successful governmental policies, setting standards for professionals in the education industry, and providing professional development seminars, it helps teachers, administrators, parents, related students and other educational support staff to best support and educate the special needs children with whom they work.

Guidance Materials: The State Board of Education and the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training Program provides districts with wellness policy resources, including a Local Wellness Policy Toolkit (2005) that includes an action plan checklist, a needs assessment and annual evaluation tool, a model policy developed under a USDA Team Nutrition grant, and other resources for developing local wellness polpolicy resources, including a Local Wellness Policy Toolkit (2005) that includes an action plan checklist, a needs assessment and annual evaluation tool, a model policy developed under a USDA Team Nutrition grant, and other resources for developing local wellness polPolicy Toolkit (2005) that includes an action plan checklist, a needs assessment and annual evaluation tool, a model policy developed under a USDA Team Nutrition grant, and other resources for developing local wellness polpolicy developed under a USDA Team Nutrition grant, and other resources for developing local wellness policies.

Policy compliance will be reviewed and annually, including a review of nutrition standards with education goals; physical activity and education goals, and determine areas in need of improvement.

Guidance Materials: The state Department of Education's sample policy language, «Examples of Policy Language for Local Wellness Policies» provides guidance to policymakers in selecting policy goals that suit their needs and assists them in meeting the federal requirempolicy language, «Examples of Policy Language for Local Wellness Policies» provides guidance to policymakers in selecting policy goals that suit their needs and assists them in meeting the federal requiremPolicy Language for Local Wellness Policies» provides guidance to policymakers in selecting policy goals that suit their needs and assists them in meeting the federal requirempolicy goals that suit their needs and assists them in meeting the federal requirements.,

Other: A White Paper on Health, Nutrition, and Physical Education produced by the Department of Education entitled, Healthy Children Ready to Learn (2005), highlights the need for local wellness policies and outlines steps the Department is taking to accelerate their adoption and implementation, including collaborative efforts, promoting a coordinated school health approach, and supporting state legislation supporting wellness policies.

Policy development in this and related areas needs to take into account that the education levels and workforce participation of these mothers are growing rapidly, as is motivation among both mothers and fathers to share the care of children more equally.

We also helped develop the Men's Coalition — a partnership launched in November 2007 by a group of agencies (Men's Health Forum, Respect, Fatherhood Institute, Men's Advice Line, Relate, the Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at Bradford University, NCH and the White Ribbon Campaign) to ensure public policies take full account of the specific needs and experiences of men and boys (eg across health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and violence).

Through quarterly meetings and an annual conference that draws more than 500 education advocates, the Water Cooler elevates the needs of California's students to the forefront of policy decisions.

As a politically active feminist and a mother myself, I believe her time and ability to command editorial space in The Wall Street Journal would be far better spent opining about things like the need for better family leave and health care policies, improved access to birth control and higher education and affordable child care for working mothers rather than whether Angelina Jolie plans to adopt again or how long my friends plan to breastfeed their babies.

The Water Cooler improves and expands early care and education (ECE) and K - 12 education for California's children by bringing together diverse stakeholders to build consensus for policy solutions that support the needs of children from birth to 12th.

Instead of subsidising formula companies to boost exports or attract investment, allowing them to influence health and nutrition policies or involving them as partners in education initiatives, governments should ensure all inappropriate marketing is ended, and invest in policies to ensure mothers get the support they need to breastfeed and care for their babies.

No matter the restriction policy, all staff will need to participate in food allergy management education and training, consistent with CDC, state, or local guidelines, and will need to know their roll in their schools» policies and procedures.

Education is needed, change in policies at the local level are needed, the level of homelessness among families with young children needs to decline, but in the meantime there are families who don't have the option (the laudromats near us are pretty clear in this policy as are the daycares, and I had more than one funny look from guests when they saw me putting diapers into the washing machine, I imagine the reaction in shared housing is more difficult to battle.)

The bipartisan Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 mandated that the USDA set guidelines for what needed to be included in local school wellness policies in areas such as setting goals for nutrition education and physical activity, informing parents about content of the policy and implementation, and periodically assessing progress and sharing updates as appropriate.

This policy brief outlines the reasons educators need to learn more about adoption issues, explains the negative consequences of a lack of knowledge, and proposes steps that teachers, schools, curriculum developers and institutions of higher education can make progress toward placing all children and families on a level playing field in the classroom and beyond.

For example, many politicians demonstrate a need to engage in «moral top - up» of war aims, such adding democracy, girls education and economic development to the list of aims for the war in Afghanistan several years into the conflict, in order to retain the support of an increasingly war weary public for what is, in essence, a strategic, not a moral, policy.

«We need to get away from the consensus that «education, education and education» alone is enough... This would be a popular policy - nearly half of all British workers say they'd rather be self - employed, yet only one in ten is.»

Maloney said, «I'm running because there is an urgent need to take back our Congress from extremists who reject smart investments in health care, education and infrastructure; who reject sensible tax policies that create jobs and balance budgets; and who would end Medicare as we know it.»

Cities should be empowered to determine policy across health, social care, education, employment and other areas, based on local needs.

Our policies will be aimed at the least well off and will address the need to support vulnerable families, provide proper education, tackle the epidemic of debt, fight crime and drug abuse and give people a decent environment to live in.

And this history is important precisely because it demonstrates, as with the later «education, education, education» nonsense, how New Labour was, right from the very beginning, much more interested in importing salesmanship from abroad than in policy needs at home.

After the Tory government had wrapped up its sex education policy, touchy - feely New Labour showed up - and decided even more was needed.

«The government needs to urgently rethink these policies and provide the support young people need to get into education, training and jobs.

However, on other issues, Quinn hewed closer to the mayor's policies, saying that community education councils should «in some cases» not have veto power over co-locations in their school districts and that the next schools chancellor need not «necessarily» be an educator.

Maybe if Cameron's policies were so weak, his opponents wouldn't NEED to focus on his education dcades ago.

And Mayor de Blasio is so ideological, and is really not focused on the needs of the people of New York City and is changing so many good reforms that were put in place by Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg [on] welfare, with respect to policing policies, and with respect to education,» he said.

I know that when Councilmember Robert Jackson, or Simcha Felder, or the council members who are here tonight come to the speaker's office and say we need to talk about policy, we need to talk about budget priorities when it comes to housing, healthcare, education or economic development, my door is going to be open.

Also at 11 a.m., a new report from the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be released showing that community schools need at least five years or more to create lasting school improvement and reduce barriers to achievement in a measurable way, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 233 Broadway, Suite 720, Manhattan.

He's been discussing the need for broad changes to the public education system — including giving the governor more control over setting policy — since before the November elections.

Policies that develop the petrochemical industry in Nzema to offer direct employment or ancillary services for the unemployed residents to earn descent salaries to meet the high cost of living the oil discovery has brought in its wake; policies that improve education facilities in Nzema here and provide scholarships for needy students to expand their knowledge base and acquire relevant competencies for employment into the oil sector; policies that offer apprenticeship and vocational training for the youth who are unable to acquire formal education so that they are also not left out of employment; policies that develop infrastructures in Nzema are what Policies that develop the petrochemical industry in Nzema to offer direct employment or ancillary services for the unemployed residents to earn descent salaries to meet the high cost of living the oil discovery has brought in its wake; policies that improve education facilities in Nzema here and provide scholarships for needy students to expand their knowledge base and acquire relevant competencies for employment into the oil sector; policies that offer apprenticeship and vocational training for the youth who are unable to acquire formal education so that they are also not left out of employment; policies that develop infrastructures in Nzema are what policies that improve education facilities in Nzema here and provide scholarships for needy students to expand their knowledge base and acquire relevant competencies for employment into the oil sector; policies that offer apprenticeship and vocational training for the youth who are unable to acquire formal education so that they are also not left out of employment; policies that develop infrastructures in Nzema are what policies that offer apprenticeship and vocational training for the youth who are unable to acquire formal education so that they are also not left out of employment; policies that develop infrastructures in Nzema are what policies that develop infrastructures in Nzema are what we need.

With the perceived confusion over funding for the government's free Senior High School education policy dominating the news cycle, the New Patriotic Party government needs to outline to citizens its priority areas for development, the Operations Director of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu said.

Brian Jones, candidate for Lt. Governor, speaking about the need to organize an anti-racist, desegregated movement to confront Cuomo's neoliberal education policy.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa said in a joint statement that Cuomo's State of the State address «contains a number of policy proposals that will help New York's students in important ways, including focusing resources on at - risk students and schools with the greatest needs.»

At a time when Albany needs to step up and help move public education in New York State forward, the Governor's destructive policies would instead take us backward.

Others complain education policies fail to adequately equip young people to promote their own sexual good health and some campaigners argue Britain needs to foster a more open attitude towards sex to encourage safe sexual behaviour.

«Spencer Pitfield: Immigration and education on the Conservative Policy Forum's agenda Main Robert Buckland MP: The Justice and Security Bill strikes the correct balance between openness and the need to preserve our national security»

With this as their programme, the structural weakness of British capital — low productivity, short termism, infrastructure, training and education needs, lack of firm industrial policy direction — this is what Labour is offering business.

In his welcome address, the Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity (VEP), Barrister Jacob Ayanda emphasized the need for the participants to take the training seriously as the new policy implies a profound diffusion of voter education to the grassroots as part of preparations towards the 2019 general eEducation and Publicity (VEP), Barrister Jacob Ayanda emphasized the need for the participants to take the training seriously as the new policy implies a profound diffusion of voter education to the grassroots as part of preparations towards the 2019 general eeducation to the grassroots as part of preparations towards the 2019 general elections.

«Nick Clegg is the deputy prime minister and leader of a political party and therefore needs to set out education policy for state schools and that is what he is doing.»

«New York's public schools need a leader who can reconcile opposing views among stakeholders over controversial issues, navigate the political complexities of the legislative process, and work with the Board of Regents to forge cogent policies that will make New York's education system student - focused.»