Sentences with phrase «education policy priority»

During his campaign, President - elect Trump's primary K - 12 education policy priority was a new $ 20 billion initiative that would provide funds for school choice vouchers.

Unsurprisingly I am fully behind the conclusion — «how we govern our schools should be an education policy priority, not an afterthought».

ASCD will continue to monitor and report on the 2014 midterm election results and their influence on the association's education policy priorities.

The influx of new members, combined with congressional leadership changes and the move to a Republican majority in the Senate, indicates a shift in Congress» education policy priorities.

This information is valuable for policy makers who need to identify education policy priorities, schools that need to reform curricular and extracurricular practices, and parents who need to adjust their home learning environments and parenting practices.»

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TweetOctober 26, 2016 The STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum and the Afterschool Alliance have collaborated to develop a toolkit of materials to help advocates make the case at the state and local level for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education to be a top priority and to integrate afterschool and informal learning strategies into overall plans Education Coalition Policy Forum and the Afterschool Alliance have collaborated to develop a toolkit of materials to help advocates make the case at the state and local level for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education to be a top priority and to integrate afterschool and informal learning strategies into overall plans education to be a top priority and to integrate afterschool and informal learning strategies into overall plans -LSB-...]

How do you respond to church leaders who are afraid of making education a priority within their congregations because they fear the public policy issues related to education are too political?

Top priority of the campaign is to call on elected officials to create legislation that supports economic justice, anti-racism and anti-white supremacy policies, women's rights, the ending of voter suppression, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, as well as affordable quality housing, healthcare and education.

They involve new laws and policies, radical changes in mentalities and lifestyles, codes of conduct for businesses and institutions, changes in the content of curricula and textbooks, new norms and decision - making methods in politics, health care and education systems, new strategic priorities for international cooperation, radically new approaches to development, fundamental transformation of democratic principles and mechanisms - a new social ethos imposed on all.

It is necessary therefore to evaluate this «ideology» of the market - economy if we have to evaluate the commoditisation of education which is now adopted as the government policy as a part of its policy of giving priority to economic growth.

Education, with a focus on outward perspectives which don't forsake Arab values, is consistently a prominent policy priority in the Gulf states» job - creation strategies.

He said achieving ethics reform and education policy changes remain the top priorities for him in the budget, and that he won't sign a budget without them.

The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»

Following the Great Recession in 2008, many states decreased the amount of appropriations set aside for higher education, with many states» budget cuts tending to focus largely on education spending, according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report.

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.

«The number of programs and proposals is likely to grow because free - tuition programs meet several policy priorities of governments, including increasing higher education participation rates to cultivate a trained workforce while maintaining affordability,» the report found.

Liu has rolled out a number of policy announcements over the last couple months, outlining his priorities in education, transportation and a number of other areas.

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.

Her policy priorities included enacting term limits for state legislators and changing the state's funding formula for public education.

Four leading candidates for New York City, who already are using technology to reach out to voters, recently outlined their technology policy priorities in interview sessions hosted by the New York Tech Meetup * at ThoughtWorks headquarters in late July, emphasizing the importance of education, accessibility, transparency, infrastructure, partnerships with the technology community and affordability.

Few activists were mollified by ESPA's statement that a new directive from Governor Andrew Cuomo — interpreting existing state human rights law's sex discrimination and disability discrimination protections to cover transgender New Yorkers — amounted to «securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority, protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations.»

So in my opinion, the free policy in education must happen because we can do it, but I think it is the technical institutions that must be given more priority than the general SHS system.

«The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo,» ESPA's release stated.

«The expectation that State Senate Democrats will have goodwill towards education reform priorities is misplaced,» said one person heavily involved in education reform politics and policy.

Scientists can identify funding and research priorities, ensure quality scientific education, remove obstructions to scientific freedom, and work to educate policy makers, Posner explained.

It broadened science education across several agencies, launched the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy at DOE, and set government - wide science priorities to be managed by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

In June 2006, Chairwoman Mikulski received the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative's (JOCI) report, «From Sea to Shining Sea: Priorities for Ocean Policy Reform,» which recommended robust funding for ocean research, education, observation and exploration.

So it's understandable why government and foundation officials have started giving the higher education system the «reform treatment» that was once reserved for our K — 12 system; if it's blocking opportunities for young people — especially low - income young people, as Susan Dynarski argued last week — then removing those barriers should be a top priority for U.S. social and education policy.

«I have great appreciation for the work of this college defining global education research priorities for the improvement of the educational enterprise and bridging the worlds of education research, policy, and practice.

The President - elect has consistently identified education as one of his top domestic policy priorities, but beyond stating that, he devotes most of his speeches and tweets to other issues.

Education was not a priority for Candidate Trump, who rarely commented on education and provided little in the way of specifics on the few policies he didEducation was not a priority for Candidate Trump, who rarely commented on education and provided little in the way of specifics on the few policies he dideducation and provided little in the way of specifics on the few policies he did propose.

Investing in quality education that equips people with the entrepreneurial and employability skills needed to succeed in the 21st century, while ensuring that they are grounded in financial and ethical responsibility, should be a top priority for policy makers and decision makers around the world.

But when policy intervenes to reshape the teacher's priorities, it is invariably on behalf of the laggards, for they are the beneficiaries of major governmental efforts — such as NCLB and IDEA — to advance the education of youngsters who face difficulties and to reward schools and teachers that accomplish this.

Finally, we are deeply committed to preparing the next generation of educational leaders, many of whom will have HGSE degrees and all of whom should be knowledgeable about the underlying science of learning, the causal mechanisms of disparities in achievement, and the policy environment in which education priorities are determined.

Evers is a past member of National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board, a past commissioner on the California State Academic Standards Commission, past trustee on the Santa Clara County Board of Education, and a past president of the board of directors of the East Palo Alto Charter School.

More than that, it made us curious about the priorities of our readers — those most likely to be affected by the policies and actions of the Department of Education.

The solution «Having reviewed a range of solutions, we settled upon BlueSky Education's online performance management and CPD software because it provided the tools required to implement, manage and track a clear, consistent and robust appraisal policy, linked to school improvement priorities.

Evidence suggests that this growth will continue; this has implications for our priorities within the school curriculum and the education policy landscape.

The sharp division between the Obama administration and key congressional Democrats over education policy and priorities may never have been more clear than it was Thursday night when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut $ 800 million from key administration initiatives to help pay for an effort to avert teacher layoffs.

For the three years prior to 2011, education policies in most states reflected union priorities.

Whether we deploy many more «whole schools» of this kind or opt mainly for specialized courses and programs within ordinary schools, the kinds of rigorous and advanced education that selective - admission schools seek to provide, and the youngsters that they serve, need to rise higher in our national consciousness and our policy priorities.

But the conference — organized by the Department of Education's National Educational Reseach Policy and Priorities Board and its office of bilingual educaton and minority - language affairs — also had another purpose.

While civics education policy was not a factor in this year's presidential election, United States Secretary of Education John King recently urged educators to «make preparing your students for their civic duties just as much a priority as preparing them to succeed in college and in their careereducation policy was not a factor in this year's presidential election, United States Secretary of Education John King recently urged educators to «make preparing your students for their civic duties just as much a priority as preparing them to succeed in college and in their careerEducation John King recently urged educators to «make preparing your students for their civic duties just as much a priority as preparing them to succeed in college and in their careers.»

In particular, the Forum will consider current trends and future needs in the area of GCED and will seek to identify policy priorities and strategies for the operationalization of GCED and provide inputs to the Framework for Action on Education post-2015.

In fact, a recent report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that most states are spending less on K - 12 education than before the Great Recession.

«These four new members of the National Board of Education Sciences have the experience and expertise needed to contribute to the Board's oversight of the activities, policies and priorities of the Department's Institute of Education Sciences,» Secretary Duncan said.

A task force of Ohio foundations and other grantmaking organizations is calling on state leaders to improve public education by adopting five broad, ambitious policy priorities.

The question is whether he will have the desire or the ability to make education reform on finances and policy a focus and a priority of his administration.»

Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.

Furthermore, Arkansas has developed a statewide strategic plan focused on computer science education, and became the first state to meet all nine of Code.org Policy Ideas and all 10 priorities listed in the BNY State of the States Report.