Sentences with phrase «education proposals into»

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Thus a characterization of theology and of what makes theological education theological that is cast, like Wood's, in terms of «action» already has conceptually built into it resources for addressing the justice issues so central to the sort of position illustrated by the Mud Flower Collective's proposal.

«It is sad to note that the Free Senior High School programme that seeks to remove cost barriers to education and ensure that no child is left behind has woefully failed to include the provision of sanitary pads into the list of things that the government will be catering for under the programme,» the NGO said in a statement signed by its Executive Director, Awo Aidam Amenyah to back their proposal.

«The purpose of the Board of Regents is to take education out of the realm of politics, and this wrong - headed proposal would insert politics directly into the process,» said Silver spokesman Michael Whyland.

Mayor Bill de Blasio flunked two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top education proposals that would weaken his say over school policy — including one that would allow the state to put failing city public schools into receivership.

During last night's debate, education secretary Alan Johnson rejected the ballot proposals as «unnecessarily bureaucratic» and insisted the obligation on schools to consult parents was enough to ensure their views were taken into account.

In a tense exchange with Lord Leveson, the education secretary said the inquiry into media standards could produce proposals which would be «worse than the disease».

Remember last year, when Cuomo was in full - on war mode against the teachers unions, and trying to force education reform down the Legislature's throat by inserting it into his budget language and tying his proposals to a boost in school aid?

Higher education We await Lord Browne's final report into higher education funding, and will judge its proposals against the need to: - increase social mobility; - take into account the impact on student debt; - ensure a properly funded university sector; - improve the quality of teaching; - advance scholarship; and, - attract a higher proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

But in 2011, Fariña indirectly pitted herself against Moskowitz in a 2011 fight for school space: after a Success Academy was slated to move into a Cobble Hill school building, Fariña helped draw up a competing proposal to create an early - childhood education center in the same location.

ALBANY — Top lawmakers emerged from a private meeting with Governor Andrew Cuomo today saying they might consider proposals to change the state laws on ethics and education as standalone bills, despite Cuomo's attempt to bake language into his $ 141.6 billion spending proposal.

ALBANY — More than 1,000 teachers and public education advocates marched through the Empire State Plaza concourse on Monday, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million Dollar Staircase in a boisterous protest of Governor Andrew Cuomo's education reform proposals.

We await Lord Browne's final report into higher education funding, and will judge its proposals against the need to:

The agenda for New York's six - month legislative session promises big debates over the cost of higher education, government ethics and Uber's proposal to expand into upstate cities like Buffalo and Syracuse, as well as a bill that would «Raise the Age» — therein ending the state's practice of prosecuting 16 - and 17 - year - olds as adults.

The Assembly budget would increase education spending without those proposals, which include increasing the degree to which standardized tests factor into teacher evaluations and raising the charter school cap.

But Cuomo spoke for more than an hour — starting with his jobs and economic development initiatives and laying out ideas on education, energy and upstate tourism — before getting into the meat of his gun - control proposals.

Section 7008 of the America COMPETES (Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science) Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law on 9 August, requires all proposals for NSF grants that will support postdocs to «include a description of the mentoring activities that will be provided... under the Foundation's broader impacts merit review criterion.

A White House proposal to bring math, science, and engineering professionals into public high schools to teach those subjects could bypass the «highly qualified» teacher mandate under the No Child Left Behind Act, while only temporarily easing the shortfall of mathematics and science teachers, education observers say.

Washington — The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, along with 41 other federal civil - rights offices, would be consolidated into one agency under a proposal currently being circulated by a group of Republican members of the House of Representatives.

Education Week quoted a former associate superintendent of the Cincinnati schools, who blamed the proposal's failure on the fact that it «would have applied to nearly all teachers, rather than allowing veterans the choice of opting into the new system.»

A proposal unveiled by the Clinton Administration last week would consolidate 23 separate vocational - education programs into a single grant, giving states greater flexibility over how to use the federal dollars.

An informal survey of several state Chapter 2 coordinators last week also revealed that while many officials approve of the Reagan Administration's proposal to increase funding for the program by approximately 50 percent, they do not think it will translate into many significant education - improvement efforts at the local level.

The first proposal would reinstitute provisions of the Emergency School Aid Act (esaa), which the Reagan Administration last year combined with other federal education programs into block grants to the states.

The news from the Education Next poll had become so bad we were accused of asking an unfriendly voucher question (it referenced the «use» of «government funds to pay the tuition»), so we agreed to split our respondents into two equivalent groups and ask the second group a «friendly» voucher question instead: «A proposal has been made that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition.»

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has backed down the proposals to force every school to convert into an academy, meaning only those deemed as failing or coasting will be forced to convert, as well as those in local authority areas no longer deemed to be «viable».

The proposal, which could go into effect by 1991 if it is approved by the state board of education, represents what one expert calls «a new phase» in student assessment.

Meanwhile, support for policies that base compensation on teacher performance has risen, but backing for other proposals to introduce standard business practices into the education sector has stayed about the same.

Under the fiscal 2011 proposal unveiled last week, a roster of 38 relatively small, targeted grant programs would be regrouped into broader, more flexible funding streams — many of them competitive — aimed at furthering the administration's education redesign goals.

After congratulating the nation for working to amass current successes — including financial aid options that have «finally opened the doors of college to all Americans,» state - developed academic standards, the creation of a voluntary national test, technology in the schools, and an emphasis on class - size reduction — Clinton outlined his proposal to drive public education into the 21st century.

Governor is evaluating a number of proposals to create a more streamlined, efficient government, including consolidation of K - 12 and higher - education boards into a single board of regents.

This Council on Foreign Relations proposal sounds like a much more ambitious re-run of the federal foray into K - 12 education after the launching of Sputnik back on Oct. 4, 1957.

The proposal, which would be rolled into the administration's still - emerging plan for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, would for the first time link the law's flagship Title I program to a push for higher academic standards that has gained new national momentum.

That's the picture that emerged from an Education Week analysis of waiver proposals submitted last month to the U.S. Department of Education by 11 states, whose plans offer insight into what the next generation of state - led accountability looks like.

«Provocatively titled, Disrupting Class is just what America's K - 12 education system needs — a well thought - through proposal for using technology to better serve students and bring our schools into the 21st Century.

The disconnect between those math and science education proposals, signed into law by President Bush last summer, and federal officials» inability to fund them was a central topic at a summit of corporate leaders, scientists, and a select group of lawmakers who met here last week.

As federal officials weigh proposals to improve the quality of mathematics and science education, a new report highlights state - led efforts to recruit new teachers into those subject areas and boost their skills through professional development programs.

Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.

Our new report for the Friedman Foundation, Pursuing Innovation, takes a deep dive into that proposal by documenting how much and what types of competition currently exist in K — 12 education, predicting which forms of competition are most likely to generate pressures for improvement in K — 12 education, and brainstorming policy attributes that will maximize the effectiveness of competition - based education reforms.

This proposal would do just that, and I'm happy to support it going into reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.»

Carter also welcomed a row back from education secretary Justine Greening on proposals for every school to have converted into an academy by 2022.

But similar language — this time calling for a halt to the new standards pending legislative review — made its way into a separate education proposal that passed the Senate earlier this month.

The proposals come about as part of changes to the department of education's Independent School Standards, expected to come into force in September 2014.

The Department for Education confirmed to Schools Week that special schools will fall under the government's proposals to turn every school into an academy.

As the state budget negotiations move into their final week, Fariña is continuing to voice her opposition to many of the education - policy proposals that Cuomo wants to tie into the budget, including changes to teacher evaluation rules.

That's the picture that emerged from an Education Week analysis of waiver proposals submitted last month to the U.S. Department of Education by 11 states, whose proposals offer insight into what the next generation of state - led accountability looks like.

But in 2011, Fariña indirectly pitted herself against Moskowitz in a 2011 fight for school space: after a Success Academy was slated to move into a Cobble Hill school building, Fariña helped draw up a competing proposal to create an early - childhood education center in the same location.

After a period of relative quiet, voucher proponents have been active, pushing variety of proposals that appear to have made it into the package of K - 12 education items agreed upon by the Senate and Assembly, as reflected in the Legislative Fiscal Bureau summary of the Senate Republican budget plan.

But after voters rejected higher - education proposals twice in the early 1990s, the legislature began to combine the K - 12 and college bond requests into one proposal.

The episode also dives into Trump's education budget proposal with Hechinger reporter Nichole Dobo.

Lawmakers incorporated that proposal into one of the largest education bills passed in recent years.

Evers said the proposal reminds him of the federal education law No Child Left Behind, which required schools that did not meet federal - imposed standards after four or more years to be placed into «corrective action,» which could have resulted in replacing teachers, converting the school into a charter school or closing it altogether.