Sentences with phrase «education push by»

I'm catching up with the «Nature is Speaking» education push by Conservation International, featuring a set of videos in which actors give voice to the oceans, rain forests and other beautiful and bounteous facets of the planet's sheath of life.

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The two are involved in an ambitious push to personalize and democratize education through providing every student with customized learning, an initiative tag - teamed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The company was later acquired by Chegg, a testament to how well Dwane was able to push the business forward — despite having no previous experience in the education industry.

She may also try to address the skills gap of U.S. workers by pushing for educational incentives, such as free tuition for some kinds of college education, as President Obama has proposed.

Any call for massive cuts to education by the same people who push for «vouchers» so they can send their kids to private Catholic schools and such, are the Christian Right seeking to gut secular education because they hate it.

Beyond this general education every educated person should push on to a specialism dominated by finer theory and subtler ideas — for one it may be Greek, another scientific theory, for another mathematics.

Not by chance, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, General Secretary of the Synod of Bishops, underscored in an interview with the Italian weekly magazine La Settimana that the strong points of the last Synod of Bishops were the doctrinal framework, the Gospel of the Family, and the push for young people to receive an education about love.

«Respect for authority, tradition, station, and education eroded,» writes Hatch, and as a result, «American Protestantism has been skewed away from central ecclesiastical institutions and high culture; it has been pushed and pulled into its present shape by a democratic or populist orientation.»

The bill would overhaul a key component of a contentious education reform bill that was pushed through by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2015, much to the consternation of the New York State United Teachers.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has quietly dropped plans to raise passing scores on Common Core Regents exams in English and math by the year 2022 — plans originally pushed as a linchpin in efforts for students» strengthened academic performance and preparation for college and careers.

This sentiment is echoed by governments and citizens across the world: Education can help us to better understand the world around us and our place in it, equipping us to push for good social, economic and political change.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

Cuomo had initially linked stronger rent control laws to the passage of an education tax credit, which was pushed heavily by Senate Republicans and private - school backers.

Dubbed «Reform Prisons», Justice Secretary Mr Gove wants to repeat the success of his education revolution when standards were pushed by liberating schools from local authority control by becoming academies.

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.

He ticked off a list of school governance reforms the union is pushing for in Albany: don't allow the citywide Panel for Educational Policy to be controlled by one person; give Community Education Councils a real voice, especially concerning co-locations; and require that the schools chancellor be an educator.

The money raised by the Education Fund was then directed to Common Cause, Citizens Union and a number of other groups as part of a 2013 push for publicly funded elections, which many believe would help Senate Democrats» electoral odds.

Assemblyman Dean Murray from Long Island, an advertising executive back after a two - year absence, says he'll push for stopping the Common Core education curriculum, to bring promised aid to people hurt by Superstorm Sandy and to improve the state's business climate.

One question focused on possible reasons to vote for «Woodstock,» citing reasons like fighting to improve the economy by taking on big businesses and monopolies, pushing for campaign finance reform, increasing education funding, changing the tax code to require the wealthy and large corporations to pay more and raising the minimum wage.

The rally, organized by the Rise and Resist and the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioEducation (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioeducation funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educationeducation.»

Some of the last issues to be decided had to do with education, including a push by state Sen. Simcha Felder — a Democrat from Brooklyn who conferences with Republicans to give them a critical 32nd vote — to protect ultra-Orthodox yeshivas from official reviews that might find they do not provide substantially equivalent instruction to public schools.

The day turned sour late Friday morning, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie lashed out at Senate Republicans for what he called their holding up a final deal in order to push an item by Sen. Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who has an alliance with Senate Republicans, to relax certain education curriculum requirements by yeshivas.

It was a push by Cuomo that is shaping up to be a major issue in his Democratic primary campaign against Cynthia Nixon, an actor and education activist.

Led by Senate and Assembly higher education committee leaders, Ken LaValle and Deborah Glick, a group of students, along with UUP and PSC members, are making a last - minute push to extend a «maintenance of effort» law that will expire at the end of this month unless it is renewed.

The governor is also expected push for a tougher teacher evaluation system by linking some, if not all, of the promised 4 percent increase in education aid while also overhauling the state pension system — two moves that will put him on a collision course with powerful labor unions.

Mr Blair will prove he is not a «lame duck» by continuing to push domestic policy, especially on health and education, and attending the key G8 and EU summits, he continued.

AQE has been pushing Cuomo to boost education aid by $ 2.1 billion in the final budget deal.

The DREAM Act and the education tax credit pushed by the Catholic Church did not make the cut.

But Assembly Democrats are also wary of Cuomo potentially linking the $ 100 million upstate school fund to the passage of education tax credit, which is being pushed by private and parochial schools.

The education tax credit legislation is opposed by the state's teachers union, but has been strongly pushed for by the Archdiocese of New York.

Citizen Action was joined by union - backed groups like the Alliance for Quality Education and Strong Economy for All, as well as Make the Road New York, which has pushed for the Dream Act that would allow tuition assistance for illegal immigrants or their children.

The city teachers union pushed back against comments Mayor Bill de Blasio made that seemed to undercut the validity of some sexual - harassment complaints made by Department of Education employees.

The sign was paid for by the Young Advocates for Fair Education, which has pushed city education officials to investigate yeshivas for allegedly failing to educate their students in nonsecular subjects like science, math andEducation, which has pushed city education officials to investigate yeshivas for allegedly failing to educate their students in nonsecular subjects like science, math andeducation officials to investigate yeshivas for allegedly failing to educate their students in nonsecular subjects like science, math and English.

The video of Nixon's appearance on The Today Show was distributed in an email to reporters by Billy Easton, the executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education, which has long pushed Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to honor the terms of a lawsuit equitable educationEducation, which has long pushed Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to honor the terms of a lawsuit equitable educationeducation funding.

At the same time, Heastie continued to reject the push by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to link a strengthening of rent control to the passage of an education tax credit.

At the same time, Schneiderman knocked the push to link the education tax credit to the strengthening of rent control, a move that's backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Cuomo has long pushed back against calls from public education advocates to increase annual school foundation aid in the budget by more than $ 1 billion.

He made peace with his biggest nemesis in the labor movement, the teachers unions, by denouncing much of the state education agenda he had pushed in his first term.

This event was pushed hard by the Tea Party and activist Rus Thompson and the gun rights group Shooters Committee on Political Education.

As House Speaker Richard Corcoran's priority education bill is pushed through the Senate committee process, some watching this week were perplexed by the vote of one sometimes perplexing Republican lawmaker.

Instead of the privatization schemes pushed by Cuomo and Republican candidate Rob Astorino, Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones are calling for fully funded, quality public education, qualitative assessments instead of the punitive high stakes testing model, and an end to the attack on teacher's unions.»

This year's push by parents and educators for additional state funding for public schools paid off when the governor and Albany lawmakers on April 1 finalized a new state budget that contained a $ 1.4 billion increase in state education funding, with $ 525 million going to New York City public schools.

Scott has delayed the implementation of two new redistricting amendments passed by voters, released an ambitious education agenda, pushed for $ 2 billion in tax cuts in the midst of budget troubles and, most recently, inflamed state legislators by rejecting a plan to build a high - speed rail system between Tampa and Orlando.

As budget negotiations were going down to the wire in Albany, some 5,000 parents, teachers and students from across the state converged outside Gov. Cuomo's Midtown Manhattan office for a March 28 rally that marked the culmination of their months - long campaign to stop him from pushing through radical changes to public education policy favored by his Wall Street backers as part of the state budget.

He said that Alumni Association of Nigerian Universities would only succeed and make necessary impact in promoting Nigerian education with support and push by the government at all levels.

They also pushed for the full restoration of Teacher Center funding and more state aid to allow for the expansion of the UFT's Community Learning School Initiative and the Positive Learning Collaborative, a joint UFT - Department of Education program to create safe and supportive learning environments by providing educators with strategies to respond to challenging student behavior.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

Nixon has worked over the years with the Alliance for Quality Education, a group heavily funded by unions that has pushed for more equitable distribution of state aid to public schools.

I briefly mentioned Sundance and Sony Classics» «An Education,» but another film worth discussing in that vein is «Precious» (formerly «Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire»), which dominated Park City this year.

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