Sentences with phrase «expansion of programs like»

In fact, though, the character - strength approach of Seligman and Peterson isn't an expansion of programs like CARE; if anything, it is a repudiation of them.

Furthermore, Obama supports paid maternity leave and expansion of programs like the Nurse - Family Partnership, which allows low - income mothers to get one - on - one support from trained nurses.

The respondents were also in favour of the expansion of programs like Nexus, which allows faster processing of pre-screened travellers to the U.S. and Canada by using photo - ID with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology and iris scanning.

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The Senate bill, like an earlier version that barely passed the House, eliminated mandates and taxes under Obamacare, and unraveled an expansion of the Medicaid health care program for the poor and disabled.

A new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) says there is little evidence to support the expansion of high - skilled guest worker programs, like those proposed in the immigration bill being debated in the Senate.

Much like his universal pre-kindergarten program, de Blasio's vast expansion of middle school after - school offerings allows more structured opportunity for young people as well as more assurance and opportunity for parents.

Those changes have made the city fertile ground for the expansion of alternative - certification programs like Teach for America and Teach Memphis, according to Athena Turner, the executive director of Teach for America in Memphis.

Some educators say they are fueled partly by their war with Ducey over his latest expansion of a voucher - like program — a pioneering «education savings account» that allows virtually any family to get public dollars to pay for private school expenses.

She'd also like to continue the expansion of home - visiting services started under the Obama Administration, create a national program to raise the quality of early education instruction and to offer every new parent 12 weeks of paid leave.

As I wrote a few years ago, the Hartford Public Schools» decade - long decline in teachers of color could be the result of factors such as NCLB certification requirements, school closures and reconstitution, expansion of choice programs, and teacher temp programs like Teach for America.

But in the end, what mattered to Trump was her core belief in school choice, proving that he plans to make the expansion of vouchers or voucher - like programs a top educational priority.

During her tenure, Lam oversaw the school's relocation from Brighton to Dorchester, its expansion from an elementary school into a K - 8 program, and the addition of high - profile programs like EL Sistema, a popular Venezuelan music education program.

Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education has promoted charter school expansion through competitive grant programs like Race to the Top (RTT), the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund, and the Charter School Program's Replication and Expansion for High - Quality Charter Schoolsexpansion through competitive grant programs like Race to the Top (RTT), the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund, and the Charter School Program's Replication and Expansion for High - Quality Charter SchoolsExpansion for High - Quality Charter Schools grant.64

In a sense, the expansion of independent teacher education programs like Relay furthers the creation of a second - class system of education for children living in poverty while middle class children continue to be taught by professionally prepared teachers and have more access to a genuine education that aims for much more than just raising standardized test scores.

Higher undergraduate and graduate loan limits implemented in the early 1990s and 2007, the elimination of limits on PLUS loans in 1993, watering down of accountability rules, like the change to the «85/15» rule in 1998, expansions of loan eligibility to online programs (including online graduate programs) in 2006, and overall rising costs have allowed many more borrowers to accumulate not - before - seen levels of debt, and many will never be able to repay it.

«With assistance from grants like Planet Dog Foundation we are able to waive the placement fee for service dogs to our wounded warriors and continue our expansion of our Prison Program.»

«Recently, a lot of my peers and my generation feel like this is a battle that has been lost, because of the rapid development of the student loan bubble, tuition expansion programs and the globalization of education.

Economic growth was driven by the arrival and expansion of high - tech firms, like Sony and Hewlett - Packard, and federal programs that retrained former loggers and mill workers for diverse new employment opportunities, including in the high - tech manufacturing sector.

With the expansions of current programs and new openings in larger markets like New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, the nationwide fleet of shared bikes is poised to quadruple in the next couple of years, from nearly 9,000 to above 36,000.

Example resumes for this position highlight responsibilities like correcting errors by making appropriate changes and rechecking the program to ensure that the desired results are produced, conducting trial runs of programs and software applications to be sure they will produce the desired information and that the instructions are correct, and performing or directing the revision, repair, or expansion of existing programs to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements.

Going forward, Seva would still like to keep Walmart as the key part of its expansion program.